展期：2008年08月19日至2009年2月28日
地址：FakeSpace 北京市朝阳区百子湾32号苹果社区北区3B-111（今日美术馆东侧）
艺术家：孟瑾 & 方二 Fake Studio
这次在FakeSpace空间里所呈现的是两位艺术家试图在城市变迁和个人记忆之间建立联系的作品展。 孟瑾 作为一个生于上世纪70年代的艺术家，在处理意识形态主题时，他更愿意用一种比较超现实主义或者抽象的手法来表达一种虚无的意识形态景观。无论是他的《有风景的房间》（1999年）中出现的政治意识形态建筑，还是最近的《每个房间都被点亮》中带有油画感的政治寓言图像，政治和意识形态仿佛只是存在于个人的想象和意念当中，艺术家可以在这个主题空间里任意发挥。 他透过对建筑空间内部的观察，试图揭露其中带有权利感和制度化信息。
另一位艺术家方二虽然生于台湾，但成长过程十几年来从澳洲到美国，最后在英国认识了孟瑾，2006年春天，方二决定与孟瑾一同到北京工作，来到北京居住的这几年时间对于她个人来说，颠覆了她常年对于城市的信仰。 她发现“ 速度”并不构成大家对北京这座城市的兴奋，而是变化所带来的“混乱”让这座城市生机勃勃。这引发了她对于形体构成和内部秩序的兴趣，从发现二维和三维之间隐藏的美感，到视觉对称性的微妙认知，她创造了的作品单纯而强烈，并收集人们身边的日常物品来启发对于社会层级关系的联想。
两位艺术家，他们是工作的partner，同时也是恋人，在2008年的夏天因为有了新的生命和祝福，需要他们暂时离开忙碌的工作状态。 这次在FakeSpace的展览就叫《填空》，Fill Up Space不但能体现他们作品的关注与特色，同时也反应他们真实人生的现阶段空白与变化。
FakeSpace北京虚空间是孟瑾和方二在北京的工作室之一， 由于地处市中心并同时位在今日美术馆的隔壁。他们在更多的时间是提供这个空间给他们在世界认识的艺术家与设计师朋友来这里做展览，作为在北京发声的小小舞台。这里不仅是一个集会的地点，对于他们来说也是一个集生活、工作、展览和娱乐于一体的地方。 自2006年开始积极推动后街头艺术和新兴跨界创意。策划了包括Start Making Sense! 开始言之有物 等涂鸦艺术家的群展，英伦恶童Pure Evil在北京的首次个展，以及 优雅的反抗—向基本形体致敬的几何展等。
Date: August 19th, 2008 – February 28th, 2009
Location: FakeSpace
Address: 3B – 111, Pingguoshequ, 32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100022
Tel: +86 (0) 10 5826 4512
Fake was founded in London in 2000 by artist Fang Er. Meng Jin joined in 2004 sharing a love for contemporary art and design, subsequently moving to Beijing in 2006. Much like the name, Fake plays at the grey area between art and design, engaging with art activities also it involves in design projects.
Fill Up Space is the showcase of those two’s work that explores the relationship between urban transition and individual memory. Meng Jin is a local artist who was born in 70’s from last century. The way he approaches ideology is rather surrealistic or abstract, which builds up a meaningless social magnificence. His early work “A Room with A View” collected many public political buildings in Beijing, while his recent photo series “Every Room is Illuminated” creates pale and blur interiors with the mean of institutional power. Those work plays with the institutional contexts and political propagandas but they are all inside a room of his private imagination.
Fang Er was born in Taipei and grew up in different countries from Australia to America. After she met Meng Jin in England, they then moved to Beijing together in 2006. The experiences of living in Beijing to her has been overturned her believe and understanding of urban city. She found out that “speed” of the Beijing wasn’t really exciting. It was the “confusion” of this city keeps everything alive. She has been fascinated by the internal structure and systematic order, which lead her to discover the hidden atheistic between 2D and 3D, as well as the sensibility of symmetry. Fang Er employs found objects she collected from everyday life to create the atmospheres of social class. Her work is often simple but impressive.
Both are artists, the working mates, as well as lovers. Because of their lovely baby is coming up soon, they need to be off work for a while. The period that leaves the space for their Beijing life, but here at Fake Space they took their art works to fill up the physical space.
FakeSpace is the Beijing studio space of Fang Er and Meng Jin. It locates in the complex of Today Art Museum in downtown. It is also a show room for many of their friends who share the love of art and design. They come to here for making pieces, giving talks and making friends. Since it physically existed in 2006, it has held many cutting age exhibitions range from post-graffiti to cross over design events, including “Start Making Sense” street art group exhibition, Pure Evil Beijing show, “Beautiful Resistance – respects to basic shapes” etc.
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