2019.09.17 Tue, by
Pal(ate)/ette/ at SGA Shanghai

September 20th – October 31st, 2019

100 Objects
69 Artists
7 Floors
2 Sensations 

a nrm curatorial project.

Featuring (in alphabetical order)
Cai Dongdong | Cai Yuan & Xi Jianjun | Chen Wei | Chen Yufan |  Chen Yujun | Cheng Ran | Gao Lei | Gao Ludi | Gao Weigang | Guo Hongwei | Jiang Pengyi | Jiang Zhi | Jin Shan | Li Jingxiong | Li Qing | Li Tingwei | Liu Jianhua | Liu Weijian | Liu Yujia |  Lu Zhengyuan | Lu Chao | Lv Song | Ma Ke | Jennifer Ma Wen | Nabuqi | Ni Jun | Ni Zhiqi | Ouyang Chun | Peng Wei | Qin Qi | Qiu Jie | Shao Yinong&Mu Chen | Shen Fan | Shen Liang | Shen Ruijun | Shen Shaomin | Shi Jinsong | Shi Yiran | Shi Zhiying | Song Dong&Yin Xiuzhen | Song Yuanyuan | Sun Yuan & Peng Yu | Tang NanNan | Wang Jiaxue | Wang Yi | Wang Yuyang | Wang Zhibo | Wu Di | Wu Shanzhuan & Inga Svala Thorsdottir | Xu Zhen | Xue Feng | Yan Heng | Yan Lei | Yang Jian | Yang Yongliang | Zhang Ding | Zhang Lehua | Zhang Yexing | Zheng Guogu | Zheng Lu | Tant Zhong | Zhou Wendou | Zhu Jinshi | Zhu Xinyu

“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory – this new sensation having had on me the effect which love has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me it was me.” —Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), Scott Moncrieff-Kilmartin translation.

Zheng Lu, C / Milk Bacteria C, Light Box, Collection-grade digital micro-jet, Diameter 120cm, 2019 (image courtesy the artist and SGA) 郑路, 牛奶细菌, 灯箱 收藏级数码微喷, 直径120cm, 2019 (图片礼貌艺术家和SGA)

Zheng Lu, C / Milk Bacteria C, Light Box, Collection-grade digital micro-jet, Diameter 120cm, 2019 (image courtesy the artist and SGA)
郑路, 牛奶细菌, 灯箱 收藏级数码微喷, 直径120cm, 2019 (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

Have you eaten?

For SGA’s re-opening and re-launch, for the first time in the history of Three on the Bund, a major exhibition will take place throughout the whole building – Pal(ate)/ette/.

From September 20th– October 31st, over 100 objects by 69 artists will be displayed in a salon-style exhibition within SGA and peppered throughout Three on the Bund’s restaurants and bars, in dialogue with the exhibits and their surroundings.

The exhibition also marks the debut of nrm’s curatorial project as Artistic Director of the new SGA.

Gao Lei, CHEW, doormats,chewing gum,stainless steel screws,non-reflective glass, 60x90x5cm in 4 parts, 2018 (image courtesy the artist and SGA) 高磊, 咀嚼, 门垫,口香糖,不锈钢螺钉,无反光玻璃, 60x90x5cm, 4件, 2018 (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

Gao Lei, CHEW, doormats,chewing gum,stainless steel screws,non-reflective glass, 60x90x5cm in 4 parts, 2018 (image courtesy the artist and SGA)
高磊, 咀嚼, 门垫,口香糖,不锈钢螺钉,无反光玻璃, 60x90x5cm, 4件, 2018 (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

Pal(ate)/ette/ will show artworks throughout Three on the Bund with the exhibition’s core display in SGA. Curated by NRM,Pal(ate)/ette/ reflects the spectrum of associations of the homonyms Palateand Palette; a synthesis of the senses – taste sight hearing smell taste and touch – and presenting Three on the Bund as a cultural whole.

The exhibition title relates to two homophones. While ‘Palate’refers to the ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavours related to food as well as relishing its taste, ‘Palette’denotes a broad range of colours or simply the board upon which artists mix pigments. Both symbolise the most significant motif in Pal(ate)/ette/, both as metaphor and experience.

Ouyang Chun, Wooden Palette, Oil on Canvas, 30x40cm, 2007  (image courtesy the artist and SGA) 欧阳春, 木调色板, 布面油画, 30x40cm, 2007 (图片礼貌艺术家和SGA)

Ouyang Chun, Wooden Palette, Oil on Canvas, 30x40cm, 2007
(image courtesy the artist and SGA)
欧阳春, 木调色板, 布面油画, 30x40cm, 2007 (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

Pal(ate)/ette/ involves two distinct but intertwined worlds, those of taste and color. These worlds interact to create relations between the artists, artworks, and the halls and salons of Three on the Bund, and Shanghai itself. The exhibition explores the richness of aesthetics and materiality in colouration and the sensuousness of food and its ingredients, as medium, subject matter, in its devouring, and as communicative and social habits, experiences for which Three on the Bund is famous. The exhibition is a sumptuous journey that delights us into imagining anew the limitless ways to plunge into uncanny and alluring experiences that tease our senses of sight, smell and space, immersive experiences, encompassing and meditative. This fluidity brings the artworks to resonate with each other, adding to and ultimately enriching one another.

Pal(ate)/ette/ finallyis a journey through synesthesia. Colour and taste are always elements of the experience of art and food, affecting the sensations of the person moving in and through the show as much as ordinary life. Pal(ate)/ette/ embodies this.

Wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling, in corners and cabinets, Pal(ate)/ette/ does not merely serve the cause of art, food and drink. It is a social organ with a life of its own, a meandering walk through Three on the Bund, its history, restaurants, and its gallery, to stimulate and engage a wide range of art goers, eaters, drinkers and conversationalists, cultivating awareness from an amalgam of expressive invention and poetic association, memory and madeleine.

Liu Jianhua, Standard, porcelain, 1800x250x60cm, 2012 (image courtesy the artist and SGA) 刘建华, 标准, 瓷, 1800x250x60cm (图片礼貌艺术家和SGA)

Liu Jianhua, Standard, porcelain, 1800x250x60cm (image courtesy the artist and SGA)
刘建华, 标准, 瓷, 1800x250x60cm,2012 (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

SGA – an open platform for contemporary art and culture

SGA is a new model for art production and exhibition. Working with local and international partners, SGA instigates, develops and realizes cross-cultural projects for contemporary art with leading artists, institutions and international private galleries.

An open platform for exhibitions, collaborations and curatorial projects, SGA is an agent of expanding engagement between art and the wider public, connecting and contextualizing the art of greater China and South East Asia with the wider international art worlds. Our objective is to decompartmentalize the art world through situating local understanding within global conversations.

To drive this new direction, nrm.have been appointed Artistic Director of SGA. Led by Josef Ng, Andrew Ruff and Christopher Moore, Josef, Andrew and Chris, NRM. brings over 3 decades of combined experience in art curating, collecting and publishing in China and South East Asia.

Chen Yufan, Throw It in the Air 3, Old wood, ceramic, lens, copper, acrylic paint, iron, and industrial neon lights, 190x190cm+70x35x15cm, 2016-2017 (image courtesy the artist and SGA) 陈彧凡, 把它抛向空中3, 老木板,陶瓷,镜片,铜片,丙烯颜料,铁板,工业霓虹灯, 190x190cm+70x35x15cm, 2016-2017  (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

Chen Yufan, Throw It in the Air 3, Old wood, ceramic, lens, copper, acrylic paint, iron, and industrial neon lights, 190x190cm+70x35x15cm, 2016-2017 (image courtesy the artist and SGA)
陈彧凡, 把它抛向空中3, 老木板,陶瓷,镜片,铜片,丙烯颜料,铁板,工业霓虹灯, 190x190cm+70x35x15cm, 2016-2017 (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

Yang Yongliang, A Bowl of Taipei No.3, Ultra-Giclee Print, 150x150cm, 2012 (image courtesy the artist and SGA) 杨泳梁, 一碗台北之三, 艺术微喷 150x150cm, 2012 (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

Yang Yongliang, A Bowl of Taipei No.3, Ultra-Giclee Print, 150x150cm, 2012 (image courtesy the artist and SGA)
杨泳梁, 一碗台北之三, 艺术微喷 150x150cm, 2012 (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

Three on the Bund

Built in 1916, Three on the Bund is one of the most prominent heritage riverfront buildings comprising Shanghai’s Bund. Following acquisition by Giti group the building underwent substantial restoration at the turn of the century led by architect Michael Graves, reopening in 2004 as one of the finest locations in the city for art, dining and fashion, and continues to be to this day.

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Originally launched as Shanghai Gallery of Art when Three on the Bund opened in 2004 SGA has hosted ground-breaking exhibitions of leading Chinese and international artists.

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nrm is a curatorial consultancy by Josef Ng, Andrew Ruff and Chris Moore.  

Archi-Union Architecture

SGA’s relaunch includes a completely new design conceived by Archi-Union and led by Philip F. Yuan. Archi-Union is one of China’s leading contemporary architecture practices.

Zhang Yexin Balance-Lobster, 2019 (image courtesy the artist and SGA) 张业兴, 平衡—龙虾, 80 x 60 cm, 2019 (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

Zhang Yexin Balance-Lobster, 2019 (image courtesy the artist and SGA)
张业兴, 平衡—龙虾, 80 x 60 cm, 2019 (图片致谢艺术家和SGA)

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