Rumors - Contemporary Art Exhibition
Opening: Sep 6, 2008 (Saturday) at 15:30
造谣 -- 当代艺术展
开幕时间：2008年09月06日 (星期六) 15:30
造谣 -- 当代艺术展
展览是带着最初的疑问开始的，即艺术家，策划人、批评家，各自对艺术的基本理解是怎样的？艺术的前提，是作品的基础。这个理解决定了艺术家作品的基本面貌，是作品潜在的结构支撑，即什么样的理解，就会产生什么样的艺术，不管你是否在这个过程中是自觉的。在我们目前，艺术似乎空前的繁荣，但它并没有呈现一个积累性的学术增涨。众多的作品，虽然采用了不同的媒介，使用了不同的材料，呈现了不同的形象，但大都在共用某一个关于艺术的前提。因此在作品的讨论中，真正有效的讨论，是艺术家对于在整体的生活世界的背景中，我们如何理解自己正在或者想要从事的艺术，而且在这个基础上，是如何转换成自己的作品的。
“造谣”作为展览的题目，在这里是试图回应在艺术中碰到的两个问题：一是作为形式主义的艺术；一是充分介入社会之后，艺术家产生的身份危机。第一个是强调艺术的自律性，艺术要凸显、区别于其他行业的、自身的意义，这里往往被处理成对形式语言的强调；另外一个是在艺术不断拓宽其涵义的逻辑下，试图将社会科学纳入艺术的本体，来解决艺术与现实的隔离。但这里我试图找到另外一种回应——即艺术是一种谣言，而艺术家是谣言的制造者。在艺术家的观念中，谣言与现实是异质同构的另一个世界，它有着现实世界的逻辑，试图让人相信，但似乎未经证实，不是现实本身。在某种情况下，它也可能是现实的隐喻。这里是试图解决艺术与现实的矛盾，艺术是对现实自身独特的解读，而这个解读不仅是针对现实的，而且是结构性的、完整的，具有自身的逻辑，就如同谣言，不是真的，但有板有眼。艺术家工作的意义与现实，在这里是互为的关系，消除了我们常常面临的紧张感。但这些解释，只是在访谈的过程中以及与参展艺术家的讨论得到的启发，仍然是个需要持续关注的命题。
开幕时间：2008年09月06日 15:30
开放时间：2008年09月07日- 09月21 日 11:00-18:30 (星期一休息)
展览地点：上海市闸北区灵石路709号40栋2楼（近万荣路）
艺 术 家：
1. 现场部分：
杜立志、李消非、梁建华、满 宇、腾挪小组、王思顺、徐 喆、许志强、喻旭东、张嘉平
2. 访谈部分：
陈 侗、金 锋、金江波、舒 阳、吴 味、徐 坦、朱路明
策 展 人：满 宇
主办单位：非艺术中心
特别感谢：博尔赫斯书店当代艺术机构 上海创星数码
Rumors - Contemporary Art Exhibition
This exhibition began with the old question: artists, curators, critics, how do each of them fundamentally understand art? The precondition of art is the foundation of artworks. This understanding determines the basic features of an artist’s works; it is the latent support for the composition of the work. This means that, if you have a certain type of understanding, you will produce a certain type of art, whether or not you are conscious of this process. In the recent past it has seemed as if art was going through an unprecedented period of flourishing, but this certainly did not lead to any accumulative increase in learning. The majority of works, although they might adopt different media, use different materials, or be presented in an original form, they still began with commonly held assumptions about art. Therefore, in the dialogue that takes place within a piece, when it is really effective, it is the artist’s take on his own life and background. How are we to understand and question the art that we are undertaking or wish to undertake? And on this set foundation, how are we to really make the work our own?
‘Rumour’ is the title of the exhibition. Here we are trying to respond to two questions that we often come across in art: one is the growing separation of formalist art from society; the other is the crisis that many artists face when their works are accepted by society. The first emphasizes the self-disciplined nature of art. Art wishes to clearly reveal its differences with other industries, its individual nature, and this tendency often turns into an emphasis on a language of form. The other is that in the current logic of a constant expansion of the meaning of art, there are attempts to involve or include social sciences in art in order to solve the question of art’s current segregation from real life. But through this exhibition I have attempted another response – art is a kind of rumour, and artists spread the rumour. In the concept of art, rumour creates an artificial reality which has real world logic, in order to make people believe, but at the same time it seems to lack confirmation, it is not reality itself. In certain types of situation, perhaps rumour can act as a metaphor for reality. Here we are attempting to solve the contradictions between art and reality, art is an analysis of the special features of reality itself. Furthermore this analysis is not only aimed at reality, it has its own structured nature, it is complete, it has its own logic. And so it is like rumour, it is not real, but it has its own order. There is a complimentary relationship between the significance of the work of artists and reality, which eliminates the nervous feeling we often face. But these explanations are only the inspirations from discussions, interviews and attending exhibitions, they are certainly not meant as solutions. What is my art? This is still the question that an artist must spend a lifetime considering.
Opening: Sep 6, 2008 (Saturday) at 15:30
Exhibition Date: Sep 7, 2008 – Sep 21, 2008 11:00-18:30 (Monday closed)
Venue: 709 Lingshi Road, Building No. 40-2F. Shanghai. China
Artists:
1. Artworks:
Du lizhi Li Xiaofei Liang Jianhua Man yu TengNuo Group Wang Sishun Xu zhe Xu Zhiqiang Yu Xudong Zhang Jiaping
2. Interviews:
Chen tong Jin feng Jin Jiangbo Shu yang Wu wei Xu tan Zhu Luming
Curator: Man Yu
Organizer: Fei Contemporary Art Center
Specialties thanks: Libreria Borges Institute for Contemporary Art
Sahnghai Creativestar Star
非艺术中心
FEI CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER (FCAC)
地址: 上海市闸北区灵石路709号40栋2楼（近万荣路）邮编: 200072
Add: 709 Lingshi Road, Building No. 40-2F. Shanghai. China. (Near Wanrong Road) 200072
Tel / Fax: ＋86 21 6630 7268
E-mail: info@feiartcenter.com
http://www.feiartcenter.com
Opening: Sep 6, 2008 (Saturday) at 15:30
造谣 -- 当代艺术展
开幕时间：2008年09月06日 (星期六) 15:30
造谣 -- 当代艺术展
展览是带着最初的疑问开始的，即艺术家，策划人、批评家，各自对艺术的基本理解是怎样的？艺术的前提，是作品的基础。这个理解决定了艺术家作品的基本面貌，是作品潜在的结构支撑，即什么样的理解，就会产生什么样的艺术，不管你是否在这个过程中是自觉的。在我们目前，艺术似乎空前的繁荣，但它并没有呈现一个积累性的学术增涨。众多的作品，虽然采用了不同的媒介，使用了不同的材料，呈现了不同的形象，但大都在共用某一个关于艺术的前提。因此在作品的讨论中，真正有效的讨论，是艺术家对于在整体的生活世界的背景中，我们如何理解自己正在或者想要从事的艺术，而且在这个基础上，是如何转换成自己的作品的。
“造谣”作为展览的题目，在这里是试图回应在艺术中碰到的两个问题：一是作为形式主义的艺术；一是充分介入社会之后，艺术家产生的身份危机。第一个是强调艺术的自律性，艺术要凸显、区别于其他行业的、自身的意义，这里往往被处理成对形式语言的强调；另外一个是在艺术不断拓宽其涵义的逻辑下，试图将社会科学纳入艺术的本体，来解决艺术与现实的隔离。但这里我试图找到另外一种回应——即艺术是一种谣言，而艺术家是谣言的制造者。在艺术家的观念中，谣言与现实是异质同构的另一个世界，它有着现实世界的逻辑，试图让人相信，但似乎未经证实，不是现实本身。在某种情况下，它也可能是现实的隐喻。这里是试图解决艺术与现实的矛盾，艺术是对现实自身独特的解读，而这个解读不仅是针对现实的，而且是结构性的、完整的，具有自身的逻辑，就如同谣言，不是真的，但有板有眼。艺术家工作的意义与现实，在这里是互为的关系，消除了我们常常面临的紧张感。但这些解释，只是在访谈的过程中以及与参展艺术家的讨论得到的启发，仍然是个需要持续关注的命题。
开幕时间：2008年09月06日 15:30
开放时间：2008年09月07日- 09月21 日 11:00-18:30 (星期一休息)
展览地点：上海市闸北区灵石路709号40栋2楼（近万荣路）
艺 术 家：
1. 现场部分：
杜立志、李消非、梁建华、满 宇、腾挪小组、王思顺、徐 喆、许志强、喻旭东、张嘉平
2. 访谈部分：
陈 侗、金 锋、金江波、舒 阳、吴 味、徐 坦、朱路明
策 展 人：满 宇
主办单位：非艺术中心
特别感谢：博尔赫斯书店当代艺术机构 上海创星数码
Rumors - Contemporary Art Exhibition
This exhibition began with the old question: artists, curators, critics, how do each of them fundamentally understand art? The precondition of art is the foundation of artworks. This understanding determines the basic features of an artist’s works; it is the latent support for the composition of the work. This means that, if you have a certain type of understanding, you will produce a certain type of art, whether or not you are conscious of this process. In the recent past it has seemed as if art was going through an unprecedented period of flourishing, but this certainly did not lead to any accumulative increase in learning. The majority of works, although they might adopt different media, use different materials, or be presented in an original form, they still began with commonly held assumptions about art. Therefore, in the dialogue that takes place within a piece, when it is really effective, it is the artist’s take on his own life and background. How are we to understand and question the art that we are undertaking or wish to undertake? And on this set foundation, how are we to really make the work our own?
‘Rumour’ is the title of the exhibition. Here we are trying to respond to two questions that we often come across in art: one is the growing separation of formalist art from society; the other is the crisis that many artists face when their works are accepted by society. The first emphasizes the self-disciplined nature of art. Art wishes to clearly reveal its differences with other industries, its individual nature, and this tendency often turns into an emphasis on a language of form. The other is that in the current logic of a constant expansion of the meaning of art, there are attempts to involve or include social sciences in art in order to solve the question of art’s current segregation from real life. But through this exhibition I have attempted another response – art is a kind of rumour, and artists spread the rumour. In the concept of art, rumour creates an artificial reality which has real world logic, in order to make people believe, but at the same time it seems to lack confirmation, it is not reality itself. In certain types of situation, perhaps rumour can act as a metaphor for reality. Here we are attempting to solve the contradictions between art and reality, art is an analysis of the special features of reality itself. Furthermore this analysis is not only aimed at reality, it has its own structured nature, it is complete, it has its own logic. And so it is like rumour, it is not real, but it has its own order. There is a complimentary relationship between the significance of the work of artists and reality, which eliminates the nervous feeling we often face. But these explanations are only the inspirations from discussions, interviews and attending exhibitions, they are certainly not meant as solutions. What is my art? This is still the question that an artist must spend a lifetime considering.
Opening: Sep 6, 2008 (Saturday) at 15:30
Exhibition Date: Sep 7, 2008 – Sep 21, 2008 11:00-18:30 (Monday closed)
Venue: 709 Lingshi Road, Building No. 40-2F. Shanghai. China
Artists:
1. Artworks:
Du lizhi Li Xiaofei Liang Jianhua Man yu TengNuo Group Wang Sishun Xu zhe Xu Zhiqiang Yu Xudong Zhang Jiaping
2. Interviews:
Chen tong Jin feng Jin Jiangbo Shu yang Wu wei Xu tan Zhu Luming
Curator: Man Yu
Organizer: Fei Contemporary Art Center
Specialties thanks: Libreria Borges Institute for Contemporary Art
Sahnghai Creativestar Star
非艺术中心
FEI CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER (FCAC)
地址: 上海市闸北区灵石路709号40栋2楼（近万荣路）邮编: 200072
Add: 709 Lingshi Road, Building No. 40-2F. Shanghai. China. (Near Wanrong Road) 200072
Tel / Fax: ＋86 21 6630 7268
E-mail: info@feiartcenter.com
http://www.feiartcenter.com
