"SURGE"
date: April 25 – May 20, 2007
venues: Beijing Studio 1 (BS1), CIMG – China
Interactive Media Group, 798 Art District
curated and organized by Marc Hungerbuhler,director and founder of the:artist:network, New York and Raul Zamudio, curator-at-large, the:artist:network, New York.
Co-ordinator, Henri Seng, Landskapspoesi.com Beijing.
参展艺术家：
Karin Suter, Switzerland
Natalie Bewernitz and Marek Goldowski, Germany
Przemo Wojciechowski, Poland
Agnieszka Kalinowska, Poland
Ferran Martin, Spain
Jeanette Doyle, Ireland
Alejandro Diaz, USA
Arturo Elizondo, Mexico
Jeff Gompertz, USA
Riiko Sakkinen, Spain/Finland
Wolfgang Stiller, Germany
Fexue Lee, China
Zhang Tiemei, China
Wu Gao Zhong, China
Henri Seng, China/Sweden
Feng Jiang Zhou, China
Alfredo Martinez, USA
O Zhang, China
Gabriela Galvan, Mexico
Li Wei, China
SURGE 由十五位最有趣的国际艺术家共同展现艺术最新的脉动。主题指的是动，如同海水奔腾著涌过海岸。不过 SURGE 也意味著电源的瞬间充电。两者定义都洽当地詮释 SURGE 是由个别参展的艺术家所聚集而成的能量，这些艺术家的作品充满著力量，野性狂放让他们不论在自身的国家或者是国际领域都置身於实践艺术的最前线。
有些艺术家如 Katja Loher 和 Przemo Wojciechowski 从事於录影艺术并精心创造装置艺术，将声音和影像结构地天衣无缝。环境艺术家有如Karin Suter， Rikko Sakkinen，和 Alexjandro Diaz。Suter 创造出眾的壁画，来自西班牙的芬兰人Sakkinen，则混合无数来自西班牙、芬兰、英国、日本、阿拉伯各类文化的画像。反之，Diaz创造自识并冷嘲的招牌，暗中破坏各种形式的礼节，并计画将创作当地中文作品。爱尔兰艺术家 Ferran Martin 创作一种深具文字与画面构成意识的作品。其他的艺术家，例如美国的 Jeff Gompertz 和 西班牙的 Ferran Martin，运用广泛的媒介包含演出。 不像 Gomerptz 惯常的多人表演和 Martin 的单独表演 Body Art, 也展示较不短暂作品像 Natalie和Marek的雕塑品、Arturo Elizonado 的绘画、Wolfgang Stiller 的纸类作品以及 Alfredo Martinez。除了外国及驻馆艺术家之外， SURGE 也将展览北京当地的艺术家，例如 Fexue Lee, Zhang Tiemei，和 Wu Gao Zhong。
SURGE 是由纽约 the:artist:network 的管理人Marc Hungerbuhler 及 the:artist:network 策展人Raul Zamudio 所策划和组织。 Hungerbuhler 策划许多美国当地和各国的展览。纽约White Box 的总策展人 Zamudio 同样拥有各国的展览策划的经验并且在许多在书籍、美术馆、和画廊展览目录、期刊和杂誌如Zingmagazine、TRANS、Tema Celeste、[Art Notes]、 Framework: the Finnish Art Review、 Flash Art、 Contemporary、和The Los Angeles Times出版当代艺术的艺评。
SURGE is an exhibition that brings together some of the most interesting artists from diverse areas of the world. The title refers to movement, as in the “sea surged to shore.” But surge can also refer to a sudden charge of electricity. Both of these definitions are apt in that Surge is a collective energy created by
the individual exhibiting artists whose works are imbued with power, force and sometimes a wild abandon that situates them on the forefront of artistic practice both in their individual countries and in the international arena.
Some artists, like Katja Loher and Przemo Wojciechowski, work in video and create elaborate installations in which sound and image seamlessly converge architectonically. For Surge, these two artists will produce site-specific works that directly engage their surroundings both physically as well as thematically. Also working environmentally are Karin Suter, Riiko Sakkinen and Alejandro Diaz. Karin Suter constructs sublime wall paintings; and for the exhibition she will create a mural-size piece that will incorporate research from her current artist residency in Beijing. Similarly working in large scale but utilizing individual works-on-paper, wall drawing and text is Riiko Sakkinen. Sakkinen is a Finn based in Spain, and his transnational condition is underscored in his mixing of a myriad of imagery from low and high culture that is culled from many sources including Spanish, Finnish, English, Polish, German, Japanese and Arabic. His contribution to Surge will consist of numerous small drawings that will be mounted against a polychromatic background and layered with his personal cartoon imagery; yet the textual elements that accompany his iconography will be mainly in Chinese. Alejandro Diaz, on the other hand, creates another form of signage altogether that is self-referential and ironic to the degree that it undermines all form of decorum...... more
