“闲言碎语”是上海外滩美术馆2016年度的首档新展,也是新加坡艺术家张奕满在中国的首场美术馆级别的个人展览。展览通过7件全新制作的艺术作品,对文本和图像之间的空间进行审查,并以一种全新的方式将两者联系起来。张奕满的创作常蕴含丰富的典故,很多我们看来风马牛不相及的事物在艺术家的手中都能与其作品很好地融合在一起。他能将《等待戈多》这样的现代主义文学作品和《憨豆先生》《跑步鸡》这样老套的电视节目,甚至八卦小报《苹果周刊》放在一起,仿佛它 “Gossip” is the first new exhibition in 2016 at Shanghai’s Bund Art Museum and the solo exhibition of Singapore artist Zhang Yi Man at the first gallery level in China. With seven newly produced works of art, the exhibition examines the spaces between text and images and connects the two in a whole new way. Zhang Yi Man’s creation contains a wealth of anecdotes, and many things that we see are irrelevant in the artist’s hands and work well with their works together. He can put modernist literary works such as “Godot Waiting” on the same old TV shows like “Mr. Bean” and “Running Chicken”, or even the tabloid Apple Weekly, as if it were