【展讯】“汪建伟：寒武纪”个展将于西岸和上海廿一两场博览会长征空间展位同时呈现
“汪建伟：寒武纪”
"Wang Jianwei: Cambrian"
西岸艺术与设计博览会
West Bund Art & Design
地点：西岸艺术中心
Venue: West Bund Art Center
2018.11.07-11.11 | Booth A110
上海廿一当代艺术博览会
Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair
地点：上海展览中心
Venue: Shanghai Exhibition Center
2018.11.08-11.11 | Booth C05
长征空间荣幸地宣布，汪建伟最新个展“寒武纪”将于11月初在上海展出，艺术家以全新的创作概念，探讨当今科技与寒武纪地质血缘的关联。这是汪建伟继2014年纽约古根海姆美术馆个展、2015年北京长征空间个展之后的又一全新个展。打破在美术馆或画廊空间推出个展的常规方式，长征空间将分别在上海西岸艺术与设计博览会（11月7-11日，A110）和上海廿一当代艺术博览会（11月8-11日，C05）的展位中呈现汪建伟新作“寒武纪”，一个个展一分为二，两个展位的结构和作品互为镜像，隔空对话。
“寒武纪”是一个沉睡的地质时间。当一块褐色的矿石、黑色的稀土成为高速列车的轨道或连绵百里的输电铁塔，它不仅仅占据了关于金属与能源的真实性，而同样拥有了地理上的整体性。地质的时间并不是关于地质的科学，而是关于垂直与水平之间各自的剩余知识：这个由垂直形成的堆叠与技术（算法）的直接相遇，重新定义了个体性以及它的形式。作为一种新的复合体，用户通过界面服务于一个垂直的系统，新的法在使用中诞生。此时，物理性质的矿源和它所处的地质层与垂直方向的疆域不再成为唯一的统治，最终它呈现了一种吊诡的当下与未来。
汪建伟在其近期创作中生成关于地质能源、产能过剩、经济扩张的多重思考，它们之间的互相碰撞生成新的地缘政治关系。在展览现场，真实冷峻的风景来自芯片的生成，锋利的不锈钢装置取材于寒武纪地层中的矿物，发动机涡轮也可以追溯到页岩层的石油。正如艺术家写道：“……算法决定了山的清晰度，滤镜增加了‘自然’的真实……遥远的决定着现在，地下的统治着天空，由于它们的在场，让我们不至于太自信。”
关于艺术家
汪建伟1958年生于四川，从上世纪70年代起他开始艺术的实践，即被视为中国当代艺术领域的先锋。汪建伟在浙江美术学院（今中国美术学院）学习绘画期间大量阅读存在主义哲学和中国历史，受到这些经验的影响，他早期以绘画为主的创作带有强烈的实验性以及复杂的观念；而自上世纪90年代至今，汪建伟持续探索知识综合与跨学科对当代艺术的影响，尝试使用不同学科的方法论去创造新的艺术语言，即在众多的关系中，从知识层面发展和建立一种新的主体的可能性；在知识综合的背景下，以哲学式的质询，实践一种交叉学科的观看世界方式，并赋予这些实践以形式。为此，其艺术作品呈现多元样式，跨越影像录像、戏剧、多媒体、装置、绘画和文本等领域。
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Wang Jianwei: Cambrian
Long March Space is proud to announce Wang Jianwei's latest solo exhibition "Cambrian", to be held in Shanghai in early November 2018. For the past few years the artist has been developing an entirely new conceptual direction for his work, re-locating our technologically advanced present in its mineral origins back in the Cambrian Period. Offering the first comprehensive look at this new strand in his practice, "Cambrian" may be considered Wang Jianwei's next major statement after his 2014 solo exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York, and his 2015 solo exhibition at Long March Space in Beijing. Breaking away from the conventional practice of staging an exhibition at an art museum or gallery, "Cambrian" will be held at Long March Space's booths at West Bund Art and Design (November 7th to 11th, Booth A110) and Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair (November 8th to 11th, Booth C05). The single solo exhibition will be divided into two halves, with the structure of the two booths and the works within serving as mirror images of each other.
For Wang Jianwei, the Cambrian Period is a still slumbering state of geological time. When a brown chunk of ore or black rare earth becomes part of a high speed railway track or transmission tower carrying electrical cables for thousands of kilometers, it is not only connected to the physical reality of metal or energy, but also to a sort of geological integrity. Geological time is not reducible to geological science. It is about the residual knowledge held in the tension between vertical and horizontal orientations, the direct encounter between vertical stacks and technique (algorithms) redefining individuality and the forms it can take. A new complex is formed, and as "users" we serve this system through a vertical interface, one which is only completed through our very presence, creating a new way of being. At this time, the minerals behind our infrastructure and their physical sources can no longer be defined merely by the geological level they exist within. Eventually, this leads to the emergence of a paradoxical present and future.
"Cambrian" showcases Wang Jianwei's recent work concerning geological energy, production at overcapacity, economic expansion, and the new geopolitical relationships that arise when these phenomena collide. In the exhibition one may find unadorned and cold imagery from the process of microchip formation, sharp stainless steel installations made from minerals originating in Cambrian geological strata, and paintings of engine turbines powered by shale oil. In the words of Wang Jianwei, discussing the images and environments that surround us, "algorithms determine the clarity of mountains, and filters add a 'natural' reality... The distant past determines our now, and what is underground controls the sky. Because of their presence we must not get too confident."
About the artist
Born 1958 in Sichuan Province, China, Wang Jianwei has been a pioneer in the Chinese contemporary art scene since the 1970s. Academically trained as a painter, he dedicated much of his time as a student at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) to reading about Existentialism and Chinese history. This led him to years of experimentation in conveying complex ideas through painting. Since the 1990s Wang Jianwei has continuously explored how comprehensive knowledge and multi-disciplinary studies can inform contemporary art, thus creating a new vocabulary for himself through different methodologies from multiple fields. From these diverse relations and layers of knowledge he establishes and develops the possibility of a new subjectivity. Based on this comprehensive knowledge, his philosophical inquiries invoke an interdisciplinary way of seeing. For this reason, his artworks include a wide variety of forms, spanning video, theatre, multimedia work, installation, painting and text.
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