上海民生现代美术馆荣幸带来周啸虎的个展《地上》。展览由秦思源策划，将于2016年6月12日开幕。

周啸虎是中国最具创造力的当代艺术家之一。作为中国最早开始创作实验性动画作品的艺术家，他在录像、装置和行为领域创作过不少重要作品，这些作品大都对当代中国的社会政治心理做出了深度剖析，有时被艺术家描述为“社会装置”。

在《地上》中，周啸虎将创作一个全新项目，把中国哲学和民间艺术以创造性叙事及当代形式融合到一起，构成占据美术馆整个主展厅的虚构场景。该项目的核心是艺术家与浙江泰顺木偶剧团的合作，双方将联手对庄子的哲学寓言故事进行重新解读。艺术家为剧团创作了一整套真人大小的木偶，并拍摄剧团在中国若干地方的现场表演。这一连串行动的高潮部分将是展览开幕时的现场演出。而在各地拍摄的录像则会被置于展场各处，与当天的现场表演形成同步呼应的关系。这种时间和空间的同步凸显了本次展览的理念——创作一种散点透视蒙太奇，即在中国传统山水画的空间概念基础上增添了时间的维度。周啸虎的时空蒙太奇将在一系列贯穿整个展览的移动雕塑、装置和平面作品中得到进一步诠释。

通过这种总体艺术，周啸虎试图调和中国当代文化面临的许多矛盾。中国在通往现代性的曲折道路上，常常需要面对农村与城市、传统与现代之间巨大差异的挑战。周啸虎的创作从社会装置转向文化装置，以此探讨当代中国面前似乎无法超越的各种文化挑战。展览将持续至7月10日。同期还将呈现另一位艺术家闫冰的个展《闫冰》。

关于上海民生现代美术馆

上海？民生现代美术馆是由中国民生银行基于承担社会责任和文化理想而发起成立的艺术机构，坐落在上海市中心红坊艺术园区，面积约4000平米，由上海第十钢铁厂改建而成，于2010年正式开馆。作为中国第一家以民营金融机构为背景的美术馆，民生秉承独立自由，包容开放的学术理念，以建设成为国际优秀美术馆为其长远目标；凭借国家鼓励实践的民营制度优势，支持中国当代艺术的持续纵深活跃发展；面向社会公众展开当前中国所亟需加强的当代艺术美学普及活动；深入全面地展开国际间的学术交流活动。

关于艺术家

周啸虎，1960年生于常州，现生活并工作于上海。他是最先从雕塑概念角度创作实验性录像和动画作品的中国当代艺术家之一。他曾经参加过的展览包括：2002年上海双年展、2004年塞维利亚国际艺术双年展、2004年纽约现代艺术博物馆“今日中国”展、2006年澳大利亚布里斯班亚太三年展、2007年英国泰特利物浦美术馆“真实之物”展、2010年英国伦敦泰特现代美术馆涡轮大厅“没有灵魂出售”表演、2010年第八届光州双年展，以及2014年柏林MOMENTUM空间的“上海媒体艺术”展。2002和2006年，他曾两次获得CCAA中国当代艺术奖；2014-2015年，获德意志学术交流中心（DAAD）驻地艺术研究项目资格。

关于策展人

秦思源，策展人，现居住于北京。“北京声音博物馆”的发起人以及Frieze杂志的特约编辑。2009－2010年任ShContemporary上海艺术博览会国际当代艺术展“上海当代”总监。2006－2008年尤伦斯当代艺术中心(UCCA)副馆长兼首席策展人。2003－2006年任英国大使馆文化教育处艺术经理，策划过一系列试验剧场、声音艺术和当代艺术项目。

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Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum

For immediate release

Zhou Xiaohu： Chimera

Date： June 12 – July 10， 2016

Curator： Colin Chinnery

Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum is honoured to present Zhou Xiaohu’s solo exhibition Chimera. The exhibition， curated by Colin Chinnery， is set to open on June 12， 2016.

Zhou Xiaohu is one of Chinese leading contemporary artists. Renowned for pioneering animation art in China， Zhou has also made important works in video， photography， installation， and performance， often probing deep into the socio-political psyche of contemporary China， which something he describes as Social Installation.

For Chimera， Zhou is creating an entirely new project that mixes Chinese philosophy and folk art with creative narrative and contemporary form into one made-up scene that spans the main exhibition hall. What is central to this project is Zhou’s collaboration with the Zhejiang Taishun Puppet Theatre， with whom he is working to create an interpretation of the Zhuangzi allegories， a famous collection of philosophical stories from the 4th century BCE. Zhou has created a whole set of life-sized puppets for the theatre group to be filmed in different locations across China， culminating in a live show at the exhibition opening. The puppet action of other locations shall be presented in video works across the show in sync with the live performance with music and narration. This synchronization of space and time brings into focusing on a core idea of the show to create a montage from multiple perspective points， like that of Chinese landscape painting， but with the added dimension of time. Zhou’s time/space montage shall be further articulated in a whole series of moving sculptures， installations， and two-dimensional works throughout the show.

Zhou Xiaohu’s gesamtkunstwerk is an attempt to reconcile many conflicts from Chinese contemporary culture. Chinese bumpy journey towards modernity has been constantly challenged by the vast differences between the rural and urban， the traditional and modern. Zhou has moved from social-installation to cultural-installation in order to explore seemingly insurmountable culture challenges of contemporary China. The exhibition is until July 10， 2016. Also ongoing in the museum during the same period is the solo exhibition by artist Yan Bing， Yan Bing.

Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum

Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum is sponsored and funded by the China Minsheng Banking Corporation， which is an non-profit organization mainly establishing varies types of activities that engaged in art. It is also the first public welfare organization in context of financial institutions in Mainland China. It is based on the study of Chinese modern and contemporary art. With an international perspective， closely reflecting the trend and the status of Chinese contemporary art， and actively promoting the communication and cooperation between Chinese contemporary art and international cutting-edge art. Minsheng Art Museum will collect and exhibit the outstanding artworks from both in and out of China； also， it promotes different forms of international communications to support the academic research. Meanwhile， Minsheng Art Museum will conduct multiple forms of education programs of art and aesthetic to the public.

About Artist

Zhou Xiaohu (b. 1960 Changzhou， lives and works in Shanghai) is one of the first contemporary artists in China to work experimentally with sculptural ideas of video and animation. He has participated in such art exhibitions as the Shanghai Biennale (2002)； Seville International Art Biennale (2004)； China Now， The Museum of Modern Art， New York， USA (2004)； Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art， Brisbane， Australia (2006)； The Real Thing， Tate Liverpool， UK (2007)； Not Soul For Sale， Tate Modern Turbine Hall， London， UK (2010)； the 8th Gwangju Biennial， Gwangju Art Museum， Korea (2010)； and Pandamonium： Media Art from Shanghai at MOMENTUM， Berlin (2014). Zhou Xiaohu was awarded the CCAA Award in 2002 and 2006. In 2014-2015， he was the recipient of the prestigious DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

About the Curator

Colin Siyuan Chinnery， curator， based in Beijing now. He is the founder of the Beijing Sound Museum and is contributing editor for Frieze magazine. Chinnery was Director in 2009 and 2010 of ShContemporary Art Fair in Shanghai， and between？2006-2008 he was Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. Between 2003 and 2006， as Arts Manager for the British Council in Beijing， he initiated major projects in experimental theatre， live art， sound art， and visual arts， bringing a wider public into contact with experimental practice.