Richard Deacon

理查德·迪肯

Richard Deacon’s work tests the definition of sculpture. Playful in its radical propositions about art and life, his work intrigues through formal variety. Developing his current practice out of previous bodies of work, whilst consistently defying expectation, Deacon remains pre-eminent amongst contemporary British artists, at once an extremely influential figure and refreshing through his constant innovation.

理查德·迪肯的作品挑战了雕塑的传统定义。他的作品处处透着对艺术和生活的激进主张，趣味感十足，通过作品在形式上的变化激起观赏者的兴趣。他目前的创作沿袭了之前的风格，但每一件作品都有新意，不落俗套。迪肯一直都是现代英国艺术家中的领军人物，通过不断的作品创新，他已经成为雕塑领域令人眼前一亮的重要人物。

Being part of an artistic generation that continued to assert the relevance of sculpture through the heyday of conceptualism and the subsequent emergence of postmodernism, Deacon makes work that is disarmingly straightforward. At the same time it embodies a smart knowingness. He acknowledges the tradition of his art form – sometimes alluding to the work of other artists – but is not hidebound by it. He communicates an optimistic scepticism, the enjoyment of an aesthetic freedom that is based on the understanding that art can be made out of anything, deriving its identity and meaning through its context, audiences and milieu as much as physical environment.

作为继续坚持雕塑的相关性这一主张的一代艺术家的一份子，迪肯经历了 概念主义的全盛时期和随后兴起的后现代主义的蓬勃发展时期，他的作品非常亲民、直白，同时又表现出聪颖的知晓。他认可雕塑这种艺术形式的传统——有时暗指其他艺术家的作品——但却不守旧死板。他传递出一种乐观的怀疑态度，享受一种基于艺术来源多样化的审美自由。迪肯认为，艺术品的特性和意义不但源自其物理环境，其所在的背景、观赏者的态度和社会环境也会对其产生影响。