正在展出 | ROADSIDE PICNIC

Exhibition Date:  December 14, 2017 – January 27, 2018

Venue: Chambers Fine Art

Add: 522 West 19th Street, NY

Tel: + 1 (212) 414 1169

展览时间: 2017年12月14日–2018年1月27日

地点: 纽约前波画廊

地址: 纽约曼哈顿西街19街522号

联系电话: + 1 (212) 414 1169

Chambers Fine Art is pleased to present ROADSIDE PICNIC, a group exhibition of Chinese artists living in New York, curated by Hiroshi Sunairi and Yixin (Sam) Gong.

The title of the exhibition is taken from a short science fiction novel written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in 1971. The 1979 art film "Stalker," directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is loosely based on the novel, with a screenplay written by the Strugatsky brothers. Set in the indefinite future, the "Stalker” works as a guide who leads people through the "Zone", an area in which the normal laws of reality do not apply. Touching upon themes of displacement and changing realities, the curators will present the work of 10 artists: Chang Yuchen, Lang Zhang, Miranda Fengyuan Zhang, Tan Tian, Tiger Chengliang Cai, Tingying Ma (in collaboration with Tina Wang and Kang Kang), Wang Tuo, Yi Xin Tong, Wei Xiaoguang, and Weigang Song.

Yi Xin Tong - Agression Project - Spider and Trampoline (cropped)

Compared to the practices of Chinese artists represented in much of the current Western art scene, these artists, educated in the United States, create works that defy the ‘exoticization’of their Chinese-ness. Their use of diverse art mediums, including painting, video, film, installation, performance, dance, drawing, and sculpture are fused with personal, idiosyncratic, theoretical, formal, satirical, poetic and ineffable contents.

“As the title implies, ROADSIDE PICNIC is the food meant to be eaten on an excursion by the side of a road. Where does this road lead to within the New York art world, to a maturity of style and content back in China, or toward becoming the leading voices of contemporary discourse?  ROADSIDE PICNIC is a celebration of the state in flux as our global world rattles anxiously and attentively”.

-Hiroshi Sunairi, Stalkert and Yixin (Sam) Gong, Bubble B.

About the curators:

Hiroshi Sunairi was born in Hiroshima in 1972. Dealing with issues of collective memory and the public sphere, he creates sculpture/installation and cinema on various contents. Sunairi has exhibited internationally, and he teaches in the Art Department at New York University.

Yixin (Sam) Gong was born and raised in Xiamen, China, and is a curator and researcher based in New York City. He has worked on several non-profitinstitutions in China and Southeast Asia. Gong studies Art History at Rutgers University.

ROADSIDE PICNIC是一个在纽约的中国艺术家的群展，由Hiroshi Suinari 与龚翊鑫共同策划。

展览的名称源于斯特鲁伽茨基兄弟1971年的短篇科幻小说。1979年由安德烈·塔尔科夫斯基执导的艺术电影《潜行者》就是根据这部小说改编的，剧本也由斯特鲁伽茨基兄弟编写。设定在不确定的未来，《潜行者》作为引导者，指引人们通过一个特定的“区域”，这是一个不适用一般现实法则的领域。策展人将以流离失所和不断变化的现实为主题，来展现十位艺术家的作品，艺术家包括：常羽辰，张浪，张丰渊，谭天，蔡承良，王拓，童义欣，魏晓光，宋维刚，以及一段由王亭钧演绎和康康剧本创作的马汀滢的表演。

Tan Tian - Parenthood #1-cropped

与受当今西方艺术界广泛接受的那些中国艺术家的艺术实践相比，这些在美国受到教育的年轻艺术家们创作的作品则是对利用中国的“异国情调”的实践的抗衡。他们广泛运用包括绘画、影像、电影、装置、表演、舞蹈、素描以及雕塑在内的各种媒材，并融合了个人、特质、理论、形式、讽刺、诗意和不可言喻的内容。“正如展览名称所建议的，ROADSIDE PICNIC指的是旅行时在路边吃的食物。这条道路将在纽约艺术界通向何方？是回到一种渐已成熟的中国风格和内容，还是走向世界成为当代话语的主导声音？ROADSIDE PICNIC是在当今全球的焦虑与关注中对一种不稳定状态的颂扬。”

- Hiroshi Sunairi, Stalkert 和龚翊鑫, Bubble B.

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