Venue: Shanghai Museum of Glass, 685 Changjiang West Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai
Open Hours: Tuesday－Sunday, 9:30am-6pm; extended hours on Saturday, 6-9pm; closed on Monday.
Curator: Cathye Yang
Press Contact: Shen Haibing (haibing.s@shmog.org, +86-21-3650-3688*6701)

Shanghai－Fou Gallery is pleased to announce that Meng Du will have her solo exhibition The Room at Shanghai Museum of Glass from April 29 to October 29, 2018. Featuring Meng Du’s most recent works made during her residency in Nanxun, Zhejiang Province, The Room will be Meng Du’s first solo exhibition in mainland China. She is also the youngest artist who ever have a solo exhibition in Shanghai Museum of Glass.

Graduated from the Graphics Design department at the Central Academy of Arts (Beijing) and switched to glass as the primary artistic medium in Rochester Institute of Technology (New York State, United States), Meng Du returned to China two years ago, and her experience in Nanxun, Beijing and Nagoya all led to her reflection on glass as a medium and shaped her understanding of life. In the current exhibition at Shanghai Museum of Glass, Meng Du offers a dramatic interpretation of pervasive “limitations” and “boundaries” in her usual, although subtle and intuitive way. As a storyteller using the tool of glass, Du is always investigating daily fragmented information and visual languages, skillfully expressing them in an emotionally relatable way to others. Walking through the exhibits, the viewers will experience the transient and translucent nature of glass while looking at the fantastical and strange scenes. Rooms of various sizes and styles function as large installations and stages. Viewers will have intimate contact with stories and emotions through sight, sound and touch.

Meng Du is interested in preserving memories and keeping a record of them so they do not fade over time. With a natural instinct to extract meaning from narrative, she also wants to show memories in decay, as a way of memorializing them and showing the process of their slow disappearance from our consciousness. She incorporates the drawings and found objects, which come from her personal life experience into the surface treatment and imaging techniques of glass. To represent the nostalgic feeling and memories of certain times and places that she does not want to let go of.

地点：上海玻璃博物馆，上海市宝山区长江西路685号
开放时间：夏令开放时间（5月－10月）：周二至周日9:30-18:00（17:00停止售票）; 冬令开放时间（11月－4月）：周二至周日9:30-17:00（16:00停止售票），博物馆夏令夜场：周六18:00-21:00（20:00停止售票）
策展人：阳昕
媒体联络：沈海兵（haibing.s@shmog.org, +86-21-3650-3688*6701）

上海 – 否画廊祝贺艺术家杜蒙在上海玻璃博物馆举办个展《间》。此次展览将展出杜蒙在浙江南浔驻留期间的最新创作，并将是杜蒙在国内的首次个展。她也是迄今为止在上海玻璃博物馆举办个展的年龄最小的艺术家。

从中央美术学院平面设计专业毕业后转行，到美国罗彻斯特理工大学学习玻璃，杜蒙一直在直面人生一个个转折和挑战。两年前归国继续创作，辗转北京、浙江南浔、日本名古屋延续自己的理想。生活轨迹的变化让杜蒙重新去思考：“玻璃，在作为一种艺术媒介时究竟能传达什么样的语言，以及玻璃自身的边界性到底何在？”在人生的全新阶段，杜蒙决定透过玻璃，以独特的艺术表现方式，去探索现代社会常见却又被视而不见的隐形墙壁和隔阂。在这一名为《间》的展览中，她便以自身一贯纤敏且充满灵性的方式，对无处不在的“限制”与“边界”进行了戏剧化的解读和阐释。当观众穿行于展览之中，感受到的不仅是玻璃那捉摸不定、介于透明与半透明之间的质感，更是一幕幕奇幻又古怪的小剧场。如果说每组作品含蓄地回应了某种特定类型的“局限”所在，那由数组作品组成的大小不一，风格各异的“房间”，则共同形成了一个巨型的装置和舞台。当观众游走于各个不同的空间中，看到、听到或感触到的是故事、是情绪，也是一种真切的身临其境。

杜蒙的作品始终关注对记忆的保存与记录，以免它们随时间的流逝而消退。凭借能够从故事中提取意义的天生敏感性，杜蒙展现记忆衰变的过程，呈现它们如何从潜意识里缓慢消失，变为纪念记忆本身的一种方式。她将来速写和插画手法融入到对玻璃的表层处理及图像制作工艺之中，并加入来自个体经验的现成品，以此再现她不愿丢失的，来自特定时空之下的乡愁跟记忆。

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News and Reviews | 新闻与评论

"The Language of Glass", NeoCha , 2018.5.17

“Different aspects of life divide us into different circles. Although we encounter with these circles in different time and space, these circles evolve and intersect with each other in the ever-changing surroundings. The daily life continues, and we may reunite or farewell forever. After all, only ourselves could be the forever companion.” by Meng Du

“生活的方方面面把我们划分在一个又一个圈子之中。即便每一个圈子所处的空间不同，时间不同，它们都在随着我们对生活环境和需求的变化而相遇相交，相互渗透。日子只会继续向前，也许重逢，也许分别。然而终归结底，能够相伴的只有自己。” ——杜蒙

“No man is an island, entire of itself. Genetic lineage, social relations and explosive information all knit a tangled web. We all try hard to survive in these complicated relations, following others’ pace. Then how can we find a spiritual realm to settle our soul? Actually, everyone is an island, entire of itself. ” by Meng Du

“没有人是一座孤岛。血缘纽带、社会关系以及无时无刻不再更新的信息交织成一张密密的网。我们都努力在凫水以免溺毙在错综复杂的环境中，跟上别人的步伐和速度。这又该如何去寻找一个属于自己内心的居所。其实，每个人都是一座孤岛。” ——杜蒙

“When a group of pigeons are flying over the sky, we seem to hear some lively sounds that bring energy and vividness to the dreary city. Whereas the habit to dwell in the nest makes the pigeons always on the way back home.” - Meng Du

“当成群的鸽子掠过天边，鸽哨声穿过楼宇，划过屋檐，若隐若现地洒落在一个城市的大街小巷时，我们仿佛听到在这令人窒息的城市框架中有了些许生机。然而鸽子天生的归巢性，却让它们无法安心地生活在任何不是故乡的地方。”——杜蒙

“Every story has the same beginning, but ends in different ways. When you are viewing the performance of those on the stage, the performers are also observing your facial expressions. The transparent ‘skin’ breaks the boundary between the internal and the external, making these two realms respond to and reflect each other. The humanized use of the glass transforms the glass to be a part of the human body.” - Meng Du

“故事的开头都一样，过程和结局可能有万千变化。你在舞台上窥视着他人的表演，别人也在观察着你的表情。透明的“皮肤”，让被分隔的内在与外在世界相互映衬。拟人的呈现，让玻璃更像是肢体的一部分。” —— 杜蒙