去紫色“禅室”内自拍，拍个够！| 驻留艺术家Beat Lippert在MoCA个人项目启动
瑞士艺术家Beat Lippert于3月至5月参加上海当代艺术馆主办，瑞士文化基金会上海办公室支持的驻留项目，将于5月7日至15日上海当代艺术馆艺术亭台呈现驻留成果。
Swiss artist Beat Lippert is participating in a residency project hosted by MoCA Shanghai and supported by Pro Helvetia Shanghai. He will present a showcase exhibition in MoCA Pavilion during May 7-15.
▲Perpetual art bubble 永恒的艺术泡沫
Beat Lippert借用著名概念派艺术家丹·格雷厄姆的话说，艺术创作是为了回应观众的需求。“艺术作品完成后，就要接受观众的欣赏和品评。艺术学院派主张，艺术家的主观思维是最重要的，这样的自我中心思维一定对吗？其实艺术应与社会息息相关。艺术家应该从持续不断的艺术气泡中抽身出来，思考如何将文化遗产与当代生活相互对接，并让广大受众感到容易接受。”
Beat Lippert quoted influential conceptual artis Dan Graham’s saying that art work mostly is about the visitors. “The visitor has to deal with the artwork once it is built. So what is that egocentric thinking that art school told me that the artist subjective thinking is what counts? Art should be about society. The artist should have to get out of their artistic perpetual art bubble, and think about how our cultural heritage can be connected with our contemporary reality while being accessible to a very large public.”
▲Ride, Le Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel, video, 2009 攀爬，纳莎泰尔历史与艺术博物馆，录像，2009
Beat Lippert 1977年生于瑞士洛桑，曾在德国波恩的阿兰努斯艺术与社会科学大学学习雕塑；后转而从事考古工作。2007年毕业于瑞士的日内瓦艺术设计大学。其作品曾受邀参加多项展览，包括YIA Art Fair Paris，22.48㎡画廊；巴塞尔艺术展个人项目，TM Project 画廊；瑞士伯尔尼美术馆/特雷维桑宫，威尼斯双年展/Art licks 伦敦/日内瓦现当代艺术博物馆/卡尔马当代艺术博物馆/苏黎世美术馆等。
Beat Lippert was born in lausanne Switzerland 1977. After studying sculpture at Alanus-hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Bonn, Germany, he oriented himself to archaeology practice. In 2007, he graduated from High School of Art and Design Geneva, Switzerland. His works has been shown at YIA Art Fair Paris, gallery 22.48㎡; Solo project at Basel Art Fair, Gallery TM Project/Kunsthalle Berne/Palazzo Trevisan, Venezia Biennale/Art licks London/MAMCO Geneva/Kalmar Contemporary Art Museum/Kunsthaus Zurich.
▲Véhicule #4, lambda c-print, 2008 车辆4号，照片，2008
上海当代艺术馆策展人王慰慰提到一个情况：在上海办展，越是方便观众自拍就越能提高客流！如今，地铁上的乘客，甚至是街上来来往往的行人，都低头沉迷在自己的手机世界里。他们常常会掏出手机自拍，然后晒出靓照。如此看来，在这次展会中为观众提供方便的自拍条件，也不失为一个好点子。诚然，“低头族”因为痴迷手机而深受其害；但从另一个角度来说，这也是当今社会的真实写照。这其实是当今社会留给我们的挑战：在融入世界律动的同时，又要在当下忠于自我、保持特色。
MoCA’s curator, Wei Wei Wang surprisingly told him that in Shanghai the more selfie friendly the exhibition is, the larger the audience will be. The fact is that everybody in the subway and even walking in the streets are mostly emerged into their iPhone. Conclusion was that he has to make a selfie friendly exhibition, why not? After all, all consequences of iPhone addictions can be very shocking! But on another hand, I think it is simply a reality of the actual society. The biggest challenge of today’s life is to be connected with the whole world while simultaneously being yourself in the present moment.
▲Extase en aval, Centre Pasquart Bienne, 2010 展览，瑞士比尔艺术中心，2010
Beat Lippert也在研究如何将西方的文化元素运用到东方文化中去，他决定和瑞士著名巧克力品牌妙卡合作，该品牌以紫色为主色调，并采用奶牛斑纹。他特别打造了一间“禅室”，让观众能够在此安神静思。禅室虽然在公开的展览空间之中，却能提供完全私密的空间，而且墙面粉刷一新，地毯舒适柔软，观众可在其中静静地思考或美美地自拍。
Beat Lippert’s research engages with the idea of using westerner codes in oriental culture. He decided to work with Milka products, a typical brand of Switzerland, whose branding is purple in colour and uses cow spots. He created a meditation box that the audience can use for meditation. They can be concurrently in complete privacy and publicly inside an art exhibition. Along with the painted walls, and carpeted floors the space will be welcoming to both reflective and selfie practices.
▲TM Project Geneva, Parietalis, 2014 日内瓦TM岩画项目，2014
妙卡冥想亭
日期：2016年5月7日 — 2016年5月15日
时间：周一至周日 10：00 — 21:00
地点：上海当代艺术馆 艺术亭台
Date: 7th May , 2016 – 15th May, 2016
Opening Hours: Monday – Sunday 10: 00 – 21: 00
Location: MoCA Pavillion
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MoCA 艺术亭台是上海当代艺术馆于2015年筹备开放的全新艺术空间。旨在通过展示一系列的艺术项目来支持年轻的艺术家；关注新的艺术潮流，并鼓励当代艺术中的各种实验与创新。同时，努力营造一个独特而开放的环境，让观众们可以自由地观看和了解当代艺术家和他们的作品。
MoCA Pavilion is a brand new art space of Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai and will be open to public in 2015. The mission of MoCA Pavilion is, by presenting a series of artistic projects, to support young artists and focus on new trends of arts and encourage innovation in contemporary art. At the same time, it can be one of our tryouts to create a unique and welcoming environment in which visitors can discover and explore the works of contemporary artists.
注：图文来自艺术家官网，上海当代艺术馆MoCA.