Introduction: "Artron Monthly Curator Influence List" is a comprehensive collection, recording and tracking of curation and exhibition presentations in the field of contemporary art from the perspective of the media, and interprets the ability and innovation of the monthly exhibitions planned by "curators" in terms of academics, planning execution, public awareness and influence, international promotion and profitability from a professional perspective.
April 9 Curator: Zhang Ga
The Fulfillment of Artificial Intelligence: Humility & Liberation
Chengdu A4 Art Museum
April 17 Curator: Zhang Zikang Taifeng Belgin
Zhou Song's solo exhibition "Quality and Energy"
Guardian Art Center
April 20 Curator: Zhang Zikang Sun Dongdong
"Meta Realm"
Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
April 22 Curator: Hu Bin
Painter Akira Kurosawa
Chongqing Yuelai Art Museum
April 27 Curator: Xing Dan
The Balcony of the Brave – Nutrition, Materials and the Ecology of the Future
Beijing Hyundai Motor Culture Center
April 30 Curator: Dong Bingfeng
Body And Universe: The Art of Living Together
Changsha Xie Zilong Video Art Museum
▼ Curator: Zhang Ga The Fulfillment of Artificial Intelligence: Humble Abandonment & Liberation
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Curatorial Philosophy: Discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and humans, nature, and society
On April 9, 2022, "The Fulfillment of Artificial Intelligence: Humble Abandonment & Liberation" was held in Chengdu Luhu · The A4 Art Museum opened, and the exhibition was curated by Zhang Ga, vice president of the Institute of Science and Technology and Art of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Exhibition site
This exhibition attempts to explore the subjectivity of artificial intelligence independent of human beings, and to discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and human beings, nature and society in an artistic way. The exhibition presents the collision between cutting-edge technology and art in human development, and also provides audiences with a more international vision and exchange opportunities under the closed situation of the epidemic. The audience has the opportunity to follow the exhibition to think about the symbiotic relationship between man and AI, re-examine the world with the perspective of AI, and explore the new direction of human destiny with artificial intelligence.
Exhibition scene: Under the cool coat is serious thinking
The light of the entire exhibition hall is relatively dark, the audience will be attracted by the sound and light emitted by the work after entering the exhibition hall, and it is necessary to mobilize various senses and imagination to perceive the work, such as entering the exhibition hall, the first thing you see is the artist He Zike's work "Electronic Dream: We Will Continue Like This", two computers next to each other constantly flow the dialogue between the two artificial intelligence protagonists Jack (Jack) and Rose (Rose), Their dialogue, consisting of randomly grabbed text from an English-language website and randomly paired images on Chinese search engines, constitutes an incomparably absurd romantic story.
Exhibition site
The artist group Interspecifics' micro-rhythm is a microbial-driven sound and light installation, the soil sample is taken from the exhibition site, and the fluorescent lamp interprets the voltage change of the microorganism in the soil with "light", and the light change is captured and sent to the machine, and finally converted into a musical score to be played. Due to the microvoltage generated by microorganisms in the soil of different places, the combination of light and sound is also different.
"Micro-Rhythm"
The other works on display are also like the above two works, full of science and technology and sense of the future, and even have a lot of fun and interactivity in it, the audience can not only feel the forefront of scientific and technological development in the interaction with the works, but also appreciate the problems caused by science and technology, and then reflect, what is the world we come out of? What about the relationship between man and the world, and the relationship between nature? This may be the meaning of the exhibition.
▼ Curator: Zhang Zikang, Taifeng Beljing, Zhou Song's solo exhibition "Quality, Energy"
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Curatorial concept: to present the artist's continuous self-transcendence
On April 17, 2022, Zhou Song's solo exhibition "Quality and Energy" opened at the Guardian Art Center, with Zhang Zikang, director of the CAFA Art Museum, and Taifeng Berging, director of the Hagen Osthaus Art Museum in Germany, as co-curators.
"Mass Energy Universe", oil on canvas, 800x300cm, 2019
Zhang Zikang said that in artistic creation, Zhou Song is constantly exploring, and is an artist who is constantly renewing himself and surpassing himself. Looking back at the creative process of artist Zhou Song, it can be said that Zhou Song has carried out continuous excavation and in-depth in different sequences of works, and Zhou Song has put forward a serious examination of social reality with artistic techniques. In the works of artist Zhou Song, the exhaustive logic and deduction of Western philosophy, under the transformation of Eastern philosophy, you and I, creators and appreciators, trapped and bystanders, society and nature, experience and the unknown, individuals and groups, human beings and technology, subversion and inheritance, the present and the future, the real and symbolic, the existence and the imagination, there is no distinction between subject and subordination, both are aesthetic subjects, both are reflective subjects, and each other is dialectical.
Exhibition scene: thinking about the reality and the possibilities of the future
Walking into the exhibition site, on the one hand, the audience will be attracted by the artist's ultra-realistic picture, on the other hand, they may be confused by the artist's irregular works, because unlike people's common paintings, Zhou Song's works are all kinds of irregular shapes, and in the irregular shapes are all kinds of squeezed people, as if they are sealed in the picture frame, which triggers people's thinking. In addition, at the exhibition site, we can also see the artist's oil painting "New Genesis" completed in three years, the artist's composition adopts "The Raft of the Medusa", and the characters in the picture are replaced by robots, leading the audience to think about the future If it is a machine-led technological utopia, what position will humans occupy?
Zhou Song's latest solo exhibition "Quality and Energy" exhibition site
New Genesis Oil on canvas 510x250 cm 2017
Left: "Mask Series" Oil on canvas 100x100x141 cm 2020
The atmosphere created by the whole exhibition, seemingly relaxed, is actually deeply thinking in it, especially the rich human body is framed in geometric figures, expanding, distorting and rotating in a cramped and cramped space, Zhou Song not only conveys the strong desire of human beings to transform genes and transform nature, but also encourages the audience to imagine the various ways in which human beings and nature shape each other, as well as the many possibilities bred in the process of human evolution.
▼Curator: Zhang Zikang Sun Dongdong "Yuanjing"
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Curatorial concept: a system for presenting the development of Chinese art through art and technology
On April 20, 2022, the 59th Venice Biennale opened, and the Chinese Pavilion of the Venice Biennale "Yuanjing" also met with the audience as scheduled, with Zhang Zikang as the curator and Sun Dongdong as the assistant curator.
The scene of the 59th Venice International Art Biennale China Pavilion "Yuanjing"
Photo shoot: Yan Jing Do not use without authorization
This time, the Chinese Pavilion has its own cultural tradition in the planning theme. In the changes in today's world, China has its own development, especially the development of art has its own characteristics, for example, China has been in the process of modernization in recent years. China has its own cultural context, and it is necessary to consider the problem from the perspective of Chinese culture. Based on China's experience of modernity and the tension of the current times, works that reflect the cross-border between science and technology and art in contemporary China are displayed. As a national pavilion, it should bring the world the most cutting-edge artistic development in China in the past two years. In recent years, science and technology have greatly promoted Chinese art. Talking about Chinese art in this era, it is difficult to clearly explain the development of Chinese art without mentioning art and technology.
Exhibition: Create a poetic scene
The exhibition is divided into two areas: garden and exhibition hall. The garden area is displayed with Wang Yuyang's sculpture "Snowman" (2021), and the exhibition hall area is the joint collective project "Jungle" (2021) jointly by the CAFA Academy of Science and Technology and tsinghua University's Brain and Intelligence Laboratory, Xu Lei's "Xinghui" (2021), Liu Jiayu's "Virtual Pole Quiet Du" (2021) and Wang Yuyang's "Wang Yuyang #: One Quarter (Solar Terms)" (2021).
Wang Yuyang's sculpture "Snowman" is exhibited in the Greenland Garden exhibition area
Photo shoot: Wang Jingyun Unauthorized, do not use
Xu Lei's "Correspondances" exhibition site
Photo shoot: Yan Jing Do not use without authorization
The exhibition combines the space of traditional landscape painting and the change of moving scenery, combined with the artist's exhibits, and reproduces the artistic conception of Chinese culture through space creation. The work "Virtual Pole Jingdu" is a 21-meter-long, AI-generated topographic sculpture placed in the exhibition hall much like a rolling mountain range; artist Wang Yuyang's "Wang Yuyang#: Quarter (Festival)", a large tree floating in the air; Xu Lei's work "Correspondances" presents a representative image (tree) in Chinese art history; THE AT group's work "Jungle" is created around AI's understanding of plants, discussing the ecological world and "data" in people's eyes. The relationship between the ecological world in the eyes of the processor.
"Wang Yuyang#: Quarter (Solar Terms)" and Liu Jiayu's work "Virtual Pole Quiet Du" were exhibited
Photo shoot: Yan Jing Do not use without authorization
AT Art Group "Jungle" Exhibition Scene Photo: Yan Jing Do not use without authorization
In this exhibition, the audience can feel the atmosphere full of ancient Chinese meaning at the scene, but in the works, they can see the development system of Chinese art at the personal and technical levels, as well as the current social phenomena in China, as well as thinking about the future.
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