Half the Sky: Eight Large New Works by Qi Zhilong
For Immediate release / 可直接发表
THOMAS PALME
MADNESS, BOOZE AND SOCIAL PHOBIA
托马斯·帕尔玛“疯狂、痛饮和社会病态性恐惧”
DRAWINGS / WORKS ON PAPER 繪畫 / 紙上作品
OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 29 2009 10月24日 - 11月29日2009年
Opening reception: October 24 2009. 6pm - 10 pm at stage候台BACK.
开幕接待 2009年10月24日 18：00 - 22: 00 stage候台BACK.
#310, 3F, 696 Weihai Lu (Shaanxi Nan Lu) Shanghai, China 200042 中国上海市威海路696号3楼310室(靠近陕西南路)
Palme’s highly prolific practice encompasses the fields of drawing, video, performance, and installation. The
black and white pencil drawings, which constitute the bulk of Palme’s creative output, are produced at a
minimum count of four thousand works on paper annually. Palme draws simultaneously with both his right
and left hand, creating images which contain a wide spectrum of marks, energies, and references, ranging
from finely rendered portraiture to chaotic abstraction.
There are multiple forces at work with each other and at odds with one another in the images Palme creates.
The technique which he has adopted to make his work, drawing with both hands at once, is integral to the
content of the work itself. There is always a battle taking place between that which we can comprehend or
identify as a part of our history, and that which is shrouded in mystery, perhaps supernatural, and definitely
powerful if not completely in control. From Palme's citations, it is evident that he is moving between and
connecting the spaces of the metaphysical, the historical, the scientific, the religious, and the philosophical.
In this intersection is not only a search for answers to large questions as exhaustive and epic as Palme’s
practice itself, but also a space of transition which brings the viewer to the present through depicting the
implications and effects of these dynamics of power and time on our lives.
MADNESS, BOOZE AND SOCIAL PHOBIA is Palmes first soloshow in mainland China.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Goethe Institut Shanghai. Please find their German and Chinese
newsletter at http://www.goethe.de/INS/cn/sha/deindex.htm
For more information please contact Susanne at susanne@stage-back.org or call +861502 1005047
Palme是一位多产的艺术家，其作品领域包括绘图、影像、表演和布景等等。黑白相间的铅笔画是Palme创作
的主要部分，每年最低的纸上作品量为4000张。Pamle可以左右手同时作画，其作品的表现形像，从肖像到混
乱的抽象，十分广泛地包括了各种符号、能量和事物。
在Palme创作的形象中，多种力量相互作用而且相互矛盾。他所采用的双手作画的技巧成为其作品本身不可或
缺的内容。在我们可以理解或认为是我们历史的一部分，与笼罩在神秘中、也许超自然的，虽未完全主导但绝
对强大的事物之间，总是存在一种挣扎。从Palme引证中，可以明显观察到他在超自然空间、历史、科学、宗
教和哲学的空间中游弋并进行着连接。这个交叉点，不仅与Palme的实践本身一样，为宏观问题寻找透彻详尽
的答案，而且也是一个过渡的空间，通过描绘这些不断变化的力量和时间的含义与对我们生活的影响， 把观
众带到现实中来
for more info contact.
iinfo@stage-back.org ( www.stage-back.org)
THOMAS PALME
MADNESS, BOOZE AND SOCIAL PHOBIA
托马斯·帕尔玛“疯狂、痛饮和社会病态性恐惧”
DRAWINGS / WORKS ON PAPER 繪畫 / 紙上作品
OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 29 2009 10月24日 - 11月29日2009年
Opening reception: October 24 2009. 6pm - 10 pm at stage候台BACK.
开幕接待 2009年10月24日 18：00 - 22: 00 stage候台BACK.
#310, 3F, 696 Weihai Lu (Shaanxi Nan Lu) Shanghai, China 200042 中国上海市威海路696号3楼310室(靠近陕西南路)
Palme’s highly prolific practice encompasses the fields of drawing, video, performance, and installation. The
black and white pencil drawings, which constitute the bulk of Palme’s creative output, are produced at a
minimum count of four thousand works on paper annually. Palme draws simultaneously with both his right
and left hand, creating images which contain a wide spectrum of marks, energies, and references, ranging
from finely rendered portraiture to chaotic abstraction.
There are multiple forces at work with each other and at odds with one another in the images Palme creates.
The technique which he has adopted to make his work, drawing with both hands at once, is integral to the
content of the work itself. There is always a battle taking place between that which we can comprehend or
identify as a part of our history, and that which is shrouded in mystery, perhaps supernatural, and definitely
powerful if not completely in control. From Palme's citations, it is evident that he is moving between and
connecting the spaces of the metaphysical, the historical, the scientific, the religious, and the philosophical.
In this intersection is not only a search for answers to large questions as exhaustive and epic as Palme’s
practice itself, but also a space of transition which brings the viewer to the present through depicting the
implications and effects of these dynamics of power and time on our lives.
MADNESS, BOOZE AND SOCIAL PHOBIA is Palmes first soloshow in mainland China.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Goethe Institut Shanghai. Please find their German and Chinese
newsletter at http://www.goethe.de/INS/cn/sha/deindex.htm
For more information please contact Susanne at susanne@stage-back.org or call +861502 1005047
Palme是一位多产的艺术家，其作品领域包括绘图、影像、表演和布景等等。黑白相间的铅笔画是Palme创作
的主要部分，每年最低的纸上作品量为4000张。Pamle可以左右手同时作画，其作品的表现形像，从肖像到混
乱的抽象，十分广泛地包括了各种符号、能量和事物。
在Palme创作的形象中，多种力量相互作用而且相互矛盾。他所采用的双手作画的技巧成为其作品本身不可或
缺的内容。在我们可以理解或认为是我们历史的一部分，与笼罩在神秘中、也许超自然的，虽未完全主导但绝
对强大的事物之间，总是存在一种挣扎。从Palme引证中，可以明显观察到他在超自然空间、历史、科学、宗
教和哲学的空间中游弋并进行着连接。这个交叉点，不仅与Palme的实践本身一样，为宏观问题寻找透彻详尽
的答案，而且也是一个过渡的空间，通过描绘这些不断变化的力量和时间的含义与对我们生活的影响， 把观
众带到现实中来
for more info contact.
iinfo@stage-back.org ( www.stage-back.org)
