《 土地治愈 》
HEALING LAND
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宋陈个展
Song Chen Solo Exhibition
策展人:杜曦云
Curator: Du Xiyun
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开幕时间:
2019.12.05(“世界土壤日”)
Opening:
2019.12.05(World Soil Day)
《土宇系列手稿》宋陈
支持单位:《环境与生活》杂志
Supported by: Green Living Magazine
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顾 问:
任官平(中国环境科学学会副理事长)
周永峰(土壤专家)
Consultant:
Ren Guanping(Deputy chairman
of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences)
Zhou Yongfeng (Soil Expert)
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Suzhou True Color Museum
苏州市通达路219号本色美术馆(二楼展厅)
No. 219, Tongda Road, Suzhou Natural Art Museum (exhibition hall on the second floor)
《土宇系列局部》宋陈
地气翻新——宋陈的泥土劳作
文/杜曦云
泥土是最方便最古老的艺术材料,虽然在不同的文化语境中被赋予丰富的寓意和美学的可能性,但都和人类的基本生存密切关联。在光怪陆离的发达都市,在人工智能和生物科技已经生成新的日常生活的当下,艺术家宋陈长年持守着泥土这“过分朴素”的材料,反照出的,是她追根溯源的冲动之强烈。泥土在宋陈的长期运用中,不断演绎出新的样态和意蕴来,但都保持了非常朴素的气息,指向生死轮回等基本问题。
“你必汗流满面才得糊口,直到你归了土,因为你是从土而出的。你本是尘土,仍要归于尘土。”“他的气一断,就归回尘土;他所打算的,当日就消灭了。”富有自由意志的生命,和孕育生命的大自然间的宿命关系,让人在喟叹的同时产生敬畏之心。宋陈用泥土来不断叩问生命的本源和归宿时,朴素而有力的召唤初心,环境、历史、宗教等多个维度的信息,顺其自然的敞开来。
尘土/轮回、土壤/孕育、环境/母体、自然/天道……从泥土引申出来的意，当然和中国本土文化有关,但其实是国际性的。因为相当简洁直接,宋陈的作品和盛行的繁复、华丽艺术趣味有明显的差异。在获取信息相当便捷的当代,美学的实验性已很难让见多识广的公众兴奋;矫饰而避实就虚的“观念”,在民智上升后越来越无人问津。有意无意间,宋陈简洁直接的不断回到原点获取能量,让她的作品因朴实而感人。此外,她也心态开放的添加辅助的材料,因地制宜的利用空间和借助光影,让作品摇曳出新的姿态和质地来。
《土宇系列手稿》 宋陈
因为执着于用泥土追根溯源,经过多种开放性的语言实验后,宋陈倾向于把很多物件的原本材质不断转换为泥土。这时,她所认为被异化的复杂问题,通过“尘归尘、土归土”,放在了返归原点的语境中来观照,让观者能穿越滋生迷障的表皮,对真相一目了然。
“土地治愈”是宋陈这几年持续工作的汇总,对很多具体问题的感悟和表达,如同零部件,在“土地治愈”这个大主题下组装起来,并在新的文化语境和物理空间中焕发新意。在钢筋、水泥、玻璃、塑料等构建的当代生活中,人们已经遗忘了作为基底的土壤。宋陈从全球范围内收集被人类污染的土壤,揉合出具象的婴孩、胎盘等。在炫目都市中遗忘了“我们是谁,我们从哪里来,我们到哪里去”的当代人,在被视觉工作者可视化、具象化的生态危机前,忏悔并启动救赎之思。
大道至简,但也因“简”而被轻视、遗忘,直到被明知不合时宜却不放弃的执着者,用新的美学趣味再次言说、反复言说出来。宋陈有不合时宜的一面,但不断返回原点的冲动，让她在收获觉悟的过程中固守下来,在不断刷新的表达方式中和观者分享她的觉悟。她充满“土气”的作品,在价值观上固守本源,在美学上不动声色的兑入各种实验,让有心人应目会心,心动后引发行动。
2019年11月18日于北京
《土宇系列 局部》 宋陈
《后土系列》 宋陈
Land gas renovation - Soil work by Song Chen
Text/Du Xiyun
Soil is the most convenient and oldest art material. Although it is endowed with rich meaning and aesthetic possibilities in different cultural contexts, it is closely related to the basic survival of human beings. In thegrotesque developed cities, when artificial intelligence and biotechnology have generated new daily life, the artist Song Chen has been holding this “overly plain” material for a long time, reflecting the strong impulse of her tracing the root. Song Chen used the soil for a long time and constantly deduced new forms and meanings, but they all maintained a very simple atmosphere, pointing to basic issues such as the cycle of life and death..
"You will have to sweat to make a living, until you return to earth, because you are from the earth. You are dust, you still have to return to the dust."
"When his breath ceases, he returns to dust; And his purposes perished that same day."
The fateful relationship between life of free will and nature, the cradle of life, makes people feel awe while sighing. When Song Chen constantly inquired about the origin and end-result of life with the soil, she simply and powerfully called the initial heart and opened the information of environment, history, religion in multi dimensions naturally.
《土宇系列局部》宋陈
Dust/metempsychosis, soil/pregnancy, environment/mother, nature/law of nature... The implication from the soil is of course related to Chinese native culture, but it is actually international. Because it is quite simple and straightforward, there are obvious differences between Song Chen’s works and the prevailing and gorgeous artistic tastes. In the contemporary, where information is quite convenient to get, the experimental nature of aesthetics has been difficult to excite the well-informed public; the "concepts" that are pretentious and evasive are becoming more and more unattended after the rise of the people’s wisdom. Intentionally or unintentionally, Song Chen continually and steadily returned to the original and gain energy, making her works touching and simple. In addition, she is also open to the addition of auxiliary materials, the use of space and light and shadow to adapt the work to a new posture and texture.
Because the insistence to trace the root with soil, after a variety of open language experiments, Song Chen tends to convert the original material of many objects into soil. At this time, the complex problem that she thought was alienated was observed in the context of returning to the origin through "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust", so that the audience could pass through the surface that was breeding confusion and be clear at a glance to the truth
《土宇系列局部》宋陈
《土上水墨系列 局部》宋陈
“Healing Land” is a summary of Song Chen’s continuous work in recent years. Her understanding and expression of many specific problems are assembled like parts and components under the theme of “Healing Land”and refreshed in new cultural contexts and physical spaces. In the contemporary life of steel, cement, glass, plastics, etc., people have forgotten the soil as the base. Song Chen collects soil contaminated by human beings from all over the world, and combines to form figurative babies and placenta. In the dazzling city, the contemporary people who forgot "Who are we, where do we come from, where are we going", repent and start thinking of redemption before the ecological crisis which is visualized by the visual workers.
The road to the truth is simple, but it is also despised and forgotten because of its "simplicity" until the persistent person who knows it is out of time but does not give up speaks again and repeatedly with new aesthetic taste. Song Chen has an inopportune side, but the impulse of constantly returning to the origin makes her stay in the process of gaining consciousness, and share her consciousness with viewers in the way of constantly refreshing expression. Her works are full of "rustic" style. They stick to the origin of values and quietly blend into various experiments in aesthetics, so that those who are interested in them can see, understand, therefore triggers their actions.
November 18, 2019 in Beijing
