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上海狮語｜光·迹: 陈开&布拉德·布朗｜9月23日开幕
狮語画廊荣幸宣布将于2023年9月23日至10月29日呈现《光·迹:陈开&布拉德·布朗》，本次展览将汇集布拉德·布朗创作生涯中最具代表性的两个系列作品与陈开近一年内的十余件新作。
Leo Gallery is delighted to present Shimmer and Stain: Chen Kai and Brad Brown, on view from September 23 to October 29, 2023. The exhibition will feature two of the most iconic series of works from Brad Brown's career, as well as more than a dozen new works by Chen Kai from the past two years.
Sunlight pours through the mist on San Francisco Bay, illuminating the vast Pacific Ocean. On the other side of the waves lie Shanghai's Huangpu and Suzhou River, which flow tranquilly into the sea. Brad Brown and Chen Kai's abstract paintings engage in a fluid dialogue between San Francisco and Shanghai. Their series of paintings represents an accumulation of time, the painters’ visual archives on canvas, and organisms of poetry and imagination that flow between brushstrokes and colors.
布拉德·布朗于1987年开始创作木板油画系列“The Look Stains”于2001年开始创作木板油画“Piece”，两个系列至今保持“未完成”的状态。不再龃龉于“完成”与“未完成”的二元对立, 画家的日常创作所生成的变化如植物般生机盎然地生长。系列中上千幅画作编织成一张视觉信息网络, 通过装订、剪贴、重组变化着形态。它们如同连环画或幻灯片, 每幅画作中的事物以奇妙地方式产生关联、轻柔地说笑。之于布拉德·布朗, 他的画作之间相互独立，但从不孤单。
Brad Brown began his series of works on paper, The Look Stains, in 1987; and a body of oil paintings on cradled panels titled, Piece, in 2001. Both projects have remained “unfinished” ever since. No longer restricted by the dichotomy between the states of "completed" and the "not completed", the artist's daily creations grow and thrive like plants with vitality. The series comprises thousands of paintings arranged into a network of visual information that undergoes constant transformation through the painter's assembling, cutting, pasting, and reorganizing. The objects in each painting are splendidly connected and interact with each other like a comic strip or slide show. Each of Brown's paintings is independent, yet never alone.
陈开的布面丙烯绘画不仅局限于大尺幅抽象画作所展现的崇高感, 更为明晰的是, 点彩绘画和对细节的体验是画家与画作材料产生情感驱动的一部分。在“重复与差异”中, 重复是新, 是细微的差别、也是超越基础规则的尝试。点彩画的笔触与变幻的色块之间是游牧式的流动与安营。陈开曾在旧金山湾区附近的萨利托海岸国家公园进行了一年的艺术家驻留项目, 工作室窗外, 毗邻太平洋的晨昏雾霭, 风中摩挲舞蹈的桉树, 成为记忆流转于画布上层叠的光影。
Chen Kai's paintings go beyond the sense of sublime arising from large-scale abstraction. What stands out is Chen’s persistence in experiencing details through pointillism, which partially provokes the painter’s emotion towards his painting materials. In “repetition and difference,” the “repetition” highlights novelty, nuance, and an attempt to go beyond the ground rules. Nomadic flow exists between brushstrokes and shifting colors in pointillism. Chen Kai spent a year in an artist-in-residency program at the Marin Headlands in Sausalito near San Francisco where he could view morning mists, the gentle twilight of the Pacific Ocean, and eucalyptus trees dancing in the wind from his studio window. These eventually transformed into layers of light and shadows on his canvas.
无论是布拉德·布朗根茎般生长的画作，还是陈开非中心化的“星图”, 都指向艺术对人内心世界与日常生活的表达与突破。你可以理解一幅画, 而无需知道它被固然定义为何。
Whether it's Brad Brown's paintings, which grow like rhizomes, or Chen Kai's paintings, scattered like "starry nights", they all ultimately lead to the expression of one's inner world and a breakthrough from mundane life. You can appreciate a painting without necessarily knowing how it's defined.
文/于潍颖Text / Yu Weiying
Chen Kai’s work deeply rooted in abstraction and the sublime, explores the intersections of light, color, nature, and the cosmos. Deploying laborious pointillism and glazing technique, He transforms simple ideas—be it a hue, a dot, or a word—into layered expressions of identity and emotion. The canvas is the artist’s sanctuary, a space where he fully embodies his being and potential. Through the meditative act of painting, Chen invites viewers to embark on a journey, one that transcends the visual and delves into the profound dialogues of self, space, and the sublime.
Chen Kai 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, and 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.