《后当代城市自白7019》国际艺术大展

                
                
美国著名作家爱默生说过“城市是靠记忆而存在的”。然而在经济飞速向前，来不及回首就稍纵即逝的今天，记忆就显得额外的奢侈。那么我们应该用什么来记得一个城市？
2019年伊始，上海当代艺术馆非常荣幸获得咸昌贤先生的大力支持举办《后当代城市自白7019》国际艺术大展。展览由上海当代艺术馆执行馆长孙文倩携手韩国新生代策展人林志秀共同策划，邀请谢泼德·费利(Shepard Fairey(OBEY)、琼万(JonOne）、约翰·马托斯·克拉什 (John Matos Crash)、泽夫斯(ZEVS)、阿特拉斯（L’atlas）、维尔斯(Vhils )、M·恰特(M.Chat )、坦客(Tanc（Tancrede Perrot））八位国际涂鸦界重量级艺术家，以全新的视角，剖析当下时代精神，从城市人文到街头文化等多重话题，为国内观众创作最具有时代精神的前卫艺术展览。
                
                
从纽约街头发展出来的次文化浪潮，一路披襟斩棘的从社会边缘发展到今天，成为标志鲜明的当代文化图腾，影响当今世代的文化浪潮，通过艺术介入生活。那些从内心呼喊出来的声音，幻化成明艳、亮丽又张扬的图像，铿锵的语言以具象的字体直逼着观众直视它，转化为流行的大众文化如迅雷、如烈风般卷席着城市的每一个角落，有如难以磨灭的青春记忆。
新世代是这次参展艺术家共同的成长背景，八位艺术家他们生长在七十和八十年代，这些大众文化的先驱者从城市的街角，一步一脚印的走进艺术殿堂，驿动的心在画布上宣泄的激情与躁动牵动人们的情绪，引燃的文化浪潮，从艺术到设计，流行音乐到街舞运动，从城市边缘到文化中心，或许不是每一个人都认同它，但是我们却不能忽视它们对文化、对美学的影响力。
在《后当代城市自白7019》展览中，无论是艺术家从真实生活经历取材构建城市风景，还是使用街头文化的碎片重筑城市文明，艺术仿佛是一柄石锤，敲碎了1970年代到2019年从西方到东方之间的一堵又一堵时空之墙，透过墙洞窥探当代艺术的轨迹，那个躁动不安却又思潮迸发的时代，涂鸦、音乐、舞蹈、戏剧、文学等多元的艺术形式交织为城市的自白传诵来到上海。这也正是展览名中“7019”这组数字的由来。
城市在变迁，自有其偶然与必然性，从无序到有序，在历经数十年的岁月雕琢后源起于街头的艺术文化，散发出迷人的魅力。我们希望在艺术家捕捉城市掠影、书写城市刮痕的同时，更希望观者可以感受到他们穿过画布焕发出来追求艺术的激情和勇于创新突破的精神。
    
                
                
Post Contemporary -Urban Graphic 7019
The famous American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote that “a city’s existence depends on memory.” Yet today, as our economy rapidly expands and much of the world operates at speeds beyond our comprehension, memory seems a luxury. By what means then can we remember a city?
At the start of 2019, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (MoCA Shanghai) is proud to launch the large-scale international exhibition Post Contemporary-Urban Graphic 7019, made possible by the generous support of Mr.Chang Hyun Ham. Co-curated by MoCA Executive Director Miriam Sun and the Korean curator Jisoo Lim, the exhibition features works by eight internationally renowned graffiti artists: Shepard Fairey (Obey), Qiong Wan (JonOne), John Matos Crash, ZEVS, L’atlas, Vhils, M. Chat, and Tanc (Tancrede Perrot). Examining the contemporary zeitgeist from a new perspective, the exhibition addresses such issues as urban humanism and street culture and promises to offer Chinese viewers an unprecedented experience of contemporary art.
                
                
A subculture that arose in the streets of New York, in the margins of society, street art has become a symbol of the contemporary age and an important artistic intervention into contemporary life. Street art is about expressing messages from the heart in colorful images and striking texts that demand and command our gaze. It has quickly become an important part of global popular culture, sweeping through cities around the world like a tidal wave and leaving behind indelible memories of youth.
Coming of age during the 1970’s and 80’s, the eight artists have a shared background in popular culture. These pioneers have slowly but surely moved from the margins of cities and into the centers of art world. Their passions, captured on canvases, have touched global viewers and inspired new cultural movements in every realm from art and design to popular music and street dance. Perhaps not everybody approves of street art, but we cannot deny its tremendous influence on contemporary culture and aesthetics.
                
                
开幕式艺术家JonOne现场创作
Artists in Post Contemporary -Urban Graphic 7019 construct cityscapes with materials from real-life or reassemble fragments of street culture into an urban vision. Together they have punched holes through wall after wall between the 1970’s and 2019 and between the east and the west. Through these holes, we catch glimpses of certain trajectories of contemporary art and of the restive age that made them possible. In this exhibition, the multiple art forms of graffiti, music, dance, theater, and literature are woven together into voices of the city. This is reason behind the number 7019 in the title.
A city’s transformations are both accidental and inevitable. Over several decades, street art has risen from its humble beginnings in urban margins and developed into a recognized art form, one that enthralls and inspires viewers around the world. It is our hope that as visitors to MoCA Shanghai experience the urban moments and traces captured and rendered by the artists, they will also be moved by their passion for art and their path breaking courage.
                
                
艺术家M. Chat 现场创作
                
                
关于MoCA
上海当代艺术馆（MoCa Shanghai）成立于2005年，是中国第一家非盈利的民营当代艺术馆，也是国内外艺术家向国人展示来自本土与世界的前卫艺术的一扇窗口。“跨界+”是MoCA未来的方向，以新世代的眼光，审视未来的艺术馆发展方向以开拓的胸怀融合新科技，整合多元文化领域，成为一个真正意义上的“人民的艺术馆”。
地点：上海当代艺术馆MoCA Shanghai
票价：80元
地址：上海市黄浦区南京西路231号人民公园7号门内
开放时间：周一至周日 10:00——18:00
主办：上海当代艺术馆 MoCA Shanghai