MADLANDS
The Long Museum (West Bund) staircase gallery
May 11 – July 21, 2024
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“MADLANDS,” the first dual solo museum exhibit by artists Yang Bao and Wa Liu, showcases their collaborative video “No One’s Game”, Bao’s stainless steel and 24K gold sound sculptures, oil paintings and mixed media works, and Liu’s new series of paintings. Inspired by their extensive travel and field research, they delve into the symbiotic relationships of the more-than-human world where diverse sensibilities and lifeways coexist and entangle in a vast ecological network.

Yang Bao’s large-scale stainless steel sound sculptures and oil paintings explore this concept of nonlinear symbiosis through experimental and ever-evolving visual soundscapes. His site-specific 8.5-meter tall mirror-finish stainless steel sound sculpture, “Infinity Tower,” reflects and refracts the gallery space into multiple dimensions. Inspired by the piano, his 24K gold-coated stainless steel sound sculpture, “Superstar,” vibrates with sound waves, amplifying the bodily energy of sound. These monumental super-instruments bring to life his original composition “Infinity Music,” capturing the emotions and intuitions from their journeys. Within these sculptures, a chance-based matrix of sounds and reverberations composes an unpredictable symphony that mirrors the sound of the universe—sometimes discordant, sometimes harmonious. Drawing on his background as a classical pianist, Yang Bao creates performative action paintings to encapsulate the essence of live performance and the minimalistic aesthetics of his composition. He performs on the canvas, accumulating oil paint into subtle spectrums and rich textures, or uses a palette knife to add and subtract paint, allowing the paintings to spontaneously develop unexpected outcomes. His mixed media works, featuring mirror-finish stainless steel in geometric shapes and nearly perfect matte oil paintings, blur the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, redefining our conventional perceptions of sensibility and spatial dimensions.

The exhibit conceptualizes a multi-sensory space that is not solely ours but also shared by birds, insects, trees, oceans, mists and all protagonists intra-acting with us at every moment. Agency is no longer exclusively human; other species, living or non-living things, even paint and sound, are all vibrant and active. We are simultaneously the objects of others' desires and challenges, each endowed with the profound potential to alter another’s path. Here and now, everyone is in focus and everything is in action in Madlands.

狂幻之野
龙美术馆（西岸馆）阶梯展厅
2024年5月11日至7月21日
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“狂幻之野”是艺术家鲍杨与刘娃的首次美术馆双个展，呈现他们合作的影像作品《无人之局》、鲍杨的不锈钢与24K金声音雕塑、油画及综合材料作品、刘娃的最新绘画系列。他们从旅行和田野调查中汲取灵感，探讨万物之间多维度的共生关系。不同的生命线索和生存之道同时存在，冲撞和编织出错综复杂的生态网络。

鲍杨的大型不锈钢声音雕塑和油画作品将这种非线性的共生关系实体化，创造出实验性且无限演变的视觉与声音景观。他为展厅创作的8.5米高镜面不锈钢声音雕塑《无限塔》，将空间反射和切割出不同维度， 以钢琴为灵感的24K金箔声音雕塑《超级星》随声波振动，强化声音的肢体性能量。两件巨型乐器回旋传出他的原创作曲“永久音乐”，这些声音来自他们旅行中的情绪和直觉，随着偶发的组合与回响聚合成不可预测的交响，隐喻宇宙万物之轰鸣，时而碰撞，时而共鸣。钢琴家出身的鲍杨还运用他现场演奏的肢体经验与他作曲的极简美学，创作极具表演性的行动绘画。他通过十指弹奏，将颜料堆积出细腻的光谱和丰富的肌理，或用刮刀一气呵成和反复处理，任由画面生长出意外的结果。他的综合材料作品通过几何形的镜面不锈钢和近乎完美的哑光油画，消解可见与不可见的边界，重新定义我们对于传统感官方式和空间维度的理解。

本展览构想了一个充满想象的多感官空间，不仅属于我们，更属于鸟、虫、树木、海洋、雾气等所有时刻与我们息息相关的主角。能动性不再是人类的特权，不同物种、生物或非生物，甚至颜料和声音都具有活性和力量。我们也是他者欲望和抗争的对象，谁都一样有可能彻底改变对方的轨迹。此地此刻，众生皆是焦点，万物皆在行动中，为狂幻之野。