【展览回顾】计洲：虚·构
“原本已不再相信以影像的形式来理解现实，现在却相信把现实理解为即是影像、幻觉。”
——苏珊•桑塔格（ Susan Sontag）
“摄影是观察世界的一种方式，摄影师的工作是取景定格。”
——计洲
面对这个日益支离破碎、不断演变和失谐的世界所带来的个人情感波动——特别是以不断更新的技术为推动力，计洲选择以摄影这一媒介来表达他对现实与虚幻、自然与人工、以及这些二元概念之间的相互作用的凝思。
通过观察，艺术家意识到用相机捕捉一个场景或物体的动机，往往来自于拍摄者对更广泛语境中某一个特殊细节的关注。然而，拍摄的照片将会包含无数的细节，它们构成了整个画面。观看者对这些细节的感知变化，将会影响到他们对整体作品的理解。为了将这些概念转化为他的实践，计洲聚焦于两个最根本的变量，即时间性和空间性。本次展览展出的三个系列作品都对这两个关键概念有所体现。
在《公园》（2019）和《温室》（2017-2019）中，计洲选择拍摄的图像取景在一个固定的地点——分别是公园和温室，并在不同的时间进行拍摄。随后，他将这些图像拆解成片段，再将它们重新拼组，拼贴成不同时间形同地点的凝聚。计洲特别选择了温室和公共公园这两个地点，因为它们都体现了一个模糊的状态－被人工干预的“自然”。而通过拼贴对这些多重意义的地点所做的诠释，也更进一步强化媒介自身为此类“自然”生成的幻象。在作品《虚•构》（2019）中，艺术家采用了类似的手法，但同时要求观看者采取光学策略去感知灯箱中的图像关系——其图像只能在特定的角度和背景中才能被看到。
计洲此前的“地图”系列（2013-2017）为当下他对现实与虚构、自然与人工之二元对立关系的探索埋下了伏笔。通过构建这些空心雕塑出了的自然风景，并用地图将其包裹（对自然的一种感知转译），然后用摄影捕捉，艺术家要求观看者透过层层线索对那些看似对立的观念的感知做出重新审视。此外，计洲早期的实践都以单一的灰色调呈现，以聚焦这些雕塑的形状和形式：其中的“灰尘”系列探索了手工装配物件的感知形象；《文明的景观》探索了人类创造的虚幻景观：他用地图和书籍精心构建出山峦和摩天大楼的形态，然后再用摄影拍摄它们。透过这些对世界的描绘，计洲构建和展示了一种对我们周围世界的理解和感知。
计洲1970年出生于中国北京。在1994年从中央美术学院版画系毕业之后，他于2005年在巴黎第一大学获得艺术硕士学位。计洲的作品在全世界各地展出，他的个展包括：“模”，Space Kaan，首尔，韩国（2017）；“文明的景观”，凯尚画廊，纽约，美国（2015）；“景•物”，当代唐人艺术中心，北京，中国（2013）；“尘迹”，当代唐人艺术中心，北京，中国（2011）；“在场”，尤伦斯当代艺术中心，北京，中国（2008）。他参与的群展包括：“混合的公共性与私密性”第三届北京国际摄影双年展，中央美术学院美术馆，北京，中国（2018）；“复相•叠影——广州影像三年展 ”，广州美术馆，广州，中国 （2017）；“想象的边界”，Boghossian基金会，Villa Empain，布鲁塞尔，比利时（2017）；“杭州少年：联络中国”，Young At Art Museum，佛罗里达州，美国（2017）；“摄影和电影的构建”，瑞格林艺术与设计学院，撒拉索塔，佛罗里达州，美国（2016）；“走起！通道：在当代艺术中行走”，珀尔曼教育美术馆，卡尔顿学院，诺思菲尔德，明尼苏达州，美国（2016）；“另一种风景”，央美术馆，北京，中国（2016）；“是&非——首届长江国际影像双年展”，长江当代美术馆，重庆，中国（2015）；“执像——中国当代摄影展2x6”，红专厂艺术区，广州，中国（2015）；第二届三影堂实验影像开放展，三影堂摄影艺术中心，北京，中国（2015）；“回溯与偏移”，时代美术馆，北京，中国（2011）；“Rendez-vous 09”，维勒班当代艺术美术馆，法国（2009）；“在瓦伦西亚55天：中国当代艺术节”，瓦伦西亚现代艺术博物馆，西班牙（2008）。
虚构 No.2，2019，灯箱，透镜镜片，UV打印，54x54cm；艺术微喷，150x150cm
Fiction No.2, 2019, light box, lens sheet, UV print, 54x54cm; pigment print, 150x150cm
© 2019 计洲 & 博而励画廊 Courtesy of the artist & Boers-Li Gallery
“The credence that could no longer be given to realities understood in the form of images, was now being given to realities understood to be images, illusions.”
- Susan Sontag
“Photography is a way in which to observe the world, and it is the photographer’s job to frame it.”
- Ji Zhou
Boers-Li Gallery is delighted to present Ji Zhou’s solo exhibition "Fiction" on August 3, showing the artist's most recent series of photographs and light box installations.
Compelled by a personal sentiment towards a world that is becoming increasingly fragmented, segmented and dissonant, particularly as a result of constantly renewing technologies, Ji Zhou adopts the medium of photography to convey his mediations between reality and illusion, nature and artificiality, as well as the mutual impacts from these dichotomies.
Through his observations, the artist noted that the impetus of capturing a scene or an object with a camera often comes from the appeal of a specific detail within a larger context. However, the photograph taken would encompass myriads of details to constitute the entire image. The variations in the perception of these details hence alter the understanding of the whole. To translate these notions into his practice, Ji Zhou addressed two of the most fundamental variables, temporality and spatiality, and both are represented through the three series of works on view in this exhibition.
For Park (2019) and Greenhouse (2017-2019), Ji Zhou takes pictures of a place, ranging from public parks to greenhouses, at different times and alternative angles. Then, he disassembles these images into fragments and recombines them into a collage to show the integration of time and space. Ji Zhou intentionally chooses locations such as greenhouse and public parks for their ambiguity in artificiality and nature. His interpretation of these composite sites through the approach of collage further enhances the fragmentations of reality. Although Fiction (2019), adopts a similar approach, the artist demands the viewer to engage optical tactic in perceiving the relationship between the image in the light box that the image would only be seen at a specific angle, to its backdrop.
Previously, his photo series Maps (2013-2017) has already given us clues for shifting towards exploring the dichotomous relationships between the real and the fictional, nature and artificiality. By constructing these hollow sculptural forms of natural landscapes, and covering them with maps (a translated perception of nature), and then captures them on photographs, Ji Zhou asks the viewer to re-examine our perception of these seemingly opposing notions through these layers of mediation. Furthermore, his earlier practice includes Dust series that explores the perceived image of hand-assembled objects, rendered in monotonous grey as a mean to focus on the shape and form of these sculptures; Civilized Landscape, where he explores illusory landscapes created by mankind: using maps and books, he sculpts mountains and skyscrapers in carefully placed installations before photographing the compositions. Through these illustrations of the world, Ji Zhou constructs an understanding of the world around us.
Born in 1970 in Beijing and currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Ji Zhou graduated from the printmaking department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 1994, and later received an MFA from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris in 2005. His work has been exhibited around the world, including solo exhibitions Quand La Sculpture Devient Créature, Musee du Papier, Angouleme, France (2017); Form, Space Kaan, Seoul, South Korea (2017); Civilized Landscape, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY (2015), Objectified Spectacle, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2013); Ashes of Time, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China (2011) and In Situ, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2008). His recent group exhibitions include, Troubled Intentions Ahead: Confusing Public and Private, The 3rd Beijing Photo Biennial, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China;Simultaneous Eidos: Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou (2017); Imaginary Frontiers, Boghossian Foundation at Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium (2017); Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China, Young At Art Museum, Davie, FL (2016); Photography and Film Constructs, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL (2016); WALK! Passages: Walking in Contemporary Art, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (2016); Another Landscape, Yang Art Museum, Beijing, China (2016); Real/Unreal, The First edition of Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale, Chongqing Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, China (2015); The Persistence of Images, Redtory Art and Culture Organization, Guangzhou, China (2015); The 2nd Three Shadows Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China (2015); Retrospection & Deviation, Times Art Museum Beijing, Beijing, China (2011); Rendez-vous 09, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2009); and55 Days in Valencia, Chinese Art Meeting, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2008).
计洲：虚•构
展期：2019年8月3日至9月1日
地址：博而励画廊 | 北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路二号院798艺术区D-06
Ji Zhou: Fiction
Dates: 03 Aug. - 01 Sep., 2019
Address: Boers-Li Gallery | D-06, 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
展览作品
虚构 No.1，2019，灯箱，透镜镜片，艺术微喷，34x54cm / Fiction No.1, 2019, light box, lens, pigment print, 34x54cm © 2019 计洲 & 博而励画廊 Courtesy of the artist & Boers-Li Gallery
公园 No.3，2019，艺术微喷于多种纸张，亚克力，摄影拼贴，135x270cm / Park No.3, 2019, pigment prints collage, 135x270cm © 2019 计洲 & 博而励画廊 Courtesy of the artist & Boers-Li Gallery
温室No.7，2019，艺术微喷于多种纸张，摄影拼贴，150x126cm / Greenhouse No.7, 2019, pigment prints collage, 150x126cm © 2019 计洲 & 博而励画廊 Courtesy of the artist & Boers-Li Gallery
温室No.4，2017，艺术微喷于多种纸张，摄影拼贴，73.4x180cm / Greenhouse No.4, 2017, pigment prints collage, 73.4x180cm © 2019 计洲 & 博而励画廊 Courtesy of the artist & Boers-Li Gallery
温室No.1，2017，艺术微喷于多种纸张，摄影拼贴，120x180cm / Greenhouse No.1, 2017, pigment prints collage, 120x180cm © 2019 计洲 & 博而励画廊 Courtesy of the artist & Boers-Li Gallery
温室No.5，2018，艺术微喷于多种纸张，摄影拼贴，110x200cm / Greenhouse No.5, 2018, pigment prints collage, 110x200cm © 2019 计洲 & 博而励画廊 Courtesy of the artist & Boers-Li Gallery
虚构 No.2，2019，灯箱，透镜镜片，UV打印，54x54cm；艺术微喷，150x150cm / Fiction No.2, 2019, light box, lens sheet, UV print, 54x54cm; pigment print, 150x150cm © 2019 计洲 & 博而励画廊 Courtesy of the artist & Boers-Li Gallery
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