所见非所得：一个关于杨锋艺术与教育基金会的展览
Everything you need to know about FY Foundation: An Exhibition
策展人：比利安娜·思瑞克
艺术家：何采柔（Joyce Ho）、李杰（Lee Kit）、李燎 受邀成为本次展览的“主人”
参展作品来自利亚姆·吉利克（Liam Gillick）、翠西·艾敏（Tracey Emin）、傅丹（Danh Vo）、 郭熙、张建伶和杨心广等艺术家。
开幕时间：2017年3月19日 下午3:00 － 5:00
策展人开幕导赏时间：下午3:30
深广艺术行开放时间：3月24日 （更多资讯，请浏览www.fyfoundation.com/news/10019）
展期：2017年3月20日-6月23日
杨锋艺术与教育基金会（以下简称：杨锋基金会）年度展立足于基金会藏品和收藏概念本身。今年基金会年度展览的策展方式有别于以往，不仅着力于对藏品的选择，更试图通过作品与不同艺术家和观众的邂逅来对藏品进行“重塑”，从而激发对收藏的本质和内容的新解读和新思考。
本次年度展览聚焦不断变化的收藏行为本质，探讨私人力量逐渐渗入公共领域后产生的新变化。展览向人们提出一系列问题：在今天，收藏意味着什么？收藏希望铭记的是怎样的历史？当艺术家和策展人利用这一“发展中的文献”作为探究的主体，会发生些什么？
就多元收藏手段及其在本土和全球语境中的意义展开研究，这在私人艺术机构如雨后春笋般崛起的中国无疑具有重要意义。这些机构纷纷将自己定位成博物馆，以此彰显体量和重要性。作为对这一大环境的回应，展览向今天的收藏概念提出质疑：收藏的重要性是否可以从白盒子博物馆之外、更广泛的机构概念中来理解？这些空间的核心实践包括收藏、保存和展示艺术文化，而其背后根深蒂固的拿来主义式做派并未给予各种不同的具体语境以尊重和认识。正是对上述问题的思考催生了本次展览的诞生。如果我们以批判的态度参与到上述现象中，能够挖掘出或建立起自身与作品之间怎样的新关系呢？
参与本次展览的三位艺术家本身都已有作品为杨锋基金会所收藏，受策展人之邀，他们担任起“主人”的角色，与策展人一同以基金会藏品为大背景发展出一个全新的展览。以杨锋基金会所收藏的三人的作品为起点，三位艺术家将各自创作一组全新的作品，并将基金会收藏的其他作品也融入他们的新创作中。通过这种方式，他们将从各自不同的视角展示展览本身与收藏之间的新的关联性。
展览也致力于进一步探索语境的概念，覆盖两个区域—展厅和公司办公空间，将展览与企业环境相结合。艺术家和策展人试图搭建不同的舞台，让观众能够邂逅不同的作品，并徜徉在不同的空间内，进一步模糊私人、公共和企业之间的界限。艺术家也会在不同的空间里开展创作——包括前台、茶水间和办公室等——刻意混淆展览惯例的神圣性和日常生活看似平淡的庸常性。
媒体洽询：林嘉欣 （86） 0755 2665 6512 / jiaxin.lin@fyfoundation.com
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Translation | Elaine Wu
Curated by Biljana Ciric
Invited artists/hosts: Joyce Ho, Lee Kit and Li Liao
With works by Liam Gillick, Tracey Emin, Danh Vo, Guo Xi, Zhang Jianling, Yang Xinguang and among others
Exhibition opening: March 19, 2017 3:00pm -5:00pm
Curator tour at opening: 3:30pm
SZ x GZ Art Tour Date: March 24
More info for Tour, please visit: www.fyfoundation.com/news/10019
Exhibition duration: March 20 to June 23, 2017
For the annual exhibition at the Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation (FY Foundation) that focuses on its collection and the notion of collecting, this iteration proposes a different approach that is less interested in presenting an editorial selection of works from the collection, but instead attempts to reframe the collection through its inherent opportunities for unexpected encounter. With this shift in approach, new readings and understandings of what the collection consists of and is about will emerge.
An annual program that trains its focus on the ever-changing nature of collecting, this exhibition intends to delve into and unpack what happens when a private gesture leaks into the public realm, asking: what does it mean to collect today? What kind of history does collecting attempt to inscribe, and what happens when artists and curators use this archive-in-making as an object of inquiry?
The investigation of different approaches to collecting and their meanings within local and global contexts is a highly relevant issue within the current expansion of private institutions in China. These institutions invariably frame themselves as museums, which carries a specific sense of weight and significance. In response to this evolving climate, the exhibition questions whether present notions of the importance of collecting could be understood in different terms by also considering a more expanded notion of institutions beyond the white cube space of the museum. These spaces have at their core practices of collecting, preserving, and presenting art and culture which today seem to be hinged on an unsustainable view of the world, based on the colonial notion of taking something from one context and moving it to another, without much acknowledgement of the role of context. These ruminations are some of the exhibition’s primary concerns. For what new relationships to the object might we be able to think about and produce if we were to critically engage with this phenomenon?
In order to do so, three artists whose works are already present within the collection have been invited to work together closely with the curator to develop an exhibition, themselves playing the role of a host within its overall format. Their immediate point of departure is their own work from the FY Foundation Collection, from which they will develop a new body of work, while also including other works from the collection. In this way, they will propose a new set of relationships between the exhibition itself and the collection.
To further explore the notion of context, the exhibition will also span both areas that the Foundation oversees: the exhibition space and the company, thereby blending the ritual of exhibition-making with the day-to-day necessities of the corporate environment. Through this the artists and curator attempt to set different stages upon which the audience can encounter different works and wander through different spaces, again, blurring the boundaries between the private, public, and corporate. The artists will create works within different areas of the spaces as well—from the reception, kitchen, and office areas—purposely meddling with the sanctity of the exhibiting ritual and the seemingly more mundane rituals of daily life.
Press Contact: Jiaxin Lin (86) 0755 2665 6512 ／jiaxin.lin@fyfoundation.com
Free admission | Guided tour provided for groups over 10 people