從Gucci在三年前在上海舉辦的展覽《No Longer / Not Yet 已然/ 未然 》中,我們就早已看見創意總監 Alessandro Michele 對於將品牌美學提升至藝術及哲學探討的的野心,當時得這場展覽,讓2015年接任Gucci十個月後的他站穩了腳步,也開啟了Gucci至今爬升成為時尚界龍頭的重要里程碑,讓新生的Gucci美學,悄悄入駐了年輕世代的心。
而今年,Gucci又再次於上海籌備跨界藝術展,由藝術家Maurizio Cattelan策展的《The Artist Is Present 藝術家此在》在10月11日於上海余德耀美術館開幕,而這回Gucci又將探討什麼議題呢?
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Inside rooms of the exhibit #TheArtistIsPresent curated by @mauriziocattelan. | 1. @philippeparreno’s ‘Speech Bubbles’ on the ceiling, illuminate a room featuring an installation by @josedavila; an artwork by founding figure of American Conceptual art, #LawrenceWeiner, designed on the floor; and marble surf boards by collective art practice #ReenaSpaulings—that are precise copies of boards from the Mollusk Surf Shop in Brooklyn, New York. | 2 and 3. Mika Rottenberg’s installation ‘NoNoseKnows’ (2017) focuses on production, in the video, an assembly line of women making cultured pearls – pearls, an industry that China now dominates and what she saw in the immense pearl-making facilities of Zhuji, south of Shanghai. | 4. Artist #KapwaniKiwanga combines two colors, inviting the viewer to think about social implications. Baker-Miller Pink had the purported effect of reducing aggressive behaviour in test subjects by lowering their heart rate, pulse, and respiration. Fluorescent blue lights that recently have been installed in public spaces with the goal of reducing the visibility of veins, thereby discouraging intravenous drug use. #AlessandroMichele. The exhibit is on at the Yuz Museum, Shanghai until December 16, discover more through link in bio.
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1. The #GucciSylvie bag takes shape in over 1000 LEGO bricks and custom pieces, created by LEGO Certified Professional artist Andy Hung @andyhunglegopro, part of exhibit #TheArtistIsPresent curated by @mauriziocattelan and open until December 16 at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai. | 2. Works inside a room of #TheArtistIsPresent include #AleksandraMir’s ‘Shanghai (all places contains all others)’ 2018 postcards, #MaJun’s ‘New China series’ TELEVISION n° 1 TELEVISION n° 2 TELEVISION n° 3, #PenttiMonkkonen’s @penttigram ‘Calvados Dauphin’ ‘Vecchio Amaro del Capo’ ‘Pernod’ ‘Cointreau’ and @damonzucconi’s books ‘Baebl-17’, ‘Dsaropia’, ‘Eon’, ‘Sgrtnear in a Sgtnrae Lnad’, ‘Snyrnes’, ‘The Dnioamd Age’, ‘The Drfc neee Einnge’, ’The Dsesopsessid’, ‘The Man in the Hgih Ctsale’, ‘The Yraes of Rcie and Slat’. | 3. Artist #JohnAhearn’s @jahearnart acrylics on plaster: ‘Big Chief’ ‘Irene and Johnnie’ ‘Miguel’ ‘Michael Weathers greeting his Father’ and #BrianBelott’s @brianbelotti work ‘Copy from the Rhoda Kellogg International Children’s Art Collection’. #AlessandroMichele Read more through link in bio
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1. There is one account of Michelangelo’s departure from Rome that suggests that the Pope became angry with Michelangelo because he would not let him see any of his work on the Sistine Chapel. Apparently, the Pope once bribed Michelangelo’s apprentices to allow him to enter and see the Sistine Chapel. Since then, the Sistine Chapel has been visited by millions of people, and full-scale reproduction has been recreated endlessly through different mechanical techniques. ‘Untitled’ (2018), specifically conceived by @mauriziocattelan for #TheArtistIsPresent, replicates through painting the Sistine Chapel in a 1:6 scale. The masterpiece by Michelangelo is made accessible on a human scale and allows everyone to see the Sistine Chapel nearer and without any limitation. Can a masterpiece travel to us instead of we having to travel to it? Could the copy be a masterpiece itself and why? Can the copy save us from a museum-like world where art pieces become objects to which the observer has no longer a vital relationship, objects that are in the process of dying? If humanity’s maximum aspiration is to become God, the maximum aspiration of the copy is to become the original. Truth is that, between these walls, even the Pope can be handier to God. | 2. Eternity’ by Xu Zhen @xuzhenmadein. In this piece bodhisattvas and other religious figures were stacked and attached by their necks to statues of the Parthenon. According to the artist, if you accept your own civilization, will you be able to realize that civilization has no boundaries. The exhibit will run until December 16 at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai. #AlessandroMichele @mauriziocattelan Discover more through link in bio.
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《The Artist Is Present 藝術家此在》
這次展覽的名稱借鑒自2010年「行為藝術之母」Marina Abramovic 在紐約現代藝術博物館轟動一時的個展《The Artist is Present》。完全一致的名稱也宣告了這次Gucci探討的主題——「挪用」(Appropriation)。
挪用在藝術領域的中的含義就是利用預先存在的對象或圖像,部分轉換之後用於新的創作,達到諷刺、反思、再造等新議題,而最知名的作品就是藝術家Duchamp 挪用現成物品製成的「噴泉」。
但挪用手法在當代藝術以及時尚界一直存在許多爭議,到底算是藝術行為還是抄襲,兩者界線沒有明確的答案。
策展人Maurizio Cattelan在採訪中表示,挪用在藝術界中被視為一種創意,但時尚行業卻花了許多年與市場上的仿製品爭鬥,「複製就像褻瀆,它可以被視為對上帝的不敬,但同時也是對其存在的鄭重確認。我認為原創性是工業化的產物,我們是時候擺脫它了,未來本身並不是新的,而是我們如何理解它。」
此回展覽正是要探討圖像與現實、再現與呈現之間的複雜關係,挪用是否也可能是一種創作行為,具有與原作同樣的藝術價值。
此回展覽共分為17個展間,猶如一趟夢的旅程,並集結了30多位知名藝術家,包括為本次展覽創作的展品,也有過去的作品,共同對當代最神聖的藝術原則「原創性、創作意圖、表達方式」提出疑問,在現今所有一切都能被複製生產的時代,並沒有任何東西能真正保有原創的光環,這也意味著我們急需更新對「複製品」的陳舊概念,改用另一種新視角來看,「複製」是當代社會不可或缺的工具。
而隨著展覽開幕,印有藝術家 Marina Abramovic 臉孔的展覽海報,也在紐約、米蘭、倫敦、香港同步亮相,這是Gucci 精心打造的夢境之旅,歡迎造訪一同探索幻象與真實、原創與複製的的想像世界。
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