{"id":11225,"date":"2013-10-24T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=11225"},"modified":"2023-04-25T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:16:54","slug":"the-dream-of-chen-haiyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/the-dream-of-chen-haiyan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream of Chen Haiyan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chen Haiyan: Carving the Unconscious<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ink Studio<\/strong><\/a> (Red No. 1-B1, Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China) Sep 14\u2013Nov 3, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One sees so much conceptual art that when presented with the narration of dreams \u2013 as here \u2013 the impulse to interpret is struck by something that seems almost ordinary. Perhaps the aesthetic climate renders such direct work strange \u2013 we are more accustomed to installations by young artists of a single fluorescent bulb, a broken stand and a broom. But making \u201cart\u201d, no matter what the conditions and regardless of a leering market, is and ever was a personal activity and form of expression. Despite our will to unravel its meaning, art\u2019s happy mystery is that it can\u2019t be proved, either by the viewer or the artist themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition by Chen Haiyan gives useful recourse to such thoughts by presenting us with dreams \u2013 a subject (outside art) that people have always been inclined to construe. \u201cCarving the Unconscious\u201d is a definitive solo exhibition by a mature artist (refreshing that this new gallery devoted to ink painting is not pursuing only its \u201cemerging\u201d exponents). Chen\u2019s way of giving two fingers to the socialist art she was required to produce in the 1980s was to make, in secret, woodblock prints of images from her dreams. The dream diaries she continues to keep provide the basis for all the works now on show at Ink Studio, which range from small to medium-sized series and some large, colourful works on xuan paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chen Haiyan\uff0c\u201dCarving the Unconscious\u201d\uff0cExhibition View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The smaller works here, in particular, combine images with text written next to them in little streams or crowded around them, filling the frame. The transcriptions of the texts are both specific in their descriptions and ephemeral in their sense of attendant emotion: \u201cI open the door and see my cat run out\u2026I want to go to the top of the city wall, but that mountain is a dark place. I don\u2019t like it, so I don\u2019t go\u2026\u201d \u2013 dreamlike, yes. One wonders, on the side, how much \u201cediting\u201d has been done, consciously or unconsciously, to what is told, and how. There is a consistent cast of cats and a sense of the rural environment in Hangzhou where Chen spent part of her young life \u2013 livestock, huts, trees, paths. Van Gogh makes an appearance, as does a golden lion, dragonflies and chickens that turned into cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This intimate menagerie is depicted playfully and primitively with black outlines on a white ground \u2013 na\u00efve and with a great sense of movement; these tumbling, leaping bodies have a spontaneous character that remembers also how they would vanish from the mind\u2019s waking eye. There is something compelling in this crossover of painting and dream state which is not entirely removed from the surrealists\u2019 fetish for \u201cautomatic\u201d drawing. Echoes like this, coupled with the steadfastness with which Chen keeps to this thread \u2013 there are many works here, and the prints are hand-pressed \u2013 maintain an adult air around these simple, bucolic images. Unlike so much of what is exhibited now, they find their validation elsewhere than in acute aesthetic pondering. These are manual, visual, personal products, and innately expressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One leaves the show impressed by the impact of Chen\u2019s large-scale paintings, as well as by the robust, episodic quality of the smaller prints. To relate one\u2019s sleeping visions to an unknown audience through in this way seems a timely reminder of the intimacy of artistic expression. Thought-provoking, too, are the different interpretive inclinations that circle round these works as both \u201cart\u201d and personal revelation in the same frame \u2013 the dream of art, and art from dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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