Open House | Anne Muntges: The Glowing Desert
开放日 | 安妮·蒙格斯：闪光沙漠
Saturday March 20, 11am–6pm
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Next week is the last week of our current exhibition Anne Muntges: The Glowing Desert. Fou Gallery is delighted to invite you to join our Open House on the closing day, March 20, to meet the artist, watch her creating on site, and experience her patterned world of plants once again for the forthcoming Spring.
The gallery will be open from 11am–6pm on March 20 and continue to maintain social distancing. Visitors in the space are limited to 10 people per hour and are required to wear masks.
Anne Muntges’ drawing, which consists of tremendous details with countless lines, is a critical key for her to understand the world. Nothing she sees becomes real until it has been explored by the lines from her pen; everything she encounters becomes tessellated with her handmade marks. Her obsessive process of drawing lines blends sensations between two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds. Each object used in her works is primed white to create a new blank palette for black drawn lines composed of acrylic paint. The final works create an interactive black and white world that functions as a living and breathing drawing. Muntges will work on her small sculptures or drawings in the gallery during the Open House to showcase the repetitive process of drawing lines to gradually cover the objects as she perceives them. Visitors can thus have a deeper understanding on the relationship between behavior and cognition while imagining how the lines sprawl from drawings to larger spaces and further compose a patterned world over time.
For the Open House, we also invited florist Ye Zi to create a bunch of succulent setups and dry-flower bouquets to respond to the theme of Glowing Desert. The real plants will become a hint of the natural counterpart of the artificial and drawn plants in Muntges’ artworks, and thus together constitute a complete cycle of experience from the unperceived to the perceived.
下周将是否画廊当前展览《安妮·蒙格斯：闪光沙漠》的最后一星期。我们很高兴邀请您参加将于3月20日展览闭幕当日所举行的开放日活动。 您可以于当日会见艺术家，观看她现场创作，并在春天即将到来之际再次体验艺术家所创作的图案世界。
画廊将于3月20日上午11点至下午6点开放，并继续保持社交距离。空间内的参观者每小时限时10人，并需佩戴口罩。
安妮·蒙格斯所创作的由无数线条组成大量细节的绘画，是她了解世界的重要方式。只有通过一笔笔探索，她所看到的一切才成为真实；她遇见的一切事物都在她的手工标记之下图案化。她执迷于绘制线条，而这个过程模糊了二维与三维世界之间感知的界限。她将日常使用物品涂上白色底漆，创建出一个全新的空白色板，再用丙烯酸颜料绘制黑色线条，最终创建出一个沉浸式性的黑白世界，成为生活着和呼吸着的绘画。开放日当天，蒙格斯将在画廊空间中进行小型雕塑或绘画的创作，以此展示她在感知对象时，通过重复绘制线条来逐渐覆盖对象的过程。参观者可以由此更深入地了解行为与认知之间的关系，同时想象线条如何从图纸蔓延到更大的空间，并逐步构成一个充满图案的世界。
在开放日，我们还将邀请花艺师叶子创作多肉植物主题花艺和干花花束，以呼应“闪光沙漠”的主题。这些真实的植物暗示着蒙格斯艺术作品中人造和绘画植物的自然对应物，从而共同构成一个由未感知事物到已感知事物的完整循环体验。
Anne Muntges: The Glowing Desert installation view. Photograph by Ruoyun Chen ©Anne Muntges, courtesy of Fou Gallery
Anne Muntges: The Glowing Desert installation view. Photograph by Shuo Yan ©Anne Muntges, courtesy of Fou Gallery
Succulent setups made by Ye Zi
Flower Arrangement By YeZi
Artist: Anne Muntges (b. 1982, Denver, Colorado)
Graduated from Kansas City Art Institute (B.F.A.) in Printmaking in 2005 and the University at Buffalo (M.F.A.) in Printmaking in 2008. Based in Brooklyn, she works with a wide range of media, including highly detailed drawings, prints, and installation. She has been exhibited at the Children’s Museum of Arts, New York (2017), the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago (2010), the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York (2018), and many other spaces nationally. Most recently her work has been growing in the studio where she is a resident with the Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey (2020).
Curator: Lynn (Liang) Hai
After graduating from Architectural Association (London), Hai gained her Master’s in Design Studies from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (Boston). She is active as a curator and art writer in New York, also a partner and the Art Director of Fou Gallery. Her curation and design includes: Chen Dongfan: Long Past Dawn, Pirates and Poets Whistle in the Dark (Fou Gallery, New York, 2020); Michael Eade: Past is Present is Future (Fou Gallery, New York, 2019); Dwelling At the Present Chinese Contemporary Interior Design Exhibition and Forum (Harvard Club, New York, 2019); Flow Fields - Confluence in Urban Picnic (Matedero, Madrid, 2013) and Flow Fields - Dilution in 2013 Lisbon Triennale (Sinel de Cordes Palace, Lisbon, 2013) et al. Her writings are published on art periodicals including ArtChina, CAFA Artinfo, Tussle Magazine and ArtPulse et al.
Anne Muntges, Glowing Desert Artifact-Budding Cactus, 2020. Acrylic paint marker, gesso, paint, foam, wire, plastic, ceramic pot, About 2 x 2 x 5 in. each.
Florist: Ye Zi
Ye Zi has been studying Ikebana, the traditional Japanese flower arrangement, since 2017. She is a student of Paula Tam, the former president of Ikebana International New York Chapter (2013-2015). Her works have been exhibited at Fou Gallery and the 2019 Blue Cloud Gala at China Institute. At the end of 2019, Ye held her first solo Ikebana exhibition Forma Calli- at The Blanc Gallery. Fascinated by the emphasis on shape, line, and form of the plants in Ikebana, Ye zi aims to embrace those principles of Ikebana and input her own aesthetic conception into the arrangements she creates.
艺术家：安妮·蒙格斯（b. 1982，丹佛，科罗拉多州）
2005年毕业于堪萨斯城艺术学院的版画系，并于2008年在布法罗大学版画系取得硕士学位。目前蒙格斯工作于布鲁克林，她的创作跨越多种媒介，包括高度细节化的绘画、版画和装置。她的作品曾在儿童艺术博物馆（纽约，2017）、乌克兰现代艺术博物馆（芝加哥，2010）、伯奇菲尔德彭尼艺术中心（纽约州布法罗，2018）等地展出。最近，她作为Mana当代文化中心莫妮拉基金会（新泽西州泽西城，2020）的驻地艺术家在工作室中持续创作。
策展人：海良
毕业于英国建筑联盟学院演出与建筑设计专业，后在哈佛大学设计学院艺术、设计与公共空间专业取得设计学硕士学位。现为活跃在纽约地区的策展人、艺术撰稿人，为否画廊合伙人及艺术总监，策展及设计经历包括陈栋帆个展《漫长的黎明，海盗与诗人在黑暗中吹口哨》（否画廊，2020），迈克尔·伊德个展《刹那》（否画廊，2019），哈佛俱乐部《居于当代》设计展与交流会（哈佛俱乐部，纽约，2019），马德里城市野餐《流动场域·汇聚》（马特德罗艺术中心，西班牙马德里，2013），里斯本建筑三年展之《流动场域·散灭》（Sinel de CordesPalace, 葡萄牙里斯本，2013）等。作为艺术撰稿人，为《艺术中国》、《CAFA Artinfo》、《Tussle Magazine》、《ArtPulse》等艺术期刊供稿。
花艺师：叶子
毕业于纽约大学表演艺术管理专业，2017年开始系统学习传统日式插花(Ikebana)，师从前国际日本插花会(Ikebana International)纽约分会会长宝拉·谭(Paula Tam)。作品曾在纽约否画廊和China Institute 2019 Blue Cloud Gala 展出。2019年底，于纽约The Blanc Gallery举办了首次花艺个展"Forma Calli-"。在她眼中，植物如舞者般拥有变化着的姿态。她将日式插花对于观察植物的形态、线条、表情的理念充分融入自己的创作中，并呈现出独具个人特色的花艺作品。