Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆
Philippe Parreno: Synchronicity 菲利普·帕雷诺:共此时
2017年 7月 8日 – 2017年 9月 17日
The Rockbund Art Museum will present a major solo exhibition by French artist, Philippe Parreno, his first in China. This exhibition is dedicated to the late Xavier Douroux whose influence on Parreno's career cannot be overstated.
Curated by the Director of the museum, Larys Frogier, Parreno’s first exhibition in China will occupy four of the museum’s six floors, also extending to its seventh floor glass rooftop.
Over the past twenty years, Parreno has radically redefined the exhibition going experience by exploring its possibilities as a medium in its own right. Realised in dialogue with the physicality and functionality of the museum’s architecture, the exhibition will alter the building’s current existence through an unexpected use of time, space, light, and sound to become a semi automated puppet, a perpetual motion of events in which Parreno subverts the conventions of the gallery space.
Curator of the exhibition, Larys Frogier, states: “Parreno invites visitors to engage with contradictory notions of the physical, emotional, and conceptual. He blurs the distinction between reality and fiction to create an all-encompassing world of endless possibilities”.
By manipulating light, shadow, and duration, Parreno will guide visitors through a constantly evolving space. The artist will cover various windows of the renovated Art Deco building with blinds that will act as eyelids to the building, opening and closing in different locations, and to variable time sequences – each gallery space shifts from darkness to twilight, and then to full light. Some blinds will be activated using motors, but for the very first time the artist will work with ‘dalang’ performers to operate the remainder. A ‘dalang’ refers to the puppeteer in an Indonesian Wayang performance; traditionally controlling the white screen and lighting that together create the shadow puppets that make up the performance.
On the museum’s glass rooftop, Parreno will install a heliostat that will direct sunlight into the fourth floor space in a carefully choreographed ensemble of natural light that dances in sync with the movement of the blinds.
A vertical plane in line with the building’s own axis, will cut through the spaces of the exhibition, each floor becoming a template of the other. The plane will be visible on the first floor lobby next to a rotating secret bookcase door, on the second floor alongside a large-scale screen that will play a new rendition of Parreno’s 2000 film Anywhere Out Of the World. On the third floor, next to a wall displaying a new series of Parreno’s Fade to Black fluorescent silkscreened posters.
For the new rendition of Parreno’s animated film Anywhere Out Of the World, the 2D manga heroine who featured in the opening series of the artist’s 1999 collaborative project, ‘No Ghost Just A Shell’, will re-appear in stereoscopic 3D, with new narration.
An illuminated glass marquee placed at the 3rd floor of the exhibition will play a tune that resonates throughout the entire building. From the appearance of a film to the disappearance of an image, to a song sung by the dalangs: Parreno will choreograph the Rockbund Art Museum.
上海外滩美术馆很荣幸地宣布将于2017年7月8日至9月17日举办法国著名艺术家菲利普·帕雷诺(Philippe Parreno)在中国的首次个人展览“共此时”。本次展览由上海外滩美术馆馆长拉瑞斯·弗洛乔(Larys Frogier)策划。本展献给格扎维埃·杜鲁(Xavier Douroux),他对帕雷诺的艺术生涯产生了难以估量的影响。
通过探索展览自身作为一种媒材的可能性,帕雷诺在过去二十年里对展览体验做出了彻底的重新定义。在美术馆的建筑空间与功能之间的对话中,本次展览通过对时间、空间、光影、声音等媒介出人意料的运用,改变了建筑环境的当下存在,使之成为一个半自动的木偶、一种恒动的状态,美术馆空间的成规被帕雷诺颠覆。
拉瑞斯·弗洛乔表示:“艺术家将观众带入一系列探讨身体、情感和观念的矛盾想法中,从而模糊了现实与虚构的界线;反过来又创造了一个无穷可能性的世界”。
与建筑共舞
依靠对光、影、时间的拿捏,帕雷诺将引导观众在一个不断演化的空间内行走。在原为装饰艺术风格的美术馆建筑内,艺术家将用卷帘遮盖多处的窗户,好似形成窗户的眼睑。展览期间这些卷帘会“跳起”一种古怪的舞蹈:根据位置和时间段的不同,不断开启和闭合,让空间变换于黑夜、薄暮和白昼之间。其中一些卷帘是由马达驱动,而另一些由被称为“达郎”(Dalang)的表演者操作。本展是帕雷诺首次运用了“达郎”这个角色,“达郎”原为印度尼西亚哇扬偶戏中的执偶人,传统的达郎会用白幕和光的结合来创造皮偶影子,以此构成表演。
在美术馆的玻璃屋顶上,帕雷诺安装定日镜,将光线反射到展厅四层,让自然光与卷帘的开关闭合同步联动,形成一种精心编排的合奏表演。
一个与建筑自身中轴对齐的竖立“平面”,将贯通展览空间,每一层都是其它楼层的模版。这个“平面”在一楼可以是一座旋转的书架机关,在二楼则是一个大型移动屏幕,屏幕上播放着帕雷诺2002年的电影作品《这世界以外的任何地方》(Anywhere Out of the World)的全新版本。在三楼,这个“平面”成为了一堵墙,墙上展示着荧光丝网印海报系列《渐入黑暗》(Fade to Black)的一组新作。
在《这世界以外的任何地方》的新版中,曾在艺术家的1999年合作计划《没有魂魄,只是躯壳》(No Ghost Just A Shell)开始部分出现的日漫女主人公,她将以立体三维的形象再度出现,同时还有了新的叙述。在美术馆三楼,一个明亮的灯篷(Marquee)将循环播放着音乐,声音在整个建筑内回响。
从一部影片的显现,到一幅影像的消失,再到达郎们的歌声,帕雷诺将为上海外滩美术馆编排一支舞蹈,并邀请观众与建筑共舞。