星空间｜『从漫画中来，到绘画中去——烟囱&温凌双个展』即将开幕
星空间将于2018年7月28日至9月2日举办“从漫画中来，到绘画中去——烟囱&温凌双人展”。该展是两位艺术家继2011年“大暑”、2014年“春分”之后的第三次联袂展出。“漫画”是一个历史悠久的画种，古今中西许多艺术家的绘画之路都与漫画密不可分；但在中国当代艺术的语境内，“漫画”与“绘画”，特别是与“严肃绘画”长期处于水火不相容的紧张关系中。这种现状，与持续多年的“小清新”绘画整体泛滥有关。什么样的漫画能够成为当代绘画变革中的积极因素？艺术家又是如何在其中挖掘创新灵感的？烟囱、温凌将用各自近三年来的新作品来回应“从漫画到绘画”的诸多命题。
烟囱 Yan Cong / 黑雪人 Black Snowman / 布面丙烯 Acrylic on canvas / 200x152cm / 2014
温凌（b.1976）与烟囱（b.1983）均毕业于中央美术学院，他们是2003年通过互联网的漫画BBS结识的。由于抱有共同的理念，他们都曾热情地参与了最初以“反对日式商业漫画、寻找中国漫画独特性”为宗旨的青年亚文化团体“绿校”，并随着这一具有乌托邦色彩的组织日渐偏离他们的理想而选择退出。在个人的艺术创作中，他们始终重视漫画带给他们的启发，关注的重点是当代的独立漫画（或称地下漫画）与20世纪的经典漫画。他们从中汲取的，不仅是漫画特有的造型风格、叙事技巧等因素，也包括了漫画积极反映现实生活的深厚传统，甚至是其讽刺与幽默的精神意味。
温凌 Wen Ling / 迷彩T恤衫2016之12 Camouflage T-shirt 2016 No.12 / 布上油画 Oil on canvas / 150x150cm / 2016
经过十余年的不断探索，同样深受漫画影响的两位艺术家，其作品却显得愈发不同。本次展出了他们各自借鉴漫画（comics）的“多格”形式创作的布面绘画。其中温凌的一组他经常称之为“迷彩系列”，他用漫画中习以为常的分隔方式，打破了既有的绘画构图原则，并将“迷彩”这种特殊的视觉语汇，无处不在地遍布在画面上，形成了接近于表现主义的个人特色；而烟囱展出的一组作品则可称之为“故事”，他用丙烯和油彩在画布上创作本不属于“架上绘画（通常对严肃绘画的称谓）”的多格漫画，并全部以画家自己为第一人称，因此也常常被误读为是他自己的真实经历。
在本次展览的开幕前后，温凌与烟囱还将延续2015年香港巴塞尔期间创作《香港大接龙》的方式，在星空间共同完成一幅绘画作品，继续他们关于漫画的对话，也投入一场关于绘画的较量。
烟囱 Yan Cong / 谈话之一 Conversation No.1 / 布面丙烯 Acrylic on canvas / 120×90cm / 2015
24 July 2018, Beijing — The third dual exhibition of Yan Cong and Wen Ling, From Comics to Paintings, will take place in Star Gallery from 28 July to 2 September 2018, preceded by Great Heat in 2011 and Vernal Equinox in 2014.
温凌 Wen Ling / 迷彩T恤衫2017之3 Camouflage T-shirt 2017 No.3 / 布面油画 Oil on canvas / 78x76cm / 2017
Comics have existed as a type of drawing for a long time. Many an artist, past and present, at home and abroad, has been closely involved with this art form in their painting. In today’s China, however, comics are having a rather tense if not hostile relationship with paintings, especially those labeled as the “high art”. This situation has something to do with the overall explosion of “indie painting” in China over the past several years. What kind of comics would become a positive element in the transformation of contemporary painting? How would an artist get inspired by comics during the process? Yan Cong and Wen Ling will answer these questions in regard to the subject — “From Comics to Paintings” — with their latest canvases of the past three years.
烟囱 Yan Cong / 蛙鸣 Frog Croak / 布面油画 Oil on canvas / 200x152cmx2 / 2018
CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts) alumni Wen Ling (b. 1976) and Yan Cong (b. 1983) knew each other from an online bulletin of a comic clique. Sharing the same ideals, they joined Lv Xiao, a youth subculture group aiming at “resisting commercial Japanese comics and striving for the uniqueness as Chinese comic artists”. Once active participators, the two chose to quit together when they eventually found their vision parting with the utopian group’s. Wen Ling and Yan Cong always emphasize the inspirations they draw from comics in their painting. They focus on the independent, or rather the underground works of their time, as well as the 20th century classics, from which they have not only derived the comic modeling styles and narrative strategies, but also the profound convention of this art form to reflect the reality, even its taste for humor and sarcasm.
温凌 Wen Ling / 迷彩T恤衫2016之11 Camouflage T-shirt 2016 No.11 / 布上油画 Oil on canvas / 150x150cm / 2016
For a dozen years, the adventure of the two artists never ceased. Although they are both deeply influenced by comics, their works look increasingly different from each other’s. The canvases that will be seen in this exhibition are all painted in the form of “multi panels”, which are borrowed from comic strips. In a series Wen Ling often calls the Camouflage, he broke the accepted rules of composition with the commonly used panels in comic strips, and obtained his unique quasi-expressionistic style with the visual vocabulary of “camouflage”. A group of works by Yan Cong are veritably “comic stories”. He painted multipanel comic stories, which don’t usually belong with the easel painting, namely the “high-art” painting, with the traditional easel-painting medium, i.e. acrylic on canvas. All his works are first person narratives, which are often misread as real stories of his own.
烟囱&温凌 Yan Cong & Wen Ling / 香港大接龙之冲上云霄 The Crazy Comic Jam - Triumph to The Sky / 布面丙烯 Acrylic on canvas / 200×400cm / 2015
Before and during this upcoming exhibition in Star Gallery, Yan Cong and Wen Ling will collaborate in a way that they first called the The Crazy Comic Jam in 2015 at Art Basel, Hong Kong. This time, they are going to create a painting together, to resume their conversation in reference to comics, and to be the rivals of each other in painting.
从漫画中来，到绘画中去——烟囱&温凌双个展
开幕｜2018年7月28日，16时（周六）
展期｜2018年7月28日 - 9月2日
地点｜星空间
From Comics To Paintings: Yan Cong & Wen Ling Dual Exhibition
Opening｜16:00, Sat., 28 Jul., 2018
Duration｜28 Jul. – 2 Aug., 2018
Venue｜Star Gallery
开放时间／Gallery Hours
周二至周六12:00 - 18:00，周日及周一闭馆
12:00 –18:00, Tuesday to Saturday, closed on Sunday & Monday.
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