珍‧辛普森

珍.辛普森生于1965年,1985-8年在伦敦切尔西艺术学院攻读美术;1990-3年就读皇家美术学院。作品曾在达明安‧赫斯特策划的「有人疯了有人逃跑」(伦敦蛇形画廊,1994)及「感觉:萨奇英国青年艺术家藏品」展(伦敦皇家美术学院,1997)中展出。现于伦敦生活及工作。

辛普森创作雕塑时会采用不同的物料,如冰、硅胶、贵金属及家居物品等,最奇特的更有制冷处理系统。当还在伦敦皇家美术学院念书时,辛普森就已尝试在雕塑作品中使用制冷技术。用食材来创作时,她更会研究各种冷藏方法去保存食物,对过程中的物质转化兴趣日浓。

辛普森的雕塑和摄影,尤其她的现代静物作品,都参考了画家乔治奥.莫兰迪的特质而聚焦在物体基本形态上。作品《牛奶照片》系列富有丰富的白色调子,呈现了半浸在牛奶中的家居物品。她使用近距离的拍摄及剪裁手法,使被弃置的厨具如同浸泡于浅海里。在底座或架上排列的瓶子和其他器皿,不管是工业生产或是手制的、陶瓷或橡胶的、单色或多色的,显然具有莫兰迪的影子,除了表现她对莫兰迪的敬意外,更展示了她对静物的独特研究。在组合作品《美人 (冷藏的黄金年代)》(2000)中,优雅的灯座底和钢盘表面的白色物质,是辛普森使用制冷技术所结的一层霜。霜层和家居物品互不协调地并列,让我们重新审视并尊重平常熟悉的东西。

辛普森主要个展包括:「我的遗产和不幸的故事」(格林与鲁柏兹画廊,纽约,2008);「静物」(加菲亚.鲁柏兹画廊,马德里,2006);「和自己的三向对话」(新艺术中心,罗兹庭院,威尔特郡,2005);「生动场景」(马拉加当代艺术中心,2004);「某处(结冰和融化之间)的热情」(加菲亚.鲁柏兹画廊,马德里;桑德拉.格林画廊,纽约,2004)。最近的联展包括艺术局收藏展「聚集」(朗赛德画廊,约克郡雕塑公园,2010);以及和莎拉.斯塔顿共同策展的「亲亲表亲」(亨利.摩尔研究所,列斯,2007)。

Jane Simpson

Jane Simpson was born in 1965. She studied Fine Art in London at Chelsea School of Art from 1985-8 and later the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1990-3. In 1994 she exhibited work in the exhibition Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, curated by Damien Hirst at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and also Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1997. She lives and works in London.

Simpson creates sculptures using such diverse materials as ice, silicon rubber, precious metals and household objects and, most unusually, refrigeration. She started experimenting with refrigeration in her sculptures whilst still a student at the Royal Academy of Arts. She worked with food and developed ways to preserve it in her work, and became increasingly interested in the transformative qualities of the process.

The sculptural and photographic work of Jane Simpson references the work of painter Georgio Morandi, with a similarly intense focus on essential form particularly apparent in her modernist still life pieces. A palette of whites is evident in her Milk Photos, serial works in which household objects are semi-submersed in milk and the closely focused image cropped to suggest a continuous shallow sea of abandoned kitchen implements. Her plinth or shelf mounted arrangements of bottles and other vessels are homage to Morandi. The uniquely obsessive studies feature generic still life objects, manufactured or hand made, in ceramic or rubber, monochrome or multicoloured. Simpsons’s use of refrigeration elements within her object assemblages produces an additional material in the layer of frost that forms a white coating on the base of an elegant lamp, and the surface of a steel dish in Belle (Golden Age of Refrigeration) (2000). The incongruity of the frost in juxtaposition with the domestic objects invites us to re-examine and revere the familiar.

Selected solo exhibitions include: My Inheritance and Other Bloody Tales, Gering & López Gallery, New York, 2008; Still Still Life, Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain, 2006; A Three Way Conversation with Myself at the New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, 2005; Tableau at CAC Malaga, 2004; and Somewhere (between freezing and melting) there lies passion at both Galería Javier López, Madrid and Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, 2004. Recent group exhibitions include The Gathering, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Arts Council Collection Show, 2010; and Kissing Cousins, curated by Jane Simpson and Sarah Staton at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2007.