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Into the Immensity of the Cosmos: Wang Shaoqiang's Solo Exhibition
17 Jul - 31 Aug 2023 仰观与俯察 ——王绍强艺术的观看方法与语言逻辑 王绍强的艺术实验与探索,肇始于上个世纪九十年代以来中国文化艺术界 “文化寻根”热潮的余波。当时的中国当代水墨艺术发展,既要回应自“五四”新文化运动以来文化民族主义的身份诉求;又要面对当代艺术普世化与全球化的所谓“当代性”压迫,进退维谷,处境异常尴尬。标榜传统笔墨的新文人画与急于进入当代的抽象水墨,可以被视为当时艺术思潮和创作的两个典型案例。基于对中国文化传统的热爱和信心,王绍强独具慧眼,逆流而动,观有品无,以一种打通中西古今艺术的胸怀和观今见古的文化立场,借鉴西方现代科学精神的利器,对中国水墨艺术、特别宋以后的文人画传统进行了系统的研究和反思,并在水墨艺术与地理学、地质学、人类学、考古学等学科的跨界互动和交融中,以当代艺术的视野从媒材、物理和制作性等维度,对传统进行了富于创造力和想象力的重构,发展出一套独特的视觉语言逻辑和艺术观看的工作方法。在王绍强的探索中,水墨文化传统的延续和激变在当下现实中构成了富有张力的两极。艺术家对世界的“观看”,也通过“仰观”与“俯察”的宇宙漫游,由神话进入历史,从仙境落入人间。 王绍强的艺术,把 “俯仰”观看模式及其所产生的人生体验理想化为人生之至乐境界,也是其艺术心灵的物性表现。也就是说,王绍强艺术的“俯仰”观看模式、方法与语言逻辑所开创的日常生活方式,本身就就是一种艺术的物性表现。这是由“俯仰”模式所创造或形塑出来的自由心灵的挥洒方式,其作品不过是这种“俯仰”方法、模式的象征形式与物性符号,心手相应,无法而有法,天马行空,心与物游而不滞于物,这是心灵自由的表现,也是宇宙万物的法则与秩序。以心观物,以身观心,王绍强的艺术正在慢慢的通过或接近这样的自然法则和宇宙秩序。 策展人:管郁达 2023.7.1 Into the Immensity of the Cosmos - Artistic Methods of Viewing and Linguistic Logic of Wang Shaoqiang's Art Wang Shaoqiang's art experiments and explorations began in the 1990s with the aftermath of the ‘cultural root-seeking’ craze in the Chinese art world. At... Read more -
YYYY-MM-DD: Xue Ruozhe Solo Exhibition
3 Jun - 23 Jul 2023 Throughout his career, Xue Ruozhe has been following and exploring an elusive fissure on the finite surface of the canvas, wandering at the intersection of images and the world. A fissure which also indicates the fine line between fiction and reality, blurring its shape over time, deep as a mineral... Read more -
I Define II — 7 Questions
11 Mar - 23 Apr 2023 A Thousand Plateaus Art Space will launch this new spring’s artist group exhibition 'I-Define II — 7 Questions' on March 11. Eight young artists, Bu Xuan, Cao Gen, Hou Yijie, Huang Jie, Liu Kewang, Liu Shiqi, Liu Weiyi and Zhu Xin, were invited to participate in the exhibition, which will... Read more -
Deductions of One's Visual Annals
25 Feb - 9 Apr 2023 Since 2018, within the context of the Sino-US trade war, globalization and anti-globalization, internationalism and populism, and liberalism and Neo-conservatism, have continuously affected the political and cultural trend. Under the irreversible wave of anti-globalization, it would seem that inevitable challenges arise and to cause impacts on fields from local economy... Read more