展览现场 | 崔洁个展 “礼物” @西岸美术馆

西岸美术馆与蓬皮杜中心五年合作展陈联合策展项目

“崔洁：礼物” 展览现场, 摄影：Alessandro Wang

艺术家崔洁个展《礼物》正在西岸美术馆呈现，展期为2023年11月10日至2024年2月25日。

Artist Cui Jie's solo exhibition Species as Gifts is currently on view at West Bund Museum, from November 8, 2023 to February 25, 2024.

展览通过崔洁的十余件绘画新作以及一系列与城市公共景观相关的文献资料，与观众一同去探寻上海这座城市中建筑、雕塑以及生态的嬗递更替以及与之相关的历史与回忆。

Cui Jie brings her recent field investigation of local parks into the creation of new sceneries through over a dozen new paintings. She delves into the successive transformations of architecture, sculpture, and ecology in the city of Shanghai, along with their associated histories and memories. Within this context, animals, plants, and gardens exchanged between nations or cities act as “gifts” that are transformed into mobile assets. The concept of the garden also evolves from being the property of the state or private individuals to becoming an open public space, which over time acquires a broader meaning as a place of recreation and nurturing, in response to evolving social needs and changing aesthetics. 

西岸美术馆与蓬皮杜中心五年合作展陈联合策展项目

“崔洁：礼物” 展览现场, 摄影：Alessandro Wang

作为中国当代极具代表性的艺术家，崔洁的绘画艺术实践融合真实和幻想的不同层次，以探索不同领域和地缘背景下的异质视角。在描绘特定的城市、建筑、结构和景观时，她探索了嵌入式的历史视角，并巧妙地提出了距离、角度和时间的多维度意义。

As a highly representative contemporary Chinese artist, Cui Jie’s artistic practice in painting combines different layers of reality and fantasy, aiming to explore heterogeneous perspectives in various fields and geographic backgrounds. When depicting specific cities, buildings, structures, and landscapes, she delves into embedded historical perspectives and skillfully presents multidimensional meanings of distance, angles, and time.

西岸美术馆与蓬皮杜中心五年合作展陈联合策展项目

“崔洁：礼物” 展览现场, 摄影：Alessandro Wang

在馆内展厅0的全新个展“礼物”中，崔洁延续了其对城市规划、地域研究以及景观雕塑的思考，动植物及园林都曾被以“礼物”的形式被互赠于国家或城市之间被动迁徙；而“园”的概念，也从官署或私署转变为公共空间，并随着需求及审美的变化成为了更具广泛意义的游憩之处。作为西岸美术馆展厅0先锋实验性质与互动性探索的沿续，崔洁将近年来对本地公园的田野调查成果用造景的方式与绘画新作相结合，其在展陈设计将借鉴上海东安公园的景观规划，用东方园林中对写意美的追求为绘画引入新的观看方式，邀请观众置身于“美术馆园林”之中，以城市中最为熟悉的“栖息景观”去唤起群体性记忆的共鸣，形成一种景与造景、自然与工艺、传统与当代、现实与回忆等种种交贯且又冲突的新叙事。园林本身即是工程技术和艺术手段的结合，其设计者在喧闹城市中心、高架与楼宇之间的缝隙试图辟出世外桃源，将人与城市隔开距离去获取一个短暂的自然环境，为达到“虽由人作，宛若天开”的意境。而人类文明与自然之间相互介入的关系，一直是崔洁的创作中重要的脉络之一，作品中平滑的、边界分明的理性画面里，长风公园、国泰电影院、以吻鹅为形象的被大型缩放的瓷瓶……这些似曾相识的景观和场景都将出现在展览中。

西岸美术馆与蓬皮杜中心五年合作展陈联合策展项目

“崔洁：礼物” 展览现场, 摄影：Alessandro Wang

This exhibition follows upon Cui Jie’s passion for urban planning, regional research, and landscape sculpture. In its design, she draws inspiration from the landscape planning of Shanghai Dong’an Park and introduces a new way of viewing paintings infused with the ideals of Eastern impressionism found in Asian gardens. The artworks are presented as elements of garden design, akin to the arrangement of props, and they come to life together with the wall fabric modeled after Dunhuang brocade from the 1960s, ultimately forming part of the virtual landscape.

Gardens themselves combine engineering and artistic techniques, and their designers strive to carve out a utopian oasis amidst the hustle and bustle, elevated roads, and towering buildings of the city. The aim is to create a temporary natural environment that in the words of Cui Jie, “appears as if it were created by the heavens, even though it is man-made.” The interplay between human civilization and nature has always been a significant theme in Cui Jie’s work. In the well delineated compositions that are polished and lucid, landmarks like Changfeng Park, the Cathay Cinema, and the large-scaled porcelain in the shape of kissing geese… these seemingly familiar scenes are being woven into abstract patterns reminiscent of railway tracks and constitute balanced records and observations of the interactions among human creation, nature, social-political dynamics, and historical change.

Focusing on local contemporary art practices from an international perspective is one of the West Bund Museum’s cultural perspectives. Cui Jie recently initiated the “Shanghai Garden” project in the museum’s outdoor space. As a playful experiment that blurs the boundaries between art and daily life, the artist opened a vegetable garden next to the museum and conducted a two-month planting project, sharing the fruits of art in the soil with the audience through stories or actual planting.Cui Jie’s solo exhibition “Species as Gifts” breaks through traditional mediums to bring a fresh perspective and direction to Gallery 0 of the West Bund Museum. 

崔洁

瓷器吻鹅和上海航天大楼，2023

200 × 160 cm

崔洁

瓷器吻鹅和上海衡山电影院，2023

200 × 150cm

崔洁

上海植物园, 2023

250 × 180 cm

图文致谢艺术家及西岸美术馆

西岸美术馆与蓬皮杜中心五年合作展陈联合策展项目