日期 Duration：2014.12.05 - 2015.01.04
艺术家 Artists：六岛 Liu Dao Art Collective, 刘真辰 Liu Zhenchen, UGOITA, 2BIT＋NISHIMOTO Momoko
地点 Venue：island6 上海市莫干山路50号6号楼2楼
50 Moganshan Road, building #6, 2F, Shanghai 200060
场地提供 Venue Sponsor：island6
※联合策展 Co-Curation: Office339
Official Web：www.honda.com.cn/funtec/special/hybridart/
由汽车品牌Honda策划的艺术展，其展出的所有作品的创作构想都来自于「混合」概念。「混合」是指将两种全然不同的事物重新组合在一起。Honda的混合动力汽车就是将专用引擎和高效电机巧妙的组合而成的。在这次艺术展中我们希望大家从通过不同的作品中发现与体验到艺术家们对「混合」概念的不同理解与表现方式。
Curated by Honda, a major automobile company, this exhibition is a collection of various works which all of them is rooted in the theme "hybrid."
The original meaning of hybrid is to “combine two different things” (i.e. hybrid cars are combination of a motor and an engine), and this exhibition aims to discover what the artists’ interpretation of hybrid is through their creative output.
合美
混合，听到这个词，人们会有何浮想呢？
混合这个词来源于拉丁语中「hybrida 」（=家猪和野猪繁殖下的子孙），以此大致可以知道这是一个从生物学上意义衍生出来的语言。一般是指「不同品种混合在一起的事物・组合成的事物」，又或者我们很多时候会使用「杂种」一词为其解释。
包含着这些意思的东西有的是生物，有的是技术，又或是金融产品，在今天，混合的东西和事物正充斥着在这个世界。就如同我们每天习惯性地使用着的多功能电话（智能手机）那样，重新认识「混合的事物」的机会一定也是不会少的吧。
本次展览是由生产混合型汽车的汽车公司Honda策划的艺术展。但是，展览会本身与汽车并没有多大的关联。只是向本次参展的4组艺术家提出「混合」的概念，以这个概念为根本来创作作品。到底该如何诠释？如何表现？一切的决定都由艺术家做主。
擅长以数码技术为艺术表现方式的艺术团队---六岛，初看会认为只是传统的平面绘画作品，其实不然，而是在其基础上，灵活运用了声音、绘画、剪纸等中国传统技能以及现代数码技术等表现形式，甚至还使用了气体和电力等等来挑战现实中各种元素的相互交合。
虽然是个中国人，14年来却一直生活在法国至今的刘真辰，以源自个人出身和生活经历的「这儿，那儿」为作品名，以日常生活中两国文化差异的片段为主题的幻想型的影像作品来进行表现。
以日本关西为基地从事艺术活动的UGOITA，呈现给大家的是以枯山水和折纸鹤等日本文化为基础，充满玩心的作品。
ISHII 2bit + NISHIMOTO Momoko的作品，是分别在不同的地方放置镜子和水槽而组成的数码・装置，看到的事物和被看到的事物、好像在窥探些什么但实际上自己也在被窥探，如此这般每个人信息在网络上紧密相连着的现代社会，把其中包含的阴暗部分可视化。
大约在至今100年前，意大利的诗人托马索•马利内蒂曾宣告 “汽车比萨莫特拉斯的胜利女神更美” 。这并不是针对技术和艺术之间的对比，而是对因产业革命而迅速改变着的城市景观和人们生活方式的赞美之辞。也可以说是在「速度」领域之上，对「速度之美」的称赞。
在2014年的当下，由于产业革命以来被称为信息革命和技术革新的关系，世界变得更狭隘，速度正再次被提升着，但人们还是会在哪里感受到美的吧。
本次展览全部的作品都是「不同元素相结合的产物」。但是，这并不是简单的「1＋1」等于「2」，希望大家更多地关注在这里被组合、被交合的艺术家的创造力以及在这里诞生的「合美」。
The Beauty of Hybrid
What is the first thing people think of when they hear the word “hybrid”?
Derived from the Latin word “hybrida” (referring to the offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar), the word has clearly evolved from its original biological signification. It now generally refers to “a thing made by combining or mixing two different elements,” or else explained frequently by the word “crossbreed.”
Things that encompass these meanings could be found in biology, technology, or even financial services. Today, the world is filled with hybrid things and events—take, for instance, the multifunctional smartphone we take for granted. Similarly, there must be many opportunities to recognize “hybrids” in a new way.
This exhibition is curated by Honda, a leading Japanese automobile manufacturer of hybrid cars. Yet the exhibition itself is not closely linked to cars. Instead, this exhibition proposes the concept of “hybrids” for the four groups of artists participating, in order for them to create on the basis of this concept. How should the concept be interpreted? How should it be expressed? All such decisions are made by the artists.
Skilled at using digital technology as a form of artistic expression, the Liu Dao Art Collective appears at first sight only to be making traditional two-dimensional paintings. Yet in fact, this is not the case. They deftly deploy numerous forms of artistic expression, such as sound, painting, and traditional Chinese crafts like paper-cuts, alongside modern digital technology. They even use gas and electricity to confront the intersections of various elements in real life.
Though Chinese, Liu Zhenchen, has been living in France for 14 years. Based on his own background and life experiences, the work “Ici, là-bas” is a fantastical video work that takes as the main subject different episodes of cultural misunderstanding in everyday life.
The Japanese Kansai-based art group “UGOITA” presents a playful work based on Japanese culture, including elements such as Zen rock gardens and crane origami.
The work by ISHII 2bit + NISHIMOTO Momoko places mirrors and sinks in various places. From that, they put together a digital installation where there are things looking and being looked at, as though one were spying at something but in actual fact one is also being spied at. Thus in a modern society where everyone’s information is tightly connected online, the dark and obscure parts are made visible.
About 100 years ago, the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti once declared in his Futurist manifesto: "A roaring motor car, which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.” This was not for the sake of contrasting between technology and art, but rather for the praise for the urban landscape and human mode of living that have been rapidly transforming due to the Industrial Revolution. This can also be the praise for the “beauty of speed” within this domain of speed.
In 2014, in the present day, the world has become smaller thanks to the information revolution and technical innovations since the Industrial Revolution. Speed is again being accelerated, yet people will surely sense beauty there.
All works within this exhibition are the “products of combining different elements.” Yet this is not as simple as “1+1=2”; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We hope that everyone can take even greater care at the artists’ creativity being combined and fused, and at the “The beauty of hybrid” born within.