SIGNS AND SHADOWS

Alessandro Rolandi

Opening: On Saturday, 15:00 - 18:00, October 25th, 2008

Duration: October 25th - December 3rd, 2008

Alessandro Rolandi, after five years living and working in Beijing, explores through a new series of multimedia works, the existimng relationships between language and signs, trying to confront the notion of double and shadow,inhered from the experience and vision of Antonin Artaud,with elements of traditional Chinese culture and ultimately, with mass-communication and its aggressive and manipulative visual strategy.
Is it still possible to look for whats hidden between the lines, or behind the image? Does it make sense to react to the pre-fabrication of desires we are facing today? Transposing images and contents of every days life into an oneiric world of signs and symbols, Rolandi aims at blurring the edges between whats real and what is archetypical, what s local and what is universal.
Hierarchies disappear for the unaware child who is not scared to travel in the dark regions where myths and fairy-tales meet every days reality. Eventually he will come out untouched, with new toys, new tools and new words to name them.

在北京生活和工作了五年之后，李山开始探究新的多媒体系列作。研究语言和示意的关系，尝试着去正视源于安东尼·阿尔托德的 “双重”和“影子” 经验和观念与中国的传统文化元素和大众传媒及其富有侵略性和操纵性的视觉战略。是否有可能在隐藏的字里行间，或是图象之后找寻到什么呢？对我们今天预先产生的欲望提前做出反应是否有意义呢？李山意欲使真实，典型，地方性与世界性的界限模糊化，将日常生活的场景和内容置换为梦幻世界的标志和符号。固有束缚的消失使得梦幻与现实交织在孩子们的日常生活中，使他们能够无所畏惧地去穿越黑暗......。最后孩子们会回到一个未曾触及的，充满新玩具，新事物，需要重新去诠释的境地......。

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