北京现在画廊荣幸宣布，艺术家邹操的个展《无不碍有》将于2018年7月21日开幕。

邹操先后就读于东北师范大学美术学院油画专业硕士；吉林大学哲学社会学院西方哲学专业博士；中央美术学院美术学博士后。这种独特的求学和学术研究经历，使他的艺术创作带有着独特的观念艺术的特征。邹操的艺术创作内容丰富，系统庞大。我们可以大致按时间和题材将其归为四大类别。

2002至2012年，邹操的艺术创作主要以“指纹”这一独特的符号为主，在持续将近10年的时间里，他创作了15个不同系列的指纹作品，其核心观念在于，利用当代西方符号学的研究方法，通过艺术创作的方式来破解“指纹”这一独特的符号密码；2010至2015年，他的创作转向了对中国传统思维方式与西方当代艺术相结合的当代转型，其试图建立一种中国式的国际当代艺术。这在2015年他在北京今日美术馆举办的大型个展《云山诀》中得以集中呈现。2015年至今，邹操的艺术创作转向了科技艺术，其探讨的是在未来大数据及其科技时代，艺术何以可能。目前他不仅创作了大量的科技艺术作品，并且独立拥有了三项科学发明专利。2016年至今，邹操的艺术创作不仅集中在传统艺术的本体，更将其扩展至“社会雕塑”的层面。2016年他与今日美术馆、联想ThinkPad联合发起了《自觉۰须有作为》大型国际艺术航海项目。2017年他又携此项目参加第57届威尼斯双年展平行展《MODUS》，此次展览受到了国际艺术界的广泛好评,欧洲主流艺术杂志《Vogue》、《名利场》等将本次展览评选为本届威尼斯双年展唯一最值得观看的平行展，威尼斯双年展主席，平行展主席也专程致信表示感谢。在刚刚结束的俄罗斯世界杯期间，邹操又加盟著名足球解说员刘建宏先生创办的《新三味聊斋》网络视频节目，讲解艺术与足球板块，本节目共12期，累计点播2亿人次。邹操的社会雕塑作品，并非把艺术创作作为终极的目的，而是将艺术变为渡己渡人的手段，让艺术能够与更多的社会大众发生关系，从而让艺术变得有温度、有态度。

本次展览《无不碍有》，是邹操将中国传统文化观念与当代科技手段相结合的又一次大胆尝试。“无不碍有”的思想来源于中国传统文化中的禅宗观念，其探讨的是有与无，色与空的辩证关系。邹操利用当代高科技与视频等新媒体手段对这一观念进行了不同维度、不同视角的多重阐释，从而构建出某种全新的视觉形式与感知体验。


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Beijing Art Now Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Mr. Zou Cao’s solo exhibition Being through Nothing on 21 July, 2018.

Zou Cao holds an MA in Oil Painting from the Academy of Arts, Northeast Normal University, a PhD in Western Philosophy from the Academy of Philosophical and Social Studies, Jilin University, and a post-doc in the Study of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts. His special experience of academic studies and research has infused unique characteristics of conceptual art into his artistic creation. Zou Cao artistic creation is rich and wide-ranging, which can be divided into four major categories according to time and theme:


From 2002 to 2012, Zou’s artistic creation is themed on a unique symbol -- “fingerprints”. During almost ten years, he had produced 15 series of fingerprint works. His core idea is to adopt the research methodology of western semiology to decipher the unique symbol -- “fingerprint”. From 2010 to 2015, his artistic creation changes direction to focus on the contemporary combination of traditional Chinese way of thinking and modern western art, in pursuit of a Chinese international contemporary artistic school. His efforts were shown in his solo exhibition The Secret to Clouds and Mountains staged in Today Art Museum. From 2015 onwards, Zou’s artistic creation was changed into sci-tech art, discussing the topic of the possibility of art in our future featuring big data and science and technology. He has not only produced lots of sci-tech artistic works, but also owned three independent patents of scientific inventions. From 2016 onwards, Zou’s artistic creation not only focuses on the body of traditional art, but also expands to the level of “social sculptures”. In 2016, he made joint efforts with Today Art Museum and Lenovo ThinkPad to initiate an international art navigation project Self-consciousness/Call for Actions. In 2017, he took the project to attend the parallel exhibition MODUS of the 57th Venice Biennial and won positive comments from worldwide. This exhibition was considered by Vogue and Vanity Fair as the most worthy parallel exhibition during the Biennial. The President of Venice Biennial and the President of the parallel exhibition sent letters of congratulations respectively. During the Russia World Cup which was just concluded, Zou attended an on-line video show New Three-taste Liaozhai set up by Mr. Liu Jianhong, the famous football anchorer. He was invited to comment on art and football during the 12-series show with 200 million person times video-on-demand. The social sculpture works of Zou are intended to make artistic creation as a transitional methodology instead of an ultimate purpose, so that art can be related with more people and has its own temperature and attitude.

The exhibition Being through Nothing is a bold attempt of Zou Cao to combine traditional Chinese cultural concepts and modern technology. The idea of Being through Nothing originates from Zen of traditional Chinese culture, which is concerned about the dialectic relationship between Being and Nothing, and Visibility and Invisibility. With new media technologies such as high-tech and videos, Zou explains the concept from different perspectives and viewpoints and builds up some brand-new visual forms and experience.