【国际艺术家驻留项目】美国艺术家Helen个展“回归自然”

Helen Brechlin《A New Beginning》 布面油画 153x93cm 2016

驻留艺术家：Helen Brechlin（美国）

主办方：北京中间美术馆

展览时间：2016年4月30日－5月11日

开幕时间：2016年5月8日  16:00

展览地点：北京中间美术馆 驻留项目走廊

Helen Brechlin，2015年毕业于美国麻省艺术学院，获得绘画及艺术史学士学位。成绩优异的她于2015年获得中间美术馆设立在麻省艺术学院的驻留奖学金，于2016年4月在中间美术馆的北京驻留工作室中进行创作。5月8日，她的个展“回归自然”将展出她的9件创作，用Helen自己的话来说，在这些作品中把初识北京的感觉表达的自由自在。

Helen Brechlin graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Arts in 2015 and acquired her Bachelor degree of painting and art history. In the same year, with her good performance in school, Helen received the residency scholarship founded by Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum in Massachusetts College of Art.Therefore, in April of 2016 , Helen begins her artistic creation at the artist’s residency studio in Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. From 8th of  May onward, her solo exhibition "return to nature" will be hold place at the Inside-Out Museum, nine of her paintings will be exhibited. With Helen's own words, she wants her works to be freely express her first impression of the city - Beijing.

Helen Brechlin在京期间与中间美术馆工作人员的互动交流：

4月2日，Helen抵达北京。

4月3日，Helen与馆员李晓华参观798。

4月19日，Helen与学术部主管梁爽和王小泽分享已有艺术创作、确定展览主题并开始了各项筹备工作。

4月20日，Helen与馆员李晓华参观人民大学艺术学院及美术馆。

4月23日，Helen与梁爽参加798画展开幕及画廊晚宴。

4月29日，Helen在北京创作的9件作品入驻中间美术馆驻留项目走廊。

Helen Brecglin’s interaction with the staffs from Inside-Out Art Museum during her stay in Beijing ：

In 2th of April, Helen arrived in Beijing.

In 3th of April , Helen visited ‘798’ art center accompanied by the staff from Inside-Out Art Museum- Li Xiao Hua. 

In 19th of April, Helen and the academic director of the art museum Liang Shuang and Wang Xiaoze began the preparatory work for the coming exhibition after determined the themes and artistic creations for the exhibition. 

In 20th of April, Helen and museum staff Xiaohua visited School of Arts, Renmin University of China and art galleries. 

In 23th of April, Helen and Liang Shuang participated in the opening of 798 art exhibition and attended the evening party afterwards.

In 29th of April , nine of Helen’s artworks created during her stay in Beijing were settled at the Residency Programme corridor in the Inside-Out Art Museum .

 Return to Nature 

Written by Helen Brechlin

I went into these paintings trying to gather my personal thoughts and experiences with Beijing. The first being the sheer size of the city, which is undeniably gargantuan. As I explored I found myself drawn to the parks within the city. They were an unexpected break from the hectic tone of the modern urban hustle outside the walls - clearly dividing the old slow life of the city and the current buzzing hive that it has become. I couldn’t stop thinking about the juxtaposition of the two. How they were both at odds with other each, deep contrasts, but they also melded together to form what we call Beijing today. Both are inherently Beijing, but vastly different. 

I set out to have the paintings capture that feeling of the fight between the two. My initial focus was on the pollution from the industry and its effects on the natural world. Then my practice became very intuitive, a departure from my previous calculated work back in Boston of working from observation with some invention. In Beijing, I allowed the paintings to formulate themselves with me responding to the unusual high key colors added to the palette and loose marks and gave way to their desires. From this, a new world formed, one which I read as a Beijing post humans. It is a Beijing where nature has reclaimed, but has been permanently effected by man’s past presence. This has caused irregular colorations and formations and a new toxic sky to emerge. 

The parks have been my favorite part of this adventure - a refuge from daily life. I like the idea of allowing them to have their turn once again to be free to grow as they please.

 回归自然 

文／Helen Brechlin， 翻译／王小泽，校对／梁爽

在我的作品中，我试图表达我个人对北京这座城市的想法和体会。北京给我的第一印象就是它庞大的规模。在我不断的探寻中，我发现自己被喧闹城市中绿意盈盈的皇家园林所深深吸引。这些生机勃勃的绿意是一种从墙外喧嚣繁忙的现代城市的基调中意想不到的突破——它明确划分开了老城区的慢生活和当下已成为蜂房一样的城市森林。我不能停止思考这两个并列（快节奏与慢节奏，烦恼和清静，灰色与绿色）——它们如何在对立中并存、在深刻对比中和谐地融合为当下的北京。同为北京属性，却大相径庭。

我开始有了通过绘画来捕捉两者之间对立的想法。最初，我的侧重点是工业污染对自然界的影响,但当我提笔，一切都变得非常直观，偏离了我之前在波士顿进行艺术创作时习惯性的精确观察。在北京，我允许我的画作来与我回应，给我的画板加入一些不同寻常的高亮度颜色，任松动的笔触凭欲望流露。由此开始，一个新的世界形成，其中一个被我诠释为后北京人。这是一个自然再生的北京，但是带有过往遗韵的永恒烙印。这种体会造成了我的画作中不规则的着色和结构，一个新的有毒的天空就此诞生。

在此次的冒险中，园林一直是我最钟爱的部分——一个逃离日常生活的避难所。我喜欢这种让想法自己自由地成长的方式。                    

Helen 驻留期间作品：

《Snapshot I》 布面油画 46x61cm 2016

《Formation II》 布面油画 46x61cm 2016

《Snapshot IV》 布面油画 92x92cm 2016

《Snapshot V》 布面油画 92x92cm 2016

《The End》 布面油画 76x46cm 2016

《Snapshot III》 布面油画 92x92cm 2016

《Snapshot II》 布面油画 92x92cm 2016

《Formation》 布面油画 31x92cm 2016

Helen 之前在美国创作的作品：

《Self Portrait As Alice Sebold 2》

《Self Portrait With Tiara-2》

《Transition》

《Alla Prima Study II》

《Let It Go》

《Hair  Painting  VII.2》

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