yuznews | “起始之谜” 具貞娥项目空间展览
余德耀美术馆项目空间（Yuz Project Room）展览系列，通过邀请艺术家针对美术馆空间、环境及观众，创造特定场域的艺术作品，在探索当代艺术创作的可能性的同时，关注当下文化、社会的意识形态与语义。继2015年9月对公众开放后，Yuz Project Room将于2016年3月26日至5月29日推出“起始之谜”具貞娥项目空间展览。
自20世纪90年代开始，韩国艺术家具貞娥致力于通过创作特定场域的作品，来探讨关于空间再造的问题。她的作品经常在特定的环境中融合了对于空间、物体、图像、感官元素的思考，表面上看起来司空见惯的事物，经由她深思熟虑、精确制作之后，常以意想不到的方式和不易被察觉的细微变化，改变人们对周围世界的感知。多年来，她对世界万物的关注、对自然事物的运用和互动都呈现在她形式多样的艺术实践中，涵盖建筑元素、绘画、装置、雕塑、影像、声音、小说、诗歌、出版物以及建筑项目等。体验具貞娥的作品，如同是一场毫无限制的旅行，她会带给你没有预设的惊喜，带你进入神秘的空间以及一些似曾相识的在记忆中出现的场景。
本次项目空间展览“起始之谜”力图从一个切入点开始，来展现艺术家多样化的探索和实践。具貞娥通过作品《无题》（2012）——一片荧光粉色地面，戏剧性地改变了整个空间。由于光的反射作用，整个展厅似乎都充满了这种令人眼花缭乱的颜色。一旦你的眼睛适应了这强烈的色彩，才能逐渐聚焦在环绕墙面而悬挂的60幅纸上蓝色墨水绘画。透过近距离的仔细观察，画面上的纤细线条和复杂的图案渐渐跃然眼前。如同具貞娥日常生活和想象世界的摄影日记，她用常见的书写工具描绘了这些卡通式的画面：悬崖和池塘、老鼠的寓言故事、在练瑜伽的裸体的人、如同水草和石头一般的有机生物形态、拟人化的器官、互相交流的人们、未知的风景和生物的轮廓线等。在粉色的光晕衬托中，这些绘画简单、安静，却十分古怪幽默，惹人喜爱。
当你以为整个展厅只充斥着刺眼的色彩，仿佛身处一片空白和虚无的荒诞之中时，展厅内的一面墙会突然间隙性地摇晃振动，就好像整个建筑在颤抖，就好像大楼是活着的一样。如同作品的名称《它的灵魂》（2012），建筑似乎也是有灵魂的生命体，通过振动在向人们证明自身的存在。在具貞娥的世界，万事万物都是值得被发现和敬畏的。在其极简的、不虚饰的作品外表下，掩藏着事物微妙的变化，引领观众放慢脚步，动用所有身体感官，去感受这个未被感知到的“全新”的世界。
关于艺术家
具貞娥，1967年出生于韩国首尔，现生活和工作于每一个地方。其主要的展览包括：“4.3.3”（Pinksummer，热那亚，2016）；“埃弗顿公园项目”（利物浦双年展，利物浦，2015）；“年度旅行”（Pilar Corrias，伦敦，2015）；“recto/verso”（路易威登基金会，巴黎，2015）；“2015年的世界”（UCCA，北京，2015）；“无限自由内的虚空”（Base / Progettiper l’arte，佛罗伦萨，2014）；“闪亮的生活”（Yvonne Lamber，巴黎，2014）；“烧毁房屋”（光州双年展，光州，2014）；“经由有趣宫殿的闲逛”（14届威尼斯建筑双年展瑞士馆，威尼斯，2014）；“具貞娥：16:07”（杜塞尔多夫美术馆，杜塞尔多夫，2012）；“OTRO”（Ile de Vassivière，利穆赞，2012）；“数不胜数的航行”（Pilar Corrias，伦敦，2012）；“具貞娥：星座大会”（Dia艺术基金会，纽约，2010）；53届威尼斯双年展，威尼斯，2009；“闪现的立方”（三星美术馆，首尔，2007）；“具貞娥”（蓬皮杜艺术中心，巴黎，2004）；入选2002年古根海姆美术馆Hugo Boss大奖等。
关于Yuz Project Room项目空间
Yuz Project Room项目空间是独立于余德耀美术馆年度展览计划下的全新展示空间，于2015年9月正式对公众开放。Yuz Project Room项目空间邀请艺术家针对美术馆空间、环境及观众，创造特定场域的艺术作品及项目。以“一个项目+一个展览”相结合的方式，在艺术家主动与空间产生互动的同时呈现当代艺术正在发生的当时当刻。
Yuz Project Room项目空间旨在为国内外艺术家提供创作展示的平台和交流的契机，期待新的概念、内容和趋势在此发生。此外，Yuz Project Room项目空间希望艺术家在介入到美术馆空间的同时，激发出不同以往的创意和想法，尝试打破既定的创作形式，探索当代艺术创作的可能性。
余德耀美术馆近期展览：
2016.3.22 — 2016.7.31 “贾科梅蒂回顾展”
2016.3.26 — 2016.5.29 “起始之谜”具貞娥项目空间展览
Yuz Project Room at Yuz Museum
Enigma of Beginnings
Yuz Project Room is an independent exhibition program, which invites artists to make site-specific artworks and project, boldly engaged with the museum, its surroundings and the audiences, aiming to explore the possibilities in contemporary art, and focus on the ideology and semantics in the present culture and society. Continuouing with its opening in September 2015, Yuz Project Room will present Koo Jeong A’s project Enigma of Beginnings from March 26th, 2016 to May 29th, 2016.
Since the 1990s, Koo Jeong A has been working on the reinvention of spaces with site specific works. Koo Jeong A has made works that are seemingly casual and commonplace, yet at the same time remarkably precise,deliberate, and considered, changing our perception of the world around us withsubtle variations. Her reflections on the senses incorporate space, objects, images and sensory elements within site-specific environments. Over the years, her attention on everything on earth, her utilization and interaction with nature livings are presented in varieties of her art practice, ranging from the architectural elements to painting, installation, fiction, poetry, sculpture, video, sound, publications, and architecture projects, etc. To venture near Koo Jeong A’s work is to travel unreservedly through unexpected amazing cosmos, mysterious dwarfed spaces, and deja-vu landscape of memories.
This Project Room exhibition at Yuz Museum, Enigma of Beginnings seeks to provide a point of penetration of the many paths that the artist’s work is exploring. Koo will dramatically alter the whole space installing a fluorescent pink floor, Untitled (2012). Upon arrival in the space, it seems to be filled with the dazzling color as the lights will reflect on the walls. Once your eyes adjust to the intense color, it is possible to focus on the blue ink on paper drawings hung around the room. By closely inspecting and observing, the slender lines and intricate images of the cartoony drawings gradually become more visible and distinct. It is like a photographic diary of Koo’s daily life and imaginary world: “cliff and pond, a bestiary of mice, nudes in yoga position, organic forms like aquatic plants and stones, anthropomorphic organs, individuals communicating with each other, outlines of unknown landscapes and creatures.” Framed with the pink light, the drawings are quiet and humorous, simple and endearing.
It seems that the space is empty but only immersed by intense color, which leads to emptiness and void. Then when you spend some time in the space, intermittently one of the walls suddenly shakes and trembles as if the building is shivering, as if the building is alive. Like the name of the artwork Its Soul (2012), the building seems to have its own soul, trying to prove its existence by shaking, as if the building is communicating with the audience. Koo’s work is minimal and unostentatious with subtle changes, allows the audience to slow down and engage all the senses to experience the unperceived whole new world.
About the Artist
Koo Jeong A was born in Seoul, Keorea in 1985. She currently lives and works in everywhere. Her major exhibitions include: 4.3.3（Pinksummer, Genoa,2016）; Everton Park Wheels Park project (Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, 2015); Annual Journey (Pilar Corrias, London,2015); recto/verso (Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2015); The World in 2015 (UCCA, Beijing, 2015); VOID WITHINUNLIMITED FREEDOM (Base / Progetti per l’arte, Florence, 2014); Oussser (Fondazione La Raia, Novi Ligure, 2014); Shining Living (YvonneLamber, Paris, 2014); Burning Down the House (Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2014); A stroll through a fun palace (Swiss Pavilion at 14th Architecture Biennale, Venice, 2014); Koo Jeong A:16:07 (Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, 2012); OTRO (Ile de Vassivière, région Limousin, 2012); navigation without numbers (Pilar Corrias, London, 2012); Koo Jeong A: Constellation Congress (Dia at the Hispanic Society, New York, 2010); 53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice; Flash Cube (Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2007); Koo Jeong-A (Centre Pompidou, Espace 315, Paris, 2004); Hugo Boss Prize (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2002)
About Yuz Project Room
Yuz Project Room is a new independent exhibition program at the Yuz Museum which opens to the public in September 2015. Yuz Project Room invites artists to make site-specific works or projects,engaging boldly with the museum, its surroundings and its audience. Combining“project + exhibition,” the artist interacts actively with the space and aimsto present the moment when contemporary art occurs.
Yuz Project Room is the place where innovation, invention, and new movements happen in the trajectory of an artist.It aims to provide another platform for Chinese and international artists to exhibit their artworks as well as more opportunities to communicate with each other. Yuz Project Room invites the artist to get inspired with new ideas by engaging with the museum space and attempting to create breakthrough artworks that diverge from the artist’s accustomed path.
Upcoming Exhibitions
2016.03.22 — 2016.07.31 Giacometti Retrospective
2016.03.26 — 2016.05.29 Enigma of Beginnings, Koo Jeong A Project Room Exhibition
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