April 18 - June 5, 2009
4月18日 至 6月5日2009年
m97 Gallery | Contemporary Photography
Two Solo Photography Exhibitions:
Works by Lu Jun and Sun Ji
Exhibition Dates: April 18 – June 5, 2009
Opening Reception for the Artists:
Saturday April 18, 5 pm – 8pm at m97 Gallery
m97 Gallery Shanghai is pleased to present two separate solo exhibitions of works by photography artists Lu Jun and Sun Ji.
Lu Jun’s large-scale photography works use the three fundamental elements of Chinese landscape painting - water, ink, and paper - combined with techniques of modern photography to create poetic landscapes that flow in both form and color. Lu Jun’s motivation as an artist is to create rather than to imitate, using the tools available to him as a contemporary photography artist. Water and ink captured in photographs, and under the artist’s control, blend together in dreamy clouds of color reinterpreting and advancing one of the most iconic forms of traditional Chinese painting.
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His subject matter departs from tradition as well in his earlier series “Chinese Real Estate Dream” (2006). In these works - inspired by the real estate boom in Zhuhai (Guangdong Province) of the early 1990s - lyrical, loose brush strokes lead the viewer’s eye downward through what appears to be an idyllic landscape. Yet upon closer examination we see that perched atop the splotches of ink resembling mountaintops sit photographs of suburban villas and modern office high-rises, a depiction of an ever rapidly urbanizing countryside. The exhibition also features works from his most recent series: "How Far From Us" (2007) and "The Scenery That I’ve Seen" (2008), which lead the viewer into a realm of more abstract landscapes of ink, water, paper and photography.
Lu Jun lives and works in Zhuhai (Guangdong) and Beijing.
The works in Sun Ji’s "Memory City" are architectural constructions that speak of urban transformation as destruction and displacement of the old must make way for the new; memories recreated that are both meant to be forgotten and recalled. In his first body of work "Memory City I", Sun Ji uses his camera to create what appear to be something part cubist collage and part hyperreal landscape composed of industrial factory facades, water towers, smoke stacks and abandoned buildings resulting in works of striking scale and formality. Recreating impressions and memories from his childhood, the young Shanghainese artist began in 2005 by carefully assembling single portraits of buildings to create massive black and white compositions that surpass the physical limits of possibility but in the viewer’s imagination renders an almost plausible behemoth construction, alive yet forever a part of Shanghai’s history. In "Memory City II", the smoke stacks and metal pipes are replaced by low-rise facades and elements of Shanghai’s lane life as the young artist’s focus shifts to the ubiquitous Shanghai urban landscape phenomenon of partially torn down residential buildings. The resulting compositions become dense, layered mountains of neighborhoods stacked one atop the other as if waiting to be leveled.
Sun Ji lives and works in Shanghai.
For additional photos, interviews or other media queries, please contact m97 Gallery at: info@m97gallery.com or by phone: (+8621) 6266.1597. Tuesday-Sunday 10:30am-6:30pm (Monday by appointment only)
Exhibition URL:
http://www.m97gallery.com/exhibitions/?exhi=&title=LuJun-SunJi
m97画廊/上海/当代摄影
两个个人摄影展：陆军，孙骥
展览时间：二零零九年四月十八日至六月五日
艺术家开幕酒会：四月十八日星期六下午5点至晚上八点于m97画廊
上海m97画廊很荣幸展出两位摄影艺术家陆军及孙骥各自的个人摄影展。
陆军的大幅摄影作品借鉴了中国水墨绘画最基本的三个元素 （水，墨，纸） ，结合现代摄影技术，在形式及色彩上都充满动感与诗意的新一种水墨摄影作品。在艺术家的操控之下，传统水墨的神韵被赋予了摄影中，融合在梦幻般的彩云中，重新诠释并升华了中国传统艺术中最经典的一个形式。作为一个当代摄影艺术家，通过使用当代的摄影器材和设备，陆军的动机是创作本能而非模仿 。他的主题题材也有时脱离传统，如他先前的一组关于“中国房地产梦”（2006年）的摄影作品。受到上世纪90年代初期广东珠海市房地产热的启发，该组作品以一种抒情的、松散的笔触将观者的视线引入一个好似田园诗般的风景。然而进一步的观察使我们发现照片上类似墨点的痕迹，好似坐在山顶上的郊区别墅及现代的办公大楼，展现了中国农村的飞速城市化。此次展览也将展出他最近的作品，包括2007年的“距我们还有多远”及2008年的“我经过的风景”，将带领观者体验一个由水、墨、纸及摄影组成的抽象风景意境。
陆军现居住并工作在（广东）珠海及北京。
孙骥的摄影作品“记忆之城”为一组建筑拼贴，通过表现了旧址必为新建让步所致的建筑破坏及流离失所展现了城市的变迁；记忆的重现既是为了忘却又是为了怀恋。在第一部作品集“记忆之城一”中，孙骥用摄影创造了一系列关于工业景观，工厂外表，水塔，烟囱及废弃的建筑物的高度写实的拼贴，是一组具有突出规模和形式感的作品。来自童年时期的回忆及印象，这位年轻的上海艺术家于2005年开始，通过对建筑单体外观的精心写照，创作了大量超越物理可能性极限的黑白作品。这些作品在观着的想象中渲染出了现实中几乎不可能的庞大建筑体，却又是上海从旧时至今日的一种永恒的情结。在作品“记忆之城二”中，摄影师的焦点由烟囱和金属管线转移至上海里弄生活的低层建筑外表，记录了普通的上海部分拆除的居民楼的市井风景。作品照片中的密集的层层叠叠的居所似乎在等待被平移的命运。
孙骥现居住并工作在上海
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展览网址: http://www.m97gallery.com/exhibitions/?exhi=&title=LuJun-SunJi
