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一个涂鸦展。看来会很有意思。fake space也是大声展咖喱秀的合作场地之一。

Start Making Sense！
“言之有物”后涂鸦时代的Graffiti

Graffiti，在中国原本是一个概念模糊的东西，它与西方街头文化的联系让我们觉得既新鲜，又似乎与自己没什么关系。不过，近几年中国的飞速发展，使得文化上的交流也达到了空前的繁荣，为我们带来了很多看东西的新角度。涂鸦作为一种颇具风格的视觉样式，已经为许多年轻人所接受，它所引导的’Street’的生活方式，以及近年来与消费文化的结合，使得大家对涂鸦的认识也在不断加深。

这便是这个展览所存在的背景，也是所谓‘后涂鸦’时代：涂鸦从街头走入室内，从野生的状态走入大众文化的主流视野，涂鸦者的队伍也有更多年龄层的人参与进来。作为当今世界上流传最广的艺术形式，涂鸦已经不停的发展了几十年，里面包含着大家对生活，对城市，对渴望交流等等东西的理解。参与其中的人也不只是年轻人，还有许多严肃的创作者，他们包括职业的设计师和建筑师。涂鸦不仅仅是年轻人的自我宣泄，它逐渐变成言之有物的公共艺术，成为当代都市生活的一部分。

“Start Making Sense”的参展者有法国艺术家Blek Le Rat ，他作为割版涂鸦艺术的先锋，20多年的传奇生捱横跨新旧两代的涂鸦者。此次展览包含近年创作的大幅人物涂鸦作品 。展览的另一个亮点是呈现英国当代最红的涂鴉才子Banksy的力作，这位从未在公众面前露面的神祕涂鸦者，以其对波普艺术和政治玩笑的敏感，是英国艺术时尚界的新宠。展览推出Banksy艺术生捱中精典的纸上涂鸦作品，其中包括罕有的艺术签名原作，极具收藏价值。

展出作品还包括英国的“贴纸王” D-Face的贴纸和海报，无政府主义涂鸦艺术家Arofish的大型作品，以及在吸血鬼文化影响下的Pure Evil为此展览专门设计的装置作品。作为涂鸦文化的混合体 ，街头霸王/Gorillaz设计师Jamie Hewlett，收音头/Radiohead设计师Stanley Donwood也在此次展览中呈现他们的作品。还有来自英国著名的音乐团体Massive Attack的创始人也是他们视觉的负责人3D的作品，伦敦东区怪才 昆虫/Insect，以及Sickboy也在展览中呈现。此外，来自纽约的涂鸦团体Faile，以及布鲁克林街头艺术的原创代表之一的Bast， 另外还有法国录象艺术家Beaucourt Christophe加入，展览期间将放映他的两部关于Street Art的记录片。

这些艺术家的详细介绍和精彩作品也收录在2005年台湾田园城市出版的《涂鸦-城市糖果地图》一书中。此书是第一本由中文撰写的涂鸦书，介绍了涂鸦的历史，存在的原因，风格和工具等问题，书中大量的涂鸦图片呈现了涂鸦在欧洲的繁荣面貌。此书由Fakedesign Studio的方二，孟瑾合著，简体中文版于2006年由中国青年出版社出版。

正如展览策划方二所说：“涂鸦在今天已经不只是宣泄青春期的反叛，而是影响着都市生活的一支不可忽视的文化推动力。从年轻的滑板青年到中年的职业艺术家，各个层面的人都有介入到街头艺术的领域。现在的涂鸦时代，是一个言之有物的时代。”

展览将在新近迁入的Fakespace空间举行。FakeSpace是一个概念商店和艺术展厅的混合空间，推动那些和生活息息相关的艺术创作。它的策划团队Fakedesign Studio，由方二于2000年在伦敦成立，孟瑾于2004年以艺术家身分加入。旨在推敲艺术与个商业设计之间的灰色界限，是一个以视觉试验性为主体的创意团队，2006年工作室的主要核心定于北京。

开幕： 2007年8月25日 晚上7:30
展期： 2007年8月26日至9月16日
地址： FakeSpace
北京市朝阳区百子湾32号苹果社区北区3B-0111（今日美术馆旁）
策划： 方二 . 孟瑾FakeDesign Studio®
信息: www.fakedesign.co.uk
资料查询请洽: 孟瑾 13511027388 或 e-mail 至 nina@fakedesign.co.uk

Start Making Sense! Post Graffiti Exhibition

Private view: Sat 25th August, 7:30
Exhibition runs: 26th August - 16th September, 2007
Venue: FakeSpace
Address: Room111,Building3B, PingGuoSheQu, 32 Baiziwan Rd. Chaoyang Dist. Beijing.
Postcode 100022 (Next to Today Art Museum)
Contact: 13511027388, nina@fakedesign.co.uk
Info: www. Fakedesign.co.uk

In 2005, the first graffiti book written in Chinese was published in Taiwan, a year late it launched in China. In the book, contemporary street art scene in London, Berlin and other Europe cities documented by Fang Er and Meng Jin through out their three-year research. A year on after the book released, Fang Er and her FakeDesign team is organising an exhibition, entitled ‘Start Making Sense’, which takes place at the expectant FakeSpace in Beijing.

During the exhibition, French graffiti artist, Blek Le Rat, his beautiful real size human figure graffiti will be on display. He is widely recognized as a prestigious pioneer of stencil graffiti and his career spans two graffiti generations. Another highlight is the work from Banksy, a mystical name that claimed the most well known graffiti artist in the world. Despite of Banksy has never made his public appearance since he involved in urban art, his distinctive black and white stencil images have won huge reputation for him across fine art world to music industry. The exhibition is pleased to represent most of his classic stencil work, including few rare signed limited edition screen prints.

London sticker king, D-face also contributes his famous d-dog series on the show. And Arofish, an anarchist graffiti artist will put on his large size work, while Pure Evil has designed a specific installation for this exhibition to express his fantasy of Vampire culture.
Apparently, some of artists in the show are not direct graffiti people, but their unique body of work represents the clear influence of street art. Such as Jamie Hewlett, who designed the characters for Gorillaz, and Radio Head’s cover artist Stanley Donwood also delivers the message of street culture through his beautiful screen prints. As for the work from Insect and Sick Boy, in which strange atmosphere is created by using street graphics. Other artists like 3D, and Eine, whose work in the show have mixed graffiti tradition and conceptual art. New York based graffiti group Faile also presents their screen prints on the show, and come up together with the work from their well-known fellow Bast. Additionally, a French video artist Beaucourt Christophe will screen his documentary of street culture in the show.

Like what the exhibition curator Fang Er and Meng Jin described: after so many years interacting with modern culture, graffiti has been deeply integrated with urban life and starting making sense. The backgrounds of the artists featuring in this exhibition are diverse, but they all take their own roots to get engaged with graffiti in different manners.

FakeSpace is a place combines conceptual store and art space, which focuses on the relationship between art and everyday life. The space is founded by FakeDesign Studio. In 2000, FakeDesign Studio was set up by Fang Er in London, and Meng Jin joined in 2004 as an artist. It promotes creative activities between art and design. FakeDesign now resettled in Beijing.

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