这次展览把注意力集中到来自全世界的艺术家，包括之前被认为是偏远或周边的地区，目的是强调发展艺术的中心变得越来越多了。新市场的开始和数字革命的影响渐渐导致跟艺术的相关发出的消息增加了；被宣传假装为重要的事件实际上经常是虚伪的；这种状况导致已经没有办法进行理论层面上或艺术评论层面上的任何收集或分类。各种语言的重叠造成语言的混沌，这个现象的影响力大大地超越20世纪八十年代的运动和流派。

　　《当代混沌》展览包括绘画、摄影、录像、行为和大型的装置。在当代艺术界，不管是西方还是东方，都没有办法找到一个统一的线索：这个展览从这点出发，目的是否认通用的语言模型的存在。与现代主义不同，我们这个时代的艺术并不是为了计划未来，而是为了分析现在，重点关注“这里和现在”。《当代混沌》在之前是纤维工厂大楼的四层中标示出各种语言的复杂性；媒介包括视频、照片、雕塑和装置，也包括大型国际展览通常忽略的绘画作品。

　　策展人德沐在画册中写道：“几十年来，艺术的发展主要不在语言层面上。它的目标是对现在的思考，反思社会如何以及为什么会变成目前的状态。这点能够解释许多受到新闻摄影影响的作品，艺术史上的作品的许多引用以及绘画倾向于叙事性和象征性的关键转变。2000年以来制作的许多艺术作品为了不超越现实的叙事提供空间，同时扩大象征的系统。在与所谓的全球文化相对立的情况下，当代叙事将作品带回到作者所属的历史和地方，象征的维度将作品的意义扩展为广泛普及的。


　　参展艺术家：Ljubodrag Andric（加拿大），Paola Angelini（意大利），Ghazaleh Avarzamani（伊朗），Nadia Bamadhaj（马来西亚），Domenico Bianchi（意大利），Andrea Bianconi（意大利），Thomas Braida（意大利），Vanni Cuoghi（意大利），Espen Dietrichson（挪威），Lars Elling（挪威），Sergio Fermariello（意大利），Barnaba Fornasetti/Valeria Manzi（意大利），Letizia Fornasieri（意大利），Giovanni Frangi（意大利），Helgi Fridjonsson（冰岛），Daniel & Geo Fuchs（德国），Daniele Galliano（意大利），Timothy Greenfield-Sanders（美国），Gottfried Helnwein（奥地利-爱尔兰），Paolo Iacchetti（意大利），刘建华（中国），Bree Jonson（菲律宾）， Chiara Lecca（意大利），Justin Lim（马来西亚），Georg óskar（冰岛），Sverre Malling（挪威），Masbedo（意大利），Sebastiano Mauri（意大利），Rafael Megall（亚美尼亚），Alessandro Mendini（意大利）， Kristoffer Myskja（挪威），Maria Mulas（意大利），Marco Neri（意大利），Nunzio（意大利），Tony Oursler（美国）， Francesco Polenghi（意大利） Ruben Pang（新加坡），Laurent Reypens（比利时），Bernardí Roig（西班牙），Anne Samat（马来西亚），Nicola Samorì（意大利）， Vibeke Slyngstad（挪威），Christoph Schirmer（奥地利），Andres Serrano（美国） Doug and Mike Starn（美国），Tjook（荷兰），Liliane Tomasko（瑞士），Natee Utarit（泰国），Ronald Ventura（菲律宾），Nicola Verlato（意大利），Luis Vidal（西班牙），Tamas Kaszas（匈牙利），Ruprecht Von Kaufmann（德国），王广义（中国），王友身（中国），王庆松（中国），Rose Wylie（英国），Peter Welz（德国），孙逊（中国），岳敏君（中国）。


　　德沐Demetrio Paparoni（锡拉丘兹1954年-现居米兰），艺术评论家，策展人和作家，是当代艺术中最细心的观察者之一。他于1983年创办了《Tema Celeste》杂志和同名的出版社，直到2000年担任该出版社的负责人。从1996年到2008年他在卡塔尼亚大学建筑学院教授现当代艺术史。他出版的书籍和策划展览若干。最新出版的书包括《The Devil-邪恶方面的图片手册》（2017年24小时出版社文化部，米兰2017年；《基督和艺术的印记-神圣和它在昨天和今天艺术中的表现，Skira出版社，米兰2015年；美、好、坏政治在过去的一百年中如何影响艺术，Ponte alle Grazie出版社，米兰2014年。


　　Contemporary Chaos
　　Curated by Demetrio Paparoni
　　5th May – 23rd September 2018
　　The 16th edition of Vestfossen KunstLaboratorium, at approximately one hour train fromOslo, will be inaugurated on 5th May, at 1:30 p.m. Curated by Demetrio Paparoni, theinternational exposition ‘Contemporary Chaos' will present over 60 artists.
　　The show wants to emphasise the multiplying of artistic driving forces by focusing theattention on artists coming from all over the world, including areas which once were considered absolutely peripheral. The opening of new markets and the effects of the digital revolution have progressively brought about such an amount of information on art issues and events deemed important, while being often just ephemeral, to thwart every attempt of critical-theoretical grouping. The linguistic chaos deriving from the language superimposition is thus a phenomenon going beyond the overcoming of movements and trends recorded since the Eighties of the 20th century.

　　Contemporary Chaos includes paintings, photographs, videos, performances and great installations. Starting from the premise that finding a unitary tissue in the scene of contemporary art would be absurd both in the West and in the East, the exhibition denies the existence of global linguistic models. Differently from what happened with Modernism,present-day art doesn't plan the future but analyses the present, focusing on the "here and now." In the intricacy of languages that Contemporary Chaos takes into account along the four floors of the huge building which was once a cellulose production plant, the remarkable presence of painting, usually marginalised in great international exhibitions, has a great significance beside videos, photos, sculptures and installations.

　　As Paparoni writes in the catalogue: "Art has not operated in the realm of language for several decades. Its goal is the reflection on the present, on how and why society has assumed its present connotations. This explains the many works that present contaminations with photojournalism, the many references to the history of art and the narrative-symbolic turning point of painting. […] Many artworks created in the new millennium tend to accommodate narratives that do not transcend reality, while at the same time amplifying the symbolic system. In cases in which, in contrast with the so-called global culture, contemporary narrative traces the work back to the author's history and place in the world, the symbolic dimension extends its meaning universally."


　　Artists: Ljubodrag Andric (Canada), Paola Angelini (Italy), Ghazaleh Avarzamani (Iran),Nadiah Bamadhaj (Malaysia), Domenico Bianchi (Italy), Andrea Bianconi (Italy), Thomas Braida (Italy), Vanni Cuoghi (Italy), Espen Dietrichson (Norway), Lars Elling (Norway),Sergio Fermariello (Italy), Barnaba Fornasetti/Valeria Manzi (Italy), Letizia Fornasieri (Italy),Giovanni Frangi (Italy), Helgi Torgils Friejónsson (Iceland), Daniel & Geo Fuchs (Germany),Daniele Galliano (Italy), Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (USA), Gottfried Helnwein (Austria/Ireland), Paolo Iacchetti (Italy), Liu Jianhua (China), Bree Jonson (Philippines),Tamás Kaszás (Hungary), Ruprecht von Kaufmann (Germany), Chiara Lecca (Italy), Justin Lim (Malaysia), Sverre Malling (Norway), Masbedo (Italy), Sebastiano Mauri (Italy), Rafael Megall (Armenia), Alessandro Mendini (Italy), Maria Mulas (Italy), Kristoffer Myskja(Norway), Marco Neri (Italy), Nunzio (Italy), Georg Óskar (Iceland), Tony Oursler (USA),Ruben Pang (Singapore), Francesco Polenghi (Italy), Laurent Reypens (Belgium), Bernardí Roig (Spain), Anne Samat (Malaysia), Nicola Samorì (Italy), Christoph Schirmer (Austria),Andres Serrano (USA), Vibeke Slyngstad (Norway), Doug and Mike Starn (USA), Tjook (Netherlands), Liliane Tomasko (Switzerland), Natee Utarit (Thailand), Ronald Ventura(Philippines), Nicola Verlato (Italy), Luis Vidal (Spain), Wang Guangyi (China), Wang Qingsong (China), Wang Youshen (China), Peter Welz (Germany), Rose Wylie (United Kingdom), Sun Xun (China), Yue Minjun (China).
　　Demetrio Paparoni: Art critic, curator, and essayist, Demetrio Paparoni was born in Siracusa, Italy, in 1954 and currently lives in Milan. In 1983 he founded the contemporary art magazine Tema Celeste and the publishing house of the same name, which he managed until the year 2000. In 1981 he received a temporary faculty appointment to teach contemporary art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 1996 to 1998 he taught History of Contemporary Art in the Department of Architecture at the University of Catania (at its satellite campus in Siracusa). He taught History of Modern Art for the same department between 2003 and 2008.


　　In 2010 he wrote the sections on contemporary art and religious iconography for the fourth volume of the 21st-century Treccani Encyclopedia. For the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993,Paparoni curated Abstracta in the Italian pavilion. That same year he curated the exhibition Italia/America, L'astrazione ridefinita at the National Gallery of Modern Art in San Marino.In 1996 he collaborated with the Fundación Reina Sofía de Madrid for the exhibit Nuevas Abstracciones at the Palacio de Velázquez in Madrid and at the Galería de Arte Moderno in Barcelona. That same year he became a promoter for the launching of Sicily's first Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea in Siracusa, for which he was director until 1998. Among the many exhibits which he has curated are Eretica (Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo 2006),Mentalgrafie/Viaggio nell'arte contemporanea italiana (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2007),España 1957- 2007 (Palazzo Riso, Palermo, 2008), Surreal versus Surrealism (IVAM,Valencia, 2011) and The New Frontier of the Painting (Fondazione Stelline, Milano 2017).He has also contributed to monographs for recent anthological exhibitions in Italy on the works of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David LaChapelle, Edward Hopper and Roy Lichtenstein. He has curated large exhibitions in public spaces for Anish Kapoor (Milan, 2011) Tony Ourser (Milan 2011) and Wang Guangyi (La Coruña, Spagna,2015). He has written introductions for catalogues on artists including Li Songsong, David Salle, Vik Muniz, Peter Halley, Günter Brus, Sean Scully, Jim Dine, Zhang Huan, Wang Guangyi, Ding Yi, Jenny Saville and Mike and Doug Starn. Paparoni has created multiple TV documentaries for the Rai Educational channel. He has written and edited numerous books and monographs, including those on Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (2001), Brian Eno & Mimmo Paladino (2001), Chuck Close (2002), Jonathan Lasker (2002), Bernardí Roig,(2009), Wang Guangyi (2013), Rafael Megall (2014), Morten Viskum (2016), LjubodragAndric (2016), Vibeke Slyngstad (2017), Natee Utarit (2018), Ronald Ventura (2018).