玛蒂亚斯科斯塔（Matas Costa）、  伊那可多明戈（Iaki Domingo）、
巴果戈米斯（Paco Gmez）、        荷科拉（Jorquera）、
卡洛斯路寒（Carlos Lujn）、     埃杜阿多纳别（Eduardo Nave）、
胡安米拉斯（Juan Mills）、       坦妮特布娜拉（Tanit Plana）、
艾瓦萨拉（Eva Sala）、            胡安桑多斯（Juan Santos）、
卡洛斯单瓦（Carlos Sanva）、      玛尔塔舒尔（Marta Soul）、
胡安巴尔布恩娜（Juan Valbuena）、荷纳斯贝尔（Jons Bel）。
开幕时间：2008年8月30日（周六）上午10点
展览地点：湖北省艺术馆1号厅
作品数量：摄影图片13件（每件作品由7-8张图片组成）、3组DV
交流会时间：2008年8月30日（周六）下午3点 — 5点
交流会主题：“自由交流 – 影像艺术的发展和变革”
交流地点：湖北省艺术馆四楼艺术家交流中心
参会人员：巴果戈米斯（西班牙）、卡洛斯路寒（西班牙）、卡洛斯单瓦（西班牙）、荷科拉（西班牙）、傅中望、樊德寿、宋刚明、赵红、马宁、魏光庆、袁晓舫、彭年生、李巨川、未明、沈伟、刘明、蒋涛、刘波、李郁、李原、范阳（法国）、 路德威（法国）。
艺术家创作：时间（9月上旬）、地点（武汉）、主题（武汉人文纪实摄影）
展览地址：湖北省武汉市武昌区东湖路三官殿1号
邮编：430077
            电话：027-86796002
            网站：www.hbmoa.com
十五、  展览阐释（前言）：
“非影像”（Nophoto）既是一个新的艺术概念，又是一个风格鲜明、富有活力的西班牙艺术团体。其成立于2005年，主要致力于当代影像创作。该团体由14位成员组成，成员间的作品相互独立而又整体统一，作品通常是以非传统影像的形式呈现。
作为艺术概念，“非影像”明确否定影像本身，但又借用摄影这种形式，其追寻的概念核心就是“NO”，从中衍生出某种想法、某种观察方式或是一场“革命”。
    作为艺术团体，“非影像”强调其否定身份的存在，声称自己并非一个摄影家的组织。其最显著的特征是：开放的创作内容、多样的创作形式和丰富的传播渠道，比如，除了网络和公共投影外，还有每个艺术家创作过程中的言语表达等。
    “非影像”宣称不否认任何新的艺术创作形式和展览，“非影像”的作品为人们观察日常生活提供了一个独特的视角，带来意外的惊喜。这一过程是群体的反映和可能性创造过程的相互配合。

                                                 —— 傅中望 / 湖北省艺术馆馆长 

    “我们从不拒绝凡俗的事物，相反执着于此，或轻柔漫步，或蹒跚前行，努力观察它们之间的微妙变化，倾听它们的节奏，寻找相互间的规律。我们乐观面对每个主题，并致力于认识它们的本相，去探寻背后的结构和本源；我们希望知道它们由什么组成，承担怎样的历史角色。我们坚持用心去阐述作品的主题，从不矫揉造作。｀作精于心、艺简于行＇，不说明，不界定，不影像，所有我们想做的是解构影像及其名称——这既不是影像的世界，也不是世界的影像，这里只有真理”。
                                                                                                                                                    　                 
                                               —— 胡安米雅斯 / 非影像成员 
                                                                                                              
    NOPHOTO获得2006年西班牙国际影像视觉艺术节“最佳贡献奖”。
                                                       
“非·影像”现象的思考

我们都知道西班牙这个欧洲西南部伊比利亚半岛上的美丽国度，历史悠久、热情奔放。谈到他们的艺术，暂不说祖先们给他们留下气势恢弘的阿尔塔米拉洞窟壁画、中世纪摩尔人建造地美轮美奂的爱尔罕布拉宫；单看那些重要的绘画艺术大师们，如格雷柯、委拉斯盖兹到戈雅，个个都是成就巨大、影响深远。既是到现当代，毕加索、达利、米罗、塔比艾斯皆是引领时代、创造艺术辉煌的巨星。所有这些彰显了西班牙是一个诞生伟大艺术的地方。

“非·影像”本身是一支由14位成员组成的在西班牙非常活跃当代摄影艺术团体，是首次来中国举办展览。“非·影像”的影像概念，似乎这又和西班牙民族特有的创造性联系在一起。其实，他们的作品并不是什么特殊的艺术形式，只是透过摄影看到的人性关怀。非·影像成立之初就以广泛关注西班牙社会各个层面的人文生态为宗旨。如：坦妮特·布娜拉对女权主义和女性命运的关注；玛蒂亚斯·科斯塔对欧洲移民和偷渡者生存状态的描绘；荷科拉对社会普通人群的写生；卡洛斯·单瓦对青少年成长经历的记录；胡安·桑多斯对西班牙地铁连环爆炸事件的纪实以及伊那可·多明戈关于童年的记忆等。非·影像每个成员之间拥有独立的创作方向，但是他们的作品共同关注到了人权、社会状态、人性等。作品中没有任何后殖民主义的色彩，也没有任何政治符号，或是当下流行、夸张的图像标识，他们很少把目光放在聚集自我的个人私密空间，或者是纯粹自我的表现。他们的共性就是纪实自然、社会、人文状态。所以，这就是为什么在他们作品的视觉物像中，观者经常看到一些最普通人的脸、模糊的人影、破旧的斗牛场或是平静的湖面，甚至还会有一些不起眼的老照片。

“非·影像”成员从事职业或非职业摄影工作。他们对摄影的驾驭能力不光超过了对摄影艺术美的把握，还在于把摄影变成集体的力量介入到社会中，一种行动的力量。从非·影像团体现象和他们的作品看，它超越摄影本身的概念，把原有摄影概念扩大化，放在人文环境中。这在当代艺术语境下是一个非常值得关注的话题。这和我们传统习惯认识的个体艺术家和个案艺术现象截然不同。艺术家不以艺术创作的作品本体来传达创作理念，而是围绕一个概念，通过多个个体思维和生活经验关注同一个 “事物”。这种集体艺术行为的现象，更像是在宣扬一种“革命”或是在倡导一个口号。

当今社会，摄影随着科技、出版、网络的发展，影像已经从四面八方包围了人类生活，我们已经进入了不可避免的需要通过摄影的物像来认识世界、感知世界的时代。如何在摄影的行为事件及摄影的物像中体现人文关怀和人文精神显得格外重要。当然，当代中国我们需要一个多元化、以尊重人个体感受为趋势的未来。中国当代艺术发展中，没有人愿意看到把自己的民族文化历程只是保留在“观念口号化”、“图像符号化”或是“后殖民主义化”的作品形式中。作为艺术创作，我们并不是要每一个创作者背负人类使者的包袱，但起码我们应该参与到社会人文建设中，把尊重自己的民族传统和关注自己人文生态作为重要的创作方向之一。特别是在中国高速发展的今天，比如：大量现代文明和传统文化碰撞、断裂的时候，如何在摄影中留住这些可能被消失的人文、人文遗产等；还有今天物质文明高度民主发达的环境里，如何让青年朋友对人、自然和社会有一个积极的客观认识，在他们身上延续自我民族的民族性问题上，都是我们不可忽视的问题。

法国摄影家布列松认为，摄影作品承担着重要的社会责任，每个摄影师都应深具尊严感，都应意识到：无论一幅摄影作品画面多么辉煌、技术多么完美，如果它远离了对人类自身的理解，远离了对人类命运的认知，那么它一定不是一件成功的作品。
从这个角度看，“非·影像”的第一次中国展览之旅显得格外有意义，或许能给我们正在火热进行的当代艺术一个参考。
柯明
2008年8月

NOPHOTO - Exhibition of Contemporary photography from Spain
Sponsors:Hubei Museum of Art,  Wuhan Huanan Establish Bloc co.,LTD
Supports: Hubei Institute of Arts , HuZhong Normal University, Wuhan University,
Wuhan University of Science and Technology.
Art Majordomos: Fu Zhongwang，Zhao Hong
Curators: Lang Xuebo, Ke Ming     
Artistes: Matías Costa , Iñaki Domingo，Paco Gómez，Jorquera，Carlos Luján，Eduardo  
Nave，Juan Millás，Tanit Plana，Eva Sala，Juan Santos，Carlos Sanva，Marta Soul，Juan Valbuena，Jonás Bel.
Opening: 10 AM, 2008.08.30 (Sat)      
Duration：2008.08.30—2008.09.27
Venue: No. 1 Exhibiton Hall, Hubei Museum of Art
Exhibits: Photographs, Installations
Academic exchanges meeting: 2008.08.30（Sat）3PM — 5PM
Theme of Exchanges:
              “Free Communication — The Development and form of photograghy ”
Location of Exchanges Meeting: Art Communication Center of HBMOA
Visitor:Carlos Sanva，Carlos Lujn，Paco Gmez，Jorquera，Fu zhongwang, Fan Deshou，Song Gangming，Zhao Hong, Ma Ning，Wei Guangqing,Yuan Xiaofang,Peng Niansheng,Li Juchuan,Wei Ming,Shen Wei,Liu Ming,Jiang Tao,Liu Bo,Li Yu,
Li Yuan,Fabien,Ludiwig.
Add: 1 Sanguandian, Donghu Road, Wuhan, Hubei
   P.C: 430077 
   Tel: +86-27-86796067   +86-27-86796002
   Website: www.hbmoa.com
Introduction（preface）:
NOPHOTO is a collective dedicated to contemporary photography created in 2005 with the goal of making possible individual and collective UNCONVENTIONAL projects.
It is characterised by having an open attitude towards contents, a multiple discipline trend in formats, use of multiple supports for spreading the projects such as web and digital projection as well as personal implication in the process of developing and production of these contents.
NOPHOTO makes negation its starting point. NOPHOTO is not a photographers agency, but rather an ATTITUDE.  A way of seeing. A revolution.  A NO (which is handy).
This aesthetic attitude enables NOPHOTO to not renounce any form of creation or exhibition. The works by the collective offer an experienced gaze on daily living that always leads to that which is extraordinary. This process is the result of a group reflection and the interaction of alternative creative processes..
                                                       
--- Fu zhongwang/ The President of HBMOA

“It isn’t that we like to go against the current, what amuses us is to walk slowly, stumbling, observing the small differences in things,
discovering their rhythms. Attempt to describe an object, revolve around it, caress its shape and cover its entire borders. Ask oneself what it is made of and what role does it play in history. Force oneself to exhaust the theme and not say anything. Force oneself to gaze with simplicity and not resolve anything. Not illustrate, define and not photograph photography. What we like is to de-photograph things and un-name them..”
---Juan Millás/NOPHOTO

Thoughts on“NOPHOTO” Phenomenon

Spain is a beautiful and zealous country on Iberian Peninsular in southwest Europe. When referring to the art of this country, we could hardly miss the masters in Renaissance period, such as El Greco, Velasquez and Francisco de Goya, all of whom left great imprints in the artistic world with their outstanding achievements, besides the grand cave at Altamira, a heritage from their ancestors, and the Alhambra created by the Moors in the middle ages. Even in modern and contemporary period, artists like Picasso, Joan Miro, Salvidore Dali, Antoni Tàpies were all predominant stars. All of these demonstrate the role of Spain as a cradle for great arts.

“NOPHOTO” itself is an active Spanish contemporary photography group consists of 14 members. It is their first exhibition in China. The photography concept “NOPHOTO” seems to be closely linked with the unique creativity of Spain. In fact, their artistic works are focusing on humane solicitude through photography rather than creating a special form of art. Since their establishment, “NOPHOTO” has been paying extensive attention to the humane ecology of various facets of the society, which became their principle. For example: Tanit Plana focuses on feminism and paid special attention to women’s fate; Matías Costa portrays the life of European immigrants and the stowaways; Jorquera has vivid description of common people in the society; Carlos Sanva tracks the growth of the youth; Juan Santos gives an on-the-spot record for the Spanish series bombs in the metro while Iñaki Domingo talks about childhood memory. Every member of “NOPHOTO” has their own orientation of creation, while they share much in common on the emphasis of their works — they all focus on human rights, situation of the society, human nature and so on. There are no colors of postcolonialism, or signals of succumbing to the power, or the popular or exaggerated icons in their works. They seldom set their eyes on their own private space or pure self-expression. The common ground in their works is the record of the nature, society and human beings. That’s why you can often find the most common faces, vague figures, shabby bullrings, smooth lake or even some insignificant old photos.

Most of the “NOPHOTO” members are professional or non-professional photographers. Their capabilities enable them to go beyond the artistic aesthetics and integrate the collective force into the society. This aesthetic attitude enables NOPHOTO to not renounce any form of creation or exhibition. The works by the collective offer an experienced gaze on daily living that always leads to that which is extraordinary. This process is the result of a group reflection and the interaction of alternative creative processes. This is a topic worthy of concern in the context of contemporary arts. It is totally different from our traditional concept of individual artists and individual artistic forms. In stead of using their works to convey their creative ideas, the artists center on a concept and focus on one “thing” through several individual minds and life experiences. These collective artistic activities are more like publicizing a “revolution” or advocating a slogan.

In contemporary world, along with the development of science and technology, press and internet, images have overwhelmed people’s life. We have entered an era, in which we inevitably need to rely on photographic images to understand and sense the world. Thus, how to demonstrate humane solicitude and human spirit through the activity and image of photography is of great importance. Of course, in contemporary China we calls for diversification and respect for individual feelings. No one would be willing to see their own national civilization stay still in the artistic works with slogans of concept, symbols of image and strong sense of postcolonialism. As for artistic creation, we do not mean that every artist should bear the heavy burden of being envoy of human beings, but at least we should involve ourselves into the construction of society and human civilization, and take the task of respecting our own traditions and our own human ecology as one of the most important creative orientations. Since China is undergoing fast development, lots of issues are requiring our concerns. For example, how to maintain the vanishing culture and cultural heritages when the traditional civilization is experiencing extensive crash and rupture by modern civilization … It is a problem of significance to let the youths living in the information era have an objective and positive understanding of people, nature and society with such a highly developed material civilization and maintain the nationalism of their own.

French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson believes that photographic works have significant social responsibility. Every photographer should have a strong sense of honor and be fully aware that a piece of  photographic work without love, understanding of people and recognition of the fate of human beings could by no means be a successful work, no matter how grand the picture is or how great the techniques is.

From this perspective, the first exhibition of “NOPHOTO” is of great significance; perhaps it could shed some light on the progressive contemporary art in China.

Ke Ming                                                        August 2008