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2022. 10. 15 – 11. 19
\nCai Lei<\/p>\n

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The most important issue in Cai Lei\u2019s (\u8521\u78ca) work is \u201cspace\u201d. It is the charm of the sculpture work itself and the testament of the artist\u2019s conceptual thinking. At the same time, it is also a vessel that ultimately contains personal feelings and reality.<\/p>\n

The most important expression in Cai Lei\u2019s creations is \u201cperspective\u201d, which gives various forms and perceptions (\u77e5\u89ba) to space. He constantly compresses, folds, stretches, and pulls the relationship between time and space, guiding the viewers\u2019 gaze to a specific place. However, it is not the \u201cperspective\u201d itself that Cai Lei considers important, neither is the linguistic play of \u201cperspective\u201d that is commonly seen in art. Instead, it is the perception that \u201cperspective\u201d creates, and the emotional change created by distance (\u8ddd\u96e2) and gaze.<\/p>\n

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Cai Lei\u2019s work can\u2019t be said as a simple development of formalism. Although what we see in his work is the space depth, the perspective shrinking, and the sculpted space, but the length, order and rhythm come from the real life and experiences of the artist. It is originated from the memories of several generations of people, and it can be experienced in all spaces and eras. The sculptures on the walls, floors, and corners evoke the memories of one day in the 1980s in the yard. The sunlight shining down at 3 o\u2019clock in the afternoon, the narrow kitchen with tiles from his childhood, or the corner of the room in Kafka\u2019s novel, the narrow flat hallway that appears in Eastern European movies\u2026 When we look at Cai Lei\u2019s work, we will subconsciously recall the past memories about space. At that moment, what the viewer experienced and perceived would completely be connected. In this process of connecting, the space, perspective, and texture that you experienced in the past would bring you into the depths of your memory.<\/p>\n

Cai Lei\u2019s simplification of the difference between abstractionism and minimalism in terms of form is by no means intended to use form as a mystery \u201cemptiness\u201d and \u201cgeometric creations\u201d. He redefines and creates reality through the expression of space, perspective, and materials, and by doing so making \u201cabstract\u201d technique became a realism close to psychology (\u5fc3\u7406) and feeling. It starts from \u201creality\u201d and \u201cphysical experience\u201d, and eventually becomes the highest emotion transcending physical and emotion. This emotion is not only the highest form, but the highest spirit. It transcends the denial of form after modernism. The form is denial of a long history of form.<\/p>\n

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Time always has a texture, and the texture of space also derives from time. It could be long, and it could be short. If we put the reality of a moment in a time of a day, the reality would become so strong that it would do more than compress the space we have. Alternatively, if we put the reality in a time of 10 years, the reality of that moment would just be a flow of memory, and the moment would seem extremely short. If we set the time to a thousand years, everything would be nothing more than the admiration that microorganism (\u5fae\u7269) burst in an instant. In Cai Lei\u2019s work, the perspective of a particular focus, the texture created by the weathering (\u98a8\u5316) of time, always draw us into the time distance (\u8ddd\u96e2). The flat space, flowing gold gleam, and very close distance draw us into collective memory. But at the same time, it constantly pushes us out of the collective memory, making us feel as if we were in a completely different world. In this process, we would stare at ourselves and meet ourselves.<\/p>\n

At different times of the day, as the light falls into space and removes the scene of the story, the \u201cspace\u201d and \u201ctime\u201d of Cai Lei\u2019s work reveal themselves. The movement of light is the only trace of change in the work., although some degrees of loneliness permeate this revelation. It would reveal the story and uncover the secret. In a pure space, in a kind of simplified rhythm, we would be able understand more easily the meaning of history. The highest emotion leads you to enter metaphysical thinking transcending reality.<\/p>\n

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Social properties of shabby houses, reinforced concretes, gilded lusters, reliefs (\u6d6e\u5f6b), interior spaces, buildings, theaters, and spaces are expressed in Cai Lei\u2019s various creative stages. They are connected with various experiences of reality. Those experience may be the memories of many people looking back on times, and they may also be someone\u2019s secret memories. There are also broken stairs or remaining structures. However, these diverse perceptions eventually become the best language. Through dimensional reduction, ambiguity, scene division, square meter, unit, and space methods, the structure of cubism and the starting point of abstractionism and the expression of minimalism are combined. They are combined to form a completely new relationship of proportion, order, and structure in Cai Lei\u2019s works. And finally, climbing the stairs, starting from the experience, to reach the highest space and time.<\/p>\n

Tang Contemporary Art
\n6, Apgujeong-ro 75-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
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