Exhibition date: May 18- June 14, 2024
Opening: May 18, 15:00-18:00
Address: C5301, Xicheng Plaza, No151, Hanzhongmen Street, Nanjing
Artists: Ge hui, Liu xuan, Tang guo, Wang yuyu, Xue zhiyuan, Xuan chenghao, Yang xi
Exhibition Text:
The exhibition uses the "Mantle Plume", a magma activity at the earth scale, to launch a threshold description of "material bubbles" of bio-like organisms. In 1971, William Jason Morgan published the theory of mantle thermal plumes. Mantle plumes are thought to form where superheated material forms at the core-mantle boundary and rises through the mantle.
Today's theory suggests that mantle plumes should be viewed not as continuous streams of material, but as a series of bubbles of material. When they reach the fragile upper crust of the Earth, they form diapirs (an intrusion in which more fluid and ductilely deformed material is forced into the brittle overlying rock), which are "hot spots" in the crust.
The plume's narrow vertical conduits are hypothesized to connect the plume head to the core-mantle boundary, and are thought to be "living organisms" that provide a continuous supply of magma to hot spots. Generally the magma is in the magma chamber and during the eruption. Magma in an intermediate state continues to rise and absorb crustal material; in the upper part of the crust, it accumulates into igneous rocks. From time to time, magma rises to the surface, causing volcanic eruptions. Magma is generated, gathered, condensed, and regenerated into a new and larger-scale physical state as a fluid. This geological activity becomes a quasi-biological form.
At the boundary where oceans and continents converge or oceans converge, they are like mantle plumes of organisms, which are rising columnar hot rocks deep in the mantle, located above the core-mantle boundary. The rising column may be anywhere from a few kilometers to tens of kilometers in diameter, but near the surface it spreads out to form a mushroom-shaped head with a diameter of tens to more than a hundred kilometers. Near the base of the lithosphere (the rigid part of the Earth's mantle), the early stages of volcanic activity typically occur on the ocean floor, since most mantle plumes lie beneath the ocean. The works of several artists in the exhibition, whether they are paintings, sculptures, or installations, all present this threshold relationship between the invisible and the visible. For example, the "natural and public" fiber form and pattern generation in Tang Guo's homemade paper, the biological structure and micro-space texture in the works of Liu Xuan, Xuan Chenhao and Wang Yuyu, and the "human body-like" emotions in the works of Ge Hui and Xue Zhiyuan Blending and extended deformation, the cyborgs in Yang Xi's sculptures - life-like forms of organisms, etc. in their works are like magma converging in the subduction zone, rift zone, central ridge and other visual fields, which makes us more aware of the form. Or the image can be observed and reviewed after it is formed.
Today's theory suggests that mantle plumes should be viewed not as continuous streams of material, but as a series of bubbles of material. When they reach the fragile upper crust of the Earth, they form diapirs (an intrusion in which more fluid and ductilely deformed material is forced into the brittle overlying rock), which are "hot spots" in the crust.
The plume's narrow vertical conduits are hypothesized to connect the plume head to the core-mantle boundary, and are thought to be "living organisms" that provide a continuous supply of magma to hot spots. Generally the magma is in the magma chamber and during the eruption. Magma in an intermediate state continues to rise and absorb crustal material; in the upper part of the crust, it accumulates into igneous rocks. From time to time, magma rises to the surface, causing volcanic eruptions. Magma is generated, gathered, condensed, and regenerated into a new and larger-scale physical state as a fluid. This geological activity becomes a quasi-biological form.
At the boundary where oceans and continents converge or oceans converge, they are like mantle plumes of organisms, which are rising columnar hot rocks deep in the mantle, located above the core-mantle boundary. The rising column may be anywhere from a few kilometers to tens of kilometers in diameter, but near the surface it spreads out to form a mushroom-shaped head with a diameter of tens to more than a hundred kilometers. Near the base of the lithosphere (the rigid part of the Earth's mantle), the early stages of volcanic activity typically occur on the ocean floor, since most mantle plumes lie beneath the ocean. The works of several artists in the exhibition, whether they are paintings, sculptures, or installations, all present this threshold relationship between the invisible and the visible. For example, the "natural and public" fiber form and pattern generation in Tang Guo's homemade paper, the biological structure and micro-space texture in the works of Liu Xuan, Xuan Chenhao and Wang Yuyu, and the "human body-like" emotions in the works of Ge Hui and Xue Zhiyuan Blending and extended deformation, the cyborgs in Yang Xi's sculptures - life-like forms of organisms, etc. in their works are like magma converging in the subduction zone, rift zone, central ridge and other visual fields, which makes us more aware of the form. Or the image can be observed and reviewed after it is formed.