范娅萍大型装置作品展

　　展览时间：10月25日 - 11月25日

　　开幕时间：10月25日 下午16:00

　　展览地点：财富城堡，北京

　　策展人：马修·贾纳特(Matthew Jarratt)

　　城堡中探寻天使的存在：

　　“你是天使-我是天使”范娅萍大型装置作品展将于2016年10月25日在北京财富城堡开幕，展期为10月25至11月25日。本次展览是范娅萍天使计划国际巡展的第一站，之后将会在英国和意大利等地的老城堡陆续呈现。此次巡展将与众不同的将城堡建筑与范娅萍的装置艺术融为一体，因此此次展览除了对室内空间的精致营造外，在室外部分也将邀请观众踏上一条探寻之旅，在艺术的花园中探寻天使的存在。

　　Fan Yaping's solo exhibition "I am an Angel - You are an Angel" will open on October 25, 2016 at Fortune Mansion, Beijing. The exhibition will be held from October 25 to November 24, 2016. Fortune Mansion is the first station of the artist's Angel Art Project which will be a global-traveling exhibition. The project will be showing in the historical castles in Europe in future. In this exhibition, Fan's artworks will be presented in the unique architectural surroundings, thus to create not only a finely constructed indoor art show but also to invite visitors on a journey of seeking and exploring the existence of "angels" in the Fortune Mansion's garden area.

　　2014年我访问了范娅萍工作室，当时，我遇见了一位用装置、油画和视频等方式，在此不同寻常的维度下来创建属于她自己世界的艺术家。 通过两年来不断的交流，我们觉得应该合作策划一场更为剧场式的装置作品展，它一定要区分于寻常的、在一个“白盒子”式展厅中的展览，而是放在一个适合范娅萍的作品、有个性的并且别具风格的建筑里。我们将以一个“旅程”或是“梦境”的方式展开这个展览，并邀请观众身临其境来探索作品的奥秘。 于是，此次《我是天使 – 你是天使》展览将设在北京优雅的、法国文艺复兴式的财富城堡里。这次展览将会是一次创意性合作的结晶，它将围绕范娅萍个人成长和想象的创新性艺术观念，营造出壮丽而奇妙、魔幻又超现实的艺术景象。

　　范娅萍用孩童玩偶的图像作为纯真和天使变幻的一个标志。这反映了玩偶这一图像在艺术史中作为一个标志对象，可以被分解、安抚、操控或者转变，并能在更广泛社会中体现出情感的进化和转化。

　　1881年欧洲，作家E.T.A.霍夫曼的系列小说激发了法国作曲家雅克·奥芬巴赫创作著名的浪漫主义歌剧《霍夫曼的故事》，其讲述男主人公被一个实为机械玩偶的美丽女子奥林匹亚所迷惑。在19世纪末的欧洲北部，浪漫主义艺术运动的诞生成为了对工业革命的回应，相较于理性的、科学的和工业的新世界，其更着重宣扬个体和情感。奥林匹亚这个角色在奥芬巴赫的歌剧里是一个隐喻，更可能是一个警示，提醒当我们周围的世界在改变和快速发展时，我们的本能是如何被工业技术诱引以及对此信服的。自《霍夫曼的故事》首演以来的近140年后，范娅萍的油画作品、雕塑和装置在一个有探索性的、如戏剧舞台的展览之中对这出著名歌剧的主题做出了回响。她标志性的孩子玩偶的图像将我们所熟识的出生、童年、戏剧以及美的概念铺陈开来，却带领我们走上一条更隐秘的、对照梦境、臆想，甚至死亡为主题的旅程。范娅萍是一个能将我们的想象力带出现实世界–被科技所操控的当代生活，至另一个世界的艺术家。在这个世界里，我们可能在熟悉的、童年的表现形式下乍感“安全”，但随后发觉我们的设想遭遇了挑战，即舒适的图像变成了一出逼迫性的梦魇，亦或是变成了一场天使般的白日梦?

　　马修·贾纳特 2016年10月

　　When I first visited the studio of Fan Yaping in 2014 I encountered an artist creating her own world within an extraordinary range of installations, paintings and videos and I felt that rather than a formal exhibition in a ‘white box’ gallery we should work together to curate a more ‘theatrical’ installation in a building that has the character and style to match Fan Ya Pings artwork, and that we should think of the exhibition as a ‘journey’ or ‘dream’ for visitors to explore. The exhibition ‘I am an Angel-You are an Angel’ within the elegant French Renaissance style of the Fortune Club in Beijing is the result of our creative collaboration and aims to be epic and curious, magical and otherworldly and to present Fan Yaping’s creative ideas around personal growth and imagination with a fascinating series of installations to be explored throughout the building.

　　Fan Yaping uses a child’s doll image as a symbol of innocence or angelic transformation, which reflects its use in art history where the doll image has been an icon that can be shattered, comforted, manipulated or transformed to represent emotional evolution or changes in the wider society.

　　In 1881 in Europe stories by E.T.A Hoffman, inspired French composer Jacques Offenbach to write the famous romantic opera ‘Tales of Hoffman’ – a story where the leading man is bewitched by ‘Olympia’ a beautiful woman who is actually a robotic doll. In northern Europe in the late 1800’s the Romanticism Art Movement was a reaction to the industrial revolution – it emphasized the individual and the emotional over the new world of rational ideas, science and industry. The ‘Olympia’ character in Offenbach’s opera is a metaphor and maybe a warning for how our instincts can be seduced and convinced by technology when the world around us is changing and developing so quickly. Nearly 140 years later from the first performance of the Tales of Hoffman, Fan Yaping’s paintings, sculpture and installations echo the themes of the opera within an exhibition that can be explored like a theatrical stage set. Her symbolic use of the child’s doll image spans familiar ideas of birth, childhood, play and beauty but takes us on a journey contrasted with more esoteric themes of dreams, imagination and even death. Fan Yaping is an artist who can take our imaginations beyond the reality of our technology driven contemporary lives into another world, where we may feel ‘safe’ with familiar representations of childhood but then find our assumptions challenged when images of comfort become a menacing nightmare or an angelic daydream?

　　Matthew Jarratt, October 2016

　　开幕式活动流程安排：

　　下午3:00--4:00

　　研讨会 (嘉宾--主持人：孙国胜 策展人：马修·贾纳特及资深艺术项目负责人)

　　下午4:00--7:00

　　开幕式(歌剧、竖琴及艺术家合作呈现的精彩演出)

　　晚上7:00--9:00

　　开幕招待晚宴

　　活动地点：

　　北京市朝阳区康营中街9号财富公馆

　　导航路线：

　　机场高速辅路,苇沟出口出,前方遇路口左转,遇路口再左转,直走600米,即可看到财富公馆的标志性大门