FEMININE ART EXHIBITION

艺术家:KETCHUP 刘斌、李震、熊时涛

ARTIST: KETCHUP ( Liu Bin / Li Zhen / Xiong Shitao)

开幕时间:7月27日下午四时

Opening: 4:00 pm, July 27th

展览时间:2013年7月27日至8月26日

展览海报

KETCHUP艺术小组成立于2012年,成员包括刘斌、李震、熊时涛,他们三人都毕业于中央美术学院,却以“非职业艺术家”的姿态出道。不论是在身份的界定还是创作动机上,KETCHUP一向将对“界限”的质疑与挑衅贯彻始终,竭尽一切顽劣与严谨的态度和手段,将其自身的模式与思考维持在某种模糊的中间地带之上。

KETCHUP展览:2013年《女性艺术大展》今日艺术汇,北京;2012《KETCHUP茄汁》,盛世天空美术馆,北京

刘斌 1979生于黑龙江,2002年毕业于中央美术学院视觉传达系,平面设计师,现居北京。

李震 1980生于山东青岛,2003年毕业于中央美术学院建筑系,任教于中央美术学院城市设计学院,现居北京。

熊时涛 1974生于江西南昌,2000年毕业于中央美术学院雕塑系,任教于中央美术学院城市设计学院,现居北京。

《女性艺术大展》是李震、刘斌、熊时涛三人艺术小组KETCHUP继“茄汁”之后共同策划的又一个实验艺术项目,如果说“茄汁”是通过戏仿与拼接国际顶尖艺术家的经典图像,从而探讨艺术界既得利益里所隐藏着的暧昧情绪,那《女性艺术大展》则是三个男人尝试把男性和女性的性别界限模糊之后,在靠近女性感觉的过程中,试图触摸到的生命中男性和女性性别意识之外那些被忽略但却微妙存在着的精神领域。

3个男人去做一个女性艺术大展,可能大多数人都觉得肯定是如花那样的效果,但这并不是他们想要的。展览中的6件作品没有抹去他们的男性身份,而是首先把“做自己”这一点确定了下来,然后从这里出发,去靠近他们体会中的女性世界,再通过摄影,雕塑,装置等手段把这处于男性和女性交界地带的感受表现出来。调侃和戏仿仍然是他们作品流露出来的气质,但创作并没有简单停留在这里,他们作为设计师和艺术家的双重身份——体现在对作品细节、质量、审美和感受细致入微的把握,让这一组创作有了更引人入胜的丰富滋味。

“Feminine Art Exhibition” is another experimental art project planned by a three-artist group, KETCHUP which is comprised of three male artists Li Zhen, Liu Bin, Xiong Shitao after the exhibition “Ketchup”. If we say “Ketchup” is an investigation of the ambiguous emotions hidden in the vested interest in the art circles by parodying and stitching classic images of top international artists, “Feminine Art Exhibition” is that the three men try to touch the spiritual realm which is subtly existing but ignored besides the gender awareness after blurring the gender boundaries between male and female and getting close to the female feelings.

Most people may feel that the effect of a feminine art exhibition made by three men must be like Dennis Rodman in wedding dress; but this is not what they want. They do not erase their male identity in the six works to be exhibited, but take “being themselves” as the basis, and get close to the female world in their feelings from there, then express the feelings in the border area of men and women through photography, sculpture, installations, etc. Ridicule and parody is still the temperament of their work, but their creation does not stop there; their dual identities as designers and artists - reflected in the nuanced grasp and control of work details, qualities, aesthetics and feelings, create more compelling rich tastes in this group of work.