自然与人工智能、社交纽带与孤独疏离、艺术与野蛮、宅居的安全感与出行的焦虑、日益膨胀的消费狂热与审慎节制,大量人口流动迁徙带来的漂移式住行方式……对于城市居住者而言,这是一个最好的时代,也是一个最坏的时代。从关怀的角度思考城市现象,艺术家常常鼓励人们对规则标准做出诗意的修补,却意外地让人获得安全的心灵归属感。我们强调关系的内在品质,而不仅仅是理性和标准化的衡量方法。在与社会关系的修正中,克己修身不仅是社交礼节,也是对社会的微妙本质形成的深度关注。这说明,随着时代的发展,人的价值观已经发生变化,幸福也呈现出不同的形态,物质的满足,已不是幸福的最高体现,人们更多地追求简约的自我,享受精神的愉悦。这种自由选择幸福的新消费主义,也许才是"他们+"组合"新消费时代"所要阐释的真谛。
For urban inhabitants, this is the best era and the worst: nature and scientific innovations, social interaction and alienation, liberal civilization and barbarism, indoor comfort and commute pressure, consumption mania and abstinence, migrations of choice and anomic dislocation…all of these social concerns shape our lives, livelihoods, life-stages, and lifestyles. Instead of surrendering to ceaseless social and cultural change, artists often encourage people to treat restrains in social relations with poetic gaze, and surprisingly illuminate our insight: We tend to emphasize the intrinsic quality of relationships, not only using rational and standardized methods of measurement. In the correction of social relations, self-restraint is not only a social etiquette, but also a deep concern for the formation of the subtle nature of society. Quality of life frames the way we enhance our lives and legitimate social change today. Material affluence is no longer the highest form of happiness, more and more people are following voluntary simplicity and true spiritual pleasure. TAMEN+ artworks lead us to interpret the notion of New Consumption Times-liberally pursuing happiness with freedom of choice.
"他们+" 组合
杨晓钢 男 1979年 出生于中国湖南 现居北京
赖圣予 (赖 盛) 男 1978年 出生于中国湖南 现居北京
2005年,杨晓钢毕业于中央美术学院版画系,获硕士学位。
2004年,赖圣予毕业于中央美术学院版画系,获硕士学位。
2001年,赖圣予和杨晓钢毕业于中央美术学院版画系,获学士学位。
展览
"他们+" 成立于2002年,至今在北京、上海、深圳、广州、香港、纽约、阿姆斯特丹、鹿特丹、首尔、布鲁塞尔、长沙、新加坡等地举办个人展览18次,参加全球范围内群展数百次。
个展
2018 《渡 Crossing: "他们+" 个展》(艾米李画廊 北京)
2018 《八仙过海:"他们+" 个展》(上海艺术+ 画廊 上海)
2018 《"他们+" 的移动剧场》(杨·国际艺术中心 新加坡)
2017 《同一个世界,同一个梦想:"他们+" 个展》(荣宝斋香港分店 香港)
2016 《漂浮的世界:"他们+" 个展》(杨·国际艺术中心 北京)
2015 《微思想:"他们" 个展 》暨《微思想:他们启示录》新书发布会(广州市越秀区图书馆)
2014 《里外:Tamen个展》(上海艺术+画廊 上海)
2013 《相忘于江湖: "他们" 个展》(湖南省画院美术馆 湖南长沙)
2012 《共同记忆:Tamen个展》(CANVAS国际艺术画廊 阿姆斯特丹荷兰)
2011 《前世今生:Tamen个展》(别处空间 北京)
2009 《失落的天堂》(湖南省博物馆 湖南长沙)
2009 《TA MEN》个展 (鹿特丹艺术博览会 荷兰)
2008 《TA MEN》个展(亚洲当代艺术博览会 纽约)
2008 《艺术教室:TA MEN 个展》 (比利时今日中国画廊)
2007 《TAMEN》个展(表画廊 北京)
2006 《TA MEN》个展 (表画廊 韩国首尔)
2004 《所以是他们及这就是他们: TA MEN 个展》(北京798长征空间)
2002 《我们,二人画展》(北京)
作品公共机构收藏
中央美术学院美术馆 广东美术馆 奥地利维也纳SAMMLUNG ESSL美术馆 澳大利亚悉尼白兔美术馆 日本福冈亚洲美术馆 谭国斌当代艺术博物馆 诺基亚公司 韩国三星集团 法国文化部 湖南省博物馆 芬兰赫尔辛基艺术学院 美国伊利诺伊大学克兰纳特美术馆 泰国王室 JP摩根家族 Eskenazi艺术博物馆
私人收藏地区
中国 中国台湾 中国香港 德国 法国 美国 英国 芬兰 比利时 荷兰 韩国 澳大利亚 奥地利 瑞士 摩纳哥 哥伦比亚 西班牙 印度尼西亚 泰国 日本 新加坡等地区
TAMEN+ (THEY)
Lai Shengyu, born in 1978, got his Bachelor Degree of Fine Art (Print-making Department) in Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2001, and his Master Degree in 2004.
Yang Xiaogang, born in 1979, got his Bachelor Degree of Fine Art (Print-making Department) in Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2001, and his Master Degree in 2005.
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Crossing: Solo Exhibition of THEY, AMYLI Gallery, Beijing
2018 8 Immortals-Solo Exhibition of TAMEN, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai
2018 Mobile Theatre: THEY Solo Exhibition, Yang Gallery, Singapore
2017 One World One Dream-Solo Exhibition of THEY Painting, Rong Bao Zhai(Hongkong Branch), Hongkong
2016 A Floating World-TAMEN Solo Exhibition, Yang Gallery, Beijing
2015 Small Thought Exhibition of TAMEN, and Book Launch, Guangzhou Yuexiu Library, Guangzhou
2014 Outside Within-New Works by TA MEN, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai
2013 Leaving the Past in the River: TAMEN Solo Exhibition, Hunan Fine Arts Museum, Changsha
2012 Collective Memory: Works of TAMEN, Canvas International Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2011 TAMEN Solo Exhibition, Beyond Art Space, Beijing
2009 TAMEN-The Lost Heaven, Museum of Hunan Province, China
2009 TAMEN, Canvas International Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2008 TAMEN, New York Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York, USA
2008 Art Classroom-TA MEN Solo Exhibition, ChinaToday Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2007 TA MEN, PYO Gallery, Beijing
2006 TA MEN, PYO Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2004 Therefore It Is and Surely It's Them, Long March Gallery, 798 Art Center, Beijing
2002 Us: Two-Man Works Exhibition, Beijing
THEY's exhibitions were notably held in Katonah Museum of Art (New York), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Meridian International Center (Washington), Santa Monica Art Centre (Barcelona), White Rabbit Gallery (Sydney), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), Ho-am Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Vienna), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe), Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), ESSL Museum (Vienna), Berlaymont Building (Brussels), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Times Art Museum (Beijing), National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Guangdong Museum of Art, World Art Museum, YanHuang Art Museum, Today Art Museum, Embassy of Canada (Bejing), Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai…
THEY has participated in a range of art fairs including Art Cologne, Art Beijing, Art Dubai, Art Hong Kong, and Art Stage Singapore. During Art Central 2015, their works were chosen as fair highlights on Artsy.
Public and Institutional Collections
Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Chakri Kingdom, Thai
Essl Museum, Vienna
Eskenazi Collection of Chinese Art, London
Finland Helsinki Art Institute, Finland
Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
French Ministry of Culture, France
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Krannert Art Museum (University of Illinois)
Nokia Corporation, Finland
Samsung Group. Seoul
University of the Arts Helsinki
Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha
White Rabbit Collection, Sydney