空房子——华克健摄影展
华克健，上海翻译家，退休以后将他的梦想付诸现实。他行走于上海的小街弄堂，纪录着他记忆中的老房子：曾经被记载在中国历史中的人物曾经的居所，现在已经是空无一人的空房子。
他用镜头纪录下上海曾经的历史，带着他固有的贵族气质；他希望下一代的记忆中少些空白，于是就有了这些照片，艺术是记忆！
关于《空房子》
作者：华克健
年少时，家里有年头的房子外墙上一楼和二楼之间有一条红砖装饰带，我在上面钉了一个铁丝环当作篮球网向里面投球，（后来是儿子，）这大概是我红砖情结的发端。许多年之后，在推土机的隆隆声中我拿起了相机开始寻找儿时的记忆。退休后一年多来浮光掠影抢到了一些私心窃喜的镜头，（不是红镜头也不是黑镜头，）无非是市井人家乃至残垣断壁人去楼空一地鸡毛，为城市记忆聊备一格而已------清水青砖墙面衬托着巴洛克或Art Deco纹饰和红砖的门楣，窗套和廊柱------骨子里还是中国的。1930年代后纯欧式洋房渐成气候，东方巴黎浪得虚名。到如今几十载风雨沧桑，留的留了，去的去了，来的来了，唯有在水泥和玻璃的森林中时隐时现的红砖永远是城里的一抹暖色。
开幕时间：2007年4月29日19：00开始
展览时间：2007年4月29日至2007年5月7日15：00-23：00
地点：顶层画廊，南京东路479号先施大厦12层(画廊区域)
Abandoned Homes--- Photo Show by Hua Ke-jian
Hua Kejian, a Shanghainese interpreter, uses the iens to give us his own interpretation of the lanes of his city. In recording these crumbling alleys, he’s producing an archive, a visual record for Shanghai’s younger generation.
“Maybe my so-called red-brick-complex originated from my childhood memory of old home (now demolished and became part of a luxurious club in western Shanghai) where there was a red brick decorative band on the wall between the first floor and the second floor where I fixed a ring of steel wire as a basketball hoop and threw a little rubber ball into it for fun everyday (later my little naughty son naturally). Decades have past and I picked up a camera, wandering around the big city just like a tramp, under the strange looks from the inhabitants, focusing on all sorts of old appearing houses which would vanish soon everywhere, recording with desperate efforts as more as and as quickly as possible something worth leaving in our memories before they were destroyed…..the times is changing too fast, and we can do little against the trend actually, the old wearing off and passing away, the new coming in instead, perhaps some surviving by chances for reasons whatever……anyhow, in my fillings a touch of red color of aged wore bricks and tiles always remains and it warms me when I walking in the forest of cement and glass in the city…… ” said Hua.
Hua ke-jian, a translator in Shanghai, realized his dream of childhood after his retirement. He wandered around narrow back streets and small lanes throughout Shanghai capturing with his simple digital camera the scenes of daily life of ordinary people in the city and various kinds of old appearing houses where they are living in or going to be relocated…… He recorded shadows and relics of the old times in his own way with kind of seemingly noblemen quality. In his pictures, old “shikumen” or terraced houses, western-style houses and apartments, even huge mansions with east-west combination style exquisitely built in early the 20 century which would to be demolished soon appeared graceful and elegant instead of shabby and obscure as they used to be for long, which leave something historical, something cultural and something worth to remember for generations to come. And in this sense, we could say art is history too.
Opening Reception: 19:00, Apr. 29th, 2007
Exhibition Period: Apr. 29th, 2007 --- Mar. 7th, 2007 (15:00-23:00)
Venue: The Room with A View, 12th F. No.479 Nanjing Rd(E), Shanghai