假装游戏

Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern art is pleased to announce the launch of Conscious Game at 3pm， 23rd， March， 2019. Those works on display include paintings， installations and digital animations from Ao Guoxing， Cao Yuanming， Ji Wenyu & Zhu Weibing， Li Zhenhua & Dong Shi， Shi Miaomiao， Wang Qieer， You Ada. This exhibition will present artists in-depth experience and observation towards established reality and regulation in a gameful attitude. These works are seemingly playful imitation， response， doubt， breakthrough and reconstruction of life， human nature， social and cultural reality. Jean Piaget， Swiss psychologist， once put forward the concept of imagination games in child cognitive psychology of which the main idea is about how children absorb ideas and concepts and then apply them into imaginary world. In the field of art， both the game theory about the art origin in the history of Western art and the traditional Confucian aesthetic view of roaming in art naturally advocate the purity and non-utility of game so as to emphasize the goal of human pursuit of spiritual freedom. Imagination game is both gameful， that is non-utilitarian and purposeless， and feigned， that is welldesigned and premeditated. In playing imagination games， children tend to follow a set of established rules， and they can tell fiction from reality. Conscious game not only presents artists attitude， but also their strategy and courage. Under the shelter built with the attitude of gamification， artists are proficient in established rules and constantly test and challenge fixed rules and limits to reconstruct new values and systems. Using a gamification strategy in the state of drifting， artists exploration and challenges are faced with not only the established rules of art language and the benchmark in art history， but also the countless inherent frames and systems of real life and daily thinking.

Conscious Game not only brings us more unconventional thinking and possibilities， but also provides an open door for the public to enter the creation of artists in an interesting way. It is precisely the works generated from the attitude and position of conscious game that unwittingly break the established thinking mode of the audience， making the audience think from the perspective of the artist， and smile or think deeply at the moment of communication with the creative thinking of the artist.

The exhibition will last till 19 May， 2019.

“假装游戏”于2019年3月23日下午15时在上海多伦现代美术馆开幕，本次展览由上海多伦现代美术馆主办，将展出艺术家敖国兴、曹原铭、计文于、朱卫兵、李振华、董师、石苗苗、王切尔、尤阿达创作的绘画、装置和影像作品。本次展览试图呈现一种游戏化的态度或方式下艺术家对既定现实与规则的深度体验和观察，是以作品对生命、人性、社会和文化现实的看似“游戏化”的模仿、回应、质疑、突破和再造。

瑞士儿童心理学家让·皮亚杰在儿童认知心理学中提出过“想象游戏”的概念，其要义为：孩子从现实世界中吸收想法和概念，然后应用到虚构的世界中。在艺术领域中，不管是西方艺术史上关于艺术起源的“游戏说”，还是传统儒家对待艺术时“游于艺”的美学观，都很自然地推崇“游戏”的纯粹和非功利性，以此强调人类追求精神自由的目标。“想象游戏”既是“游戏”的——非功利性的、无目的的，同时又是“假装”的——经过了精心设计和事先考量的：因為在“想象游戏”中，孩子们虽然在玩假装游戏，但他们都遵守着一套既定的游戏规则，他们能清楚区分什么是现实，什么是虚构。在“假装游戏”的概念中，“假装游戏”呈现的既是艺术家的态度，也是艺术家的策略和勇气：在以“游戏化”的姿态构筑起来的安全掩体之下，艺术家既谙熟既定规则，同时又在不断试探和挑战既定的规则与底线，进而重构新的价值和体系。利用一种处于“漂移”状态的游戏化策略，艺术家们的探索和挑战不仅面对着艺术自身语言的既定规则、艺术史上的标杆，同样面对着现实生活、日常思维的无数固有框架、体系。

“假装游戏”的方式在为我们带来更多打破常规的思考和可能的同时，也以充满趣味性的方式为公众进入艺术家的创作提供了一个不设防的大门：恰恰是这种“假装游戏”的态度和立场中产生的作品，不知不觉间打破了观者的既定思维模式，让观者跟随艺术家的视角产生思考，并在与艺术家的创作思路交际的那一刻会心一笑或肃然深思。

本次展览将展出至2019年5月19日。