台北當代藝術館 官方網站 Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

高磊，1980年出生在中國長沙，畢業於中央美術學院數碼媒體系，是擅長透過作品說故事的新世代藝術家。在創作的表達上，高磊刻意將色彩和情緒一併抽離，而專注於利用日常物件的相容與共構的方式，來轉譯或表述個人的心念。在抽離一些日常物件既有的功能屬性之同時，高磊的作品先是凸顯了物自身冷酷、詼諧、低歛且極盡乾淨的性格，然後在它們之間重建了一種介於秩序與混亂的對衝關係。他的作品，乍看似乎沒有過度昂揚的情緒或強調視覺撞擊的效果，但在仔細閱讀之後，卻不難體會潛藏其中的種種尖銳對峙。

高磊通過生活上的遭遇和自我成長的經驗，將內在紊亂的情緒衝撞，轉化「摺疊」成一種前所未見、異常整齊的畫面空間，以此進行自我檢視和對外陳述。也因此，高磊在其創作中所表達及申論的空間，本質上與傳統繪畫的視覺性空間有很明顯的「心理性」差異。舉例來看，高磊所營造或建構的空間，不僅都具有封閉性格，甚至令人有一種深陷其中且被窺伺的奇特感受。在這當下，高磊始終揉雜了一種對日常慣性的抵制，以及對未來趨勢的疑惑，他藉由描繪各類異化的事物，一方面突顯了高速發展的社會所造成的扭曲、失衡與分裂，另一方面也為觀者提示了重新審視與測量我們與世界固有邊界的不同標準。


Gao Lei was born in 1980 in Changsha, China. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) with a degree in Digital Media. Gao is an artist of a new generation specializing in telling stories with his creations. Deliberately withdrawing colors and emotions from the works, he puts focus on the compatibility and co-figuration among the daily objects, in an attempt to translate and express what he actually has in mind. Through the removal of functional properties of daily objects, Gao highlights their genuine property of the coldness, cleverness, convergence and extreme simplicity. He then further rebuilds the conflicting relationships between the order and chaos resulting from the objects. His creations, at first glance, do not reveal excessive emotions and exaggerating visual impacts; however, with careful contemplation, it is hard not to notice the sharp confrontations hidden in them.

Using what he has encountered and the personal growth he has experienced, Gao transforms and ‘folds’ the intrinsic and disordered emotional impact into an unprecedented and unusual neat space, where he undergoes the internal retrospection and makes external statement. There is an obvious and essential ‘psychological’ difference between the exposition space he creates and the visual space in traditional painting. For example, the spaces he creates all possess a conservative character, which casts a spell that traps viewers’ attention and then brings up the extraordinary feeling of being spied on. Gao is used to introducing a strong resistance to daily routines and doubts about future trends. With his depiction of all kinds of distinctive objects and events, on the one hand, he highlights the distortions, imbalance, and division caused by the rapid development of the society; on the other hand, he prompts the viewers to reexamine and evaluate the different standards applied among us and the world.