LEXICON
未来之词
史蒂文·格利德
Stephen Gleadow
工作室策展项目
Studio exhibition program
策展人：张营营
Curator: Zhang Yingying
2023年05月31日15:00
05.31.2023, 15:00
地址：北京市顺义区李桥镇龙塘艺术区18号
No.18, Longtang Art Zone, Liqiao Town, Shunyi District, Beijing
Lexicon是艺术家工作室内的几乎一切事物，它是生活的字典，是创作的百科全书，也是艺术家经验和心理状态的收纳簿——我们的心 / 我们的实验 / 我们的灵感 / 我们的成功 / 我们的失败 / 我们的愿望 / 我们的祈祷，都在这里汇集。
工作室里充满了创作的小细路径、小视觉线索、小灵感笔记、小符号标志和一些小词汇。工作室是艺术家的一个重要工具，也是一个类似空间的过滤器，它们过滤掉那些不会被采用或不会被选择的材料和想法。任何物体和材料一旦进入工作室就会归为一种未知，等待着被分配、挖掘、探索或被耕耘并赋予意义。
未来就像一本尚未打开的账簿，上面记录着即将发生的思想和路径。
工作室总是处于一种“未来主义状态”，在这个空间里，材料、想法和情绪都是一种词汇，所有这些汇集在一起，形成了艺术家自己的词典“Lexicon”。工作室的未来主义状态促进了艺术家们的乐观、兴奋、焦虑和对未来可能性的关注，它助力了许多边界的拓展。
工作室的未来主义还体现在，它是靠时间慢慢养成的。从未来的角度看，历史就在艺术家对目之所及材料的扭转之中。
史蒂文·格利德的作品是基于城市及社区的大规模变化，建筑、住宅和生活统统被解构，被打成碎片，被碾成灰尘，史蒂文从被废弃中收集物品，并将其转化为艺术创作的材料领域，这不仅成为他思考艺术的社会功能的参考点，同时也赋予了艺术形式以意义。
Lexicon is almost everything in the artist's studio, it is a dictionary of life, an encyclopedia of creation, an organizer of experiences and mental states - our hearts / our experiments / our inspirations / our successes / our failures / our wishes / our prayers, all gathered here.
The studio is filled with little fine paths of creation, little visual clues, little notes of inspiration, little symbolic signs and vocabulary. The studio is an important tool for the artist and a filter of sorts for the space, they filter out materials and ideas that will not be adopted or will not be chosen. Once in the studio, any object or material is classified as an unknown, waiting to be assigned, mined, explored or plowed and given meaning.
The future is like an unopened ledger of upcoming thoughts and paths.
The studio is always in a 'futuristic state', a space where materials, ideas and emotions are a vocabulary, all of which come together to form the artists' own 'Lexicon'. The futuristic state of the studio promotes the artists' optimism, excitement, anxiety and concern for future possibilities, and it contributes to the expansion of many boundaries. .
The studio's futurism is also reflected in the fact that it is slowly nurtured by time. From a future perspective, history lies in the artist's twisting of materials as far as the eye can see.
Stephen Gleadow's work is based on the massive changes in cities and communities, where buildings, homes and lives are deconstructed, broken into pieces and crushed into dust. Gleadow collects objects from the discarded and transforms them into the material realm of art making, which not only becomes a reference point for him to think about the social function of art, but also gives meaning to the art form.
关于艺术家
Stephen Gleadow史蒂文·格利德
史蒂文出生于美国，于二十世纪90年代毕业于罗德岛设计学院（Rhode Island School of Design），他在过去的十五年中生活并工作在中国北京。史蒂文的工作领域以绘画和雕塑为主，他聚焦图像的观念边界、图像的生成，以及图像中对现成品废弃物的使用。史蒂文对于材料所处的社会语境，以及自己生活和工作的社会语境予以极大的关注，并在对现成品使用的这条路径上不断实践，创造材料价值的同时，又赋予形式以意义。
Born in the United States and a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design in the 1990s, Stephen has lived and worked in Beijing, China for the past fifteen years. Working primarily in the fields of painting and sculpture, Stephen focuses on the conceptual boundaries of the image, its production, and the use of readymade waste in the image. Stephen pays great attention to the social contexts in which materials are used, as well as the social contexts in which he lives and works, and continues to practice on this path of using ready-made products to create the value of materials while giving meaning to form.
关于策展人
张营营 Zhang Yingying
研究型策展人，写作者，现生活于北京。她是一名卡塞尔文献展（德国）研究者；上海当代艺术博物馆“⻘策计划2019”获奖策展人；2017年第14届卡塞尔文献展媒体特邀；艺术自媒体运营者。她致力于研究艺术的语言、工具和方法在互联网时代的视觉表征与哲学内涵。
Research curator and writer, currently living in Beijing. She is a researcher of Documenta in Kassel, Germany; an award-winning curator for 'Emerging Curators Project 2019' of the Power Station of Art; a media invitee of the 14th Documenta in Kassel in 2017; she worked for ARTLINKART (A Chinese Contemporary Art Database) for 6 years. A self-media operator. She is dedicated to researching the visual representation and philosophical connotation of the language, tools and methods of art in the Internet era.
望远镜 Telescope
由美国著名策展人 James Elaine 先生于2012年创建，旨在推广并支持新兴艺术家与中国艺术社群，提供展览、策展、论述与讲座等各种艺术的可能性在此发生。我们致力推动望远镜成为一座沟通国内外的文化桥梁，并提供中国新兴艺术家与国外交流与对话的良好平台。
A non-profit styled project space established by American curator James Elaine in 2012. Its aim is to serve the emerging artists and art communities of China by providing exhibition, curatorial, writing, and mentoring opportunities in its gallery space. Telescope will also be a cultural bridge providing exposure and opportunities for China’s emerging artists abroad.
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