RTSM｜The Island：陈曦 & 马良
The Island | “孤岛”
Reflecting the Sharing Moment | Section Three
2020艺讯网线上展览
2020艺讯网英文版最新线上展览项目“Reflecting the Sharing Moment”（缩写为RTSM）正式开启，第三期“孤岛”已上线！我们邀请了来自世界各地的艺术家，带来他们在2020的思考和创作。第四期将于12月末上线，敬请期待！
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As the third phase of "Reflecting the Sharing Moment", "The Island" has invited 15 artists/groups to create an ongoing discussion on the impact of the pandemic/post-pandemic era on individuals, lives, relationships, and society in different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
In this section, we would like to introduce artists CHEN Xi and MA Liang, as well as their artistic reflections on the year 2020.
CHEN Xi｜陈曦
"Are we willing to be lunatics or fools?"
Chen Xi
A famous contemporary female artist in China
She graduated from the Fourth Studio, Oil Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1991; She has been a professor and master director of the school of architecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts since 2004.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2018 Rabbit on The Run, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016 It World: The Solo Exhibition of Chen Xi, Hui Art Space, Beijing, China
Chen Xi: So remember, The University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Major Group Exhibitions:
2020 IN THINKING—The Intellectual History and Methodologies of Chinese Contemporary Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
2019 Staring and Creation: Look at Europe from China—The Opening Exhibition of Jupiter Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Fusion—Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Research Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Back to Childhood—58th La Biennale Di Venezia China special exhibition, Venice, Italy
Pingyao International Sculpture Festival, Pingyao, China
2018 Extended Space—The 2018 Dongguan Sculpture Installation Art Festival, Dongguan,China
The World: The 2018 Research Exhibition of Contemporary Women's Art in China, Yan Huang Art Museum,Beijing, China
2017 The First Anren International Biennale, Anren, Chengdu, China
In the Mood for Love: An Exhibition Featuring Chinese and Canadian Female Artists, Poly Cultural Art Center, Vancouver, Canada
The Silk Road and Celestial Cloths, The Museum of Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing, China
Contemporary Dialogues Between Fashion and Art, Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing, China
Fusion: Contemporary Oil Painting Language Research Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
VOlCES, The Embassy of the European Union, Beijing, China
2016 The Third Nanjing International Art Exhibition, Baijia Lake Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Chimney: Position, Vision, Manner, Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Major Publications selected
Chinese Art History in the 20th Century, Chinese Version, English Version, Italian Version
Contemporary Chinese Art Documents
Contemporary Chinese Fine Arts from 1979 to 1999, Oil Painting Volume
Contemporary Chinese Art History from 1990 to 1999
China Contemporary Fine Arts Collection-New Expressionism
Chinese Art Today
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Chen Xi was at home with her parents during the quarantine.
The growth of all creatures over the four seasons has not changed or slowed down because of the miserable human experience. When I pause, I clearly realized the unstoppable power of nature and felt the fragility of human beings and our individual powerlessness.
The growth and progress of human beings is always learned from lessons. In this golden autumn, there is no bumper harvest, but only a number of uncertainties—Has the virus mutated? Does the vaccine work? Has the demonstration finished yet? Are fires and flood endless? Is there enough food? Will there be war? What about the deep-seated problems caused by free resignation and unified and efficient restoration? Why did the philosopher commit suicide? Technology is like an out-of-control beast, constantly charging forward. Under this current circumstances, has the inhibition of human and artistic philosophy lost its efficacy? Where will our introspection on future hope and reality be reflected? Can art, music, literature, and poetry provide the greatest comfort and salvation to the human spirit as in the past?
Are we willing to be lunatics or fools?
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Quarantine Series, Photography, 2020
Art is useless at this time, because it cannot save lives, nor can it produce more food. However, I insist that the ideal value of art directly refers to the spiritual world of people. In order to be able to live happily, people will do a lot of smart things, however, stupid and bad things are inevitable. Afterwards, we know how to create a conclusion and reflection on the pursuit of a just and loving ideal society. Text is a summary, and art is another. The boundary of art has been expanded infinitely today, and nihilistic emotions have led to the coexistence of speculation, flirtatiousness and active struggle as well as serious exploration, which also affects their respective audiences. In this hard-hitting world, art would be better to be a ray of light in a dark hour, and the common spiritual placebo of mankind, rather than a cream flower on the cake of a privileged class table.
Inside-Outside No.11, Details
Inside-Outside No.12, Details
Inside-Outside No.9 (Small Draft), 230x195cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020 (Unfinished)
Inside-Outside No.10 (Small Draft), 230x195cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020 (Unfinished)
Inside-Outside No.10 (Details)
MA Liang｜马良
"The development of a city and people’s private memories are in conflict with each other. Sometimes it’s like a life-and-death battle. "
Ma Liang/Maleonn was born in Shanghai in 1972, and began to study professional art in the middle school of Shanghai Huashan Art School at the age of 12. In 1995, he graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Shanghai University, majoring in design. He received professional art education for 11 years.
From 1995 to 2003, he was engaged in the work of an art director for advertisements, and won the gold medal in China advertising Festival twice successively, as well as various other relevant awards more than 10 times. In 2004, he returned to the field of art creation that he loved and began to engage in photographic art creation, as well as painting and installation art creation. Currently he lives and works in Shanghai. In 2012, I created my Mobile Photo Studio, a temporary photo studio set up in 35 cities across the country in 10 months, and took photos of more than 1,600 people for free, which received a strong response. In 2012, he published the literary work "Frank Book", which became the first best-selling art book that month.
Selected Exhibitions
2010 MALEONN—Ma Liang solo exhibition, Gallerie s.e, Bergon, Norway
2010 Gamer, CO2 gallery, Rome, Italy
2010 album of plants, STILLS gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010 rebuilt reality, Blind spot gallery, Hongkong
2010 white on the white, Bund 18 gallery, Shanghai, China
2009 fairy tale of the city, Art Next Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Mirror garden—Ma Liang solo exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2008 Ma Liang solo exhibition, Tribeca Arte gallery, Madrid, Spain
2008 MALEONN—Ma Liang solo exhibition, Espace Art 22 gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Ma Liang, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
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"Your Portrait"
Your Portrait 2020
Digital photography, inkjet printing on Hahnemühle FineArt paper.
Approximate work size: 40 × 30 cm
Number of works: 18 in total Edition: 8
Mounted on aluminum-plastic panels and framed with black suspension frames
This group of works taken in July 2020 is entitled "Portrait of You", which symbolizes the lives of modern people in heavy armor. It is also a portrayal of the world today under the dual effects of the pandemic and politics.
I used a large-format wooden machine with a size of 6 × 9 as the lens, and I then used a digital camera to reshoot it. The old and new machines form a large body. The lens from a hundred years ago is responsible for observation, and the most modern digital camera is used as a record. It is likely to represent the old saying: “Covet gains ahead without being aware of danger behind.” The camera and the world have formed a multi-layered relationship, which makes reality even more unreal in the photo. However, the image also has a certain poetic quality, breaking free from the pursuit of reality, and getting closer to the possibility of becoming a spiritual portrayal.
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"The last knight in Shanghai"
The last knight in Shanghai 2020
Digital photography, inkjet printing on Hahnemühle FineArt paper.
Work size: 135 × 90 cm
Number of works: 2 in total Edition : 8
Mounted on aluminum-plastic panels
I finished the work on June, 2020. I photographed the ancestral residence of my uncle which is about to be demolished. The residence is located in No. 418 Xinzha Road, Shanghai, which was built in 1925, and was demolished on July 15, 2020.
This is a picture in my mind, and I presented it using photography.
Image and Text Courtesy of the Artists.
Edited by Sue and Emily/CAFA ART INFO
About the Exhibition
关于展览
The Island
Reflecting the Sharing Moment | Section Three
2020艺讯网线上展览 | 第三回
Launch Date: 2020.11.28
Participating Artists
(in alphabetical order of surnames):
CHEN Xi, comma, DUAN Jianwei, JIANG Zhi, LIU Jin'an, LUO Min, LYU Yue (Aluna), MA Liang, Dalila PASOTTI, QIANG Yong, Hideho TANAKA, Johan WAHLSTROM, WANG Chuan, YE Pei, You Open a Box
Curator: Emily ZHOU
Visual Design: Yizhi ZHANG
Organizer: CAFA ART INFO
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