上苑艺术馆

【上苑展讯】红线 Heather Beardsley（美） & Guido Nosari（意）双人展

Location: Exhibition Hall No. 2, Shangyuan Art Museum, Qiaozi County, Huairou District, Beijing

An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break.

This exhibition draws its title from the invisible red thread of fate in Chinese folklore. While the proverb refers to romantic soul mates, in this context it relates to their work as a marriage of cultural perspectives. Both artists share a textile art sensibility, producing meticulously hand-crafted and labor-intensive work. The physicality of these time-consuming works allows them to break past the boundaries of their bodies to communicate across languages and cultures. In this exhibition they blend traditional Chinese aesthetics and techniques with their previous material explorations. The layers of material are used to create layers of meaning: the first layer relates to the propaganda and performative elements of Chinese culture, while secondary layers reflect their attempts to achieve a deeper, more nuanced understanding of China based on their experience at the Shangyuan Art Residency, all of which is of course colored by their own cultural biases. The resulting works represent the red thread, stretched and tangled, yet still connecting these different cultural perspectives in one exhibition.

一根细红线连接着两个注定会遇见的人，超越时空和外在环境。这根线也许会被扯松或纠缠成结，但它绝不会断开。

这次展览的题目来源于在中国民间流传的决定人们姻缘的红线的传说。红线本来决定的是人们的爱情，在此次的展览中，它代表的是两种不同文化视角之间的结合。两位艺术家都对纺织品艺术有着敏感性，创作出一针一线耗费大量人力细心制作的作品。这些相当耗时的作品的物质性使得这两位艺术家能够跨越自身的边界，透过语言和文化的隔阂交流起来。在这次的展览中，他们将传统的中式审美和技艺与他们之前对材料的探索结合起来。材料的层次在这里被用来创造意义的层次：第一层反映的是中国文化中宣传和表演性的因素；第二层反映的是他们通过在上苑艺术馆的经历，试图对中国有更深入和更细致的理解。当然，这些都脱不开艺术家自己的文化偏见。最终的成品代表了这种红线，尽管被扯松并纠缠成结，但仍然成功地在此次展览种连接了这些不同文化的视角。

Heather Beardsley 艺术家简介

Education

Fulbright Scholarship, Vienna, Austria
Installation Art, Masters of Art and Science, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2015- 2016
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Masters of Fine Arts, May 2015
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Arts, May 2012
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, Bachelor of Arts History, Minor in Art History, May 2009

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2018Variations on a Theme, Merion Hall Gallery, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
Transmigration, with Anne Stagg, Curfman Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2017 Biomimikry,Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig, Germany
2016 Encoded Elucidations, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
2014 Cutaway: An Artistic Dissection of Science, with Katie Vota, Paperish Mess, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 Inspirácia Papierom IV, Galeria X, Bratislava, Slovakia (forthcoming)
Depth, Michigan Science Center with Science Gallery Detroit, Detroit, MI (forthcoming)
Fantastic Fibers 2019, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
New Waves 2019, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, VA Beach, VA
Memory Palace, Jackson Dinsdale Art Center, Hastings College, Hastings, NE
2018 Werkpräsentation der KulturKontakt A.I.R, Austrian Chancellery, Vienna, Austria
Transcultural Emancipation,curated by Ursula Probst,Fluc, Vienna, Austria
Collider,Circa Modern, Chicago, IL
BARTR x Tinta,Tinta Art Cafe,Budapest, Hungary
Circular, Gestalt Projects, Santa Monica, CA
Off the Wall, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
Amateras Annual Mini Paper Art Competition, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
12th International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art "Scythia", Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine
Fake, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Material, D’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
Books Undone,Gallery at Penn College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
2017 Botanik, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
War in the Arts: Redeeming Spirits,Orange Hall Gallery, SUNY Orange, NY
Department Of,Montagehalle, HBK-BS, Braunschweig, Germany
Prescriptions: artist books, Tempelman Gallery, University of Kent, Kent, UK
Shout, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Wild Cuts,Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fight or Flight,The Painting Center, NYC, NY
We the People: Political Art in an Age of Discord, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Paper Works, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX
Nearby - Faraway, Gallery SVú, Bratislava, Slovakia
30th Annual Women’s Works, Old Court House Art Center, Woodstock, IL
2016 Crafting Community: SDA 2016 Inaugural International Exhibition In Print (print exhibit)
New Fibers 2016, Eastern Michigan University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI
19th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Inspirácia Papierom III, Galeria X, Bratislava, Slovakia
Prescriptions, The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury, UK
2015 Cut / Create: The Endless Possibilities of Paper, Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
MFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
The Longest Distance Between Two Points, Hyperlink Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Radius250 2013, artspace, Richmond, VA
Lotta Art: Juried Art Auction, School 33: Silo Point Gallery, Baltimore, MD
23rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Art Exhibition, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
Smörgåsbord, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD

Awards/Grants/Residencies

2019 Shangyuan Museum Artist in Residence, Beijing, China
2018 Artist in Residence, KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna, Austria
Artist Residency, fee supported, BARTR, Budapest, Hungary
Finalist, Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art, Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA
2017 Peripheral Visions Publication Fellowship, Peripheral Vision Arts, Dallas, TX
First Place,30th Annual Women’s Works, Old Court House Art Center, Woodstock, IL
2016-17 Braunschweig Projects International Artist Scholarship, awarded by the Ministry of
Science and Culture from the State of Lower-Saxony, Germany
2015-16 Fulbright Scholarship Research Grant forInstallation Art, Vienna, Austria

PINK TAO - mixed on textiles, 181 (h) x 205 (w) cm, Guido Nosari, 2019 粉桃-织物混合

Civetta-Milanensis,-mixed-on-sewn-paper,-21x14cm,-2019,-Guido-Nosari 缝制纸上混合材料

Guido Nosari (MADRE) 艺术家简介

B. 1984, Bergamo, Italy
Lives and works in Milan and Berlin

EDUCATION

2016 Accelerator Course for Startup, Bocconi University, Milan
2009 Fine Arts (MA), Accademia delle Arti di Brera, Milan
2005 Law (BA), Università Statale di Milano
2005 Fine Arts Auditor, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Il percorso dell’ombra, Spazio Arte Danseei, Nov, Milano (Italy)
Guido Nosari, Villa Borletti, Nov, Origgio (Italy)
n=n→1, Vanna Casati, Mar-Apr, Bergamo (Italy)
2016 Pietà...pleeease:), town hall of Venice, May-Jul, Venice (Italy)
2015 Zeichnungen aus Berlin, Maria Cilena Gall, Jun-Jul, Milan(Italy)
A Tallit for the Neue Synagoge, Neue Synagoge Museum, Feb-Jul,Berlin
(Germany)
2014 Dialoghi a Distanza, Maria Cilena Gallery, Nov-Jan, Milan(Italy)
InSerra, Aerospazio, Oct, Bergamo (Italy)
Solo MADRE, Showroom Simone Marulli, Feb-Dec, Milan (Italy)
2013 MADRE, Gallery111, Nov-Dec, Bergamo (Italy)
2011 Iconografia del Potere Contemporaneo, BellasopranoLibrary,Apr,Milan
(Italy)
2009 Il Pianto Socchiuso di Rembrandt,Papagheno,Oct-Nov, Bergamo (Italy)
Ombre, Bopo, Sep-Oct, Bergamo (Italy)
2008 Pasolini, Profezie?, Caffè Letterario, Dec, Bergamo (Italy)
Nuvola, Tre Gobbi, Nov, Bergamo (Italy)
Visioni di Passaggio, Ist. Ronchi, Milan (Italy)
2007 Guido Nosari, Tre Gobbi, Oct, Bergamo (Italy)