皮尔·胡特纳致力于一种对于个人自由的美学的和有关存在主义的追求。为了追求这种自由，他寻找了很多方式重新审视个体和集体在政治和精神范围内的联系，并把人类经历和知识的边界推向更深层次。

这次展出作品的灵感来自于亨利柏格森和庄子的思想。艺术家创作了一种流动空间，一些移动的图像和一些被挑选出来的物体变成了一个关于互相连通的概念的复杂系统的一部分。

四个影像由不同人物制定出的神秘典礼。这个影片揭露了一个私人的、世俗的对于隐藏在自然和文化之中的秘密的热爱。这些人物角色忙于一些诗人般的行为例如吞食书本或者某种奇特花朵的果实。即使由不同的演员来演这些角色，仍然像是在愧痛同一个人。这些图像展示了一些从未被转变成如此细微的平凡情境，揭示出我们寻常经历之中巨大的未知。

展览中陈列着三个鹅卵石，它们是整个作品的核心，但这些改革和建设之中的典型小道具被单独地封闭在一个玻璃箱子中，暗示着一个博物馆体系。

皮尔·胡特纳的作品致力于一个文化的和认知上的探寻，关于政治、社会、以及审美的变革过程之间的复杂关系，并解构了一个关于现实的巨大视角。

替代一种二元思维，相对秩序和无秩序，生与死，过去和未来，镇压和解放，皮尔·胡特纳发展了柏格森的理念：复杂性和可能性不仅仅是创作的前提条件，也是永远不变的真理。艺术家暗示了法国思想家和古代中国哲学家庄子之间的密切联系，庄子曾说过：“吾生也有涯，而知也无涯；以有涯随无涯，殆已！”

展览时间：2010年12月18日-2011年01月16日
          10:00-18:00 （周一闭馆）  免费开放
展览地点：上海市杨浦区军工路1436号五维创意园区101幢（近翔殷路）
展览空间：证大当代艺术陈列馆 个展空间

讲座：解之艺 · 游刃
讲座时间：2010年12月18日（周六）16:00 -17:30
讲座地点：证大当代艺术陈列馆 小剧场
主 讲 人：皮尔·胡特纳（瑞典艺术家、策展人）
主 持 人：李消非

主题简介：
皮尔·胡特纳（Per Hüttner）的作品很大程度上受到了亨利·柏格森（Henri Bergson）和庄子的哲学理论启发，在这次讲座交流中艺术家将重新阐述这两位哲学家的思想，以及来自阿尔伯特·加缪（Albert Camus）、弗朗兹·卡夫卡（Franz Kafka）的故事。结合他自己的作品来重新审视个体和社会，政治和宗教之间的关系。

艺术家介绍：
皮尔·胡特纳（Per Hüttner）生于1976年，长期居住和工作在法国巴黎，曾在斯德哥尔摩皇家艺术学院和柏林艺术大学接受教育。他的作品在欧洲、北美洲、澳洲及亚洲广泛地进行过展出，个展包括在哥德堡画廊的“重复的时间”、广州美术馆的“逍遥游”和伦敦奇森黑尔画廊“我是策展人”等，参与过的群展诸如在旧金山的耶尔巴布埃纳艺术中心、伦敦当代艺术学会及利物浦双年展，近期出版了四部关于其艺术作品的专题书籍。并且，他是《远景论坛》的创始人兼总监，这是一个不受地理限制的基础实验性研究项目。

unknown - Per Hüttner Solo Exhibition

Within his artistic body of work, Per Hüttner engages in an aesthetic and existential quest for personal freedom. To pursue this liberation, he looks for ways to renegotiate the relationships between the individual and the collective, in the social, political and spiritual spheres, and to push further the boundaries of human experience and knowledge.

For this sculptural installation is inspired by the writings of Henri Bergson and Chuang Tzu, the artist creates a liquid space where moving images and a select number of objects become a part of a complex system of interconnected ideas.

Four videos form the hub of the exhibition and show mysterious rituals enacted by various characters. The films reveal an intimate and sensual love for the secret knowledge hidden in nature and culture. The characters are engaged in the poetic act of eating books or fruits of peculiar flowers. Even though they are acted by different actors, it seems that we pry into the life of the same human subject. The images show mundane situations that have been shifted ever so slight to reveal the vastness of the unknown in our everyday experience. Simply and wisely, the artist invites the viewer to break the subtle frame of reality and limited illusion and to embrace the unknown.

Three cobblestones are presented in the exhibition. They are central cells of the exhibition’s brain, but these typical props of revolution and construction are each closed in a glass-case, suggesting a museological connection.

Hüttner’s work engages in an intellectual and cognitive search of the complex relationship between the political, the social and the aesthetic of the revolutionary process and deconstructs a monolithic vision of reality.

Instead of a binary system of thinking, opposing order to disorder, life to death, before and after, repression and liberation, Per Hüttner develops Bergson’s idea that complexity and possibility are not just a pre-condition of creation, but exist as permanent truths. The artist reveals affinities between the French thinker and the ancient Chinese philosopher, Chuang Tzu, who says that our life has a boundary but there is no boundary to knowledge; to use what has a boundary and to pursue what is limitless is dangerous.

Opening: Dec. 18, 2010 (Saturday) at 18:00,
Exhibition Date: Dec. 18, 2010 – Jan. 16, 2011
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-18:00 pm (Tuesday to Sunday) 
Venue: Wuwei Creative Space, 1436 Jungong Rd, Building No.101,
Yangpu District, Shanghai (Near Xiangyin Road)
Exhibition Space: Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall-Solo Space

Artist: Per Hüttner
Artistic director: Shen Qibin
Curators: Li Xiaofei and Alessandra Sandrolini
Organizer: Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall

Lecture: Butchering with a Remarkably Sharp Knife like in an Artistic Dance
Time: Dec.18, 2010 (Saturday) at 16:00-17:30  
Venue: Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Theater
Lecturer: Per Hüttner (Swedish artist, Curator)
Moderator: Li Xiaofei

Content:
Per Hüttner's work is constitutes a research into the possibility of personal freedom. He looks for ways to renegotiate the relationship between the individual and larger social, political and spiritual structures in society. This work is greatly inspired by and re-defines the philosophy of Henri Bergson and Zhuangzi. For the talk he will retell stories from the two philosophers and writers such as Albert Camus, Franz Kafka and Wang Xiaobu and relate these stories to his own production.

About Artist:
Per Hüttner (b. 1967) is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Paris. He was trained at Konst Högskolan, Stockholm and at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. He has shown extensively in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia, solo exhibitions include "Repetitive Time" at Göteborgs konstmuseum, "Xiao Yao You" at Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou and “I am a Curator” at Chisenhale Gallery in London. Participation in group shows include The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, ICA in London and the Liverpool Biennial. Four major monographs on the artist’s work have been published recently. Hüttner is the founder and director of the Vision Forum, a project based and experimental research program without geographical location.