末世天启 | 王焜生

猎户座（现场）/ 直径170cm / 凸镜、灯箱、玻璃 / 2017 / 郑路

末世天启

Apocalypse of Eschatology

策展人：王焜生

Curator: Emerson Wang 

艺术家

卢征远、任哲、夏航、杨韬、郑路

Artists

 Lu Zhengyuan, Ren Zhe, Xia Hang, Yang Tao, Zheng Lu

开幕 Opening: 2019.4.6 16:00

展期 Duration: 2019.4.6-2019.5.12

地点：芳草地画廊·798 

北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号798中二街D09

Venue: Parkview Green Art 798 

D09, 798 Zhonger Street, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

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末世天启

文／王焜生

真理须藉由某种破坏性的力量才能获得揭示。

新秩序在旧秩序的浩劫上建立。这是寓言？还是历史？

东西方两个强权国家藉由贸易打开了另一场世纪争战，每场角力都充满着诡谲的气氛。国际情势牵动了不同地区的经济政治与社会的翻转，我们还能只是在自己的小小舒适圈自得意满吗？工业污染和下沉气流在城市上空造成厚重的灰霾，人们将自己的生活搅乱得比过往更为艰困。

无相二号（现场）/ 直径120cm / 凸镜、灯箱、玻璃 / 2017 / 郑路

全球知名的历史学家兼思想家哈拉瑞（Yuval Noah Harari）在他的《21世纪的21堂课》（21 Lessons for the 21st Century）书中，以既狠且猛的笔锋提出令人不安的忧虑：「大多数人类的痛苦将不是受到剥削，而是更糟的局面：再也无足轻重。???人类正面临前所未有的各种变革，所有旧故事分崩离析，至今也还没有新故事足以代替。那么，不论是我们自己或下一代，到底该做哪些准备，才能迎向各种前所未见的转变、应付种种极端的不确定性？」

我们正需要一个新的灵光启示，重新找到最后的防线与新生之道。古代犹太教和基督教的先知用形象生动的语言和丰富的想象在启示录中描述他们看到的未来景象。世界在人祸与天灾中走到了尽头，天降异兆，摧毁人的谎言，神之子化身骑白马的武士，再次降临，正义最终战胜邪恶。「世俗主义」（secularism）成为21世纪的人类信仰之际，必须找回融入了「人文主义」（humanism）才能响应出新的时代价值。我们别无选择，否则就意味着选择末日。

五位雕塑家的创作自有其各自的命题，但是归结而观都是在探索一种存在的情境，藉由解构、重组或变形，将人的心里状态以具体的形象呈现。

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卢征远挑战有关艺术的固定身份和风格如同人类对信仰与心灵的探索，这一次他用新科技与观众参与的计划，提出人际关系的暧昧；郑路属于东方的人文思想以书法绘画性的三度空间表现加深思考的维度，近期则将立体对象做平面化观看的方式处理，改变材质的原有特性，也提示了万物的多样性；夏航在科技的时代里处理人与未来机械的关系，金属光泽与锋利的切面作为雕塑的基底，是人类世的张狂；杨韬藉由宗教的形象探讨生命存在的本质，虚无与质疑也成为存在的必然；任哲反转回来看顾一个必须改变的世界需要由人出发新的力量，在这些人物造型中隐然出现神秘的寓言，预见了生命的另一种可能性。

而有趣的是当他们的作品共同出现在一个被我们所设计的场景中，就像是好莱坞的漫威电影宇宙（Marvel Cinematic Universe），这个看似实在却又虚构的世界，每个角色被赋予了特殊的身份与任务，在混沌的尘世，他们都在寻找问题的解答与救赎。

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Apocalypse of Eschatology

By Emerson Wang

The truth is only revealed under destructive power.

The new order is established on the collapse of the old one. Is this afable or destined history?

The two powers in the East and the West ushered in another centurial warstarting with a battle of trade. Each single move of either side is not thatsimple as it might seem to be. The international situation is poised tooverthrow economy, politics and society of different regions. Can we still sitback comfortably in our own tiny comfort zone, satisfied with ourselves?Industrial pollution and sinking airflow worked together to give birth to heavysmog over the city. People have turned their life into a greater chaos than ithas ever been.

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Yuval Noah Harari, a world-renowned historian and thinker pointed out inhis book 21 Lessons for the 21st Centuryhis worries with fierce words and furious tones: "The misery of most humanbeings is no longer being exploited, but something even worse, that is, nothingmatters. … Human beings are faced with unprecedented changes, where all oldstories are falling apart, yet new stories are not taking their places. Be itourselves or our posterities, how should we be prepared for such unprecedentedchanges and extreme uncertainties?"

We are in need of a new aura of revelation to rediscover the savinggrace. The ancient Jewish and Christian prophets describe the future they sawin Revelation with vivid images and rich imaginations. The world has come to anend in the aftermath of man-made catastrophes and natural disasters. The heavenunveils people’s lies. The son of the god comes on the back of a white horseand defeats the evil. When secularismbecomes the faith of the 21st century, we must resort to humanism to redefinethe value of new era, otherwise we have no other choice than going to the end.

Despite that the five sculptors have their own propositions to theirworks, they all boil down to one purpose, which is to explore a situation, withwhich to deconstruct, reorganize or reshape people’s mind and to present it in tangibleworks. 

梦游者 （现场） / 尺寸可变 / 不锈钢 / 2016 / 夏航

Lu Zhengyuan challenges the fixed identity and style of art as if he ispursing the human faith and soul. This time he adopts new technologies andencourages participation of the audience to propose the complex yet obscure interpersonalrelationship; Zheng Lu, an artist with typical oriental humanistic thought, isgood at expressing in-depth thoughts with the three-dimensional presentation ofcalligraphy and paintings. In the days to come, he will do it just the otherway around by having the 3D object observed from a two-dimension perspective, highlightingdiversity by changing the original characteristics of the material; Xia Hangdeals with the relationship between people and machineries in the future era oftechnology. Metallic luster and sharp-cut surface set the tone of the sculpture,representing the madness of the human world; Yang Lan explores the essence oflife existence through religious images, and nothingness and doubt become inalienablefrom existence; Ren Zhe holds that the world needs a new power from peoplebefore the world can be changed. Mysterious fables appear in these works, envisagingnew possibilities of life.

And what's interesting is that when their works are placed side by sidein the same scene we've designed, it feels like a déjà vu in the MarvelCinematic Universe. In this seemingly real but fictional world, each characteris given special identities and tasks, looking for answers and redemption inthe chaos of the world.

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关于策展人

王焜生

策展人，艺评家

专研欧洲现当代艺术史。曾担任艺术杂志主编，韩国国立当代美术馆客座研究员，台北国际艺术博览会执行长，水墨现场展博会艺术总监。

Emerson Wang

Curator, art critic

Specialized in modern and contemporary european art history.

He was the chief editor of art plus magazine,guest researcher of National museum of modern and contemporary art in Seoul, executive director of ART TAIPEI, artistic director of INK NOW Art Expo.

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