策展人：阳昕

艺术总监：李力

展览时间：2024年1月14日–2024年6月30日

展览地点：H18，当代艺术馆

平面设计：协调亚洲

Curator：Cathye Yang

Art Director: Lise Li

Duration: January 14, 2024 – October 7, 2024

Venue: H18, Contemporary Art Hall

Graphic Design: COORDINATION ASIA Ltd.

梁绍基，中国重要的当代艺术家之一。三十余年来，他潜心于艺术与生物学、装置与雕塑、新媒体、行为的临界点进行探索，持续以蚕的生命历程为媒介、以与自然互动为特征、以时间、生命为核心的“自然系列”的创作。蚕与蚕丝，也成为了他最代表性的艺术语言。而在此次上海玻璃博物馆“退火”项目中，他使用玻璃作为主要创作媒材，以实验态度破除工艺性的限制，探索全新材料的可能性。历达四年的项目合作过程不仅体现了“退火”项目的宗旨，即鼓励艺术家突破材料边界，开掘材料之上的精神性，也是梁绍基寻求自身艺术创作的再问和解放。

“溶”为水态，“熔”呈火性。水和火，自古以来被视为自然界中最基本的元素之一，它们不仅是玻璃诞生的关键条件，更深刻象征着生命的起源、变革和终结。在水火交织的复杂过程中，共同创造、映射了一个充满变化的世界。“幻”在此处亦成为了一个关键字，幻象叠嶂，光影迷离，正也暗合了玻璃这一独特第四态——既非固态、液态也非气态的隐喻。有机与无机、自然与城市、历史与当下、生命与死亡、创造与毁灭……大千世界永远存在于一种永恒流转之中的过程状态，永不停歇地循环转化，但又从未真正抵达终点。此般玄妙和不定，是生命多样且变幻无常的完美体现。

“万物并作，吾以观复”。 从蚕丝的柔和“丝光”到玻璃的透明“玻光”，这两种表面上截然不同的材料，实际上暗合了关于“生命”的本质探究。观者倒也不必过分讶异此次所使用创作材料的极大转变，因为对艺术家而言，一以贯之的是他始终关注的核心主题，即追寻那些既隐蔽又显现的关于生命、时间、自然、宇宙、历史与社会的奥义真谛。光纳万物，虚归实现。梁绍基不仅展现了“光”之科学特性，更在深挖其象征的丰富内涵，借以折射世间百态于水火相克相生间孕育的流变幻象之光。

水火之间，溶熔之幻

以幻入真，寓道于器。

Liang Shaoji is one of China’s prominent contemporary artists. For over thirty years, he has delved into the intersections of art and biology, installations and sculptures, new media, and performance, persistently exploring the juncture between them. His ongoing “Nature Series” revolves around the life cycle of silkworms, characterized by interaction with nature, with time and life at its core. Liang Shaoji regards silkworm silk, cocoons, chrysalises, silk moths, excrement, and urine, as well as the sounds and scents of silkworms feeding on mulberry leaves, spinning silk, and transforming into moths, as the remnants released by the life of silkworms. These elements not only serve as mediums for his creation but have also become his most representative artistic language. In the “Annealing” project at the Shanghai Museum of Glass, he employs glass as the primary creative medium, adopting an experimental approach to break the constraints of craftsmanship and discover the possibilities of this entirely new material. This four-year collaborative project not only embodies the purpose of the “Annealing” project—to encourage artists to transcend material boundaries and unearth the spirituality beyond materials but also represents Liang Shaoji’s quest for re-questioning and liberating his own artistic creation.

Flowing into liquid, melting into fire. Water and fire have been regarded as two fundamental elements in the natural world since ancient times. They are not only crucial conditions for the birth of glass but also deeply symbolize the origin, transformation, and culmination of life. In the intricate interplay of water and fire, they collectively create and reflect a world full of constant change. “Phantasmagoria” becomes a keyword here, where the interplay of optical illusions and the bewitching interplay of light and shadow resonates with the unique fourth state of glass—a metaphor that is neither solid, liquid, nor gas. Organic and inorganic, nature and the city, history and the present, life and death, creation and destruction… The vast universe perpetually exists in a state of eternal flux, continuously and endlessly transforming, yet never truly reaching an endpoint. This mystical and indefinite essence embodies the diverse and ever-changing nature of life perfectly.

梁绍基，1945年生于上海，现工作和生活于浙江天台。

梁绍基在中国美术学院师从万曼研究软雕塑。三十余年来，潜心在艺术与生物学，装置与雕塑、新媒体、行为的临界点上进行探索，创造了以蚕的生命历程为媒介、以与自然互动为特征、以时间、生命为核心的“自然系列”。他的作品充满冥想、哲思和诗性，并成为虚透丝迹的内美。

重要展览：溶熔之幻，上海玻璃博物馆，上海（2024）；海溟溟，深圳海上世界艺术中心，深圳（2024）；迪里耶双年展，沙特（2024）；一个柔软的着陆地，克里夫兰当代艺术馆，美国（2023）；四两千斤：梁绍基、杨诘苍双人展，吴文化博物馆，苏州（2023）；梁绍基：蚕我 我蚕，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海（2021-2022）；物质的魅力: 来自中国的材料艺术（巡回展），洛杉矶郡艺术博物馆、Smart艺术博物馆（芝加哥），美国（2019-2020）；梁绍基：恍，木木美术馆，北京（2018）；库里巴蒂当代艺术双年展，奥斯克·尼迈耶博物馆，库里巴蒂，巴西（2017）；梁绍基：雲上云，中国美术学院美术馆，杭州（2016）；艺术怎么样？来自中国的当代艺术，阿尔里瓦科展览馆, 多哈，卡塔尔（2016）；梁绍基：元，香格纳画廊，上海（2015）；艺术之变，海沃德美术馆，伦敦，英国（2012）；云，梁绍基个展，香格纳H空间，上海（2007）；第三届上海双年展，上海美术馆，上海（2000）；第五届里昂双年展，里昂，法国（2000）；第六届伊斯坦布尔双年展，伊斯坦布尔，土耳其（1999）；第四十八届威尼斯双年展，威尼斯，意大利（1999）；中国现代艺术展，中国美术馆，北京（1989）等。

梁绍基于2002年获中国当代艺术奖（CCAA）；2009年获克劳斯亲王奖。

Liang Shaoji

1945 in Shanghai, now works and resides in Tiantai, Zhejiang Province

Liang Shaoji studied soft sculpture from Maryn Varbanov at China Academy of Art. For more than thirty years, Liang has been indulged in the interdisciplinary creation in terms of art and biology, installation and sculpture, new media and textile. His Nature Series sees the life process of silkworms as creation medium, the interaction in natural world as his artistic language, time and life as the essential idea. His works are fulfilled with a sense of meditation, philosophy and poetry while illustrating the inherent beauty of silk.

Liang was awarded the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA) in 2002 and the Prince Claus Awards in 2009.