{"id":6868,"date":"2015-03-04T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2022-12-14T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:33:16","slug":"there-is-no-landscape%ef%bc%8dvladimir-nikolic%ef%bc%8d1933-contemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/there-is-no-landscape%ef%bc%8dvladimir-nikolic%ef%bc%8d1933-contemporary\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Landscape\uff0dVladimir Nikolic\uff0d1933 Contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cThere is no landscape\u201d, Vladimir Nikolic exhibition.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1933 Contemporary<\/strong>&nbsp;(Unit 1\u2013311, No. 611 Liyang Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai),&nbsp;<strong>Jan 10\u2013Mar 2, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Serbian artist Vladimir Nikolic explores vision in his exhibition at Shanghai\u2019s 1933 Contemporary, with many modes of vision incorporated in the show. \u201cPainting\u201d is the first piece the viewer sees upon entering the exhibition space, granting the audience a bird\u2019s eye view of the following process: the artist continually overlays and dismantles two dimensional planar objects of various shapes and colors to form a constantly shifting amalgam of colorful abstract images. It is as if the audience is witnessing a live reenactment of the process of creating one of Matisse\u2019s cut-outs, or scrutinizing a section of a Mir\u00f3 painting. The artist\u2019s childlike approach to decomposing images also calls to mind the Saturday morning cartoons played by parents to win a few more winks. If this work really was a program its title would probably be \u201cHow Abstract Art is Made\u201d or \u201cLet\u2019s Learn about Colors and Shapes!\u201d Artists attempt to resolve intrinsic issues of space within painting, as well as two dimensional issues of color and shape; the bird\u2019s eye perspective lends movement and interest to this process of adding and taking away. This particular work is also currently part of a special exhibition taking place at Germanisches National Museum entitled \u201cLooking Down from Above: The Bird\u2019s Eye View\u201d. The piece is being exhibited at the same time as Renaissance artist Jacopo de\u2019Barbari\u2019s woodcut \u201cMap of Venice\u201d<em>.\u00a0<\/em>The Germanisches exhibition is attempting to express how humans become curious about their own positions when presented with a different perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"528\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2022\/12\/zh-hant\/image-1274.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2022\/12\/zh-hant\/image-1274-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2022\/12\/zh-hant\/image-1274-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2022\/12\/zh-hant\/image-1274-450x300.png 450w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2022\/12\/zh-hant\/image-1274.png 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nikolic has always been attempting to analyze and create the sensation of vision through his art; the artist engages in experimentation of stimulating the intrinsic potential of sensory organs. According to the 18th century philosopher George Berkeley, the only elements the human eye is able to perceive are color and light; only through the use of our faculties are we able to accumulate knowledge about our perceptions of perspective, shape, and distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much like learning a language, humans must learn to look; the piece \u201cPortrait of Filippo Riniolo\u201d presents the experience of learning how to look. In the work, a portrait of the artist\u2019s friend is presented inside a standard square frame, staring out at the audience through a light reminiscent of Rembrandt. Just as we become accustomed to the gaze of the subject in the painting, the image begins to undergo minute changes. As the scene begins to shift, the portrait itself also begins to fragment; we become aware that the portrait\u2019s \u201cgaze\u201d actually originates from an image composed of several small mirrors. The handsome Filippo Riniolo was not, after all, watching the audience through a video camera; he was narcissistically admiring his own reflection. However, narcissism is not the subject of this piece. Borrowing from Lacan\u2019s theory of the \u201cMirror Stage\u201d, the subject\u2019s heightened self-awareness is in fact a reminder to the audience to ask ourselves how we discern what it is we are actually seeing. In the video, the hand which parts the mirror fragments allows us to distinguish between image and mirror through touch. Touch&nbsp;is the only way in which the blind are able to understand the world, but with the proliferation of touch screens in this mobile communications era, touch has become an extension of vision. In the end, Nikolic\u2019s experiments with vision reminds us of the unbridgeable natural divide between seeing and knowing; perhaps the function of art is to attempt to bridge that divide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The titular piece of this exhibition is the artist\u2019s audiovisual installation \u201cThere is No Landscape\u201d, which was created while he was residing in Guangzhou. The landscape referenced in the title is a photograph of a mountain covered in lush vegetation. When viewers put on the earphones provided, they hear a two-person live narration of an artist\u2019s performance piece. Though the narrative of the conversation follows the artist\u2019s ascent into the trees, the landscape, which is reminiscent of Poussin, remains still, merely an unmoving photograph. Language is what switches on our imagination about the scene before us, and the landscape itself becomes the artist\u2019s creative material. It transforms into a work of art, relying on the audience\u2019s imagination to become an image existing inside each of our minds, but which may also have no relation to the photograph of landscape we see before us. When it intersects with threads related to vision explored throughout Nikolic\u2019s exhibition, vision becomes transmuted into an image inside the mind via sound and language\u2014a vista inside each person\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no landscape\u201d, Vladimir Nikoli &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/there-is-no-landscape%ef%bc%8dvladimir-nikolic%ef%bc%8d1933-contemporary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[2959,2961,2960,2962,2958,2957],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There Is No Landscape\uff0dVladimir Nikolic\uff0d1933 Contemporary - \u71c3\u70b9 Ran Dian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/there-is-no-landscape\uff0dvladimir-nikolic\uff0d1933-contemporary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_TW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"There Is No Landscape\uff0dVladimir Nikolic\uff0d1933 Contemporary - 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