“横滨三年展”是日本重要当代艺术展，也是亚洲最重要的三年展之一。2017年第六届“横滨三年展”于8月4日开幕。中国艺术家董媛受邀参展，她的油画装置作品《姥姥家》在横滨红砖仓库1号馆展出，这也是该系列作品继2014年伦敦Art14和釜山双年展之后的第三次海外亮相。
一幅幅大大小小的作品，大到两三米，小到几厘米，画着生活中琐琐碎碎的日常物品、零零整整的家具饰品，层层叠叠的摆放成一个中国北方常见又普通的家，这就是董媛的《姥姥家》。
“在上学的时候，就想到了这种做作品的方式。开始是一个大的，上边贴了很多小的，后来慢慢的一点点改变，此前都是平面的呈现，现在结合了具体的家具实物。但也是很多层的样子，也都是保持物品的原大，并且回归真实的位置。”
“我本身很喜欢姥姥家，而这个房子要拆迁，就觉得把这个记录下来，是比较有意思的事情。作品都是完全根据姥姥家的实际摆放拍摄下来，给姥姥买的糖葫芦，她没吃完就放在碗里杵着，我咬了几口的苹果，只要是房间里能看到的物品，就都先拍摄下来。然后每件物品都分别量尺寸，回来后再根据物品的不同尺寸钉画框画出来。”
“家，对我而言是留不住的，很快就会搬到另外一个地方，所以把里边的环境都画下来，对于我来说至少那个地方我待过，我拥有过一个地方…… 这对我自己比较重要，我买不起房子，但可以画个家。”（董媛）
关于2017横滨三年展
2017年横滨三年展在横滨美术馆和横滨红砖仓库1号馆举办，展期共88天，由横滨美术馆馆长逢坂惠理子、Benesse艺术之地直岛国际艺术总监三木あき子和横滨美术馆首席策展人柏木智雄组成的策展团队策划组织，旨在探寻国际展将来的形式和更进一步发展的可能性，创造一个不局限于视觉体验的、融合对话、讨论以及和“共享、共存”的场所。
本届三年展的主题和概念—— “岛屿，星座和加拉帕戈斯”（Islands, Constellations and Galapagos），希望以此 “从各种角度重新审视全球化连结和隔离的状态”。本届三年展由日本和世界各地的大约40位艺术家或团体组成，展出来自日本和世界各地的艺术家们的作品。它像一个少于一般数量的精选的艺术家小型个展的聚集，其中许多艺术家展示了多个作品。这意味着让观众更深入地了解个别艺术家的创意世界，这些世界逐渐连接起来，就像星星或岛屿形成星座和群岛一样。
Yokohama Triennale is an important contemporary art expo in Japan, it is also one of most important Triennale in Asia. The Sixth Yokohama Triennale opened on August 4. Chinese artist Dong Yuan was invited to exhibit her installation painting “Grandmother’s House” in Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1. This is the third time the artwork was exhibited overseas following 2014 Art 14 in London and Busan Biennale.
Those works range in size, the bigger ones are 2-3 meters, the small ones are only a few centimeters, they are paintings of the everyday home appliances and household pieces. Layer upon layer, they depict a standard and average home in Northern China, this is Dong Yuan’s “Grandmother’s House”.
“I had formed this method in my mind when I was at school. I would start with the bigger pieces, and adhere the smaller pieces onto it, afterwards my approach changed. In the beginning, everything was on a flat surface, and now I have integrated specific furniture pieces. Yet, they are still very layered, and they remain the same size as the actual items, and are placed in their true positions.”
“I like grandmother’s house very much, but the house will be demolished soon, so I decided to document them, this for me is something meaningful. Photographs of the actual items in my grandmother’s house were taken in their actual positions, the toffee apple that I bought for my grandmother, which was not yet finished and was placed in a bowl, as well as the apple that I had taken a couple bites out of. As long as they were the items in her house, I would first photograph them, then measure them individually, and then make canvases according to their actual sizes.”
“Home for me is something that I cannot keep onto, and I know I shall have to move to a new place soon, by painting everything in the house means that I have lived here, and that I once kept ahold of the place… this is quite important to me, if I can’t afford to buy a house, I can at least paint one.” – Dong Yuan
About 2017 Yokohama Triennale
The 2017 Yokohama Triennale was held in Yokohama Art Museum and Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1 over the duration of 88 days. The curatorial team consisted of Aisaka Eriko, Director of Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, Miki Aikiko, Art Director of Benesse Art Site Naoshima, and Kashiwagi Tomoh, Chief Curator of Yokohama Art Museum. The curatorial team aims to explore the future possibilities of international art expos through creating a space where “Sharing and Coexistence” can integrate with dialogue and discussion, thus reaching out beyond the limitations of visual experience.
The theme of this year’s Triennale is – “Islands, Constellations and Galapagos”, it addresses the concept of “re-analyzing the globalized connectivity and isolation through a multitude of perceptions”. Works in diverse media by approximately 40 artists or groups from Japan and the world are exhibited. It resembles an aggregation of small solo exhibitions by a smaller-than-usual number of carefully selected artists, with many of them showing multiple works. This is intended to give the viewers a deeper understanding of individual artists’ creative worlds, and at the same time, to embody the image of these worlds gradually connecting like stars or islands forming constellations and archipelagoes.