星空间丨张晖个展『张晖 2022-2023』将于10月21日开幕
张晖 2022—2023
Zhang Hui 2022-2023
艺术家 Artist
张晖
Zhang Hui
策展人 Curator
杨天歌
Yang Tiange
展期 Duration
2023.10.21 - 2023.11.26
星空间欣然宣布，即将于2023年10月21日呈现艺术家张晖个展，“张晖 2022-2023”，展出张晖近两年来创作的全新作品。展览由杨天歌担纲策展人。在展览期间将同步推出由设计师何浩设计的展览同名出版物。
Star Gallery is delighted to announce Zhang Hui's solo exhibition Zhang Hui 2022-2023 on October 21, 2023, featuring the latest works by Zhang Hui from the past two years. The exhibition is curated by Yang Tiange. A publication with the same title, designed by designer He Hao, will be released during the exhibition.
肖像 06
Portrait 06
布面丙烯
Acrylic on canvas
230 × 200 cm
2022
前言
“张晖个展 2022—2023”集中呈现了张晖近两年的新作，尤其是在人像与花卉题材上的进展与更新。展览同期出版的画册，则汇总了这两年的众多新作，以完成对于张晖近期工作的细致检索。
展览脱胎于对张晖创作生涯的细观，以及对近两年绘画进展的审视。回顾以往，张晖的画总是静谧的，形式上时常在简与繁的两极游走，整体看上去，内含着拉扯与张力，但气质上总是平静的，温文尔雅的。在历时三十余年的多主题的绘画中，张晖构建起了某种表里一致的特性，包括个人的形式语言、笔触与色彩、风格化的图式系统，以及图式系统内部的图像复沓。
2011年以来，在张晖系统化的作品中，有诸多固定的母题，尤其以自然题材和人像题材为主。本次展览呈现的人像和花卉既是对此类图式的回应，也是一种更新与延伸。在这两年的创作序列中，一个直观的变化便是对于愈加局部的物像进行的描绘：曾经的花卉一度是树枝的装点，后逐步演变为单枝的形态，进而脱离枝叶而独立；而及至这两年，单朵的花卉撑起了长与宽在2米以上的巨大画幅。同样的，从微型的“小飞人”系列（2010年以来）演变而来等身大的“站立的女子”系列（2020年至今），也在张晖近期的创作中愈加聚焦，演变为长与宽在2米以上的女子半身像（“肖像”系列）。面对大幅时，张晖的笔触看起来与小画无甚差异，线条仍然兼有急徐，用色看似不经意，却也足以使每张画自成一格。这种坦然的陈述、放松的挥洒，正是使得大画仍然显得轻盈的原因。那些最终构造于或简或繁的色层之上的线条，为画面注入了流动的气息，达到一种气韵生动的状态。
本次展览尤其呈现了张晖的“男女”系列，这是女人体、男人体裸像之后的最新进展。张晖延续了过往的创作方法，即以色彩平涂和线条勾勒为主要技法塑造图像，在画面中营造了宽敞的空间，也流露出一种敞明的心境。男与女的并立，揭示了张晖对于普遍的生命意识的感知，在数年的创作推进中，将性别的特性与融合性，综合地表达了出来。张晖关照着普遍的人，联系他以往的所有创作，这些画中之人，并非无中生有，而是切实存在、自有历史的人，张晖将他们独立于自然风景与城市风景之外，与其说要抽离他们生存语境，不如说是希望反应更加普遍的生命状态——那种离开了一时一地后，众人仍能共享的生命感知。
Foreword
"Zhang Hui Solo Exhibition 2022-2023" focuses on Zhang Hui's recent works from the past two years, particularly the progress and updates in portraiture and floral themes. A catalogue is published to coincide with the exhibition, compiling all the new works over the past two years, and providing a detailed overview of Zhang Hui's recent work.
The exhibition stems from a close examination of Zhang Hui's creative career and a review of his painting progress in the past two years. In retrospect, Zhang Hui's paintings have always been serene, often oscillating between simplicity and complexity in terms of form. Overall, they contain tension and pull, but the temperament is always calm and refined. Over more than thirty years of painting with various themes, Zhang Hui has built a consistent set of characteristics, including his personal visual language, brushwork, color palette, stylized schematic systems, and the repetition of images within the schematic systems.
Since 2011, in Zhang Hui's systematic works, there have been several recurring themes, with a focus on natural and portraiture subjects. The portraits and flowers presented in this exhibition are both a response to these patterns and a form of renewal and extension. One noticeable change in this two-year creative sequence is the depiction of increasingly localized objects. Flowers that were once decorative elements on branches evolved into single stem forms and eventually became independent of branches. In the past two years, single flowers have expanded to fill canvas sizes exceeding 2 meters in length and width. Similarly, the "Standing Women" series, which grew from the miniature "The Flying of Three" series (since 2010), has evolved into life-sized "Portrait" series (from 2020 onwards). When working with the large format, Zhang Hui's brushwork appears similar to that of his small paintings, with lines encompassing both rapid and slow movements, and colors that seem casual but are enough to make each painting unique. This candid statement and free brushwork are what make large paintings appear light and relaxed. The lines that ultimately form on layers of varying complexity infuse the picture with a fluidity that achieves a state of vivacity.
In particular, this exhibition presents Zhang Hui's "Man and Woman" series, the latest development after the single nudes of man and woman. Zhang Hui extends his previous approach of creating flat surfaces and contouring lines, creating spaciousness in the compositions that reveals an open state of mind. The juxtaposition of male and female figures reveals Zhang Hui's perception of the universal consciousness of life. Over several years of artistic exploration, Zhang has expressed the characteristics and integration of gender in a comprehensive manner. In the context of all his previous works, Zhang Hui's gaze is directed towards ordinary people. The individuals depicted in his paintings are not mere creations but real, existent individuals with their own personal histories. Zhang Hui places them independently of natural landscapes and urban scenery. Rather than attempting to detach them from their life contexts, he aims to reflect a more universal aspect of human existence -- the sense of life that people can share beyond time and place, transcending the immediate and the specific.
花朵 2022 09
The Blossom 2022 09
布面丙烯
Acrylic on canvas
230 × 200 cm
2022
关于艺术家
ABOUT THE ARTIST
张晖(b.1968)，1987年至1991年就读于中央美术学院壁画系，2000年赴美进入明尼阿波利斯艺术设计学院攻读硕士学位，期间尝试新媒体艺术创作，“在绘画以外寻求一些新的体验”。2003年，从三幅石版画开始，张晖重新回归绘画创作，但随着视野的拓展和观念的更新，他更加注重平面的审美趣味——在色彩与笔触的组织上趋于简洁、明快。
张晖对绘画的追求是背离写实主义的，他表达的皆是内心的经历。这种与对象的距离感成就了他的绘画，以及使绘画服务于他与情感的共处方式。他受自己生活态度的影响，不认可当代绘画题材的任意性，并有意识地在自己的创作形态上做出弥补。从他的绘画中可以直观地感受到绘画传统在当代的历史延续。西方古典和中国传统审美的程式被他用来书写时下的生命感悟。他能够无视文化的规训，将过去经典与身边的新鲜经验平等对待，从熟悉走回陌生，让人在细致、投入的观看中超越一切既定的成见与隔阂，得到心灵的慰藉。
关于策展人
ABOUT THE CURATOR
杨天歌，策展人、写作者。北丘当代美术馆顾问策展人。他曾于云美术馆、69ARTCAMPUS、北丘当代美术馆、户尔空间、歌德学院、中间美术馆等地策划“兴之所至”、“多少次呵，我离开了我日常的生活”、“晦暗里，身体循光深潜”、“合作，为了污染，不为完善”、“佛系青年：冷漠与共”、“海面之下是火山”等展览。他是新世纪当代艺术基金会“墨缘：艺术史研究与写作资助计划”中国当代艺术写作方向的首届获奖学者。他长期关注二十世纪中国本土与国际当代艺术，并在近期的研究中聚焦于人文地理视角下的身体、身份认同与民族形式建构问题。