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Légendes de gauche à droite :
1/ Yan Xing - 鄢醒, Lenin in 1918 - 列宁在 1918, photography (b/w) - 黑白摄影, ultra giclee - 艺术微喷, 2/5, 96×120cm, 2013 Courtesy the artist and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne - 图片提供: 艺术家及麦勒画廊 北京-卢森。
2/ Yan Xing - 鄢醒, Dirty Art I, Dirty Art II - 脏的艺术 I, 脏的艺术 II, camphorwood - 录像播放器, video players, 9-channel HD video (b/w, silent) - 九频高清录像 (黑白, 无声), 350×195×100 cm, 2013 Courtesy the artist and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne - 图片提供: 艺术家及麦勒画廊 北京-卢森。
3/ Yan Xing - 鄢醒, Two Videos, three photographs, several related masterpieces, and American art - 两部录像, 三张照片, 几件与之相关的杰作和美国艺术, photography (b/w) - 黑白摄影, ultra giclee - 艺术微喷, 1/5, 120×96 cm, 2013 Courtesy the artist and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne - 图片提供: 艺术家及麦勒画廊 北京-卢森。
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présentation - 展览介绍 :
Galerie Urs Meile Beijing is pleased to present "Recent Works", the largest ever solo exhibition of artist YAN XING. The exhibition features four of the artist’s recent projects, all of which are complex, imbued with a range of sources and references from art, history, politics and literature, and presents the artist as a rather strong character.
Yan Xing is known as one of the most eye-catching emerging artists in the Chinese contemporary art scene, with multi-layered "projects" encapsulating media such as performance, video, photography and installation. Through abundantly intensive study of art history, the artist has attained an artistic narrative with its own logic. Art history is always partly abstracted, reconstructed and generated under the artist’s "unique system of integration", which updates our definition of art and our power to distinguish between artists.
"Dirty Art" (2013) provides audiences with a grand visual buffet, and draws inspiration from Edward Hopper’s (1882-1967) iconic painting "Drug Store" (1927). The pharmacy-like construction displays 9 monitors playing videos related to the Chinese expression for Diarrhea – "Xie", embodying the artist’s understanding of re-interpretation.
"In Lenin in 1918" (2013), which encompasses a variety of media, the artist embarks on his most challenging artistic exploration ever. The artist draws on his original abstraction of art history in combination with a mastery of reconstruction, rearrangement and reshaping to create an obscure period of history that in fact never existed. "Two videos, three photographs, several related masterpieces, and American art" (2013), unfolded by several striking b/w photographs extoling acts of "violence" and "sex", "capture" and "enslavement", reveals the artist’s endeavor towards multi-layered artistic narrative. This work also shares his own understanding of the "United States – the core theme of contemporary art" in his eyes in the very strict sense.
"The Collectress" (2013) ushers in a new project wherein the artist follows the female artist Duan Jianyu (*1970, lives and works in Guangzhou, China) and embarks upon an enigmatic journey this year to the new countryside within the context of China’s urbanization process. This unconventional work of performance art further investigates the complex relationship subsisting between the world that we live in and narrative art, marking the artist’s endeavor towards an even, open field in terms of "thematic creation". A fully illustrated catalogue containing an interview between Yan Xing and the acclaimed curator Hans Ulrich Obrist will accompany the exhibition. The artist will give a tour of the exhibition in the gallery at 5.30pm on the opening day. In addition, a talk by Yan Xing will be held at UCCA at 5pm on September 28, during which he will share with the audience his artistic practices over recent years.
Yan Xing was born in Chongqing in 1986, and currently lives and works in Beijing, China and Los Angeles, USA. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2009. Yan Xing has won the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) – Best Young Artist Award and also received a nomination for Future Generation Art Prize by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2012. His recent major exhibitions include: Building Bridges – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus China, Wolfsberg, Ermatingen, Switzerland (2013); 2012 Future Generation Art Prize, Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy (2013); China China, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine (2013); ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China (2013); Yan Xing, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK (2012); Unfinished Country: New Video From China, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), Houston, USA (2012); The III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow, Russia (2012); The Seventh Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Shenzhen, China (2012). His works have also been collected by: the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA; M+ Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong and the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France.
麦勒画廊北京部高兴地向您宣布我们将举办艺术家鄢醒的最新个展近作。此次展览是艺术家迄今为止最为大型的个展，将展出四件其最新创作的大型作品。鄢醒是近年来中国当代艺术最受瞩目的年轻艺术家之一，他的创作常运用行为、录像、摄影、装置等多种媒介构成层次丰富的“项目”作品。他通过对艺术史进行的大量细致的研究建立起一个有其自身逻辑的叙事世界。在他的实践中，他常挪用艺术史的局部，通过“一套严密的整合系统”将它们不断地分开和生成，在这个过程中，也在更新着我们对于艺术或者是艺术家的定义和甄别。
展览以近作为题，聚焦于四件独特且互为参照的繁复项目作品，这四件作品无一不是艺术家对艺术、历史、政治、文学等多种媒材与手法的整合，在每个项目的梳理和呈现中，鄢醒皆在扮演着一位独具个性的作者。
脏的艺术（2013）源自爱德华·霍普（Edward Hopper，1882-1967）的名作药店（1927）。九部循环播放的录像皆在建立起一个与汉字“泻”相吻合的脚注。在这件大型录像装置中，我们将看到一个蔚为壮观的图像景观，它们体现了艺术家对转译的独特理解。
列宁在1918（2013）是艺术家创作生涯里最具挑战性的一次尝试，鄢醒试图通过对艺术史的提炼构建起一段不曾存在的隐晦历史，从结构、排序到对形象的再造、对文档的梳理，都是一次极具探索性的实验。在对这件大型历史题材的编排中，我们将看到艺术家对诸多复杂媒介的处理。
两部录像、三张照片、几件与之相关的杰作和美国艺术（2013）由几件冲击力极大的歌颂“暴力”与“性”、“被俘”与“奴役”的黑白照片展开。这件作品的主旨背后是一次关于叙事层次的尝试，也是艺术家对“材料”与“观念”、“逻辑”与“表达”之间无数次权衡的结果，同时也是他对“美国”这一严格意义上的“当代艺术唯一母题”的模拟，抑或是置疑。
女收藏家（2013）是艺术家接下来的大型项目的开端，他于2013年跟随着艺术家段建宇（出生于1970年，现生活和工作于广州）作品中的诸多艺术形象实地探访了中国城市化进程中的新乡村。作为研究段建宇绘画的专家之一，鄢醒将在这一真假莫辨的行为作品中重审我们所面对的外部世界与艺术故事间错综复杂的关系，这也是艺术家试图开放其“创作主题”，面向广阔视野的开始。
配合此次展览，我们还将制作相关出版物，将收录艺术家与知名策展人小汉斯（即汉斯·乌尔里希·奥布里斯特，Hans Ulrich Obrist）的对谈；开幕式当天下午5点半，艺术家将于画廊亲自为观众导览。此外，9月28日下午5点，艺术家也将在尤伦斯当代艺术中心（UCCA）报告厅分享他近年来的艺术实践。
鄢醒，1986年出生于重庆，2009年毕业于四川美术学院油画系，现工作、生活于中国北京和美国洛杉矶。他于2012年获得中国当代艺术奖（CCAA）最佳年轻艺术家，并于同年入围维克多·平丘克基金会设立的未来世代艺术奖。他的近期主要展览包括构建桥梁——中国当代艺术，沃尔夫斯堡，瑞士（2013）；2012未来世代艺术奖，第55届威尼斯双年展平行展，Contarini Polignac宫殿，意大利威尼斯（2013）；中国中国，平丘克艺术中心，乌克兰基辅（2013）；ON|OFF：中国年轻艺术家的观念与实践，尤伦斯当代艺术中心（UCCA），北京（2013）；鄢醒，华人艺术中心，英国曼彻斯特（2012）；未完成的国度：来自中国的新录像，休斯敦当代美术馆，美国休斯敦（2012）；第三届莫斯科青年艺术双年展，中央艺术之家，俄罗斯莫斯科（2012）；第七届深圳雕塑双年展，OCT当代艺术中心（OCAT），广东深圳（2012）。他的作品也被包括鲁贝尔家族收藏、 M＋视觉文化博物馆、卡蒂斯特艺术基金会在内的美术馆和公共机构收藏。
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