展览现场|香格纳超市: 徐震——没顶公司出品
香格纳新加坡从2014年4月4日起隆重推出新展香格纳超市|徐震-没顶出品。本展将持续至2014年5月18日。
ShanghART Singapore has the honour of announcing the exhibition SHANGHART SUPERMARKET | XU Zhen – produced by MadeIn Company was opened on 4th April 2014 through 18th May 2014.
徐震(生于1977年),国际知名当代艺术家之一,于2009年创建“生产当代艺术”的没顶公司。去年,没顶公司宣布推出“徐震”品牌;由此,他不再是以个体艺术家的身份复出,而是作为一个全新品牌来进行创作。“徐震”目前正经历着三重身份转变阶段:从独立艺术家到没顶公司创始人,再到现在没顶推出的一个品牌。徐震声称将不再使用他的个人身份,而以没顶公司的名义,致力于探索当代文化的无限可能。
正如尤伦斯艺术中心所称,徐震对今天极尽庞杂交汇的全球信息有着强烈求知欲和独特的整合能力,广泛地吸收知识并从中生产跨平台和跨媒介的作品。综合来看,徐震的艺术实践反映了艺术家个体对于国际当代艺术系统和游戏规则的持续关注及深刻质疑,而“中国当代艺术”这一标签是最直接的例证。徐震反复地探测那些侵蚀观者的视觉经验的中介物,尤其是当对象是异质文化时所产生的转译问题。
被誉为“概念变色龙”,“徐震”携其受委作品亮相于2014年纽约军械库艺术展,一如既往地引起大家热议。与此同时, 北京尤伦斯艺术中心也正在展出“徐震-没顶公司出品”的大型中期回顾展。作为世界顶级概念艺术家之一,徐震已在全球知名美术馆,如纽约现代艺术博物馆、利物浦泰特美术馆等广泛展出。今年4月,“徐震”在香格纳新加坡空间向公众呈现其备受好评的装置艺术项目——“香格纳超市”。
2007年,“香格纳超市”项目在美国迈阿密巴塞尔艺术博览会上甫一露面,即成为焦点。展览开始时,货架上摆满货品,接近尾声时,货品几乎已被抢购一空。此展及其过程暗示了艺术与全球市场的游戏规则似已彻底崩盘。 2008年,此装置的一个版本为昆士兰美术馆收藏。此次,徐震以原尺寸在新加坡复制了一个典型的中国式超市。超市模式源自西方,同时作为抵制国外同行的工具,一度被大力推广和鼓励。徐震通过“香格纳超市”项目,有效地操纵并创造了一个微妙的权力关系网,而“超市”呈现出的暧昧和矛盾属性,似乎也成为新加坡身份认同的一种隐喻。
步入徐震的装置项目,货架上都是我们十分熟悉的日常用品;但是其中的玄机,则一针见血地指出了交换价值的危机,而不仅仅只是流于批判,正印证了居伊•德波的经典表述,“资本不断累积到了某个程度即转化为形象?”被抽去内在实质的“超市”,暧昧不明,似乎暗示着这样一个悖论:消费至关重要,但亦是毁灭性的。
在这件互动式装置作品中,顾客可以购买“香格纳超市”项目中的任意商品, 并获得收银票据作为购物凭证。在这个过程中,你购买到的究竟是什么?一件艺术品,还是一种戏仿式的批判对象?抑或是……
XU Zhen (B.1977) is an internationally renowned artist who founded MadeIn Company – a contemporary art creation company in 2009. Last year, MadeIn Company produced the brand “XU Zhen”. Currently, Xu Zhen is experiencing three identity phases: from an individual entity to MadeIn Company’s entrepreneur, to a brand introduced by MadeIn Company. He declared that he would not use his individual identity and instead operates under the MadeIn Company, which is devoted to the endless realms of contemporary culture.
It is disclosed by Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) that Xu Zhen has a voracious appetite for global information and a unique ability to produce work across multiple platforms and media. Xu Zhen’s oeuvre reflects the lingering concerns of an artist participating in the international art world while remaining deeply skeptical of it and its conventions, most immediately the label “Chinese contemporary art.” Xu Zhen’s artworks probe the various mediations that corrupt the viewer’s experience of an artwork, particularly in observing a culture that is not one’s own.
Named as the “chameleon of concept”, XU Zhen has been commissioned by The Armory Show 2014 in New York; at the same time, presenting a major mid-career survey exhibition “XU Zhen: A MadeIn Company Production” in UCCA, Beijing. As a leading conceptual artist in the world, Xu Zhen has exhibited extensively across the globe such as Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) New York, Tate Liverpool and The 49th Venice Biennale.
Meticulously created and previously exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2007, the SHANGHART SUPERMARKET was the highlight of the show. The installation began as a fully stocked and functioned store, but by the last day of the show, the shelves were almost depleted. In this project, the rules of the game for both art and the global market are seemingly collapsed. In 2008, the installation was re-created and collected by Queensland Art Gallery. Similarly, Xu Zhen effectively transforms ShanghART Singapore into a full-scale replica of a typical Chinese convenience store, which is effectively promoted and encouraged as a tool to specifically resist the establishment of their foreign counterparts, while the genealogy and aesthetic of such store is inherently Western in aspiration. Xu Zhen cleverly manipulates and invents upon a delicate matrix of power relations in SHANGHART SUPERMARKET, while the ambiguous and paradoxical significance of the supermarket acts like a metaphor of the local identity in heartlands of Singapore.
Upon entering the installation, shelves of basic daily necessities greet us with much familiarity; however the trick inside indicates there is much more at stake than the obvious critique of exchange value. It recalls Guy Debord’s classic formulation, "Is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes images?” The ambiguous status of the supermarket, which has been stripped of all its defining qualities, seems to indicate that consumption is essential, but also destroys.
This interactive mixed media installation invites visitors to purchase any product in SHANGHART SUPERMARKET; a receipt will be issued upon a transaction made. Of this process, what are you really buying, a piece of art work or an object of critical play with witty parody? Or perhaps…
徐震简历
徐震,出生于1977年,现居住、工作于上海.其作品在全球被广泛展出。例如“徐震:没顶公司出品”,尤伦斯当代艺术中心,北京,中国(2014);2014年纽约军械库艺术展,纽约,美国(2014); “13 ROOMS”,KALDOR 公共艺术项目,沃尔什湾,悉尼,澳大利亚(2013);“徐震:禁闭城堡”,蒙泰尼利博物馆,布拉格,捷克(2012);“徐震录像作品”,WALDBURGER 画廊,比利时(2010);“最后的几个蚊子”,IKON美术馆,伯明翰,英国 (2009);“有效期”,MuHKA,安特卫普,比利时(2009);“JUST DID IT!”,JANES COHAN 画廊,纽约,美国(2008);“中国发电站:第二站”,ASTRUP FEARNLEY 现代美术馆,奥斯陆,挪威(2007);“中国发电站:第一站”,巴特西发电站,伦敦,英国(2006);“中国当代”,建筑、艺术和视觉文化,荷兰建筑学院,波伊曼•凡•布宁根博物馆; 荷兰摄影博物馆,鹿特丹, 荷兰(2006); “十三:中国今日影像”,PS1当代艺术中心,长岛,纽约,美国(2006);“8848-1.86”徐震个展,H空间,香格纳画廊,上海,中国(2006);“今日中国”,纽约现代艺术博物馆,纽约,美国(2004);第49界威尼斯双年展,威尼斯,意大利(2001)。
XU Zhen’s Biography
XU Zhen was born in 1977, lives and works in Shanghai. XU Zhen has exhibited extensively across the globe: a major mid-career survey exhibition “XU Zhen: A MadeIn Company Production” in Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing 2014; 13 Rooms, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Walsh Bay, Sydney, Australia (2013); XU Zhen: Forbidden Castle, Montanelli Museum, Prague (2012); XU Zhen Video Works, Galerie Waldburger, Belgium(2010); The Last Few Mosquitos, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K. (2009); Just did It!, James Cohan Gallery, New York, U.S.A. (2008); China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (2007); China Power Station: Part I, Battersea Power Station, London, U.K., (2006); On Mobility, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006); China Contemporary - Art, Architecture and Visual Culture, Museum Boijmanns van Beuningen Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2006); The Thirteen–Chinese Video Now, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, U.S.A. (2006); XU Zhen: 8848 - 1.86, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai (2006); China Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A (2004);The 49th Venice Biennale, Venice Italy(2001).
图片版权:香格纳新加坡
Courtesy of ShanghART Singapore
展期:2014年4月4日——2014年5月18日,上午11点——下午7点(星期一休息)
地址:ShanghART Singapore, 9 Lock Road, #02-22 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108937
联系:+65 6734 9537 | infosg@shanghartgallery.com
网页:www.shanghartsingapore.com
Duration: 4 April 2014 – 18 May 2014, 11am – 7pm (Mon. Closed)
Address: ShanghART Singapore, 9 Lock Road, #02-22 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108937
Contact: +65 6734 9537 | infosg@shanghartgallery.com
Website: www.shanghartsingapore.com
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