放进去 - 蒋立个展

策展人：刘诺

开幕：2018.01.13 下午4 - 7点

展期：2018.01.13 - 02.28

胶囊上海：上海市徐汇区安福路275弄16号楼1层

PUT IT IN - Jiang Li Solo Exhibition

Curator: Eleonora Brizi

Opening: Saturday, January 13th, 4 - 7pm

Duration: 2018.01.13 -02.28

Capsule Shanghai: 1st Floor, Building 16, Anfu Lu 275 Nong, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China

胶囊上海荣幸宣布举办蒋立在上海的首次个展《放进去》，由刘诺策展。展览从2018年1月13日持续至2月28日。

蒋立的作品形式很多。皆产于艺术家生活中的片刻思维，梦境以及转瞬即逝的有感而发。为此时此地此人的自语。

《说谎者之死》（2012）——最知名的说谎者死于非命，晚节不保，令人唏嘘。《五环》（2008）—— 妇人体内的一点情况，令人动容。《淋浴头》（2017）—— 喝斥淋浴头立于人前，亭亭玉立。《体操》（2012）——他不会骑车却自制了一辆摩托车，瘦骨嶙峋，一盏黄灯挂前。他说只骑过一次，不想再骑了。他找到一张家庭合照，身后父母的眼光被成功吸引转向一旁，幼年儿子盯着镜头，严肃蹙眉。（《家庭合照》，1990－2017）。他在金属小便池里小便，煞有介事的拍了黑色的照片，他说过程并不轻松。（《放进去》，2017）

蒋立的作品都具有强烈的无所不在的特质：幽默，简单，反讽，不拘一格，自由，以及隐在其中的观察。他厌恶套路套话，厌恶陈词滥调，避之不及。他向往的是高的纯度和简洁的内部。他希望像蚂蚁那样前进，前进中突起阻碍，就直直的走上阻碍，行在那阻碍的背脊上，想如履平地。

他自己说，“如果我是一泡尿，那我的作品就是尿蒸汽。尿也可以汇入江河湖海的，干嘛假装玻璃瓶里的威士忌，搞那种假的浓郁。”

蒋立表达的愿望，产生于追求“真”的愿望。他指望能通过这些事情能让自己获得切身利益，获取强而简洁的观念，获得洞见本质的眼睛。艺术家对艺术的认识，说到底是对生活的认识，说到本质，是人的活动。

蒋立没资格教育我们，他也没兴趣。他只能给我们一杯水，喝可以，倾倒可以，泼人脸可以，照见自己可以，灭火勉强也可以。但这些都不是他的工作，他能做的，就是把水“放进去”。

说谎者之死 Death of the Liar | 木，玻璃，玻璃钢 Wood, glass, FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymer) | 40 x 104 x 45 cm｜2012 | 作品细节 Detail

Capsule Shanghai is pleased to announce PUT IT IN, the first solo exhibition of Jiang Li in Shanghai, curated by Eleonora Brizi. The exhibition will be held from 13th January to 28th February 2018.

Jiang Li’s works are highly varied. He creates art from momentary thoughts, dreams and transient feelings in life. His art is a monologue of here and now, spoken by himself.

In the sculpture Death of the Liar (2012), we are surprised by the murder of a most prominent liar, which stirs up all kinds of feelings. Five Rings (2008) depicts the inside of a woman’s body, also touching us deep down. A scolding shower head stands tall and slender in front of us (Shower Head, 2017). For Gymnastics (2012), the artist made a motorbike, even though he cannot ride it. Ahead of its bony, awkward structure hangs a yellow light. The artist claims that he rode it once but will never again. He has found a family photo. The parents are successfully distracted and look sideways, but the young son, frowning and with a serious face, looks straight into the camera (Family Photo, 1990-2017). He even peed into a metal urinal, melodramatically taking a black picture of it and claiming it wasn’t an easy process (Put It In, 2017).

All of Jiang’s works show humor, simplicity, sarcasm, variety, freedom and disguised observation in a strong and unique way. He detests routine and banality, doing everything he can to avoid them. He aspires to high degrees of purity and inner concision. He wishes to advance like an ant – when an obstacle obstructs its way, it climbs right up on the spine of the obstacle, as if steadily and surely walking on the ground.

In his own words, “If I were a piss, then my work would be the vapor. Even piss can eventually merge into rivers and oceans. Why should it pretend to be a rich and strong bottled whiskey?”

Jiang’s drive for truth motivates his expression. He hopes to benefit directly from his work, obtaining strong and concise ideas and an insightful eye. In the end, how an artist sees art is how he or she sees life, its essence being human activities.

Jiang isn’t entitled to teach us any lessons, nor is he interested in doing so. All he can do is serve us a glass of water. We are free to choose to drink it, pour it away, spill it out on someone’s face, watch our own reflection in it or use it to put out a fire. Jiang isn’t going to do anything for us with that water. He can and will only “put it in”.

家庭照片 Family Photo 1990－2017

艺术家 ARTIST

蒋立 Jiang Li

蒋立1985年生于中国金华，现工作和生活于北京。近期个展：《淋雨人》（2017），KANYABERLIN，德国柏林；《女孩》（2015），央美国际画廊，中国北京。曾参与吕澎策划的群展：《萧条与供给——第三届南京国际美展》（2016），百家湖美术馆，中国南京。

Jiang Li was born in Jinhua, China in 1985. He currently lives and works in Beijing. His recent solo exhibition includes: Showerer (2017), KANYABERLIN, Berlin, Germany and Girl (2015), CAFA International Gallery, Beijing, China. He also participated in Historicode: Scarcity and Supply - The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival (2016), curated by Lu Peng, held at BJL Museum, Nanjing, China.