我的花还没有名字 My Flower Doesn't Have a Name Yet
策展人:阳昕
艺术家:杜蒙、黄季、李松林、慕晨扬、覃钰玲、谢文蒂
展览时间:2022年12月3日–2023年4月9日
展览地点:上海玻璃博物馆 设计新馆 H5临展厅
特别赞助:康宁公司
支持单位:上海市对外文化交流协会
展览规划及平面设计:协调亚洲
Curator: Cathye Yang
Artists: Du Meng, Huang Ji, Li Songlin, Mu Chenyang, Chinyurin, Xie Wendi
Duration: Dec. 3, 2022 – Apr. 9, 2023
Venue: H5 Temporary Exhibition Hall, Design Wing, Shanghai Museum of Glass
Special Sponsor: Corning Incorporated
Support Organization: Shanghai International Culture Association
Exhibition Planning and Graphic Design: COORDINATION ASIA Ltd.
关于展览 ABOUT EXHIBITION
上海玻璃博物馆荣幸地宣布将于2022年12月3日至2023年4月9日举办展览《我的花还没有名字》,邀请杜蒙、黄季、李松林、慕晨扬、覃钰玲以及谢文蒂六位优秀的青年艺术家,对主题“我的花还没有名字”以博喻的手法进行阐释,重新引发业界、观众对于国内新生代玻璃艺术的关注,并强有力地为观者展现更多玻璃艺术的可能性、创造性和突破性。同时,在此次展览中还特别设立了委任创作单元。上海玻璃博物馆有幸携手康宁公司,为青年艺术家们提供了特别赞助和创作材料,以“未定义”为命题,利用康宁公司废弃的材料或产品,启发观者对于可持续发展的理解,并鼓励艺术家在探索不确定的过程中,打破边界,不再自我设限,以自己对当下社会的洞悉和认识世界的方式,为观众带来⽿⽬⼀新、引发共鸣和思考的作品。
我们正存在⼀个急速巨变的世界中,不确定的、含混的、迷茫的……这些已经成为了我们生活的常态。 “未知”,是我们不得不接受的现实状态。面对“未知”,我们又当如何自处?在这样的“不确定”之中如何抓取转瞬即逝的思想灵光,是值得纪念的,是极富时代性的。这份珍贵的敏感和真诚是在这个变革世界中的“心锚”。当我们对这个世界还能持续发问的时候,就证明我们依然保有好奇和激情,保有野蛮生长的力量,还能继续向前。
任何科学研究的前提之一是“分类”,但没有“分类”是因为对事物依然有疑问,能带来更多的探究。灵魂之花是无法被定义,无法被归类的,思想的自由是没有界限的。策展人将展览取名为“我的花还没有名字”,希望艺术家突破传统材料的边界禁锢,寻找新的可能,表达艺术家的个体思绪以及对于自我、关系和世界本质的探索。
参展的6位艺术家,有着丰富的玻璃创作经验和多面的个人生活经历。玻璃,只是他们选择创作的主要媒材之一。我们高兴地看到,在这六位艺术家的作品中同时融合了包括陶瓷、塑料、3D打印、编织、影像以及行为等多种艺术媒介。此刻,玻璃材料更像是一种隐喻,能够找到某种诠释世界的路径。艺术家们创造性地运用玻璃,用对自己存在的理解和对周围世界的兴趣,将个人的感性融入作品,面对这个“未知”的世界,提出个性的观点,作品值得在当下被分享和探讨。玻璃的创作,让他们集中精力,将他们的艺术实践和生活融合,为他们认识这个世界提供参考。
纵览这6位艺术家的作品和个⼈⻛格,有⼀种贯穿其中的诗意和灵性,鲜活又充满能量。他们作为时代中的一员,对周遭感觉敏锐,能快速察觉到时代的变化,那是先于语言的感觉。他们以一种凝视的态度、跳脱常识的思考方式,带着一探究竟的精神,用自己的作品给出各自批判式的主张。
在展览的准备过程中,艺术家们受到准备周期、废弃原材料、合作群展模式等限制,为特定场地创作作品。在充满变化的现实情况下,这一切都是全新的创作体验过程。当作品和场所连结,本来平凡的空间就发生了质变,拥有了个性,最终获得的是独一无二的展览呈现。
当代艺术的精神正是在于因地而生、在地创作。艺术家们被赋予了极大的信任和创作自由。上海玻璃博物馆和康宁公司对于艺术家提出的任何要求给出了无条件的大力支持,正是因为对艺术家们的认可和重视。他们不只是创作艺术,而是创造“现在”,同时找到与过去的连结,和面对未来的勇气。
Shanghai Museum of Glass is honored to announce that it will hold the exhibition My Flower Doesn’t Have a Name Yet from December 3, 2022 to April 9, 2023, and invite six outstanding young artists, Du Meng, Huang Ji, Li Songlin, Mu Chenyang, Chinyurin and Xie Wendi, to interpret the theme “My Flower Doesn’t Have a Name Yet” in a metaphorical way, which will arouse the attention of the industry and the audience to the possibilities, creativity and breakthroughs of the new generation of glass art in China. At the same time, the exhibition also includes a special commissioned creation section. The Shanghai Museum of Glass has the honor to work with Corning to provide young artists with special sponsorship and creative materials. Taking “undefined” as the topic, artists use Corning’s discarded materials or products to inspire the insights of sustainable development into the audience, and they have broken the boundaries and no longer set their own limits in the process of exploring uncertainty, in their own way of understanding the current society and the world. There are works that bring freshness, resonance and reflection to the audience.
We are living in a world of rapid changes. Uncertain, ambiguous, confused… these have become the norms of our life. “Unknown” is the reality we have to accept. How should we deal with the unknown? It is memorable and epochal how to capture the fleeting light of thought in such “uncertainty”. This precious sensitivity and sincerity is the “heart anchor” in this changing world. When we can continue to ask questions about the world, it proves that we still have curiosity and passion, the strength of wild growth, and can continue to move forward.
One of the prerequisites of any scientific research is “classification”. When there is no “classification”, there are still questions about things, which can bring more exploration. The flower of the soul cannot be defined or categorized, and the freedom of thought has no boundaries. The curator named the exhibition “My Flower Doesn’t Have a Name Yet”, hoping that the artists could break through the boundary of traditional materials, find new possibilities, express the artists’ personal thoughts and explore the nature of self, relationships and the world.
The six artists participating in the exhibition have rich glass creation experiences and multifaceted personal life experiences. Glass is just one of the main media materials they choose to create. We are pleased to see that the works of these six artists have simultaneously integrated a variety of artistic media, including ceramics, plastics, 3D printing, weaving, video and performance. At this moment, the glass material is more like a metaphor, which can find a way to interpret the world. Using glass creatively, the artists use their understanding of their own existence and interest in the world around them to integrate their personal sensibilities into their works, offering individual perspectives on this “unknown” world. Their works deserve to be shared and discussed in the present. The creation of glass allows them to focus on the integration of their artistic practice with their lives, providing them with a reference to understand the world.
Looking at the works and individual patterns of these six artists, there are poetic and spiritual feelings running through them, which are vibrant and full of energy. As a member of the times, they have a keen sense of the surroundings and can quickly perceive the changes of the times, a sense that precedes language. With an attitude of staring, thinking outside of common sense, and with the spirit of exploring, they use their works to give their own critical opinions.
In the preparation of the exhibition, the artists were constrained by the preparation cycle, discarded raw materials, and the collaborative group exhibition mode to create works for specific sites. In a reality full of change, all of this is a new creative experience process. When the works and the place are connected, the original ordinary space has undergone a qualitative change and takes on a personality, resulting in a unique exhibition presentation.
The spirit of contemporary art is to be born and created in the site. Artists are endowed with great trust and creative freedom. The Shanghai Museum of Glass and Corning gave unconditional and strong support to any request made by artists, because of their recognition and importance given to the artists. They are not just creating art, but creating the “present” while finding a connection to the past and the courage to face the future.