My Personal Universe by Zhan Wang

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In his stunning UCCA solo show My Personal Universe, acclaimed Chinese sculptor Zhan Wang combines super-high-definition video, stainless steel
sculpture, installation and documentary film to recreate the earliest moments of the cosmos and explore the farthest reaches of the human imagination. This all-new project, created with the support of Louis Vuitton, marks the first time that Zhan Wang – who has achieved international fame for his installations and stainless steel sculptures of Chinese “scholar‖s rocks” – has held a solo exhibition at UCCA.

 

A tour-de-force of video, sculpture, installation and documentary film

According to UCCA  Director  Jérôme  Sans,  My  Personal  Universe marks Zhan Wang’s most ambitious project to date. In his exhibition foreword, Sans
notes the  connection  between Zhan  Wang‖s past work and this significant step forward: “Zhan Wang has always been willing to traverse vast distances in the service of his art: he has scaled Mt. Everest to place one of his sculptures at the summit, [and] set hollow stainless steel rocks adrift on the open  sea… In My Personal Universe, his first UCCA solo show, Zhan Wang moves into an even vaster macrocosmic realm of possibilities with a tour-de-force of video, sculpture, installation and documentary that explores the contours of the visible and the invisible, the inner and outer facets of the universe.”

For Zhan Wang, the My Personal Universe project was a chance to explore the idea of an “initial state of being”.  He explains: “In  2010, I started to work on the outline of a plan in which I hoped to inquire into nature of an ‘initial state’ by exploding a large boulder with dynamite. You can imagine this ‘initial state’ as referring to the initial state of the universe and the emergence of concepts such as space and time; you can also imagine this ‘―initial state’ in connection to art, or to the birth of form, or to the way all things take shape. We often say that form is the basis of art, but conceptualization is also the basis of art. What then, is the genesis of form and concept? Where do we look to find their origins?”

For the artist, allowing the audience the freedom to explore their own imaginations and ideas about the nature of the universe was a vital part of this exhibition. “Nobody really knows how the universe was born, because the universe has existed for so long. The best that so-called scientific authorities can offer are hypotheses. Perhaps in the end, there is no such thing as so-called truth, and we exist in a space where the truth is unforeseeable. If so, perhaps we should see this as a perfect opportunity, allowing each of us the right to hypothesize for ourselves the nature of the universe and the nature of truth.”

 

UCCA与路易威登联合呈现全新项目，全方位展现立体造型

这是一次全新挑战，能否在一个空间里呈现出宇宙？这样的宇宙是外在的，更多的是人心的宇宙。结合雕塑、影像、装置和纪录片等形式，著名艺术家展望带来最新力作“我的宇宙”。本次展览由路易威登独家赞助支持，也是展望在UCCA举办的首次个展。

UCCA一直强调让所有观众能够近距离与作品融为一体的同时，更为深刻地思考艺术家的艺术创作；并且能够以最高质量呈现当代中国最优秀的、在世界范围内广受认可与赞誉的先锋创作。

“中国著名雕塑艺术家展望一直在他广阔的艺术领域中穿行：他曾在珠穆朗玛峰顶端放置不锈钢材质作品；曾将空心不锈钢山石漂浮于公海上；也曾把不锈钢的太湖石放置到全球多个国家。太湖石，经长期自然风化，形成姿态万千、造型各异的微缩风景，长期以来被中国文人视为具有极高的观赏价值，在微缩的景观中蕴含了整个世界。展望通过用不锈钢来制作太湖石，将传统中国太湖石转变为蕴含当下时代寓意的微观世界。”策展人UCCA馆长杰罗姆•桑斯说。

本展运用装置、影像多方面呈现宇宙爆炸的壮观景象。艺术家认为，人脑都有其局限性，尤其是在想象力和创造力上，因为艺术家能借助使用的材料，看看能带给我们什么。“通过过去的作品的实验，我似乎游弋到时间之前，看到了石头真正的来源，我需要看到，清楚的看到万物（造型）诞生的那一刻到底是什么样子，而我们人类发明了高速摄像机，每秒两千格，相当于拍摄两千张照片，这样我们就可以借助人类的科技看到以前我们看不到的东西，因此才有了关于宇宙诞生的假想和实验。”展望说。“‘我的宇宙’是展望迄今为止最为震撼与具有野心的项目。从延长大爆炸的第一毫秒开始，到现在所呈现出的一切，由空间、时间、物质和能量构成统一体，诞生出了世界的尽头和一个存在于其中的宇宙。”策展人杰罗姆•桑斯说。

“路易威登作为一个历史悠久的品牌，长时间以来始终大力支持世界各地的当代艺术。LVMH集团早在好几年前，便注意到展望强有力的作品，去年我们在中国国家博物馆筹备路易威登艺术时空之旅展览时，我们中国的同事向我展示了他这一新作品的计划时，在场所有人被他的震撼力和想象力所感染了。”我的宇宙”—这何尝不是我们每个人的宇宙呢？这20年的中国巨变，身边的点点滴滴……现在回头细看，我们何尝又不是曾经穿梭在爆炸中。”路易威登全球主席及执行总裁贾世杰先生说。

 

艺术家对于宇宙的定义

“没有人真正知道宇宙的诞生，因为它早就在那里，所谓科学权威也都是在假设。或许根本就没有一个所谓真相，我们就生活在一个不可能预知真相的空间里，而这，恰恰又是每个人真正的机会，就是说，任何人都有权利，都可以自己假设宇宙的诞生，假设真相。探知宇宙，最好的方法莫过于向内寻找，大爆炸常常源自内心的需要。”展望说。

一次宇宙的爆破，意味着认知的重启和创造。对于宇宙的来源，说到底只能是个假想，或“再想象”的过程，而且宇宙中所有的星星本身也是个瞬间的会被改变的过程。“不锈钢的反射带给我们一种虚幻的感觉，同时也带给我们人类靠自己的智慧制造的永恒的意念。”展望说。

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