亚洲展讯 | 青烟 - 李真新作展
展名 / Title: 青烟 - 李真新作展
Ethereal Cloud - Li Chen New Works
展览时间 / Duration: 2019.12.14 (Sat）- 2020.03.01 (Sun)
开幕式 / Opening: 2019.12.14 (Sat) 3:00pm
展览地点 / Venue: 亚洲艺术中心（北京）
Asia Art Center (Beijing)
北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路2号大山子798艺术区（周一休馆）
Dashanzi 798 Art District, No.2, Jiuxianqiao Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing
青烟 - 李真新作展
亚洲艺术中心荣幸地宣布将于2019年12月14日举办“青烟 - 李真新作展”。艺术家李真在当代艺术界享有盛誉。他的雕塑解决了诸多矛盾统一的因素，其作品不受西方雕塑既有造型语言的束缚，而是在创作上尝试寻找和构建东方雕塑的话语权。“青烟”系列作品屏弃艺术符号的复杂性，赋予固态化的（雕塑）烟云，御驾万千，表现东方哲思的能量与灵气。
日藏 · 月风 Eclipse · Twilight Breeze
铜 Bronze 2016
日藏 · 月风（局部） Eclipse · Twilight Breeze (Detail)
而最新青烟系列绘画作品，用缜密的水墨线条催生一种自我原生语言，幻化为山石、文字，意象无穷，使作品有着自然生成的形态，既独特又光怪且无限繁殖。
棉麻 194.10 Cotton and Linen 194.10
棉麻、 墨 Ink on Cotton and Linen
180x37cmx2 2019
李真“青烟”系列的创作始于2011年，之后发展出现各种诡谲多变如枯木，人兽，又如怀素之狂草。其形怪异，宛若深邃宇宙中的飞石，产生写意抽象的对峙与张力。而作品更可任意旋转观看，李真曾说：“若创作初行是以一摄多，那今日之青烟法影即是众流归一。” 不论何种角度皆自成一体，“一相四观”是青烟系列作品的独特魔幻视角，正是李真寻找古典又具当代性的新东方精神，真切表达青烟“不着于天地”的状态。
棉布 199.1 Cotton 199.1
布面水墨 Ink on Cloth 73x73cm
2019
银黑卡 197.13-3（局部）
Sliverand Black on Cardboard 197.13-3 (Detail)
纸本综合材料 Mixed Media on Paper
39x54.2cm; 54.2x39cm
2019
古油纸 1910.12（局部）
Vintage Oiled Paper 1910.12 (Detail)
纸本综合材料 Mixed Media on Paper
151x175cm; 175x151cm 2019
为求探究“青烟”，本次特别展出李真上世纪八十至九十年代精选相关的早期水墨及雕塑手稿和云形图腾作品。而他的脉络是如何突破形式主义藩篱，形成有机形态，使作品诗境飘逸而又思维缜密，虚静玄想和旷放超逸的想像力交融与共，其艺术迸发超越西方艺术形式的语言，从而诞生出熔铸一炉的“原”语言。李真再现艺术新局面，那“写意”中的“无意”，充满新东方意涵的文化象征。
银黑素描 197.16-1 Sliver Black Drawing 197.16-1
纸本综合材料 Mixed Media on Paper
53.2×38.2cm；38.2×53.2cm 2019
万壑争空·亢1号 （局部）
Multitude of Altitudes · Uprising (I) (Detail)
铜 Bronze 2018
左 / 右 Left / Right:
手稿 · 万壑争空 · 亢1号 Multitude of Altitudes · Uprising (I)
纸本综合材料 Mixed Media on Paper
53x37cm 2018
展览将持续至2020年3月1日。
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关于艺术家
李真，1963年生于中国台湾云林，目前创作于台中、上海两地，以其兼融东方气韵及西方美学的雕塑作品，获得国际关注。
李真早期涉猎佛学道家等，在自由创作的精神中融入自我摄心之情感，吸收东方传统与西方雕塑及原始非洲大洋洲等艺术养分，更结合当代思维，作品不受单一传统束缚，呈现既重又轻、浑然天成的效果。李真透过艺术进行个人的“精神疗伤”，在俗世中寻找乐土，在作品中创造灵性空间，用幽默诙谐的方式暗喻世事，希望欣赏者能察觉其中的精神元素。
1999年于台北举办首次个展，也是首位在威尼斯双年展举办个展的华人艺术家。其作品相继于中国美术馆（北京）、震旦博物馆（上海）、苏州博物馆（苏州）、新加坡美术馆（新加坡）、中正纪念堂广场（台北）、弗莱伊美术馆（西雅图）、旺多姆广场（巴黎）、台北当代艺术馆（台北）进行展出。
Ethereal Cloud - Li Chen New Works
Asia Art Center is pleased to announce the opening of Ethereal Cloud - Li Chen New Works. As a sculptor with a high reputation in the contemporary art world, Li Chen’s sculptures solved many factors of contradictions and unification. Li Chen has a signature sculptural style that is unbound by the Western modeling language; instead, he seeks to construct the discourse power of oriental sculpture through his practice. Discarding the complexity of artistic symbols, the Ethereal Cloud series endows the solid (sculpture) with clouds of smoke, and displays the energy and spirit of oriental philosophical thinking.
万丈金乌・千葵之一 Radiance．Chiliadal Blossom (I)
铜 Bronze 2018
万丈金乌・千葵之一（局部） Radiance．Chiliadal Blossom (I) (Detail)
The latest Ethereal Cloud painting series uses dense ink lines to create a native language, where the lines are transformed into images of rocks, characters and so on. It makes the works having a spontaneous and natural form, which is unique, eccentric and infinitely reproducing.
古纸 199.3（局部） Vintage Paper 199.3 (Detail)
纸本综合材料 Mixed Media on Paper
131.7x150.2cm 2019
银黑素描 197.12 Sliver Black Drawing 197.12
纸本综合材料 Mixed Media on paper
53.2×38.2cm；38.2×53.2cm 2019
Li Chen's Ethereal Cloud series can be traced back to 2011. Since then his works has undergone various changes, sometimes resembling deadwood, figures, or the cursive calligraphy of Huaisu. The eccentric shapes seem like flying rocks from the deep universe, creating a dynamic tension of freehand abstraction. As Li Chen once said, “If the initial stage of my creation is me trying to capture all in one, the Ethereal Cloud of today is all spontaneously falling into one.” Ethereal Cloud can be viewed from any direction and remains self-contained. This “four views in one picture” perspective is unique of the Ethereal Cloud series works. It is the new oriental spirit that Li Chen is in search for – inheriting the classical while being contemporary, fully expressing the state of "Unrestrained between Heaven and Earth".
银黑卡 197.13-2（局部）
Sliverand Black on Cardboard 197.13-2 (Detail)
纸本综合材料 Mixed Media on Paper
39x54.2cm; 54.2x39cm 2019
水墨 1910.15（局部） Ink 1910.15 (Detail)
纸本水墨 Ink on Paper
53.2x38.2cm; 38.2x53.2cm 2019
棉麻 194.7 Cotton and Linen 194.7
棉麻、墨 Ink on Cotton and Linen
32x32cm 2019
For a thorough investigation of the Ethereal Cloud, this exhibition also features Li Chen's selected early ink paintings, sculpture sketches and cloud shape totem works from the 1980s to the 1990s. These early works indicate how Li Chen has evolved from formalism to organic forms with poetic and meticulous quality. Integrating classical tranquility and wild imagination, Li Chen’s artistic expression transcends the language of Western artistic forms and generates his “native” language. The spontaneity in his freehand style abounds with cultural symbols of the new oriental spirit.
无心海 Clear Soul
纸本水墨 Ink on Paper 61.4x16.9cm
1997
The exhibition will be on view till March 1st, 2020.
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About the Artist
Li Chen was born in 1963, and currently works in Taichung and Shanghai.
Li Chen accomplished a style which has fully liberated itself from the confines of tradition by incorporating feelings of self-mindfulness and interpretations of Chinese classics from the Buddhist and Taoist traditions, blended with contemporary thought, evincing a remarkably refreshing and natural effect of appearing both heavy and light. The underlying aesthetic principles in Li’s sculpture are based not only on a “dual composition” of Eastern traditions and Western sculptural language but also on an ongoing dialogue with the spiritual and material cultures of Africa and Oceania. Furthermore, Li Chen’s art work aspires to a spiritual arts therapy, uncovering a wealth of joy amidst the simple life’s pleasures, innovating a spiritual space through the pieces, as humor embellishes a metaphorical engagement with the world.
Since his works first appeared to the public in 1999 in Taipei, Li Chen has been an active figure both domestic and abroad. Li participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale, the first artist of Chinese descent to be invited as an individual to arrange a solo exhibition in the event. Li Chen has presented solo exhibitions at National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Aurora Museum (Shanghai), Suzhou Museum (Suzhou), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei), Frye Art Museum (Seattle), Place Vendôme (Paris), Taipei MoCA (Taipei) and so on.
李真平面作品 相关阅读
-艺术家重要展览回顾-
- Review of Selected Li Chen Exhibitions -
佛陀·中国——甘肃省博物馆藏早期佛教文物展
Buddha·China——Buddhist Objects in the Early Stage from the Gansu Provincial Museum
苏州博物馆 苏州 2019
Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, 2019
古往今来 - 李真个展
Through the Ages - Li Chen Solo Exhibition
震旦博物馆, 上海，2018
Aurora Museum, Shanghai, 2018
“世”一场自愿非愿的游浮 - 李真个展
Being / Voluntary Drift - Li Chen Solo Exhibition
台北当代艺术馆，台北， 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, 2017