“在这里，时间变成了空间”——瓦格纳，《帕西法尔》

人们保存艺术品，艺术品保存历史。这是千百年来的文明游戏。而此刻，艺术家胡介鸣将要带领大家进入一个由艺术品构成的特定维度，时间与空间在这里被解构重置。

香格纳画廊10月为大家推出胡介鸣的艺术项目：一分钟的一百年。这件庞大的作品由1100个1分钟的录像构成，分别摆放在上千个储物袋般的方格中展示。其中每一个录像都是对一件近现代艺术名作的解构和重新演绎。置身于这个疯狂，嘈杂，戏谑的动画世界中，观众将体验前所未有的冲击。

胡介鸣将百年的时间浓缩为千件艺术品——以此作为该时间段内人类文明与历史的转喻体。因此解构艺术，就是解构我们所熟知的世界本身。然而这种充满破坏与折磨的解构，并不带任何历史批判性，按照艺术家本人的观点，这只是一个实验：“就像在实验室里将一件熟悉的物品降解为另类物质那样，测试在一分钟内自由组合一百年的视觉文明记忆的可能性和结果。”

任何艺术在时间与空间——抑或历史与制度面前，都会被逐渐地改变其本来的面貌。艺术品并不是永远一成不变的，它亦会扭曲，变化，衰老。只有改变本身是不变的一种状态。所以越是肆意地破坏，反而越能远离各种强力，接近艺术的本源。

香格纳画廊在此诚邀大家前来参与其中，体验这件与众不同的作品，从而进入这个从瞬间到百年的时空虫洞。

100 Years in 1 Minute.――Hu Jieming solo exhibition
H-Space，bldg.18, Nr. 50 Moganshan road, Shanghai
Oct. 22nd－Nov. 30th
Opening: Oct. 22nd(Friday) 18-20pm
Curator: Li Zhenhua

In this realm, time becomes space. – Richard Wagner, Pasifal
Man collects art, while art collects history. It’s the cultural game for thousands years. Now Hu Jieming will bring you into a special dimension consisting of fine art, where the time and space will be deconstructed.

This October, ShanghART Gallery will launch the new project of Hu Jieming, known as 100 Years in 1 Minute. This huge installation consists of 1100 1-minute-videos, which are stored and displayed in thousands of storage bags, and each piece is a deconstruction of some master piece of modern times. When audience stands before this crazy, noisy and joking animation world, they will face a unprecedent impact.
Hu Jieming compressed 100 years into 1100 artworks – as the metonym of human civilization and history in this period. Therefore, deconstruct art is to deconstruct the world we know. But these kind of devastating deconstructions do not lead to historical criticism. In artist’s opinion, they are just experiments: “like we degrade some common thing into some unknown objects in laboratory, we try to test the possibilities and consequences of combining visual culture memories of 100 years in 1 minute randomly.”

When an artwork is surrounded by time and space, or history and system, its original status will be changed slowly. Artworks are not invariable, on the contrary, they will get distorted, changeful and older. The only unchanging thing is that everything will change. Sometime the more we destroy artworks, the further we abandon violence, and we’ll find the essential of art closer.

ShanghART Gallery invites you to participate in this exhibition, then you can walk into its time-space wormhole from 1 minute to 100 years.

The exhibition will open on Oct.22, and last a month.