{"id":7976,"date":"2013-10-26T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:10:33","slug":"carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cCarrier\u201d: Gao Lei Solo Exhibition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

White Space<\/strong><\/a> (No. 255, Caochangdi Airport Service Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015), Sep 7 \u2014 Nov 17, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his third solo display, Gao Lei proves again to be an artist among few able to deliver an exhibition \u2014 not a bunch of works, but a show that owns the space; an entity and experience contained and fulfilled, not over-confident, undermined by one or two pieces or subject to other pitfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is ironic, then, that the works themselves hone in on sensations that are quite disruptive and destabilizing, an endemic inertia seems never far away. Yet one remains intrigued \u2014 isolated by and interested in the things also there in the room. Gao Lei\u2019s first exhibition at White Space, \u201cThe Principle\u201d (he is not shy of titles for his shows, though the works follow the anti-meaning letters-and-numbers trend) revolved around an effective play with containment and voyeurism, with a metal booth, white central kiosk and paintings in which grids created a sense of looking into \u2014 or was it looking out of? \u2014 some sort of schematic enclosure. Surveillance and systems of control were at issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gao Lei, \u201cE-92\u201d, oil on canvas,173 x 173 x 173 cm, 2013
\u9ad8\u78ca\uff0c\u300aE-92\u300b, \u5e03\u9762\u6cb9\u753b, 173 x 173 x 173 cm, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gao Lei, \u201c63.09KG\u201d, sponge, 180 x 180 x 180 cm, 2013
\u9ad8\u78ca\uff0c\u300a63.09KG\u300b, \u6d77\u7ef5, 180 x 180 x 180 cm, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gao Lei, \u201cC-45\u2033, sponge cushion, linen, bulldozer track, 262 x 200 x 59 cm, 2013
\u9ad8\u78ca,\u300aC-45\u300b\uff0c\u6d77\u7ef5\u57ab\uff0c\u9ebb\u5e03\uff0c\u63a8\u571f\u673a\u5c65\u5e26\uff0c262 x 200 x 59 cm\uff0c2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCarrier\u201d seems to be about dimensions in a different way. For want of a better explanation, one feels that it plays at opposites, even conjuring them when they are not, technically, there. Beauty is not here, but neither are the works at all ugly. The original functions of some or of their components \u2014 filing-cabinet drawers, for example, gymnastics bars, a ski or axe head \u2014 are inhibited or changed, but does this lack of function mean uselessness? There is black against white in the target-like work \u201cE-92,\u201d the original round of which has been pulled back into the angles of a corner. There is the impression of physical weight \u2014 a round black bulk declaring itself to be \u201c63.09 kg\u201d envelops the partition wall \u2014 yet also an atmosphere of lightness linked perhaps to a lack of definite context. One senses limpness, but also solidity. Perhaps the most memorable thing here is a large gunmetal-grey crash pad which has tank or bulldozer tracks wrapped round its two sides (\u201cC-45\u201d) in a close marriage of threat and comfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus does Gao Lei\u2019s skilful transformation of materials beg the transformation of understanding, or the means by which that could happen. The cool, cast plasticity of the works \u2014 in general, and save for occasional localized shots of color, the artist sticks to a grey, black and cream palette \u2014 makes them seem sometimes like the enlarged pieces of a board game. The sensation of being inside a game is heightened by an Escher-esque quality in the filing-cabinet drawers, for instance (\u201cA-7\/12\u201d), which have become a ladder leaning against the wall with just one drawer that is not hanging perpendicular. There is a stray billiard ball from the work \u201cJ-96\u201d lurking in the top corner of the room which many people missed. There is the awareness of something one might physically do in the company of these works, or touch \u2014 pull up to the gymnastic bars or pick up the phone in the quilted booth. But Gao Lei\u2019s work remains in the realm of art one doesn\u2019t touch; for now, this is all in one\u2019s head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gao Lei, \u201cA-712\u2033, stainless steel, lock cores, 60 x 21 x 472 cm, 2013
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