2026年《烈焰虚空一一观看无法完成》李荣南巴黎大皇宫巡展  巴黎法国独立艺术沙龙展
2026 Blazing Void — Viewing Cannot Be Completed
Li Rongnan Touring Exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris Presented at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants, Paris, France

文：李荣南（艺术家、策展人）
在当代算法主导的视觉生态中，图像早已不再是被“观看”的对象，而是被设计为可计算、可预测、可迅速消耗的操作单元。即时可读性、意义压缩与注意力捕获，构成了当代视觉文化的默认逻辑。在这一背景下，我的绘画实践有意脱离“内容生产”与“意义表达”的传统角色，转而介入一个更为根本的层面：观看本身的运行机制。
《烈焰虚空——观看无法完成》并非试图再生产新的视觉叙事，而是通过绘画作为媒介，对观看的“操作系统”进行结构性干预。我将“失败”提升为一种明确的方法论——它并非技术缺失、模糊美学或反表现的姿态，而是一种被精确设计的观看失效机制。观者在面对这些作品时，越是试图整合图像、建立意义，越会暴露自身观看方式的被训练性、程序性与历史建构性。
这一实践与Jonathan Crary关于“观察者技术”的研究、Michel Foucault对主体位置生产的分析，以及Bernard Stiegler关于感知与技术共构关系的理论形成清晰的思想链条。但我的工作并不止步于理论指认，而是将这些问题直接嵌入绘画的物质层面、结构层面与观看经验之中，使批判在感知层面被实际触发，而非停留在概念表述。
在我自创的理论框架“释放主义（Liberationism）”中，绘画始终处于一种张力之中：一方面，我强调色彩、节律与生命能量的释放，这在《万物生》系列的有机流动与动态结构中得以体现；另一方面，在《观看之后》《烈焰虚空》等系列中，我又刻意阻断这种“释放”所可能带来的审美舒适感，使能量在观看层面被悬置、卡顿、甚至失效。
这两种看似对立的冲动并不构成矛盾。对我而言，真正的“释放”并非让观者顺畅地沉浸于图像之中，而是首先打破被算法、媒介与历史训练出来的观看自动化。当既有的感知路径被瓦解，一种更原初、未被完全格式化的感知可能性，才得以浮现。
从《观看之后》系列、《烈焰虚空》东京巡展，到参与日韩联合博览会与香港 Affordable Art Fair，我的实践持续在不同文化与制度语境中被检验与推进。巴黎大皇宫的展示并非阶段性总结，而是一次将绘画重新定位为认知装置的尝试——在这里，绘画不再提供答案，而是制造无法被快速解决的问题；不再服务于意义的确认，而是迫使观看本身被重新审视。

李荣南《观看无法完成》90x90cm 布面丙烯 2024年

Blazing Void: When Viewing Cannot Be Completed
Grand Palais, Paris – Touring Exhibition
Text by Li Rongnan (Artist & Curator)
In today’s algorithm-driven visual ecology, images are no longer primarily objects to be “looked at.” They are engineered as operational units—calculable, predictable, and rapidly consumable. Immediate legibility, semantic compression, and attention capture have become the default logic of contemporary visual culture. Against this background, my painting practice deliberately departs from the traditional role of image-making as content production or meaning generation, and instead intervenes at a more fundamental level: the operational mechanism of viewing itself.
Flaming Void — After Viewing does not seek to produce new visual narratives. Rather, it uses painting as a medium to enact a structural intervention into the “operating system” of perception. Here, “failure” is elevated to a precise methodology—not as technical deficiency, aesthetic vagueness, or an anti-representational gesture, but as a deliberately constructed breakdown of viewing. The more viewers attempt to synthesize the image and stabilize meaning, the more clearly the trained, programmed, and historically constructed nature of their own modes of seeing is exposed.
This practice forms a coherent theoretical dialogue with Jonathan Crary’s analyses of observer technologies, Michel Foucault’s examination of subject-position production, and Bernard Stiegler’s reflections on the co-constitution of perception and technology. However, my work does not remain at the level of theoretical reference. These questions are embedded directly within the material, structural, and experiential dimensions of painting, allowing critique to be activated at the level of perception itself rather than remaining a purely conceptual proposition.
Within my self-developed theoretical framework of Liberationism, painting exists in a constant state of tension. On one hand, I emphasize the release of vitality, rhythm, and chromatic energy, as seen in the organic flows and dynamic structures of the All Things Arise series. On the other hand, in works such as After Viewing and Flaming Void, I deliberately interrupt the comfort of this “release,” suspending, stalling, or even collapsing energy at the level of viewing itself.
These two impulses, though seemingly opposed, are fundamentally unified. For me, true liberation does not consist in seamless immersion or pleasurable visual consumption. It begins with the disruption of perceptual automatisms shaped by algorithms, media systems, and historical training. Only when established pathways of perception are dismantled can a more primordial, not-yet-formatted possibility of sensing begin to emerge.
From the After Viewing series and the Tokyo touring exhibition of Flaming Void, to participation in Japan–Korea joint art fairs and the Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair, my practice has been continuously tested and developed across diverse cultural and institutional contexts. The presentation at the Grand Palais in Paris is not a retrospective conclusion, but an attempt to reposition painting as a cognitive apparatus—one that does not provide answers, but generates questions resistant to immediate resolution; one that no longer confirms meaning, but compels viewing itself to be reexamined.

李荣南《观看无法完成》90x90cm 布面丙烯 2024年

李荣南（李南）
Li Rongnan (Li Nan)
艺术家、策展人
Artist, curator
1983年生于中国山东
Born in 1983 in Shandong, China
毕业山东大学（威海）艺术学院油画专业学士学位
Graduated from Shandong University (Weihai) Art College, Bachelor of Arts in Oil Painting
生活工作在北京、日本、上海 从事油画、水墨创作
Living and working in Beijing, Japan, Shanghai engaged in oil painting and ink creation
观看系统理论（Vision Systems Theory）提出者。其创作与理论实践聚焦人类视觉结构与认知装置，通过绘画、跨媒介艺术与策展实验，探索观看如何被构造以及视觉体验如何塑造认知。
Founder of Vision Systems Theory. His artistic and theoretical practice focuses on human visual structures and cognitive devices, exploring how seeing is constructed and how visual experience shapes cognition through painting, cross-media works, and curatorial experiments.

展览经历
Exhibition experience
个展：
individual exhibition：
2026年《烈焰虚空一一观看无法完成》李荣南巴黎大皇宫巡展  巴黎法国独立艺术沙龙展2026 Blazing Void — Viewing Cannot Be CompletedLi Rongnan Touring Exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris Presented at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants, Paris, France
2024年 《烈焰虚空》李荣南作品巡展 东京 单向街书店
2024 “scorching Sun” Li Rongnan works Tour Exhibition Tokyo one-way Street Bookstore
2024年 《万物生辉》李荣南作品展 华亭馆 北京
2024 “All Things Shine” Li Rongnan Works Exhibition Huating Pavilion Beijing
2024年 《曜日之光》李荣南作品展 —第五十五届巴基斯坦驻华大使馆学院国际文化日 北京巴基斯坦驻华大使馆学院
2024 “Light of the Sun” Li Rongnan’s Works Exhibition – The International Cultural Day of the 55th Pakistani Embassy College in China Beijing Pakistan Embassy College of China
2024年 《焱燚》李荣南作品展 法国卢浮宫 SFZY Gallery
2024 “Yan Yi” Li Rongnan Works Exhibition Louvre, France SFZY Gallery
2024年 《烈焰虚空》李荣南作品巡展 上海M50明空间
2024 “Flame Void” Li Rongnan’s Works Touring Exhibition Shanghai M50 Ming Space
2023年 《释放》李荣南作品展 北京 摩卡艺术中心
2023 “Release” Li Rongnan Works Exhibition Beijing Mocha Art Center
2023年 高淳国际慢城山花艺术节x李荣南作品展 南京
2023 Gaochun International Slow City Mountain Flower Art Festival x Li Rongnan Exhibition, Nanjing
2019年 《洞变》李南作品展  北京798艺术区先声画廊
2019 “Cave Transformation” Li Nan’s Art Exhibition, Beijing 798 Art District, Xiansheng Gallery
2016年 《言归于好》李南作品展 北京798艺术区中方角画廊
2016 “Reconciliation” Li Nan Oil Painting Exhibition, Zhongfangjiao Gallery, 798 Art District, Beijing
2015年 《从消解概念出发》李荣南作品展 北京 大河湾美术馆
2015 “Starting from Dissolving Concepts” Li Rongnan’s Works Exhibition, Dahewan Art Museum, Beijing
联展：
joint exhibition：
2026年 法国巴黎大皇宫 |“2026 ART CAPITAL 法国独立艺术沙龙展”2026 Grand Palace in Paris, France | “2026 ART CAPITAL French Independent Art Salon”
2025年 ART021上海廿一当代艺术博览会 上海
2025年 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair Shanghai
2025年 日韩联合国际艺术博览会“Studyx PLAS : Asia Art Fair” 日本大阪府立国际会议场
2025 Japan-Korea Joint International Art Fair “Studyx PLAS: Asia Art Fair” Osaka Prefectural Conference Center, Japan
2025年 第 12 届香港Affordable Art Fair当代艺术博览会 香港会议展览中心
2025 12th Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair Contemporary Art Fair Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
2025年 法国巴黎大皇宫 |“2025 ART CAPITAL 法国独立艺术沙龙展”
2025 Grand Palace in Paris, France | “2025 ART CAPITAL French Independent Art Salon”
2024年 中国张家界首届新国潮艺术大展 湖南 岩语间美术馆
The first New National Tide Art Exhibition in Zhangjiajie, China in 2024 Hunan Yanyu gallery
2024年 大家都是朋友嘛Friends Everywhere首届BFM艺术马拉松 BFM艺术中心 苏州
2024 Friends Everywhere First BFM Art Marathon BFM Art Center Suzhou
2024年 ART021上海廿一当代艺术博览会 上海
2024 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair Shanghai
2024年 艺术上海当代国际艺术博览会 上海
2024 Art Shanghai Contemporary International Art Fair Shanghai
2024年 法国巴黎卢浮宫当代艺术博览会 法国
2024 Louvre Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, France
策展经历：
Curatorial experience:
2026年《WHEN SEEING IS NO LONGER ENOUGH》《当观看已不再足够》法国独立艺术沙龙展 法国巴黎大皇宫
2026 “WHEN SEEING IS NO LONGER ENOUGH” French Independent Art Salon Exhibition, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2025年 日韩联合国际艺术博览会“Studyx PLAS : Asia Art Fair” 日本大阪府立国际会议场
2025 Japan-Korea Joint International Art Fair “Studyx PLAS: Asia Art Fair” Osaka Prefectural Conference Center, Japan
2025年 策划SFZY Gallery参展第12届香港Affordable Art Fair当代艺术博览会 香港会议展览中心
2025 12th Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair Contemporary Art Fair Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
2025年 策划SFZY Gallery参展法国巴黎大皇宫 |“2025 ART CAPITAL 法国独立艺术沙龙展”
In 2025, SFZY Gallery will participate in the Grand Palais in Paris, France | “2025 ART CAPITAL French Independent Art Salon Exhibition”
2024年 策划SFZY Gallery参展艺术上海当代国际艺术博览会 上海
2024 Plan SFZY Gallery to participate in the Art Shanghai Contemporary International Art Fair Shanghai
2024年 策划SFZY Gallery参展法国巴黎卢浮宫当代艺术博览会 法国
2024 Plan SFZY Gallery to participate in the Louvre Contemporary Art Fair in Paris, France
2024年 《曜日之光》当代艺术展——第五十五届巴基斯坦驻华大使馆学院国际文化日 北京巴基斯坦驻华大使馆学院
2024 “Light of the Sun” Contemporary art exhibition – 55th Pakistan Embassy Academy in China International Cultural Day, Beijing, Pakistan Embassy Academy in China
2024年 《万花筒》康珂绘画作品展  上海m50明空间
2024 “Kaleidoscope” Kang Ke painting exhibition, Shanghai m50 Ming Space
2024年 《宁静与野蛮》陈玉娟作品展 上海m50明空间
2024 “serenity and barbarism” Chen Yujuan works Exhibition Shanghai M50 Ming Space
2024年 《繁絮》TaylorChyn(陈鸣瑀)当代艺术画展 上海M50明空间
2024 TaylorChyn (Chen Mingyi) Contemporary Art Exhibition Shanghai M50 Ming Space
2024年 寒竹油画展上海M50 明空间
2024 Hanzhu Oil painting Exhibition Shanghai M50 Ming Space
2023年 “大重启”当代艺术展 北京
2023 “Great restart” Contemporary Art Exhibition Beijing
2022年 ETARTNO.1中国当代艺术数字藏品展 广东
2022 ETARTNO.1 Chinese Contemporary Art Digital Collection Exhibition Guangdong
2022年 元奇点当代艺术大展 北京
2022 Yuan Singularity Contemporary Art Exhibition Beijing
2021年 释潮艺术国际邀请展 上海 POLIS SPACE艺术空间
Shanghai POLIS SPACE Art Space of 2021 International Invitational Exhibition of Shichao Art
2021年 遇见犄角当代艺术国际邀请展 山西太原太有文化艺术空间
Meet Horn International Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art in 2021 Taiyuan, Shanxi Province has cultural and artistic space
2021年 上上潮流艺术展 北京上上国际美术馆
2021 Shanghai trend Art Exhibition Beijing Shangshang International gallery
2020年 释放主义宣言国际邀请展（济南）山东时代美术馆
2020 release Declaration International Invitational Exhibition (Jinan) Shandong Times gallery
2020年 “释放生命的真实”释放主义宣言国际邀请展（北京）北京金宝汇共享艺术空间
2020 “the Truth of Life” International Invitational Exhibition of liberalism (Beijing) Beijing Jinbaohui sharing Art Space
2019年 “启程”释放主义女艺术家协会艺术展 北京东空间
2019 “departure” release Doctrine Women artists Association Art Exhibition Beijing East Space
2019年 环保相约•笔墨同行 百位名家环保灯箱文化展 北京
2019 environmental protection agreement pen and ink peer 100 famous environmental protection light box cultural exhibition Beijing
2019年 “驿站前行”当代艺术展 北京东空间
2019 “Post Station” Contemporary Art Exhibition Beijing East Space
2019年 “逢辰”黄皮火车艺术展 北京东空间

2019 “Fengchen” Huangpi Train Art Exhibition Beijing East Space
2019年 「八佰上艺」北京
2019 “Ba Bai Shangyi” Outdoor Light Box nomination Exhibition-release of low carbon, release of Environmental Protection, release of Life in Beijing
2019年 「应时而生」释放主义艺术国际邀请展 北京同泽艺术馆
2019 “born at the right time” release Art International Invitational Exhibition Beijing Tongze Art Museum