第21周 山指甲叶

 

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黄砖路  蔗糖系列  混合材质  直径30cm  Niamh Cunningham 倪芙瑞莲  2020  图   17.1.2020

 

这个星期树的故事来自常驻成都的自然环境摄影师、作家欧阳凯(Kyle Obermann)。从2014年开始,他一直与企业伙伴合作,为当地环保组织的发展建设提供支持,为保护中国最后一片荒野而努力。几年前我遇见他,他讲述了自己的中国山林之旅。

 

我爸爸喜欢有生命的树。他立刻就会告诉你这点。我在德克萨斯中部长大,我们一直在院子四周那片看起来没什么希望的地方种树,不知怎么这个范围还包括路对面暴晒而荒芜的公园,那里布满荆棘。只有我们家的孩子在公园里玩,而附近住户里只有我爸爸敢这么疯狂,每个夏天都拿着浇水管站在外面几个小时,像静脉注射一样拯救那些炎热天气里即将枯萎的小树。

一年夏天,我把爬上公园和院子里每棵树当作自己的使命。其实没有很多,大多是凌乱的、只有主干、枝条弯曲的橡树,你可以在德克萨斯州很多土地硬、阳光强的地方见到它们。这些树不好爬。我忘记了那个夏天有没有完成任务,但是记得曾在一两棵大树上坐几个小时什么也不干,我记得皮肤下的树皮让人有点痒但是很舒服,云彩的影子在树叶间穿过的时候,我轻轻弹掉小黑蚁。我想,一个又热又无聊的夏天,附近每个孩子都会在树上至少找到一块完美的栖身之地,似乎在那儿身体每一寸都可以被树轻轻抱着。

几天前,我在老家跑步的时候回到了那个公园。我们种的很多树都死了,被移走了,或者可能变成了曾经撒在它们根部的覆盖物。另外一些似乎一点儿也没长,仍在进行永无止境的任务——要么是突破岩石,要么是突破岩石一样坚硬的土壤,在地下拓展出宝贵空间。但是其中一棵,一棵橡树,爆发了。它几乎长成其他树三倍那么大,而它距离别的树只有几英尺远。我真想知道是什么让它如此与众不同。

这棵大果烁下是一块多孔岩石。高中时,我曾经放了一棵连根拔起的龙舌兰在里面,想看它是否会生长。它还活着。是其他树不够努力,还是从一开始它们就在不同的起跑线上?

有一种树总能茁壮成长。在令人激动又难得的夏日周末,我爸爸会拿出他的锯,到我家后面的峡谷里砍山指甲。它们是入侵树种,通过从上面遮蔽阳光或从下面吸干水分跟周围本地树种抢土地。但它们的树枝长得很直像根杆子,是院子里相互比剑时的最佳选择。我和哥哥挥舞着山指甲做的剑砍在一起,好几根手指弄得淤青,直到妈妈第二次叫我们吃晚饭才停下来。

开始在四川生活之后,我才知道山指甲原产于中国这个地方。令我惊讶的是,我看见它们自豪地展示在公园里,树干上挂着物种名称标签,就像奖牌一样。在成都大熊猫基地,一只只幼年大熊猫学习怎么爬上去。女孩们在树下自拍,母亲们在树下为女儿相亲,年长的夫妻在树下跳舞——而在德克萨斯某个地方,我爸爸仍会拿出他的锯把树砍下来。但我和哥哥不再玩剑了。那一刻我想起父亲,当那些有趣的时光一去不返,一切突然显得更加徒劳。

然而,在成都寂寞的日子里,看着公寓外街边上排列整齐的山指甲,我感到无比安慰。所有一切似乎都串连在一起——隔壁燃面的味道,夏天的浇水管,瘀伤的指关节,还有爸爸生锈的旧锯子。山指甲叶沙沙作响似乎在咕哝些什么回答我。不知怎的,它带给我莫大的安慰,我知道如果需要的话,许多剑就在小区街对面。

现在,我突然发现自己回到老家。我爸爸搬家了,新院子里没有山指甲,他在阳光明媚的院子中间种了三棵小桃树和一棵橡树。他告诉我,种橡树是为了确保以后当他不在了,开发商不能把我们一座房子一个院子的一块地变成两座房子没有院子的两块地。院子后面有一些竹子。真是有趣,总有些来自熟悉地方的东西跟随你。

偶尔,当我在家附近跑步时,会经过一棵山指甲。风吹过来,树叶摇动,它继续伸展树荫,从周围植物那里夺取水分。我抬头仰望,在德克萨斯刺目的蓝色天空下,欣赏它的笔直和挺拔。

我心里想,该离开这棵树了。然后我闻到燃面的味道,又多逗留了一会儿。

 

2020年5月    欧阳凯(Kyle Obermann)

www.kyleobermannphotography.com 

 

“树之记忆宫殿” 2020是一个关注生态环境的艺术实践,这个项目邀请大家通过讲述一个关于树的故事(或者提供与树有关的信息)参与其中。这也是一个通过分享故事探索如何与地球和他人和谐相处的社会调查。我诚挚地邀请您,把您的关于树木的故事讲给我听。(邮箱 : niamh@niamhcunningham.com) 期待您的来信。2020年每个星期都会有一个有关树的故事或信息与一件艺术作品一同发布,一件之前的作品,或者一件新作品——也许你的故事将成为我创作的灵感来源!

 

 

Niamh Cunningham- Bio 。。。个人简介-倪芙瑞莲
'The Pattern that Connects' is part of the Common Threads project showing at EPIC Museum Irish Emigration Museum, Dublin Feb 1- 14th


Currently Showing Oct 2022: The Sasse Museum of Art , Pomona, CA, in the US opened a photography exhibition last weekend showing a process print (23.01.2018) from my mixed media Sucrose Series "Ginkgo Palace", Niamh Cunningham 2018
The original physical sucrose plate and accompanying print on aluminium was collected at Art Beijing 2021
Promoting Connectivity through Creative Industries Sept 2022 at Yindi Art Museum, hosted by Opportunity Lab
Hair Skull recently exhibited (Oct 1st-7th 2022) at Art Plus Shanghai , the group exhibition"Linear" is curated by Chang Feng

For more information on the Hair Skull and working with DNA as an art material click HERE

Ann Derwin, Ambassador to Ireland in China with gallerist 庞春慧Peng Chun Hui at For 觅 gallery , August 2022
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证在展出-月亮之约

Artist talk on gathering peoples tree stories before Spitoon Book Club discussion on Pulitzer prize winning novel " The Overstory" by Richard Powers
Online Catalogue launched Jan 2022 , showing Sucrose Series alongside Microbe Art
Recently exhibited in Xishuangbanna State Art Museum Dec 2021
Canal Bank Walk , Yuan Dadu Culural Relics Park Beijing
Grand Canal artist Residency and Exhibition

Her Name Penninsula Art Museum Weihai, Shandong 16 July- 22 Oct 2021

Linear….. showing at LangKong Art Museum (朗空美术馆) 07.7-30.7.21
Suzhou Couples Retreat Gardens
The Second Step – mini solo of 18 portraits in HouHai from 6.6 tp 8.8 2021
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Recently ART Beijing 2021 Booth B28 Irish Contemporary Art
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2021年3月4月 ART Beijing 2021

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*2018年11月-12月“地图与疆域”国际艺术邀请展 北京吉利学院

*2018年11月-12月“纸上·至上”展览,韩国光州市立美术馆北京创作中心

*2018, 10月中欧国当代艺术全球巡展·上海

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*2018年8月 淮阴艺术馆提名展,淮安市

*2018, 8月 “纸上·至上”展览, 鄂尔多斯,

*2018 , 6月30日 济南“国际抽象艺术展”

*2018 , 6月17 日 纸上•至上2018 在青岛,

*2018 , 5月20 日存在-国际女性艺术展,湖南长沙,

*2018 , 4月21 日延缓的时间,4月21日-29日,红门画廊,798艺术区

*2018 , 4月20 日 挖掘,,和画廊,来鹏高尔夫俱乐部

*2018年4月-12日 挖掘, , 展览,悦美术馆,北京798艺术区

*2018年2月-3月深圳观澜版画艺术区,5个星期驻地项目

*2018年1月28日-3月3日,《红&果》,流浪美术馆融空间,新年主题艺术展,北京中关村融科资讯中心

*2017年12月,中外视觉艺术湖南展,湖南长沙梅溪新天地梅溪书院.

*2017年12月末至2018年1月末, 《时间之外》主题艺术展, 北京中关村融科资讯中心

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Upcoming Exhibitions:

* Gushan Rural Village Park Harvest  Autumn 2022

Current Exhibition

 

Recent  exhibitions:

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2022 Artists from Ireland (online) Sasse Museum of Art Pomona, CA, USA (catalogue link)

2022 Peoples’ Portraits EBM Centre, Tsinghua Uni Intelligent HealthCare, BJ

2021 Rhythm of Life Xishuangbanna Art Museum, Jinghong, Dec

2021 Linear Jingheng Art centre, Jinshan, Shanghai Dec

2021 Abstract China, Taizhou, Jiangsu Oct-Nov

2021 Meet the Grand Canal Xinguanda Centre Tongzhou, Oct

2021 Linear Langkong Art Museum 798, Beijing July

2021 Her Name – Existence Peninsula Art Museum, Weihai, July

2021 Silent and Soft -New Interpretations Suzhou classical Gardens June

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2021 The Second Step (mini solo) Joy Beans Space, Jiu Longtou hutong, June

* AstroWorld Kun Art Museum June 5 2021

*Portraits (solo) Joybeans  Hou  Hai 6.6-8.8

*River things  Suzhou Zhenyuan garden UNESCO world Heritage Training and Research centre June 12 th

*Art Beijing  2021 Booth B28  Garden of Friendship

*“Art promotes a Sustainable Future” China CSR international symposium Dec 2020.

*Silent Explosion, Wuxi Bund Art Centre, Jiangsu,  July 11-31 2020

* Sculpture project in HongFangzu , Shawan, Sichuan , begining phase Nov 2019

Current Exhibition

*China Ireland exhibition at MUSEU&m, near the Bund , Shanghai, Nov 29th 2019

* Sculpture project in HongFangzu , Shawan, Sichuan , begining phase Nov 2019

*1919 – Group Exhibition (Hamilton Gallery) in New York, Irish Consulate

*1919 – Group Exhibition Hamilton Gallery , Sligo , Ireland July – September

*Gobi Heaven Art Festival , Inner Mongolia , August 2019

*A piece of Cotton Paper  9th floor gallery Songzhuang June 15th

*”Winning the Day ‘ Granary Art Centre,  SiShui , Shandong, May – June 2019

*Beyond the form of Art , Wick Art Centre , Budapest, Hungary may 2019

*Odyssey The Return ; group exhibition at Dong Yue Art Museum, Beijing  in April

Map and Territory Art IRRCA at Beijing Geely College Nov 20- Dec 20 2018

*Thousands of Sprouts, an experimental online exhibition – by Elizabeth Ross  Nov 2018

* On Paper Supreme, Gwangju Art Museum Beijing Creative Centre Songzhuang Nov- Dec 2018

*China Europe Internaitional Contemporary Art Global Tour Shanghai Oct 2018

*An Irish Airman foresees his Death – Hamilton Gallery Sligo, Ireland June – Nov 2018

*On Paper Supreme, Extension Space, Shenyang, Liaoning,  Sept 16th – Oct 21st  2018

*Artist Nomination Exhibition, Huaiyin art gallery, Huai ‘an shi, Jiangsu, July-Aug 2018

*On Paper Supreme, Ordos Culture and Art Centre , Inner Mongolia , Aug 17th – Sept 10th  2018

*International Abstract Art , ChungChuen College, Jinan, July 2018

* On Paper Supreme, QingDao , Tiantai Art Centre, June 2018

* Existence , International Feminist Art Exhibition,  Mezzi Bookstore Art Space , Changsha

* Excavations 20 April-4th June  He Gallery, Golf Club.

*’Mortgaged Time’ 21st- 29th April at Red Gate Gallery , 798 Beijing  April 21st

*’Excavations’ 12-18th Enjoy Museum 798,  Beijing   preview 5 pm 12th April

* 5 week residency at Guanlan Printmaking base , Shenzhen (Feb-March 2018)

*Lunar New Year theme exhibition “Red Fruit” showing at Raycom IT centre, Zhongguancun,  28th Jan continues to March 3rd, organised by RoveArt , supporting the Female Protection Fund.

*Chinese & Foreign Visual Arts Hunan,  at the Meixi Academy Book Complex, Changsha Dec 26th to Jan 26th 2018.

* ‘Beyond Time’  Raycom IT Centre, Zhongguangcun, Beijing Dec – Jan 27th  2018

*”Qualitative Phase and The Narrative” Beijing Film Academy Triennial Exhibition at Dong Yue Art Museum, Beijing, curated by Li Zhen till Dec 18th 2017…………………………………………….

 

由此及彼——中(国)爱(尔兰)女艺术家邀请展 The Pattern That Connects Sept 2020
Wuxi Bund Art Centre “Silent Explosion”
My interview with Today Art Museum and Today Art Media on the COVID era

Recent Interview , click on above image April 2020

Link to newspaper coverage -Carlow Nationalist (click on image)

In Her Eyes, F&E 100x100cm acrylic on canvas, 倪芙瑞莲Niamh Cunningham 2019

Silent Explosion
‘China-Ireland’ exhibition Shanghai Nov 29th 2019

China Ireland exhibition at MUSEu&m, Shanghai , opening Nov 29th

‘Whirls in the Old’ in New York at the exhibition ‘1919’

1919-Whirls in the Old Terezin acrylic on canvas 30x30cm Niamh Cunningham 2019

Gobi Heaven Art Festival August 2019

Participating in the International Artists program for this exciting event in the Gobi Dessert

Jul.Aug 2019 Group Exhibition , Hamilton Gallery , Sligo, Ireland and also Sept 2019 at the Irish Consulate Offices , Park Ave NYC
Granary Art exhibition SiShui Shandong June 2019

Granary Art Exhibition SiSHui , Shangdong June 2019 click on image

Swim Duck Video …30 sec clip of original work recently shown at Bloomsday event at Embassy of Ireland Niamh Cunningham 2019
clip from Swim Duck video Niamh Cunningham 2019

Clip from 'Swim Duck' Video by Niamh Cunningham 2019

Group exhibition in Sishui, Shangdong 正在展出

Granary Art Museum , Sishui, Jining , Shandong

April /May 2019 in Budapest 近期展出匈牙利

Currently showing in Budapest Aprli- May 2019

Wandering Rocks series of portraits 游岩系列
Web Of Fabulous Grass – Sucrose Series Click on image for Artist Profile English &简体中文
Talk on James Joyce at Bookworm with prof Fu Hao 乔伊斯座谈会
Aritst Talk on James Joyce at Beijing Bookworm

Talk on James Joyce at Bookwork Beijing April 2019

Map and Territory project Nov -Dec 2018 at Beijing Geely University
Map and Territory

Map and Territory

Artist talk at Beijing Geely College Dec 11th 2018
-.On Paper Supreme made its final exhibition for 2018 in Beijing Songzhuang opening Nov 16th
Group exhibition Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Hamilton Gallery Sligo - Lonely Impulse 2

A response to WB Yeats poem 'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death'

Group show Oct 27th Shanghai Bund 27 The House of Roosevelt House , the Bund Shanghai
With curator Guo Zhen at the opening of Existence in Changsha , exhibition continues till end of July 2018

和策展人郭桢在开幕式《存在》

Recent ‘At your Leisure’ Summer exhibition Jiangsu “悠游“——淮阴艺术馆
exhibited in Jinan curated by Ma Yi Ying
简体中文Artist Interview & Profile for the Art Project ‘Existence’
Group exhibition at Red Gate in April 2018 focussing on antiwar poet Ingeborg Bachmann
Niamh Cunningham 'Bachmann Girl' 2017

Artwork for poster is 'Bachmann Girl' 100x100cm Acrylic on Canvas by Niamh Cunningham 2017

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Currently showing as part of the Common Threads project, at EPIC Irish Emigration Museum , Dublin

Feb 1 -14th , 2023