SIMULACRA 拟像将于2023年10月21日带来马特·霍普（Matt Hope）个展「Audio Curiosity」。在本次展览中，艺术家延续成熟的装置实践经验，并首次尝试图像语言，将呈现一系列声音与光学装置及绘画作品, 形成独特的声音景观。马特·霍普的创作过程不仅仅局限于概念的结果收割，而是在制作的全过程中将多元领域，包括声学、动力学、光学、机械工程、及交互式的运用相结合，完成个人对环境和生命感悟的还原，最终的作品只作为载体, 承载对未知无形的好奇与探索。
SIMULACRA is pleased to present「Audio Curiosity」, a solo show by English artist Matt Hope, on October 21st. In this exhibition, the artist continues his mature installation practice and experiments with the language of image practice, presenting a series of sound and optical installations and spray paintings as a unique soundscape at the gallery. Matt Hope's practice is not only limited to the harvesting of conceptual results but also combines multiple disciplines in the production process, including acoustics, dynamics, optics, mechanical engineering, and the use of interactivity, to complete a personal perception of the environment and life and the final presentation of the works. The final presentation functions as a vehicle for curiosity and exploration of the intangible and the unknown.
盘旋往返于墙壁之间的混响打破了浇筑的混凝土，磨平了空间的尺度；回忆和想象介入了声浪的绵延，延迟了时间的包络。
Matt Hope将自己的工作室铸成不可能的工坊，时间在制作的分秒和季节轮换之间融于电光火石的振荡。在实践中，他捕捉无形的声浪和瞬息万变的光谱，使其视觉中的质料归还于不可言说的觉知或随机性。生活经验与纯粹的生产在Matt的世界里是相融的。由于作品不再只是艺术家劳动的结果，而是无中生有，经过神经的感知、量尺的测算以及机械的轰鸣，因此过程则成为了印记的载体，最终形成类似于“滤波”的动作，即对处理信息的过程或采样的隐喻：选择性地放大或是缩小某种事实或情感。
迷恋魔术的人往往最不相信魔法，他们好奇如何将可见化为太虚，反之亦然。
The reverb that swirls between the walls breaks up the poured concrete, smoothing out the scale of the space; memories and imagination engage in the stretching of sound, delaying the envelope of time.
Matt Hope casts his 'impossible' studio, where time melts into a sparking oscillation between the minutes of production and the seasonal rotation. In his practice, he captures invisible waves of sound and transient spectra, relegating the texture of his vision to ineffable perceptions or randomness. Lived experience and pure production converge in Matt's world. As the work is no longer just the result of the artist's labor but is produced from nothing, perceived by the nerves, calculated by measurement, and rattled by the machinery, the process becomes a vehicle for imprinting and ultimately an action similar to 'filtering', a metaphor for the process of processing or sampling of information: selectively zooming in or out on a fact or a certain emotion.
Those who are fascinated by magic are often the least likely to believe in mystery, curious to see how the visible can be transformed into the virtual and vice versa.
展览概念图 Exhibition conceptual graph, 2023 ©Matt Hope
马特·霍普
Matt Hope
马特·霍普，1976 年生于伦敦，目前在广州生活和工作。就读于伦敦切尔西艺术学院（1994 － 1996），于温彻斯特艺术学院获得学士学位（1999）。加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校获硕士学位（2004）。2008 年，受全球经济活动、建设和工业大转移的驱使，他迁居中国。通过引入自身对人类感知、能量和混沌秩序的关注，他的作品重新解读了过去和现在的雕塑语言。对于每件作品的制作，他通常需要在多元领域进行研究和探索，范围涉及声学、动力学、光学、机械工程、及交互式的运用等。项目如《呼吸自行车》和《人民发电站》等则着重呈现他对环境和社会议题的关注，从而让艺术参与到更广阔的公共空间中。霍普的作品曾在上海静安国际雕塑展、北京鸿坤美术馆、洛杉矶 Ace 画廊（Ace Gallery）、上海当代艺术馆（Power StationArt Museum）、马尔塔·黑尔福德博物馆（Marta Herford Museum）、北京尤伦斯当代艺术中心（UCCA）、中国国家博物馆（China National Museum）、加州大学圣迭戈分校（UCSD）美术馆等地展出，同时还参加了深港城市建筑双城双年展，北京媒体艺术双年展，成都双年展、北京国际设计周等众多活动。
Matt Hope was born 1976 in London and currently lives and works inGuangzhou. He studied at Chelsea School of Art, London from 1994 - 96 and received his BFA at the Winchester School of Art, Hampshire, UK, in 1999, earning his MFA at University of California, San Diego in 2004. He re-located to China in 2008, drawn by the global shift in economic activity, construction and industry. Hope’s works reinterpret the language of past and present sculpture by bringing his attentions on the subjects of human perception, energy and entropy. To produce each work, he often undertakes research in area’s diverse as sonic, optics and mechanical engineering, knowledge of materials as well as the exertion of interaction. Environmental and social commentary is also present in projects such as the "Breathing Bike” and "People's power station", in order to let art engages the comprehensive pubic space. Hope’s work had been exhibited at Shanghai Jing’an International Sculpture Project, Hongkun Museum of Fine Art, Beijing, Ace Gallery, Los Angles, Power Station Art Museum in Shanghai, Marta Herford Museum, UCCA in Beijing, China National Museum, Beijing, University Art Gallery UCSD, also presented in UABB in Shenzhen, Beijing Media Art Biennale, Chengdu Biennale, Beijing Design Week and many other spaces.
