 炎黃藝術(shù)館國(guó)際交流展覽2019 我思, 故我問(wèn) Yan Huang Art Museum International Exchange Art Exhibition 2019 I Think Therefore I ? 策展人：Douglas Lewis(加) 李鵬(中國(guó)香港) Curators：Douglas Lewis(CAN) Li Peng(CN/HK) 藝術(shù)家：黃麓蒼(中)、朱漁(中)、沈怡(中)、李澤民(中國(guó)香港)、盛天泓(中)、李三弦(中)、柯斐勵(lì)(意)、李山(意)、金澤友那(日)、Torsten Zenas Burns(美)、Monika Czyzyk(波)、Jarek Balinski(波)、Douglas Lewis(加)、Jean Klimack(加)、David Lane(英)、張圓(中)、馬騰飛(中、英) Artists：Lucang Huang(CN)、Zhu Yu (CN)、Elsie Yi Shen (CN)、Lei Chak Man(CN/HK)、Sheng Tian Hong (CN)、Li San Xian (CN)、Filipo Cardella(IT)、Alessandro Rolandi(IT)、Kanazawa Yuna(JP)、Torsten Zenas Burns(USA)、Monika Czyzyk(PL)、Jarek Balinski(PL)、Douglas Lewis(CAN)、Jean Klimack(CAN)、David Lane(UK)、Zhang Yuan(CN)、Martin Derbyshire(CN/UK) 主辦：炎黃藝術(shù)館 開(kāi)幕：2019.4.27(周六)15:00 展期：2019.4.27-2019.5.21 日常開(kāi)放時(shí)間：9:30-17:00(16:30停止入場(chǎng)) 座談會(huì)：2019.4.28 14:30 地點(diǎn)：炎黃藝術(shù)館2層展廳(北京市朝陽(yáng)區(qū)亞運(yùn)村慧忠路9號(hào)) 門(mén)票：免費(fèi) Organizer: Yan Huang Art Museum Opening ceremony: 2019.4.27(Sat) 15:00 Duration: 2019.4.27-2019.5. 21 Gallery hour: 9:30-17:00(Stop entering at 16:30) Panel discussion: 2019.4.28 14:30 Venue: 2nd Floor, Yanhuang Art Museum, No.9 Huizhong Road, Yayuncun, Chaoyang District, Beijing Ticket: Free 炎黃藝術(shù)館國(guó)際交流展覽2019 我思·故我問(wèn) 李鵬 /Douglas Lewis 法國(guó)哲學(xué)家亨利·列斐伏爾曾經(jīng)說(shuō)過(guò)：“我即我所在”。意思似乎是：我們對(duì)自己的認(rèn)知是由我們所處的地理位置決定的。從地理上講，在城市中，我們是城市敘事(或故事)成分的一部分，城市定義了我們是誰(shuí)——因此我們的所處的地理位置在某種程度上塑造了我們的身份。 參加《我思故我問(wèn)》展覽的國(guó)際藝術(shù)家，他們的創(chuàng)作深受所居住的中國(guó)城市的影響;而中國(guó)藝術(shù)家的作品也講述了他們所居住的地方的故事。每件作品的表達(dá)都基于其所在群體與真實(shí)的地理位置。展覽的題目對(duì)應(yīng)著另一位更具歷史地位的法國(guó)哲學(xué)家笛卡爾。他的著名宣言：我思，故我在。他的論斷基于突然意識(shí)到的一個(gè)事實(shí)。他意識(shí)到：只要他在呼吸，就不可能不存在。著名的中國(guó)詩(shī)人哈金寫(xiě)道：“我對(duì)自己說(shuō)：這一定是天堂給你變的另一個(gè)戲法，讓文字不是來(lái)自疼痛的喉嚨，而是刺痛的腹部。”這些想法似乎很相近——它定義了我們。 展覽的題目很容易被誤會(huì)為一種詩(shī)意的表述。然而個(gè)體存在感與所處地理位置的關(guān)系，在我們的社會(huì)中不斷被強(qiáng)烈感知卻鮮少被清晰地描述過(guò)，生活在變化中的人們，在他們?nèi)松哪骋浑A段，生活與生存的狀態(tài)會(huì)讓他捫心自問(wèn)：我是怎么來(lái)到這個(gè)城市的?這里給了我什么?我快樂(lè)嗎?假如離開(kāi)，我將帶走什么?…… 從這個(gè)角度去欣賞作品，則我們將看到的，不是組團(tuán)出游的外國(guó)游客對(duì)名勝古跡的驚嘆與對(duì)食物的迷戀，更不是全球與區(qū)域一體化的偉大成果，而是一個(gè)個(gè)與我們同樣作為廣義的“外鄉(xiāng)人”的個(gè)體，在這個(gè)城市、這個(gè)時(shí)間對(duì)自我人生軌跡的重新確認(rèn)。 在我們了解自己之前，我們必須認(rèn)識(shí)自己所處的地方——參展的藝術(shù)家身處中國(guó)，與那些即將造訪或決定留在中國(guó)的藝術(shù)家一道，成為這個(gè)地方更大敘事的一部分。 Yanhuang Art Museum International Exchange ArtExhibition 2019 I Think Therefore I ? The title and concept of this exhibition are intended tobe to as humorous as much as it is philosophical. “Cogito Ergo Sum (in Latin)” or, “I think, therefore I am” is a concept asserted by Rene Descartes, the famous 18th Century French philosopher. Descartes ideas rose quickly and he became recognized as one of the fathers of The Age of Enlightenment. His ideas fueled some of the most important developments and revelations in Western thought at that time. The Age of Enlightenment produced ideas that challenged the existence of God and the power of the Church. To bring such lofty ideas into an exhibition seemed a bit intimidating and boring to me, but to try to build an exhibition humorously questioning it was intriguing. I tried to think of a more light-hearted, pop-culture approach, and what I arrived with was the vital “AllSpark” idea used in the Hollywood movie, Transformers. This Hollywood action series seemed to be a best-fit. The moment the mighty “AllSpark” enters a transformer, each metal robot/car from outer space becomes fully animated. They are neither digital or analogue. The moment the “AllSpark” is ripped away from these mighty steel bots, they fall into heaps of recyclable tin. Our exhibition locates an all too human circumstance …when thought begins and when it ends. “We puny humans!” as The Incredible Hulk(The Hulk, circa 1964, Marvel comics) would say, live more-or-less simple lives. Our moments drift into many, one after another in sequences. Their slippage floats by us, and I asked myself what stops a moment? What can slow or speed the elapse of time? Perhaps sipping tea? If we are lucky we can find a breath or stillness, perhaps a wonderous or painful event. The more acute a moment is the more we experience it, that much is clear. Our days, for the most part, become normalized; our moments blend one into the next. In contrast, if a heavy, crushing stone falls on our posed toe, the excruciating pain jolts our awareness and we are confronted by an exact moment.I Think Therefore I ?is an exhibition designed to investigate daily mundanities, peculiarities, complexities, pain, and play. An everyday British expression is to utter “when the penny (coin) drops” …it is used to describe the exact moment an idea or event occurs. The moment between when the coin is dropped and when it hits the floor, a decision (or event) has been made!! Our exhibition tries to engage illusive moments and interstitial space. I Think Therefore I ? questions our social landscapes and the praxis behind them. Li Peng and I designed each space in such a way to try to incitevisual dialogue between the public and selected artworks, which generate visitors’ connectivity between moments and interaction. The famous Chinese poet Ha Jin (724 A.D.) wrote: “I said to myself: This must be another trick Heaven plays on you, to make words come from not a sore throat, but a twingly belly.” The “twingly” or funny sensation he refers to in his poem suggests that the moment we feel a specific sensation we are connected to something greater. In terms of art, photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) called it the “Decisive Moment”. The nature of art captures the time/image by revealing innate processes that either slow or accelerate them. One of the dictionary definitions (English) of geography is “a delineation or systematic arrangement of constituent elements” or arrangements of things within spaces. Cities by definition, are arrangements of things and people in spaces they inhabit. Landscapes too, keep people separated between their vast distances and moments. We become the place we are, at all times and no matter where we are. Theoretically, it could be said that we are nothing but participants in and of space. Selected artworks for I Think Therefore I ?challenge viewers to reconsider the relationships between the space they are in and the moments they are having. Douglas Lewis Curator |
