2009年4月30日星期四

A surrealistic impression at ArtBeijing/ 超现实的感觉在北京艺术博览会



Liang Shuo’s work displayed during ArtBeijing was totally surrealistic in the middle of the fair. I felt that the work was so close to a certain Chinese reality that it looked so fake, especially in this kind of environment ! It was like a bomb put in the middle of ArtBeijing… Liang Shuo “Are you an art terrorist?”

 在北京艺术博览会里面,梁硕的作品看起来特别超现实的。我感觉这个作品那么靠近现实得让你感觉是假的一样,特别是在这样的环境里来对比。感觉象一个炸弹放在北京艺术里面。梁硕你是不是一位艺术恐怖分子?


2009年4月21日星期二

Shi Jinsong's opening April 16th, 2009 史金淞开幕式4月16日



The performance consisted in pilling out the tree of its bark, the tree was hung in the middle of the artist's studio. On the side the public attempting to the opening was busy enjoying the wine and the buffet provided by the artist.

This performance made me think about the relation between creation and destruction? The destruction as a part of the creation/ Creation! Ruin to rebuilt or Ruin to ruin?!

As the opening took place in the artist's studio, this performance is also raising the question of the relation between artist and gallery. Do artists still need galleries to represent their works (at least the famous ones) ? What the future of China-based galleries as they are being more and more often left out of the deals... 

CICE Beijing April 2009

Here a selection of few artworks that hold my attention... 

Xiao Bo's newest serie of paintings
萧搏最新作品




Peng Yu & Sun Yuan 彭禹与孙原 

Alessandro Rolandi's drawings


Xiao Huiyang

Misa Narikiyo

Detail of Misa Narikiyo's painting

Chen Wei 陈蔚


Chen Wei 陈蔚




2009年4月14日星期二

皮肤下就是感情

The insides becomes the outside… the insides becomes an interior to be understood, an epidermal membrane…There is nothing but feelings under the skin…



2009年4月13日星期一

The end of Jia Aili's hibernation at DoArt Beijing

Since last November the artist has been working in the gallery on a large-size  canvas (6mx15m). The final work "We are form the Century", sketches, small size paintings and two videos of the creating process was on display in the exhibition space that the artist used as his own studio. 

To see more images about the creating process of the large-size painting please check the project's website: www.20081411.net



Below some details of "We are from the Century"







2009年4月12日星期日

Liang Shuo's Interview Beijing March 28th/ 梁硕的访问于北京3月29号

Beyond the artist's mind

When I spoke with Liang Shuo about my project telling him that I wanted to interview him, he directly answered that it could be fun to do the interview like a game with strict rules. 
The rules was different for each question: for example answer in 15 words, or answer with three verbs or answer in 20 seconds, finish the sentence... 
The idea was to force the artist to answer without thinking while speaking, to answer directly what was popping in his mind, to react spontaneously to the question according to his feelings more that to his mind. But at the end of the interview, we got back to some of Liang Shuo's answers reacting to them and getting more depper into the subject. 

The important is the interaction between the two people during the interview, doesn't mind what the answers are or if the artist speaks truly... Told me Liang Shuo
Liang Shuo said that the best questions was the one he couldn't answer to or the one that made him feel uncomfortable. 
I promised Liang Shuo to get back to him with more questions in few months or maybe to ask him again the same ones to see how his mind will change during this period of time.


Jin Shan's Interview Beijing March 22/ 金闪的访问于北京3月22号

Through this Interview I tried to find out what is in Jin Shan's mind when he is creating...
What is your goal in making art?
My goal? killing time.

这次访问主要是挖出来金闪在创造的时的思想。。。
你创造的目的是什么?
目地?主要是打发时间。

After the second interview I realize that it was difficult to ask some questions that you can say are quite personnal to someone that you don't really know personnaly even he is an artist. I would like to get dipper in this reflexion to find a new way of interviewing artists. I liked this interview because I got some answers that I didn't expected at all...it surprised me, embarrassed me...Jin Shan's simplicity made me lost my mind


2009年4月9日星期四

Interview Mu Yuming February 2009 in Lashihai Lijiang Yunnan

The interview was based on the duality issue in Mu Yuming's work. 

木玉明访问2009年二月份于拉市海丽江云南:在二元性中寻找平衡。

画画的过程有什么帮助?是不是发泄的一个方式?你画画的时候你有没有怒气的感觉还是什么样的感觉你在画画二元性的内容的时候?

二元性的内容我觉得是在这个时候我在研究自己的感觉是什么,年轻一点的时候,这是跟发泄和愤怒找不到一个好的办法早一点,是大战的结果,到前面我在开始研究我自己的感觉是怎么把他们两个分开,分开后才知道不同的感觉有什么不一样,然后要找到另外一个办法。比如到现在应该会不一样,包括 我的生活方式,你的想法总是决定你的生活方式,你的里面外面完全一样的时候,你会生活得很危险但是可能也很舒服,因为你会告诉你想要的从里面也从外面但是有时候不太容易因为社会有一个规则 ,所以这个也是争斗的一个过程,你肯定跟这些东西要争斗到你很强的时候你就不管因为你知道怎么做。我还在过程当中但是很快,差不多。

因为你是一位艺术家你肯定在生活里要找丰富的东西,二元性是很丰富的一种情绪,你有没有想到不争斗接受?

我做过,比如说我2006 年的时候我在家里画画没争斗,接受也很好放弃跟外面争斗,放弃了,恢复自己,还有在研究自己里面的东西。我觉得是好的,放弃就是一种,你会得到更多你真想要的东西,有的时候选择是对的,比如说可能在生活上有时候有点不方便的,经济问题但是在青神上是越来越对,往一个对的方向去。不是内容两个东西在争斗,象以前我在试验的时候我自己很清楚我要两个方向一起研究,这个是为什么我的亲身开始争斗最后,因为人总是不会把它分清楚的, 有大脑,有心,你的大脑决定你要怎么做,但是也是一种试验的过程,我同时在做了我自己的计划跟丽江工作室的这样的事情,最后出现研究的结果还是不能同时做两个事情,所以现在做意见事情包括最后是我的画发音我的感觉,在生活里,包括出了问题。这个也是很重要的对你要试验,因为我经过了一个很长的过程,一个人在创造里面这种,一个人在工作室里面想,后来我觉得不够,应该跟别人交流。我花了十年的时间做了这些事情。这个是很好的经验。


After this interview I decided that it will be the first of a serie of 20 artists' interviews. Through this project I would like to get deeper into the inner world of the artistic creation, to see what the role of feelings in the art creation, how artists deal with their feelings, what the role of art in their life... 
I wish that during the project's process something will happen, I don't know what I will get, I think that it's even better to start the project without any specific expectation, to see what will come out... and then decide what I will do with the gathered content.  
Even the same questions will often come out during the interviews, I will try to make each serie of question specific. Each one will be recorded and translated into English and French, some parts of the interview will be displayed on my blog.