【看】年度巨献！分不清“谁是谁”艺术群展 | Behold Exhibition: THE WHO of 2020
我们是“谁”？我们“无名”啊！
瞧！太阳从西边升起来了~
我们是“无名”艺术家
我们不小心迷路了
我们不记得自己了
帮我们找找，谁是谁？
这个展览将【看】
我们会是谁？
我们做什么？
我们去哪里？
我们开不开心？
- Exhibition Foreword 展览前言-
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THE WHO, a series of intercultural creators being featured in HeathersChamber, was inspired by A Vision of Me. No matter how negligible a character or a piece of work is, there's some beauty in the eye of the beholder. And the beauty is what it is, as you are being you. Whichever way you like to see, you get what you want to behold.
With rapid modernization, technologization, cultural globalization and the popularization of art, it naturally becomes a trend that something traditional is pushing to a cliff and the traditional creators feel a thread on edge. When Marcel Duchamp's 1917 Readymades 'Fountain' hit the world as an icon of the twentieth-century art, the majority of hard-working artists with long hours or even long years spent on their work, must have felt a punch in the face or a revolution that "how come art could be produced from already existing urinal like a breeze". Especially last December after Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped banana work went viral with a whopping sale price of $120,000 in Miami US and another artist David Datuna ate that real-life banana as 'performance art', the expression of art is oddly muddled. "What kind of art on earth can be satisfying to the living generations?"
Such satisfaction lays upon our awareness, our self-discovery and our acceptance, if "art forms a priceless living bridge between the everyday psychology of our minds and the universal spirit of humanity'". As Karl Marx noted over a century ago in the preface to Das Kapital: "The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future." The unimaginably "advanced" art might blow someone's mind, but not shake the root of traditional art. It is to this remark that BEHOLD EXHIBITION will take place in a grey area where we can look forward, backward, upward, downward, outward, inward, homeward and beyond. Whatever direction we look, we stay firm at where we are, reflect on who we are, and keep doing what we are doing.
“谁”系列，由阿太的密室推出不同跨文化的创作者，灵感来自《我心一目》：如上图，一种不知名的植物，生长在你看不见的破地方，全身被野蜘蛛网包围，像心悬着跳动，像肺挂着呼吸，生命一无是处，却独特、完整、自然。无论一个角色或一件作品多么微不足道，总有一双发现的眼睛。美就是美，正如你就是你。无论你喜欢从什么角度看，总会看到你想看到的。
随着急速的现代化、技术化、文化全球化和艺术大众化，吐故纳新自然而然成为一种趋势。有些传统的东西被推向边缘，有些传统的创作者深感危机。当马塞尔·杜尚1917年的“现成品”《泉》作为二十世纪艺术的象征登上世界巅峰时，大多数艺术家们花了很多个小时甚至很多个年头辛勤劳苦只为打造那副相对满意的作品，他们一定感受到了某种冲击或革命，“为什么艺术可以不费吹灰之力从现有的小便池中诞生”。特别是去年12月，在意大利艺术家Maurizio Cattelan的一根粘在墙上的香蕉在美国迈阿密以惊人的售价12万美金火了和另一位艺术家David Datuna把这根香蕉吃了声称“行为艺术”之后，艺术的表达形式于是乎变得浑浊不堪。“究竟什么样的艺术能真正满足我们活着的不同年代人的内心追求？”
这种满足感取决于我们对当下的意识、自我发现和接受程度，如果“艺术在我们思维的日常心理和人性的普遍精神之间形成一座无价桥梁的话”。上世纪，卡尔·马克思在《资本论》的序言中指出：“工业上更发达的国家只向欠发达的国家展示其自身未来的样子。” 难以想象的“先进或高级”艺术可能会让某些人不可思议，但不会动摇传统艺术的根。正是如此，本展览【看】将发生在一个灰色地带，这里我们可以向前看，向后看，向上看，向下看，向外看，内向看，向家看，向茫茫宇宙看。无论我们朝什么方向看，我们都坚定自己的立场，反思自己是谁，继续做我们正在做的事情。
- Behold Exhibition 展览【看】-
HeathersChamber is honored to collaborate with No.name Studio for our new group exhibition BEHOLD, featuring works by THE WHO artists of 2020: No.name1, No.name2, No.name3, No.name4, No.name5, No.name6, No.name7, No.name8, No.name9, No.name10, No.name11, No.name12, No.name13, No.name14, No.name15, No.name16, and plus one mysterious No.name17. The exhibition will open on December 27th, 2020.
BEHOLD is an exhibition to explore humans and humanity, to stimulate real dialogue about the larger questions of life, to challenge the boundaries of who we are, what we do and where we are going. The philosophy of confronting these doubts has provided benefits to our societies for centuries. This time, let's behold something through these angles: traditional Chinese culture, modern industralization, social disparity between the individual and the community, the impact and process of human thinking, interpersonal relationships, and our relationship to the world, our cultural consciousness, our simplicity, our inner conflicts, our emotions, our subconscious, our authenticity, our discovery, and self.
Heather has been looking for a proper space for this exhibition since March, and this is one of the many good reasons why THE WHO chose No.name Studio: “In Chinese contemporary art history, No Name Group was known as the first underground art group during the Cultural Revolution, which can be traced back to 1959 when Zhao Wenliang and Yang Yushu met each other at the Xihua Fine Arts Institute. It was emerged in 1979 and also had one of the longest lifespans of any collective, persisting for nearly half a centrury.”
阿太的密室携手无名工作室，共同举办一个年度群展览【看】，推出2020“谁”系列艺术家：无名1、无名2、无名3、无名4、无名5、无名6、无名7、无名8、无名9、无名10、无名11、无名12、无名13、无名14、无名15、无名16，外加一位神秘画师无名17。展览将于2020年12月27日开幕。
【看】是一个探索人类和人性的展览，以激发生活更大问题的真正对话，挑战我们是谁、我们做什么、我们要去哪的界限。几个世纪以来，消除这些疑虑的相关哲学为我们的社会提供了不少好处。这一次，让我们睁大眼睛好好看看，观察观察这些方方面面：中国传统文化、现代工业化、个人与群体之间的社会差距、人类思维的影响和过程、人际关系以及我们与世界的关系、我们的文化意识、我们的淳朴无邪、我们的内在冲突、我们的真挚情感、我们的潜意识、我们的真实性、我们的发现和自我。
阿太从3月份开始就一直在为本次展览找合适的空间，而这正是为什么“谁”最后选择“无名工作室”的诸多原因之一：在中国当代艺术史上，“无名画会”被称为文化大革命期间的第一个地下秘密艺术团体，可以追溯到1959年赵文量和杨雨澍在西华美术学院相遇。“无名画会”于1979年摆脱黑暗终见天日，也是活跃了时间最长的任何团体之一，持续了近半个世纪。
Exhibition Details | 展览详情
December 27th, 2020 | Sunday
2pm Opening Game, 3pm Some Artists Talk
6-1 Lane146, Dongshi Street, Zhujiajiao
上海市青浦区朱家角镇东市街146弄6-1
Hosts: HeathersChamber, No.name Studio
主办方：阿太的密室、无名工作室
Curators: Carlo Rossi, Penny Kwan, Heather Cai
策展人：罗旭(意大利）、关敏佳、蔡太莲
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2020年的”谁“系列在阿太的密室每月亮出顶多三位跨文化的创作者。
THE WHO of 2021 will continue to feature intercultural creators seasonally in HeathersChamber.
2021年的"谁“系列将继续由阿太的密室季节性地推出不同跨文化的创作者.
WHO can be artist, painter, writer, poet, editor, publisher, philosopher, photographer, designer, architect, scientist, filmmaker, musician, art collector, art dealer, antique dealer, founder of an art platform, a distinctive "qi pa", a grassroot off mainstreams, a daring storyteller, a soul catcher, or a street performer with a voice rumbling like the sea of storms.
"谁”可以是艺术家、画家、作家、诗人、编辑、出版商、哲学家、摄影师、设计师、建筑师、科学家、电影人、音乐家、收藏家、艺术品交易商、古董商、艺术平台创始人、有独特艺术见解的“奇葩”人物、非主流创意“草根”、勇敢无畏的说书人、心灵捕手、或激昂澎湃的街头艺人。
Founded by the two artists Carlo Maria Rossi and Penny Kwan, No.name Studio is a complex of a studio, residence, and gallery for member artists and collectors located in the ancient town Zhujiajiao, Shanghai. Like a magnet, No.name attracts art professionals and institutions from all over the world, striving to spur creative energy and enlighten conversations.
由艺术家Carlo Maria Rossi与关敏佳创立，位于上海朱家角古镇的No.name Studio是一个为艺术家与藏家提供集工作室，居所，和画廊为一体的空间。No.name吸引着世界各地的艺术人士与机构，致力于激发创作性能量与启发性对话。
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