上海狮語｜《无声之中》陈开个展｜8.13 开幕
无 声 之 中
IN SILENCE
上海狮語画廊
Leo Gallery Shanghai
艺术家 | Artist
陈开 Chen Kai
开幕 | Opening
2022.8.13（周六 Sat.）4-6pm
展期｜Duration 2022.08.13-09.18
地址｜上海徐汇区武康路376号武康庭内
Venue | Ferguson Lane, 376 Wu Kang Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai
展览门票｜Exhibition Tickets: 15/RMB
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前 言Foreword
冥冥之中，独见晓焉；
无声之中，独闻和焉。
《庄子·外篇·天地》
以自然和宇宙为灵感，陈开将于狮語画廊展开个人在中国大陆备受期待的第二次个人展览「无声之中」，呈现其在2021-2022年聚焦于画面结构与色彩研究的全新系列作品，展现艺术家对于自然之道、命运不可抗性、人与宇宙的关系等命题的思考。展览将特别展出艺术家创作生涯迄今为止最大尺幅的4米全景构图的突破之作。
超新星（P.） Supernova (P.）
亚麻亚克力 Acrylic on Linen
150 x 400 x 4cm，2022
2022年，全球范围内的战争与环境危机持续升级，大量负面碎片信息侵蚀着人们的神经；同年7月，韦布空间望远镜拍摄的首张深空照公布，宇宙最远处的清晰图像第一次震撼出现在世人眼前。仿若位于光谱两极的新闻事件形成了奇妙的呼应，纷扰的社会现实下人们对宁静与深邃的渴望从未如此强烈。陈开以画笔来对抗现实情境中的疲惫无力。延续自2020年初开启的「超新星」系列，他以点彩建构了介于宇宙星空与纯粹抽象间的冥思场域。每一个色点都凝聚着细腻情感与时间印记，象征着艺术家对创造一个仍有光明与美的世界的期许，以及重建自身与外界联系的努力。
超新星（E.） Supernova (E.)
亚麻亚克力 Acrylic on Linen
140 x 180 x 4cm，2021-2022
在本次展出系列中，艺术家聚焦于绘画本体的内容与形式，在画面结构、色调与尺幅上做出新的尝试。延续光学调色技术，陈开在「超新星」系列新作中加强对于画面纵深层次的处理。不同尺寸、明度与饱和度的色点在暗色背景中互动，从而构成星空般的具有深度和质感的抽象空间。「光的变奏」则以抽象乐曲乐谱为灵感锚点。陈开以音符组成乐节、乐句、乐段的逻辑，安排画面中的彩点。点与点间节奏的建立，也串联起了流动视觉韵律的“光的银河”。
光的变奏 1 Light Variations 1
亚麻亚克力 Acrylic on Linen
150 x 200 x 4cm，2022
对于艺术家标志性视觉整体形式的蓄意打破亦是本次展览的另一突破。自2021年起，陈开开始思考如何寻求点彩绘画的变化。受到极少主义艺术家卢西奥·丰塔纳（Lucio Fontana）的启发，陈开在「无声之中」系列繁密的星河中加入直线元素。简单的线条利落地落在彩点之间，创造有如流星划破天际的运动效果。艺术家惊异于单一根线就对整体画面做出的改变。通过在沉静、冥想式的视觉氛围中塑造紧张感，陈开展开对线的意义的联想，并借此探讨极简与极繁、静态与动态的边界所在。
陈开自述道，下坠的流星是自己对命运的不可抗性的思考，改变往往存在于不经意间的一瞬。他以自己的方式描绘着星夜、流星、银河，在冥思中体悟生命以及更宏大意义上天地的流变。在这个意义上而言，「无声之中」是一片宁静的悬停地，此刻大音希声，“万物一府，死生同状”1；它亦是一场对所有人的赤诚邀约——邀请你更深入、更仔细地踏入这片深空，凝望恒星、流星与超新星在这一刻为世人暂停，静听宇宙无言的寂寥与湮灭。或许也正在此刻，我们得以在冥冥之中重构联结，获得平静中充满新生希望的慰藉。
1. 出自《庄子·外篇·天地》
无声之中（初稿） In Silence (Origin)
亚麻亚克力 Acrylic on Linen
80 x 100 x 4cm，2021-2022
He sees where there is the deepest obscurity;
He hears where there is no sound.
Chuang Tzu, Heaven and Earth
Leo Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Chen Kai's much-anticipated second solo exhibition in mainland of China - In Silence. This exhibition presents Chen’s series of new works from 2021-2022, inspired by nature and the universe. These pieces focus on the compositions and the study of color, conveying his thoughts on the ways of nature, the inevitability of fate, and the relationship between the individual and the universe. In particular, the exhibition will feature a breakthrough painting of a 4-meter panoramic composition, the largest work in the artist's creative career to date.
超新星（V.）1 Supernova (V.）1
亚麻亚克力、油彩 Acrylic and Oil on Linen
150 x 100 x 4cm，2021-2022
In 2022, the political and environmental crises on a global scale have continued to escalate, the borderless chaos of fragmented information negatively impacting everyone. In July of the same year, images from the James Webb Space Telescope were released, revealing to the world new depths of the universe in glorious technicolor, a glimpse of purity and possibility. The dipole moment of these facts of reality echo and provoke a longing for tranquility and profundity amidst the chaos of the seemingly never-ending crises. Using painting as the confrontation against exhaustion and powerlessness of the oppressed and disturbing environment, Chen continues the Supernova series that began in early 2020, furthering his method of pointillism as a means of meditation, presenting paintings that blur the boundaries between cosmic starry skies and pure abstraction. Each dot of color stands for delicate emotion and the passing of time, symbolizing the artist's urge to create a world of hope and beauty, and a deeper effort to reconnect himself with the outside world.
超新星（V.）1（局部） Supernova (V.）1 (Partial)
In these exhibited series, Chen focuses on the content and form of the painting, making new experiments in composition, tone, and scale of paintings. Continuing the optical mixture technique, Chen's new works from the Supernova series enhance the depth of the paintings. Dots of different sizes, brightness, and saturation interact with each other on dark backgrounds, forming an abstract space with immense depth and mesmerizing texture. Light Variations takes abstract music scores as inspiration. Chen arranges the colored dots in the paintings like musical notes in compositions: forming phrases, sentences, and paragraphs, focusing on the rhythm between the dots to construct the piece, creating a "galaxy of light" with a flowing visual rhythm.
无声之中 4 In Silence 4
亚麻亚克力 Acrylic on Linen
130 x 160 x 4cm，2021-2022
The breaking away from the artist's iconic pointillism as a whole is another breakthrough of this exhibition. Since 2021, Chen has been thinking about how to make changes in his pointillist works. Inspired by the minimalist artist Lucio Fontana, Chen added a straight line to the dense river of stars in the series In Silence. The simple line falls sharply between the colored dots, creating an effect of movement like a meteor breaking through the sky. The artist is amazed by the change a single line can make to the overall painting. By creating a sense of tension in an otherwise quiet, meditative visual atmosphere, Chen re-evaluates the meaning of lines, using them to explore the boundaries between minimalism and maximalism, between the static and the dynamic.
无声之中 4（局部） In Silence 4 (Partial)
Chen describes the falling meteors as his reflection on the inevitability of fate: that change often happens in a moment of an unexpected accident. Chen attempts to create his version of starry nights, meteors, and the Milky Way through his way of meditation, to capture the changes in our universe. In this sense, In Silence is a space of tranquility, where the greatest sound is in silence, and "all things belong to the one treasury, and that death and life should be viewed in the same way"1 It is also a sincere invitation to all viewers to look deeper and closer at the skies above, gazing at stellar mysteries, pausing the world for a moment, and witnessing the silence and annihilation of the universe. Perhaps it is also at this moment that we can reconnect with each other, with the peace and consolation offered by the precious silence.
1. Chuang Tzu, Heaven and Earth. Translated by James Legge.
陈开 Chen Kai
陈开，1990年生于武汉，2012年获得中国湖北美术学院油画专业的学士学位，2018年获得旧金山艺术学院的硕士学位。现工作生活于上海。
陈开的创作探索了绘画色彩理论，抽象和极简主义思想。他以繁覆的冥想性阴影标记，点画方式，色调分层模型来深入探讨抽象绘画的多重表达形式与情感融入，对「崇高」这一理念做出更为广泛的思考和开拓。他近期的创作以自然和宇宙为灵感，通过点彩和光学调色描绘出宇宙深空的寂静和湮灭。他的独特的视觉语言挑战观众进行更深入、更细致的观看；同时，旨在为人们提供一个冥思与慰藉的空间。
陈开于2018年获得Headlands艺术中心研究奖，并分别于2019年及2020年获得斯沃琪艺术和平饭店和上海狮语画廊的艺术家驻地项目。他的作品已参展于狮語画廊、上海021Art艺博会、旧金山Untitled艺博会、Headlands艺术中心、福特梅森艺术文化中心、Root Divison艺术中心、Live Worms画廊、CARe Doug Adams画廊、旧金山艺术学院等，并在美国纽约、旧金山、洛杉矶、澳大利亚和中国上海的许多私人收藏中。
Chen Kai, born 1990 in Wuhan, received his BFA in Oil Painting from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 2012, and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2018. He currently lives and works in Shanghai.
Chen Kai’s abstract paintings explore ideas of color theory, abstraction and minimalism. Through laborious and meditative stippling with optical mixture technique, the layering of colors and the modeling of tones, Chen attempts to complicate the multiple forms of expression and emotional integration of abstract painting, aiming to expand and transcend the definition of the "Sublime". His recent works are inspired by nature and the universe, depicting the silence and annihilation of the cosmos. His practice and distinct visual language challenge the viewer to look deeper and closer, at the same time, it aims to offer the viewer a space for pure meditation and consolation.
Chen was the recipient of the Headlands Graduate Fellowship Award in 2018, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Fellowship in 2019 and Leo Gallery Artist Residency in 2020. Chen’s works have been included in exhibitions at Leo Gallery, ART 021 Shanghai, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Root Division, Live Worms Gallery, CARe Doug Adams Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, among others. Chen’s works are in many prestige private collections in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Brisbane, Australia and Shanghai, China.
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