开幕时间：2008年11月6日15：30

展览时间：2008年11月5日-11月27日

展览地点：上海多伦现代美术馆1-2层、及多伦路文化街（上海市虹口区多伦路27号）

主办单位：上海多伦现代美术馆 今日美术馆 重庆锦瑟画廊

赞助支持：（Autodesk Logo）欧特克公司

策 展 人：唐尧

由欧特克(Autodesk)公司携手中美雕塑艺术大师共同策划的“数码石雕全国巡回展”上海站，将于2008年11月5日至11月27日在上海多伦现代美术馆举行。

此次数码石雕全国巡展，巡展将历时三个月，途经北京、上海和重庆三地，是数码雕塑艺术在国内的首度亮相。参展的数十件数码雕塑作品由来自美国的著名现代雕塑艺术家布鲁斯·比斯利、肯尼斯·斯内尔森、乔恩·伊舍伍德和罗伯特·麦克尔史密斯，运用最新数码设计技术，并在中国本土高水平雕刻师们的支持和配合下，历经数月完成。

数码雕塑顾名思义，就是雕塑家用数码技术创作和制作雕塑。需要强调的是，不同于一般动画或游戏，数码雕塑并不是停留在电脑存储器中的虚拟影像，它是借助数码技术最终完成的存在于真实空间中的三维物体。

毫无疑问，数码技术正在成为人类当代生活最活跃、最重要的技术手段，它已经庞大到笼罩并颠覆了我们整个的生活。而这也必然会影响艺术对于外部世界的感知，两者的碰撞产生了介于理性和虚拟之间的数码艺术。数码艺术最大的技术优势在于其清晰而精确的建模和程序控制能力，可以设计各种形态的人物、动物、植物，可以轻而易举地对各种组合进行变换、修改和编辑--人类第一次感到自己可以如此随心所欲地创造一个全新的世界！

作为这次数码石头展的发起人之一，布鲁斯·比斯利是一位美国现代艺术的雕塑大师。他在21岁的时候就和毕加索、杜尚、劳生柏、大卫·史密斯等人一起参加了现代艺术史上非常著名的纽约“集合艺术”展。我们可以看到，他的作品从早起的抽象表现主义风格到现在借助丙烯酸的透明性实现一种以光为主题的雕塑，艺术家本人对于科学研究的精神和能力是值得我们关注的焦点。

肯尼斯·斯内尔森是另一位在现代雕塑领域取得杰出成就的艺术家，是享誉美国的现代雕塑大师。他的作品关注物质世界的基本结构和它们在三维空间中的物理形式：能量和运动，并以数理逻辑和童话梦幻的重叠方式包含了微观粒子和宏观宇宙的双重意象。

不同于布鲁斯和肯尼斯那种纯正的现代抽象构成，乔恩·伊舍伍德作品保持着与古老手工传统的亲密联系。他用泥土塑造和数码肌理粘贴的方式，使作品成为手工随机形态与数码精确规则的结合体。它们是关于生命感性与科技理性、手工传统与数码信息的统一表述。

罗伯特·麦克尔史密斯的作品看起来好像一些史前生物、深海的奇异植物、贝类或软体动物以及微生物的混合体。它们携带着生命起源的记忆、携带着关于黑暗深海和渺茫太空的猜测、携带着显微镜下细胞晶体的诡异图案和地球人类现代艺术的审美诉求，而呈现为关于生命未来的瑰丽梦幻。

从三维数码设计软件到三维数码成型设备，数码技术已经形成了一条完整的造型链，它正在把一部分新型的雕塑家从雕塑的传统手艺或技术中解放出来，从草图和泥塑的造型训练和技术局限中释放出来，它为他们提供了全新的技术通道和巨大的发展空间，其潜在的可能性难以蠡测。

Digital Sculpture Exhibition Media Release

Opening: 3:30pm, 6th November, 2008

Date: 5th November, 2008----27th November

Venue: 1-2F, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art & Duolun Road

Present by: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

Today Art Museum

Chongqing Jingse galleries

Support by: Autodesk Logo

Curator: Tang Yao

Digital Sculpture Circuit Exhibition which supported by Autodesk Logo and manufactured by both American and Chinese sculpture artists will be held from 5th November, 2008 to 27th November.

This digital sculpture circuit exhibition which has been taking three months involves three cities that are Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing. And this is the first time that digital sculpture art is displayed in China.

These works are made by famous modern sculpture artists Bruce Beasley, Kenneth Snelson, Jon Isherwood and Robert Michael Smith from US. They have produced works for several months by using newly digital design technique and cooperating with Chinese sculpture artist.

As the name implies, digital sculpture means the sculptor produces sculpture through digital technology. Unlike animations or games, digital sculpture is not simply a virtual image in computer memory but primarily a physical object in real space created by virtue of digital technology.

Digital technology is undoubtedly playing a key role today, reaching all aspects of our lives. The most important aesthetic feature of digital art is rationality and virtualization. The biggest technical advantage lies in clear and accurate modeling and program control capability, allowing the design of various characters, animals and plants as well as the change, modification and editing of combinations. For the first time, man can create a new world at ease and feel like a creator in the world of numbers and programs.

Bruce Beasley is an American master of sculpture and is one of the initiators of the Digital Stone exhibition. In 1960 when he was 21 years old, he took part in “The Art of Assemblage” exhibition in New York together with Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg and David Smith. In a style typical of Abstract Expressionism, his early works focus on space, rhythm, power and music. Not content with those achievements, however, he began experimenting with cast acrylic in order to use light and transparency as the subject of his sculptures. Beasley’s scientific spirit and capability deserve extensive concern.

Kenneth Snelson is another great contemporary sculptor in the United States. His works are found in any portfolio of urban landscape sculpture. Snelson’s sculptures focus on basic structure of the physical world and physical forms in 3D space - energy and motion. By combining mathematical logic with illusion, he conveys the image of both particle and universe.

Jon Isherwood’s sculptures different from the pure Abstract Expressionism of Bruce Beasley and Kenneth Snelson while being more closely related with traditional handicraft. The sculpture thus becomes a combination of random manual form and digital accuracy, expressing the sensibility of life fused with the rationality of technology, traditional handicraft fused with digital information.

Robert Michael Smith’s sculptures look like a mixture of prehistoric creatures, deep-sea plants, seashells, mollusks and microorganisms, that carry memories of the origins of Life, speculations of the dark deep sea and boundless outer space, patterns of cells under microscope with the aesthetic appeal of contemporary art, while expressing illusions concerning the future of Life.

Therefore, from 3D digital design software to 3D digital modeling devices, digital technology has formed a complete modeling process, freeing some sculptors from traditional sculpture crafts/techniques and the limitations of sketches and clay sculpture while offering them a brand-new technology route with unlimited development opportunities.