“Kàn Bù Wán” Wang Yifan’s solo exhibition——This Saturday
Opening reception: Aug 8, 2009, 4:00 pmCurated by Lee AmbrozyAug 8, 2008––Sept 7, 2009Star Gallery | 798 Art Zone | Tel: +86 10 5978 9224Wang Yifan’s exhibition “Kan Bu Wan,” features this emerging artist’s newest works; it is truly a show that will never be seen in its entirety.In his epic video “Wang Yifan’s Clock––A Stakeout on Time” (2006), Wang Yifan filmed a common clock face that he had imperceptibly branded with his name and reworked into a trademark-esque logo. From a fixed position, he filmed the clock in its normal state for a full 24 hours, a length which he calls his “natural unit of time,” and came to employ in the majority of his video works. “Wang Yifan’s Clock” is an understatedly simple artwork, whose simplicity brought it wide renown. The works presented here are developments on his previous tropes, the “Blackboard” painting and the 24-hour video. Wang Yifan’s candid means of art production are realized on an even grander scale in “Kan Bu Wan,” by eliminating the possibility of seeing these works in their entirety he seems to imply that every way, every angle of looking at art is right.Viewers are thus liberated. In certain artworks, such as “Quietude,” minute changes will seem eternally new; in deconstructing others, such as “The Previous Exhibition” every way we view or present the work is novel. And “[Insert Name Here] Filmed by Wang Yifan” is an experimental video work in its infant stages, where the artist films other artist’s creations for a 24 hours period and from a fixed location, the series, debuted here is a miniature virtual exhibition “curated” by the artist himself.“Kan Bu Wan” challenges the versatility of the gallery space with three video projectors, five screens (including the artist’s cell phone), and an original novella of 20,000 characters that has been hand-written over eleven canvases––longer than what any viewer might expect, and straightforward enough for even a child to understand. Wang Yifan’s concepts are uniquely original constructions that play on the notion of time, loss, memory and unmet expectations. Like an onion, each is obvious in shape and presentation, but as you peel back the layers, they become more pungent, and their logical composition is revealed. Using an ordinary vocabulary, allusions to the extraordinary are subtly revealed.
[…] 798新开幕的一个展览很吸引我想去看一下，当然一方面我不在北京无法看，另一方面，正如这个展览的题目《看不完》所提示你的，即使你去了也看不完这个展览。艺术家王一凡，以24小时为单位，记录在貌似无变化的时间里蕴含着的千变万化。 […]
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