Nietzsche's philosophy and Shen Shubin's painting of the animal will
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Contact with Shen Shubin, from the 2012 gallery exposition, when his paintings have animals, he mainly painted his intuitive feelings about the social reality of the present, but has found his own expression path and contemplation, there have been "presence", "Pyramid Dream", etc., followed by a few years to find their own language, first found "About the Extended Creation of Cai Guoqiang's Works", "Imaginary Carnival" and other works have undergone great changes, one is that the color has become lighter, a change in the past bright colors, and began to silver gray, The other is that the narrative of the picture has been completely based on animals, and people have retreated into the background, especially the author who has always been confused about reality. The author has incarnated as a superman, has become the will of the animals in the picture, holding their life and death, the future, the exploration, experiencing their own experience, suffering their pain, witnessing everything about them, seeing the birth of their tragedy, seeing the order, uprightness, and transcendence of their communities, which reminds me of Nietzsche.
Pyramid Dream 250X180 Shen Shubin 2012
The East is still the West's Shen Shubin
Presence No.2 200x140cm Shen Shubin 2011
The land of the meal sharing system Shen Shubin
Three I debate Shin Shu Bin
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, linguist, cultural critic, poet, composer, and thinker. Nietzsche is considered the founder of modern western philosophy, and his writings provide a broad critique and discussion of religion, morality, modern culture, philosophy, and science. His writing style is unique, often using techniques of aphorisms and paradoxes. Nietzsche had a great influence on the development of later generations of philosophies, especially in existentialism and postmodernism.
The basic personality of modern man is shaped by Nietzsche, and modern values, whether it is Western liberalism or Chinese Marxism, the core comes from Nietzsche, and it is a modern church that is absolutely inextricably circumvented, although Nietzsche said that God is dead. When I was young, when I was still in Shanxi, I read a lot of philosophical works, although they were all read by swallowing dates, and they were read for the sake of reading, many works have been read after reading the author's name can not remember, because I read those books without a teacher, no classmates, are read by themselves, I knew that sentence at that time, the book is used when the party hates less, no matter how to read it first, although a large number of books are half understood and half understood, I am very troubled why those authors have to argue a book with an argument of one point of view, I had to go through it day and night to tell the conclusion, and it was the conclusion at the beginning, but I kept putting up with them, who made them so cattle B. I read Nietzsche's books, just like the cattle people, but he was fine, he could give me some poetic sentences, stimulate and tempt me to keep reading, first "The Birth of Tragedy", "Zarathustra Said", and later "Will to Power", etc., but I did not have the patience to read it, and privately I felt that it was almost over, knowing what his superman, God is dead, the will to power means. Later, I read Schopenhauer and knew that the two of them were a bunch, Schopenhauer was also very conceited, and Schopenhauer's mother was also a big coffee, but Schopenhauer said that in the future, others would know you because of me. Nietzsche studied many world celebrities, especially their personalities, and if you look at Schopenhauer's personality, you will see why they are a bunch, they are all believers in solipsism, which is why he became the founder of modern philosophy.
According to Nietzsche' research, the founders of history are often paranoid, believe in their own superhuman spirit, do not believe in the so-called God, or that you are your God, of course, if you believe that he is right, you must be prepared to accept the pain of all this, as long as you are ready to suffer all this, then your moment can be eternal. Nietzsche's world is tragic, the big pillar supporting this world is the tragic spirit, his world has no so-called comedy, there must be a tragedy that is also expressed, the whole "Birth of Tragedy" nagging to tell you this truth, this is the same as what my father told me, people come to the world to suffer, if Nietzsche's contribution is like this, then Nietzsche and my father, an old farmer who has worked all his life in the yellow land, I still go to be a farmer with my father, but Nietzsche is certainly not like this, Nietzsche told me that the reason why the world is the world is because there are supermen, and that his "So Says Zarathustra" is to tell us this truth, "What Zarathustra Says" is completely poetic language, completely poetic, and the whole book is like a long poem, that is, a superhuman master teaches the little superman how to be a superman.
All the tragedies of the modern world can be said to come from Nietzsche, Nietzsche's modern society is created by countless little supermen, but Nietzsche's modern society is also paradoxical, superman is a person who leaves God, it seems that modern man is the evolution of primitive man, but superman has not actually evolved from animals to modern man, the so-called superman seems to be just a ferocious beast, In fact, modern human beings are only a group of 2.0 animals armed with animal communities armed by science and technology, or animality is the nature of modern people, is the root of disorder or autonomy in modernization, especially after the postmodern, the Internet, the values of pluralistic order, centerless modern society show the continued degradation of God or the continued evolution of animals, and now what kind of inflection point, everyone has to ask what kind of thing man is? Of course Nietzsche is no longer there, and it is said that he had been mentally ill for many years before his death.
People in this era are still alive, the artist Shen Shubin once lived in an era of globalization, but the trend of anti-globalization has become the mainstream of many countries, Shen Shubin, born in 1978, is a native of the Internet, catching up with China's economic rise, China's rise has brought benefits to their generation, but just as modernization also leaves a bunch of modernization problems, works such as "Presence" and "Pyramid Dream" are manifestations of confusion in this period. Although the division of the world is constantly threatening modern globalization, but what kind of democracy, freedom, science, and the rule of law is authentic, human beings have been arguing, no one says that democracy, freedom, science, and the rule of law are not good, but your reality is not necessarily my reality, and the different camps of the East and the West are discussing whether to decouple from each other, but I think all these arguments are still the animalism of the superstructure or the philosophy of animal will.
Each country has its own reality, has its own "Presence" and "Pyramid Dream", to some extent its own heavens are like the ancient Chinese women's face of the sky leak can not solve the paradox of reality, just like the modern woman in "Pyramid Dream" needs to face that pile of urban modern garbage. Although some people are discussing the decoupling of East and West, but facing the same world is already an immutable reality, Nietzsche's space was more than the space we faced, although there are so many planets in the sky, human hands have touched Mars, but whether there can be a pergola to let human beings cool is still unknown, the reality in front of us is still this presence, or this "earth nature", the middle class is a bit luxurious tablecloth, the book on the tablecloth can have the answer? Is that a book from the East or the West? Territorial expansion is no longer the mainstream of this era, the internal excavation is the fundamental, I am afraid that high technology is the middle class tablecloth to share the food. The paradox of Nietzsche's philosophy is its brilliance, what makes it seem so well-spoken, that it is full of elasticity, and that is the reason why those supermen live.
The founder and philosopher of modern Western philosophy, The Philosopher Nietzsche
Vanity Carnival Shin Shu Bin
Kwa Father Day by Day NO.1 250x180cm Shin Shu Bin 2019
Shen Shubin explored a set of animal will philosophy, freely expressing his personal experience, repeating his confusion, from "About cai Guoqiang's works extended creation", "virtual carnival" and other works into his animal will painting, where there are Cai Guoqiang's footprints, but there are also Arabic numerals faint 0 symbol pattern, at this time the animal seems to have an order, and later there is "Tower of Will", "Babil", "Heavenly Road", there is a detail, "Tower of Will" is a carnival of "Carnival of the Void", after that carnival There is "Tower of Will", there is "Babi Tower", there is "Heavenly Road", and from "Tower of Will" there is the pattern of the faint 1 character number of Arapo numbers. The animal will here has entered the modern binary era, and the paintings here have gone beyond the purpose of painting, or the cemetery of paintings, because for collectors these paintings are getting bigger and bigger and are no longer suitable for collection, but the tower is a bit of a Nietzschean philosophical oath. Shen Shubin's breakthrough in animal will philosophy began with the work "Tower of Will", or to be precise, from this work has completed the rise of his artistic language superman. From "Tower of Will", "Babila", "Heavenly Road", to "Father By Day" symbolic schema 0 once again fully shows the 2 decimal system of animal will, and also corresponds to the confusion of the modern woman in "Pyramid Dream" sitting next to the pile of IT garbage.
Tower of Will 250x180cm Shen Shubin 2015
Babita, 260X380cm, Shen Shubin, 2017
Tianlu, 80X560cm, Shen Shubin 2017
Nietzsche's later "Will to Power" was compiled and published by his sister after his illness, and it inevitably had the meaning of his sister, so I was a little skeptical at the beginning, and after I went to Beijing, I flipped through the bookstore and did not buy it, especially a little disgusted with the consciousness of the book. I was raised by Marx's education in scientific socialism, and the basic points are completely different from Nietzsche's, although I liked his "The Birth of Tragedy" and "So Says Zarathustra" when I was young. Shen Shubin is younger than me, and he also grew up in Marx's scientific socialism education, which is naturally different from the ideological views of modern Westerners, and the position on the globalized human community is socialism with Chinese characteristics, which will not be completely consistent with Western neoliberalism, and the philosophical tendency of animal will presented in his art is completely consistent with the author behind his works.
The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened the global ideological struggle, but objectively it raises new questions about the independent thinking of artistic subjects, the Western liberal system has been questioned as never before, China's economic rise and the government's effective control of the epidemic, despite repeated ideological criticisms from different cultures, time will eliminate the barriers caused by ideology, the consciousness of the human community will certainly be expressed in individual super animals, and the philosophy of animal will will certainly light up the beacon of God at the top of the mountain, although now everything seems to be " The dream of "Father Day by Day", but we believe that the "Tower of Will" will definitely find "Heavenly Road", as long as we do not forget the original intention.
Shin Shu bin in front of his work
Nietzsche once said, "If there is a God, how can I bear that I am not the God, so there is no God!" If you understand this sentence, you should understand his "God is dead." Nietzsche has written a great deal of poetry, and the essence of his philosophy is for me the highest poetry of human life, and to his superman I am only regarded as a strong will similar to that of a philosophical king, and he is great at that moment, although for this greatness he has endured pagan pain, endured the heart-rending suffering of Prometheus, who stole fire for mankind.
Shen Shubin's philosophy of animal will, the result of my follow-up research from 2013 to 2021 for nearly 8 years, is a very diligent artist, until he found the element of animals he immediately came out of the mediocre painter list. Animals no longer have the meaning of animal ferocity under his brush, but become symbols of rational thinking of philosophical speculation, each animal is abstracted into the same will and order, they are no longer animals in the food chain of natural animals, they are no longer the weak and the strong, they are just symbols of the artist's thinking, animality has become a kind of rationality, they are asking a question of life: at present, life has no higher meaning...
August 8, 2021 at the Crescent Palace in Beijing