上苑艺术馆

Strays on Leashes:

Wessling & Kalicki Duo Exhibition

【上苑展讯】拴上绳的流浪狗：Susana Wessling（葡萄牙） & Natalia Kalicki（波兰）双人展

开幕式时间：2019年8月24日下午3:30

展览时间：2019年8月24日 — 28日

主办方：北京上苑艺术馆
展览地址：北京市怀柔区桥梓镇沙峪口村上苑艺术馆

Opening: 15:30, August 24^th, 2019
Exhibition Period: August 24^th to 28^th, 2019

Sponsor: Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing

Venue: Exhibition Hall, Shangyuan Art Museum, Shayukou Village, Qiaozi County, Huairou District, Beijing

前言 Introduction

Susana Wessling is currently developing a six-part project based on the “Six memos for the Next Millennium” by Italo Calvino. In the Shangyuan Residency she has been working on the second memo: Quickness. Under this brief she has been exploring how different ways of expressing time in writing can be applied to her painting and the interactions they establish in the viewer. This project reflects on different approaches to storytelling and the different degrees to which a narrative is known or unknown. A little bit like seeing only a part of a bigger whole that does not allow itself for be known fully, a little bit like a stray on a leash.

Susana Wessling目前正在研究一个由六个部分组成的项目，其项目主旨乃基于Italo Calvino的“下一个千禧年的六个备忘录”。在上苑艺术馆驻留期间，她一直在研究第二个项目：快速。总结而言则是她一直在探索如何把在写作中表达时间的不同方式应用到她的绘画中并关注它在观者中所建立的互动反应。这个项目反映了讲故事的不同方法，以及一个故事的已知或未知的不同程度。有点像窥视着来自更宏伟却不允许自己被完全理解的整体的一小部分，有点像一个被绑的流浪者。

Natalia Kalicki is fixated on two stone lions. Such statues are placed on either side of front doors to ward off ghosts. Their dignified mouths are frozen agape. This series investigates the ways in which symbolism morphs when the context of a specific mythology combines with unexpected visitors. How do guardian lions, as vestiges of the past, behave in the 21st century? Could they themselves be embodied ghosts? Are they perplexed? Or could they be, just a little bit, like a stray on a leash?

Natalia Kalicki着迷于中国的石狮子。这些雕像被放置在前门的两侧，以驱赶鬼魂。他们威严的嘴巴永远都张得巨大。本系列探讨了象征主义在特定神话的背景下与不速之客结合时的变化方式。守护石狮——作为过去的遗迹——在21世纪的当今是如何表现的？他们自己会成为鬼魂吗？他们会感到困惑吗？或者他们有点像一群被绑的流浪者？

娜塔莉娅·卡利茨基作品：

苏珊娜·韦思林作品：

艺术家简介 About the artists：

Susana Wessling 苏珊娜·韦思林（葡萄牙/德国）

个人网站：www.susanawessling.com

Susana Wessling is a half Portuguese half German visual artist currently living in Lithuania. Over the last seven years she has lived in five different countries and done residencies in four more. She draws from the experience of living in different places and moving often and her practice is based on collecting misfits, mishaps and mismatches that come to be in the liminal spaces created by this mobility.

Susana Wessling是一名有着半葡萄牙半德国血统的视觉艺术家，目前居住在立陶宛。在过去的七年里，她在五个不同的国家生活过，并在另外四个国家做过艺术驻留。她从生活在不同地方和经常迁移的经历中吸取经验，她的实践是基于收集不适应、不幸和不匹配的东西，这些东西由这种经常旅居异地而带来的流动性所创造并聚集到一个有限的空间中。

Selected projects

2019 EM EM Festival, Traku Vokės Manor, Vilnius, Lithuania

2019 Vagabond Club Residency, Singapore

2018 Ateljé Stundars Residency, Vaasa, Finland

2018 The reason why I don’t sit on roofs anymore, Ideas Block , Vilnius, Lithuania

2017 Bonkers Contemporary, Biscuit Factory, Edinburgh, UK

2017 SeMA Nanji 11, residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2017 Sculpture, The Spectrum of Dream, International Sculpture Festa, KOSA Gallery, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2016 Custom Made, Leith Custom House, Edinburgh, UK

2016 Best of Degree show, Sixfoot Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2015 Interim - Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. UK

Natalia Kalicki 娜塔莉娅·卡利茨基（加拿大/波兰）

个人网站：www.nataliakalicki.com

Natalia Kalicki is a Canadian-Polish painter and anthropologist based in Leipzig, Germany. She has exhibited work in 5 countries, has attended 3 residencies, and was the coordinator of Pilotenkueche Art Residency in Leipzig Germany for 18 months. Her work includes participating in monthly MODS talks, curation, organising festivals, and facilitating partner outreach between institutions and collectives. She is currently studying the intersections of cultural production, mobility, urban development and art residency models at the University of Leipzig in the Anthropology Institute. This summer she is based at Shangyuan Museum AIR in Beijing. Next autumn she looks forward to an internship at the Artist Residency program at U-Jazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland.

Natalia Kalicki是一位居住在德国莱比锡的加拿大祖籍的波兰画家和人类学家。她曾在5个国家展出过其作品，参加过3次艺术驻留项目，并在德国莱比锡担任了为期18个月的皮滕库切艺术驻地协调员。她的工作包括参与每月的MODS讲座、策展、组织节日，以及促进机构与集体之间的伙伴关系。她目前在莱比锡大学人类学研究所学习文化生产、流动性、城市发展和艺术驻留模式的交互项目。今年夏天，她在北京上苑艺术馆做艺术驻留。明年秋天，她期待着在波兰华沙U-Jazdowski城堡的艺术家驻留项目实习。

Selected projects

2019, Museum On The Couch: Creative and Reflexive Explorations of the Ethnographic Collections. Grassi Museum. Leipzig, Germany

2019 Located - Dislocated. Krudebude. Leipzig, Germany

2019 …but these sunsets are better. Ars Avanti Gallery. Leipzig, Germany

2018 Access Granted: A Global €on$pirac￥. LindeNOW Festival. Leipzig, Germany

2017 Tour De Franz. Open Studios, FF15. Leipzig, Germany

2017 Diversity Collection. LindeNOW Festival. Leipzig, Germany

2017 EAT THIS. Salon Similde. Leipzig, Germany

2016 Goodbye Horses. Pilotenkueche, Spinnerei. Leipzig, Germany

2016 Listhus A-I-R. ólafsfjöreur, Iceland.

2016 PILOTENKUECHE Leipzig, Germany.