展讯 | 苔藓(DARK MOSS)--张锰个展将于10.28开幕
《苔 藓》--张锰个展
开幕酒会：2017.10.28 下午4:30
学术支持：车建全
策展人：Amber刘琥珀
展期：2017.10.28-11.28
地址：深圳市南山区侨城东路99号南门一层99空间(深南电路园区内)
策展团队：Amita叶二娘 刘紫茵 黄晓琼
主办方：MOKIK(无极)艺术机构 Chase Limted
协办方：尚石设计 神禾广告 派空间 威廉舞蹈
场地支持：99空间
投影设备支持：声光行
表演艺术家：罗军 潘星宇
植物花艺支持：小院花室
媒体支持：乐活深圳 雅昌艺术网 新浪网 奥一网 Amelie注目深圳 深圳艺术地图 深圳新闻网 卓克艺术网
赞助商：Chase Limted
DARKMOSS
——Zhang Meng Solo Exhibition
Opening: 2017.10.28 4:00pm
Academic support: Che Jianquan
Curator: Amber Liu
Exhibition period: 2017.10.28-11.28
Address: The 99 Art Space, Level 1,South Gate,
No 99 Qiaocheng East Road, NanshanDistrict, Shenzhen
Curitorial team: Amita Zinn Viola
Organizers: MOKIK Art, Chase Limited
Co-organizers: The 99 ART SPACE
Technical support: Voice-Light
Performing: Luo Jun, Pan Xingyu
Plant and flower support: Scentyard Floral Design
Media supports: lohas-shenzhen, Arton.net, Sina, Oeeee, Amelie, Shenzhen art map, Sznews, Zhuoke arts
Sponsor: Chase Limited
前 言
（文/Amber刘琥珀）
本次展览展出张锰大型多媒体装置《苔藓》以及油画、水墨作品多幅，均为首次在深圳展出，其中主题投影装置《苔藓》为张锰在大兴安岭阿尔山驻地项目作品。
张锰本人是这件单频Video作品中的主角，他隐身于树，仿如“行禅”般缓慢行走于一片布满苔藓的古老荒凉的火山岩上，像一位古时的游侠，最后隐身于另外一颗树，那两棵苍劲且静默的松树，因此也在进行某种颇具仪式感的神秘对话。他在崎岖不平湿滑之境行走，过程中充满诗意却又略带危险不安感。从一棵树到另一棵树，有人看见一生，有人看见当下，有人看见艺术家的内心写照，有人看见世界，有人却看见了一部漫长的人类进化史。万物进化，恒古静默。
那片看似荒芜无边的火山石，却是生命力极度旺盛之地，在火山石上蔓延生长的古老苔藓，悄无声息蛮荒生长。它们是地球上最古老的植物，也是植物界最重要的“隐士”。追溯万物起源，约在4.7亿年前，苔藓类地被植物在地球上迅速蔓延，成为地球首个稳定的氧气来源，令智能生命得以蓬勃发展。
树，枝，石，自然，野性，隐者，孤独，生命，时间……是张锰作品中常见的题材与线索，隐于树，隐于空气，隐于万物，隐于市，隐于无。艺术家本人如是说：“日常中最平凡的自然造物，成为个体自由精神的隐居之所。一切浮躁归于平静，如巨大的屏障守住心灵的安宁。”
艺术评论家张海涛曾对张锰的作品如此描述：“张锰的影像与水墨艺术语言单纯是他的特点，其影像作品构成与符号造型简洁、虚像与实境相间，色调以黑白灰为主，部分作品略带彩度，音效潜默，而镜头慢而稳，符号动态要么逐渐推远消逝，要么给我们以渐缓逼近的矛盾与紧张感，这样时间带来的过程视象隐藏着记忆的消逝感和危机感。这样的感受在张锰水墨作品中也能感觉到，猴子隐于枯树中，笔触虚实、造型长圆、墨色浓淡形成对比，让看似平静的胖猴隐藏着惊恐的不安。可以看出张锰的影像作品与水墨作品都在媒介语言上有很多自然融合的地方。“隐”是张锰应对这个世界不得已的策略和生存方式，也是他寻找自我心灵自由的途径。”
Preface
(By Amber Liu)
This exhibition presents artist Zhang Meng’s large-scale multimedia installation “DARK MOSS”, along with oil paintings and wash paintings, all of which are first exhibited in Shenzhen. The theme projective installation “DARK MOSS” is a project captured by artist-in-residence Zhang Meng in volcanic lavic landscapesof A'er Mountain, Greater Hinggan Region.
In the self-acted mono-frequency video, Zhang Meng concealed himself behind a tree, then walked slowly as though practicing walking meditation on an age-old volcanics coveredby moss, in an ancient chivalrous swordsman’s manner, at last concealed behind the other tree. There was ritual mysterious exchange between those two vigorousand silent pine tree. Walking through a cragged damp track resembles a poetic adventure. In the distance of one tree to another, some may see their lifetime, some may see present, some may see the world, and some may see the long lasting history of human evolution. All creatures evolve, while remain eternal silence.
The seemingly desolate and incessant volcanics, reversely, are the land of exuberant vitality, on top of which the ancient moss grows silently in rampancy. Moss is the oldest plant and best anchorite of flora. Tracing back to the origin of life, about 4.7 hundred million years ago, bryophyta ground plants aggressively spread across the Earth and became the first stable source of oxygen hence enable intelligent life developed.
Trees, branches, stones, nature, wildness, anchorite, solitude, life, time...... are themes and clues most commonly found in Zhang Meng’s artworks, hidden from trees, from air, from creatures, from earthliness and from emptiness. “The average natural scenes in regular days, become an exclusive residence for spirit of individual freedom. All disturbances return to tranquility, like a large screen protecting peaceful hearts.” the artist said.
As art critic Zhang Haitao has commented: "Zhang Meng’s video works and wash paintings feature purity. The image compositions and forms of symbol are concise. Virtuality alternates with reality. Mostly the tone is black-and-white based while some works are colorful. His video works also feature implicit sound effect, slow and mild shots. The dynamic symbols either fade out gradually or zoom in tensely, consequently the process of time lapses veil the lose of memory and sense of crisis. Same perceptions can be applied to his wash painting: monkeys hidden behind withered tree, virtual and actual strokes, long and roundpattern, contrast of thick and light ink, altogether render the monkeys, which look calm, panic feelings. A natural fusion regarding media languages can be seen between Zhang Meng's video works and his wash paintings. Concealing is a strategy and existence manner Zhang Meng has to adopt when confronting this world, but also serves as a path for him to seek spiritual freedom."
(Translator / Zinn)
苔藓
--张锰
天空露蓝时
雾气散
多年火山岩
绿地衣
前身古木后
背悬崖
轻缓下河床
遍地牛
趟清冷河水
嚼百草
天晚欲眠时
小雨滴坠落
《DARK MOSS》
--Zhang Meng
The sky reveals a bluish hue
When the mist dissipates
Age-old volcanics dotted with
Atrovien lichen
Face towards ancient woods
Back against steep cliff
Gently step in riverbed
Cattle cover everywhere
Wade through chilly creek
Chew various herbs
Light dims dusk approaches
Drowsily droplets fall
(Translator / Zinn)
影像作品|Viedo：《苔藓》(截屏)
作品载体：单屏VIEDO
作品长度：3分 25''
创作年代：2016
“不知这样的结论是否能成立：若把阿尔山视作被观察或被审美的对象，那么，置身其中的艺术家，透过这个“镜像”，首先看到的也许是自己惯用或习惯的那些符号、意象、色调、场景——乃至某种情绪或观念。——站在对境前，发现自己。”
“I don’t know if the following conclusion is correct: If Arxan is regardedas the object of observation or aesthetics, what the artist first sees throughthis “mirror” is probably symbols, images, hues and scenes, as well as a certain emotion or idea, that he usually uses.”
-- 何贝莉（北京大学人类学博士）
He Beili (A doctor of anthropology in PekingUniversity）
绘画作品 | Painting:《石头》手卷 | Rocks, Hand Scroll
纸本水墨 | Chinese Ink on Chinese Art Paper
尺寸 | Size：65cm
创作年代 | Time：2016
绘画作品 | Painting:《树枝》手卷 | Branches, Hand Scroll
纸本水墨 | Chinese Ink on Chinese Art Paper
尺寸 | Size：90cm
创作年代 | Time：2016
“张锰作品中传达的观念也具有很强的永恒性，如时间、生命力、记忆的寓言性，将东方传统经典思想作为转换的基础。如何将朴素的自然观转换为当下现实社会生存经验的认知？艺术家以“彼时说此时，借物喻人”的隐喻方式做到了这一点。张锰作品创作动机源于记忆与个体的生存境遇，他试图在表达个体焦虑与困惑时窥探和介入异化的社会，因此他的作品中没有当下时尚符号却隐藏着对当下的关注，这种“不修之修”的当代性也是东方思想中智慧的结晶。”
“The notion ofeternity in Zhang Meng’s artworks, such as time, vitality, and allergy of memories, enables oriental classical thoughts underlie transformation. How to transform simple naturalism into contemporary recognition of lived experiencein realistic society? The artist metaphorically employ metonymy to “Imply now by then, imply person by object”. Zhang Meng’s motives derive from memories and individual living states. He attempts to convey individual anxieties and confusions, pry and probe into alienated society. Hence gaining an insight intohis artworks there are concerns on present circumstances rather than symbols of fashion. This modernity in the notion of “Practices without practicing” is a crystal of oriental wisdom.
——张海涛 (艺术评论家、策展人)
Zhang Haitao (Art critics, Curator)
关于张锰
张锰, 副教授, 天津美院影像艺术系主任, 硕士研究生导师, 艺术家, 1972 年 5 月生, 1996 年毕业于天津美术学院版画系, 2006 年毕业于天津美术学院油画系, 2004 年至今主持天津美院影像艺术系(原数字媒体艺术系), 分别于 2004 年于 2009 年创立天津美术学院数字媒体艺术专业与移动媒体艺术专业, 天津美术学院学术委员会委员, 常年致力于新媒体艺术的科研与教学, 并于 2009 年创立 “一致工厂媒体实验室”, 致力于新媒体艺术的社会化服务与研究。张锰是一位跨媒介艺术家, 他的作品介质游走于 3D 动画、多屏视频影像、绘画、装置, 其相关作品曾在德国、美国、日本、加拿大、比利时、澳大利亚、韩国等国家重要艺术机构展出, 尝试阐述中国现阶段“时间与空间”的关系, 被文化机构与个人收藏。曾两次受邀参加日本神户国际双年展。
张锰也是一位城市文化设计专家, 曾任四届(2010、2012、2014、2016)中国天津夏季达沃斯经济论坛艺术展示区新媒体艺术视觉总设计, 从城市传统文化与当代美学相结合的观念入手, 强调传统与当代并举, 强调艺术与技术的结合的策略, 凸显低碳、环保、可持续发展的总体设计理念, 为现代城市人文空间提供具有贯通传统文化与人文历史又兼顾新观念的全新理念。
About Zhang Meng
Zhang Meng is an artist, associate professor, Supervisor of Postgraduate, the dean of the Department of Photography and Image Art of Tianjin Academy of Fine Art (TAFA). Born in May,1972. Graduated from the Printmaking Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Artsin 1996, and the Oil Painting Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. As the head of the Video Art Department (former Digital Media Art Department) at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts from 2004 to the present. Founded the Digital Media Art Specialty of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2004, and the Mobile Media Arts Specialty in 2009. A member of the academic committee of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. He has spent many years studying and teaching new media art. In 2009, he established the Identical Factory MediaLab, which is devoted to new media services and research. His creation based on video and painting. Zhang Meng is a multi-media artist, and his work hovers between 3D animation, multi-channel video, painting, and installation. His works have been exhibited at important art institutions in Germany, the United States, Japan, Canada, Belgium, Australia, and South Korea.He attempts to reveal the relationship between space and time at China’scurrent era. Zhang’s work has been collected by cultural institutions and individuals. He has twice been invited to participate in the Kobe Biennale.
Zhang Meng is also an expert in urband esign, and he was responsible for the design of the new media art section atthe Tianjin Summer Davos Economic Forum (2010,2012,2014,2016). Beginning with the combination of urban traditional culture and contemporary aesthetics, heemphasized the synchronicity of the traditional and the contemporary and the admixture of artistic and technological strategies. His designs highlight low-carbon, environmentally-friendly, and sustainable development concepts, injecting new ideas into modern urban and human spaces that integrate traditional culture and human history.
展览
个展
2017 《枝间日月——张锰个人作品展》, 逵园艺术馆, 广州
2016 《起风——张锰个展》, 今日美术馆, 北京
2013 《隐藏——张锰个展》，明尼苏达大学美术馆，明尼苏达，美国
《小隐——张锰个展》, 白夜艺廊, 成都
2011 《隐于树——张锰个展》, 青岛美术馆, 青岛
2007 《家庭 BOX——张锰个展》, 麦杰艺术中心, 北京
群展
2017《港都神户艺术节》Video, 神户, 日本
《教学相长 - 第三届学院实验艺术文献展》Video,中央美院美术馆, 北京
2015《黑度——奥尔弗斯的凝视》图片 &装置, 盈艺术中心, 上海
《回归”山水美术馆开馆展》绘画, 山水美术馆, 北京
《新秩序—— 盈艺术中心开幕邀请展》Video&绘画, 上海盈艺术中心, 上海
《微物志》video&绘画, 巴布艺术中心, 深圳
2014《Ink: Zen orRevolution》Video&绘画, 明尼苏达大学美术馆, 明尼苏达, 美国
2013《2013 神户双年展》Video, 兵库县立美术馆, 神户, 日本
《中国——东盟艺术双年展》Video, 东盟文化广场, 南宁
《曲径通幽——独立动画作品展》Video, 上海 OCT 当代艺术中心, 上海
《边界 ——中美新媒体艺术展》Video, 天津美术学院美术馆, 天津
2012《打开天空》Video, 长江汇美术馆, 重庆
《同分异构——新媒体艺术展》图片, 农展馆, 北京
《游方——当代艺术展》绘画, 长沙悦方 ID Mall, 长沙
《迷景》Video, 奥林匹克体育馆, 北京
2011《破界》上上美术馆, 北京
《阪神沿线——村上春树的心象风景》Video, BB 美术馆, 大阪, 日本
《神户双年展》Video, 神户, 日本
《阪神沿线——村上春树的心象风景》Video, 天津美院美术馆, 天津
《虚实同源——北京新媒体艺术年展》Video, 宋庄美术馆, 北京
2010《n/1混合媒介展》Video, 农业展览馆, 北京
《蒙古海》Video, 第四届重庆映画交流展, 重庆
《蒙古海》(个展)摄影, 2010 平遥国际摄影展, 平遥
《2010 中国宋庄艺术节》新媒体, 上上美术馆, 北京
《水墨方式与空间》绘画, 宋庄水墨空间, 北京
《2010 中国影像档案展》新媒体, 宋庄美术馆, 北京
2009《屋顶上的树》Video, 宋庄美术馆, 北京
《夜雨》(个展)摄影, 2009 平遥国际摄影展, 平遥
2008《失重》Video, 中国南京博物院、美国佛罗里达大学美术馆,南京、佛罗里达, 美国
《非常综合》绘画, 布莱克勒 . 亚历山大艺术空间, 弗莱堡市, 德国
《蒙古山》Video, 2008平遥国际摄影展, 平遥
《篱笆墙外》绘画, 安特卫普, 比利时
2007《固执己见》摄影, 西洋美术馆, 天津《星期日》摄影, 2007平遥国际摄影展, 平遥
2006《城市矛盾》Video, 墨尔本美术馆, 墨尔本
《21世纪的每个星期日》摄影, 2006平遥国际摄影展, 平遥
2005《中国星期日》摄影, 多伦多美术馆, 多伦多, 加拿大
《星期日》摄影, 2005 平遥国际摄影展, 平遥
2004 《我们存在......1》艺术展摄影, 天津鼎天美术馆, 天津
2002《宿墨》当代艺术展绘画, 天津今晚报社艺术中心, 天津
1995《张锰、于向溟联合画展》绘画, 天津
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Mottled Light and Shadow - Zhang Meng Solo Exhibition, Kui Yuan Gallery, Guangzhou
2016 Wind Blows-Zhang Meng solo exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2013 Hide - ZhangMeng Solo Exhibition, Minnesota University Museum, Minnesota, USA
Micro Hide - ZhangMeng Solo Exhibition, Chengdu
2011 Hidden in the Tree - Zhang Meng Solo Exhibition, Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao
2007 Family Box- ZhangMeng SoloExhibition, Maijie Art Center, Beijing;
Group Exhibitions
2017 Port City Kobe Art Festival, Video, kobe, Japan
Reciprocal Enlightenment: The third Academy Experimental Art Documentary Exhibition, Video, CAFA Museum, Beijing
2015 Black Dimension - The Gaze of Orpheus, Photograph & Installation, Ying Art Center, Shanghai
RETURN -Riverside Art Mseum Opening Ceremary, Painting, Riverside Art Mseum, Beijing
New Order - The Ying Art Center Opening Exhibition, Video&Painting, Ying Art Center, Shanghai
Microcosmos, Video&Painting, Babu ArtCenter, Shenzhen
2014 Ink: Zen or Revolution,Video&Painting, Minnesota University Museum, Minnesota, USA
2013 Kobe Biennale 2013, Video, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
The first China - Asean Biennale, Video, The Association of South-east Asian nations Culture Square, Nanning
The Gardenof Forking Paths - Exploring Independent Annimation, Video, OCT Shanghai, ShanghaiBoundary- Chinese AmericanNew Media exhibition, Video, Tianjin Academy of fine Arts Museum, Tianjin
2012 Open Sky, Video, Changjiang Department of Contemporary Museum, Chongqing
Isomer, Video, Screenage Art Phenomenon Exhibition, National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing Travel Far and Wide- Morden Art Exhibiton, ID Mall, Changsha
Secret Scene Super Media Art Exhibition,Video, Olympic Sports Center, Beijing
2011 Break Boundaries, Sunshine International Art Musem, Beijing
Explore Osaka and Kobe - The Artistic Conception of Haruki Murakami, Video, BB Art museum, OSAKA Japan
Kobe Biennale Exhibition, Video, Kobe Art Museum, Japan
Explore Osaka and Kobe -The Artistic Conception of Haruki Murakami, Video, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum,Tianjin
Cognate Falseand Truth - Beijing New Media Art Annual Exhibition, video, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing
n/1 Mixed Media Exhition, Video, National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing
2010 Mongolian Sea, Video, The 4th Chongqing Film and Video Festival, Chongqing
Mongolian Sea, Photograph, 2010 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao
2010 China Songzhuang Art Festival, NewMedia, Sunshine International Art Musem, Beijing
Ways and Space of Ink Painting, Painting, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing
2010 Screenage Art DocumentExhibition, NewMedia, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing
2009 Tree In the Roof, New Media, Songzhuang ArtCenter, Beijing Rainy Night, Photograph, 2009 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao
2008 Weightlessness, Video, Nanjing Museum&The University of Florida Art Museum, Nanjing& Florida Very Comprehensive, Painting, Alexander Art Space, Freiburg, Germany Mongolian Mountain, Video, 2008 Pingyao International Photogragh Festival, Pingyao Outsidethe Fence, Painting, Antwerp, Belgium
2007 Stubborn, Photograph, Western Art Museum,Tianjin
Sunday, Photograph, 2007 Pingyao International Photograph Festival, Pingyao
2006 City Contradiction, Video, Melbourne&Sydney, Australia
Every Sunday in 21st Century, Photography, 2006 Pingyao International Photograph Festival, Pingyao
2005 China Sunday, Photography, MuseumGallery, Canada
Sunday, Photography, 2005 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao
2004 We Exist 1, Photography, Tianjin Dingtian Art Museum, Tianjin
2002 Old Ink Exhibition, Painting, Tianjin Jinwan Newspaper Art Center, Tianjin
1995 Zhangmeng & Yu Xiangming Joint Exhibition, Painting, Tianjin
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