日常观：一种生活实践
第五届上海多伦青年艺术家群展
策展人：马 艳
艺术家：陈维、陈勇为、郭鸿蔚、胡筱潇、金石、康海涛、廖斐、李景湖、马秋莎、石至莹、苏畅、尚一心、申亮、陶大珉、吴笛、肖江、向庆华、殷漪、于吉
主办：上海多伦现代美术馆
开幕：2012年12月22日（周六）下午3:30
时间：2012年12月22日至2013年1月13日
地点：上海多伦现代美术馆（多伦路27号）
2012年12月22日至2013年1月13日，上海多伦现代美术馆将举办“日常观：一种生活实践”为主题的第五届上海多伦青年艺术家群展。
作为一个有中国本土特色名称的青年美术双年展，两年一届的上海多伦青年美术大展已经走过了它的第九个年头。首届上海多伦青年美术大展举办于2004年9月份上海双年展期间，大展采取了邀请上海本地知名艺术家以假名方式参加青年展的模式；第二届的展览通过征集方案的模式邀请全国各地当代艺术家参加；而第三届的展览以“囧”字为展览的主题，采取征稿和网上报名的方式，选取了在校和刚毕业的新锐艺术家参展；2010年，“后传统——放大的切片”作为第四届青年艺术家群展的展览主题，采用话题探讨的方式，在艺术圈内引起了极佳的反响。2012年，在各种“青年艺术家”大展齐齐上阵的时候，我们依然按照自己的步调，将艺术创作中的日常观，日常经验作为研究的课题，展开对青年艺术创作的梳理和书写。
从宏观和历时的角度看，中国当代艺术经历了从“集体”思潮的创作方式，向对话日常生活和日常经验，注重“个体” 艺术价值努力的转变。日常生活通常被视为一种烦琐无奇的、微不足道的、无关紧要的东西，对日常的讨论和关注也经常停留在一种自然状态和普遍意义的常识上，简单的前图像志层面—即观察日常的气质是琐碎的、感性的、直接的；日常除了这些基础性的存在外，日常生活还包含观察、体验、感悟甚至反思-理论的各种态度和实践。本次展览将关注和讨论青年艺术家在创作中面对日常生活的各种态度和认识上，更多地从艺术界、艺术家、艺术作品和艺术本体的角度讨论当代青年创作中的日常观的实践方式，以及“日常”在青年艺术创作和作品中的各种表述和呈现。日常观是从生活实践中积累的一种动态体验，介于感觉和理论之间的一种态度，是私人化的经验面对生活的一种感知和更深层次认识和思考的可能。在具体的艺术创作中，这些艺术家注重日常性的微妙体验，“迫使”眼睛去发现琐碎生活的激烈与细致，强调对于自身生活的经验和再发现，在乎对过程的把握和对时间的追问，作品彰显着强烈的日常气质，是一种综合性的生活创作方法与视觉经验。
从日常的观念和理念入手创作的青年艺术家，他们采用生活化的物品作为创作材料，对他们来说，艺术作品成为融入日常生活情感的“容器”，成为日常经验与艺术家的自我对话，成为现实生活的思想外延，而非孤立地呈现物质形式。这些青年艺术家的作品观念指向性不是很明确，艺术诉求主要投射出对于生活世界中那些仿佛不太重要却如此贴近自身气质和艺术言说的日常物——生活环境，居住的城市、老房子的瓦片、草坪、一只杯子，以及平凡普通的物等都成了他们关注和表达的对象，通过生活化的场景、现象和经验来探索视觉的有效可能性，“日常”同样有它的多重逻辑和表达，在这些青年艺术家的创作中，对日常观有几种不同的视觉介入角度，对生活经验的“借用”和“修辞”存在着不同的态度和倾向：一种是将日常物作为一种元素思考，表现为对生活空间和物的经验和迷恋，进行艺术创作；二是对生活世界和日常经验的反思和认识，在平淡无奇的生活中寻找艺术的力量；还有一种情况是作品气质上对日常视阈的内在书写。这个展览试图讨论这样的问题，除了艺术家挪用日常生活元素之外，艺术与生活如何彼此影响，日常生活形态艺术又如何与日常生活区别？对生活实践的私人化体验，以及日常的多重可能性汇总起来，会不会有一种共性的日常观？通过对这些艺术家进行个案式的集结和梳理，希望这些作品能够成为某种殊途同归的例证。
Daily view: a practice of life
By Ma Yan
Come back to the living world—phenomenology scholar Husserl first made an affirmation for the daily life on the aspect of philosophy in the 1920s. He criticized the western positivist who always believe in the trust of conceptual knowledge and ignorant of living world and thought that those positivists wholly took the living world as a “plane life” without any depth. He began to focus on the effort moving from the transcendentalism to the return of daily life world. His affirmation of daily life and study diversion has influenced a lot of following scholars including the Heidegger’s “stay with the daily life together”, Agnes ·Helle who studied “daily life” and Lefebvre who focused on the “daily life of modern world”. Although the philosophy study of daily life is originated from social practical problems, it provides abundant theoretical resources for the following creation and aesthetic thinking of daily life.
From the macroscopic and diachronic perspective, modern Chinese art goes through the creation form of “collective” trend to the talk of daily life and daily experiences, focusing on the change for the “individual” art value effort. The daily life is usually regarded as a kind of cumbersome, ordinary, tiny and unimportant thing and the daily discussion and focus is often stay at a common sense of natural state and general meaning. The simple anterior image level means to observe the daily qualities is cumbersome, perceptual and direct. Besides those daily existences of fundamentality, daily life also includes observation, experience, inspiration and even introspection of all kinds of attitudes and practices of theory. This exhibition will discuss and focus on the various attitudes and understanding towards daily life when the youth artists are in art creation and also discuss the practical forms of daily view in modern youth creation on the perspective of art world, artists, art works and art ontology as well as the various statements and presentations of “daily” in youth art creation and works. Daily view is a kind of dynamic experience accumulated from the living practice and an attitude between sense and theory as well as a kind of perception that private experience faces the life and an understanding and thinking possibility in a more deeply level. In the specific art creation, those artists pay more attention to the daily subtle experience, “forcing” the eyes to find out the fierce and meticulousness of trivial life, emphasizing the rediscovery and experience of life itself, caring about the grasp of process and asking of time. So, their works show a strong daily quality, which is a comprehensive life creation method and visual experience.
Those youth artists who make art creation from the daily view and concept adopt daily objects as creation materials. From their perspective, art creation has become a “container” filled with daily life emotions, a self-talking between daily experience and artists, a thinking extension of real life instead of showing material form solely. The direction of views of those youth artists is not clear. Their art mainly focuses on those daily things such as, living environment, city they live in, tiles of old house, lawn, a cup or ordinary objects etc. which are unimportant but so closely to their own qualities and art language. And those things are all become their focuses and targets of expression. Through daily scene, phenomenon and experience, they explore the valid possibility of visual sense. “Daily” also has its multiple logics and expression. In those youth artists creation, there are some different visual aspects on daily view and various attitudes and tendencies towards the “borrowing” and “rhetoric” of life experience. One regards the daily objects as a kind of element to think about; another focuses on the introspection and knowing of life world and daily experience, which finds out the art strength in the ordinary life; last one emphasizes on the work quality towards inner writing of daily perspective. This exhibition tries to discuss these questions such as, besides the artists using the daily life elements, how the art and life influence each other? How the daily life form art is different from daily life? Is there a common daily view towards the private experience of life practice and gathering of daily multi-possibility? After the collection and carding towards those artists, it hopes that these words can become an evidence for a same view.
