展期：2008年08月19日至2009年2月28日
地址：FakeSpace 北京市朝陽區百子灣32號蘋果社區北區3B-111（今日美術館東側）
藝術家：孟瑾 & 方二 Fake Studio
這次在FakeSpace空間裏所呈現的是兩位藝術家試圖在城市變遷和個人記憶之間建立聯繫的作品展。 孟瑾 作為一個生於上世紀70年代的藝術家，在處理意識形態主題時，他更願意用一種比較超現實主義或者抽象的手法來表達一種虛無的意識形態景觀。無論是他的《有風景的房間》（1999年）中出現的政治意識形態建築，還是最近的《每個房間都被點亮》中帶有油畫感的政治寓言圖像，政治和意識形態仿佛只是存在於個人的想像和意念當中，藝術家可以在這個主題空間裏任意發揮。 他透過對建築空間內部的觀察，試圖揭露其中帶有權利感和制度化資訊。
另一位藝術家方二雖然生於台灣，但成長過程十幾年來從澳洲到美國，最後在英國認識了孟瑾，2006年春天，方二決定與孟瑾一同到北京工作，來到北京居住的這幾年時間對於她個人來説，顛覆了她常年對於城市的信仰。 她發現“ 速度”並不構成大家對北京這座城市的興奮，而是變化所帶來的“混亂”讓這座城市生機勃勃。這引發了她對於形體構成和內部秩序的興趣，從發現二維和三維之間隱藏的美感，到視覺對稱性的微妙認知，她創造了的作品單純而強烈，並收集人們身邊的日常物品來啟發對於社會層級關係的聯想。
兩位藝術家，他們是工作的partner，同時也是戀人，在2008年的夏天因為有了新的生命和祝福，需要他們暫時離開忙碌的工作狀態。 這次在FakeSpace的展覽就叫《填空》，Fill Up Space不但能體現他們作品的關注與特色，同時也反應他們真實人生的現階段空白與變化。
FakeSpace北京虛空間是孟瑾和方二在北京的工作室之一， 由於地處市中心並同時位在今日美術館的隔壁。他們在更多的時間是提供這個空間給他們在世界認識的藝術家與設計師朋友來這裡做展覽，作為在北京發聲的小小舞臺。這裡不僅是一個集會的地點，對於他們來説也是一個集生活、工作、展覽和娛樂於一體的地方。 自2006年開始積極推動後街頭藝術和新興跨界創意。策劃了包括Start Making Sense! 開始言之有物 等塗鴉藝術家的群展，英倫惡童Pure Evil在北京的首次個展，以及 優雅的反抗—向基本形體致敬的幾何展等。
Date: August 19th, 2008 – February 28th, 2009
Location: FakeSpace
Address: 3B – 111, Pingguoshequ, 32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100022
Tel: +86 (0) 10 5826 4512
Fake was founded in London in 2000 by artist Fang Er. Meng Jin joined in 2004 sharing a love for contemporary art and design, subsequently moving to Beijing in 2006. Much like the name, Fake plays at the grey area between art and design, engaging with art activities also it involves in design projects.
Fill Up Space is the showcase of those two’s work that explores the relationship between urban transition and individual memory. Meng Jin is a local artist who was born in 70’s from last century. The way he approaches ideology is rather surrealistic or abstract, which builds up a meaningless social magnificence. His early work “A Room with A View” collected many public political buildings in Beijing, while his recent photo series “Every Room is Illuminated” creates pale and blur interiors with the mean of institutional power. Those work plays with the institutional contexts and political propagandas but they are all inside a room of his private imagination.
Fang Er was born in Taipei and grew up in different countries from Australia to America. After she met Meng Jin in England, they then moved to Beijing together in 2006. The experiences of living in Beijing to her has been overturned her believe and understanding of urban city. She found out that “speed” of the Beijing wasn’t really exciting. It was the “confusion” of this city keeps everything alive. She has been fascinated by the internal structure and systematic order, which lead her to discover the hidden atheistic between 2D and 3D, as well as the sensibility of symmetry. Fang Er employs found objects she collected from everyday life to create the atmospheres of social class. Her work is often simple but impressive.
Both are artists, the working mates, as well as lovers. Because of their lovely baby is coming up soon, they need to be off work for a while. The period that leaves the space for their Beijing life, but here at Fake Space they took their art works to fill up the physical space.
FakeSpace is the Beijing studio space of Fang Er and Meng Jin. It locates in the complex of Today Art Museum in downtown. It is also a show room for many of their friends who share the love of art and design. They come to here for making pieces, giving talks and making friends. Since it physically existed in 2006, it has held many cutting age exhibitions range from post-graffiti to cross over design events, including “Start Making Sense” street art group exhibition, Pure Evil Beijing show, “Beautiful Resistance – respects to basic shapes” etc.
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