AIKE-DELLARCO 艾可画廊

"The Wrong Body"
Artist: Wang Sishun
Curator: Weng Zhijuan
Opening: September 6, 2011, 5-9 pm
Duration: September 6 to October 9, 2011
Location: AIKE-DELLARCO, Shanghai

AIKE-DELLARCO is pleased to announce Wang Sishun’s upcoming solo exhibition, which will be opening on September 6 for the duration of a month. This exhibition deals with the topic of the “body,” the fruit of the artist’s reflection on the body and the ego. The title of the exhibition, “The Wrong Body,” brings to mind the religious concept of the Original Sin, and is not only the exhibition title but also the titles for the five works presented. Wang Sishun deploys the “body” as a medium and language of creation, and investigates this theme in ways that are both separate and mutually referential.

Just as God created Man, who becomes God’s masterpiece, an artist equally plays the role of a Maker in the process of creation. Wang Sishun created a model of Man by biting the shape out of a piece of gold, thereby using his own body to mold another body—which has a coincidental aptness to it. Just as Adam and Eve’s theft of the forbidden fruit is regarded as the cause of the Original Sin, Wang Sishun hoped to express, through art, human’s basic, fundamental desires. He will create, on-site, an expressive sculpture made of mud, inspired by an amorous experience on his travels.

An Origami made by paper conveys the plot of another fierce dream, in which the artist’s body was dismembered, as if human sins were the acting forces behind the intimidating and violent situation. Another of Wang’s dreams was about how he tripped while walking in the dark; the moment he looked down, he saw his own head on the floor. The artist transformed this dream into a sculpture filled with a religious sense of foreboding and tragedy.

Whether as original sin or the “wrong body,” in the end the “body” requires redemption or self-validation. Inside the small exhibition hall, on the wall opposite to the window hangs a photograph that Wang Sishun took of the scene outside. In the photograph, a man stands far off in the distance; at anytime throughout the exhibition, when the viewer turns around and looks out into the distance through the real window, that man will still be standing there.

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"错误的身体”
艺术家：王思顺
策展人：翁志娟
开幕：2011年9月6日 下午5点至9点
时间：2011年9月6日 — 10月9日
地点：艾可画廊

艾可画廊荣幸的宣布，将于9月6日举办王思顺个人作品展，为期时间一个月。展览中涉及到的“身体”话题来自于艺术家对身体与自我的思考，题目“错误的身体”带有宗教原罪的错误色彩，它不仅作为展览主题，也是展出的五件作品分别的名称，王思顺将“身体”作为创作的媒介与语言来运用，使用既分离且相互参照的方式诠释出展览的主题。

当人被上帝创造出时，成为上帝的一件杰作，艺术家在创作时也经常充当上帝的角色，王思顺将一块黄金用牙咬出了人的造型，使用自己的身体塑造了另一个身体，这两者有异曲同工之妙。亚当和夏娃偷吃禁果被认为原罪的发端，王思顺希望把人类的这种原始欲望通过艺术来表达，他将在展览现场做一个稀泥材料的感性雕塑，作品来源于他在旅行中的一次私密情感经历。

与身体肢解有关的一个梦境被艺术家转换成折纸作品，隐隐的冷暴力显得异常悚然和惊艳，包含了对于人类罪性的思考。王思顺的另一个梦境是他在黑暗中走路时脚被跘了一下，低头一看是自己的头，他将之转化为具有宗教般宿命与悲剧意义的雕塑作品。

无论是原罪抑或“错误的身体”，最终“身体”都需要得到救赎或者自我的确认，在画廊小展厅窗户对面的墙上，挂有一幅王思顺拍摄的窗外景象的照片，照片中的远景处有一个人，展览期间任何时候，当观众回头远望窗外实景，那人一直在那里。

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