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présentation - 展览介绍 :
Magician Space is delighted to present its third solo exhibition with artist Yu Bogong, featuring newly commissioned sculpture, a participatory work inspired by psychodynamic experiments, and a site-specific installation that will intervene with the gallery space in the building’s front façade. Yu Bogong is one of the enigmatic figures to have emerged from the Yuanming Garden artist village, a founding avant-garde movement in the early 1990s. After the dispersal of this community, Bogong has proceeded to pursue a nomadic approach with a wide-ranging practice comprising sculpture, drawing, game experiments, neon diagrams, and installations.
For his third solo exhibition with Magician Space, the presentation elaborates on motifs from Yu Bogong’s ambitious Mandala Plan, a multi-dimensional project spanning a period of ten years beginning in 2005. Traditionally used as a diagrammatic tool for spiritual exploration, Yu Bogong’s expanded notion of a mandala is directly applied to address the symbolic and physical parameters of the gallery space. In the transitory space of the gallery’s façade, a series of drawings formed by rock and string outline a constellation of stars creating an abstract and figurative reflection of an enduring physical constant in our lives.
Inside the gallery, two parallel presentations take as their influence the Jungian ‘Sand Therapy’ technique, inspired by Tibetan Buddhism, the experiment encourages participants to rationalise intuitive impulses into three-dimensional form. Forming the basis of an interactive sculptural game: visitors are invited to create landscapes with sand and clay objects depicting fragments of human culture connected to ideas of time, nature, history, modernity and the future. As a cumulative open-end game rather than zero-sum, the experiment embodies a continually changing component throughout the exhibition duration, making visible an interchange between internal impulses and external projection by participants.
In the third component of the exhibition, the gallery floor is filled with white sand, playfully disrupting gallery conventions of the white cube. Rather than a collection of isolated works, the sculptural objects constitute a mutable terrain, evoking a mental landscape and a nomadic exploration of materials. Spanning ten years and ending in 2015, the present iteration of the Mandala Plan focuses on the role of temporality, combining durational work with a presentation evoking a fluid reading of this on-going work.
With this immersive setting, the elements selected from the Mandala Plan will survey the artist’s unique trajectory, presenting a discursive journey by highlighting an intimate interplay between abstraction of natural materials through human interaction; each work together demarcates a self-reflexive space positioning audiences as agents of change; and more broadly the Mandala Plan posits questions regarding our connection and potential impact on the world.
Yu Bogong (b.1970, Inner Mongolia) currently lives and works in Beijing. Major solo exhibitions include: White Space, Beijing (2011); Magician Space, Beijing (2008); China Art Archives & Warehouse (2007).
魔金石空间很荣幸地宣布于伯公个展：“敖鲁古雅”将于2013年9月20日开幕。此次展览是艺术家自《穿越河床》、《身未动，心已远》之后，在魔金石空间的第三次个展。本次展览将展出于伯公最新的装置作品，以及一件以“心理动力学实验”为灵感来源的参与性作品，和一件悬置于建筑外墙，特别为空间定制的装置作品。于伯公是20世纪90年代创始性前卫艺术运动聚集地——圆明园艺术村中涌现的神秘人物之一。在这个艺术村解体后，他将自己对游牧方式的追求融入到他广阔的艺术实践当中，包括雕塑，绘画，游戏实验，霓虹灯图示，和装置作品。
于伯公在此次展览中所阐述的主题来自于他宏大的曼荼罗计划——一个2005年开始实施至今长达十年的多维度项目。曼荼罗在传统上被用于精神探索的图解工具，于伯公将其概念延伸开来，打破了画廊空间在符号性和物理性上的界限。在这次展览中，由石块和绳子在画廊正面的外墙上组成的一系列星宿图案，在这个临时建构的空间中，具象和抽象地联接了我们生活中恒久不变的元素。
在画廊内部，展出的两组作品是于伯公对卡尔·荣格“沙盘心理疗法”的借鉴与反思。受到西藏佛教的启发，其中“世界的测量”鼓励参与者将其直观的冲动转化成三维的形态。这个雕塑游戏的依据在于：观者可以用沙子和陶土道具创造景观，并将时间，历史，现代性和未来联系其中。作为一个不断发展，持续开放的游戏，这个实验将参与者从内部冲动转向外部投射的过程可视化。
在展览的第三部分，空间将被白沙覆盖，以幽默灵活的形态打破这个白色立方体的限制与约束。作品突破了各自封闭的空间，在一起构成了一道多变的疆域，唤起了内心的风景，让一系列相互作用的经验在想象力的引导下浮现出来。
在长达十年的创作期内，“时间”这个概念扮演着极其重要且细致的角色。于伯公试图在长期的创作中，将作品中不断变化的品质表现出来，形成一场无障碍的对话与阅读。随着观者在身临其境的预设中不断深入的体验，艺术家独特的创作轨迹将显现出来，曼荼罗计划中最为核心的作品则不断地将各自的力量注入，由此展开一次丰富多样的旅程，彰显了形式的构建和象征意义的生产之间密切的相互作用；质疑艺术作品单独展示的封闭性，同时观众被预设在推动变化的位置上；曼陀罗计划则在更加广阔的层面上提出，和我们与这个世界的关联以及潜在的影响息息相关的问题。
于伯公，1970年生于内蒙古，现生活工作于北京。主要个展：此时此刻，空白空间（北京，2011）；身未动 心已远，魔金石空间（北京，2008）。 主要群展：DAS ICH IM ANDEREN，墨卡托基金会（艾森，2012）；透视——中国当代艺术展，当代唐人艺术中心（北京，2008）。
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