Divine Ruse 神的诡计
靳山 Jin Shan
Opening：2015.11.20, 6pm - 8pm
Duration：2015.11.20-2016.01.06
Address：BANK 1/F, 59 Xianggang Lu, Shanghai, China
开幕酒会：2015.11.20, 6pm - 8pm
展期：2015.11.20-2016.01.06
地址：BANK 中国上海市黄浦区香港路59号1楼
BANK is honored to present Divine Ruse, Jin Shan’s much-anticipated first solo exhibition at BANK as well as his first solo exhibition in China since 2009.
Divine Ruse features a series of new sculptural works constructed out of the artist’s own secret resin concoction. Conflating references as diverse as ancient Greek and Roman history, Renaissance art, Christianity, Daoist, and Cultural Revolution iconography, the artist interrogates mankind’s incessant ideological pursuit of transcending his own carnal condition. By repurposing the gallery as a fictional war zone - a landscape strewn with fragmented figures and objects that are equally sensuous and repulsive, Jin demonstrates the aftermath of man’s attempted ascensions. In this hallowed land mankind’s visceral and ephemeral energies are exteriorized as petrified spiritual matter.
A leading voice in an emerging generation of socially engaged contemporary artists in China, Shanghai-based Jin Shan is an agent provocateur. Preferring wit and satire to aggression and conflict, his work uses allegory and play to draw audiences into a confrontation with the social, cultural and political problems of the day. While specifically describing aspects of contemporary China, his investigation of human motivation extends beyond national boundaries to the seemingly insatiable desire for power programmed into humanity’s DNA. Jin Shan’s work has been exhibited at The Venice Biennale, the Singapore Biennale, The Spencer Museum, The Groninger Museum, Netherlands, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, among others.
His work is in the collections of: M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China, the Kadist Foundation, Paris, France, and the DSL Collection, Paris, France and The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, among others.
BANK荣幸地推出《神的诡计》，翘首期待的靳山在BANK的首次个展，也是艺术家自2009年之后的首展。
《神的诡计》将展出一系列全新雕塑装置作品，延续使用艺术家独特而神秘的混合树脂为材料。糅合了从古希腊、罗马历史，文艺复兴，基督教，道教到文革的图像符号记忆，艺术家审视贯穿人类历史对意识形态和超越自我欲望的无止尽的追求。碎裂的人体与支离的物件在画廊中弥漫开来，华美、感性又让人望而可畏，传递着强烈的感官刺激。艺术家在画廊里构架出一个虚构并有力的对抗空间，呈现人类尝试的“升华”之后的景象。在这片假象的圣地上， 精神力量被物化可见，人类的内脏以及这些稍纵即逝的能量从体内迸发而出。
靳山，长年居住于上海，是中国当代的社会介入式艺术家新生代领军人物之一。他喜欢利用如激进讽刺文学般的方式，向观众诙谐地展现同周遭社会性、文化性以及政治性问题的对抗。旨在刻画当代中国现状的同时，他对“人类动机”的探究逾越了民族与地域的鸿沟，蔓延至人类基因中隐藏的共性——无节制的权欲。靳山的作品在新加坡双年展、威尼斯双年展、荷兰格罗宁根美术馆、美国布朗大学大卫•温顿•贝尔美术馆等展出。其作品也被香港M+美术馆、巴黎卡蒂斯特艺术基金会、巴黎DSL艺术收藏机构以及美国堪萨斯州劳伦斯斯宾塞美术馆等收藏。
靳山 Jin Shan
Opening：2015.11.20, 6pm - 8pm
Duration：2015.11.20-2016.01.06
Address：BANK 1/F, 59 Xianggang Lu, Shanghai, China
开幕酒会：2015.11.20, 6pm - 8pm
展期：2015.11.20-2016.01.06
地址：BANK 中国上海市黄浦区香港路59号1楼
BANK is honored to present Divine Ruse, Jin Shan’s much-anticipated first solo exhibition at BANK as well as his first solo exhibition in China since 2009.
Divine Ruse features a series of new sculptural works constructed out of the artist’s own secret resin concoction. Conflating references as diverse as ancient Greek and Roman history, Renaissance art, Christianity, Daoist, and Cultural Revolution iconography, the artist interrogates mankind’s incessant ideological pursuit of transcending his own carnal condition. By repurposing the gallery as a fictional war zone - a landscape strewn with fragmented figures and objects that are equally sensuous and repulsive, Jin demonstrates the aftermath of man’s attempted ascensions. In this hallowed land mankind’s visceral and ephemeral energies are exteriorized as petrified spiritual matter.
A leading voice in an emerging generation of socially engaged contemporary artists in China, Shanghai-based Jin Shan is an agent provocateur. Preferring wit and satire to aggression and conflict, his work uses allegory and play to draw audiences into a confrontation with the social, cultural and political problems of the day. While specifically describing aspects of contemporary China, his investigation of human motivation extends beyond national boundaries to the seemingly insatiable desire for power programmed into humanity’s DNA. Jin Shan’s work has been exhibited at The Venice Biennale, the Singapore Biennale, The Spencer Museum, The Groninger Museum, Netherlands, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, among others.
His work is in the collections of: M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China, the Kadist Foundation, Paris, France, and the DSL Collection, Paris, France and The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, among others.
BANK荣幸地推出《神的诡计》，翘首期待的靳山在BANK的首次个展，也是艺术家自2009年之后的首展。
《神的诡计》将展出一系列全新雕塑装置作品，延续使用艺术家独特而神秘的混合树脂为材料。糅合了从古希腊、罗马历史，文艺复兴，基督教，道教到文革的图像符号记忆，艺术家审视贯穿人类历史对意识形态和超越自我欲望的无止尽的追求。碎裂的人体与支离的物件在画廊中弥漫开来，华美、感性又让人望而可畏，传递着强烈的感官刺激。艺术家在画廊里构架出一个虚构并有力的对抗空间，呈现人类尝试的“升华”之后的景象。在这片假象的圣地上， 精神力量被物化可见，人类的内脏以及这些稍纵即逝的能量从体内迸发而出。
靳山，长年居住于上海，是中国当代的社会介入式艺术家新生代领军人物之一。他喜欢利用如激进讽刺文学般的方式，向观众诙谐地展现同周遭社会性、文化性以及政治性问题的对抗。旨在刻画当代中国现状的同时，他对“人类动机”的探究逾越了民族与地域的鸿沟，蔓延至人类基因中隐藏的共性——无节制的权欲。靳山的作品在新加坡双年展、威尼斯双年展、荷兰格罗宁根美术馆、美国布朗大学大卫•温顿•贝尔美术馆等展出。其作品也被香港M+美术馆、巴黎卡蒂斯特艺术基金会、巴黎DSL艺术收藏机构以及美国堪萨斯州劳伦斯斯宾塞美术馆等收藏。
