Ally Rosenberg Ania Hobson Fátima de Juan Gao Hang Hilary Doyle Jeremy Yamamura Matthew F Fisher ​The Fiction July 15 2021 - Aug 15 2021 INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTISTS IMG_2538.jpeg WechatIMG5887.jpeg WechatIMG6554.jpeg viewfile-3.png IMG_2494.jpeg SophieMenadeontheSubway2021.jpg Richard-Tilney-Bassett-210306-141153-0134-_theglasspassport-web.jpg Fátima de Juan Jeremy Yamamura Ania Hobson Matthew F Fisher Gao Hang Hilary Doyle Ally Rosenberg We are proud to present the second exhibition of Gallery Func this summer, 'The Fiction', in which we will present the work of seven promising artists. ​ The works in this exhibition, although they all are figurative painting, break away from the basic rules of traditional figurative painting and are post-modern and futuristic. These works vividly present the daily psychological states and rituals of life that are easily overlooked by us. The artists are concerned with the current situation of self-fragmentation in the information society, and they try to explore the real existence through painting. ​ The artists are both participants and spectators in their own lives. They watch the human life force unfold in the wider context and then, from their own selves, search for the port of balance between real life and imagination, which is the port of their artworks. They use their individual subjects as the base for their conceptual and pictorial structures, and use skilled techniques to embellish the complex expressions of their subjects, effectively and directly conveying their respective languages. ​ The realistic mood of the work is both familiar and new to the viewer, and the artist is placing the viewer in the real and fantastical world created by the painting itself, making the viewing of the painting more like reading some amazing narratives. It is as if something important has been snatched from this fictional world based on reality, leaving a big hole for us all to jump into and fill. ​ All of the works discuss the wonders of human existence as a living creature. The uncertainty of life itself is artfully displayed in each work. The sense of confusion about the future and the vibrant, throbbing energy of adolescence come crashing down on the dull and stagnant psychological world that drives adults. These works here become a spiritual stimulus for us, awakening our dormant senses.

Aug 28 2021 - Sep 29 2021 ​Multiple Port: USB Artists & Curators Cai Jian & Wang Jiang Fang Yang & Chen Jiaying Feng Zhixuan & Sun Qidong Li Hanwei & Mi Zijing Tian Yi & Zhuang Lingzhi Wang Yuchen & Yang Tiange Xia Chengan & He Jingfei Wu Yue Zhang Ke & Chen Yunyao INSTALLATION VIEWS Universal Serial Bus (USB), a serial standard for connecting computer systems to external devices and a technical specification for input and output interfaces, has been transformed, by mistake, into a synonym for a certainartistic experimentation, a threshold for establishing multiple dimensions and new connections. The exhibition uses this uninterrupted and unconstant state as a basic concept to define an indeterminate state of linking artists, curators and different spaces. The artist is no longer the beginning or the end, but instead becomes the interface between the two ends, where space and curator meet briefly, exchange information and are taken away at a certain point. Over the course of the following month, a series of exhibitions spread across Shanghai's galleries, non-profit spaces, buyers' shops, nightclubs and art fairs. If the works of each artist and the curators' analysis are fragments, the viewer may get a complete puzzle after seeing these unique spaces. This gives an overview of the unique face of the new post - 90s artists. This is not a wave or a movement, nor is it grandiose or metaphorical, this is just a perceptual presentation of the interface itself. ​ As one of the six spaces in the project, Gallery Func has launched its second exhibition to the public from 28 August, following the first exhibition at Madein Gallery on 27 August, and the other four exhibitions will be held at Joe Space on 11 September, Shanghai Trend Art Fair on 25 September, Potent and in the Park in mid to late September. ​ WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES

INTERVIEW Ruini Shi 探讨虚拟空间的情绪存在方式 @Hi艺术 05 December 2021 Hi：为什么会想到做一个NFT项目？之前接触过NFT吗？ ▼ 施：《FuneralPlay》并非一个NFT项目。《FuneralPlay》是一个非盈利性质的虚构殡葬供应平台。在这个概念项目里，我们邀请观众作为哀悼者参加一场模拟葬礼。 《FuneralPlay》的设定为一个万物皆已NFT的未来。在线葬礼的设置中，哀悼者将纪念礼物的NFT版本发送至已故亲友的虚拟陵墓中。得益于区块链技术，悼念者可根据逝者喜好购买纪念品对应的NFT版本，并将其永久地安置在数字陵墓中。通过与陵墓场景的互动，哀悼者可解锁隐藏线索，获取更多数字纪念品。 我个人是加密学爱好者，博士的研究课题是动画和加密学融合的可能性。以及，重申一下《FuneralPlay》是非营利性质的项目。 Hi：为什么会选择做一个关于葬礼的作品呢？这跟你的个人生活有关系吗？ ▼ 施：FuneralPlay中的虚拟葬礼是我下一部影像作品中的一个场景，之前两年我一直执着说一定要用动画的语言表现出来，但今年就想做一个尝试 - 考虑到用视频去讲述这个idea太过主观，或许通过一个平台让观众进行游戏化的交互，可以更好地引导观众去思考数字遗产将如何影响和调解我们未来的生活方式。 Hi：你认为人们应该拥抱技术？还是与技术保持距离？ ▼ 施：拥抱还是保持距离取决于你想要什么。我会建议入局前知道自己的位置——二进制的世界里欲望会被放大。 无论是人工智能，元宇宙的出现都不会解决我们的道德问题，而是对我们当前伦理道德解决方案的考验。当我们将道德规范写入它们的客观头脑时，它会放大我们的缺陷和弱点。如果我们要建造反映我们自己价值观的机器/系统/其他技术创新，那么我们需要更多地了解这些价值观，我们需要将它们量化并协商确定哪些是应给予优先权的——但这一步需要多长时间，我不知道。 关于元宇宙的蓝图有太多的猜想了，或许当在焦虑着该以什么身份入局时，不妨先感受下自己的情绪。当每个人的情感都变成各种势力角逐的资本时，当每个表情包背后都牵扯着复杂运算和反馈策略时，那我们的情感在电子年代将如何归属？我不知道，但希望在web3环境下的的电子陵墓里，我们是可以真诚的吧。 Hi：你怎么看待NFT艺术？ ▼ 施：我发起《FuneralPlay》的初衷是做一个帮区块链愿景去污名化的项目。近几年由于虚拟货币、NFT、元宇宙概念的兴起，互联网世界充斥着太多没有实际意义但包装成区块链应用即将落地的项目了——这已经脱离了密码朋克对区块链愿景的初衷。仔细研究会发现大多项目都沿用了一套看似深奥的白皮书包装自己圈钱的野心 - 仿佛白皮书已经成为一种文学类型了。我索性提取了这类网站的（美学）元素，将我们的项目包装成了一个虚构的互联网产品——但如果仔细看每个板块的细节，会发现我们在认真开玩笑：） 现阶段聊元宇宙的蓝图太空洞了，希望《FuneralPlay》可以赋予现在空空的元宇宙一点意义。

​ Giovanni Motta NFT and meditation @The Cryptonomist Giovanni Motta is one of the Italian crypto artists who best embodies the epochal transition from physical art to the immaterial world of NFTs. Born in Verona in 1971, he came to art after a successful creative and advertising career. Drawing has been a passion of his since childhood. When he was only 9 years old, he won an international drawing competition organized by the FAO, but he had to wait until 2000 to exhibit his works in galleries and public spaces: drawings, paintings and 3D sculptures that reveal his passion for manga and anime, but also for American cartoons. Read More

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GIOVANNI MOTTA - 「 GAME OVER play again？」 Gallery Func is pleased to present GAME OVER play again?, the new solo exhibition of Giovanni Motta in which will be exhibited 14 paintings in acrylic on canvas and 2 sculptures, one in fibreglass and one in bronze, of the recent production of the Italian artist. ​ Belonging to the so-called Generation X and having grown up, therefore, in the eighties, it is not surprising that the signs and codes of the evolutionary age assume, for him, the form of objects that can be traced back to that decade. Japanese manga and anime, American cartoons and the first videogames, the user-friendly technology of the origins, with that mixture of simplicity and candor, and the entire merchandise catalog of the consumerism of the Eighties appear in his paintings as epiphenomena, revelations that correspond to states of mind lost in the meanders of memory, removed from the conscious layers of adult life. ​ The personification of Giovanni Motta's puer aeternus is Jonny, a child who seems to have come out of the pencil of a mangaka, whose anatomical morphology is typical of a growing individual, with a tiny body and a hypertrophic head. Jonny is the artist's infantilized stand-in, the puberty avatar, the inner ghost, the aesthetic conformation of an unconscious projection, but it is also, by extension, a signal, a symbol that indicates an absence, that underlines the vulnus, the wound, the gash that tears the existence of the adapted and uniformed man. ​ Motta uses Jonny as a warning to himself and others, but also as an empirical demonstration that healing, everyone's healing, is possible through the rediscovery and recovery of this imperishable entity that frees us from time and senescence. ​ In GAME OVER play again? the enthusiasmós is encoded in the form of the videogame metaphor. The condition of the player, estranged from everyday reality, is represented through the image of Jonny's fluctuation. ​ But for Giovanni Motta the videogame is - like toys, food and consumer goods - only a symbol. What counts is the mood of the player, that feeling of "divine invasion" that accompanies the moments of euphoria and amazement of childhood, an emotional heritage that seems destined to fade in time. CLOSE

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