​Daily Formalism / 每日形式

ARTISTS:
Ai Weiwei
Garcia Frankowski
He Yida
*LLND
Evan Robarts
Tao Yi
Wang Yuyang
Haegue Yang
Yang Mushi
Amy Yao
Zhou Changyong

Opening：2016.03.18, 6pm - 8pm
Duration：2016.03.18-2016.05.15
Address：BANK 1/F, 59 Xianggang Lu, Shanghai, China

Formalism implies an emphasis on an artwork's form over its content. It is often associated with abstraction or minimalism - art that is devoid of language outside itself or pure art.
Daily Formalism showcases artists practicing in a tenacious yet provocative relationship with the legacy of formalism. Whether cynical, playful, political or pedantic, the works presented here employ formalism as an antidote to the age of information. These works appropriate the guise of abstraction as a way to obscure or transform the stuff of everyday life yet their content or meaning is of equal importance. In Daily Formalism quotidian materials and popular media have hijacked the purity of formal abstraction leaving a most curious conflation. In a post-everything environment with infinite creative choices why the sudden gravitation towards these formalist tropes? How have pure forms been commandeered by our hyperactive cognitive and associative powers? What is formal and what is normal? Eleven, inter-generational artists from around the world pose and ponder these questions.

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艺术家： 
艾未未
加西亚·弗兰寇斯基
何意达
*LLND
埃文·罗伯茨
陶轶
王郁洋
梁慧圭
​杨牧石
姚书安
周长勇

开幕酒会：2016.03.18, 6pm - 8pm
展期：2016.03.18-2016.05.15
地址：BANK  中国上海市黄浦区香港路59号1楼

形式主义即对一件艺术作品其形式的强调重于内容，常将它与抽象艺术和极简艺术相关联——没有自身语言之外的艺术。
“每日形式”展现了艺术家们在创作中和形式主义传统之间既牢固又挑衅的关系。无论是愤世嫉俗的，俏皮的，政治的或迂腐的，展现于此的作品将形式主义视作对信息时代的一剂解药。这些作品挪用抽象的伪装作为模糊或转化日常生活物件的方式，然而它们的内容或意义却同等重要。在“每日形式”中，日常材料和流行媒体绑架了形式抽象的纯粹性，留下了一个最令人好奇的混合体。在一个发布一切、创意无限的环境下，为什么会有突如其来的引力朝向了形式主义的隐喻？纯形式是如何被我们过饱和的认知和联想力所征用的？什么是正式的，什么又是正常的？11位不同年龄层、来自世界各地的艺术家(团体)一起提出和思考着这些问题。