迈克尔·克雷格-马丁
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Portrait of the artist, photographed by Caroline True, 2014
多年来，我的创作始终围绕身边日常、平凡之物。这些东西的发明是为了满足人们的需要和欲望，因此，它们生动地体现了当代生活的复杂性，成为一种既不受语言、文化差异所限制、又不为其所湮没的沟通方式。
我把这些不同的物品转化为一种图像语言——一种普适的视觉表达。因此，虽然这是我第一次在中国大陆举办展览，但我相信看过展览的观众能够完全融入作品，不会遭遇任何理解困难。每位观众都可以将这些图像与自己的联想、记忆和价值观联系起来。
无题（中号耳机），2014，铝板丙烯，122 x 122 cm （无框）
©Michael Craig-Martin
1978年，我开始以物品为主体创作线条画，每次都尝试一件不同的物品。我选择的绘画主体都是日常物品，辨识度高、人工制造。它们都是批量生产的产物，价格不贵。
在我的绘画中，如果线条构成物品的“真相”，那么色彩则赋予物品以感官性，凸显我们对它们的感觉——我们的情绪、欲望和幻想。我以最自由、最生动的方法来使用色彩，让每一幅绘画都如其所描绘的物品那般独特而直观——活灵活现。
无题（iphone），2014，铝板丙烯，200 x 200 cm（无框）
©Michael Craig-Martin
在创作过程中，我试图突破大家对于大规模生产产品的普遍看法——即将其视为消费主义象征或设计符号、亦或者是高雅/低俗品味的表达——我希望能够更深入地捕捉到它们的本质。
此次展出的绘画系列每一幅都表现了一件物品，可以视为对我的艺术最纯粹的表达。
所有作品均创作完成于2014年，所有作品均以无题命名。作品材质为铝板丙烯。
无题（行李箱），2014，铝板丙烯，122 x 122 cm（无框）
©Michael Craig-Martin
第一次参观喜玛拉雅美术馆时，我就认定这个展览必须非常具有当代感。有些物品，比如书本，多年来外观变化不大。但有些物品，比如iPhone或鼠标，出现不过短短数年，而且可能若干年后便会从日常生活中消失。
“此时”——我希望这次展览呈现一幅当代生活画卷。
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Michael Craig-Martin
For many years my work has been centered on images of the ordinary familiar objects that surround us. These objects have been created to serve our needs and desires. Because of this they vividly express the complex character of contemporary life and offer a means of communication not limited or obscured by differences of language or culture.
无题（巴塞罗那椅），2014，铝板丙烯，122 x 122 cm（无框）
©Michael Craig-Martin
I have turned these very different objects into a language of images - a universal visual language. For this reason I am confident that although this exhibition will constitute the first time my work has been shown in mainland China, everyone who sees it will be able to engage with the work, to understand it without difficulty. Every viewer will bring to these images their own associations, memories, and values.
I started making line drawings of objects in 1978, always one thing at a time. The objects I chose to draw were commonplace, easily recognizable, man-made. They were generally mass-produced and commercially modest.
CRAIG-MARTIN 2006 Johanniterkirche Installation
If in my paintings the line drawings constitute the ‘facts’ about the objects, the colours provide their sensuality and acknowledge our feelings towards them – our emotions, desires and fantasies. I use colour as freely and vividly as possible, to make each painting as particular and immediate as the object itself - alive in the moment.
In my work I try to look beyond the ways mass-produced objects are usually thought of - as crass examples of consumerism or as design icons, or expressions of good taste or bad - to try to locate something of their essence.
CRAIG-MARTIN Papillon Installation
I consider this group of paintings, each of a single object, is the purest expression of my art.
All were made in 2014, and all are untitled. They are painted in acrylic on aluminium.
When I first visited the Himalayas Museum I decided I wanted this exhibition to feel as contemporary as possible. Some objects, such as books, stay much the same over the years. But there are others, such as the iphone or the mouse, that did not exist a short time ago and will probably disappear from daily life in only a few years.
I want this exhibition to offer a picture of contemporary life as we know it today - NOW.
CRAIG-MARTIN Papillon Installation 5
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迈克尔·克雷格-马丁贰零壹伍中国巡展|上海
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Michael Craig-Martin 2015 China Tour Exhibition | Shanghai
展期：2015年2月3日-3月31日（周一闭馆）
Dates：Feb 3rd - Mar 31st, 2015 (Closed on Mondays)
展馆： 上海喜玛拉雅美术馆
Venue：Shanghai Himalayas Museum
