开幕酒会：2015 年 9 月 9 日 周三 17:00 - 19:00

展期：2015 年 9 月 9 至 11 月 9 日

艺术家：陈彧君、方力钧、郝量、李大方、刘唯艰、刘晓辉、倪有鱼、秦琦、王兴伟、王音、王子卫、魏东、

谢南星、余友涵、张恩利

展览地点：外滩三号 沪申画廊 上海市黄浦区中山东一路三号三楼

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《交叉小径的花园》是作家博尔赫斯的一篇短篇小说，讨论的是严格的因果链条与非线性的时空关系的奇异关 联。对身为中国人的主人公来说，他残酷但唯一的选择意外地给他带来了一个面对时空迷宫的窗口，他实施了 原来的计划，但他的选择在这个时空迷宫的系统中却扮演着另外的角色。选择意味着自由，而博尔赫斯深刻地 演绎了自由与宿命的交涉和层叠，我们的目光不由得投向了博尔赫斯想象中的中国。对于作为文化载体的视觉 艺术，艺术家无不以个体的身份处于交织着社会变迁与文化使命的复杂和多重的格局之中。每位艺术家都在建 立自己的系统并开拓自己的路径，在推进自己的作品的过程中不时进入到一些可供选择和决定的节点。不同艺 术家很可能来到或经过同样的节点，就像在交叉路口相遇或错过一样。众多的路径和节点交织成了当代艺术的 网状样貌，而艺术家的创造力会在他突破路径的依赖和节点的限制的时候充分显现出来。

正是基于此点，我们可以有机会模拟一个中国当代艺术非线性的时空结构。作为展览呈现在沪申画廊的“交叉 小径的花园”，汇集了 15 位画家不同时期和状态的作品，展现了他们在各自不同节点之间呈现的关联或者距离。 他们各自的路径和格局形成了自己独特的时空架构，而艺术家之间的差异和关联尤为引人入胜。展览呈现了艺 术家们所处的不同的生态位置，更多的意图是使观众能够感受到艺术家们在各自的时空中的演化脉络。在展厅 内分布着 15 面屏风一样的展墙，每位艺术家都有自己独立的一面，两侧分别展示他的不同时期或状态的作品。 展墙之间形成了错落的布局和曲折的路径，观众徜徉其间，或者能够些许感受到当代绘画多元化的时空架构。 艺术家的构成考虑了年龄层次和不同媒介的差异性，着重展现了绘画语言的独特魅力，使其作为核心要素引领 观者进入当代艺术的多重空间。

September 9th – November 9th, 2015

OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, September 9th at 5pm – 7pm

Artists: Chen Yujun, Fang Lijun, Hao Liang, Li Dafang, Liu Weijian, Liu Xiaohui, Liu Ye, Ni Youyu, Qin Qi, Wang Xingwei, Wang Yin, Wang Ziwei, Wei Dong, Xie Nanxing, Yu Youhan, Zhang Enli

Shanghai Gallery of Art

THREE ON THE BUND

3rd Floor, No.3 Zhong Shan Dong Yi Road, Shanghai 200002

The title Garden of Forking Paths derives from Jorge Luis Borges’ short story of the same title, in which Borges probed into the intricate interlinks between strict causal chain and non-linear space/time relation. To the protagonist, a Chinese man, the cruel and yet only option for him, quite unexpectedly, brought him to the window to a labyrinth of time and space. He carried out his original plan, but his choice in the labyrinth of time and space turned out to function differently. Choice means freedom. Borges cast insightful light on the overlapping and interplay between freedom and destiny, which drew readers’ attention to the China that he imagined. Visual art is considered a cultural vehicle. Artists as individuals are inevitably embedded in the complex and multilayered big picture where social evolution and cultural mission are elaborately interwoven. Each artist attempts to establish the system of his own and to further broaden his path. During the process, tracks and intersections constantly emerge. And in the meantime, it’s also possible that different artists may encounter the same intersection and then choose to follow different tracks. The various tracks and intersections collectively form an interconnected landscape of contemporary art, and artists bring their creativity into full play while they manage to break through the restrictions imposed by existent tracts and intersections.

It is in this regard that we think of simulating the non-linear space/time structure of Chinese contemporary art. The “Garden of Forking Paths” presented at Shanghai Gallery of Art will feature 15 artists of different generations and with different realms of interest, casting light on the interlinks and interplay among the tracks and intersections they encounter. Each of their path forms a unique space/time structure and it would be intriguing to probe into the difference as well as connection between all the different artists. By putting on display the different positions of the artists within the “garden”, the exhibition intends to show viewers the evolution and development of the artists within their own space/time paths. Inside the gallery space, fifteen screen-like partitions are erected so that each artist would have one to present their works. On the two sides of each partition, works created by them in different times and under different states will be presented. In between the partitions, a labyrinth-like space featuring meandering paths is hence constructed and viewers could wander within the “garden”, having a sense of the diversity in terms of time/space structure of contemporary painting. To highlight the unique charisma of the language of painting, difference in terms of age, generation and the use of media is taken into consideration while choosing participating artists in the hope that viewers would be led into an elaborate multilayered space of contemporary art.