Douglas Coupland
everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything
Presented at Power Station of Art, Shanghai
September 2015
Organized by BANK/MABSOCIETY
Curated by Vancouver Art Gallery
everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything
Presented at Power Station of Art, Shanghai
September 2015
Organized by BANK/MABSOCIETY
Curated by Vancouver Art Gallery
As this year Canada marks 45th years of diplomatic agreement with China, the International Curatorial Studio MABSOCIETY based in Shanghai and directed by Mathieu Borysevicz is organizing the advent of the travelling exhibition of acclaimed Canadian artist Douglas Coupland everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything.
MABSOCIETY in partnership with Power Station of Art and Vancouver Art Gallery is currently seeking sponsorship for this unique event.
This exhibition is to be held on the 2nd floor of the state-run museum Power Station of Art in Shanghai in fall 2015 (www.powerstationofart.org)
Douglas Coupland is a Vancouver-based artist whose production across a diverse range of media over the past two decades addresses many contemporary issues including the singularity of national culture, the power of language, as well as the ever-pervasive presence of technology in everyday life. Coupland is most famous for his novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, published in 1991, and translated into Chinese language in 2009.
This important exhibition will become an integral part of the upcoming festivities of the Canada-China cultural exchange anniversary 2015-2016. The DOUGLAS COUPLAND exhibition is a unique opportunity that will generate a high amount of well-targeted visibly for all our partners, as well as inscribe the exhibition as among the first major Canadian artist retrospective in China.
For more information about supporting this event please contact Monica Gyorkos at [email protected] or +86 156 1896 0946
如果您希望以任何方式赞助本次活动请在工作时间通过邮件(colin@mabsociety.com )或电话(+86 139 1732 1210)联系 Colin Xu。
MABSOCIETY in partnership with Power Station of Art and Vancouver Art Gallery is currently seeking sponsorship for this unique event.
This exhibition is to be held on the 2nd floor of the state-run museum Power Station of Art in Shanghai in fall 2015 (www.powerstationofart.org)
Douglas Coupland is a Vancouver-based artist whose production across a diverse range of media over the past two decades addresses many contemporary issues including the singularity of national culture, the power of language, as well as the ever-pervasive presence of technology in everyday life. Coupland is most famous for his novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, published in 1991, and translated into Chinese language in 2009.
This important exhibition will become an integral part of the upcoming festivities of the Canada-China cultural exchange anniversary 2015-2016. The DOUGLAS COUPLAND exhibition is a unique opportunity that will generate a high amount of well-targeted visibly for all our partners, as well as inscribe the exhibition as among the first major Canadian artist retrospective in China.
For more information about supporting this event please contact Monica Gyorkos at [email protected] or +86 156 1896 0946
如果您希望以任何方式赞助本次活动请在工作时间通过邮件(colin@mabsociety.com )或电话(+86 139 1732 1210)联系 Colin Xu。
Artist Introduction
Douglas Coupland is one of Canada’s most celebrated contemporary artists, writers and thinkers. Through diverse media ranging from Lego to found materials, painting to installation, he explores issues which affect us all: the 21st-century condition, Canadian cultural identity, the power of language and the pervasive presence of technology in modern life. With incisiveness and humor, Coupland’s work will inspire you to question contemporary issues and suggest new ways of seeing your world. Douglas Coupland: everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything is the first major survey of the work Coupland has created since 2000. The exhibition is a first-time partnership between the Royal Ontario Museum, ROM Contemporary Culture, and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), with works at both venues.
Douglas Coupland: everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything is the first major survey exhibition of the artist’s work and will be presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery from May 31 — September 1, 2014. Douglas Coupland is an artist based in Vancouver whose remarkably prolific production across a diverse range of media over the past 12 years addresses the singularity of Canadian culture, the power of language, as well as the ever-pervasive presence of technology in everyday life. The title of the exhibition, everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything, refers both to Coupland’s deep engagement with place and cultural identity and, simultane- ously, his recognition of a growing ubiquity as access to information, images and technology becomes more readily available to the masses.
Deftly capturing the zeitgeist of the moment, or as the artist states “the early 21st century condition,” Coupland’s visually engaging post-media practice includes installation, painting, photography, prints, quilts, as well as numerous public commissions. His work incisively synthesizes pop culture and technology with art historical references that range from historical paintings of Emily Carr and the Group of Seven to the pop sensibility of Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol. Recently, for example, Coupland has effectively married the traditional media of painting with current technologies — his series of QR Code paintings function both as contemporary abstractions (referencing Piet Mondrian’s abstract paintings), as well as actual QR codes, and when scanned with a smartphone, they generate pithy statements about life and death written by the artist. Often incorporating everyday materials and objects such as plastic lids, children’s toys, pencils and books, Coupland’s work probes the way that the things, images and process of contemporary life affect our understanding of the world around us.
艺术家介绍
《处处是无论何处是任何事是凡事》,是2014年5月31日至9月1日温哥华美术馆首次推出的道格拉斯·柯普兰大型个展。道格拉斯·柯普兰是长年居住与创作在温哥华的艺术家。在过去12年里,其运用多种不同媒介的艺术创作卓越而又丰富,旨在对语言的力量、加拿大文化和科技运用在日常生活中日益扩大的现象进行探究与讨论。该展览题目——《处处是无论何处是任何事是凡事》映射着柯普兰内心土壤中的地域特征和文化归属,与此同时,这也指向信息、影像以及技术在如今大数据时代已像海绵中的水一样吸附并渗透到了人们生活中的每个角落的现象。
柯普兰巧妙罗致当下的时代精神,即讨论“21世纪早期特征”,其独到而又引人瞩目的媒介实践涵盖了装置、绘画、摄影、印刷、纺织以及许多社会公共项目。从艾米丽·卡尔的历史画和七人画派,再到罗伊·里奇特斯坦、詹姆斯·罗森奎斯特以及安迪·沃霍尔的波普概念,柯普兰将这些艺术案例吸纳,并犀利地把流行文化和技术元素结合再生,进而赋予作品全新的感官冲击。例如近日,柯普兰就运用别出心裁的方式给予了传统绘画全新的生命,他的“二维码”系列绘画既有当代抽象艺术的特点(以彼埃·蒙德里安的抽象绘画为灵感),并又拥有实际二维码的功能——使用现代智能手机扫面图面,即会有一句艺术家暨写的关于生与死的箴言显示。在每天的创作中,柯普兰不断结合例如塑料瓶盖、玩具、铅笔以及书本等不同材料、物件,使其再重塑具化而拥有全新的生命。他对当代艺术表达的可能性界限的诠释与探索不断影响着我们对艺术的看法以及观念。
该展览汇集了本世纪初道格拉斯·柯普兰的主题性特别创作装置。在展览中,主题多样性体现在道格拉斯·柯普兰试图从加拿大的独有特征、乌托邦思想的兴起、文字的力量、数字技术的无处不在、新兴的恐惧文化还有人们自我思想中不可撼动的天性等方面透析其中的乐观与惶恐。
Douglas Coupland is one of Canada’s most celebrated contemporary artists, writers and thinkers. Through diverse media ranging from Lego to found materials, painting to installation, he explores issues which affect us all: the 21st-century condition, Canadian cultural identity, the power of language and the pervasive presence of technology in modern life. With incisiveness and humor, Coupland’s work will inspire you to question contemporary issues and suggest new ways of seeing your world. Douglas Coupland: everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything is the first major survey of the work Coupland has created since 2000. The exhibition is a first-time partnership between the Royal Ontario Museum, ROM Contemporary Culture, and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), with works at both venues.
Douglas Coupland: everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything is the first major survey exhibition of the artist’s work and will be presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery from May 31 — September 1, 2014. Douglas Coupland is an artist based in Vancouver whose remarkably prolific production across a diverse range of media over the past 12 years addresses the singularity of Canadian culture, the power of language, as well as the ever-pervasive presence of technology in everyday life. The title of the exhibition, everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything, refers both to Coupland’s deep engagement with place and cultural identity and, simultane- ously, his recognition of a growing ubiquity as access to information, images and technology becomes more readily available to the masses.
Deftly capturing the zeitgeist of the moment, or as the artist states “the early 21st century condition,” Coupland’s visually engaging post-media practice includes installation, painting, photography, prints, quilts, as well as numerous public commissions. His work incisively synthesizes pop culture and technology with art historical references that range from historical paintings of Emily Carr and the Group of Seven to the pop sensibility of Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol. Recently, for example, Coupland has effectively married the traditional media of painting with current technologies — his series of QR Code paintings function both as contemporary abstractions (referencing Piet Mondrian’s abstract paintings), as well as actual QR codes, and when scanned with a smartphone, they generate pithy statements about life and death written by the artist. Often incorporating everyday materials and objects such as plastic lids, children’s toys, pencils and books, Coupland’s work probes the way that the things, images and process of contemporary life affect our understanding of the world around us.
艺术家介绍
《处处是无论何处是任何事是凡事》,是2014年5月31日至9月1日温哥华美术馆首次推出的道格拉斯·柯普兰大型个展。道格拉斯·柯普兰是长年居住与创作在温哥华的艺术家。在过去12年里,其运用多种不同媒介的艺术创作卓越而又丰富,旨在对语言的力量、加拿大文化和科技运用在日常生活中日益扩大的现象进行探究与讨论。该展览题目——《处处是无论何处是任何事是凡事》映射着柯普兰内心土壤中的地域特征和文化归属,与此同时,这也指向信息、影像以及技术在如今大数据时代已像海绵中的水一样吸附并渗透到了人们生活中的每个角落的现象。
柯普兰巧妙罗致当下的时代精神,即讨论“21世纪早期特征”,其独到而又引人瞩目的媒介实践涵盖了装置、绘画、摄影、印刷、纺织以及许多社会公共项目。从艾米丽·卡尔的历史画和七人画派,再到罗伊·里奇特斯坦、詹姆斯·罗森奎斯特以及安迪·沃霍尔的波普概念,柯普兰将这些艺术案例吸纳,并犀利地把流行文化和技术元素结合再生,进而赋予作品全新的感官冲击。例如近日,柯普兰就运用别出心裁的方式给予了传统绘画全新的生命,他的“二维码”系列绘画既有当代抽象艺术的特点(以彼埃·蒙德里安的抽象绘画为灵感),并又拥有实际二维码的功能——使用现代智能手机扫面图面,即会有一句艺术家暨写的关于生与死的箴言显示。在每天的创作中,柯普兰不断结合例如塑料瓶盖、玩具、铅笔以及书本等不同材料、物件,使其再重塑具化而拥有全新的生命。他对当代艺术表达的可能性界限的诠释与探索不断影响着我们对艺术的看法以及观念。
该展览汇集了本世纪初道格拉斯·柯普兰的主题性特别创作装置。在展览中,主题多样性体现在道格拉斯·柯普兰试图从加拿大的独有特征、乌托邦思想的兴起、文字的力量、数字技术的无处不在、新兴的恐惧文化还有人们自我思想中不可撼动的天性等方面透析其中的乐观与惶恐。