The History of Etiquette
10 april – 27 june 2010
ifa gallery
The History of Etiquette questions who we are, our place and role in society, our acceptance of that role; the form and content of what we do – or otherwise – of the world around us. This show zooms in on the molecular structure of an individual in order to try to understand the complex multi-layered, multi-principled and multi-codes society in which we live.
Artists featured include: Li Ming, Li Qing, Shao Yi, Tong Yan Runan, Wang Xiaofeng, Wu Junyong and Zhang Liaoyuan.
An exhibition curated by Darja Lin & Alexis Kouzmine Karavaïeff
2010年04月10日 – 6月27日
展览由林达嘉和顾思明共同策展。
礼节的历史向我们质问在社会当中我们是谁，我们的位置和角色，以及我们的认可度；我们做事的形式和内容 – 亦或是 – 我们周围的世界。此次展览聚焦了作为构成个体的分子结构试图渗透性的理解如此繁琐且具有的多层面性的，多主导性的和多条理性的社会。
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Pia Camilla Copper
翻译：陈宣颖
……吴俊勇，1978年生于福建，属于杭州美术学院新媒体艺术系出身的前卫艺术家之一。吴俊勇用他黑灰色调的画，名为“乌云”、“打飞机” 、“同盟”、“ 广场上的思想者”来对现代性提出质疑。戴高帽的男人们是谁？仿照文化大革命的人物用棍子击打飞机的残骸，戳着满载着鸟儿的云朵（或者像是在奥运会的时候用使用的祥云火炬一样被带到各处）。。。 两个戴高帽的人共用一对拐杖。他们似乎栖息在距离这世界很远的高处，像踩在高跷上。在高处他们真的能看清底下发生什么事吗？谁是那疲惫的工人，放下扫把，绝望无奈地坐在倒下的雕像上？或许那是倒下的资本主义偶像？这些没有颜色，阴沉沉不吉利的画似乎在暗示着我们所认识的这个世界已被资本主义侵蚀，渐渐凋萎，迈向死亡。唯一的解决办法就是抨击现代化的本质和精神，即超级市场、飞机、资本主义的理想、各种形式的文化革命，一个新的破除偶像迷信的主义。……
……Born in Fujian in 1978, Wu Junyong is part of the avant-garde coming out of the Hangzhou Art Academy’s New Media Arts department. Wu Junyong’s black and grey paintings “Marketplace imagination”, “Hitting the Airplane”, “Twins” and “Imagining in a Supermarket” question modernity. Who are the men in dunce caps, reminiscent of Cultural Revolution figures hitting an airplane carcass with sticks, poking at the bird-filled clouds (or lining the clouds with silver as they did during the Olympics to move them from place to place)… Two men in identical dunce caps share a pair of crutches. They seem to be perched far above the world, like men on stilts. Can they see what is really going on from that great height? Who is the tired worker who has set down his broom and is sitting disconsolately on a fallen statue, perhaps the fallen idol of capitalism. The ominous, colorless paintings seem to imply that the world as we know it is diminished by capitalism, faded and even deadened. The only solution is to attack the very essence of modernization, the supermarket, the airplane, the ideal of capitalism itself, a cultural revolution of sorts, a new iconoclasm.……