伊比利亞當代藝術中心將于2009年11月7日隆重推出藝術家孫建春個展——中國，2006。這是一個從海外回流的展覽。08年5月，伊比利亞當代藝術中心在瓦倫西亞現(xiàn)代藝術博物館（IVAM），策劃了一個迄今為止在西班牙舉辦的規(guī)模最大的中國當代藝術展——“在瓦倫西亞55天”。孫建春的“中國，2006”，就是該次展覽中體量最大也是最重要的作品之一。
2006年，孫建春每天都重復了一件同樣的事，他從互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上選取了一張當日的新聞圖片并把它以繪畫的方式記錄下來，當這年結束的時候，他有了一件由365個畫面和相關的文字敘述構成的完整的作品“中國，2006”。有了一個他私輯的一個公元2006年的中國的“圖像編年史”。
今天，網(wǎng)絡世界幾乎成為了民間狂歡之地，其自由度、混亂感和豐富性令人錯愕，這片無垠的虛擬空間可謂眾聲喧嘩，很多信息出于民間的自發(fā)傳遞，真實而且迅速。從網(wǎng)絡選擇原始圖片，無疑是在截取一個更近于原生態(tài)的“中國”形象，一種經(jīng)由熒屏的框定后反而來得真確的年代現(xiàn)實。他的工作強度非常驚人，日復一日的信息遴選和架上再現(xiàn)需要強烈的熱忱、意志與體力進行支撐，這場馬拉松般的繪事在客觀上受到了當時正進入巔峰期的當代藝術熱潮的推動，同時，也具有一種自贖的行動性質，最終的實現(xiàn)意味了一個小小的奇跡。
2006年，在變化中的中國，是個“看上去很普通”的年份，藝術家選擇了一種極為樸素的方式來表述這“普通的時間”。他說：“事實上，還原時間只是虛妄的念頭，記錄也許是保留時間的有效手段，‘每天一張’有著潛在的‘行為藝術’特征，——做一天和尚撞一天鐘。這是個相對樸素的時間觀，和相對樸素的修身方式，很像中國古代文人的‘日課’，對于逝去的每一天都有個具體的記載，對我個人而言，每天都給時間劃了一個標記。
《中國，2006》可以視為新一代藝術家們對處于劇變中的中國所產(chǎn)生的集體焦慮的一種表達。這是介于“一個同時代的人所經(jīng)歷的圖像的總和”和“一切都在細節(jié)中”之間的一次挑戰(zhàn)，或者，一種跳躍，他的做法傾向于有關總和的描繪，但在事實上是提供了三百六十五個細節(jié)。如果不經(jīng)由他的遴選與再現(xiàn)，其中很多生機勃勃的細節(jié)都會在不長的時間里復歸于黑暗、寂滅，如同粉末，如同從未發(fā)生過。我們可以想象，隨著時光的推移，孫建春的這組作品會逐漸演變?yōu)闅v史學的證據(jù)，其不定的意義有賴于未來的再解讀。
展覽開幕：2009年11月7日下午3點
展覽地址：伊比利亞當代藝術中心 展廳B 北京市朝陽區(qū)酒仙橋路4號798藝術區(qū)E06
藝術總監(jiān)：左靖
總監(jiān)：夏季風
出品人：高平
主辦：西班牙國際文化藝術基金會｜伊比利亞當代藝術中心
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Exhibition Information | For Immediate Release
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Sun Jianchun “China, 2006” on 7th November 2009. In May 2008, at Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Iberia Center for Contemporary Art organized the largest Chinese contemporary art exhibition ever held in Spain “55 Days in Valencia: Chinese Art Meeting”. Sun Jianchun’s China, 2006 was the largest and also one of the most important works on display in that exhibition.
In every single day of 2006, Sun Jianchun repeated the same task — he chose one news photo on that very day from the Internet and painted it. At the end of the year, he completed his work China, 2006, which consists of 365 paintings and related literary narrations. This forms a personal edition of “picture chronicle” of China in 2006.
Today, the Internet world has almost become a carnival place for civilians. Its liberty, confusion and abundance are stunning. This is a boundless virtual space full of confused noises. A lot of true information is spontaneously transmitted among civilians rapidly. When Sun Jianchun chose original pictures from the internet, he was undoubtedly truncating an image of “China” that was closer to primitive ecology, a more genuine fact of the era being framed by the screen. In fact, the intensity of his work is stunning enough. The selection from day to day and the reproduction the images on canvas required strong passion, will and strength as support. Objectively, this marathon-styled painting was promoted by the contemporary art wave which had just reached its peak at that time. Meanwhile, it had a meaning of self-salvation. The final realization was like a small miracle.
2006 is a seemingly ordinary year in changing China. The artist has chosen an extremely plain means to articulate this “ordinary period of time”. He observes that “In fact, trying to bring back time is just a fabricated idea. Recording might be an effective way of keeping time. ‘One painting everyday’ has a hidden character of ‘performance art’. Doing one’s job perfunctorily, this is a relatively plain understanding of time and a relatively plain way of cultivation. Just like the ‘daily class’ for ancient literati, there was a detailed record for each passing day. In my opinion, I make a mark for time everyday.”
China, 2006 can be regarded as a kind of expression of collective anxiety by artists of a new generation who are in an abruptly changing country. This is a challenge or a kind of jump between “the combinations of all the images that a contemporary of the same status experienced” and “everything is in detail”. His method is inclined to a description about aggregation. But in fact he offered 365 details. Without his selection and reproduction, in a short period of time, many of those lively details would go back to darkness and die there like ashes, as if they had never happened before. We can image, as time goes by, this group of Sun Jianchun’s work will gradually develop into a proof for history research. Its indefinite meaning is dependent on the future re-interpretation.
Exhibition: China, 2006
Artist: Sun Jianchun
Curator: Xia Jifeng
Opening: 7 November 2009, 3pm
Dates: 7 - 27 November 2009
Venue: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art E06, 798 Art Zone, no.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Art Director: Zuo Jing
Director: Xia Jifeng
Producer: Gao Ping
Organisers: International Art & Culture Foundation of Spain, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art
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【編輯：張瑜】
