exhibition | Ma Yujiang「傾城」| Contemporary NbC International Gallery Week@Ningbo
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- 2024年5月3日
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MA Yujiang | Love for a city
Curator | Keiko Wang
馬玉江 | 傾城
策展人 | Keiko Wang
27 May - 2 June 2024 | 樂·1844@寧波
Bustling city, full of lights, flashy flourishing as scenery, the city is a face, neon lights are the eyes of the city, the formation of Qiongyuyu, is looking back from the shore, or drunk two forget in the river. Artist Ma Yujiang's solo project: Chengcheng - a popular love song written by lyricist Huang Weiwen - the legend says that infatuation tears will "fall the city".
When people talk about the concept of the city, it is very much like talking about a lover who is deeply loved, or was deeply loved, or has become indifferent. Artist Ma Yujiang uses direct and easily accessible documentary methods such as painting and video to choose a circuitous path into their current state, and uses first-hand materials of different dimensions to construct a spiritual picture of the ruins of modern urban life. For example, his works "March in Wan Chai" and "Pier" are based on his own practical life experience. He studied in Beijing from his hometown Jinan. Then to settle down in Hong Kong, in the city to find a deep identity positioning, cultural identity; Ma Yujiang lives in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, facing Victoria Harbor day and night - this is his real life; The twinkling lights of Victoria Harbour and the free sea breeze made him imagine the future: is this his own city?
In reality, people enjoy different degrees of calculated security, and at the same time, people are full of imagination about the unknown, no matter what the future picture is, we are still in love with the city we live in. Look for the possibility of "putting up another barricade" in everyday life - "Love is love/persistence/a banner/Who says it can't put up another barricade" (The Death of John Lennon). Another example is the installation "Expiration", which is irregularly looking for daily items that are about to expire, and facing a wider range of "expired" products, as in the face of reality and imagination, is to accept or discard the alternative.
Both Ningbo and Hong Kong are port cities, and the port is like an open window. The artist believes in the spirit of freedom and openness, and takes this as the basic idea and perspective to show the audience the landscape of contemporary port life and explore the temperament of the city. He asks himself and the audience: how far can our passion for the city go? Even if the neon can be extinguished, fireworks can thank, but the song can still be beautiful.
灣仔三月，2020
布面油畫
70 x 50 cm
碼頭，2022
布面油畫
40 x 30 cm
到期，2023
裝置
尺寸可變
雨天去金鳳下午茶，2021
布面油畫
20 x 20 cm
馬玉江 | 傾城
策展人 | Keiko Wang
2024寧波国际画廊周 | 现实与想象
繁華城市，燈光普照，浮華盛世作佈景，城市是一張臉孔，霓虹燈是城市的眼眸，瓊樓玉宇的陣型，是隔岸觀火般的回望，還是醉生夢死的兩忘於江湖。此次藝術家馬玉江的個人項目：傾城——語出填詞人黃偉文所作的一首流行情歌——傳說中癡心的眼淚會「傾城」。
當人們談論城市這個概念時，像極了像在談論一個深愛的情人，或曾經深愛，或已然淡漠。藝術家馬玉江用繪畫、影像等直接且容易介入的紀實方法，選擇了迂迴的路徑走進他們當下的狀態，運用不同維度的一手材料，建構出現代城市生活廢墟上的心靈圖景，例如作品《灣仔三月》、《碼頭》都是基於自身的切實生活所感所悟，他從家鄉濟南到北京求學，再到香港定居生活，在城市的遊走中尋找深層次的身份定位、文化認同；馬玉江生活在香港的灣仔，朝朝夜夜面向維多利亞港口——這是他的現實生活；維港的閃爍燈光和自由的海風，使他對未來充滿想象：這是否是屬於自己的城市？
在現實裏，人們都享受著不同程度計算過的安全感，與此同時，人們也對未知充滿想象，不管未來的圖景如何，我們依然與所生活的城市耳鬢廝磨，尋找在日常化的日子裏「另豎一個街壘」的可能性——「愛就是愛/堅持/一只旌旗/誰說不可以另豎一個街壘」（《約翰·列儂之死》）。又如裝置作品《到期》，則是定期尋找快要過期的日常用品，而面臨更廣泛的「過期」產品，如同面對現實與想象，是接納還是丟棄另擇。寧波與香港皆為港口城市，港口就像一扇開放之窗，藝術家相信自由開放的精神，並以此為基本立意與視角，向觀眾展現當代港口生活的景貌，探索城市的氣質，他問自己也問觀眾：我們對城市的熱情，究竟可以去到幾盡？縱使霓虹可以熄，煙花可以謝，但笙歌可以依舊動聽。
text | Keiko Wang
關於藝術家
馬玉江，藝術家、寫作者。出生於中國山東濟南，畢業於北京中央美術學院，現居香港。作品以觀念藝術、行動藝術、繪畫為媒介。探討時間、生命、存在等議題。主要作品有《母與子》、《到期》、《Heavy is the Night》等。現定期於《明報》發表評論。主要個展包括：《母與子》香港視覺藝術中心，香港(2022)；「Heavy is the Night」富德樓，香港(2018)，New Position Art Cologne，德國(2016)；「蒼茫」PearlLam Galleries，藝術門，香港(2015)。部分群展包括：「畏無所畏」時代藝術中心，柏林；「無界藝術季」扉美術館，廣州；「朋友圈+」OCAT上海館，上海；「不在圖像中行動」當代唐人藝術中心，北京；第一屆華宇藝術季，三亞；「XXX下一個十年的當代藝術」今日美術館，北京。
About curator
Keiko Wang (Hong Kong, China) is a contemporary art writer, curator living and working in Hong Kong and Shanghai. She studied at the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University, holds a bachelor’s degree in International Management and a Master's degree in Social Sciences, and studied Art Law and Business at Christie's and Sotheby's Institute of Art. Having worked for auction house, gallery, art foundation and Hong Kong's leading non-profit art organisation- Para Site, she has participated in curating contemporary art exhibitions, and she is interested in the value of art and its wider relationships with sociology. She is the author of the short story collection 「Dashed Flames」 and the art criticism collection 「Poking the Pink Bubbles」.
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