“变形记”国际当代艺术展
开幕：2010年1月16日下午5：00—7：00
展期：2010年1月16日-2月28日
地点： 其他画廊上海空间
地址：上海莫干山路50号9号楼
卡夫卡（Franz Kafka）最著名的文学作品《变形记》（出版于1915年），讲述了一位旅行推销员格里高尔•萨姆沙在某天醒来的时候突然发现自己变成了一只甲虫。之后，这部怪诞的原存在主义作品引发了很多评论，比如将其比喻为资本主义工业社会中的个体异化，以及一战后，随着更新、更大规模的屠杀方式的出现而积淀下来的集体性焦虑。
本次展览也定名为《变形记》，借用了卡夫卡的叙事潜台词，但是却将这块试金石带入了21世纪的语境之中，表达了变化无常的污浊环境对生存的影响、全球化带来的变动不居的文化人口状况，以及变化的、流动的、破碎的、不稳定的、不统一的身份认同引起的心理不安。
参展艺术家通过多种媒介（包括绘画、纸本作品、雕塑、摄影、影像和装置）和不同主题（如历史、政治、宗教、科学、性和一系列当下主题）表达了“变形”的观念。《变形记》是一次国际性的展览，来自世界各地的艺术家将开启上海其他画廊这个新的展览空间。其他画廊希望通过国际性的展览项目，支持当地、以及国内外当代艺术家的探索，并为他们的活动创造空间，从而在展览举办城市促发自己的文化与艺术嬗变。
艺术家：卡洛斯•阿莫拉雷斯（荷兰/墨西哥）、奥里特•阿瑟瑞 （英国）、 比尔•贝里（泰国）、艾丽卡•哈利舍 （墨西哥）、艾玛•麦克凯格 （美国）、加布里埃尔德拉莫拉（墨西哥）、克莱文森•德奥利维拉（巴西）、瑞科•萨克内（西班牙／芬兰）、玄武夸（韩国）、米格尔•安吉尔•雷奥斯（阿根廷）、萨维和保罗•斯坦尼卡斯（法国/立陶宛）、豪尔盖•塔克勒（智利）、沃基特克•乌尔里克（波兰）
出版物将包括策展人论文、作品图片和艺术家简历。
The Metamorphosis
International Contemporary Art Exhibition
Curator: Raul Zamudio January 16th to February 28th, 2010
Opening: 5:00 ~ 7:00pm, January 16th
Duration: January 16th to February 28th, 2010
Space: Other Gallery Shanghai Space
Address:50 Moganshan Road, Building 9, Shanghai, China
The Metamorphosis is possibly Franz Kafka’s most well known literary work. Published in 1915, its plot dovetails on a traveling salesman named Gregor Samsa who wakes up one day in bed only to discover he has been transformed into a bug. Much has been written about Kafka’s enigmatic, proto-existential story including it being a metaphor of individual alienation in a burgeoning industrial society, as well as encapsulating the collective anxiety felt from World War I when new and efficient modes of mass killing emerged.
The exhibition titled The Metamorphosis uses as touchstone Kafka’s narrative subtext but updates it into a twenty-first century context in addressing, among other things, the effects of living in a protean, albeit unstable and polluted environment; an ever shifting cultural demographic triggered by globalization; as well as contemporary notions of identity as malleable and fluid rather than fixed and stable.
The artists in The Metamorphosis engage these themes in unique ways including Oreet Ashery and her masquerading as orthodox Hasidim; or Erika Harrsch’s conflation of a butterfly and female genitalia; or Gabriel de la Mora’s self-portraits as canine/anthropomorphic creatures rendered in human hair. In each of theses instances, and generally in works throughout the exhibition, metamorphosis becomes a framework from which to explore history, politics, religion, science, sexuality, and an array of topical themes through a plethora of media including painting, works-on-paper, sculpture, photography, video, and installation. The Metamorphosis is an exhibition of international artists that will inaugurate the Other Gallery’s new exhibition space in Shanghai. Through its global exhibition program, Other Gallery hopes to produce its own cultural and artistic metamorphosis in its host city by supporting and creating a space for the exploration of contemporary art by local, national, and international artists.
Artists: Carlos Amorales (Netherlands/Mexico), Oreet Ashery (UK), Bill Berry (Thailand), Erika Harrsch (Mexico), Emma McCagg (USA), Gabriel de la Mora (Mexico), Cleverson de Oliveira (Brazil), Riiko Sakkinen (Spain/Finland), Koh Sang Woo (Korea), Miguel Angel Rios (Argentina), Svai & Paul Stanikas (France/Lithuania), Jorge Tacla (Chile), Wojtek Ulrich(Poland)
A publication will accompany the exhibition with an essay by the curator, reproduction of artworks and biographical material on the artists.
