蒋鹏奕：太阳是鸟儿衔来的
Jiang Pengyi: Birds Bring Forth the Sun
开幕 | Opening:
2021/03/13， 16:00
展期 | Duration
周二 – 周日 Tue.-Sun. 11:00-18:00
地点 | Location
香格纳上海1F，上海市徐汇区龙腾大道2555号10号楼 | 1/F ShanghART Shanghai, West Bund, Bldg.10, 2555 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
*海报设计：朱砂 Poster designed by Zhu Sha
香格纳上海于2021年3月13日至4月25日荣幸推出艺术家蒋鹏奕的个展《太阳是鸟儿衔来的》。展览将集中呈现艺术家最新创作的大画幅彩色系列《太阳！太阳！》和黑白系列《砾石谅解了大海》。
“太阳是鸟儿衔来的”取自加拿大作家阿利斯泰尔.麦克劳德的短篇小说《当鸟儿带来太阳》里最具童话色彩的一个短句。与这篇小说的情节发展相似，此次新作蕴含的隐性叙事亦充满不可见且不可抵御的力量，以及有如挽歌般哀伤而真实的历史语境：在《太阳！太阳！》中，蒋鹏奕继续保持着对摄影即兴式实验性拓展，同时也延续着艺术家多年来对于伤害/暴力意象的探讨；《砾石谅解了大海》则以一种宏大自然、历史视角，呈现了敦煌附近藏有隐秘往事的黑戈壁——无疑更像是2020年人类共同处境的一种象征。无论是枯淡冷寂的黑白戈壁，抑或色彩绚烂到极致的太阳，在纯粹的自然之物背后，“人”始终存在。沉默戈壁背后持续的私语与太阳迸发背后无尽的静谧或许很难被分清，创伤性的重生与貌似暂时谅解也无法探寻其根源，然而在个体的诞生性和有死性之外，我们可以尝试从蒋鹏奕的创作中拷问生命自身的境遇，以及人的精神与肉体所能承载之重。ShanghART Gallery is pleased to announce that Jiang Pengyi’s solo exhibition “Birds Bring Forth the Sun” opens on 13th March and will run through 25th April at the gallery’s Westbund space. The exhibition consists of two parts: the large-format color series “Sun! Sun! ” and the black and white series “Gravel Fathoms the Sea”. “Birds Bring Forth the Sun” is one of the most fairytale phrases in the short story As Birds Bring Forth the Sun by Canadian novelist Alistair MacLeod. Similar to the plot development of this story, the implicit narrative of the exhibition is also full of invisible and irresistible forces, and a mournful but real historical context like an elegy. In “Sun! Sun! ”, Jiang continues his experimental exploration on impromptu photography practice, as well as his exploration of the image of damage/violence for many years. From a magnificent and historical perspective, “Gravel Fathoms the Sea” presents the Heigebi (which means the Gobi in black in Chinese) near Dunhuang with a secret past – no doubt it is more like a symbol of the state of current human beings.
Whether it is the silent icy Gobi in black and white or the sun in extreme gorgeous color, behind these pure natural objects, the image of “human” always exists. It is hard to distinguish the continuous whispers behind the reticent Gobi and the endless silence behind the burst of the sunlight, also unable to find the roots of the traumatic rebirth and the temporary forgiveness. However, beyond the birth and death of the individuals, from Jiang’s works, we can interrogate life's own circumstances and the weight that the human spirit and body can carry.*部分文字摘自 王家北 《蒋鹏奕的弧光》
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About the artist
蒋鹏奕1977年生于湖南省沅江市，毕业于中国美术学院，现工作生活于北京。近期展览包括：关于我们：来自中国的青年艺术家摄影展，ALEXANDER TUTSEK-STIFTUNG艺术基金会，慕尼黑，德国（2020）；缓存：从字母B到字母Z，香格纳上海（2020）；LOOK 摄影双年展 2019：Peer to Peer，Open Eye Gallery，利物浦，英国（2019）；蒋鹏奕：预见，香格纳北京（2019）；中国当代摄影四十年，OCAT深圳馆（2018）； “不知羞耻”－ 蒋鹏奕个展，刺點畫廊，香港（2017）；蒋鹏奕: 给予，香格纳主&H空间，上海（2016）等。
Jiang Pengyi was born in Yuanjiang, Hunan Province in 1977 and graduated from the China Academy of Art. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Recent exhibitions include: About us: Young Photography from China, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, Germany (2020); Cache: From B to Z, ShanghART Shanghai (2020); LOOK Photo Biennial 2019: Peer to Peer, Open Eye Gallery & various venues, Liverpool, U.K. (2019)；40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, OCAT Shenzhen (2018); “Away from Disgrace” by Jiang Pengyi, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2017); Jiang Pengyi: Grace, ShanghART Main & H-Space, Shanghai (2016) etc.