展览名称 Name
流动的空间
Flowing Space

展期   Duration
2020.8.18 -- 2020.10.25

展览地点 Venue
龙美术馆（西岸馆）阶梯展厅
Snails Gallery, Long Museum West Bund

20世纪中期以后，人文社会科学的现代理论开始转向思考空间的丰富内涵，米歇尔·福柯提出社会理论应从关注时间转向空间，并称其所处的时代为“空间的纪元”，后现代文化理论家弗雷德里克·杰姆逊甚至直言“后现代主义是关于空间的，现代主义是关于时间的”。“空间”作为日常生活中的常用词汇，受20世纪以来空间理论的影响，开始频繁出现在美术史研究的论述中，不仅涵盖了对作品本身视觉和图像空间的研究，也展开了对作品文化内涵、及其更深层次的艺术和社会发展的研究。

本次展览选取了由龙美术馆提供的私人藏品近20件，创作年代从20世纪80年代末至今，展示了艺术家在艺术创作中营造的各类空间图像或场景，既有基于经验的空间，亦有基于想象的空间。通过对个案的探讨，以窥探艺术家如何将本质不可见的东西，如个人的主张、情感、记忆、想象等，通过创造形象的物件并营造它们之间的关系，使观者看见空间、并捕捉到从中传达出的观念或情感，进而完成共情或开启另一种想象，与作品创造出新的空间。

德国哲学家马丁·海德格尔认为“世界不现成存在在空间中；空间却只有在一个世界中才得以揭示”，他对空间如何存在的解释，恰恰很接近“空间”在艺术创作实践中的存在：空间在艺术家的营造下，其意义才得以呈现。从本次展览所展出的作品中可以看到，艺术家对空间形式的构建多元且丰富，在绘画语言、材料使用和观念呈现上也始终在不断进行新的探索和拓展。

“流动的空间”展览现场，龙美术馆（西岸馆），2020，摄影：洪晓乐
 

Since the middle 20th century, humanistic researches have turned to study the rich content of Space. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) proposed social theories should turn their focus from Time to Space and called the era he lived as “The Epoch of Space”. Fredric Jameson (b.1934), a postmodernism theorist even stated that rather than time, postmodern theory is far more engrossed in space. As a common word in our daily life, “Space” has been frequently used in the discussion of Art History under the influence of Space theories since the 20th century, which not only includes the studies of visual and image space of the artworks, but also expands the studies to their cultural and social meanings.

This exhibition displays nearly 20 private collection provided by Long Museum, which were created from the late 1980s to nowadays, showing various space images or scenes painted or constructed by different artists. Some of them are experience-based spaces, some are imagination-based spaces. Through individual works, we will see how artists translate their claims, feelings, memories, imaginations, etc. into visual objects and how they arrange their relationships, so that viewers can see the space and also capture the ideas and emotions through it. Moreover, the viewers may arise their empathy or another imagination from the works, and eventually create new spaces with the works.

The German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) supposed that it is not the world that is situated within space; rather, space exists within the world. His formulation of how the space comes into being is very close to how space comes into art creation: the meaning of space will only come out by the creation of artists. Through the works displayed in this exhibition, we will have a chance to see the diversity of spaces created by artists, and to observe how they constantly explore new artistic languages, materials and concepts for art creations. 

"Flowing Space" installation view, Long Museum West Bund, 2020, Photo: Hong Xiaole