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三角洲的地图

三尚当代艺术馆建筑与艺术工作坊

中国杭州

Mapping the River Deltas

Sanshang Workshop on Art and Architecture

Hangzhou, China

“子在川上曰…”亚洲的哲人讲述的是河流的故事，但河流自身并不容易变成一个具体的视觉艺术主题，因为河流本是关于“变化”的。人类文明滋生于河流冲积而形成的膏腴之地，艺术考究“变化”的载体，科学追寻“变化”的规律，宇宙哲学却倾向于在“变化”的律动中将这一切统统忘却。

藉美国景观设计师维多利亚教授的展览在印度加尔各答CIMA画廊展出的机遇，我们把原本看似不相关的几个领域联系在一起：地理和水文科学，景观设计，制图术，不同文明的艺术家对他们生存世界的表现，其中我们可以看到对两条著名的河流，恒河和长江入海口三角洲的研究。

这是一个跨文类的系列展览，在杭州这一站，展览的内容同时来自艺术文献，既有作品，研究资料和相关工作坊在活动期间的创作。

“Everything flows on and on like this river, without pause, day and night.” Confucius said – by the river. Asian sages commented on the world in the metaphor of rivers. But a river, unrest as it is, does not fit into a theme of visual art easily for it is about “changing reality.” Early human civilizations were nurtured in the rich sediment of river deltas – layer by layer without a definite map. While art making is concerned with the intriguing materiality that a media conveys,scientific probes are prone to clear principles. Metaphysics are different again, because philosophic discussion tends to leave nothing concrete behind.

Following the 2014 exhibition of Professor Victoria Marshall at CIMA of Kolkata, India, we again make several otherwise disconnected fields inter-reference each other such as:geography, hydrology, landscape architecture, cartography, and ecology. There presentation of rivers and lands in old civilizations is only one view from which we could learn from this research of two very large urban river deltas today: the Yangtze and the Ganges.

This exhibition is designed as a hybrid type and in series. In Hangzhou, the show takes on many different resources: art documents, ready-made works, research materials as well as student works created from an onsite workshop.

展览时间 / Time – 03/28/2015—04/13/2015

开幕时间 / Opening Hour – 02:00pm 03/28/2015

工作坊 / Workshop- 02:00pm 03/27/2015

展览地点 / Place – 中国·杭州·三尚当代艺术馆

Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum

工作坊访问艺术家

美国纽约帕森斯设计学院 维多利亚·马歇尔

工作坊指导

浙江大学建筑学院 戚山山

学术主持

中国人民大学艺术学院 唐克扬

Victoria Marshall is a New School faculty member at Parsons and a former ICI Fellows. More info here: [bc_member avatar=”0″ name=”victoria-marshall”] These are a few photos from the exhibit that just opened in China.