FEMININE ART EXHIBITION

藝術家:KETCHUP 劉斌、李震、熊時濤

ARTIST: KETCHUP ( Liu Bin / Li Zhen / Xiong Shitao)

開幕時間:7月27日下午四時

Opening: 4:00 pm, July 27th

展覽時間:2013年7月27日至8月26日

展覽海報

KETCHUP藝術小組成立於2012年,成員包括劉斌、李震、熊時濤,他們三人都畢業于中央美術學院,卻以“非職業藝術家”的姿態出道。不論是在身份的界定還是創作動機上,KETCHUP一向將對“界限”的質疑與挑釁貫徹始終,竭盡一切頑劣與嚴謹的態度和手段,將其自身的模式與思考維持在某種模糊的中間地帶之上。

KETCHUP展覽:2013年《女性藝術大展》今日藝術匯,北京;2012《KETCHUP茄汁》,盛世天空美術館,北京

劉斌 1979生於黑龍江,2002年畢業于中央美術學院視覺傳達係,平面設計師,現居北京。

李震 1980生於山東青島,2003年畢業于中央美術學院建築系,任教于中央美術學院城市設計學院,現居北京。

熊時濤 1974生於江西南昌,2000年畢業于中央美術學院雕塑係,任教于中央美術學院城市設計學院,現居北京。

《女性藝術大展》是李震、劉斌、熊時濤三人藝術小組KETCHUP繼“茄汁”之後共同策劃的又一個實驗藝術項目,如果説“茄汁”是通過戲倣與拼接國際頂尖藝術家的經典圖像,從而探討藝術界既得利益裏所隱藏著的曖昧情緒,那《女性藝術大展》則是三個男人嘗試把男性和女性的性別界限模糊之後,在靠近女性感覺的過程中,試圖觸摸到的生命中男性和女性性別意識之外那些被忽略但卻微妙存在著的精神領域。

3個男人去做一個女性藝術大展,可能大多數人都覺得肯定是如花那樣的效果,但這並不是他們想要的。展覽中的6件作品沒有抹去他們的男性身份,而是首先把“做自己”這一點確定了下來,然後從這裡出發,去靠近他們體會中的女性世界,再通過攝影,雕塑,裝置等手段把這處於男性和女性交界地帶的感受表現出來。調侃和戲倣仍然是他們作品流露出來的氣質,但創作並沒有簡單停留在這裡,他們作為設計師和藝術家的雙重身份——體現在對作品細節、品質、審美和感受細緻入微的把握,讓這一組創作有了更引人入勝的豐富滋味。

“Feminine Art Exhibition” is another experimental art project planned by a three-artist group, KETCHUP which is comprised of three male artists Li Zhen, Liu Bin, Xiong Shitao after the exhibition “Ketchup”. If we say “Ketchup” is an investigation of the ambiguous emotions hidden in the vested interest in the art circles by parodying and stitching classic images of top international artists, “Feminine Art Exhibition” is that the three men try to touch the spiritual realm which is subtly existing but ignored besides the gender awareness after blurring the gender boundaries between male and female and getting close to the female feelings.

Most people may feel that the effect of a feminine art exhibition made by three men must be like Dennis Rodman in wedding dress; but this is not what they want. They do not erase their male identity in the six works to be exhibited, but take “being themselves” as the basis, and get close to the female world in their feelings from there, then express the feelings in the border area of men and women through photography, sculpture, installations, etc. Ridicule and parody is still the temperament of their work, but their creation does not stop there; their dual identities as designers and artists - reflected in the nuanced grasp and control of work details, qualities, aesthetics and feelings, create more compelling rich tastes in this group of work.