Rhizome - Lijiang art center
丽江迪娜恪恩美术工艺品有限公司
http://www.rhizome-lijiang.org/
presents || 出示
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2013年4月19日星期五, 晚上8点
April 2013 Friday 19th, 8 PM
Vangelis Legakis (希腊/英国) / (GREECE/UK)
展览开幕会/ exhibition’s opening
瓦解假的 / The Disintegration of the Unreal
in Rhizome - Lijiang art center
add: Lijiang shi, gu cheng qu, jinhong shuinichang pangbian xiangnei, (bus 2, 13)
地址：丽江市古城区金虹路, 金虹水泥厂旁边巷内 (2、13路公共汽车)
HERE: download the flyer with adress
2013年4月19日星期五18点在藕丽江艺术中心，将有一场展览，叫不真实的分裂 (The Desintagration of the unreal)，艺术家是一个希腊人叫Vangelis Legakis。
Vangelis Legakis 1980年在雅典市出生的，自10年以来，他在英国伦敦市工作。他学了跳舞，戏剧，编舞，辅助治疗法。自10年以来，综合了艺术，哲学，心理学和神经病学，他创造了跨学科的装置和舞蹈表演。
因为他的编舞的工作和他的跨学科舞蹈教育工作室，Vangelis Legakis 不断地在在南美国，欧洲和亚洲等国际领域展示和教授他的技能，使他在全世界享有盛誉。他的表演于在南美国，欧洲和亚洲。过去几年来，他在舞蹈中又融合了灵学和能量学的原理（太极和气功），以便增加舞蹈的知性，以及提供一种全新的知觉和感受的表达方式。
在这个展览，可以看到Legakis在大理和丽江的照片，这两个城市是在中国云南省的旅游重地。在为期一个月的研究以后，他认识了本地人的生活条件，他还研究了游客很快参观这两个城市(从1到5天)，这些游客并没有真正体验到本地人的真实生活。Legakis 拍了这些旅游重地的照片，还拍了本地的一些小地方: 只有本地人生活工作的地方。
在这个展览上，他采用了中国的传统书法纸作 为照片的相框，这是他对中国传统的阐述方式。在展厅，他用庙寺的蜡烛来照亮他的艺术作品，蜡烛也象征着人类瞬息既逝的生活。除去寺庙里的蜡烛本身的神圣意 义，它还象征着供养着我们肉体的器皿，随着火焰的燃烧，蜡烛最终渐渐消耗怠尽。 Vangelis 希望借此表达，人们赋予物质的所谓重要性和能量，比如食物、服饰、奢华假期之类的，其实只是来自我们的外在世界; 还不如多花些宝贵的时间，审视和强化我们的内在世界，可以增加我们的知性意识和生活品质，与世界融合为一体。
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On Friday April 19th 2013 at 18:00 the Rizhome – Lijiang Arts Centre will open an exhibition entitled The Disintegration of the Unreal by the Greek artist Vangelis Legakis
Vangelis Legakis was born in Athens, Greece 1980 and for the last ten years he has been living and working in London, UK. He studied Dance Theater, Choreography, Complementary therapies and for the past decade has been involved in fine arts, philosophy, psychology and neuroscience to create interdisciplinary installations and dance performances.
Vangelis Legakis is best known for his choreographic works and interdisciplinary educational dance workshops which he has been exhibiting and teaching internationally – Latin America, Europe and Asia. The last few years he has been integrating spiritual practices and energy work with dance (Tai Chi and Chi Gong) to raise consciousness and offer a new perspective on what is felt and experienced.
In this installation Legakis is exhibiting photography taken in Dali and Lijiang, two quite touristic cities in Yunnan Province in China. Over a month of research he dissected the life of local communities but also of the tourists who rushed through these two cities maybe for two to five days without experiencing the real life. Legakis took photos of very touristic places but also small local places where only local people walk and live.
In this installation he is using Traditional Calligraphy paper as a frame of the photos so as to depict the Chinese traditions and also for lighting design he is using candles from temples so as to connote the ephemeral aspect of what we are living and experiencing day by day. The candles other than having a sacred meaning they also represent man’s body that ‘hosts’ us during our lives which, as the fire burns, it will eventually decay and disintegrate. Vangelis wants to point out the importance and energy man gives on material things such as food, clothes, luxurious holidays which is all an aspect of our external world; instead of spending quality time to reflect and develop our internal world which is what will allow man to develop his consciousness and living standards as a whole world community.
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