展览 Exhibition | 茹特·莫尔克 : 单手接龙 Rute Merk: Solitaire

茹特·莫尔克

单手接龙

Rute Merk

Solitaire

展览时间：2020年6月13日至2020年7月25日

开幕时间：2020年6月13日，星期六，下午6至8时

Duration:  June 13–July 25, 2020

Opening:  Saturday, June 2, 6–8 PM

罗基特小夜曲II，2020

布面油画

170 x 140 公分 (66 7/8 x 55 1/8 英寸)

Nocturne Rokit II, 2020

Oil on canvas

170 x 140 cm (66 7/8 x 55 1/8 in)

关于展览

About the Exhibition

“与其描绘眼前的人或物，我通常开始于检视早已循环反复的电子图像，其如何在摆荡、流动、回送中自曝其身，在信息、时尚、科技和社会中自我调停。”

——茹特·莫尔克

Gallery Vacancy很荣幸地宣布于2020年6月13日至7月25日呈现茹特·莫尔克（Rute Merk）在上海的首次个展“单手接龙”，展出艺术家近期的油画作品。本次展览力图追寻世界受数位媒介干涉后的碎片化现实。因科技的介入所产生的主观体验、私密空间和亲密关系在以一种数码的形式加速融合，数码图像成为当下社会的写照和载体。展览——“单手接龙（Solitaire）”——不仅象征着其自处状态的本意，也源自邪典式的单人扑克牌电脑游戏。最初由微软公司发布于1990年，其目的在于引导 Windows PC 的使用者习惯于鼠标的漫游、平抚他们面对陌生操作系统而产生的不适、使他们熟悉工作台视觉化的单手操作。

当今由荧幕所框架出的自处状态（solitariness）将个人的私密性在自娱自乐式的内在体验中被重新划分，重新定义固有认知对于界面交互操作的理解、工作与娱乐的界限。屏幕将个体过度曝光于社交状态之下，同时脱节于社会现实；呈现了在高度联系中同步自我隔离的普遍现象。茹特·莫尔克笔下的角色反映了这种难以言说的不确定性，确立了一种漠然确凿的被动状态——心远而地自偏地神游亦或超然而独处的当下。

莫尔克依循着宽泛游移的策略赋予她笔下主角人格与称呼——阿利娅、优曼特、朱丽叶、基里、伊萨、奶油马（Cremello）、蝴蝶兰（Blue Mystique）。她巧妙地暗示着，即便在画布的二维平面上，颜料的构筑仍然为现实碎片化的存在提供了可能性。在莫尔克柔软且极富情绪感染力的笔触刻画下，她所塑造的人物仿佛电脑生成的角色，无法轻易地从面部表情和肢体语言中解读出清晰的人物性格，却又在轻薄且细腻的颜料下暗藏着错综复杂的身份设定。

在《阿利娅》（2020）中，未曾谋面却似曾相识的人物在戴森空气净化风扇的一侧，凭栏在抽象虚无的背景中，决绝却又颟顸的边际线，勾勒出犹如拷贝粘贴嵌入式般的形象。周围堆叠的油彩仿佛无尽编辑修改的数码信号，身体在叙事功能中退位，失重失能般地在无垠的电子世界当中重新登场。在《罗基特小夜曲 II》（2020）中，莫尔克将两种功能上并无关联的主体——一株茂盛的有机植物和一个KRK罗基特五代音响——相结合于夜幕一般的背景前，其意味着速度、光影之下的错觉以及计算机生产的数码意象。在艺术家创造的虚拟空间中，不同的物体并列存在，在某种程度上，相遇在貌和而神离的状态下，图像的躯壳犹如人造之身，由数码形式的幻体进行谋和与交媾。

优曼特，2020

布面油画

118 x 87 公分 (46 1/2 x 31 1/4 英寸)

Jomanté, 2020

Oil on canvas

118 x 87 cm (46 1/2 x 31 1/4 in)

“Instead of painting somebody or something standing in front of me, I usually start with looking into already circulating digital images, this transport, currency and reflection of mediations we are constantly exposing ourselves to: information, fashion, technology, society.” 

— Rute Merk

Gallery Vacancy is delighted to present Solitaire, Rute Merk’s first solo exhibition in Shanghai from June 13 to July 25, 2020. Consisting of the artist’s most recent paintings, this exhibition aims to trace fragmented reality in the over-mediated world. Digital image is now perceived as reflection and currency of our sociality in which technologically intervened experiences of subjectivity, privacy and intimacy are accelerated and integrated digitally. Implying not only loneliness, reclusiveness and privateness, the title of the show borrows from the popular single-player card-clearing computer game. Originally released by Microsoft in 1990, the game was designed to teach its PC users mouse fluency, navigation of desktop environments and to soothe office workers’ intimidation towards the unfamiliar computer operating system.

Solitariness, now pervasively screen-mediated, dwells in a space of entertaining self-employment and inner experiences of residual privacy, changing beyond recognition both: interfaces as well as boundaries between work and leisure. It is now a common experience of being simultaneously hyper-connected and isolated, socially-overexposed and screen-alienated. This perplexing unclarity reflects a certain passivity in many of Rute Merk’s painted characters -  a state of automated distraction or a moment of sublime solitude. 

Deploying her characteristic discursive strategy to give singular names to many of her works - Ariya, Jomanté, Juliet, Gilly, Yssa, Cremello, Blue Mystique - Merk subtly indicates that while being two dimensional surfaces of oils on canvases her paintings nevertheless let appear fragments of real existences. Using soft, romantic brushwork, Merk stages her characters as if they are computer generated figures, with the lack of fluid individuality in their facial expressions and gestures, and their complex and interwoven identities hidden behind a thin but exquisite layer of oil pigment.

In Ariya (2020), the anonymous yet familiar character floats on a bed of abstracted background where the sharp and bulky outline around the figure indicates a copy-and-paste embedded existence next to a Dyson purifying fan. The body becomes weightless, with its surroundings erased by endless modification, repeatedly patinated from layers of glitched persona that generates a legitimate malfunction state only in our perception of the digital world. In Nocturne Rokit II (2020), Merk introduces two seemingly unrelated subject matters, a lavishly organic plant and a KRK Rokit 5 studio monitor, onto a nighttime-like backdrop that implies speed, delusion of light, and computer generated digital imagery. In the virtual space that she creates, setting up unexpected juxtapositions of various objects, in a way, equals meeting their digital avatars, “souls” living in various image mediums as if they were artificial bodies.

弗里赛，2020

布面油画

185 x 140 公分 (72 7/8 x 55 1/8 英寸)

Fresian, 2020

Oil on canvas

185 x 140 cm (72 7/8 x 55 1/8 in)

关于艺术家

About the Artist

茹特·莫尔克 1991年出生于立陶宛，现生活工作于柏林，德国。Merk在2013年于维尔纽斯艺术学院获得了绘画学士学位，目前就读于Akademie der Bildenden Künste，慕尼黑，德国。个展包括：“SS20”，Downs & Ross，纽约，2020；“Sprites”，Downs & Ross，纽约，2019；“Virtualacra”，VENT Gallery，维也纳，2018；“Spirits Within”，Editorial，Vilnius，2018。过往群展包括Margburger Kunstverein，Marburg；Kunstverein München，慕尼黑；RUPERT，维尔纽斯；以及当代艺术中心(CAC)，维尔纽斯。Merk的作品于北京木木美术馆，南京四方当代美术馆，及北京X Museum收藏。

Rute Merk was born in Lithuania in 1991 and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Merk received her BA in Painting from Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2013, and is acquiring her painting diploma at Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Solo exhibitions include: SS20 at Downs & Ross, New York, 2020 (forthcoming); Sprites at Downs & Ross, New York, 2019; Virtualacra at VENT Gallery, Vienna, 2018; and Spirits Within at Editorial, Vilnius, 2018. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg; Kunstverein München, Munich; RUPERT, Vilnius; and Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius. Works by the artist is found in the collection of M Woods, Beijing, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing and X Museum, Beijing.

茱丽叶和基里，2020

布面油画

185 x 140 公分 (72 7/8 x 55 1/8 英寸) 每张

Juliet and Gilly, 2020

Oil on canvas

185 x 140 cm (72 7/8 x 55 1/8 in) each

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