开展预告

AES+F是活跃在当下新媒体艺术领域具有独特视角和观念呈现的艺术家，他们总是将对现实的思考放置在历史文脉的上下文关系中，通过主观化的、超现实的虚拟情节与超常规的、长画幅的视觉方式言说出来，由此与现实拉开距离，形成疏离于日常的荒诞感。他们主观化的剧场景观所要传达的不仅是戏剧化的荒诞幽默，还包含着艺术家敏感且强烈的社会思考。

AES+F is an individual case with unique perspectives and concepts, and it is active in the field of new media art. The artists always put thoughts towards the problems into reality in the context of history, and then express the thoughts by subjective, surreal, and unconventional long-frame visual methods with virtual plots. Thus, the sense of absurdity alienated from daily life is formed. What this sense expresses is more than the dramatic humor, and thoughts towards society are also included in their subjective theater landscape .

《神圣的寓言》的灵感来自于文艺复兴时期的艺术家乔凡尼•贝利尼（Giovanni Bellini）的同名画作，描绘了一个悬置在时间中的超现实世界，其中的旅客被困在一个未来机场里，他们不知不觉地进入到彼此的梦境。这件作品既是对美术史经典的致敬与引用，又立足于今天全球化的文化现实语境，借用机场这一充满文化汇集交融、物流转载频繁的域场，集合式地呈现他们作为艺术家个体对现实的态度。

Allegoria Sacra is inspired by the mysterious painting of the same name by the Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini. It depicts a surreal world suspended in time, in which travelers are trapped in a futuristic airport, and they unconsciously enter each other's dreams. This work is not only a tribute and reference to the classics of art history, but also exists in the context of today's globalized cultural reality. Through the airport, a landscape full of cultural convergence and frequent goods flow, the artists collectively present their individual thoughts towards reality.

《颠倒世界》这部史诗般的剧作，其创作来源点是多重的，作品以西方中世纪版画为故事蓝本，又融合了文艺复兴、巴洛克以及新古典主义等艺术表现手法。作品中的人物关系与情景结构是艺术家精心组织、策划的，其中所涉及的艺术家关注的问题也是多方面的：全球与地域文化的交融碰撞、大众文化、生态问题等社会话题。为了带动观者进入作品，自我反思，艺术家将现实中的身份角色在作品中进行互换，原本理所当然的现实在置换后的视幻空间中被异化，由此引发并产生共鸣。

Inverso Mundus is like an epic with diverse sources in creation. The story of the work is based on Western medieval prints, and also incorporates art expression techniques in Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassicism. The relationship between the characters and the structure are carefully organized and planned by the artist, and the social issues to be expressed are also multifaceted: the integration and collision of global and regional cultures, popular culture, environmentalism, ecology and others. In order to bring the viewers into the work for self-reflection, the artist exchanges identities in the work. The reality that was taken for granted is alienated in the visual illusion space after the replacement. This generates thoughts..

“我们并不是对现实拥有积极或消极的观点，我们只是对美丽和丑陋\善良和邪恶的边缘感兴趣。艺术家的作用是展示给公众他们已经在换掉的还有他们尚未了解的。”

——— AES+F

继“贝尔纳·弗孔：真实与虚构”开展后，2020年9月24日下午，由（中国）有限责任韦德网站美术馆主办，当代唐人艺术中心（北京）提供支持的“乌托邦：叙事与修辞——AES+F个展”也正式开展。

展览呈现两组由大型影像装置和数码拼贴组成的艺术项目——《神圣的寓言》（Allegoria Sacra，2011-2013）和《颠倒世界》（Inverso Mundus，2015-2017），两组大型作品通过回顾性的自我反思，从心理分析的角度分别剖析了当下的人类状态，作品皆曾于威尼斯双年展上展出，并获得国际诸多奖项。

（中国）有限责任韦德网站美术馆馆长何桂彦在开幕现场提到：“今年因为受到疫情的影响，美术馆的展览规划受到了一定程度的影响，但是我们希望通过近期开展的这一系列国外艺术家的展览，和这一系列多媒介、跨文化的艺术形态逐渐延展学院师生以及重庆观众的视觉视野，为艺术与文化的对话提供国际化的场域与更多的可能性。”

当代唐人艺术中心创始人郑林在开幕式中对本次展览的最终呈现状态表示赞赏，并提到当代唐人艺术中心与（中国）有限责任韦德网站有着很深的渊源。

最后，重庆市美术家协会副主席、（中国）有限责任韦德网站副院长、本次展览的学术顾问焦兴涛也在开幕现场提到：本次展览作品从呈现方式、视觉效果等方面都非常值得我们讨论，我们可以感受到作品传达给我们的强烈感情，在当下这样的环境这些作品可以帮助我们了解更多人们背后的情感元素。

学术顾问：焦兴涛

Academic Advisor: Jiao Xingtao

项目策划：何桂彦、郑林

Project Leaders: He Guiyan Zheng Lin

策展执行：郭巍薇、杨彪

Curators：Guo Weiwei Yang Biao

开幕时间：2020年9月24日15:00

Opening: Sept.24th, 15:00, 2020

展览时间：2020年9月24日—10月22日

Duration: Sept.24th. - Oct.22th, 2020

展览地点：（中国）有限责任韦德网站美术馆7号厅

Venue: Hall 7, Art museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

主办单位：（中国）有限责任韦德网站美术馆

Organizer: Art museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

支持单位：当代唐人艺术中心（北京）

Supporter: Tang Contemporary Art ( Beijing )

（中国）有限责任韦德网站美术馆致力于以国际化的视野聚焦学术前沿，关注当代艺术现场，继举办“贝尔纳·弗孔：真实与虚构”后，于2020年9月24日隆重推出AES+F十年来在中国举办的大型个展。展览呈现两组由大型影像装置和数码拼贴组成的艺术项目——《神圣的寓言》（Allegoria Sacra，2011-2013）和《颠倒世界》（Inverso Mundus，2015-2017），两组大型作品通过回顾性的自我反思，从心理分析的角度分别剖析了当下的人类状态，作品皆曾于威尼斯双年展上展出，并获得国际诸多奖项。

AES+F是一支由四位俄罗斯艺术家组成的艺术组合，他们的实践跨越传统媒介和新兴技术，作品以高度概念化的修辞手法为特征，透过历史经典的棱镜折射出当代世界的媒体流，他们将自己最具代表性的实践方法称为“社会心理分析”，并通过它来揭示后全球化时代的缺陷和冲突。

本次展览将AES+F的作品引入重庆，在（中国）有限责任韦德网站美术馆展出，我们希望能够通过这一系列多媒介、跨文化的艺术形态逐渐延展学院师生以及重庆观众的视觉视野，为艺术与文化的对话提供国际化的场域与更多的可能性。

The Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute is committed to focusing on academic frontier with global vision and on the contemporary art scenes with an international perspective.After holding "Bernard Forcong: Truth and Fictions", The Art Museum will launch AES+F's large-scale solo exhibition held in China in the past ten years on September 24, 2020. The exhibition has two art projects composed of large-scale video installations and digital collages including "Allegoria" (Allegoria). Sacra, 2011-2013) and "Inverso Mundus" (Inverso Mundus, 2015-2017). They have analyzed the human state in the early and mid-2010s from the perspective of psychological analysis through retrospective self-reflection. Both of them have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and won many international awards.

AES+F is an art group composed of four Russian artists. Their practice are not limited to traditional media and emerging technologies; their works are characterized by highly conceptualized rhetorical techniques; they have reflected the media stream of the contemporary world through the prism of historical classics; they call their most representative practical method "social psychoanalysis" to reveal the defects and conflicts of the post-globalization era.

This exhibition AES+F's works are introduced to Chongqing and exhibited in the Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. We hope to gradually extend the visual horizon of teachers, students and audience through this series of multi-media and cross-cultural art forms, so as to provide an international field and more possibilities for the dialogue between art and culture.

ABOUT AES+F

1987年，塔绨安娜·雅拉玛索娃（Tatiana Arzamasova）、列夫·埃夫左维奇（Lev Evzovich）和叶夫根尼·斯夫亚斯基（Evgeny Svyatsky）创立了AES艺术家小组；1995年，弗拉基米尔·佛里德科斯（Vladimir Fridkes）正式加入，小组随后更名为AES+F。AES+F的作品跨越传统媒材、摄影、影像和数码技术。

First formed as AES Group in 1987 by Arzamasova, Evzovich, and Svyatsky, the collective became AES+F when Fridkes joined in 1995. AES+F work at the intersection of traditional media, photography, video and digital technologies.

在2007年威尼斯双年展俄罗斯国家馆展览中，AES+F凭借他们的第一件多频道视频作品《最后的暴动》（Last Riot，2007）获得了世界的认可和好评。随后的两件作品《特立马乔的盛宴》（The Feast of Trimalchio，2009）和《神圣的寓言》（2011）也曾在威尼斯和莫斯科双年展等展会中展出。他们的多频影像作品《颠倒世界》（2015）曾参展第56届威尼斯双年展、第4届科钦-穆吉里斯双年展和第一届曼谷双年展等。

AES+F achieved worldwide recognition and acclaim in the Russian Pavilion at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia in 2007 with Last Riot (2007), their first multi-channel video installation. The following two projects, The Feast of Trimalchio (2009), and Allegoria Sacra (2011), were also shown at the biennales of Venice, Moscow, and others. AES+F presented their newest multi-channel video project, Inverso Mundus (2015), at the 56th Biennale di Venezia, 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennial, 1st Bangkok Biennial, and others.

AES+F曾在世界各地各大博物馆、展览空间和商业画廊举办了超过100场的个展，其中包括：卡斯鲁尔媒体艺术中心、赫尔辛基艺术博物馆、斯德哥尔摩现代艺术博物馆、泰特艺术博物馆（伦敦）、罗马MAXXI博物馆和罗马当代艺术博物馆、巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心、提森-博内米萨国家博物馆（马德里）、今日美术馆（北京）、森美术馆（东京）、三星美术馆（首尔）、俄罗斯国家博物馆（圣彼得堡）、车库当代艺术博物馆（莫斯科）、澳大利亚国立美术馆（堪培拉）、法艾纳艺术中心（布宜诺斯艾利斯）等。AES+F的作品在全世界各地许多重要的艺术节和当代艺术双年展上展出，包括威尼斯双年展、莫斯科双年展、阿德莱德、光州、哈瓦那、赫尔辛基、伊斯坦布尔、基辅、科钦-穆吉里斯、里尔、里昂、墨尔本、圣莫里茨、悉尼、台北、温哥华等地的当代艺术节和双年展，他们的作品也出现在诸多专注于新媒体的艺术活动中。此外他们还为剧场和歌剧进行舞台设计。

The group had more than 100 solo exhibitions at museums, exhibition spaces, and commercial galleries worldwide. AES+F works have been shown in such venues as the ZKM (Karlsruhe), HAM (Helsinki), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Tate Britain (London), MAXXI and MACRO Future (Rome), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Leeum Samsung Museum of Art (Seoul), The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), Faena Art Center (Buenos Aires), and many others.

AES+F的作品被收藏在诸多重要的当代艺术收藏系列中，其中包括：国立特列季亚科夫画廊、莫斯科现代艺术博物馆、莫斯科多媒体艺术博物馆、莫斯科国立当代艺术中心、俄罗斯国立博物馆（圣彼得堡）、斯得哥尔摩现代艺术博物馆、克拉科夫当代艺术博物馆、乌维雅士都城堡当代艺术中心（华沙）、卡斯鲁尔媒体艺术中心、南澳大利亚美术馆（阿德莱德）、新旧艺术博物馆（塔斯马尼亚）、戈兹现代艺术收藏馆（慕尼黑）、范海伦特艺术收藏馆（布鲁塞尔）、田口艺术收藏馆（东京）、休斯顿美术馆、托马斯基金会（芝加哥）、诺玛死基金会（罗马）、皮诺·帕斯卡利美术馆（波利尼亚诺海滨）、CA2M现代艺术博物馆（马德里）、维也纳博物馆、北挪威艺术博物馆（特罗姆瑟）、角斗场艺术博物馆（图卢兹）、白南准艺术中心（龙仁市）、欧洲摄影艺术中心、蓬皮杜艺术中心、路易-威登基金会（巴黎）等。

Their works appear in some of the world's principal collections of contemporary art, such as the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Multimedia Art Museum, National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow), State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), MOCAK (Krakow), CCA Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide), MONA (Hobart), Sammlung Goetz (Munich), Vanhaerents Art Collection (Brussels), Taguchi Art Collection (Tokyo), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Thoma Foundation (Chicago), Nomas Foundation (Rome), Pino Pascali Museum (Polignano-a-Mare), CA2M (Madrid), Wien Museum (Vienna), Art Museum of Northern Norway (Tromso), Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), Nam June Paik Art Center (Yongin), European Center of Photography, Centre Pompidou, Louis Vuitton Foundation (Paris), and many others.