"所建即所见 Constructed Realities"
艺术家 Artists:
Brigitte Spiegeler, Lisanne Hoogerwerf, 王欣 Wang Xin
策展人 Curator:
顾铮 Gu Zheng
开幕：星期六，9月24日
Opening: Saturday, 24th September 16:00 - 19:00
展览日期：2022年9月24日 - 10月30日
Exhibition Dates: 24th September through 30th October 2022
ArtCN 非常荣幸与荷兰驻沪领事馆携手，共同呈现摄影群展《所建即所见》。本次展览涵盖了三位来自中国和荷兰的艺术家—— 王欣, Brigitte Spiegeler, Lisanne Hoogerwerf。 本次展览是荷兰驻沪领馆举办的项目"荷兰艺术家在上海"系列之十五，旨在向中国公众介绍来自荷兰的视觉艺术家。
今年正值中荷建交五十周年，也是ArtCN成立的第十年。这次展览既是为纪念和庆祝两国建交以来的深入的文化艺术交流，也是ArtCN一直为推动中外、中荷艺术交流与相互理解付出努力的最新成果。
ArtCN Gallery, in cooperation with the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Shanghai, is delighted to present "Constructed Realities", a photography group exhibition featuring the latest works of Dutch artists Lisanne Hoogerwerf, Brigitte Spiegeler and Chinese artist Wang Xin. This exhibition is the fifteenth in the Dutch Artist in Shanghai series, an on-going program initiated by the Consulate to introduce and promote both established and emerging Dutch visual artists to the Chinese public.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China and the Kingdom of the Netherlands establishing diplomatic relations. This exhibition celebrates the in-depth exchanges in culture and art between the two countries, and is also the latest in a series demonstrating the ongoing goal of ArtCN to promote an artistic dialogue between Chinese and foreign artists.
©Lisanne Hoogerwerf | 荣耀之丘, 一场静默之旅的思索, 80 x 120cm, 艺术微喷于德国哈内姆勒摄影棉纸, ed.2/5, 2022
Glorious Curves, Reflections of a Silent Journey, 80 x 120cm, Giclee print on Hahnemuhle photographic paper, ed.2/5, 2022
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"《所建即所见》有幸邀请到三位中国和荷兰的艺术家，试图通过她们以摄影所展开的特别是具'建构摄影'特色的探索，来思考摄影与真实的关系，也促进对于摄影观看与真实以及现实的关系的思考。值得注意的是，参与此次展览的三位中荷摄影家都为女性。这一巧合却是基于一个令人鼓舞的事实：在荷兰和中国，有大量的女性以摄影为手段展开艺术表达。展览的初衷也是希望能够为大家提供更多了解摄影的可能性并扩大中荷摄影家展开进一步交流的机会，无论是在了解荷兰与中国的摄影方面还是理解摄影的可能性方面，都能够为大家提供新的体验和享受。
©王欣 Wang Xin | 昨日的世界, 30 x 43cm, 艺术微喷于德国哈内姆勒摄影棉纸, 2022
Yesterday once more, 30 x 43cm, Giclee print on Hahnemuhle photographic paper, 2022
这个春天，上海经历了封控。一段时间里，抗原检测试剂盒（简称抗原）成为了市民日常生活的中心，用抗原自测成为封控中的新的日常。王欣收集了用过的抗原，以搭建各种微型'构建物'并且置入人形手办的方式，驰骋想象，表达自己的内心感受。这个名为《抗原》的系列，将取材于封控生活的'现成品'与摄影结合起来，具现了封控中的人的心情、心态与心性。除了搭建作品之外，她还随时拍摄封控中的城市景观，以戏剧性的光影以及多变的视角，传达了特殊环境下的心理感受。从某种意义上来说，这是一种心灵的抵抗，也是向不可见的病毒的示威。
Lisanne Hoogerwerf的建构影像作品已经获得广泛认知。她在手绘背景前搭建基于荷兰风土特征和文化传统的建物，并以摄影方式拍摄而成。她的结合绘画和摄影而成的、介于现实与超现实之间的画面，洋溢着充足的荷兰气息，但又充分展现了她的空间诗学的个人想象。她的作品既是某种荷兰性的体现，也是'新画意摄影'探索以跨媒介融合的手法超越摄影的局限性的新例子。'现成品'艺术推崇从身边用品取材，以打破生活与艺术的边界。而王欣和Hoogerwerf这两位摄影家以现实生活中唾手可得的材料，通过具戏剧性的建构影像，既重新审视了生活与艺术的关系，也提供了以摄影'制异'的充满了想象力的影像。
组合就是制造相遇，相遇引发意外的惊喜和对话。Brigitte Spiegeler把不同内容的图像叠加，并覆罩上具梦幻色彩的彩色，以充满了诗意与哲思的画面，在重叠的影像之间创造相互穿越与渗透的可能，赋予图像以扩张想象的能量。她给出的这种多重结构的图像形态，既重新审视了自然与文化之关系，同时也是对再现的一种质疑。
这三位摄影家以各自不同的观念和手法，将'建'与'见'的关系作了各具特色的探索，提供了思考摄影的新的材料，也为我们提供了扩展摄影这个观看和表达手段的媒介属性、进一步确认其媒介特性的可能性。相信她们的工作会给大家带来惊喜和有益的启示！"
—— 顾铮
策展人, 复旦大学新闻学院教授
©Brigitte Spiegler | 穆卡纳斯变奏 (考古练习), 40 x 30cm, 数码印刷, 2022 (细节)
Muqarnas Variations (Archeologic Exercises), 40 x 30cm, risography, 2022 (Detail)
"Constructed Realities includes three artists from China and the Netherlands. The exhibition tries to ponder the relationship between photography and reality through these three artists’ explorations of photography, especially explorations featuring 'constructed photography', and to promote thinking about the relationship between photography viewing and truth as well as reality. It is noteworthy that these three photographers, from both China and the Netherlands, are all women. This coincidence is based on the fact: there are a large number of women in both China and the Netherlands using photography as a way of artistic expression. The original intention of this exhibition is offer more possibilities to get to know photography and more opportunities for further communication between photographers from China and the Netherland. We sincerely hope that this exhibit will be able to bring new experiences and enjoyment to all the visitors, not only in terms of knowing about photography in the Netherlands and China, but also in terms of understanding the various possibilities of photography.
Shanghai experienced a lockdown this spring. For a period of time, the antigen self-test kits (antigens for short) became the center of people’s daily lives, and doing self-tests became a new daily routine during the lockdown. Based on these unique experiences, the Chinese artist Wang Xin built various mini 'constructions' with used antigens she collected and put human-like figures into them to express her wild imagination and inner feelings. This series with the title, Antigens Ground, embodies the emotions, moods and inner feelings during the lockdown through combining photography with 'ready-made objects' from the lockdown period. In addition, she also photographed the urban landscape during the lockdown, and expressed inner feelings under these unusual circumstances with dramatic lights and shadows and variable perspectives. In a way, this is a kind of mental resistance as well as a demonstration against the invisible virus.
©Wang Xin | 无题, 43 x 30 cm, 艺术微喷于德国哈内姆勒摄影棉纸, 2022
Untitled, 43 x 30 cm, Giclee print on Hahnemuhle photographic paper, 2022
Lisanne Hoogerwerf’s constructed photography has already gained wide recognition. She constructs buildings based on terroirs and traditional culture in the Netherlands in front of hand-painted backgrounds and records them in a photographic way. Her pictures are combinations of painting and photography, alternating between realism and surrealism, with a distinct flavour of the Netherlands, yet present her space poetics and her own imagination well. Her works are both embodiments of a certain 'Dutch type' and a new example for the exploration in 'neo-pictorialism' breaking through the limits of photography in a trans-media approach. 'Ready-made' Art promotes the idea of making subject matter from objects around us in order to break the line separating life and art. Both photographers – Wang and Hoogerwerf – use materials that could be easily found in daily life. By means of dramatic image construction, they not only re-examine the relationship between life and art but provide imaginative images that are alienated by photography as well.
©Lisanne Hoogerwerf | 度假村, 重叠与共识的碎片, 45 x 30cm, 艺术微喷于德国哈内姆勒摄影棉纸, ed.1/5, 2022(细节)
Resort, Fragments of Common Ground, 45 x 30cm, Giclee print on Hahnemuhle photographic paper, ed.1/5, 2022 (Detail)
Combining things means to bring them together. And bringing things together can create unexpected surprises and interactions. Brigitte Spiegeler superimposes various kinds of images and covers these superimposed images with dreamy colours. With poetic and philosophically graphic language, she creates the possibility of the images crossing over and filtering into each other so that the images are endowed with the power to expand imagination. With this multi-structural pattern of images, she re-examines the relationship between nature and culture, all the while calling into question its reproduction.
These three photographers have explored the relationship between 'construction' and 'seeing' with their different concepts and methods. These explorations provide us new ways of thinking about photography and offer us the possibility to extend and then further confirm the media properties of photography as a way of viewing and expressing. Therefore, their photography definitely brings us the unexpected as well as welcome inspiration!"
—— Gu Zheng
Curator, Professor at the Fudan University, Shanghai
©Brigitte Spiegler | 穆卡纳斯变奏 (雅典娜), 40 x 30cm, 数码印刷, 2022 (细节)
Muqarnas Variations (Athena), 40 x 30cm, risography, 2022 (Detail)
关于艺术家 About the artists
Brigitte Spiegeler（b.1971）是一位荷兰艺术家，2008年毕业于荷兰海牙皇家艺术学院艺术专业。她的作品在中国、土耳其、德国、瑞士、意大利、匈牙利、法国等国际展览中频频露面。她曾参加2017年威尼斯双年展。她的作品涉及多种媒介和技术，如摄影、绘画、陶瓷、诗歌和装置。Brigitte Spiegeler的作品是关于一个只存在于我们脑海中的虚构时间：用她的话来说"时间之外的时间，模糊的一些细节浮现，记忆就在眼前，但同时又无限遥远和无形"。她的作品被纳入多个国际收藏，包括中国德化万旗美术馆以及来自德国、土耳其、瑞士和荷兰等各国的私人收藏。 Brigitte Spiegeler 目前仍在荷兰生活和工作，并活跃于世界各地的艺术家驻地项目。今年秋季她于德国柏林参与艺术驻地。
Brigitte Spiegeler (b.1971) is a Dutch artist who graduated in fine arts from the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (The Netherlands) in 2008. Her work can be seen at international exhibitions in China, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, and France. She has participated in the Venice Biennial in 2017. She uses a variety of techniques, such as photography, painting, ceramic, poetry, and installation. Spiegeler's works are about an imaginary time that only exists in our minds: in her words "a time without a time, vague with some details popping up, the memory is now, right here, but at the same time endlessly far away and intangible". Her work is in several international collections including the WanQi Art Museum, Dehua, China, and various private collections in Germany, Turkey, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Brigitte Spiegeler lives and works in the Netherlands and regularly stays in artist residencies around the world. This past August and September she joined an art residency in Berlin.
Lisanne Hoogerwerf (b.1987)于2011年毕业于皇家艺术学院，现工作和居住在荷兰的海牙。Lisanne的作品曾在荷兰，意大利，英国和罗马尼亚展等多个国家展出，近期参加了“游离的边界”影像上海艺术博览会线上主题展，阿姆斯特丹摄影博览会Unseen Photo Fair，米兰MIA Photo Fair,奥地利青年艺术博物馆等国际展览与艺博会。连结于她的内心世界和幻想的外太空，Lisanne描绘了一幅幅对于观众来说熟悉又陌生的的场景，这些场景并不真实存在于现实世界，却又是用现实生活中的日常之物搭建而成，如木头、沙子、胶水和彩绘画布等。她的工作室是她进行搭建、记录和解构她的景观的舞台。在她的置景里，有时候她会指向全球的状况，如流行病、气候危机、环境问题等。这些场景摆脱了繁忙日常的喧嚣，拥有相反鲜明特征的因素彼此联系，例如：乌托邦/反乌托邦、轻浮/严肃、社会/自然、美丽/灰暗等。
Lisanne Hoogerwerf (b.1987), graduated from Royal Academy of Art, currently works and lives in The Hague in the Netherlands. Lisanne’s works are exhibited in the Netherlands, Italy, the UK, Romania, etc. Recently she attends the following exhibitions and art fairs: "The Boundary of Drifting" online exhibition in Photofairs Shanghai, "Unseen" Photo Fair Amsterdam, MIA Photo Fair Milan, Museum of Young Art in Austria. Bonding her inner heart with imagined outer space, Lisanne’s artworks depict recognizably unreal places: scenes that you cannot find in reality, but which are made with real materials such as pieces of wood, sand, glue, and painted canvas. Her studio floor acts as a stage on which she builds, records, and deconstructs her landscapes. In her scenes, she sometimes refers to global developments, such as the pandemic, the climate crisis, and environmental issues. The scenes have been stripped of the hustle and bustle of everyday life: no traffic or busy cityscapes. Contrasting characteristics and elements can be linked to her work, for example: utopian/dystopian,playfulness/seriousness, society/nature, and beauty/grayness.
艺术史博士，上海中国画院理论部主任，现工作和居住于上海。王欣擅长以现实生活中唾手可得的材料，通过具戏剧性的建构影像，重新审视生活与艺术的关系，同时提供以摄影“制异”的充满了想象力的影像。在她的最新系列作品中，王欣将取材于封控生活的"现成品"抗原检测试剂盒与摄影结合起来，具现了特殊时期中的自身的心情、心态与心性。王欣策划参与的展览项目包括：2020、2021集美•阿尔勒国际摄影季《十字路口——透过镜头看新加坡1870-1940》、《回家——刘抗相册里1928年前后的福建影像》，2013上海青年美术大展青年摄影单元，《来自上海——摄影现代性检证》，《上海祭忆1980s——七位摄影师的影像记录》，《上海之像1990s》等。除此之外，她还负责出版了多本摄影领域的著作和书籍。
Wang Xin, Doctor in art history, currently works as the Director of the Theory Department at the National Academy of Painting Shanghai and lives in Shanghai. She uses materials that could be easily found in daily life. By means of dramatic image construction, they not only re-examine the relationship between life and art but provide imaginative images that are alienated by photography as well. In her latest work, she embodies the emotions, moods and inner feelings during the lockdown through combining photography with "ready-made objects" from the lockdown period. Exhibitions that Wang Xin participated in: "Crossroads - Singapore Through The Lens 1870-1940" and "Back Home - Images of Fujian Circa 1928 in Liu Kang's Album" during 2021 and 2020 Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival, "2013 Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition - Youth Photography Unit", "Shanghai Aura: Exploring Photographic Modernity in Early 20th century China", "Commemorating Shanghai 1980s - The Photograph of Seven Photographers", "Commemorating Shanghai 1990s". Besides, she engaged in the publication of many books and works in the field of photography.
关于策展人 About the curator
1959年生于上海，现为复旦大学新闻学院教授，复旦大学信息与传播研究中心研究员，复旦大学视觉文化研究中心副主任。1998年毕业于日本大阪府立大学人类文化研究科比较文化研究专业，获学术博士学位。2017-18年度哈佛燕京访问学者。2019年德国海德堡大学第九届中国艺术史海因茨·葛策杰出客座教授（9th Heinz Götze Distinguished Visiting Professor of Chinese Art History）。
顾铮学术兴趣主要为：20世纪现代艺术，当代中国纪实摄影，视觉文化与图像传播研究、摄影史等。他著有《Chinese Contemporary Photographic Art（中国当代摄影艺术）》（2011，中文版与法文版）、《摄影的人，在路上》（2013，台北）、《当代摄影文化地图》（2016）、《没有美满结局的童话：战争、宣传与图像》，《来自上海-摄影现代性检证》（2017），《他们如何接纳摄影》（2018），《城市表情》（2020），《中国当代摄影景观》（2022）等。他主编有：《西方摄影文论选》（2005）、《摄影·社会·空间》（2010）、《中国摄影大系理论卷》（合编，2013）等。
顾铮曾获得中国摄影金像奖（理论评论）（2001年）及第一届沙飞摄影奖学术奖（2007）。曾任第56届世界新闻摄影比赛终评评委。自2020年起，顾铮担任集美·阿尔勒国际摄影季艺术总监。
Gu Zheng (b.1959) is currently a professor at the School of Journalism, Fudan University Shanghai, China. He also works at the Center for Information and Communication Studies and is the deputy director of the university’s Research Center for Visual Culture. He earned his Ph.D. in 1998, in comparative cultural studies, at Osaka Prefecture University in Japan. 2017-18 Gu Zheng was appointed as a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. In 2019, he was awarded the 9th Heinz Götze Distinguished Visiting Professor of Chinese Art History at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Gu Zheng's main academic interests include 20th-century modern art, contemporary Chinese documentary photography, visual culture, image communication research, and the history of photography, to name just a few. Gu has published over a dozen books on photography, photographic history, and the theory of visual arts. He is the author of "Chinese Contemporary Photographic Art" (2011, Chinese and French editions), "Photographers, On the Road " (2013, Taipei), "Contemporary Photographic Culture Map " (2016), "A Fairy Tale Without a Happy Ending: War, Propaganda, and Imagery, From Shanghai - An Examination of Photographic Modernity " (2017), "How They Embrace Photography "(2018), "Urban Expressions" (2020), "Chinese Contemporary Photographic Landscapes " (2022) among others. He is also the editor of the following works: "Selected Western Photography Literary Theory" (2005), "Photography, Society and Space " (2010), and "Theory Volume of Chinese Photography" (co-edited, 2013).
He was awarded first prize in the Theory and Critique Section of China’s prestigious Golden Statue Award for photography in 2001, and the Academic Prize in the first Sha Fei Photography Award in 2007. He was the final judge of the 56th World Press Photo Contest. Gu Zheng has been named as the artistic director of the Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival since 2020.
本此展览特别致谢：
With the special support of :
荷兰王国驻上海总领事馆
Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Shanghai
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