c.k Shen Ke, the "Internet celebrity originator" in the process of Chinese Internet culture after 2000: non-mainstream religious masters, suicide incidents, bisexuality, Martian text; the real Shen Ke, because of perennial depression, tends to escape from the world.
Wang Jiang, an active and extreme artist-type curator, is now active in major institutions as an implementer of curatorial practice, building a very different creative system.
Shen Ke and Wang Jiang, instantaneous or eternal, two extreme and typical individuals meet, presenting an art class called Cybermus.
At the beginning of the new year, the first weekend of 2020, the art project "Moment or Eternity: The Art Lesson of Cybermus" co-created and worked by C.k Shen Ke and Wang Will opened in an ids. The project presents the joint work of c.k Shen Ke and the curator Wang in 2019, and the exhibition uses "Art Lessons" as the narrative framework of the overall project, connecting works of different forms and media, which state many topics such as time, appearance, fame, illness, companionship, love, death and so on.1.
c.k Shen Ke, a typical case of symbolization
"Shen Ke is not very good at socializing, so there are very few interactive friends in life," Wang said. The exhibition stems from Shen Ke's interest in art, and Wang, as one of his few friends, has become Shen Ke's art teacher since 2019, and through careful course guidance and collaboration, he and Shen Ke have jointly completed the artistic creation of discussion through their own problems. Whether it is the daily art class, the works created together, or the structural setting of this exhibition, Wang will use his good planner's discipline-style action to vividly express the ambiguity and interaction in the relationship between the two sides.
"If the topic of Internet celebrities is taken as the object of contemporary art observation, Shen Ke is undoubtedly a very classic case."
All the symbols about Shen Ke come together enough to tell a story about social culture and become a case study of contemporary art. Shen Ke is not just Shen Ke, she also represents a typical case of mass creation shaped by the media and social symbolization.
Shen Ke represents a culture, but it is fundamentally alienated from that culture, and this state of impromptuity and the psychology of escape make her legend an art.
This is undoubtedly an artistic move to break through the curatorial language through an action-oriented approach, and such a continuous work can be called the creation of curatorial or the curation of creation.
Art Class Calendar 2019 Photography, Calendar Notes: Wang Will 505*305cm*12
Exhibition site
Wang will, curating as a kind of biographical writing
"After 2000, his selfie photos were widely circulated on online social platforms, and this smoky makeup portrait has become a classic in the memory of some netizens, such an image is constantly copied today, when we open Weibo and circle of friends every day, there are always some girls who love to be in the back seat of luxury cars, pressing the shutter of the mobile phone lens themselves, leaving a chuchu and moving face." A passage of narration written by Wang in the first person is part of the exhibition in the form of a single clip at the exhibition site.
"They are somewhat altered in form, more like works-based manuscripts, all written on the spot of the exhibition, and do not care much about the standards of grammar, I want to present the audience with a relatively subjective storytelling scene." Through such curatorial techniques, Wang will echo and connect the background of the story at the exhibition site, releasing a visual tension and the aftertaste and resonance of thinking.
From the curatorial point of view, the biggest feature of the exhibition is that it has pioneered a curatorial approach to biographical bodies, which includes two levels:
The first is a biography of Shen Ke, when Wang will write Shen Ke at the same time, he will also merge his biography with her biography.
"I needed to get into someone else's life, and this kind of thing was conceived from the beginning
。 The calendar work dominates the overall situation of the exhibition, this is the whole record of my cooperation process with Shen Ke, for her it may be just a work or story in 2019, for me, a curator, the whole exhibition is a very important work, a creation of action and conceptual expression. In art class, the presupposition and conception, guidance and coordination of a teacher become the premise of this exhibition."
Moment and Eternity: The Exhibition acts as a vehicle for extreme cases
Many years ago, when Wang Would give a painting to Shen Ke, he exchanged a handful of hair with her, and Shen Ke wrote a sentence as an inscription: "I will die again and again to prove the infinity of life." ”
This sentence comes from Tagore's "Bird Collection", and because of Shen Ke's quotation, it has become the most widely circulated "Shen Ke Famous Quote". At the beginning of the exhibition, this strand of hair and this sentence were created into a set of neon works that diverge blue light, ambiguous lights, redundant writing, and dialogue with another work in the exhibition hall, "Night Hua".
In the "Night Hua" project, Shen Ke and Wang will choose the top traffic for more than ten years, paint them into a set of black pop portraits, in the 60s and 70s of the last century for newspapers, printing outlets, became an important form of pop painting, but the experience of pop painting is always bright and bright, and this work is so dark, all the lines result in the shape of a bouquet, "Night Hua" echoes with neon works, The background of Chen Ke and the entire exhibition is narrated: everyone can become a star for 15 minutes, but everyone is easy to wither.
I will die again and again to prove the infinity of life 2019 Blue Neon 2960*160mm
Yehua (background work) 2019 Digital painting, wood screen 505*1010mm*17
The calendar in the exhibition hall states and records the whole process of the "art class" carried out by Wang Jiang and Shen Ke in 2019 as the narrative framework of the overall project. Plain and fragile paper-wrapped faces, blue hearts, Martian texts, woodblock prints, seated portraits of Chen Jianzhou, the exhibition connects works of different forms and media, they are about time, appearance, fame, illness, companionship, love, death...
Demonstration and copying is a teaching method in K's art class, while in the exhibition it presents "2" as a juxtaposition of combinations.
"K's facial data was collected in preparation for the exhibition. When confronted with an equivalence statue reproduced with 3D digital technology, K was not optimistic, perhaps because the statue was too realistic. Together, we transformed rice paper and paper clay into their current form. And in my opinion, such a face is actually as abstract as reality. (General Wang)
Abstract 2019 3D scan printing, rice paper, paper clay
The girl, who is popular for selfies, is unusually shy in front of other people's cameras, and the plain face photo reveals K's uneasiness, which makes K extremely uncomfortable. Its presentation is a leap forward for k to psychological disorders. (General Wang)
Face 2019 Collector's Grade Spray Painting Size is variable
"Two hearts, the size of a fist. In art class, K and I used clay to shape (demonstrate and copy) these two hearts. K said her heart should be blue, deep blue. (General Wang)
Double Core 2019 FRP Plating 130*80*85mm 115*70*75mm
K took her daily thoughts down in her phone memo. She always sends me screenshots of these slivers at midnight, many of which she doesn't want to show publicly. These fragments form the basis of discussion and creation in art classes. (General Wang)
Whispers 2019 Mobile Phone Memo Notes, LightBox Tablet Printing, Illuminated Board 480*330mm
"February 13, 2008 was a day of remembrance for some netizens, because there was a prevailing legend that their Cybermus died on that day. For this reason I asked K several times why she had committed suicide, and he said: 'I tried to die, and when I was lying in the emergency room and being, I didn't even have the dignity to die.' As for why K committed suicide that day, he was reluctant to mention it. Here, she uses that time as the object of engraving. (General Wang)
Engraving 2019 Wood engraving 750*560mm*3
"Talking about spiritual love with men, doing physical entanglement with women—he used this as his emotional creed, and in the gossip of the Internet, she was described as a rebellious and promiscuous girl, and she has always disdained it. what is love？ Inadvertently talking about this rotten problem is more like an exclamation, and we jot down these words in a humorous and joyful atmosphere. In his art class, they were made into a series of tricolor-style paintings. (General Wang)
Tricolor Painting Series No. 1 - Love is Zero, Zero is the beginning of 2019 Wood Acrylic Hand-Painted 90*60mm
He named her cat Chen Jianzhou, a mischievous mixed-race ocelot that, as a pet, highlighted the owner's uniqueness. In the two years since he came to Beijing, they have lived together in a three-story villa within the fifth ring road, which is generally decorated in a Chinese Rococo style that was popular in the 1990s. Jianzhou walks on the cornices on Damascus wallpaper and fringed curtains every day, and from time to time makes a cat cry. But the ocelot is not suitable for domestication after all, and it died of pancreatitis caused by depression in the spring of 2019. One day, when he was painting a portrait of Jianzhou, he said to me: 'I am Jianzhou, and Jianzhou is me.' (General Wang)
Chen Jianzhou Seated Statue 2019 Charcoal, Toner, Watercolor 575*385mm*2 (Demonstration and Copying)
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