唐人曼谷｜杨伯都个展“沿地平线”3月27日开幕
当代唐人艺术中心荣幸地宣布，将于2021年3月27日在曼谷空间推出杨伯都个展“沿地平线”。展览由周游策划，展出“在美术馆”与“户外”系列的新作，及与之呼应的装置“气氛”。
海岸沿线 2021 Along the Coast 2021
木板油画 Oil on board
24 × 32 cm
2021
地平线，是一条隐隐绰绰的分隔线，在远方，也在脚下。
2007年，杨伯都下意识选择了美术馆为主题，就此熟悉的空间展开了一系列改编。早期的《在美术馆》中，她常根据素材图片简约地表现虚构空间里的展品，亦或截取局部、以大角度透视弱化原作。随着创作的深入，她愈加清楚，自己要描摹的，是这种相对洗练空间内的“气氛”：
“ 从市政厅步行到费城美术馆，一路白雪皑皑。馆内幽暗无声，坐在画前的长凳上，我背靠墙睡了长长一觉。期间安宁无数次惊扰了我，每当确定在这里，我又闭眼继续睡去。这种空间的气氛可以随时被感知到，不论身在何处、何时，它都稳定存在。所以，我描绘的从始至终未有改变。”（杨伯都）
在美术馆 2021 B In the Museum 2021 B
木板油画 Oil on board
24 × 32 cm
2021
后期，杨伯都保留了美术馆里常见的敞门、饰面、零散工作人员或观众，却往往隐藏展品，或仅留一张白色画布。塑造户外场景时，她也在消减绘画手法或其他元素带来的打扰。平常的黄昏、草地、花丛、海滩、地面铺装、建筑结构营造的空间，不动声色地贴近了我们记忆里的相似情境。伫立作品正前方，观者视角与画面中的正面透视叠合，在似曾相识的环境中，我们潜意识里便直面了艺术家创造的场景，仿佛一抬脚，就走进这个杜撰出的空间，成为其间一员。
于是，空间潺潺地流动起来。美术馆里，消失点上的作品在最深处牵动着我们。然而，近景的敞门后有什么；我们要走向哪一扇；穿过敞门，向左还是向右；一旁的看守，又看护着什么呢？《日暮》中，正前方高高矗立的深灰色长方体隐隐召唤着我们。但我们身处何地；看向的是什么；如何才能到达；以及......我们真的要去吗？
然后，我们看见了那个两米高的黑色方柱，通过四面的小孔向内窥：左右是一样的敞门，正面墙上的镜子里，映着我们自己。
日暮2 Nightfall 2
布面油画 Oil on canvas
200 × 130 cm
2017
Yang Bodu:
Along the Horizon
Opening: 2021.3.27 4 pm
Duration: 2021.3.27 - 4.30
Curated by Zhou You
Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok
Tang Contemporary Art is proud to present the opening of Along the Horizon, a solo exhibition for Chinese artist Yang Bodu. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition at Tang Contemporary Art.
The horizon is an indistinct dividing line, in the distance yet underfoot.
In 2007, Yang Bodu subconsciously chose the museum, a space she was familiar with, to develop her series. Her early paintings roughly portrayed particular works of art in fictional spaces, based on source images. Sometimes, she selected certain details or blurred the works of art by presenting them from a wider perspective. As the series continued, she realized that what she wanted to depict was the atmosphere in these refined spaces:
“Walking from City Hall to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the roads were covered in snow. The museum was dim and silent, and sitting on a bench in front the paintings, with my back against the wall, I napped. The stillness startled me countless times. Each time I confirmed that I was there, I would close my eyes again and continue to sleep. The atmosphere of this space can always be felt. Regardless of the time or place, it exists as a stable presence, therefore, what I rendered has never changed.”
In more recent works from the In the Museum series, Yang Bodu retained common elements such as the entryways, decorative elements, and the scattered museum staff or visitors, but she often intentionally hides the works of art or leaves only a white canvas. When depicting outdoor scenes, she also aims to minimize any disturbances resulting from painting techniques or other elements. These spaces, composed of ordinary sunset, lawns, flowering bushes, beaches, ground paving and architectural structures calmly approach similar scenes from our memories. When standing in front of a piece of work, our viewing perspective coincides with the frontal perspective of the work; in this somewhat familiar environment, we unconsciously confront the scenes invented by the artist. We seem to be stepping into this fabricated space and then become a part of it.
布面油画 Oil on canvas
240 × 120 cm
2021
As a result, the space flows. In the museum, the artwork hung at the vanishing point touches the depths of our souls. However, what lies beyond the entryway in front of us? Do we choose to go left or right after walking through it? In Nightfall, the tall dark grey rectangular block ahead faintly beckons us, but… what is it? How far away is it? How do we get there? And would we really want to go?
Then, there stands the two-meter-tall black rectangular column, and peeking through the holes on all four sides, we see the same two doors opening to the left and right, and the mirror on the front wall reveals our own reflection.
Curator: Zhou You
Yang Bodu was born in Tianjin in 1986. In 2008, she received her bachelor’s degree in painting from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. In 2012, she received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). She currently lives and works in Beijing, and has presented solo exhibitions and projects at institutions including Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok, Mine Project, the PAFA Alumni Gallery, and Wan Wan Lei Projects. Yang Bodu has also participated in many group exhibitions at institutions such as the PAFA Museum, M WOODS, X Museum, Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, and SPURS Gallery. Her work has been collected by institutions such as the PAFA Museum, M WOODS, and X Museum.
Zhou You was born in Nanjing, China. In 2012, she graduated from the University of Melbourne with a bachelor's degree in architectural design. In 2017, she obtained an MA from Sotheby's Institute of Art. She currently lives and works in Beijing, where she is the Director of Public Art and Collections Department at Tang Contemporary Art. She has curated solo exhibitions by Chinese artists Yang Bodu and Li Jing, as well as participated in the planning and implementation of the 2019 “Chinese New Year Special Art Project".