出品人：孙永增

　　Produce: Sun Yongzeng

　　策展人：曹茂超

　　Curator: Cao Maochao

　　艺术家：

　　黄立言、厉槟源、卢征远、李可政、马轲、蒲英玮、沈朝方、苏上舟、孙子垚、汤柏华、童昆鸟、伍伟、肖答牛、许宏翔、张文荣、张玥

　　Artists:

　　Huang Liyan Li Binyuan Lu Zhengyuan Li Kezheng Ma Ke Pu Yingwei Shen Chaofang Su Shangzhou Sun Ziyao Tang Baihua Tong Kunniao Wu Wei Xiao Daniu Xu Hongxiang Zhang Wenrong Zhang Yue

　　展期：2017.05.27-2017.06.11

　　Exhibition Dates: 05.27,2017-06.11,2017

　　主办：白盒子艺术馆

　　Organizer: Whitebox Art Center

　　地址：北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路2号798艺术区797路B07

　　Address: B07, 797 Road, 798 Art District, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

　　2017年5月27日，由曹茂超策划的白盒子青年艺术项目《出类-穿行焦虑的年代》如期开幕。本次展览邀请了十六位1970年-1990年出生的艺术家参展，大部分参展作品都是专门为本次展览“量身定制”，创作聚焦于我们当下所处的艺术生态与现实境况。本次展览作为白盒子艺术馆长期持续的艺术项目，旨在发掘并推出有尖锐态度和独特创作面貌的青年艺术家

　　基于从计划经济的供给分配到市场经济的逐利法则的转变为背景，尤其是上世纪九十年代初的种种经济政策，改变了原本社会主义经验中的各项规则与认知，随之而来的社会机制变通也在挑战公众的接受力，焦虑氛围开始，蔓延至今，洪流中的艺术家并非都是过江之鲫，艺术创作成为其精神追求的诉诸途径，这奠定了本次展览的学术基调，在时代的转角之际，恰逢其时的艺术家的个人感知与时代特质的交叠和摩擦，成为创作突破桎梏和成规的慑心作品的助剂。

　　“中国病人”成为最近二十多年的大众状态的写照，共同得了一种焦虑的病症，难以根除。面对生存焦虑，面对身份焦虑，面对空间焦虑…这时期的艺术家同样陷入这样焦虑，但是他们试图“自愈”，并“治愈”他人。这种行为反映在他们的艺术创作中，艺术家保持了自省与反思，拒绝身份标签化与作品符号化，他们是“出类”的，是敢于跨出固有界限与认知的群体，这不单是创作中的自觉转演，更是主动的跳脱。作品所呈现的抵抗、无视或是拒绝等都是他们面对这个焦虑年代的一种态度。

　　这批艺术家的生活和创作几乎都是与这个焦虑的年代纠缠交错，他们不受强大政治事件的干扰，也不将历史包袱抱在胸前，他们直面创作与生活，不拘泥于媒介和材料的限制，从对西方话语权的称臣到后来的打破壁垒，这批艺术家的“出类”能够自建体系。本次展览将持续至2017年6月11日。

　　Curated by the vice-director of the Whitebox Art Center, Cao Maochao, "Outliers -Traversing a time of anxiety" annual group exhibition will open on May 27, 2017. Invitingsixteen artists born from 1970 to 1990 to participate, most of the works on view are "tailor-made" for this exhibition, focusing on the artistic ecology and reality we live in the present. This exhibition marks Whitebox ArtCenter's continuous focus on young artists projects, by which to discover and promote young artists with acute attitudes and unique creative approaches.

　　Based on shiftinggrounds of the supply and demand of the planned economy to the profit-seekingmarket economy, particularly, the various economic policies in the 1990s hadfundamental impact on the various principles and understanding of the formersocialist experience. The versatility of social mechanism that came with it equally challenged the public tolerance, a sense of anxiety outpoured, the artists living in this tidal wave are not the carps crossing the river, rather their artistic practice became the appealing path for a spiritual pursuit. "Outliers" sets the academic tone for this exhibition, resonating with Foucault’s "Technology of the self", which demands the artist to pay attentionto the self, to achieve self-cultivation through internal reflection andexternal contemplation.

　　"Chinesepatient" has become the portrayal of the general public in the last two decades, referring those who suffer from the symptoms of anxiety that cannot be eradicated. Confronted with anxieties of survival, identity, living space…artist living in this period have equally fallen for the same anxiety, beingthe "outliers", they are aware of this time of anxiety, and hope to cure the"anxiety" of our time through artistic practice, and heal through ongoing discussions; they have kept an introspective and self-critical attitude,refusing to be assigned with identities and rehashing iconographies in their works of art. They take the courage to step outside of the existing frameworksand knowledge groups, this is not only a conscious role shifting in the practiceof art, but also an active escape.

　　The participating artists can be divided into different age groups, whose choice of contents and forms also mark an evolutionary progress. Those who were born in the 1970s have chosen painting as their primary vehicle of expression; and those born in the 80s-90s have shown vivid, audacious and versatile characteristics of the time in their works of art. Overall, they have shown significant differentiationfrom the previous generations of artists, who are not swayed by major politicalevents, neither would they undertake the burden of history on their shoulders. They confront their practice and life, unhinged by the limitations of any artistic medium and material. As a spiritual sample of a young artist exhibition, we look forward to your analysis, and this exhibition will continue to June 11, 2017.