展览名称：

“工作坊：艺术家是如何工作的” 


主办单位：

西班牙国际文化艺术基金会、《艺术与投资》&《当代艺术与投资》杂志社 


协办单位：

伊比利亚当代艺术中心 


展览时间：

二○○九年十二月五日 至 二○一○年一月九日 

展览地点：

伊比利亚当代艺术中心 [北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号798艺术区E06] 


赞助：MARTELL COGNAC
 

展览背景： 


“工作坊”，为《当代艺术与投资》2007年1月创刊以来的重要栏目，着重介绍年轻艺术家的创作，呈现其创作思路和作品；同时调查、研究及呈现华人年轻一代艺术家群落中最具实验性和创作力的个体艺术家，迄今近三年，共推介28位（组）艺术家，范围涵盖中国内地、台湾及海外地区。 

“工作坊”编辑、制作工作的重点，是力图清晰呈现艺术家创作的核心命题：即将那些通过观念思考、不断创作实验可能性的因素乃至艺术生产的过程展开；栏目的制作，从2007年定位在“艺术家的一件新作品的诞生”到不断演化为聚焦“艺术家工作的整体性研究”。 

在《当代艺术与投资》的编辑理念中，我们试图说明，这本杂志展示的是作为‘现在时’的实验性的、跨界性的当代艺术生产。我们的理解，杂志应该努力挣脱传统所赋予它的定义，使它的“本质”游离而成为一个开放性的能动主体。也就是说，它不仅仅是一本冷冰冰的仅供人翻检的纸媒体，而应该是一种通过展览、活动、出版，以及建立在其上的各种可能的建构。因此，我们不妨把这次展览称为一次“杂志-策展实践”。 

而在此过程中，我们有幸与这28位（组）艺术家和特邀评论家一起分享和探究了艺术家创作的“秘密”与发现的喜悦。 

由此，以《当代艺术与投资》发起，联合伊比利亚当代艺术中心共同组织、策划名为“工作坊：艺术家是如何工作的”的专题展览，将于2009年12月5日至2010年1月9日在伊比利亚当代艺术中心正式展出。展览是对过去三年中“工作坊”纸本研究工作的延伸与回应，着重于研究和分析艺术家创作的过程：观念形态与物质特性。

参展艺术家： 

董文胜、何云昌、蒋志、金石、李超、李景湖、李明、梁硕、刘波/李郁、卢征远、马秋莎、邱黯雄、石青、苏文祥、孙建春、汤艺、屠宏涛、王光乐、王宁德、邬建安、吴俊勇、吴小军、杨俊、张耿豪华、章清、赵要、赵赵、周啸虎 

总策展人：夏季风

策 展 人：

左靖、卢迎华、董冰峰、苏文祥
 
 
Exhibition Title:

Work in Progress: How Do Artists Work?

Presented by:

International Art & Culture Foundation of Spain, Art & Investment and Contemporary Art & Investment Magazines

Co-organized by:

Iberia Center for Contemporary Art 


Dates:

2009/12/05 – 2010/01/09

Venue:

Iberia Center for Contemporary Art

(E06, 798 Art Zone, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing)

Sponsor:

MARTELL COGNAC

Exhibition Introduction: 


“Project”, one of the central columns of Contemporary Art & Investment ever since its first publication in January 2007, is dedicated to introducing readers to emerging artists’ work through the presentation of their artistic intentions and creation, also aims at exploring, investigating and showcasing the most experimental and talented Chinese artists of a younger generation. Nearly three years on, “Project” has featured 28 artists (teams) across the mainland China, Taiwan and overseas. 

The editing work for “Project” seeks to give a clean-cut presentation of the core dimensions of the artist’s work, namely, to unveil the factors making on-going experiments and concept-centered thinking possible, and furthermore to dissect the process of artistic creation. The concept of the column has been evolving from 2007 edition of “the birth of a new work” to “a holistic study of artist’s work”. 

In our philosophy for running this magazine, we want to make it clear that the contemporary art this magazine exhibits is in the ‘present tense’ and understood through an experimental, interdisciplinary, and spontaneous spirit. It is our aspiration to create a magazine free from conventional definitions, so that the essence of the magazine can develop to become an active and open independent voice. It is not only a cold, passive medium on paper, but also a framework based on which exhibitions, activities, publishing, and many other options could be opened up. We could call this exhibition a “Magazine – Curating practice”. 

Owing to this column, we had the honor to share the pleasure of discovery and explore “secrets” in artistic practice together with 26 artists/teams and guest critics. 
 
As a result, this specially focused exhibition “Work in Progress: How Do Artists Work?”, initiated by Contemporary Art & Investment and co-organized by Iberia Center for Contemporary Art will be finally realized at the Center from 5 December 2009 to 9 January 2010. Through exploring and investigating conceptual forms and objective reality of things in artists’ working process, this exhibition attempts to make itself an extension of and a response to the studies gathered in the column “Project” over the past three years. 
 
Participating Artists:

Chang Kenghau&Chang Genghwa, Dong Wensheng, He Yunchang, Jiang Zhi, Jin Shi, Li Chao, Li Jinghu, Li Ming, Liang Shuo, Liu Bo&Li Yu, Lu Zhengyuan, Ma Qiusha, Qiu Anxiong, Shi Qing, Su Wenxiang, Sun Jianchun, Tang Yi, Tu Hongtao, Wang Guangle, Wang Ningde, Wu Jian’an, Wu Junyong, Wu Xiaojun, Jun Yang, Zhang Qing, Zhao Yao, Zhao Zhao, Zhou Xiaohu

Chief Curator: Xia Jifeng

Curators:

Zuo Jing, Carol Yinghua Lu, Dong Bingfeng, Su Wenxiang