箭厂胡同38号(国子监街内)
北京 100007 中国
38 Jianchang Hutong
(off Guozijian Jie)
Beijing, 100007 China

箭厂空间荣幸地推出北京艺术家刘韡的新作《黑暗》，这件作品延续了艺术家一直以来的创作主线，即对视觉和观念所产生的魔力进行游戏般的介入。在这次全面的建筑介入尝试中，刘韡将标志性的对物体本质、流动性的探讨与胡同单调乏味的场景结合在了一起。箭厂的门脸和室内空间转换成一个与人类视觉相游戏的黑洞，在这其中既包含了对空间的否定，又将空间变为了视觉思考的客体。 看似空空的洞就像是一个退化至虚无的深渊，在这种诡异效果的衬托下，周围的胡同环境比任何时候都变得更加清晰可见。

刘韡(1972年出生于北京)是一名观念艺术家，他的创作跨越多种媒介和形式，包括装置，绘画和录像等。作品常运用日常物品的物质性－流动，衰退，破坏及构建去探讨城市的存在感。《黑暗》的创作可以追溯到他较早的作品《暗物质》(2008)，在这件作品里，刘韡用黑布包裹了日常物品，并将这些物件以一种抽象化的方式在空间中展出。他那些具有讽刺性和幽默感的作品重新将日常生活中的碎屑整合成几何图案化的抽象视觉。刘韡的作品曾广泛地展出于国内外的众多展览中，包括第四届广州三年展（2012），上海民生美术馆（2011），法国蓬皮杜艺术中心（2010），北京尤伦斯当代艺术中心（2010），第51届威尼斯双年展（2005）。

Arrow Factory is pleased to present a new work by Beijing artist Liu Wei that continues the artist’s ongoing engagement with games of visual and conceptual alchemy. In Void, Liu’s signature exploration of matter, substance and flux merges with the monotonous setting of the hutong. In this comprehensive architectural intervention, Arrow Factory’s façade and interiors are transformed into a black hole that plays with human visual perception in that it represents both negation of space while positing space as object of visual contemplation. The seemingly vacuous cavity is an abyss that recedes into nothingness, thus producing the uncanny result of rendering the hutong surroundings more visibly present than ever. Optimal viewing times are dusk until 10pm.

Liu Wei (b. 1972, Beijing) is a conceptual artist whose works span across multiple mediums and forms, from installation to painting to video and beyond. His work uses the materiality of everyday objects to explore urban existence, material flux, decay, demolition, and construction. The roots of Void can be traced to his earlier work entitled Dark Matter (2008) in which Liu wrapped everyday objects in form-fitting black duvatine shrouds, rendering the items as abstract forms. Reconfiguring the detritus of daily life into visual abstractions of geometric forms and patterns, his satirical and humorous works have been exhibited extensively, including the 4th Guangzhou Triennial (2012), Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2011), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2010), and the 51st Venice Biennale (2005).