开幕时间：2008年11月15日 下午4点
展览时间：2008年11月15日 -12月31日
展览地点：香格纳画廊北京空间 草场地261号, 北京
电话： +86-10-6432 3202
开放时间：11am－6pm（周一休息）
《残山水》就诗性和禅意而言，是梁绍基自2007年个展《云》之后的延展。“残”—“蚕”—“禅”， 三者为谐音。“残”为作品直观呈像，“蚕”为艺术家独自领悟自然、生命、科学、历史，社会的艺术契入点，“禅”为精神镜像。
《残山水》注重单纯简洁，营造“空”，突显自然“现成品”的极致利用。艺术家以表现蚕生命全过程的“自然系列”为背景，十余米丝卷如飞瀑涌流般从空中落下；碮河床挖掘出来淤于湿泥千百年而变的黑如碳，硬如铁的奇拙的水沉木散置丝卷周围，观者不禁感叹“无边落木萧萧下，不尽长江滚滚来”“沉舟侧畔千帆过，病树前头万木春”······ 如同去年在上海举办的个展《云》一样，今年的新作《残山水》也充满自然气息及哲思，其用丝箔蚕砂及古木碎片构成别样的山水景观，试图努力给人们提供一个“静悟”的境地。
梁绍基早年从事纤维艺术研究及设计，近二十余年从事装置艺术。与自然互动，以蚕生命全过程为素材，溶生物学与艺术，雕塑与装置，编织，行为为一体的“自然系列”是其代表作。同时他以竹木为媒介，拓展对自然、生命及社会课题的思考。正如艺术家本人所言“我以为艺术无非是生命的礼仪和信仰，人对自然感知的释放。”
梁绍基，1945年生于上海，祖贯广东中山。毕业于浙江美术学院，后研修于浙江美术学院万曼壁挂研究所。现客居浙江天台山，兼中国美术学院雕塑系第五工作室客座教授。他的作品在中国以及世界上各大美术机构被广泛展出，包括：“第13届洛桑国际壁挂双年展”（瑞士，1987），“中国现代艺术大展”（北京，1989），“第49届威尼斯双年展”（意大利，1999），“第6届伊斯坦布尔双年展”（土耳其，1999），“第5届里昂双年展”（法国， 2000），“第3届及第6届上海双年展”（上海2000和2006）等。首次个展“云”香格纳画廊H空间（上海，2007）。
Opening: Saturday 15th of November at 16:00
Date: November 15– December 31, 2008
Venue: ShanghART Beijing, No. 261 Cao Chang Di, Old Airport Road, Beijing 100015, China
Tel: +86 10 6432 3202
‘Broken Landscape’ – Liang Shaoji at ShanghART Beijing
‘Broken Landscape’ is the extension and expansion of Liang Shaoji’s 2007 solo exhibition ‘Cloud’, a poetic expression of the Chinese state of mind. The artworks in ‘Broken’ portray a fractured visual image that incorporates ‘silkworm’ as a medium to reflect nature, life, science, history and society; and ‘Zen’ as a mental framework. These three characters are pronounced similarly in Chinese and convey profound meaning.
Through working with elements of nature, the exhibition stresses purity and simplicity, creating a sense of emptiness. The artist uses a variety of natural materials to exhibit the life-cycle of silkworms. Surrounded by ancient wooden remnants and suspended in air, the silkworm installation (about 10 meters in length) is reminiscent of a traditional landscape drawing. The wooden forms, shaped over time by river currents, reflect the imagery of a sunken boat: a symbol of fleeting life, suffering, and generosity, all notions found in ancient Chinese poetry. By using natural elements and alluding to Chinese thoughts, ‘Broken Landscape’ creates a poetic atmosphere, a virtual landscape of breeding silkworms and ancient wooden forms that provides visitors a space for quiet meditation.
Liang’s early work consisted of serenely abstract hangings and installations made from textiles, often including bamboo. In his representative work, Natural Series, he created a series of installations and performances using live silkworms, combining biology with art, and integrating sculpture, installation, and weaving. The artist also uses bamboo to deepen the reflection on the subjects of nature, life and society. As Liang Shaoji states, ‘I think art is all about the comity between societies, the faith in life, and the release which humans perceive from nature’.
Liang Shaoji, a close observer of the contemporary art world and frequent participant at all possible Biennales around the world, was born in 1945. He graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Ars. He is now residing in Tiantai Mountain in rural Zhejiang province, and working as a guest professor at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. His works have been widely exhibited at national and international art institutions, including: Chinese Avant-garde Art Exhibition (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 1989), The 48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale (Italy, 1999), The 6th International Istanbul Biennale (Turkey, 1999), The 5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (France, 2000), The 3rd and The 6th Shanghai Biennale (China, 2000 and 2006), ‘Cloud’ – solo exhibition at ShanghART H-Space (China, 2007).
【编辑：霍春常】
