ShanghART Gallery Syndication

100 Years in 1 Minute－－Hu Jieming solo exhibition

H-Space，bldg.18, Nr. 50 Moganshan road, Shanghai

Oct. 22nd－Nov. 30th

Opening: Oct. 22^nd(Friday) 18-20pm

Curator: Li Zhenhua

In this realm, time becomes space. – Richard Wagner, Pasifal

Man collects art, while art collects history. It’s the cultural game for thousands years. Now Hu Jieming will bring you into a special dimension consisting of fine art, where the time and space will be deconstructed.

This October, ShanghART Gallery will launch the new project of Hu Jieming, known as 100 Years in 1 Minute. This huge installation consists of 1100 1-minute-videos, which are stored and displayed in thousands of storage bags, and each piece is a deconstruction of some master piece of modern times. When audience stands before this crazy, noisy and joking animation world, they will face a unprecedent impact.

Hu Jieming compressed 100 years into 1100 artworks – as the metonym of human civilization and history in this period. Therefore, deconstruct art is to deconstruct the world we know. But these kind of devastating deconstructions do not lead to historical criticism. In artist’s opinion, they are just experiments: “like we degrade some common thing into some unknown objects in laboratory, we try to test the possibilities and consequences of combining visual culture memories of 100 years in 1 minute randomly.”

When an artwork is surrounded by time and space, or history and system, its original status will be changed slowly. Artworks are not invariable, on the contrary, they will get distorted, changeful and older. The only unchanging thing is that everything will change. Sometime the more we destroy artworks, the further we abandon violence, and we’ll find the essential of art closer.

ShanghART Gallery invites you to participate in this exhibition, then you can walk into its time-space wormhole from 1 minute to 100 years.

The exhibition will open on Oct.22, and last a month.

2010-08-29 11:41

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Useful Life2010 -- MadeIn, Yang Fudong, Yang Zhenzhong

Opening
Sept. 10th, 2010, Friday (5pm-8pm)
Duration:
Sept. 11th, 2010 - Nov. 5th, 2010
ShanghART H-Space, 50 Moganshan Rd. Bldg.18

H-Space, bldg 18, 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai

How long is the validity of an exhibition, 10 years or longer? 10 years ago, it was in the millennial 2000 that Chinese contemporary art reached its new start. In that autumn, three budding young artists, Yang Fudong, Yang Zhenzhong and Xu Zhen, launched their group exhibition in Shanghai, known as Useful Life 2000. The remarkable success of this exhibition brings them to the spotlight of the Chinese contemporary art, even the world stage.

Today, decade after the exhibition, they will “revalidate” it again, which is Useful Life 2010. In these years, three novas have evolved to the elite of Chinese contemporary art. Meanwhile, the contemporary art faces a different context in china from the former era. Now these three artists decide to make an extension of the useful life, and brand new works will be shown. All these works will indicate the maturity, the introspection and the track of their art, especially their firm attitude. ShanghART is looking forward to meet you in this autumn and see the beginning of the new useful life.

2010-07-25 18:12

孙逊获台湾当代艺术连线新潮赏奖

主办机构：艺博会组委会
地点：台北市敦化北路100号台北王朝大酒店


    第一届台北国际当代艺术博览会〈YOUNG ART TAIPEI〉为亚洲区第一个着眼於45岁
以下年轻艺术家的当代艺术博览会，以建立亚洲当代艺术相互交流平台为成立宗旨。在
国外行之有年的「饭店型博览会」形式，更将在台湾当代艺术连线的引介下首次出现在
国人面前。
    藉由鼓励年轻艺术家的参与，＜台北当代艺术博览会 Young Art Taipei＞强调了
艺术不被时空所限制的特质，让文化交流激荡出更多的创作火花。同时，文化交流不仅
只属于创作者，还扩大到藏家、学者、或策展人。饭店型博览会，以一种小型的、机动
性质的形式，期望能促进跨领域、跨地域的资源流动 – 不论是有形的资源或是无形的
资源 – 让社会对「当代艺术」的想像有了更多的可能性。
    ＜台北当代艺术博览会Young Art Taipei＞对外期待成为介绍台湾当代艺术发展的
窗口，对内则希望能让台湾藏家或参观民众接触到海外年轻艺术家的创作活力。在这样
的动机下，关注的焦点不再只是屡创天价的拍卖金额，或是年年创佳绩的博览会交易量
；台湾当代连线更期盼能藉由此强调「年轻．活力．易於亲近」的饭店型博览会，将焦
点重新回归到艺术本身，建立更健全的艺术市场环境。

2010-05-31 14:03

Elementary Spectacle: a collaborative exhibition of Shi Qing & Shao Yi

Opening 10 July 2010, Saturday Duration: 11 July ~ 20 August, 2010 ShanghART H-Space 50 Moganshan Rd. Bldg.18 One is an artist with a scientific researcher nature, one is the initiator of “The Small Production”: Elementary Spectacle, an exhibition by Shi Qing and Shao Yi, presents different artificial landscapes, or more precisely, defines ecosystems specific to each of the two artists. Shi Qing’s “Geographic system” is composed of polyurethane foam, gypsum, flour, bricks, corrugated cardboards and other low-cost daily materials, that are ephemeral, fragile, ancillary and modifiable. “Geographic system” isn’t a mere reproduction inspired from real Nature, but a rejection of a landscape by the artist’s visual political system. These last two years Shi Qing made use of the creating strategy “retreat in order to advance”, meditating on an abstract system through landscapes’ configuration and occurrence, stability and evolution. This system is issued from the imitation of nature, where various materials are flowing, being covered, hollowed, corroded and fermented reflecting the in and out dynamic relation of the system. Shao Yi’s works are composed of traditional auspicious patterns, modern industrial molds, folk. From two and three-dimensional works to installations, Shao Yi builds a unique system of faith-related symbols. He turns auspicious patterns such as Ru yi, Yuan bao, Pi xiu and bats into abstract creatures or decorative landscape paintings, while modern industrial wood molds are reassembled into curious and extravagant totemic sculptures. Daily ready-mades or amulets are displayed on one side of wooden billboards and large scale aluminum badges on the other, expanding common materials’ numerous evocative possibilities. 2010-05-25 14:22

Araki’s World - Solo Exhibition of Nobuyoshi Araki

Opening: 24 April 2010 Saturday at 4pm

Venue: ShanghART Beijing, No. 261 Caochangdi

Date: April 25 – June 13, 2010

ShanghART Beijing is pleased to present Araki’s World by Nobuyoshi Araki during Caochangdi Photospring 2010. This is the most comprehensive exhibition of works by Araki in China, with hundreds of the most beautiful photographs shot from 1972 to 2008 on exhibit.

Nobuyoshi Araki, a world-renowned photographer is best known for his intimate snapshots of the erotic, lust, desire, life and death in a reality we live. His unique approach and conceptual ideology is like a voyeur veiled behind his lens that audaciously brings people’s naked desires from their subconscious to the fore, while offering an unprecedented visual impact.

The works on exhibit are mainly selected from four series of Araki’s photographs, namely, Diary, Tokyo Cityscapes, Flowers and A’s Paradise. Entering into the “rush” of these hundreds of photographs, viewers might experience a momentary impression of being devoured by them. Being amongst these images, it is easy to enter the “expressive world” of the “ingenious Araki”. The monochromatic series Diary attains a simplicity that is nearly literal, yet through the chaos and eroticism portrayed, a slight tinge of dreariness is often noticed. An external openness is perhaps only a surface to conceal the artist’s deeply embedded inner world, when in fact the most genuine life experience and sensations are conveyed. In Araki’s Tokyo Cityscapes series, the focal point of the photographer’s lens is spread out to every corner of the city, capturing people and objects closest to his quotidian. Darkness was hidden under the light, revealing the unfamiliar shadows of the metropolis, or perhaps, they are the portrayals of a city’s degenerated beauty? Whereas, behind the vibrant color images in Flowers and A’s Paradise, lurks a mysterious metaphor, enticing the viewer to discover a matching desire in one’s own mind – a sensation that is both enigmatic, yet is seemingly real. Due to Araki’s perseverance of only expressing that of his interests, allowed his works to offer a realistic impact.

Some claims Araki’s photographs as emotional experiments, revealing his personal life to the public while inclined to configure his inner voice. While these images allow an entrance to his privacy, perhaps through viewing, as it is for Araki, “a certain feeling of passing through the quotidian would also be felt.”

This exhibition was supported and cooperated with Yoshiko Issahiki, who has been working with Araki for over 10 years and has been closely involved in all exhibitions of Araki’s work in Europe and abroad.

Nobuyoshi Araki, born in 1940, Tokyo, has graduated in 1963 from Chiba’s National University with majors in photography and film studies, who later worked as a photographer in advertising in Japan’s famous Dentsu Advertisement Agency. In 1964, he received the first Sun Prize - an acclaimed award in the Japanese world of photography, and in 1999, Araki became the chair of jurors for the Sun Prize. Araki is regarded as one of the most prolific artists in Japan and around the world, with hundreds of publications on his photographs. He is probably also the most controversial photographer working in the world today on subject matter such as eroticism. Araki’s works have been exhibited worldwide, his recent solo exhibitions include ‘69YK’ at Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo, 2009), ‘B/W Bondage’ at Jablonka Galerie (Berlin, 2008), ‘Araki Gold’ at l’Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica – Palazzo Fontana di Trevi (Roma, 2007). Besides, The famous Icelandic musician Björk is an admirer of Araki, who has once modeled for Araki’s photograph. In 2008, after the film Lust Caution (directed by Wong Kar Wai) was released in Japan, Araki shot the main actor and actress Wong Leehom and Tang Wei for Marie Claire Japan’s March issue; and more recently he shot Lady Gaga for Vogue Japan #3 in 2009.

2010-04-16 12:23

All about the Bed

Duration: 10 April ~ 9 May 2010

Venue: ShanghART

50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai

Unlike the way of group exhibitions in the past, in April, ShangART brings “Beds” which is gathered paintings, photographs and installations on “bed” or “things mattered with bed” from 13 distinguishing artists. Zhang Enli painted the bed in daily life, the monologue of the vacant home; The beds by Jin Weihong described the worship and home of female; Hu Yang’s camera records the beds of Shanghai, the attitude of living, and the meticulously processed bed from Xu Zhen is more like a game with figure words. As furniture with privacy complex, bed should be placed in a closed space. But the borderline of privacy and public was blurred by information society, and everyone (family) just set the wall higher than yesterday. Currently, in the name of art, we concentrate on the sharing space with the different art works on the same topic which lead more “different dreams” however. 2010-04-08 17:00

Rehearsal: 8th Shanghai Biennale 2010

Curatorial Team: FAN Di'An, LI Lei, GAO Shiming Opening: 23 October 2010 （Saturday） Duration: 24 October 2010 ~ 28 February 2011 Location: Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai 2010-03-26 13:50