Arthub Favorite #26
Opening: July 16, 3-6 pm
Duration: July 17 – August 31, 2016
Venue: ShanghART Gallery Main and H-Space, Buildings 16 and 18, Moganshan Road, Shanghai
An all-star Chinese contemporary art exhibition opens next weekend at ShanghART. We hope you had an opportunity to attend Haptic Field at CAC today (Saturday, 9 June), but Arthub wants to make sure our followers are kept in the know every week. Make sure to check back with us to find out what’s happening around town!
The uncertain, or the shelved… will showcase works by longtime Arthub friends and associates at both ShanghART Main Gallery and H-Space. The group show presents a range of medias, including: paintings, installations, sculptures, manuscripts, and multimedia.
Artists: BIRDHEAD, DING Yi, GENG Jianyi, HAN Feng, HU Jieming, HUANG Kui, JIANG Pengyi, JI Wenyu, LU Lei, LIANG Shaoji, LIU Weijian, LIANG Yue, LIU Yue, XU Zhen / MadeIn, OUYANG Chun, PU Jie, SHEN Fan, SHAO Yi, SHI Qing, SUN Xun, TANG Guo, TANG Maohong, WEI Guangqing, WU Yiming, WANG Youshen, XIANG Liqing, XUE Son, YANG Fudong, YUAN Yuan, YANG Zhenzhong, ZHANG Ding, ZHANG Enli, ZHU Jia, ZHANG Qing, Robert ZHAO Renhui, ZHAO Yang, ZHOU Zixi
The uncertain, or the shelved…
“The uncertain” is the hesitation, exploration or experimentation of concept, thoughts, and creativity, within the bounds of logical thinking; “the shelved” is a statement of behavior positioned in pause, reserve, and lingering. Both scenarios are connected and mutually influenced by one another. The exhibition aims at revealing works and/or ideas initiated by momentary instances of inspiration, but also, by those works temporarily/permanently halted because of artists’ individual struggles – defined by distractions and undefined creative directions. Mysterious circumstances surround how artist works are conceived; why some works become suspended has become an ever-present riddle between artists and audiences. Not only does the exhibition challenge viewers’ cognition by presenting seemingly divergent clues to creation, which enriches the possibilities of artists’ contexts, but also reflects the extended associations which are hidden beneath varied practices.
“The unfinished is an interesting beginning or a recurrent idea after repetitious recording then forgetting it.”
“I’ve always liked woodcarving, but never followed through… One day sculpting out the rough shape but was difficult in further detailing it, I helplessly left it there…around 2012, had several attempts in carving it again but still ended in a meltdown…now, just look back again, it appears more perfectly after shifting through time, and has become my cherished object.”
“Problems like many traditional craftsmen in churches or temples might confront, how to create an intangible spirit by deploying tangible materials. I wanted to exercise some tactile painting sometimes, I’m sensitive about the surface texture of paintings, therefore, processed several experiments violently on some most simple materials. ”
(Above narratives have been taken from participating artists’ oral memories.)
Artworks included in this exhibition have been selected from artists’ dominant fields of interests, which will be presented in ShanghART’s parallel spaces. The Main space will focus on artists’ manuscripts and multimedia rendering animations, whereas works in H-Space will be installed anonymously in order to allow the public to immerse in a non-empirical space. More than twenty artists are involved in this exhibition, which will be comprehensively delivered with artists’ narrative texts, video, animations, and interactive presentations.
For more details about the exhibition, please click here.