楢桥朝子：一半现实，一半海水

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Scrapple Installation

Mobile Phone Concert

Maker Profile - Kinetic Wave Sculptures on MAKE: television

Firework Drawings

“Firework Drawings”by Rosemarie Fiore, I guess these don’t need an explanation.

“0°"” UNMASK 2009

unmask回来了——带着他们的新作品，拉开了2009个展的帷幕。unmask的创作始终是介乎于现实生活与虚拟空间之中的，从早期的“半透明”系列开始，unmask一贯坚持设计感与雕塑感相结合的超现实主义创作。新颖的材料，精湛的工艺，严谨而适度的唯美风——unmask作品总是和时尚、精致等等联系在一起。而在这些优雅的外表下，总有那么一些压抑与焦虑感于不经意间弥漫开来。

这次个展所展出的四件作品彼此独立而又相互照应，甚至可以被看作一件巨大的装置：四个弧形外壳里或躺或坐着形似人类、却长着动物皮毛的异形生物。《半透明》系列可以看作他们在传统雕塑上试验的体块删减，而这一次的0°系列则是以添加的角度在人体造型上实现的新探索：白色、黑色、黄色、紫红色，斑斓的仿真动物皮毛包覆着隐约可见肌肉和血管的人体，以及弧形外壳下方铺满白色细沙并精心组织出纹样的地面，unmask再一次证明了他们将装饰艺术融入雕塑语言的成功。

0°系列作品在展场中营造出亦真亦幻的迷离效果，但却不是生发于幻想中的。这种若有若无的疏离感强化了作品超现实的味道，同时也是以虚拟的角度介入真实的境况。在进入现实的过程中，unmask的作品采取了自我保护的态度。弧形外壳加强了虚拟空间的效果，并与动物皮毛一起，试图在最大限度上保护处于其中的身体。人物面无表情，然而却不是看破世俗的宁静：尽管有着自我建设的保护层，仍无法掩饰内心深处的不安，无奈，及至最终的隐忍。
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Julia Fullerton-Batten

Asian Contemporary Art Fair

How does Asian Contemporary Art contribute to what is largely considered to be an American and European context? Curator and writer Peter Weibel asked these relevant questions: “How is contemporary art, and art in general, conceived of in such places where there is no art history and no tradition of exhibitions? What does art, as a contemporary phenomenon, mean in this respect outside a Western context? Is it no more than the most recent development of modern art or does it represent something else that demands the mediation of museums?” Anyone who has walked these same halls for the Armory Show may question where Asian Contemporary Art lies in the broader spectrum outside of its commercial success.

Some of the stronger pieces in the show were rooted in Asian philosophies like Zen and Tao that follow their own reflective path. Ran Hwang’s Dreaming for Joy installation was a study in Eastern meditation, where literally thousands of individual buttons were used in the ongoing process.


Ran Hwang
Dreaming for Joy
Curator: Liang Chong

Wu Jian’an’s Xiantian 2006 was a stunning work of laser cut paper depicting Chinese mythology. Respected Korean artist Seo-Bo Park’s Ecriture No. 040920, 2004 hung idly alone in the VIP lounge in pure stillness as if it had always been there and always will be.


Wu Jian’an
Xiantian 2006
Chambers Fine Art


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Kolatan/MacDonald Studio

一对艺术家组合Kolatan/MacDonald Studio 由土耳其出生的美国籍女艺术家Sulan Kolatan和美国艺术家William J.Mac Donald组成。他们在1999年合作的雕塑作品（也许是建筑模型） 《Pod No.25,26,27》让我想到了我喜欢吃的茄子。你想到了什么？似乎他们的建筑作品更加值得关注！嗯，很不错的建筑设计师，设计的都是不切实际的建 筑。