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Shadow of Things

开幕时间 Opening

2024.10.13 15:00

艺术家 Artists

旦儿 Dan Er

徐丝易 Edie Xu 

刘冬旭 Liu Dongxu

罗宾·海柯 Robbin Heyker

史蒂文·歌立德 Stephen Gleadow

谢红东 Xie Hongdong

耶苏 Ye Su

策展人 Curator

林杰明 James Elaine

2024.10.13-2024.12.15

Click Ten Gallery

北京市朝阳区798艺术区内706北路东

706 North Road East, 798 Art Zone, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Click Ten Gallery 荣幸的推出群展《事物之影》。

Click Ten Gallery is honored to present the group exhibition "Shadow of Things".

The exhibition title, Shadow of Things, can be interpreted and viewed in several different directions. It is not based in a philosophical, historical, or psychological idea that requires selected artists’ works to support a curatorial premise; but It is a poetic phrase that came to mind one morning like a cloud passing by my window. Although it is complex in that it suggests many avenues of thought, it is more simply about relationships; relationships between things seen and things unseen, the mutable and the immutable, body and spirit, form and meaning. What relationally happens to an individual artwork when placed in a group of other artist’s works in a shared neutral space? And what is the relationship between the curator and artist?

 Oftentimes shadows are seen as darkness, the dream world, or the presence of evil, but they are also a place of refuge from the heat in the cool of the shade. They are like sketches or outlines of things seen, or they prophesy as harbingers of unseen things to come. One Biblical account tells about an apostle whose shadow healed the sick people lying on the side of the road as he passed by. In the case of this exhibition this would illustrate the power of the artist’s creative spirit radiating outward into the world through their work. Ancient cultures developed devices for telling time and seasons called sundials or shadow clocks. They were instruments to show the time of day or seasons of the year by the shadow of an object cast by the sun on a cylindrical surface. These are but a few of the many references to shadows found in diverse cultures throughout time. They could be real or metaphorical links to the installation design of works in the gallery space or to the individual works themselves.

 

Ye Su’s ink paintings are narratives culled from his dream life. They are like individual frames of a surrealist film and are flooded with strange people, places, shadows, and things surreal and things known. There are 18 individual paintings in his Tannu Uriankhai series but are installed as one massive tableau, one life long narrative in one second.

 

展览标题 “事物之影 ”可以从几个不同的方向来看待和解释。它并不是围绕着某个哲学、历史或心理学思想，来选择符合主题的艺术家和作品；它是一个诗意的短语，在某个清晨从我的窗前飘过，浮现在我的脑海中。这句话很复杂，因为它暗示了许多的思考路径，但简单地讲，就是关系，是看得见和看不见的东西之间的关系，是可变和不可变的关系，是身体和精神的关系，是形式和意义的关系。在一个共享的中性空间里，当一件艺术品与其他艺术家的作品放在一起时，会发生什么关系？策展人和艺术家之间的关系又是什么？

阴影通常被视为黑暗、梦境或邪恶的存在，但它们也是阴凉处避暑的地方。它们就像是所见事物的素描或轮廓，或者预示着即将到来的、不可见的事物。《圣经》中记载了一个使徒的故事，当他路过时，他的影子治愈了躺在路边的病人。具体到本次展览，这个故事反映了艺术家的创造精神：通过他们的作品向外辐射到世界的能量。在古代文化中，有一种用来显示时间和季节的装置，叫做日晷或影钟。它们是通过太阳投射在圆柱表面上的物体影子来显示一天的时间或一年的季节。这些只是古往今来不同文化中有关影子的众多记载中的一小部分。它们可以是真实的，也可以是隐喻的，与画廊空间中作品的装置设计或单件作品本身相关联。

耶苏的水墨画是从他的梦境生活中选取的叙事。它们就像超现实主义电影中的一个个画面，充斥着陌生的人物、地方、影子，以及超现实和已知的事物。在他的唐努乌梁海系列中，有 18 幅独立的画作，这些画作被安装成一个巨大的场景，瞬间铺陈出一个人的一生。