上海玻璃博物馆十周年馆藏展

策展人：沈方晴

展览时间：2021年4月25日-2021年7月4日

展览地点：设计新馆H5临展厅

平面设计：协调亚洲

Shanghai Museum of Glass Collection Exhibition

Curator: Fangqing Shen

Duration: April 25, 2021 – Jult 04, 2021

Venue: H5 Temporary Exhibition Hall, Design Wing, Shanghai Museum of Glass

Graphic Design: Coordination Asia Ltd.

此次馆藏展《有人喜欢冷冰冰》是上海玻璃博物馆以自有收藏进行策展的一次尝试，展品涵盖玻璃艺术、设计、平面绘画和影像等多种类别。展览分为三部分，从玻璃对其他艺术形式的转译开始，以作为认知媒介的玻璃为中转，落于玻璃艺术以外的广阔可能。自无所不能起，以无处不在终。

第一部分“转译”意在展现材料在象征上的多样可能。从水墨山水到现代主义，从微透明的特殊窑铸到镜面反射营造出的乌托邦，看同一种材料如何通过艺术家的译介呈现出不同的风景。第二部分“媒介”讨论在艺术语境中，玻璃作为一种媒介，怎样传递、存储、扭曲人们对世界的观察和认知。也许正是它可以做到全然无色透明，才能对我们的目光实现似真是幻的微妙扭曲变化。最后一部分展览介入玻璃艺术之外的领域，展出当代艺术、工业历史中乃至展览幕后的玻璃。借由绘画和影像作品对这一材料的表现可以一窥艺术家对于物质性的思考，而展出工业生产的历史玻璃器皿和展览辅助陈列用的玻璃展柜，这些传统意义里并非收藏和鉴赏对象的庸常之物，希望以此对价值与意义的评判标准提问。同时展厅内贴上了博物馆改造前玻璃工厂时期的历史照片——在舞台之下的玻璃拥有的面貌与可能，远比展厅方寸之间更为广大。

展览标题《有人喜欢冷冰冰》出于林·拉德纳同名短篇小说，“可是我喜欢的，是在她们正像你的时候。”对于一个专题博物馆而言，无论玻璃怎样与科技、设计、当代艺术跨界，千般关联又变化，玻璃材质自身即是展览起点和归宿，一切思考皆始于此，归于此。

正值上海玻璃博物馆十周年之际，我们尝试回到材料原点——剖开附加的装饰和艺术，剥离环绕的符号、象征和概念的表皮，在展台与射灯之外，重新呈现玻璃的客观存在。

The exhibition Some Like Them Cold, is an attempt by the Shanghai Museum of Glass to curate an exhibition from its collection, covering a wide range of categories including glass art, design, painting and video. It is composed of three parts, starting from how artists translate other art genres with glass, following by taking glass as a cognitive medium, and finally settling down to display glass itself out of the art genre of studio glass. It starts from the versatility of glass and ends with its ubiquity.

The first part Translation is intended to show the variety of symbolic possibilities of the material. From Chinese landscapes to modernism, from special kiln casts of micro-transparency to utopias created by mirrored reflections, this part reflects how the same material presents different landscapes through the artist’s translation. The second section, Medium, discusses how glass as a medium transmits, stores and distorts people’s observations and perceptions of the world in an artistic context. Perhaps it is its ability to be completely colourless and transparent that allows it to achieve a subtle distortion of our gaze that seems real. The final section of the exhibition ventures beyond the realm of glass art, featuring glass from contemporary art, industrial history and even behind the scenes of past exhibitions. The paintings and video representations of this material provide a glimpse into the artist’s thinking about materiality. Meanwhile, the display of mass-produced historical glassware and glass pedestal from the museum’s past exhibition, which are not traditionally considered objects for collection and appreciation, is intended to question the criteria for judging value and meaning. Besides, the windows in the exhibition hall are also laminated with historical photographs of the glass factory period before the museum was renovated, to indicate that the possibilities of glass are far broader than those in the exhibition hall.

The title of the exhibition Some Like Them Cold comes from Ring Lardner’s short story of the same name. “But the time I like them is when they’re like you.” For a themed museum, no matter how glass, its protagonist, crosses border with technology, design and contemporary art in a closely connected but ever-changing manner, its materiality is the starting point and destination of exhibition, where the curation pathway begins and ends.

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Shanghai Museum of Glass, we try to go back to the original material, to dissect the attached decorations and art, peel off the signs, symbols and concepts surrounding it, and represent its objective existence beyond pedestal and spotlights.