Scrawling the ¡°Dark Lens¡±

---Huang Lin¡¯s 2007

Lu Yuan

Many people had ever seen<<Dark Lens>>, the book which collects works from the Pulitzer Prizes to expose the social dark side, and brought an impact to a group of people. the book exposes the lost of life and humanistic woe, the dark corner which the sunlight couldn¡¯t reach, <<Dark Lens>> is giving the magnesium light in the dark when the shutter rings, thereby we can see the world in the dark.

The artist has left the times of recorded image many years, the connection to the news also had been forgotten after the invention of photo technology. Certainly this doesn't hinder a handful of artists pay more attention on the news around while they are dealing with works, upon that Huang Lin produces a new series of works in 2007, on a certain of "Dark Lens" works.

The young artists with new concept and form of SiChuan Academy of Fine Arts, they always take pleasure in absorbing the Avant Garde and controversial practice from western art, although there is difficulty, regardless the success or failure, the special atmosphere provided them the agressive habitude. Huang Lin as a young artist from SiChuan Academy of Fine Arts, the topic of his previous works were mental variation of citizens in the city progress, and the feeling of isolation and alienation, then absorbed some skills from cynical realism, ¡¶Green Island ¡·was the typical work in that period. But his new works in 2007 have clear difference with the previous, that mainly include the following aspects.

Firstly, the concerned topic is more close to the socialization. As an important phenomenon in contemporary art is the humanities and the social problem, but the characteristic of Huang Lin is "Come Close". His works reflected the news that took place and reported recently by the media, such as the security of miner, judicatory justice, and the hot topic of ¡°Fake Photo of Tiger¡±, these all present his observation of daily life . The consciousness of the artist defined that he has already converted the abstract thinking to the concrete social issue. That all displayed the artist's humanity concern.

Secondly, the diversification of art language. Huang Lin¡¯s previous works mostly belong to canvas in frame, the artistic focus is painting skill and sign format. But the new series in 2007, shows his expanding of painting skill, medium and creation. The title of this solo show is "Black Line", is exactly a typical change of painting skill. In these works, fully presented the influence by the western doodle, with the lines of sketch and transformation increased the unfinished sense of the work visually. People's understanding toward doodle usually think of the large outdoor hippy drawing in the east part of New York, In fact, the most typical doodle was drawing on the margin of textbook randomly. The study of doodle shows that ¡°satire¡± is the topic in tradition, Huang Lin¡¯s art experiment matches the interest . Meanwhile, Huang Lin broadly has adopted the skill of patching and pasting in his new works, strengthening the medium performance. He also has imported the approach from performance in the conceptual work << Saving Action>>, these all testified a young artist¡¯s brave practice on breaking through the artistic language, it¡¯s an important distinction to the famouse artists in 1980¡¯s, the young generation is engaged in conceptual and experimental art.

The art circles of Sichuan had an academic tradition on concerning social issue and introspecting reality since the scar art. The tradition and criticizing of modern art formed contemporary art. We looked at Huang Lin¡¯s new works and figured out, the most worthy affirmative point is his humanity concern.

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