RTSM｜The Eighteen Scenes ：郅敏 & Elvire SOYEZ

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The Eighteen Scenes | 十八个现场

Reflecting the Sharing Moment | Section Four

2020艺讯网线上展览

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As the last phase of 2020 "Reflecting the Sharing Moment", "The Eighteen Scenes" has shared18 artists/groups' artistic thinking of the year 2020. These scenes cannot fully represent the overall epitome of this year, but they are indeed true representations of some cross-sections.

In this section, we would like to introduce artists ZHI Min and Elvire SOYEZ, as well as their artistic reflections to the year 2020.

ZHI Min｜郅敏

"The light has always existed."

Zhi Min was born in 1975.

Executive Vice President, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the Sculpture Institute of the Chinese National Academy of Arts. Member of the Creative Committee of the Chinese National Academy of Arts, Member of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Chinese National Academy of Arts.

He also works as the Executive Vice Chairman of the Sculpture Art Committee of the China Culture Promotion Association, Deputy Secretary-General and Member of the Ceramic Art Committee of the China Artists Association, Deputy Secretary-General and Member of the Art Committee of the National Urban Sculpture Construction Steering Committee, Council Member of the Beijing Artists Association, Member of the Sculpture Art Committee, Member of the International Association of Ceramics (IAC) of UNESCO, distinguished Professor and Postgraduate Tutor at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts.

He serves as a member of the juries for the Art Design of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the 13th National Fine Art Exhibition, the National Social Science Fund of China, and the China National Arts Fund. He has presided over the completion of a number of national-level projects of the National Social Science Fund of China and the China National Arts Fund.

His works have won many national awards. The large-scale sculpture “Land Square" won the "2012 National Urban Sculpture Construction Excellence Award" by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development; he presided over a number of large-scale national exhibitions hosted by the China Artists Association. He participated in international exhibitions such as "Qatar Biennale", "Sino-French Art Exhibition in France", "Italian Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition". He also participated in various academic exhibitions more than 70 times. More than ten special lectures have been held in academic institutions such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Central Academy of Fine Arts.

He has held 9 solo exhibitions in important academic institutions such as the National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum, and Centre Culturel de Chine à Paris. His works are collected by the National Art Museum of China, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Art Museum, Chinese Sculpture Museum, Ningbo Art Museum, UNESCO Headquarters, Rhode Island School of Design, and other important academic institutions. His publications include 7 monographs. He has published more than 100 articles and hosted columns in national Chinese academic journals and national academic journals of art.

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Primordial World, Ceramics, Metal, Fog, Light, Projection, 715cmx715cmx80cm, 2020

(*The work lasts for 15 minutes, there is a 12-minute soothing off period, and a 3-minute climax period. Please take the time to watch it, thank you all.)

Matter has no head or tail, no beginning and no end. Life has not yet begun in the primordial world, and it is very likely that the spirit will still exist when life is gone.

All human civilizations in the world have their own creation theories. The Greek civilization, Egyptian civilization, Mesopotamia civilization, and Chinese civilization all have a complete understanding of the initial period of the world. They are the most important beginnings in the history of their respective civilizations and they are also integrated with their respective civilizations and cultural histories.

Primordial World, Ceramics, Metal, Fog, Light, Projection, 715cmx715cmx80cm, 2020

The universe is vast. In the universe of life on Earth that has existed for more than four billion years, although human civilization is short, it is also brilliant. Human beings are humble in questioning, exploring and imagining the origins of the past, to build the footprints of human civilization step by step.

Primordial World, also known as "Hongmeng", is an important part of the theory of creation in the Chinese civilization system. There is a humanistic imagination of Chinese civilization about the origin of the world, and it is full of the poetry and wisdom of Eastern civilization.

In Chinese culture, it is described that before Pangu opened up the world, the world was a chaotic vitality. This natural vitality is called Hongmeng. It was this beginning that created the beginning of the history of Chinese civilization. In "Zhuangzi Zaiyou", it is said: "Clouds will travel eastward, passing the swaying branches and be suitable for the great enlightenment." In this origin, future life is conceived and the scenes of human civilization will be born a long time later.

My work "Primordial World" uses the construction principle of "Eight Steps of Yong" in Chinese characters to construct a structure that can be copied and reconstructed infinitely, echoing the principle of reconstruction and a combination of Chinese culture. This cultural principle can be seen in cultural carriers such as Chinese characters and Chinese brick-wood structures.

Each monomer of the "Primordial World" work is based on the structure of the "benzene ring" in modern medical protein research, which symbolizes the material quality of the origin of life, echoing the cultural study of "things".

There are clouds, light, and life pulses in the works.

There are also dark clouds.

The dark clouds seem to be very powerful, but there is light after all.

The light pierced the dark clouds lightly like a sword, and disappeared like a smoke. At this moment, the dark clouds are becoming more wretched because of the light. And the light does not increase or decrease, and will not become dim or bright because of anything.

Bright, neither humbling nor overbearing, from the era of Primordial World to today and to the future.

The light has always existed.

—Zhi Min, Executive Deputy Dean and Doctoral Supervisor of Sculpture Institute of Chinese National Academy of Arts

Elvire SOYEZ

"Time and a constant care with sharpened eyes for shaped trees remind us our human conditions, doomed to disappear."

Elvire Soyez

elviresoyez.com

EDUCATION

2007-09 + 2016-17 Project studies, KKH, Kungliga Konsthögskola, Stockholm

1999-05 Master of Fine Arts, Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA)

with Erik Dietman, Richard Deacon, Sculpture department

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2019 Les nuages, Gränbystadens Vårdcentral, Uppsala

Saudade, Embassy of Sweden, Bankok, Thailand, Statens Konstråd, Stockholm

2017 Le fond des océans, shortlisted for Östermalmshallen, Stockholm Konst, Stockholm

2011 Au Feu!, Smedslättsskolan, Stockholm Konst, Stockholm

Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 L´Apesanteur, a duo exhibition with Erik Jeor, Galleri Benoni, Köpenhamn

2016 Un air familier, a duo exhibition with Erik Jeor, Riche & Teatergrillen, Stockholm

2013 Les ancêtres, matiére morte, Angelika Knäpper Gallery, Stockholm

Selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Tryck!, 11 grafiker, Jakobsberg Konsthall, Stockholm

2011 Float All in Windows, Slaktusateljéerna, Stockholm

2010 L´Origine du Monde, Angelika Knäpper Gallery, Stockholm

The Forgotten Bar projekt,curated by Peter Bergman and Jakob Krajcik, Berlin

REPRESENTED

Statens Konstråd, Stockholm

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Stockholm Konst, Stockholm

Selected GRANTS, RESIDENCIES

2020 Björkö konstnod art residency

2018 Travelling grant, Konstnärsnämnden

2013-2014 Two years studio grant, Cité Internationale des arts, Paris, Konstakademien

2012 Travel grant, Konstakademien

2010 Working grant, 1 year, Konstnärsnämnden

2010 Grey sur Loing, atelier Carl Larsson, France

PUBLICATIONS

Konstens frågeformulär #1-132, 2020

Subaltern, 2009

Le Monde, 2006, "Jolie Cuvée…"

Ateliers d’Art, 2002, "Elvire Soyez…"

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Topiarus (working in progress), cotton embroidery on linen,150x250 cm, 2020

My interest in gardens and topiary has been growing over the last few years. I decided to create “Topiarus”, cotton embroidery on linen, like an alphabet book, extracted from garden pictures and different specimens of topiary.

Topiary designs are named spiral tree, ball on pedestal, two-tier pyramid, bird on round pyramid and so on.

Beyond the obvious game between Nature and Culture I prefer to think about them like forms coming from a prehistoric time. We have imposed forms on a living tree making them sculptures but where do the shapes come from? From Nature? Did those designs impose themselves upon us?

Time and a constant care with sharpened eyes for shaped trees remind us our human conditions, doomed to disappear.

Image and Text Courtesy of the Artists.

Edited by Sue and Emily/CAFA ART INFO

About the Exhibition

关于展览

The Eighteen Scenes

Reflecting the Sharing Moment | Section Four

2020艺讯网线上展览 | 第四回

Launch Date: 2020.12.30

Participating Artists

(in alphabetical order of surnames):

CHEN Hui, Hannah COOKE, Dadawa, Michael EADE, FEI Jun, Erik JEOR, JIANG Jie, MA Lu, Martina MORGER, Buket SAVCI, Jakub SIMCIK, Elvire SOYEZ, WU Didi, YAO Lu, YUAN Wu, ZHAN Wang, ZHI Min, ZHOU Li

Curator: Emily ZHOU

Visual Design: Yizhi ZHANG

Organizer: CAFA ART INFO

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