托尼·克拉格最早与国内观众相遇的时间应该是2005年。在第二届北京双年展上,他就夺得了雕塑的一等奖。令人困惑的是,本次展览,一个在外交层面上展开的非常官方的活动,却似乎有意忽略了这个本土奖项。倒是艺术家本人,经常将这个奖与他获得的其他荣誉郑重地并列在一起,比如1988年的特纳奖和2007年的日本高松殿下纪念世界文化奖。应该说,2005年的那一届北京双年展被号称是当时世界上最大规模的国际当代美术和雕塑双年展,尽管在当代艺术世界里,积极谈论它的不多。就这一点,我们还是可以隐约体会到克拉格作品的某种保守和温和色彩。 Tony Cragg’s earliest encounter with the domestic audience should be in 2005. At the second Beijing Biennale, he won the first prize of the sculpture. What is puzzling is that this exhibition, a very official activity carried out at the diplomatic level, seems to have deliberately overlooked this local award. It is the artist himself, who often weighs the prize with other honors he has received, such as the Turner Prize of 1988 and the Honor of World Culture Awards by His Royal Highness Takamatsu Japan in 2007. It should be said that the 2005 Beijing Biennale was known as the largest international contemporary art and sculpture biennial in the world at that time although it was not actively discussed in the contemporary art world. At this point, we can still vaguely appreciate some of the works of Cragg conservative and moderate color.