X美术馆与前滩太古里合作开设全新艺术空间The Pool by X Museum，将于2024年3月22日正式面向公众开放。本次展览展出韩国艺术家金允哲于2024年创作的新作——“色度（Chroma）”系列的第八件。在科学定义中，“色度”是一项感官性指标，它反映着颜色的色调和饱和度，与亮度共同量化了人类对于错综复杂的颜色的感知。这一较为生涩的词汇精准而锐利地凸显了该系列作品的科学辩证和视觉语言。

X Museum is thrilled to announce the opening of ‘The Pool by X Museum’ in Taikoo Li Qiantan Shanghai this March. For this venue’s inaugural show, we will present South Korean artist Yunchul Kim’s new commission ‘Chroma VIII’. The show features the newest edition of the artist’s critically acclaimed Chroma series. ‘Chroma’, in its scientific definition, is a sensory indicator that reflects the hue and saturation of a color, and it quantifies human perception of the intricacies of color together with luminance. This rather nebulous term accurately and sharply captures the scientific methodology and visual language employed by the artist.

《色度VIII》从拓扑空间发展而来，其整体共由234个单元组成，包含高度透明的层压聚合物、电机、微控制器和LED灯等。每个单元形状各异，通过对透明聚合物施加压力进行着微妙的形变运动。由此，作品单元的动态表面闪烁出虹彩般的光芒，从而呈现出一种全新的体验微观世界的方式。光与色彩在物质性中流动，声音和运动纠缠在机械结构中，引发了超越人类日常感官的体验。

Developed from topology, the body of ‘Chroma VIII’ comprises234 units in total. These units consist of highly transparent laminated polymers, motors, microcontrollers, and LEDs. Each unit has a unique shape and undergoes subtle deformation through applied pressure on the transparent polymer. Consequently, the dynamic surfaces of the work units flicker with iridescent light, providing a novel visual experience. The light and color flowing through the material, sound entwined within mechanical movement, triggering sensory experience beyond daily perception.

Yunchul Kim, Chroma V, 2022  Installation view at 59th Venice Biennale, 2022 

作品通过单一部件的无限重复营造出庞大、炫目、永无止息的观感，以一种近乎无法忽视的视觉吸引与观者和空间形成了强烈的共构关系。旋转缠结的环状形态，无始无终的曲线，作品通过视觉上的无限循环唤起了宇宙想象。这个自古以来一直让我们着迷的迷宫式图形带有一种强烈的象征属性，在人类文化之中反复出现，从而演变为一个成为事件发生、脉动并在时空之中不断跨越物质的主体。在金允哲的创作过程中，艺术实践和科学方法共同存在。艺术家探索着物质的潜力，把机械、材料与人类等视为非始终同一的、非亘古延续的，而是与环境一同不断变化的主体。

Through the repetition of a single unit, the work brings a massive sense of scale dazzling, and perpetually in motion, making the viewer inseparable from the space. The circular, knotted forms, the curves of the structure with no beginning and end, evoke a cosmic imagination through their visual representation. This labyrinthine form, which has fascinated us since ancient times, carries a strong symbolic attribute, recurring in human culture and thus evolving into a subject of events, pulsations, and the transformation of matter through time and space. Artistic practice and scientific methodology come hand in hand in Yunchul Kim’s artistic production. The artist explores the potential of matter, seeing machines, materials, and humans as subjects in constant flux with their environments, rather than never-changing entities existing throughout time.

关于艺术家

图片致谢艺术家金允哲（Yunchul Kim）

金允哲（Yunchul Kim，1970年生于韩国首尔） 现工作和生活于韩国首尔，同时也在国际范围内活跃。艺术家曾获得多个国际奖项，包括2016年欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）的碰撞国际大奖、电子艺术大奖（Ars Electronica）和VIDA 15.0三等奖等奖项。他也曾在世界多地举办个展，包括第59届威尼斯双年展韩国馆（意大利）、CCCB（西班牙）、FACT利物浦（英国）、奥地利电子艺术中心（奥地利）、法兰克福现代艺术博物馆（德国）和国际新媒体艺术三年展（中国）等。

金允哲的创作形式涵盖广泛，包括装置、绘画、声音、文本及其他媒介，并将数学、科技、音乐、哲学、诗歌和宇宙学融入进他的实践中。通过对“物质”和“物质性”提出基本问题，艺术家意在创造一个超越人类既有经验的现实，并关注其潜在的趋势。他的作品展现了艺术家想象的物质世界，是一个在人类形成文化或被语言定义之前的维度的故事。

Yunchul Kim (b. 1970, Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Seoul, South Korea, and is also active internationally. The artist has won international awards, including the 2016 Collide International Award from CERN, Ars Electronica, and the VIDA 15.0 Third Prize. He has also held solo exhibitions in several venues around the world, including the Korean Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale, Italy; CCCB, Spain; FACT Liverpool, UK; Ars Electronica, Austria; Frankfurt Museum of Art, Germany; and the International Triennial of New Media Art, China.

Yunchul Kim works in a wide range of forms, including installation, painting, sound, text and other media, and incorporates mathematics, technology, music, philosophy, poetry and cosmology into his practice. Asking fundamental questions about “material” and “materiality,” he has demonstrated the creation of a reality beyond the realm of human experience, paying attention to its potential tendencies. His work embodies the material world imagined by the artist and is a story of a dimension before humans formed cultures or were defined by language.

关于The Pool by X Museum

X美术馆与前滩太古里合作开设全新艺术空间The Pool by X Museum，预计于2024年3月22日正式面向公众开放。The Pool的名字来源于X美术馆原有的广阔大厅空间，中文译名为“广池”，意为“广纳艺术为一池。”前滩太古里携手X美术馆，积极营造都市第三空间，以前沿的文化艺术探索促进社区交流。The Pool by X Museum旨在邀请各领域的创作者呈现不同形式的当代艺术项目，秉承X美术馆的理念，着眼于艺术的未来，关注新兴思想与多元文化，致力于成为千禧一代视角下的国际交流平台。

The Pool by X Museum is a new off-site project space of X Museum Beijing located in Taikoo Li Qiantan, Shanghai. Continuing X Museum's mission to support emerging artists, The Pool hosts new site-specific commissions from artists. ‘The Pool’ borrows its name from X Museum’s lobby space ‘广池’, a metonymy for ‘assembly’ or ‘place for gathering’.