香格纳上海 | 李山个展《打开折叠》：生物与艺术的对话
李山：打开折叠
Li Shan: Decoding
开幕 | Opening
2019/05/18, 16:00
展期 | Duration
2019/05/18 – 07/21 (Tue.-Sun.11:00-18:00, Mon. Closed)
地点 | Location
香格纳上海，上海市徐汇区西岸龙腾大道2555号10号楼 | ShanghART Shanghai, West Bund, Bldg.10, 2555Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai
香格纳画廊将于2019年5月18日荣幸呈现李山个展《打开折叠》，展出这位中国前卫艺术领军人物近年来在生物艺术领域更为成熟的思考。这是李山自2007年《南瓜计划》和《阅读》展览之后，时隔十二年在香格纳画廊的个展。展览将持续至7月21日。
李山、张平杰生物艺术作品展《南瓜计划》| 香格纳画廊展览现场 | 2007
ShanghART Gallery is pleased to present Li Shan’s solo exhibition “Decoding” on 18 May, 2019, exhibiting the avant-garde pioneer’s continued explorations into BioArt. This is Li Shan’s first solo exhibition after “The Pumpkin Project” and “Reading of Li Shan” in 2007. The exhibition continues until 21 July.
李山《阅读》系列绘画
“打开折叠”意为基因组双螺旋结构的铺平展开，进而对生物信息进行读取、写入、编辑等一系列人为干预。这是继2017年上海当代艺术博物馆个展之后，李山的基因编辑研究逐渐深入至分子层面的艺术性展示。1993年，李山作为首批中国当代艺术家之一参与威尼斯双年展，并于当年开始生命科学相关议题的思考。他的首个生物艺术方案《阅读》于1998年诞生。从早期圆融的生命大同意识到跨物种的特征置换重组和基因编辑，生物性的至高无上决定了在李山的创作中，生命始终得以自由和多元。
李山 | 打开折叠 9 | 2017 | 布上丙烯 | 126x93x3.5cm
李山 | 打开折叠 1 | 2017 | 布上丙烯 | 359x297x5cm
“Decoding” alludes to the unfolding of double helix structure in genome, which biological information could be humanly interfered by reading, writing and editing. This is an artistic presentation of Li Shan’s research into genetic editing at the molecular level since his solo exhibition at Power Station of Art Shanghai, 2017. In 1993, Li Shan participated in the 45th Venice Biennale as one of the first contemporary Chinese artists, and started contemplating topics of life science. He completed his first BioArt project “Reading” in 1998. From his early integrated, harmonious grand consciousness of life, to replace, recombine genetic traits across species, to genetic editing, the supremacy of Biologism determines that in Li Shan’s art, life always remains free and diverse.
基因转录过程动画效果图 | 李山影像作品《写入》截帧
现实中的RNA结构电脑模拟图 | 图片来源Google
此次个展的视觉形式囊括绘画、摄影和影像，作品试图从物种的本质层面展开信息与生命的深度对话。九件不同尺幅的绘画新作中，李山跳脱出生物想象的图像展示，对基因组的自身形态进行了科学性与艺术性相结合的再现。展厅二层两件关于基因编辑的影像中，作品《写入》演示了基因转录、翻译的过程：通过改变DNA所携带的信息，使得蛋白质在合成过程中发生结构变异，新的物种得以诞生；而记录青蛙胚胎细胞成长过程的影像《随机表达的可能性》，则将控制基因发展的机制去除，解构了自由状态下青蛙的生长规律及形态。此外，两组以玉米为主题的《涂抹》系列摄影，记录了李山将基因编辑延伸至植物的多元操作，通过解除基因表达的抑制机制，使玉米呈现出物种的原始性状。李山的创作直观构建出基因转录、翻译、突变的过程，展现了宏大且自由的生命本质。
李山作品《涂抹》中，玉米呈现出“大刍草”和“雌雄同体”的性状
玉米雌雄同株的性状 | 图片来源Google
Works in this exhibition includes painting, photography and video art, trigging a conversation between information and life on an essential level of species. Out of the pictorial presentation of imagined life objects, Li Shan depicts the scientific form of genome in an artistic way in nine different sized paintings. Meanwhile, two video works about genetic editing are displayed on the second floor. “Writing” demonstrates the processes of genetic transcription and translation: by changing the information carried by the DNA, the protein structure is mutated during synthesis and forms a new species. In “The Possibility of Random Expression”, recording of the growth process of frog embryonic cells, Li Shan eliminated the mechanism controlling gene development, and deconstructed the growth pattern of frog in a non-controlled manner. Moreover, two photography works “Smear” depict images of corns, recording Li Shan’s diversified operations by expanding his genetic editing practices to plants: through releasing the inhibiting mechanism of genetic expressions, the artist demonstrates corns’ original traits. By intuitively building the process of genetic transcription, translation and mutation, Li Shan raises the grandness and freedom of the essence of life.
李山作品《涂抹》方案手稿
作为具有重要意义的“中国现代艺术展”当年的参展者之一，李山这位中国当代艺术浪潮的亲历者始终散发鲜活的创作热能。他开拓生物艺术这一领域，并持续着对于生命法则和人类命运的深沉关注。
Having participated in the legendary 1989 “China/Avant-Garde Exhibition” at National Art Museum of China, Li Shan witnessed the evolution of contemporary Chinese art and remains energetic and vibrant in his practices. As a pioneer of BioArt, he continues to ponder the rules of life and human destiny.
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关于艺术家
About the artist
中国生物艺术第一人 李山
李山，1942年生于黑龙江兰西，1968年毕业于上海戏剧学院。李山的作品曾多次参加国内和国际的重要展览，包括：中国当代艺术收藏系列展：李山，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海（2017）；扩延，新加坡当代美术馆，新加坡（2014）；粉红微笑之后：阅读·李山，台北当代艺术馆，台湾（2012）；中国当代艺术三十年，民生现代美术馆，上海（2010）；首届广州三年展——重新解读，广东美术馆，广州（2002）；蜕变与突破——中国新艺术展，MoMA PS1艺术中心/亚洲协会美术馆，纽约；旧金山当代艺术博物馆, 旧金山；香港艺术馆，香港等（1998-2000）；第22届圣保罗双年展，巴西（1994）；中国前卫艺术展, 柏林世界文化宫/海德舍尔姆美术馆，德国；鹿特丹美术馆，荷兰等（1993）；后89中国新艺术，香港艺术中心，香港等（1993）；第45届威尼斯双年展（1993）等。
Li Shan was born in Lanxi, Heilongjiang in 1942. He graduated from the Shanghai Academy of Drama in 1968. Li Shan's works have been exhibited in many significant exhibitions such as PSA Collection Series – Li Shan, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2017); Extension Expansion, MoCA@Loewen, Singapore (2014); Reading Li Shan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan (2012); Painting the Chinese Dream: Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2010); The First Guangzhou Triennial - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990 - 2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2002); Inside/Out: New Chinese Art, MoMA PS1 / Asia Society Galleries, New York; SFMoMA, San Francisco; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong etc. (1998-2000); 22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil (1994); China Avant/Garde Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Kunsthall Rotterdam, The Netherlands etc. (1993); China's New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong etc. (1993) and the 45th Venice Biennale (1993) etc.
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