日本和亚洲当代艺术是森美术馆计划的重点关注项目之一，然而“亚洲”涵盖了广阔的领域，因此很难全面了解它。“MAM研究”系列旨在探讨亚洲当代艺术在历史语境中多层次的社会、政治和经济背景。同时也注重个体艺术家、策展人，亚洲的艺术运动和艺术机构。基于档案合作项目，研究机构和学者，“MAM研究”的对象并不限于对“艺术品”，也表现为视频、照片、文本和历史记录等素材。

本次《中国当代摄影的实验场——三影堂摄影艺术中心》将作为“MAM研究”中的一部分于7月5日-10月23日在日本森美术馆展出。

中日摄影家组合荣荣与映里于2000年开始在北京共同创作，他们以日常生活为素材进行拍摄，将相机聚焦于同类的主题，例如他们不断成长的家庭、中国景观的变化和环境的破坏。

2007年，荣荣与映里注资创办位于北京草场地艺术区的三影堂摄影艺术中心。其建筑结构本身富有革命性，包括画廊、暗房、图书馆和艺术家居住场所等设施。2009年荣荣和映里创立了三影堂摄影奖。该奖项致力于发现和培养未来的中国摄影师，并为他们在国际上的发展提供一个平台。基于包括全世界的摄影师和评论家在内的整个网络，例如与有40年历史的法国阿尔勒摄影节合作，三影堂着手于展览、讲座、工作坊等一系列活动，并于2015越后妻有艺术三年展中举办《三影堂摄影奖》作品展。同年，三影堂扩大其活动影响的范围，厦门三影堂正式落户于福建省厦门市集美区。

森美术馆将于7月5日-10月23日举办展览《中国当代摄影的实验场——三影堂摄影艺术中心》。本次展览回顾了三影堂致力于促进摄影艺术在中国发展的十年历程。在艺术史学家巫鸿的参与下，本次展览对三影堂在中国现代摄影史中所扮演的角色进行了观察。除了书籍、杂志和照片之外，展览还将展出对亲眼目睹了三影堂成长的评论家、艺术家和员工的采访片段。

三影堂的名字起源于老子“一生二，二生三，三生万物。”本次展览将呈现这一因希望能为摄影带来无限可能性而创建的特殊的摄影艺术中心。

三影堂摄影艺术中心

展期： 2017年7月5日至10月23日

地点：森美术馆

主办单位：森美术馆

策划人：荒木夏实（森美术馆策展人）巫鸿（芝加哥大学艺术史系杰出服务教授）

合作：三影摄影艺术中心

开放时间：上午10–22:00（周二：10:00-17:00）

*闭馆前30分钟截止入场

*每天开放。

门票信息：

成人：1000日元

学生（大学）：500日元

*所有价格含税。

*凭此票可进入展览“太阳雨：80年代以来当代南洋艺术”以及“MAM收藏005，”和“MAM研究005。”

*东京城市观景观景台、天空甲板、森艺术中心画廊不包括在内。

咨询：电话：+ 81（0）3-5777-8600

对谈环节

《世界摄影的枢纽：三影堂与中国当代摄影发展》

＊日-英同声传译

三影堂通过摄影为国际文化交流做出了巨大贡献。在这个环节中，荣荣和映里将谈论中心的建立以及其举办的活动。一直密切关注三影堂早期发展的巫鸿将探讨对中国当代摄影的背景及发展历史。此外，我们将欢迎笠原美智子一起讨论当代摄影在日本和中国的情况。

对谈嘉宾：

巫鸿 （芝加哥大学美术史系和东亚语言文化系“斯德本特殊贡献教授”、东亚艺术中心主任及斯马特美术馆顾问策展人）

荣荣&映里 （艺术家组合）

笠原美智子（东京都写真美术馆首席策展人）

主持人：荒木夏实

日期和时间：14:00-16:00，星期六，2017年7月29日（13:30开门）

地点：森美术馆礼堂

容量：80人（需预订）

门票：免费（参展日期为参展艺术博物馆入场券有效期）。

*请注意，发言者如有更改，恕不另行通知。

森美术馆

设立在六本木之丘中森塔53楼（森塔共54层）的森美术馆（Mori Art Museum），是东京当今最前卫的美术馆之一。森美术馆没有永久馆藏，但是每年都举办新的主题展，无论是设计思路还是展出内容都代表了日本当代艺术的尖端。美术馆除了举办摄影、建筑、设计、装置、媒体等当代艺术展览之外，还举办各种研究项目、公共项目和与当代艺术相关的其他形式展示和表演活动。

About “MAM Research”

Japanese and Asian contemporary art is one of the main focuses of the Mori Art Museum's programs, yet “Asia” covers a broad territory, making it difficult to grasp an overall picture of it. The “MAM Research” series intends to examine the multi-layered social, political and economic backgrounds that have given rise to Asian contemporary art and sees to shed light on their historical contexts, while focusing on individual artists, curators, art movements and art institutions throughout Asia. Premised on collaborative projects with archives, research institutions and scholars, “MAM Research” does not limit exibited items to “artworks” but also presents such materials as videos, photographs, texts and historical records.

Sino-Japanese photographer duo RongRong & inri launched their Beijing-based joint practice in 2000, and since then have continued to take photographs grounded in everyday life, focusing on subjects such as their growing family, the changing Chinese landscape, and destruction of the environment.

In 2007 RongRong & inri used their own funds to establish the “Three Shadows Photography Art Centre,” a complex dedicated for photography on a large site in Beijing’s Caochangdi arts district. Designed by artist Ai Weiwei, an early supporter of the pair’s career, the building was a revolutionary structure equipped with a gallery, dark room, library and artist-in-residence facility. In 2009 RongRong & inri launched the “Three Shadows Photography Award.” The aim of the award is to identify and cultivate up-and-coming Chinese photographers, and it has indeed proved a stepping-stone to success for photographers with their sights set on an international career. Three Shadows has embarked on a range of ventures from exhibitions to lectures and workshops, based on its network of photographers and critics around the world and including an international photography festival (2010- ) run jointly with the 40-year-old Rencontres d’Arles photography festival in Arles, France, and an exhibition of works from the “Three Shadows Photography Award” at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Niigata (2015). In 2015, Three Shadows opened another branch site in the city of Xiamen in Fujian Province, thus extending its activities even further. 

This exhibition looks back on ten years of Three Shadow’s efforts to promote the photographic arts in China. With input from art historian Wu Hung, it will also make some observations on the role of Three Shadows in the history of Chinese contemporary photography. In addition to books, magazines and photographs, the exhibition also features video footage of interviews with critics, artists and staff who have witnessed first-hand the growth of Three Shadows.

The name “Three Shadows” has its origins in the words of Laozi: “Dao begets one; One begets two; Two begets three; Three begets the myriad creatures.” The exhibition will present this unique center for photography created in the hope of becoming a place where photography (the “shadows”) in turn begets infinite possibilities.

Wu Hung

Wu Hung, an art historian, critic, and curator, holds the Distinguished Service Professorship at the Department of Art History and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, and is the director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and the Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum at the same university. He sits on many international committees including Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council. He is also a permanent member of the American Academy of Art and Science. He has curated many contemporary art exhibitions since the 1980s, including individual artists’ one-person shows, thematic group exhibitions, and biennales and triennials. His major publications include Wu Hung on Contemporary Chinese Artists (2009), Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents(2010), and Contemporary Chinese Art: A History (2014)

RongRong & inri

RongRong (born 1968 in Fujian Province, China) and inri (born 1973 in Kanagawa, Japan) have been working together since 2000 and have been widely exhibited both locally and internationally. They established Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing in 2007 which is the first private art center specializing photography, and have been actively promoting China’s contemporary photography through diverse activities. Their major exhibitions include “Compound Eye: Works by RongRong & inri 2000-2010”(He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2010), “Three Begets Ten Thousand Things” (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2011) , “Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012”(Nigata, 2012), “The Aesthetics of Photography-Five Elements”(Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2013), “All You Need Is Love: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku”(Mori Art Museum, 2013). Awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Prize (Sony World Photography Awards, 2016).

General Information

Period: Wednesday, July 5 – Monday, October 23, 2017

Venue: Mori Art Museum

Organizer: Mori Art Museum

Curated by: Araki Natsumi (Curator, Mori Art Museum)

Wu Hung (Distinguished Service Professor of the Department of Art History, The University of Chicago)

In Cooperation with: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre

Open Hours: 10:00–22:00 (Tuesdays: 10:00-17:00)

* Admission until 30 minutes before closing.

* Open everyday.

Admission: Adult: ￥1,000 

Student (College/University): ￥500

* All prices include tax.

* Tickets also valid for entry to concurrent exhibitions “SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now,” “MAM Collection 005,” and “MAM Research 005.”

* Admission to Tokyo City View observation deck, Sky Deck, and Mori Arts Center Gallery is not included.

Inquiries: Tel: +81-(0)3-5777-8600 (Hello Dial)

Talk Session

“A Photography Hub to the World: Three Shadows and the Development of Chinese Contemporary Photography”

* Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available

Through photography, Three Shadows has made tremendous contributions to the international cultural exchange. In this Session, RongRong & inri will speak about the paths to the foundation of the Centre as well as its activities and Wu Hung, who has been watching them closely from early period, about the history of Chinese contemporary photography and its background. Furthermore, we will welcome Kasahara Michiko to together discuss on the contemporary photography by touching upon the situations in Japan and China.

Speakers: 

Wu Hung (Distinguished Service Professor of the Department of Art History, The University of Chicago)

RongRong & inri (Photographer duo)

Kasahara Michiko (Chief Curator, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)

Moderator: Araki Natsumi (Curator, Mori Art Museum)

Date & Time: 14:00-16:00, Saturday, July 29, 2017 (Doors open: 13:30)

Venue: Auditorium, Mori Art Museum

Capacity: 80 (booking required)

Admission: Free (exhibition ticket valid for the day of issue for the admission to the Mori Art Museum required)

* Please note that speakers are subject to change without prior notice.

Mori Art Museum

The Mori Art Museum is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex both of which he built in Tokyo, Japan.

The interior architect of the museum's galleries on the 53rd floor of the 54 story tower. The museum does not exhibit a permanent collection but rather temporary exhibitions of works by contemporary artists. The Museum is committed to presenting a wide range of exhibitions and learning programs that feature cutting-edge visual arts, architecture, and design in a global perspective. The Mori Art Museum is positioned also as a center of contemporary Japanese and Asian art, able to present Asian art trends in a global context with profound expertise concerning specific cultural systems and structures.