【展讯】“赵刚：历史绘画”即将于迈阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆开幕
Zhao Gang 赵刚，Cocksucker Blues《杂种布鲁斯》
2014–2015，Oil on canvas 布面油画，400 x 600 cm
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赵刚：历史绘画
迈阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆，美国
Zhao Gang: History Painting
Peréz Art Museum Miami, USA
2019.5.24 - 2020.1.5
关于迈阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆
作为迈阿密最大的场馆之一，迈阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆已经有将近35年的历史。建立于1984年，迈阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆旨在展示与收藏全世界20世纪与21世纪杰出艺术作品的现当代艺术博物馆，致力于为这个年轻的城市注入当代艺术的活力。
About Peréz Art Museum Miami
The Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County (PAMM) has been the flagship museum for Miami-Dade for almost 35 years. At its founding in 1984, the Museum was dedicated to international art of the 20th and 21st centuries, aiming to fill a void in a young city where no contemporary art museum existed.
关于展览
赵刚（1961年生于北京）是中国当代艺术发展进程中的关键人物。作为中国最早的前卫艺术群体“星星画会”中最年轻的成员，赵刚在1983年离开中国，转而生活并工作于欧洲与美国。他在24年后的2007年回到北京，由此展开其批判的、多元的绘画实践，将所受东西方环境的影响结合到一起，并对那些发生在自己祖国的深刻变化进行反思。在赵刚离开前，中国当代艺术并非如当今景象。当他归国之时，全球化不仅带来了多种艺术风格与形式，且建立了整个艺术经济。
此次迈阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆（PAMM）赵刚个展“历史绘画”囊括14幅绘画，集合了赵刚在艺术和身份问题中显示的多元文化面相。虽然艺术家可谓是完全意义上的中国人和美国人，但就这两种文化来说，他都被认为（或他自认为）是局内人中的局外人。作为“本地人”和“新来者”，赵刚发展出一种黑色幽默的、讽刺的、粗粝的方式去描绘中国历史。他的绘画在摒除了陈旧比喻的同时，追溯了他童年记忆的画面、以及新千年的中国作为经济与文化强国的形象。
Zhao Gang 赵刚，Basket of Assholes，2017
Oil on canvas 布面油画，200 x 160 cm
About the exhibition
Zhao Gang (b. 1961, Beijing) is a key figure in the development of Chinese contemporary art. The youngest member of the Stars Group—China’s first modern art movement—Gang left China in 1983 to study, live, and work in Europe and the United States. After returning to China twenty-four years later, in 2007, Gang developed a dynamic, provocative painting practice that freely combines Western and Eastern influences while reflecting on the profound changes affecting his native country. Before Gang left, there was no such thing as “Chinese contemporary art.” By the time he returned, globalization had ushered in not just multiple styles and forms of art, but also an entire art economy.
“Zhao Gang: History Painting” consists of fourteen paintings that bring together the radically multicultural aspects of Gang’s art and identity. Though the artist is fully Chinese and American, he is considered (and considers himself) an insider’s outsider in both cultures. As both native and newcomer, Gang has developed a darkly ironic, often crude approach to depicting Chinese history. His paintings elide centuries-old tropes with images from the Cultural Revolution, images drawn from memories of his childhood, and images of China as an economic and cultural powerhouse in the new millennium.
A number of works in the exhibition will be displayed salon style in a 130-square-foot “apartment” built inside the exhibition space. The room mimics the 1980s phenomenon of “apartment art,” the exhibition format adopted by the era’s artists in response to their distrust in official government venues. At PAMM, Gang’s apartment show will materialize the challenges faced by artists of his generation while drawing parallels between instances of censorship in both the East and West as well as highlighting artists’ responses to the curtailing of freedom of expression.
Zhao Gang 赵刚，Defigured Buddha
Oil on canvas 布面油画，2015，260 x 220 cm
“赵刚：历史绘画”由客座策展人克里斯蒂安·维维洛斯-方内策划，阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆助理策展人珍妮弗·伊纳西奥配合展览执行。展览于2019年5月24日开幕，将持续到2020年1月5日。
“Zhao Gang: History Painting” is organized by Guest Curator Christian Viveros-Fauné and coordinated at Pérez Art Museum Miami by Assistant Curator Jennifer Inacio. The exhibition will start from May 24, 2019 and run through the year till January 5, 2020.
关于艺术家
赵刚（1961年出生于北京），现工作和生活于北京和纽约。年仅18岁时参加星星画会——此团体是最早的前卫艺术家群体，为中国当代艺术的发展铺设了重要基石。此后，他留学于欧洲和纽约，曾就读于荷兰Maastricht国家艺术学院、美国纽约州Vassar学院、美国纽约州Bard大学，并于纽约生活、工作二十余年。在此期间，他逐步发展出鲜明的国际化特征，并创作出风格多元的作品。在2004年回到北京后，赵刚不断地把焦点投向了他的独特的个人经历与中国历史之间的纠缠——他既生于此地，却又是陌生的新晋移民。
赵刚重要个展包括：“购买的身份”（长征空间，北京，2018）；“通往奴役之路 II”（圣地亚哥当代艺术博物馆，智利，2016）； “偶园：赵刚个人作品展”（苏州博物馆，苏州，2015）”；“通往奴役之路”（尤伦斯当代艺术中心，北京，2015）；“病夫”（今日美术馆，北京，2011）。重要群展包括：“1989后的艺术与中国：世界剧场”（所罗门.R.古根海姆美术馆，纽约，2017）；“门”（PS1, 艺术机构 / Blum Helman 画廊，纽约，1990）。他曾参加2005年横滨三年展、2007年纽约表演艺术双年展、2008年广州三年展等重要双／三年展。
About the artist
Zhao Gang (b. 1961, Beijing) currently lives and works in New York and Beijing. He made his artistic debut as a member of the Stars Group, one of the first avant-garde artist groups to open the era of contemporary art in China, when he was just 18 years old. Shortly thereafter he pursued formal art education in Europe and then New York, studying at the State Academy of Fine Art, Maastricht, Holland; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA; MFA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA. Afterwards, Zhao Gang lived overseas for over two decades, developing a diverse body of work as his perspective became distinctively international. Since returning to Beijing in 2006, Zhao Gang has turned his ever-expanding focus toward the entanglement of his personal past with Chinese history and his unique position, at once a native and a newcomer, in China today.
His selected solo exhibitions include: "Acquiring Identity" (Long March Space, Beijing, 2018)," The Road to Serfdom II” (Museo de ArteContemporáneo, Santiago, Chile, 2016), “Paramour’s Garden” (Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China, 2015), “The Road to Serfdom” (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2015), “Sick Man: Zhao Gang” (Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2011). His selected group exhibitions include “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World ” (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, 2017), “The Door” (P.S.1 Institute of the Arts/Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA, 1990). He has participated in important biennial/triennial exhibitions such as PERFORMA 07, Guangzhou Triennial, Yokohama Triennial, etc.