側切——何穎宜 翁維作品展

　　2008年4月30日?6月3日
　　箭廠空間 北京東城區(qū)箭廠胡同38號 (國子監(jiān)街內(nèi))

　　www.arrowfactory.org
　　www.jianchang.org

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　　箭廠空間在此榮幸地宣布展覽《側切》的開幕。箭廠空間位于北京市中心的一條小胡同里，它以櫥窗的形式進行當代藝術的展示。《側切》是箭廠空間的系列現(xiàn)場項目之一，這個項目的出現(xiàn)將致力于推動藝術家在創(chuàng)作中更加關注日常生活的多種模式與元素。

　　展覽《側切》的兩位藝術家通過她們的項目合作，在作品中進一步探討彼此之間洞察力的變化與感應。何穎宜使用人們熟悉的低成本的材料，按實物的比例手工打造出一臺乒乓球桌。作品《靜止的運動》試圖通過一個異質(zhì)化的表層襯托出一種世俗的惰性－藝術家在作品中以低科技的手段設置了一個永不休止，懸浮在空氣中的乒乓球。翁維的作品《再變遷》仿佛在回應乒乓球桌的輪廓，空間透視的戲劇性改變與創(chuàng)作過程中肢體語言的巧妙借用，既是其作品概念的出發(fā)點也成為了連接兩件作品的視覺紐帶。作品《再變遷》也是翁維一直創(chuàng)作中的Anti-mapping系列的一部分，整個系列用繪畫，剪紙和裝置的形式在一些被忽略的城市空間里創(chuàng)作異質(zhì)的圖像敘事。這次展覽的兩位藝術家在作品中共同運用了對于紙質(zhì)材料的剪裁，切割與粘接，她們試圖在證實日常生活里常見的手工制作方式亦能呈現(xiàn)出的視覺動力。

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　　藝術家簡介

　　何穎宜（出生于美國舊金山，現(xiàn)生活工作于中國北京）畢業(yè)于紐約大學互動藝術系，獲碩士學位.
　　翁維（出生于中國廣西南寧，現(xiàn)居住北京）2005年獲加利福尼亞藝術學院碩士學位。

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　　關于箭廠空間

　　"箭廠空間"是一個由獨立策展人和藝術家組織策劃的藝術櫥窗項目。空間位于北京市中心的胡同里，原本是個小商鋪，經(jīng)過改造后擁有10 平方米的展出面積。" 箭廠空間"首先希望通過櫥窗這種特殊的展示方式，為藝術家的創(chuàng)作方法提供一種新的可能，空間內(nèi)定期更新的藝術作品將會在這里每天面對不同的社會群體和文化情境。其次項目自身也試圖探討藝術與日常生活之間的美學關系，嘗試藝術創(chuàng)作與公共空間的有機對話，促進當代藝術的試驗，交流與研究。 "箭廠空間"將會積極地邀請國內(nèi)和國外的藝術家提供現(xiàn)場裝置和項目。

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　　SLICE
　　Featuring works by

　　Rania Ho
　　Wei Weng

　　April 30– June 3, 2008
　　Arrow Factory
　　38 Jianchang Hutong(off Guozijian Jie) Dongcheng District, Beijing

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　　Arrow Factory is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition Slice now on view in its newly opened downtown Beijing location. Designed to be viewed from the street only, Arrow Factory exhibitions represent a unique approach to contemporary art making that is defined by mediating relationships with the local surroundings and the aesthetics of urban space. Slice is the first in a series of site-specific projects intended to respond to factors, patterns, habits and activities characteristic of the immediate environment. Created by Beijing-based artists Rania Ho and Wei Weng, Slice is a collaborative project that seeks to uncover relationships between perception and movement, ephemeral experiences and the concrete materiality of everyday life.

　　In "Stop-Action" artist Rania Ho has handcrafted a scale reproduction of a familiar everyday object—a ping-pong table—out of low-cost commonly found materials. The inertness of this mundane object is humorously offset with a hint of movement through the form of a constantly levitating ping-pong ball. Echoing the outline of a ping-pong table and alluding to sparks of movement and certain perspectival shifts, painter Wei Weng has created a site-specific wall painting entitled "As Prospects Get out of Range". This painting and accompanying set of papercuts is part of Weng's ongoing Anti-mapping series in which the artist seeks to invent idiosyncratic visual narratives in inadvertent urban spaces through the use of diverse media including paintings, cutouts and installations. The acts of cutting, slicing and carving undertaken by these artists yield valuable associations to craft and the handmade, while simultaneously tackling the underlying mechanics that define contemporary life.

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　　ABOUT THE ARTISTS

　　Rania Ho (b. San Francisco, USA; currently resides in Beijing) received her M.A. from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University in 1999.

　　Wei Weng (born Nanning, Guangxi province; currently resides in Beijing) received her M.F.A. California College of Arts in 2005.

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　　ABOUT ARROW FACTORY

　　Arrow Factory is an independently run alternative storefront space that seeks to advance artistic collaboration, exploration and experimentation across different cultural contexts and viewing publics. Located in a small hutong in Beijing's city center, Arrow Factory reclaims existing commercial space to present artworks that stimulate dialogue between art and contemporary urban space. The modestly sized space (approx 10 square meters or 100 square feet) is intended to create new avenues for artistic production in China and further aesthetic relationships between contemporary art and everyday life. Arrow Factory exhibitions are available for view in its storefront location 7 days a week.