狮語画廊非常荣幸地邀请到青年艺术家李易纹在上海举办个展--绵延。这是李易纹近期持续思考的艺术主题的集中呈现。

It is Leo Gallery's honour to hold in Shanghai the solo exhibition of emerging artist Li Yiwen - "Durée". It would be an integrated manifestation of Li Yiwen's recent thinkings and works in a new form.

 "绵延"一词来自法国哲学家柏格森，他将钟表刻度化的时间称为"空间时间"，将直觉体验到的时间，也即我们通常所说的"心理时间"称之为"绵延"，但是，李易纹并没有沿用柏格森的概念，而是将"绘画中的时间"问题纳入创作中，提炼出了绘画中的"第三种时间"--一种有关感知的时间，是记忆、直觉、经验、体验相互渗透并凝结于绘画中的时间。从日常与阅读中发现有意味的词汇或术语，然后结合艺术感知与体验对这些词汇进行解构与重构，用绘画的方式开辟一种全新的解读，是李易纹近期创作的主要路径，也是本次展览主题的来源。

The theme "Durée" is borrowed from French philosopher Henri Bergson, who drew a distinction between two kinds of time. There is "mathematical time" which occurs in the theories of the natural sciences that is measurable, and there is the "lived-time" or "durée" that we experience directly. However, Li Yiwen does not just follow Henri Bergson's concept, but instead incorporates the issue of "time in painting" into the creation and brings forward the "third kind of time" in painting - a time that is associated with perception, a time where all memory, intuition, and experience inosculate as a whole. Discovering words or terms from everyday life and reading, then deconstructing and reconstructing these words in combination with artistic perceiving and experiencing, and opening up a brand-new interpretation in the way of painting, is the main path of Li Yiwen's recent creations, as well as the source of the theme of this exhibition.

李易纹用后现代的方法，通过对图像的过滤、选择与提升，将非逻辑、虚构、异位与直觉的要素融入画面，在颠覆了以往的绘画叙事的同时，又生成了新的图像意义--是一种能被感知的陌生化样态，这样，想象的空间不断被打开和延伸，在某种意义上拓展了绘画的修辞，建构了一种新的绘画表达方式。

By using contemporary methods, Li Yiwen filters, selects and promotes the images. He puts the elements of the non-logic, fiction, movements and instincts into paintings, which goes beyond the traditional visual narrations and generates a new kind of meaning - a state of de-familiarization that is perceptible. Therefore, the space of imagination is continuously opened up and extended, which expands the possibilities of painting and establishes a new way of expression.