被折射的现实: 梦幻世界, 平行宇宙和形形色色的生命
展览开幕：2011年4月9日星期六下午5-8点
展览日期：2011年4月9日至5月21日
OV画廊新闻稿

艺术家的心灵就像是棱镜一般从不同的角度通过折射将现实改变并分离，最终扭转方向。这种棱镜般视角的另外一面是一个另类世界。“被折射的现实”我们将审视平行的宇宙与世界，并学习如何把幻想变成探索现实过程中的工具。

此次展览作为我们在莫干山路的首次开幕展，其中包含了录像，摄影，绘画及装置等作品。场地等细节请参考附图。

参展艺术家：
阿部，柴一茗，陈航峰，陈熹, Alexandrine Devé, 计文于, Maya Kramer,梁志和, Monika Lin, Girolamo Marri, 钱嵘，苏畅，吴鼎

Maya Kramer作品的观点有驳于现代社会经济基础决定上层建筑的观点，她创作了一套专门用来衡量人的思想和灵感的货币，而摈弃了原本商品价值交换的概念。

Girolamo Marri对我们创造理想过程中的有效性提出质疑，从艺术和创作的小范围出发，表示出个人与社会在面对失败问题上的态度。

梁志和的作品带我们来到的是澳大利亚的郊区，让我们认识城市花园的规划理念，通过审视将市郊建设与乌托邦联系在一起，并对其模式进行不断复制的角度来思考中国现在的问题。

阿部向我们呈现了一个微观化的内心世界, 作品围绕了一名叫玛丽亚的荷兰妇女，描述了她以自己曾经的首饰、装饰品和纪念品来彰显身份，而如今却足不出户的故事。

Monika Lin 则为我们论述了一个更为狭隘世界，她通过研究外国人带动的市场上商品与服务业的日益繁荣从而对城市结构产生影响的现状，同时以水母暴发进行比喻，揭示出再小的物种也能牵动生存环境变化的主题。

陈航峰同样论述的是一个关于城市生态学的话题，作品围绕着在上海某居民小区内发生的绿化地蔬菜种植事件展开想象，构建出一场关于公共与私人空间之间的斗争，以及对试图建设乌托邦式的新住房进行一种讽刺。

计文于的作品以人类渴望达到完美境界的本能欲望为出发点，结合中国现今日益增长的经济实力的现状，表达出牵一发而动全身的中心思想。

吴鼎用录像作品的方式探讨了人类无穷的野心，从一个独特的角度，展示了一群动物聚集在冰块上的画面，仿佛乘坐的是最后一次逃离地球的末班车一样。

在陈熹的作品中，让人想象和思考当生命处于困境或殆尽的时刻会发生的情形。这一系列描绘了各种生物演化的策略和过程。

苏畅的作品表现的是人类奋斗的愿望，崇尚在平凡的环境下以一种发现探索的精神来扩大视野的态度。

Alexandrine Dévé 重建了一个梦幻世界，国家和领土的边界错位暗示了一种时间与空间流动不定的概念。

钱嵘将历史片段截取拼贴成新的概念, 产生一种丰富和理想主义化的图形，与现实接轨，同时告诉我们理想主义是如何成为寻求自我乐趣的工具的过程。

柴一茗的作品展现的是一番杂交的生物世界，植物动物和人相互融合，作品还借鉴了佛教、道教及儒家思想等价值观来构建一个理想的世界。

被折射的现实导览
4月10日星期日下午3点至3点半
策展人林白丽通过艺术家的创作洞悉和探讨他们作品的含义。
地址：
OV画廊
莫干山路50号4号楼207，近澳门路
上海普陀区
+86 21 5465 7768
www.ovgallery.com


联系人：
林白丽
rebeccacatching@ovgallery.com
+86 21 5465 7768
139 1637 3474


Refracted Realities
Fantasy Worlds, Parallel Universes and Other Shades of Being
Exhibition Opening: 5-8pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
April 9-May 21, 2011
OV GALLERY PRESS RELEASE

The mind of an artist is like a prism, which bends reality and separates it into different parts ultimately changing its direction. What emerges from the other side of the prism is a whole spectrum of alternate worlds. In “Refracted Realities” we survey these parallel universes and learn how fantasy can be used as a device to explore reality.

This show, which features video, photography, painting and installation, will mark the first show in our new space in Moganshan Lu. For details on our new location see attached map.

Participating Artists:
Sayaka Abe, Chai Yiming, Chen Hangfeng, Chen Xi, Alexandrine Devé, Ji Wenyu, Maya Kramer, Warren Leung Chi Wo, Monika Lin, Girolamo Marri, Qian Rong, Su Chang and Wu Ding

Maya Kramer tackles the economic base upon which out society is built – examining the value we place on ideas – by creating her own currency system.

Girolamo Marri questions the effectiveness of our attempts to create utopias, using the microcosm of the artist and his own act of creation to look at the idea of personal and societal failure.

Leung Chi Wo takes us out on a journey to the suburbs of Australia re-visiting urban planning theory of the garden city looking at the construction of the suburbs as a utopia and the replication of that utopia thought China.

Sayaka Abe enters into an even smaller world, that of a Dutch woman named Maria, a shut-in who constructs her identity based upon her jewelry, trinkets and souvenirs.

Monika Lin explores another small insular world – that of expat life – examining how it affects the urban fabric in creating a demand for different goods and services. She uses the metaphor of the jellyfish (an invasive species) to explore how an organism can actually change the habitat in which it lives.

Chen Hangfeng also looks at the idea of urban ecology with a work, which documents the practice of guerrilla gardening in the residential housing compounds of Shanghai, the battle over public and private space and the attempts to utopian-size the often-decrepit "new estates".

Ji Wenyu examines this "perfection instinct" the desire to completely control every aspect of one's environment and the growing economic might of China – which like a giant creates vibrations wherever it walks.

Wu Ding explores man and his boundless ambitions with a video work which depicts a group of animals leaving on at the last flight out of earth – more specifically an iceberg buoyed by a cluster of black balloons.

Chen Xi projects this scenario into the future to look at what happens when we've exhausted life on this planet with a series of drawings which depict animal astronauts and forlorn planets of rocks and dwarf trees.

Su Chang explores man's desire to strive, to expand his horizons – with a series of “Discovery Chanel” style adventures set in mundane surroundings.

Alexandrine Dévé reconstructs a dream world without concrete borders where national territories are fractured and there is a fluid definition of space and time.

Qian Rong re-conceptualizes history, cutting and pasting and cutting again to produce a complicated picture of idealism, reality and how the idealistic are often used as tools by self-interested individuals.

Chai Yiming uses a world of hybrid creatures, fusions of plants animals and people to construct an idealistic world which draws on the values of Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism.

Refracted Realities Curatorial Tour
Sunday, April 10
3-3.30pm
Curator Rebecca Catching offers insights into the artists’ practice and exploring the meaning and the trajectories of their work. (Tour in English)

Address
OV Gallery
Room 207, Bldg 4, No. 50 Moganshan Lu, by Aomen Lu
Putuo, Shanghai
+86 21 5465 7768
www.ovgallery.com

Contact
Rebecca Catching
rebeccacatching@ovgallery.com
+86 21 5465 7768
139 1637 3474