来源：上海民生现代美术馆
上海民生现代美术馆荣幸带来中国当代艺术群展“物体系”（The System of Objects）。展览将贯穿美术馆的一楼展厅，展出44位艺术家的绘画、雕塑、装置、录像、动画等多种媒介形式的作品。展览将于2015年3月29日开幕，持续至6月28日。
Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum is pleased to present The System of Objects, a group show by Chinese contemporary artists. Featuring 44 artists whose practice varies from painting, sculpture, installation to video and animation, the exhibition shown on the ground floor of the museum will be open to public on March 29 and run through June 28, 2015.
晚近以来，物在文化理论和当代哲学的领域得到了越来越广泛的讨论。大体而言，对物的讨论有两种模式。一种是文化政治的模式，即认为当代社会已经进入到了一个大规模的物的累积阶段，物是消费社会最显赫的标志，一个新的拜物教正在形成，物以其强烈的自主性对人构成了重重挤压。这个讨论受马克思的商品拜物教理论的影响，从二十世纪早期的本雅明、卢卡奇到中后期的罗兰·巴特和鲍德里亚都将物作为重要的研究对象。另一种模式是哲学的模式。长期以来，哲学一直将物看作是与人相关联的领域，物总是人视野中的物，离开了人谈论物是没有意义的。这是自康德到海德格尔以来的所谓人和物之间的关联主义最简单的表述。但是，今天最激进的年轻哲学家提出了思辨实在论（Speculative Realism），即主张物有自己的独特领域，物可以从人的视野中，从与人的关系中解脱出来。物有自己的领域、命运和本体，一种以物为导向的本体论（Object-oriented Ontology）正在形成。
During the past few years, object has triggered more and more discussion among the realms of cultural theory and contemporary philosophy. Such discussion could be generally categorized into two patterns. One is a cultural and political pattern, according to which the contemporary society has entered a stage of massive accumulation of objects. Being the most prominent sign of the consumer society, objects due to its strong autonomy are imposing substantial pressure on man, leading to the emergence of a new kind of fetishism. Under the influence of commodity fetishism by Marx, Walter Benjamin and Georg Lukács in early 20th century and Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard in late 20th century all treated object as an important topic of study. The other is a philosophical pattern. For long philosophy has considered objects as a realm intricately and inevitably connected with man. When talking about objects, we refer to objects from the perspective of man. It’s pointless to talk about objects if not taking man into consideration. Such is the simplest description of the relation between man and object since Kant and Heidegger. However, today’s young and radical philosophers put forward “Speculative Realism”, advocating that objects have their own domain and can be liberated from man’s perspective and its connection with man. Objects have the domain, destiny and noumenon of their own. An object-oriented ontology is under formation.
基于上述理论及中国当代艺术中对“物”的关注与创作的现状，上海民生现代美术馆选取了最近二十年中富有代表性的与物有关的艺术作品。这些作品构成了中国当代艺术中的“物体系”，它们以不同的方式表达了艺术家对物的思考、人们有关物的观念的变迁、物在中国当代社会中的进程和命运，以及最根本的，人是如何在和物的关联中来确定自身的形象的。
In the light of the above theory and with an insight into the development of Chinese contemporary artistic practice concerning "object", Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum selected some of the most representative object-related artworks created by Chinese contemporary artists during the past two decades. Collectively they compose the “system of objects” of Chinese contemporary art, casting light on artists’ pondering on objects, changes in people’s view about objects, the development and destiny of objects in contemporary Chinese society, and most fundamentally, how man manages to establish his own image through his connection with objects.
此外，展览期间将会举办以“物”为主题的系列讲座，还会召开一次名为“物的理论”的国际学术研讨会。
In conjunction with the exhibition, talks and lectures under the theme of “object” will be presented. Moreover, an international symposium under the name of “Theories of Objects” will be organized during the exhibition.
参展艺术家：陈劭雄、陈维、陈晓云、耿建翌、何翔宇、洪浩、胡介鸣、冷广敏、李邦耀、李景湖、李青、李消非、刘窗、刘建华、刘韡、刘唯艰、刘雨佳、刘卓泉、马秋莎、毛旭辉、秦琦、仇晓飞、尚杨、宋冬、宋元元、隋建国、王鲁炎、王音、王郁洋、吴昊、萧昱、徐震、薛松、闫冰、杨心广、杨振中、尹齐、尹秀珍、尉洪磊、余极、张恩利、张亚平、郑国谷、庄辉
Artists: Chen Shaoxiong, Chen Wei, Chen Xiaoyun, Geng Jianyi, He Xiangyu, Hong Hao, Hu Jieming, Leng Guangmin, Li Bangyao, Li Jinghu, Li Qing, Li Xiaofei, Liu Chuang, Liu Jianhua, Liu Wei, Liu Weijian, Liu Yujia, Liu Zhuoquan, Ma Qiusha, Mao Xuhui, Qin Qi, Qiu Xiaofei, Shang Yang, Song Dong, Song Yuanyuan, Sui Jianguo, Wang Luyan, Wang Yin, Wang Yuyang, Wu Hao, Xiao Yu, Xu Zhen, Xue Song, Yan Bing, Yang Xinguang, Yang Zhenzhong, Yin Qi, Yin Xiuzhen, Yu Honglei, Yu Ji, Zhang Enli, Zhang Yaping, Zheng Guogu, Zhuang Hui
