拿破仑 Napolitain   

策展人：丁晓洁

Curator：Dana ding 

艺术家：能尖日   象牙塔

Artists：Nhozagri    Xiang Yata

开幕：2018.8.26 下午3:00

Opening：2018.8.26. 15:00

展期：2018.8.26—2018.9.7

Duration：2018.8.26—2018.9.7  

地址：北京市朝阳区崔各庄黑桥中心艺术幼儿园Mstudio

Add : Mstudio,Hei Qiao central kindergarden,Chao Yang district,Beijing

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与商业漫画相比，独立漫画一直是个松散的群体，这一群体中年龄最大的成员出生于社会开放初期，他们大多赶上了独生子女潮，有着共同的特点：自我、爱幻想、去英雄主义、喜欢隔绝的都市生活，丰富的日本、欧美漫画资源……作为成年人的他们常常迷恋童年，同时又会“透过童年世界反观社会规则。”生长于社会转型期，他们看似逃避着现实世界，内心和行为又时刻在“新与旧”“现代与传统”“西方与东方”“自我与集体”“物欲与精神”这些二元对立的价值观之间切换、徘徊。

Indie comics artists, compared with commercial comics artists, have always been in a loose group. The oldest members of this group, most of whom are the only child of the family, were born in the early days of China’s Reform and Opening. They all have something in common: self-centered, full of imagination, believe in anti-heroism, in favor of isolated urban life, and be surrounded with abundant comic resources from Japan, Europe and America… As adults, they are often obsessed with their childhood, and at the same time, “viewing this society through the eyes of children.” Growing up in a country when it is going through rapid social changes, they seem to want to escape from the reality. However, their actions and minds are always in dilemmas between "the new and the old", "the modern and the traditional", "the West and the East", "the individual and the collective", and "material desires and spiritual needs".

独立漫画通常集图像、文本和出版于一身，像拿破仑蛋糕一样的层层叠加、口感甜腻是大多数人对独立漫画的简单印象，事实上独立漫画艺术家更多会从社会现实的角度出发，用图像传达隐藏的线索，再带领观众走进自己布置的幽秘世界，或者说是在试图唤起沉默的想象力重新看待日常生活。与其他艺术不同的是，漫画艺术往往需要具备理性的能力，逻辑严密地组合、拆解一个故事，搭建一个依靠图像来连接、延续文本的结构。

Generally speaking, indie comics are a combination of images, texts and publications. At the first sight, most people would be impressed by the multiple layers and sweetness of the contents, which are just like Napoleon cakes. As a matter of fact, however, independent comic artists intend to use images to convey hidden clues, lead the readers into a secret world, or to try to stimulate imagination and inspire their readers to look at their daily lives from a new angle. Rational thinking is an essential requirement of comics, which is different from any other form of art. In other words, cosmic artists need to have the ability to logically create and disassemble a story based on images.

艺术家能尖日毕业于中央美术学院和中国美院，她的作品充满想象力和张力，美院科班出身的她并没有延续学院传统的写实手法，而是通过变形，甚至超现实主义的创作方式去打造了一个完全属于个人风格的“王国”，而艺术家本人就是这个王国里的“大王”。大约从14年开始，能尖日开始“解剖”漫画故事和由此产生的图像，在作品“藕书”中，她尝试“把客观世界中的事物通过手工印刷转化成图像，通过做书再利用叙事转换成另一个非客观世界中的相对事物，从而实现叙事的一个重要功能——构建一个可能的世界。”这种“非常规叙事方式”成为她作品的独特形式，从而引申出一个重要的问题——一个“故事”能否具有形状？

Nhozagri graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts and China Academy of Art. Her art works are full of imagination and tension. She is devoted to unconventional narrative forms rather than traditional art styles. Based on image transformation and even surrealism, she has created a “Kingdom” of her own personal style, and she is the “Queen” in it. From about 14 years ago, Nhozagri has begun to ‘dissect’ her comic stories and their related images. In her work Book of Lotus Roots, she tried to “create images with objective things using hand-printing techniques, and then, by making up a story with these images, transform them into things that do not exist in the real world. Thus she has realized an important function of narrative: to build a possible world.” This “unconventional narrative form” has become a unique feature of her work, which poses a crucial question: Can a "story" have a shape?

象牙塔毕业于北京电影学院，她的作品结构严谨、理性克制、蕴含力量，充满神秘气息，动画专业出身的象牙塔常常在作品中塑造一个摄像机式人物（大多是小女孩儿的形象），这个小女孩不断跳跃带领观众进入不同的空间，就像是自己潜意识里的梦幻之地，她的漫画故事并没有跌宕起伏的剧情，似梦游一样转换在不同的场景之间，这些场景奇异古怪，并被象牙塔用微镜头一样的描绘方式不断放大、缩小或是抽离，就像电影“盗梦空间”中的陀螺，几乎永远没有停止的可能，娴熟的技术和镜头的运用都体现了象牙塔对时间、空间的把握，故事本身则仅仅是个导火索而已。

Xiang Yata (Zhu Hui) graduated from Beijing Film Academy. Her works are rigorous, rational, restrained, powerful and full of mystery. Majored in Animation Art, Xiang Yata often creates a camera-like character (mostly an image of a little girl) in her works. This little girl keeps jumping around and leads the audience into different spaces, like a dreamland in our subconscious. There are no ups and downs in her comic stories. It’s like sleepwalking with her in bizarre and constantly changing scenes, which are depicted like images captured with a micro lens by zooming in, zooming out or withdrawing. Just like the gyro in the movie Pirates of the Dream, this almost never stops. Her skillful techniques and the use of the lens reflect Xiang Yata's mature understanding of time and space. The story in her art is just an appetizer.