张巍个展“人工剧团—第二幕”已于本周三在新氧艺O2art空间开幕，展览将持续至2020年9月30日。欢迎大家预约观展。

Zhang Wei's solo exhibition "Artificial Theater -Act II" opened on Wednesday in o2art space and will last until September 30, 2020. Welcome to make an appointment.


如同网络游戏中对角色的塑造，我便将《临时演员》的中演员的身份虚拟化，夸张地应用到《人工剧团》的角色当中——创造其神话性——用标志人物来淡化人物本来的演员身份，使其“表演”的成分更加荒诞。

——张巍

Likewise, I virtualized the identities in Temporary Performers and used them in an exaggerated way to create myth-like roles for the new series. By diluting the performers' original identities I made their performances more absurd.

—— Zhang Wei
 

本次展览艺术家以深沉的视觉语言重申着他对身体与身份问题的关注。关于戏剧的情结来源于他的家庭。他居住的剧团大院充斥着各类扮演与观看，剧团生活丰富了他对古今中外各类角色的认知。可伴随着时代的变革，戏曲在悄悄地进行着变化——逐渐在传统的、地方的、民俗的文化艺术中引入流行、时尚以及外来的内容，相互交杂糅合，呈现出一种混杂、荒诞和无序的快餐审美。这种审美触及到了文化的底线及我的体验边缘，却使张巍产生了对它探究的兴趣。这样的改变不仅仅发生在剧团，它发生在这个时代的任何角落...

In this exhibition, the artist Zhang Wei reiterated his concern about body and identity with deep visual language.The theater complex cames from his home. He lives in a theater's courtyard filled with playing and watching. The theater life enriched his knowledge about various roles at all times and in all countries. Time was changing the opera gradually. The pop, fashion and foreign elements were added into the traditional, local and folk culture and art, showing a hybrid, absurd and disordered fast-food aesthetic. This aesthetic touched the cultural bottom line and his experience edge. Such a change occurs not only in the theater, but in every corner of the times…



整个过程虽然是一种假设，但却是一种精神上的真实体验。张巍还试图通过这种被篡改和处理后的冷面告诫人们，其实每一个人在社会中都在扮演着各自的角色，但终归都是表面的、临时的，甚至可能无意义的。他对这些虚拟构建的形象没有确切意识形态的评价，因为它或许是延异的一种方式。身体，作为灵魂的载体，一举一动，联系着内外世界，表象在《人工剧团》这组作品中被张巍打散、聚合，探究真相怕也只能是岩壁上的虚影而已。

The whole process is a hypothesis, but for spirit it's a real experience. He also try to warn the people, through these cold faces after tampering and processing, that in fact, everybody in the society is playing his role, but this playing is superficial, temporary, or even meaningless. He won't judge these virtual images ideologically, because they may present a way of differance. The body, as the carrier of soul, is linking the inside and outside world by every act and every move. The presentation in Artificial Theater has been broken and combined again, and if you want to explore the truth, you may only find shadows on the rock.

新氧艺O2art空间展览现场  O2art space exhibition site



「ABOUT  WORKS」
 

人工剧团—不知名妇女肖像   
Artificial Theater —Profile Portraits of Unknown Women（10）

70x100cm （8+2ap） 100x140cm （5+1ap）
CANSON INFINITY BARYTA   2017
 
 

人工剧团—不知名妇女肖像    
Artificial Theater —Profile Portraits of Unknown Women（1）

70x100cm （8+2ap） 100x140cm （5+1ap）
CANSON INFINITY BARYTA   2017
 
 

人工剧团—未命名的习作    
Artificial Theater —The unnamed exercises（2）

25x23.8cm（18+2ap)  145x138cm （2+1ap)
CANSON INFINITY BARYTA   2013
 
 

人工剧团—未命名的习作   
Artificial Theater —The unnamed exercises（1）

25x23.8cm（18+2ap)  145x138cm （2+1ap)
CANSON INFINITY BARYTA   2013   

 

人工剧团—未命名的习作    
Artificial Theater —The unnamed exercises（3）

25x23.8cm（18+2ap)  145x138cm （2+1ap)  
CANSON INFINITY BARYTA   2013