HOW+SPACE 新展预告 | 田晓磊：二十八个寓言
田晓磊：二十八个寓言
Tian Xiaolei: Twenty-eight Fables
展期：2023年03月03日-2023年04月27日
艺术家：田晓磊
HOW+策展人：郑果
地址：HOW+SPACE 展厅二
上海市浦东新区祖冲之路2277弄1号3楼
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HOW+很荣幸的宣布，将于2023年3月3日起在HOW+项目空间展厅二呈现艺术家田晓磊的全新个展“二十八个寓言”。
田晓磊：二十八个寓言
在《荷马史诗》中，西西弗斯触犯了众神。作为惩罚他需要将一块巨石从山脚推上山顶，但由于巨石过重，每每未到山顶巨石便滚回起点。循环往复、永无止境推石头的无效劳动便成为众神对他最严厉的惩罚。
在人与技术紧密结合的当下，西西弗斯的巨石演化成我们所背负着的科技文明，在不断往前推进的过程中，技术仿佛消解了时间，未来是看的到却又永远无法触及的山顶。
《西西弗斯》
田晓磊
2020
循环视频
4K（尺寸可变）
田晓磊全新个展“二十八个寓言”，将围绕人与技术的关系展开，站在现在与未来重叠的分界线上，通过艺术创作引领当代人跳脱习以为常的环境，也为后人类们留下二十八当代寓言故事。
从某种意义上来说，我们已然处于“后人类”状态。通过现如今的科技手段，人与机器的结合不仅只存在于想象。艺术家将这种人物到人机的转变超现实化，将具有时代特征的信息碎片化，再重混成引发思考却无法完全解读的影像作品。
现实与虚拟交融后所迸发的矛盾感，已经不止停留在皮肤层面。更多的是人与外部世界的抗衡，甚至是皮肤之下深入内心的分裂与斗争。仿佛算法编程，一个代码的改变就对结果有着巨大的影响。人类与技术的结合，从外到内模糊了人们惯常对身份的界定。而科技对肉身及思想微小的植入，都可能引发无法想象的蝴蝶效应。
好比此次展览中展出的作品《女神的代偿》，维纳斯立在画面中央，象征着主流的传统文化及人文主义；而捆绑在她身上的无数只机械手臂，则代表了突进的科技与后人类主义。田晓磊不意在通过作品给出有关未来的明确答案。而是作为观察者、参与者，将人与科技复杂的关系以及技术膨胀引发的恐慌感呈现出来。在如同寓言般消解了时空的循环影像中，将想象最大化，试图让观者窥探无法想象的未来。
《女神的代偿》
田晓磊
2021
循环视频
4K（尺寸可变）
田晓磊运用夸张的视觉元素排列与具有逻辑感的构图，书写出艺术家对人与科技的解构与狂想；在细节丰富暗藏古典美学的画面中，诉说着时代更迭下的浪漫与失落。他将飞速发展的时代浓缩成一个对未来的寓言，展出的二十八件影像作品及四件雕塑作品，如同二十八个故事章节，在看似怪异的叙事下，直指人与社会因为科技而产生的变迁与异化。
关于艺术家
田晓磊
2007年毕业于中央美术学院设计学院数码媒体专业，获学士学位，工作在北京。田晓磊作品多以人与科技关系为主题，他感兴趣这个时代快速迭代的不确定性，感兴趣物种演化中科技与生命的关系，感兴趣这个混合时代的新趋势。他用艺术家的想象力创造未来的世界样本，杂糅文化，历史，科技，身体，创造新的艺术体验。作品多次被中央美术学院美术馆、今日美术馆、纽约Meulensteen，昊美术馆、四川美术学院美术馆、王式廓艺术基金会等重要当代艺术机构收藏，是国内新媒体艺术的先锋力量。
田晓磊：二十八个寓言
Tian Xiaolei: Twenty-eight Fables
Dates: Mar. 03, 2023 – Apr. 27, 2023
Artist: Tian Xiaolei
HOW+ Curator: Zheng Guo
Venue: HOW+SPACE TWO (3F, No. 1, Lane 2277, Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai)
Organizer: HOW+
HOW+SPACE is pleased to announce that Twenty-eight Fables, artist Tian Xiaolei’s solo exhibition, will be on view at HOW+SPACE TWO since Mar. 3, 2023.
Tian Xiaolei: Twenty-eight Fables
In Homer, Sisyphus offends the gods. As punishment, he needs to push a huge boulder from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, but because the boulder is too heavy, it often rolls back to the starting point before reaching the top of the mountain. The repeated and endless invalid word became the most severe punishment for him by the gods.
Lack of The Weight
Tian Xiaolei
2022
Loop Video
4K(Dimension variable)
Nowadays, when people and technology are closely integrated, the giant stone of Sisyphus has evolved into the scientific and technological civilization we are carrying. In the process of continuous advancement, technology seems to dissipate time, the future is a mountain top that can be seen but can never be reached.
The new solo exhibition "Twenty-Eight Fables" of Tian Xiaolei, will focus on the relationship between human being and technology, the artist stands on the dividing line between the present and the future, leading contemporary people to escape from the accustomed environment through artistic creation, and leave twenty-eight contemporary fables for future generations.
The Meaning of Face Changing
Tian Xiaolei
2022
Loop Video
4K(Dimension variable)
In a sense, we are already in a "post-human" state. Through today's technological means, the combination of man and machine does not exist only in imagination. The artist surrealists the transformation from the character to the human-machine, fragments the information with the characteristics of the times, and remixes it into thought-provoking looped videos that cannot be fully interpreted.
The sense of contradiction that erupts after the fusion of reality and virtuality has not only stayed at the skin level. More importantly, it is the struggle between people and the outside world, even the split and struggle under the skin and deep inside. As with algorithmic programming, one code change can have a huge impact on the outcome. The combination of humans and technology has blurred the definition of identity from the outside to the inside. The tiny implantation of technology into the body and mind may cause an unimaginable butterfly effect.
Eternal Struggle
Tian Xiaolei
2021
Loop Video
4K(Dimension variable)
For example, in the work "The Retribution of the Goddess", Venus stands in the center of the frame, symbolizing the mainstream traditional culture and humanism; while the countless mechanical arms tied to her represent the advancing technology and post-humanism. Tian Xiaolei does not intend to give a clear answer to the future. Instead, as observers and participants, he presents the complex relationship between people and technology, also the sense of panic caused by technological expansion. The looping video works just like the fables that dissipate time and space, the imagination is maximized, trying to let the viewer peep at the unimaginable future.
Tian Xiaolei uses an exaggerated arrangement of visual elements and logical composition to write the artist's deconstruction and fantasy of human and technology; the picture with rich details and hidden classical aesthetics tells the romance and loss of the changing times. He condensed the era of rapid development into an fable of the future. The twenty-eight video works and four sculpture works on display are like twenty-eight chapters of a story. directly point to the changes and alienation of people and society due to technology under the seemingly strange narrative.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tian Xiaolei
1982 Born in Beijing,China. 2007 Graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) majored in digital media, Beijing, Chinacurrently lives and works in Beijing, China. Digital media art is the carrier of my creation, I am interested in the uncertainty of the rapid iteration in this era and interested in the relationship between life science and technology, also in the future evolution in this new species produced by the hybrid age. I use the artist's perspective to create the future world specimens, blend of history, religion, science and technology, the body, and to creat the new artistic experience.
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