大地艺术《自我相似》

公司：	Jim Denevan	类型：	艺术
地区：	阿联酋	标签：	艺术装置

高耸的云朵、呼吸的空气、微小的沙粒、高高的土丘和山脉、风和天气、水滴和水体、大小不一的金字塔。

Towering clouds, a breath of air, tiny grains of sand, tall mounds and mountains, wind, and weather systems, drops and bodies of water, pyramids, small and large.

阿联酋阿布扎比，2023年11月20日——作为阿布扎比文化与旅游部全新公共艺术计划“曼纳尔阿布扎比”的首届活动的一部分，美国艺术家吉姆·丹纳文的大规模、沉浸式、现场特定的土地艺术作品《自我相似》今日向公众开放。这场城市范围的光艺术展由阿布扎比文化节目与文化基金会主任、阿布扎比公共艺术艺术总监Reem Fadda和曼纳尔阿布扎比策展人Alia Zaal Lootah共同策展，展出了35件来自本地和国际艺术家的现场特定艺术作品，展期将持续至2024年1月30日。丹纳文迄今为止最雄心勃勃的装置作品位于法希德岛，这个短暂的作品在阿拉伯海与城市以及沙漠相邻的地方，成为了一个显著的新地标，覆盖了近一平方公里的区域，壮丽地高耸至27米。

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, November 20, 2023 –– Self Similar, a large-scale and immersive, site-specific land work by American artist Jim Denevan opened to the public today in Abu Dhabi as part of the inaugural edition of the Department of Culture and Tourism’s new Public Art Abu Dhabi initiative, Manar Abu Dhabi. The city-wide light art exhibition curated by Reem Fadda, Director of Abu Dhabi Culture Programming and Cultural Foundation and Artistic Director of Public Art Abu Dhabi, and Alia Zaal Lootah, Manar Abu Dhabi Curator, features 35 site-specific artworks by local and international artists and will run through January 30, 2024.Denevan’s most ambitious installation to date, the ephemeral work, sited on the city’s Fahid Island, where city and desert are flanked by the Arabian sea, forms a prominent, new landmark that spans an area of nearly a square kilometer and rises majestically to a height of 27 meters.

《自我相似》是有史以来最大的土地艺术之一，最初是在沙滩上用棍子画出的一个圆圈，既宏伟又精致。这座纪念性但短暂的装置由19个同心环组成，包括448个金字塔和土丘，呈现出向外扩展和向上升腾的曼陀罗图案。铁桥提供了一个凑巧的入口，与远处的升起和落下的太阳以及城市天际线保持和谐——这是一个强大的物理和隐喻性的到达点。游客可以通过在任何点站在其中并爬上两个观景土丘，欣赏整个构图和周围自然景观的360度视野来与作品互动。站在中心让游客意识到几何构图的对称性，并体验一刹那的思考、瞬息和与自然的连接。这件作品存在于永恒的变化之中，这是其材料和形式固有的一种脆弱性。

Among the largest works of land art ever made, Self Similar, which began as a single circle drawn with a stick in the sand, is at once grand and delicate. The monumental yet temporary installation is formed of 19 concentric rings of 448 pyramids and mounds that expand outward and upward in a mandala pattern. Iron Bridge provides a serendipitous entry, attuned to the rising and setting sun and the city skyline in the distance — a powerful physical and metaphorical point of arrival. Visitors can interact with the work by situating themselves within it at any point and by scaling two observation mounds to enjoy 360 degree views of the entire composition and the surrounding natural landscape. Standing in the center enables visitors to realize the symmetry of the geometric composition and experience a moment of contemplation, transience and connection to nature. The work exists in perpetual transformation, a vulnerability inherent to its material and form.

吉姆·丹纳文说：“当我勾勒和塑造这些形式时，一种邀请被发出，它浮现出来。一种‘进入’正在发生。一种居中。尺度、存在、人类和其他。外部是内部，内部是外部。即将逝去的和永恒的，一种同时性，内外兼具。” 丹纳文在他不懈的实践中将自己的作品交托于风、天气和时间的变幻莫测之中。

“As I draw and shape these forms, an invitation is made, it emerges. An ‘entering into’ takes place. A centering. Scale, presence, human, and otherwise. External is internal and internal isexternal. That which expires and that which is eternal, a simultaneity, within and without,” said Denevan, who, as part of his Sisyphean practice, offers up his work to the vagaries of wind, weather and the progression of time.

响应展览主题“搁浅之光”，丹纳文的《自我相似》邀请游客沉浸于一场身体和心理的探索中，揭示了我们如何在与世界的关系中移动和存在。尺度、关系、微小和无边界的构建同时显现，照亮了同质性和根本差异的概念。在每个傍晚，一千多个太阳能灯笼逐一亮起，与城市的环境光相结合，投下精致的阴影，为构图中每个独立的沙体带来一种转变和统一的温暖光辉。

Responding to the exhibition’s theme of ‘Grounding Light’, Denevan’s Self Similar invites visitors to immerse themselves in a physical and psychological exploration that reveals how we move and exist in relation to our world. The construction of scale, relation, the minute and the boundless are simultaneously manifest, illuminating ideas of sameness and radical difference. At dusk each evening more than a thousand solar lanterns come to light one by one, adding to the city’s ambient light, casting delicate shadows and a transformative and unifying warm glow on each of the individual volumes of sand in the composition.

《自我相似》的初期实现得益于来自该地区的志愿者的参与，他们亲手雕塑了内环中的个别金字塔，延续了丹纳文与当地社区合作参与其大型装置建设的历史。

Self Similar was realized with initial participation of volunteers from the region who hand-sculpted individual pyramids in the innermost ring, continuing Denevan’s history of engaging the local community to participate in the construction of his large-scale installations.