NIKKI接受采访，何工当翻译
2010年10月31日下午3点，“如同登上乞力马扎罗——NIKKI的高地”美国女艺术家NIKKI个人展览在成都蓝顶美术馆开幕。
此次展览由“高地”艺术区发起人何工策划，展出艺术家NIKKI的铅笔画和色粉丙烯艺术作品20余幅。其中一部分作品主要描绘她在成都“高地”艺术区3个月期间的所见所闻。
NIKKI勇敢的离开美国纽约，来到成都最偏远最农村的“高地”艺术区做驻留艺术家。3个月来，用她异乡人的眼光打量成都的当代艺术，并让他们驻留 在自己的创作当中。正如此次展览策展人何工所说：“Nikki是个勇敢的人，敢于走出纽约来到“高地”，在这个世人看来与艺术无关的中国乡村作驻留艺术 家。成群结队前赴后继的蚊子、赶集时活杀鸡鸭的场景、能卷得像古巴雪茄一样的土烟叶、村民的婚丧酒席都表明这里不是纽约。报以后殖民式闯入者的心 态，Nikki自然地从宗主文化的立场好奇的看待眼前的事物，会同猎奇、想象和误读她亢奋而高效地生产作品，在这次有预谋的文化探险中登上了假想和隐喻的 乞力马扎罗。”
NIKKI是留驻在成都“高地”艺术区的外国艺术家，目前到成都的时间也仅仅只有3个月。这3个月她一直留驻在“高地”艺术区从事艺术创作，从他描绘成都当代艺术领域的一些人物来看，她这3个月中与成都艺术圈的朋友们打得非常火热。
本次展览也是成都蓝顶美术馆自开馆以来举办的第一场国外艺术家个人展览，着实为国内外艺术交流提供了有利平台。
At 3:00 p.m. on October 31 2010, "as the board Kilimanjaro - NIKKI's Highland," solo exhibition American Women Artists NIKKI Blue Roof Art Museum in Chengdu.
The exhibition display pencil and pastel paintings by NIKKI, more than... 20 pieces of art. Her works mainly depict her experience in Chengdu's Gao Fandian, during a 3 month residency at "Highland" Arts District.
"Nikki is brave enough to leave New York and come to the “Highland”. She becomes a resident artist in a village of China which has nothing to do with art in people’s eyes. The mosquitoes in large groups, the scene of killing the chickens and ducks in the market, the tobacco leaves curling like Cuban cigars and villagers’ marriage and funeral banquets, all of these show that it is not New York. With an attitude of a post-colonial intruder, Nikki treats things she sees naturally from the standpoint of suzerain culture. With novelty, imagination and misreading, she has produced works excitedly and effectively. She ascends to Kilimanjaro of imaginary and metaphor in the planned cultural adventure." (writes curator and artist He Gong)
The foreign artist Nikki has had presence in Chengdu just only 3 months. This 3 months she has been stationed in the "highland" art district in the art, contemporary art from the area he described some of the Chengdu people point of view, these three months with her artistic circle of friends in Chengdu played very hot.
This exhibition held at Chengdu Blue Roof Museum is the first solo exhibition of a foreign artist in Chengdu. Indeed, art of communicating at home and abroad have raised the platform.
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