美成新展 | “何迟：繁华”将于2月12日开幕
美成空间荣幸地宣布将于2023年2月12日推出艺术家何迟个展“繁华”，展览由策展人王澈策划呈现，将持续展出至3月26日。
书法是何迟自由丰富的艺术创作中一个重要的类型。2004年起，何迟开始用独特的方式临摹书法史上的经典作品。他意图以这种述而不作的方式，度过其他创造性工作之外的时间。
“繁华”展出的主要是何迟2019至2020两年间研究和临习唐楷的作品。中国书法到了唐代，艺术法则趋于完备和极致，出现了垂范后世的楷模。这是华夏文明史上的繁华时代。欧阳询、颜真卿、柳公权，加上元代赵孟頫的作品，作为书法启蒙教育的首选范本，千百年来被人们反复临摹学习。其中体现的“书写性”代表了传统书法和绘画艺术最为核心的精神，是人性的顺遂和抒发。
何迟用五笔、五色循环轮换的方式临摹前代经典作品，表面上看，这一动作带有鲜明的反书写性，而反书写性，就是“反人性”，类似于宗教徒戒律森严的生命修习。艺术家通过这种方式，试图对个人身体里时潜时显的族群文化基因序列，进行清点和整顿；对民族共同体历史叙述中的惯性套路和固定想象，进行身体性的考察和缅怀。
繁华，既是何迟书法星光灿烂的外在视觉气象，也是汉字文明生生不息的内存骄傲记忆，更是当代华人朝朝暮暮的幻灭脆弱梦想。
何迟/ He Chi, 辉煌（节临颜真卿书多宝塔碑）-2019
Brilliance (A Copy of Yan Zhenqing’s Calligraphy of the Duobao Pagoda Stele Inscription - part) - 2019
2019，纸本⽔墨/ Ink on paper，75×145cm
It’s an honor for Gallery MC to announce the upcoming launch of artist He Chi’s solo exhibition “Flourish” on February 12, 2023. Curated by Wang Che, the exhibition will last until March 26.
Calligraphy is an important genre of He Chi’s free and rich art. Since 2004, he has been copying classics in the history of calligraphy in a unique fashion, a fashion that doesn’t require creation but can help pass on the classics in question. He attempts to kill his time after work through the practice.
“Flourish” mainly presents He Chi’s study-based copies of regular-script calligraphy from the Tang dynasty during the two years from 2019 to 2020. The dynasty saw the final steps of completion and perfection of the law of Chinese calligraphic art, hence the flourishing models for later calligraphy learners. That is an age of prosperity in the history of Chinese civilization. The pieces by Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan, plus those by Zhao Mengfu from the Yuan dynasty, have become the first choices of models for beginners in calligraphy learning, and been copied and studied over and over for a thousand years, more or less. The “particularity of handwriting” it embodies reflects that the core spirit of traditional calligraphy and painting is the wellbeing and expression of humanity.
He Chi copies calligraphic classics using five brushes of five different colors for different strokes in rotation. On the surface, this approach clearly goes against the particularity of handwriting, which also means it’s “against humanity”, reminding us of the religious practice of life based on rigorous discipline. In this way, the artist attempts to sort out and reorganize the gene sequence of ethnic culture that alternates between latency and dominance in an individual’s body; and to revisit and reminisce about, with the help of his body, the conventional patterns and imaginations in the historical narrative of a national community.
Flourishing, is not only the visual manifestation of He Chi’s colorful calligraphy, but also the proud memory of the everlasting civilization built with Chinese characters, and even a disillusive fragile dream that haunts contemporary Chinese day and night.
艺术家 | 何 迟
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何迟1978年生于甘肃，2002年毕业于西安美术学院。2007年组织雄黄社。2011年组织南山绘画小组。2012年发起创办“我们说要有空间于是就有了空间”。2012-2014年参与编辑《艺术时代》杂志。
何迟以诗性行动和概念创造为核心，作品不拘一格，跨越诗歌、行为、装置、雕塑、录像、摄影、绘画、书法、策展等各种方式和媒介，往往使普通的物品、方便的材料、传统的对象、日常的生活激发出照亮自体的光辉。他立足于反复无常的时代背井离乡的个人具体独特的生存感觉和生命体验，考察清理自身赖以生活难以脱离的母语世界，探索华人族群华人文化如何面对人类的各种当代问题和文明危机，以及个体如何革命，个人如何发明和参与共同体的创造性建构的可能。
他的主要个展包括：繁华，美成空间，深圳，2023；故居，外交公寓12号空间，北京，2022；古瓦（gū）者瓦（dū)，广州画廊，上海，2019；隔音，拾萬空间，北京，2018；隔馆，箭厂空间，北京，2016；燕子，墨方空间，北京，2016；珍珠，唐人当代艺术中心，北京，2014；老东西，杨画廊，北京，2013等。他参与的重要群展包括：首届北京艺术双年展，国家对外贸易基地，北京，2022；共生-诗与艺术的互文，OCAT深圳馆，深圳，2019；慈悲与智慧，外滩三号沪申画廊，上海，2017；第二天性，chi K11 Art Space，香港，2017；国风，外滩三号沪申画廊，上海，2015；不在图像中行动，唐人当代艺术中心，北京，2014；不合作方式2，格罗宁根美术馆，荷兰，2013；SEE/SAW：南山绘画小组，尤伦斯当代艺术中心，北京，2012；脉冲反应，时代美术馆，广州，2012；剩余的好看，唐人当代艺术中心，北京，2011；?％?...@?！＃饿?日，唐人当代艺术中心，北京，2007；“里里外外”之长征馆，里昂现代艺术馆，法国，2004；长征：一个行走中的视觉展示，昆明，2002等。
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He Chi, B.1978, Gansu Province, China. Graduated from the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. He co-founded the Xiong Huang Group in 2007 and the Nanshan Painting Group in 2012. He was also a co-founder of the We Said Let There Be Space and There Was Space in 2012. He was co-editor of the ARTTIME magazine from 2012-14.
Focusing on poetic actions and the creation of concepts, He Chi's works are not confined to specific forms but cover a variety of media, including poetry, performance art, installation, sculpture, video, photography, painting, calligraphy and curation, among others. His works usually illuminate the brilliance of ordinary objects, found materials, traditional subjects, and daily life. Grounded in his unique sense of survival and life experience of being uprooted from his hometown in the age of uncertainty, he sought to investigate and clarify his native linguistic world in which he inescapably abides. He attempts to explore how Chinese people and culture face humanity’s various contemporary problems and civilizational crises, how individuals revolutionize themselves, and how they invent and participate in the creative construction of the community.
Selected solo exhibitions includes Flourish, Gallery MC, Shenzhen, China, 2023; Former Residence, DRC NO.12, Beijing, China, 2022; Goodle, Canton Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2019; Sound Segregation, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China, 2018; Next Door, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China, 2016; Swallow, MOCUBE, Beijing, China, 2016; Pearl, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China, 2014; Old Stuff, Gallery Yang, Beijing, 2013; etc. A selection of major exhibitions in which He Chi has participated includes: Beijing Biennial, National Base For International Cultural Trade, Beijing, 2022; Symblosis-The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, OCAT Shenzhen,2019; Maitreya Karuna & Prajna, Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; Second Nature, chi K11 Art Space, Hong Kong, China, 2017; Airs of The States, Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, 2015; Unlived by What Is Seen, Tang Contemporary Art Center, China, 2014; Fuck Off 2, Groningen Museum, Holland, 2013; SEE/SAW - Nanshan Painting Group, UCCA, Beijing, China, 2012; Pulse Reaction, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China, 2012; Surplus Good looking ness, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China, 2011; ?％?...@?！＃饿?日, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China, 2007; The Long March Pavilion of Le Moine Et Le Demon, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France, 2004; Long March: A Walking Visual Display, Kunming, China, 2002.
策展人 | 王 澈
独立策展人，1986年生于邯郸，现居北京。2010年至今一直从事艺术评论写作和策展工作，注重在不同地貌中流动、思考展开项目，并以行走策展的理念强调过程与整体感知。曾策划：“后退几步：从结果向原因还原”、“绵绵若存走岷江”、“莽原”、“沙漠驻留”、“燕山散步”、“时间不可逆”、“黑戈壁计划”、“走神”、“天地游戏—走青藏”等项目以及艺术家个展和群展。
Wang Che, independent curator, born in Handan in 1986, now living in Beijing.Since 2010, he has been engaged in art review writing and curating, focusing on flowing, thinking and launching projects in different landforms, and emphasizing process and overall perception with the idea of walking and curating. Planned exhibition: “Take A Few Steps Back: from the results to the cause of the reduction”, “Strolling along the Discernible Min Jiang”, “Wild-lands”, ”Desert Residency”, “Stroll：Yan shan Mountain”，“Time is irreversible”，“Black Gobi Project”，“Lost in encountering”, "Game of heaven and earth- Walking on the Tibetan Plateau" and other projects as well as individual and group exhibitions of artists.