
Tong Kunniao
艺术科隆 ART COLOGNE 2022
户尔空间展位 | N26
展期 Duration
2022.11.16-20
艺术科隆现场 Art Cologne 2022
户尔空间很荣幸为您呈现童昆鸟的个人展位。作为当今中国最受瞩目的年轻艺术家之一,他以创作戏谑荒诞的沉浸式宇宙而闻名。使用拾得物为原料,童昆鸟自由地从中西方艺术史中汲取美学冲动,以独特的、高度个性化的混合媒体创作语言,对当前的社会、生态和政治危机状态予以反应及反思。
艺术科隆现场 Art Cologne 2022
在艺术科隆的展览现场,童昆鸟展出了一系列全新创作的多媒体作品;这些作品探索了他提出的所谓“另类自然人”的概念,融合了人类、机器和动物特征的准仿生混合体。这些人物是“枯托邦”的主角,这是童昆鸟幻想中的宇宙,但也许与我们不久的未来并无二致;在这个宇宙中,人类日益分裂,被隔离,被控制,对自然的影响开始反噬。
At Art Cologne, he presents paintings from a new body of multi-media works that explore what he calls the “alternative natural person”—quasi-bionic hybrid figures that fuse together human, machine, and animal characteristics. Such figures are the protagonists of “wiltopia,” a fantastical universe—perhaps not so unlike our near future—in which human beings are increasingly divided, segregated, and controlled while their impact on nature begins to bite back.

Tong Kunniao 童昆鸟
被控制的控制者6号 The Controller under Control No.6, 2022
绢上丙烯,金属板acrylic on silk, metal sheet
绘画: 102 x 162 cm; 金属板: 250 x 125 cm

Tong Kunniao 童昆鸟
被控制的控制者6号 The Controller under Control No.6, 2022
绢上丙烯,金属板acrylic on silk, metal sheet
绘画: 102 x 162 cm; 金属板: 250 x 125 cm
肖像系列《控制之下的控制者》(The Controller Under Control) 将超现实的女性假人头置于中国传统的山水画背景中。并不遵循任何体系下,传统的技巧或标准,童昆鸟将这种形式上的共振吸收到其自身不拘一格的艺术生态系统语言中。在《控制下的控制者1》中,一张合成的女性面孔茫然地盯着束缚自己的工具;她的头被包裹在廉价的老式耳环架所构建的铜色刑具中。在这些作品里,童昆鸟肆无忌惮地将矛头对准所谓统治的理论,用锁链、架子、金属钉等物品装饰被囚禁的机器人,让人自动地联想到权力统治下的约束和惩罚,而细看这些所谓的统治工具实际上只是绘制的着色廉价珠宝、无用的小玩意和捆绑工具,原型来自于艺术家在柏林跳蚤市场寻得的现成工业制品,并同步使用在其创作的动态雕塑中。
The portrait series “The Controller Under Control” situates hyper-realistically painted disembodied female mannequin heads amidst a setting that resembles traditional Chinese landscape painting. Kunniao absorbs such formal resonances into his own eclectic artistic ecosystem but does not follow any sort of conventional techniques or criteria. In The Controller under Control 1, a synthetic female face blankly stares at the implements of her own bondage. Her head is encased within a copper-colored structure that resembles a kind of torture device but quickly reveals itself to be a cheap vintage earring rack. Kunniao cheekily riffs upon the optics of domination in this work, festooning his captive automaton with objects like chains, racks, and metal studs that call to mind instruments of restraint and punishment but are actually painted depictions of actual cheap jewelry, bric-a-brac, and bondage gear that the artist found browsing Berlin flea markets and uses in his kinetic sculptures.
Tong Kunniao 童昆鸟
四条轮胎下的鸡蛋 Eggs Under the Four Tires, 2022
轮胎,皮革,铆钉,五金件 tires, leather, rivets
尺寸可变
除了《控制下的控制者》系列的绘画作品外,童昆鸟还将在艺术科隆现场带来一场名为《四条轮胎下的蛋》的行为表演;两名男子在一个由轮胎组成的管道中滚动,这些轮胎点缀着皮带、尖刺和铆钉,它们来来回回不幸地旋转着,试图碾过周围的蛋。《四条轮胎下的蛋》将脆弱、新生命,力量和痛苦的象征结合在一起,充满趣味地提出了关于我们对韧性,脆弱与力量等概念的问题。
In addition to paintings from “The Controller Under Control” series, Kunniao will also present a live performance at Art Cologne entitled Eggs Under the Four Tiles. In this work, two men roll in a tube comprised of tires embellished with belts, spikes, and studs. Gyrating haplessly back and forth, they attempt to roll over eggs that are placed in their perimeter. Bringing together symbols of fragility, new life, force, and pain, Eggs Under the Four Tiles playfully raises questions about our conceptions of strength, vulnerability, and power.
艺术科隆现场 Art Cologne 2022
关于艺术家
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童昆鸟
Tong Kunniao
童昆鸟,1990年出生于湖南长沙,现工作生活于北京。2015年毕业于中央美术学院雕塑系第三工作室,2016 年考上研究生并同年退学。童昆鸟作品形式多样,在装置、行为、影像、 雕塑、绘画等媒介中灵活穿插。他习惯利用现代社会这个永动废物工厂制造的(过剩)产物与个人日常生活中触手可及的残余物件进行创作。关注繁杂的社会结构对个体身份与地位的限制与消耗,分解现成物,结合机械串联,导入重力平衡等因素,从而回应材料背后的个体意识,社会机制之间的多重变量和脆弱性。在拜物情绪、消费文化符号盛行,信息过载的当下,不断突破人类再造物的想象边界,呈现刁钻与戏谑并行的重构。
关于户尔空间
About Hua International
户尔空间(Hua International)是一家位于柏林与北京两地的当代艺术画廊,展览、出版和公共项目致力于跨学科及行为表演的艺术实践。画廊专注于发展与艺术家长期动态的合作关系,以其地理上的两地性为依托,扩展艺术家及其作品在迥异文化背景下的展览和接受。
以 XC.Hua 为名,经历了两年实验艺术策展项目运营积累后,花笑婵于2020年8月正式更名成立了户尔空间(Hua International),并在北京798艺术区、柏林历史悠久的当代艺术中心之一麦卡托庭院分别设立空间。在常驻两地空间之外,户尔空间也在国际知名的艺术博览会展示其艺术家作品。
Hua International is a contemporary art gallery located in Berlin and Beijing whose exhibitions, publications, and public programming supports cross-disciplinary and performative artistic practices. The gallery focuses on developing long-term relationships with its represented artists and leverages its geographic bilocation as a means to critically expand how their work can be presented and received in radically diverse cultural contexts.
After two years curating the experimental art and performance project XC.Hua, Xioachan Hua founded Hua International in August 2020 and inaugurated the new gallery with spaces in Berlin’s historic Mercator Höfe and Beijing’s acclaimed 798 Arts District.








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