"胡昀：远山"
“Hu Yun: Mount Analogue”
2024.03.23 - 08.25
（每周二至周日 Tue - Sun, 10:00 - 18:00）
上海外滩美术馆，中国上海市黄浦区虎丘路20号
Rockbund Art Museum, No.20 Huqiu Rd, Huang Pu District
Shanghai, China
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2024年3月23日至8月25日，上海外滩美术馆（RAM）将呈现2024春季研究第一季“复杂地理：中国杂志”的首个展览项目“胡昀：远山”。上海艺术家胡昀的艺术实践体现了他对叙事、历史和细微感知的深刻思考。在过去的十多年中，胡昀一直在“跟踪”那些传播自然历史和宗教等知识体系的关键人物。这些概念在 16 世纪至 19 世纪期间伴随着西方现代性和殖民主义在全球范围内扩展，对欧洲及其殖民地之间的商品、物种和人员流动产生了影响。
Hu Yun, Names for Clouds, 2022, microcarving on rice grain, dimensions variable.
© Hu Yun. Image courtesy of the artist and Warin Lab Contemporary.
胡昀,《无名之云》, 2022, 米粒微雕，尺寸可变。
© 胡昀。图片由艺术家和Warin Lab Contemporary提供。
自然学家和传教士的探索路线与殖民贸易和海上扩张的路线密切相关，上海这样的港口也成为殖民和资本主义扩张的关键地点。上海外滩美术馆此次呈现胡昀首个在中国的美术馆个展“远山”，介入点是RAM所处的建筑：在1933年为中国最早的自然历史博物馆——皇家亚洲文会博物馆所建。艺术家在跨越三层楼的空间介入中交织个人叙事、历史事件和自然元素，挑战传统观点并激发内省。展览从既定历史的滑脱之处出发，呈现了那些偶然间逃脱了积累、分类和归类过程的声音和知识。
展览标题取自20世紀法国作家、哲学家、诗人勒内·多马尔（René Daumal）未完成的冒险小說《远山》（也被翻译成《虚拟山》）。小说的核心是一群探险家的故事，他们发现了一座只有通过特殊精神状态才能到达的、隐藏的虚构山峰——虚拟山。这座山被描绘成连接地球和天堂的桥梁。小说通过描写探险家的追求、他们所面临的挑战以及他们在攀登过程中的精神和哲学启示，探索了现实与超验、物质与精神、可见与不可见之间的界限。像小说中的探险队成员一样，胡昀的工作在历史残留的细节中徘徊。通过不断的跟踪，挖掘，收集，编辑和再编辑物质和非物质材料，他让我们在真实和虚构的中间地带思考信仰、历史叙事、冒险、知识体系和自我发现。
*图文由上海外滩美术馆和艺术家惠允
Hu Yun, Revisit Memory 1908-1909 (detail), 2013, embroidered linen, 108 × 138 cm.
© Hu Yun. Image courtesy of the artist and Kadist Collection.
胡昀,《重访记忆 1908-1909》（细节图）, 2013, 亚麻手工刺绣，108 x 138 cm
© 胡昀。图片由艺术家和卡蒂斯特提供。
From 23 March to 25 August 2024, Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai will present “Hu Yun: Mount Analogue“, the first exhibition of the first season of the Spring 2024 research project "Complex Geographies: China Journal". Shanghai-born artist Hu Yun is known for his unique ability to weave together personal and historical events from different times and locations to create complex narratives that demonstrate the contradictions of the established historical narrative. Over the past decade, Hu Yun has been studying historical figures who were responsible for spreading the concepts of natural history, a field that expanded globally between the 16th and 19th centuries alongside Western modernity and colonialism, influencing the exchange of goods, species, and people between Europe and its colonies.
Hu Yun, Address Unknown, 2018, embroidery on silk, 235 × 123 cm.
© Hu Yun. Image courtesy of the artist.
胡昀, 《收件人不明》, 2018, 真丝手工刺绣, 235 x 123 cm.
© 胡昀。图片由艺术家提供。
Routes taken by naturalists for their expeditions often overlapped with colonial trade and naval expansion routes. Ports such as Shanghai emerged as vital points in this colonial and capitalist expansion. RAM is staging Hu Yun’s first museum survey: Mount Analogue, which focuses on the early natural history museum in China, the Royal Asiatic Society Museum, the original occupant of our building. The artist’s intervention across two floors of the museum highlights the violence of what he calls “expansive knowledge apparatus.” Embracing the slippage of the established history, Mount Analogue is a celebration of voices and knowledge that, by chance, escaped the processes of accumulation, classification, and categorization.
Images and texts courtesy of Rockbund Art Museum and the artist.
Hu Yun, Untitled, 2016, saddle, yoga mat, dimensions variable. HOW Art Museum, Shanghai. © Hu Yun. Image courtesy of the artist and HOW Art Museum.
胡昀,《无题》，2016，马鞍、瑜伽垫，尺寸可变。由上海昊美术馆收藏。
© 胡昀。图片由艺术家和上海昊美术馆提供。
关于“复杂地理，中国杂志”
上海外滩美术馆（RAM）将于2024年3月22日起呈现以“复杂地理”为主题的一系列研究与艺术项目，包含展览、公共项目和出版物。研究项目的第一季“复杂地理：中国杂志”与美术馆所在的历史建筑皇家亚洲文会（R.A.S.）息息相关。“复杂地理：中国杂志”邀请艺术家、作者、音乐人、表演者和本地艺术社群重新构想R.A.S.建筑的历史功能：在1930年代，这里的二楼是报告厅、三楼是图书馆、四楼和五楼是博物馆空间。2024年春天，它们将转变为呼应且挑战原有空间的历史叙事以及殖民主义背景的展览项目。“复杂地理：中国杂志”将艺术思辨、重新发掘的档案、集体记忆、边缘知识和通俗小说编织在一起，承认和重视本土知识系统对解读复杂地理和文化的内在权威。
“复杂地理：中国杂志”取自1923年上海出版的《中国杂志》（原名《中国科学美术杂志》，The China Journal of Science & Arts）。该杂志由博物学家苏阿德（又名“苏柯仁”）和汉学家福开森创办，与皇家亚洲学会的特定场地遗产密切相关，也是RAM自身建筑遗产历史故事的基石。RAM的标志性大楼建于1933年，是中国第一座专为博物馆而造的建筑。它最初是为1857年由英国和美国侨民建立的R.A.S.北中国支会设计的。该协会致力于通过考察、期刊出版、图书馆和博物馆建设对中国及其周边地区的知识进行学术探索和传播，为春季项目的展开叙述提供了丰富的背景。
About "Complex Geographies: China Journal"
RAM‘s project "Complex Geographies: China Journal" weaves together artistic speculations, rediscovered archives, collective memories, marginalized knowledge, and vernacular fictions. It underscores the importance of the critical need to acknowledge and value the intrinsic authority of indigenous knowledge systems in deciphering complex geographical and cultural tapestries.
The Spring program starts with a series of exhibitions and public events that engage with museum's historical architecture. Through a trio of distinct yet interconnected exhibitions and public programs, "Complex Geographies: China Journal" invites artists, writers, and local communities to reimagine the historical functions of the R.A.S. building: an auditorium on the second floor, a library on the third, and museum spaces on the fourth and fifth floors. This artist-led inquiry will evolve in the autumn with phase two: Into the Pacific, setting the stage for subsequent programs in 2025-2026.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
胡昀1986年出生于上海，2008年毕业于中国美术学院。现生活工作于上海和贝尔格莱德。
胡昀的作品包括绘画、水彩、行为、录像和装置。通过调动来自不同人和历史的经验，胡昀将各种以往生产过的材料重新纳入自己的日常工作中，因此，无法孤立地去看待他的每一件作品，每一个项目都享有共同的话题，都是有所预设、彼此关联的。
胡昀参加了第十届亚太当代艺术三年展（2021），第六届新加坡双年展（2019），第十一届光州双年展（2016），第四届广州三年展（2012）以及第七届深圳雕塑双年展（2012）；他的作品也曾在广州美术学院大学城美术馆，昊美术馆，上海当代艺术博物馆，巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心，广东时代美术馆及余德耀美术馆等机构展出。他的个展包括 “失语所”，AIKE，上海，中国，2023；“微缩景观”，新加坡国立大学博物馆，新加坡，2019；“我们从未离开过”，西安OCAT，西安，中国，2017；“叙事病”，AIKE，上海，中国，2016；“轻拿轻放”，AIKE，上海，中国，2013；“我们的祖先”，歌德开放空间，上海，中国，2012；“自然的图像”，英国自然历史博物馆，伦敦，英国，2010。
Hu Yun was born in 1986 in Shanghai. He graduated from China Academy of Art in 2008 and currently lives and works in Shanghai and Belgrade.
Hu Yun’s works range from graphite and watercolors to performance, video, and installation. Interested in how an individual positions him or herself within the course of history, he constructs the links that probe the inseparable coexistence of past and present, individual and public. He is adept at mobilizing various personal and historical experiences, incorporating previously produced materials into his artworks; as a consequence, it is impossible to consider any of Hu’s works in isolation since they all share a common theme, an element of foreshadowing, and they are all conceptually interconnected.
Hu Yun has participated in the 6th Singapore Biennale (2019), the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), the 4th Guangzhou Triennial (2012) and the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2012). His works have also been exhibited at Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts; How Art Museum; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Times Museum, Guangdong and Yuz Museum, Shanghai. His selected solo exhibitions include “distantia”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2023; “Another Diorama”, NUS Museum, Singapore, 2019; “We’ve been here before”, OCAT, Xi’an, China, 2017; “Narration Sickness”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2016; “Lift with Care”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2013; “Our Ancestors”, Goethe Institut, Shanghai, China, 2012; “Image of Nature”, Natural History Museum, London, UK, 2010.
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2024.03.09 - 2024.04.13
每周二至周六 Tue - Sat，10:00 - 18:00
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