As 2020 approaches, the art world is also witnessing changes and renewals as we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. In the Netherlands, performance artist Ouray will no longer be performing with the "godmother of performance art" Abramovich, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will launch his solo exhibition in 2020. Because the Italian architect Massimo Issa Gini, the outskirts of Moscow in winter, will also be draped in color and "humanistic feeling".
In London, artist and film director Steve McQueen was awarded the Queen's Knight's Medal 2020. In Shanghai, photographer Chen Haiwen presents the imprint of his home country under the lens at the Jiushi Art Museum.
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Amsterdam Netherlands | Performance artist Ulay
In 2020, he will have a solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
Ouray
According to THE ART NEWSPAPER, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, will launch a solo exhibition of performance artist Ulay, who was once a couple with the "godmother of performance art" Marina Abramović. The exhibition is one of the debuts of Rein Wolfs, the museum's new director, who was appointed last year.
The Stedelijk Museum amsterdam houses more than 20 of Ouray's works, including two photographs from the 1992 Homeless series and Rest Energy with Abramovich in 1980.
Ulay and Marina Abramović, Potential, 1980
The exhibition, which will take place from November 2020 to April 2021, covers 4 themes, performance art and video by German-Dutch artists; research on gender identity and body media; participation in social and political issues; and connections with Amsterdam (ouray settled in the city since the 1960s).
Director Wolfs said: "Since working with Abramovich in the 1970s, Ouray has been a distinguished performance and body artist, using identity and body as a medium of creation. ”
Ulay and Abramovich were lovers and collaborators, and the two broke up in 1988. In 2010, when Abramovich performed at MoMA in New York, she invited strangers to sit across from each other and stare at each other, and Ulay's sudden visit brought her to tears. However, in 2016, they went to court for money, and eventually the Dutch court supported Ouray to obtain a net profit of 20% from the two-person cooperation project.
A statement from the museum said: "Despite his long-term collaboration with Abramovich (1976-88), before that, after that, he created wonderful avant-garde 'solos'. (Text/Hatamachi)
Shanghai | photographer Chen Haiwen
The Kushi Museum of Art presents the imprint of home and country under the lens
Chen Haiwen
Photographer Chen Haiwen was born in Shanghai in 1958, when he was a child, his family was poor but he loved to paint, and the new Chinese theme paintings were deeply engraved in his heart, and in 1983, he had the first Seagull 4B double-reel camera in his life, and he applied the picture structure engraved in his heart to photography, and insisted on the identity of the photographer without distraction.
Chen Haiwen Photography "2011 Shanghai Alley"
Chen Haiwen Photography "2003 Shanggang No.3 Factory"
The "Home Country Imprint Photography Exhibition" sponsored by Shanghai Jiushi (Group) Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum will be exhibited at Jiushi Art Museum on December 30, 2019. The exhibition is divided into four sections: "The Bund", "Happy Survival", "56 Nationalities in China", and "Old Industry on Both Sides of the Pujiang River in Shanghai", presenting the imprint of home and country under the lens of Haipai photographer Chen Haiwen.
Shanghai under Chen Haiwen's lens has a kind of eternity that crosses the times. Since the 1980s and 1990s, Chen Haiwen has documented the humanistic status quo of Shanghai city through the lens language of "silence is better than sound", and analyzed the connotation of Shanghai culture. In the process of creation, he is good at focusing the lens on the living people at the bottom of the city, and recording the spiritual outlook and living conditions of people at that time with a sharp eye that is not ostentatious. He uses black and white works with its slightly coarser grains and wonderful black and white tones to document the progress of Shanghai metropolis.
For his hometown of Shanghai, Chen Haiwen naturally has many stories and memories that cannot be finished. Chen Haiwen's father was the first generation of workers after liberation, and the factory life of his childhood was deeply imprinted in his memory, and the steelmaking plants, shipyards, ship repair yards, and ports and docks on both sides of the Pujiang River constituted a unique "industrial plot" in Chinese history under his lens.
In addition, "China's 56 Nationalities" is also its masterpiece. In 2008, he led the team to carry out the photography of "China's 56 Nationalities", which lasted for 12 months and photographed 1125 intangible cultural heritage national inheritors and ethnic representatives. These photos have also become a precious national "family portrait". (Text/Lu Linhan)
Beijing | Artist Chen Wenling
The fable of "stretching" dissolves high art with absurd and strange imagination
Chen Wenling
On December 29th, Chen Wenling's solo exhibition of "Stretching" Fables will be exhibited at the Minsheng Art Museum in Beijing. The exhibition will focus on the artist's creations since 2006, showing 3 groups of large-scale installations, more than 50 sculptures and more than 80 painting manuscripts.
Chen Wenling likes to use sculpture to respond to social change: the traces of China's social change in the past 40 years, especially the transformation of the bottom society, are imprinted in his creations. Some of his personal special experiences in a rapidly changing society, the explosion of wealth and consumer materialism created by economic development in China, and the mixture of multiple civilizations caused by globalization and Chinese folk and traditional culture have become important factors in his creation and the support for the continuous "continuation" of his art. Based on the changes in the language of his creative art, personal experience, human desire, and community illusion, these three processes constitute the "continuation" of the artist's artistic and life experience.
Chen Wenling's sculptures
What he feels in his works is the increase in social wealth, the loss of cultural interest, and the infinite amplification of human desires: gorgeously dressed pigs, strangely shaped elephants, rude cows, and so on.
The illusion of the community is that the development of globalization in recent years has made trade and exchange more convenient, but the difference in values, the gap between civilizations have not disappeared, and even a variety of sharp conflicts have occurred, and the existence of these conflicts and estrangements has undoubtedly laid the possibility of rupture in the current contemporary society that looks bright but has overlapped problems.
The exaggerated but interesting images in Chen Wenling's sculptures weave those seemingly ordinary and even indecent images in everyday life into a contemporary fable with vivid language, and this fable is constantly "stretching", it looks somewhat illusory and dramatic, but it is a fact that we face every day. (Text/Gao Dan)
Moscow, Russia | Italian architect Massimo Issa Gini
High-rise buildings were built in cooperation with Russian companies, which injected color into the outskirts of Moscow
Massimo Issa Gini
Recently, 47 high-rise buildings completed by Italian architect Massimo Iosa Ghini in collaboration with the Russian company Mosproekt-3 were completed on the outskirts of Moscow, which are covered by colored flat panels that inject color into monochromatic Moscow.
47 high-rise buildings of color on the outskirts of Moscow
The project consists of a series of 16-storey blocks of high-rise buildings that surround two large communal courtyards, including a green belt and a number of low-rise apartment blocks. In the collaboration, Mosproekt-3 dealt with the technical aspects of the building, while Massimo Isa Guini designed the façade and landscape.
According to the architect's idea, the colorful residential frontage and courtyard can go to "resist" the monotony of the suburbs. Through the combination with outdoor space, the residence can be made more "humanistic".
These colored panels blend the tiles typical of Soviet-era tower buildings with more modern fibrous cement mortar panels, creating different shades of light and shadow on each façade.
"Colours, which have always been used to create visual references and provide a sense of direction, are now being transformed into an artistic means of communication and, more importantly, to enrich the fabric of the city and give it its own personality in order to promote cultural development and the establishment of urban identity."
Massimo Issa Gini is an Italian architect, designer and professor, a leading figure in the Bolidist Movement, and has worked with architects from the Memphis Group. Massimo Issa Gini is known for his streamlined, organic designs. (Text/Qian Xue'er)
London, United Kingdom | Directed by Steve McQueen
He was awarded the Knight's Medal in the Queen's New Year's List 2020 and his work was exhibited at Tate
Steve McQueen before the "Third Grade" series
Recently, the Queen's New Year UK Honours list for 2020 was announced, and artist and film director Steve McQueen was awarded the Knight's Medal. McQueen 's outstanding and sustained contribution to the arts and film industry is to be recognized'.
Steve McQueen was born in London in 1969. In 1999, McQueen won the Turner Prize. In 2013, he directed the feature film Twelve Years of Slavery, which won best picture at the 67th BAFTA Awards, Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards, and nominations for Best Director at the 86th Academy Awards.
McQueen unveiled his series of primary school portraits, Third Grade, at Tate Britain in London: more than 3,000 class group photographs of more than 76,000 third-graders in two-thirds of Primary Schools in the UK are now hanging on the walls of the Tate's Duveen galleries. These students come from public, private, religious and specialised schools, in addition to student shelters and children educated at home. Neatly arranged, this wall of photographs is undoubtedly a portrait of a generation, echoing the "diversity" issues of Britain today.
Next February, McQueen's new and recent works will also be on display at Tate Modern. The exhibition will present 14 works on film, photography and sculpture. (Text/Qian Xue'er)
London, United Kingdom | Artist Gilly Green
Protecting the Brazilian rainforest with painting income
Gilly Green
According to the BBC, a British artist decided to protect the rainforest with his painting income after witnessing the increasingly ruined Brazilian rainforest.
Jelly Green, 27, was born in Suffolk, in eastern England, and after moving to Australia as a child, developed a strong curiosity about the rainforest. Later, she moved back to England, but neither London nor Brighton could arouse her interest as a painter. Then, she scoured the internet for an artist's "habitat" and put herself back in the embrace of nature. In the rainforest of central Brazil, she finally found her ideal idyllic home, a pristine tree house without electricity, the nearest town 18 km away.
Paintings by Gilly Green
After Gilly Green's first trip to Brazil, it took her 2 months to create.
"No internet, no interruptions, no one chatting." Green said. Inhabiting the rainforest, Green was inspired by a variety of watercolor paintings of flora and fauna. "I was completely captivated by this mysterious and beautiful place." Of course, being bitten by a small insect causes the blood vessels to turn black and have to run to the hospital, which is also the price of "pastoral art life".
She was impressed by her two-month stay in Brazil, witnessing rainforest destruction, and then setting foot in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. After experiencing the forest fires, the reality was even more desolate than she had imagined. So she donated £9,000 for her paintings and bought a small piece of land near Rio de Janeiro. The land will then be cared for by a Brazilian NGO non-profit organization, which has planted more than 500,000 trees over the past 20 years, and Green's generous donation will turn it into a rainforest in the future.
Fires in the Amazon rainforest destroyed the land and crops everywhere they went. Image source GETTY IMAGES
Green has now returned to england to continue painting, and in the future she intends to travel again to "document the ecological destruction that continues to occur". (Text/Hatacho)