展览预告｜还会与你相见——東京画廊+BTAP 70周年特展

还会与你相见——東京画廊+BTAP70周年特展

We Will Meet Again

——TOKYO GALLERY+BTAP 70th anniversary special exhibition

策展人：田畑幸人

Curator：TABATA YUKIHITO

展览日期：2020.5.18-8.8  

Duration：18 May 2020 - 8 August 2020

展览地点：東京画廊+BTAP

Venue：TOKYO GALLERY+BTAP

参展艺术家：

艾安 、蔡国强 、丁乙、方力钧、俸正杰、高孝午、杭春晖、何云昌、黄锐、金沙、李宁、李益、林于思、刘庆和、刘小东、马树青 、邱世华、宋冬、隋建国、唐晖、田卫、王舒野、王玉平、魏久捷、吴强、徐冰、杨勋、杨迎生、叶剑青、袁顺、岳敏君、曾健勇、张诠、张天军、张天幕、张小涛、朱建忠、朱金石、朱岚

東京画廊+BTAP荣幸的宣布，将于2020年5月18日至8月8日在北京空间展出“还会与你相见——東京画廊+BTAP70周年特展”。作为日本以及亚洲第一家现代意义上的画廊，成立于1950年的東京画廊已经走过了70个年头，2020年東京画廊+BTAP将在东京和北京的两个空间举行纪念画廊70周年系列展览。北京空间将用本年度首展“还会与你相见——東京画廊+BTAP70周年特展”开启对東京画廊+BTAP极具意义的这一年。届时将邀请東京画廊成立至今合作过的包括徐冰、蔡国强、隋建国、丁乙、方力钧、刘小东、王玉平、王舒野、叶剑青、曾健勇等在内的39位中国艺术家参展，展出包括绘画、雕塑、装置、影像在内的八十余件作品。

在全球现当代艺术的版图中，日本不仅在地理位置上处于亚洲和“西方”的边界，在整个全球性的艺术传播历史上，日本同样站在了这样的交汇之处。作为1950年代在日本成立的第一家现代意义上的画廊，東京画廊+BTAP就像一个布道者，将中国、日本、亚洲和全球的现当代艺术连接了起来。

在東京画廊+BTAP成立的70年、700场展览中，无论是1950年代在日本东京举办的西方艺术家伊夫·克莱因、卢西奥·丰塔纳和杰克逊·波洛克的展览；1960年代以来大量推广日本当代艺术的展览；1970年代起韩国当代艺术家的展览；亦或者是1990年代后将重心移至正在崛起的中国当代艺术家，并于2002年在北京成立空间，作为第一家入驻798的艺术空间为中国当代艺术家举办的很多“首次”展览；再到2010年后在挖掘亚洲独特美学现代性的“新朦胧主义”系列展览。充满想象力的实验性，以及在亚洲自身语境中构建亚洲当代美学观，一直都是東京画廊+BTAP举办展览、推介艺术家的两条准则。

正是田畑幸人将画廊定位为“一个有着无限可能和想象力的实验性空间”，東京画廊+BTAP帮助推动了日本、韩国和中国当代艺术的发生。東京画廊从上世纪60年代开始，先后推动了日本的“书象” “具体” “物派”、韩国“单色画派”，以及80年代后的中国当代艺术在国际的发声，为白发一雄、李禹焕、朴西甫、金昌烈、菅木志雄、关根伸夫、蔡国强、徐冰等艺术家策划了数场展览。2002年北京空间（BTAP），更是通过无数艺术家个展，以及“北京浮世绘”、“念珠与笔触”等大型学术展览，为中国当代艺术的生长搭建了平台。

和画廊同龄的总监田畑幸人，是在画廊和亚洲当代艺术一起长大的，青年时代对欧美当代艺术的研究和学习，让他认识到亚洲及中国艺术在未来的可能性和重要性。在推动亚洲当代艺术的同时，東京画廊+BTAP也将实验精神带入到寻找具有独特亚洲特质的当代艺术家中，并策划了“新朦胧主义”系列展览，推动具有亚洲原理性的美学观。在全球深度扁平化的当下，经济界限已经被打破，能够决定我们在当下和未来，是谁又将去往哪里的，或许只能在过往找寻。而如何在工业化和互联网的席卷下，构建一条在亚洲文化脉络之上的当代艺术线索，同样具有实验性。東京画廊+BTAP在日后也将坚持一以贯之的先驱性，挖掘具有潜力的艺术家并协助他们进行艺术活动。

这也是東京画廊+BTAP在2020年的首次展览，众所周知中国及亚洲的新冠肺炎疫情在四月份得到控制，我们才能得以筹备展览的开幕。東京画廊+BTAP画廊总监田畑幸人面对疫情之下的困难时刻，感慨正如同画廊70年历程中曾遇到的每一个重要结点一样，都是得益于艺术家、收藏家等热爱艺术的朋友们的关照，才能顺利渡过。所以诚挚地邀请大家于5月在東京画廊+BTAP重聚，共同见证这一特殊的时刻，并重温東京画廊+BTAP的70年。

Participating Artists: 

Ai An, Cai Guoqiang, Ding Yi, Fang Lijun, Feng Zhengjie, Gao Xiaowu, Hang Chunhui, He Yunchang, Huang Rui, Jin Sha, Li Ning, Li Yi, Lin Yusi, Liu Qinghe, Liu Xiaodong, Ma Shuqing, Qiu Shihua, Song Dong, Sui Jianguo, Tang Hui, Tian Wei, Wang Shuye, Wang Yuping, Wei Jiujie, Wu Qiang, Xu Bing, Yang Xun, Yang Yingsheng, Ye Jianqing, Yuan Shun, Yue Minjun, Zeng Jianyong, Zhang Quan, Zhang Tianjun, Zhang Tianmu, Zhang Xiaotao, Zhu Jianzhong, Zhu Jinshi, Zhu Lan.

We’re proud to announce that from 18 May through 8 August, 2020, TOKYO GALLERY + BTAP will host its 70th anniversary special exhibition entitled We Will Meet Again in its Beijing locations. Seventy years have passed since the founding in 1950 of TOKYO GALLERY, the first gallery in Japan and Asia to devote itself to contemporary art. Hence, the year 2020 will see a series of exhibitions held in TOKYO GALLERY + BTAP’s Tokyo and Beijing locations, aimed at commemorating the gallery’s 70-year existence. TOKYO GALLERY + BTAP’s Beijing locations will kick off this highly meaningful year with the 70th anniversary special exhibition entitled We Will Meet Again. Artists who’ve previously collaborated with TOKYO GALLERY since the time of its founding, including Xu Bing, Cai Guoqiang, Huang Rui, Sui Jianguo, Song Dong, Ding Yi, Liu Xiaodong, He Yunchang, Wang Shuye, Ye Jianqing, Zhu Jianzhong and Zeng Jianyong will be invited to take part in this exhibition, resulting in a total of over 80 artworks ranging from painting and sculpture to installation and video works.

Besides geographically teetering on the cusp between Asia and the ‘West’ as far as the global realm of modern and contemporary art goes, Japan has been at a point of intersection throughout the entire history of the global dissemination of art. Founded in 1950 as the first modern gallery of its kind Japan, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP has played a quasi-evangelistic role in bringing together the modern and contemporary art of China, Japan, Asia and the rest of the world.

Throughout the 700 exhibitions held in the 70 years since its founding, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP has adhered to two overarching criteria for its planning of exhibitions and pitching of artists: imaginative experimentation, and commitment to carving out an Asian contemporary aesthetic view based on an Asia-centered context. These have served as pillars for the exhibitions of western artists Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana and Jackson Pollock held in 1950’s Tokyo; the considerable impetus given by the gallery to Japanese contemporary art since the 1960’s; exhibitions of Korean contemporary artists held since the 1970’s; the shift in focus to emerging Chinese contemporary artists since the 1990’s; the 2002 founding of a space in Beijing and the considerable number of ‘debut’ exhibitions by Chinese contemporary artists held in what was essentially the first art space to set up shop in the 798 Art District; and finally in the 2010’s the series of exhibitions revolving around ‘Neo-Mōrōism’, which aimed to tap into a modern aesthetic unique to Asia.

It was director Tabata Yukihito himself who positioned the gallery as ‘an experimental space of endless possibility and imagination’. Tokyo Gallery + BTAP helped promote the Japanese ‘modern calligraphy movement’ (shūxiàng or ‘new calligraphy phenomenon’), the ‘Gutai’ and ‘Mono-ha’ schools, the Korean school of ‘Dansaekhwa’ (meaning ‘monochrome painting’), and helped generate buzz for Chinese contemporary art internationally in the 1980’s. It organized numerous exhibitions for the likes of Shiraga Kazuo, Lee Ufan, Park Seo-Bo, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Suga Kishio, Sekine Nobuo, Cai Guoqiang and Xu Bing. In 2002, the gallery’s Beijing location (BTAP) helped set up the scaffolding for the further growth of Chinese contemporary art through countless artists’ solo exhibitions, as well as large-scale exhibitions of a more academic purport such as Beijing “UKIYOE” and Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes.

The gallery’s director, Mr. Tabata Yukihito, who has as many years under his belt as the gallery’s been in existence, came of age alongside the gallery and Asian contemporary art. The research he conducted on European and American contemporary art in his younger years made him mindful of the future potential and importance of Asian and Chinese art. While promoting Asian contemporary art, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP also injected its experimental spirit into its search for contemporary artists who possessed unique Asian characteristics, and organized a series of ‘Neo-Mōrōism’ themed exhibitions in a bid to promote aesthetic views predicated on Asian principles. As the entire world is increasingly lacking in depth, and the economy is bursting at the seams, perhaps only the past can determine where we’ll be heading in the immediate present and future. Devising a contemporary art narrative predicated on the Asian cultural context, amid the onslaught of industrialization and Internet, will equally require experimentation. In the future, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP will keep on adhering to its unwavering pioneering spirit, as it continues to bring to light artists who possess potential and assist them in carrying out their artistic activities.

This will be Tokyo Gallery + BTAP’s very first exhibition of 2020. It goes without saying that this exhibition can only open its doors on the condition that the COVID-19 epidemic in China and Asia will be effectively curbed in April. As the director of Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Mr. Tabata Yukihito, is confronted with the difficulties posed by the epidemic, his emotions remain as unshaken as during the pivotal junctures of the 70-year long journey he’s spent running this gallery. Only with the loving care received from artists, collectors and other art aficionados, will this hurdle be overcome. Hence, we cordially invite you all to reunite with us in May at Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, to join us in witnessing this special moment in time, and to relive Tokyo Gallery + BTAP’s 7-decade-long legacy.

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