白盒子展讯 | 徐小国个展：星光
徐小国个展：星光
XU Xiaoguo: The Stars
2022.4.30-2022.6.26
策展人：李章旭
Curator: LEE Janguk
白盒子艺术馆
Whitebox Art Center
白盒子艺术馆将于2022年4月30日至6月26日在北京798艺术区举办徐小国个展-星光。此次展览将展出徐小国近期创作的19件全新画作。
Whitebox Art Center is pleased to present XU Xiaoguo, the solo exhibition - The Stars by the artist in Beijing, on view from April 30 – June 26,2022. The exhibition will feature 19 new paintings that XU recently created.
徐小国个展：星光 展前记录
艺术家早期作品创作由具象构成。此后，以擦拭画面中图像的创作方式，带着变化走向非具象。相信熟悉艺术家作品的人，通过这样的变化，能够发掘以拒绝基本的再现、意思疏通，且突破比例法则的，通过伦理性自然构成的画面。
The earlier works of the artist were mainly conceptual, but going
through changes, images were gradually erased from the screen and
progressed towards non-conceptual work. Those who are familiar with his
work can see through these changes in composition of how the artist
rejects the former system of reproduction and communication and ignores
the logical law of proportionality of nature.
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星空 6/2020 224x300cm 布面油画 2020
Starlight 6/2020 224x300cm Oil on canvas 2020
他的作品所展现出的“再现的现实”与实际现实的模糊界限，使我们开始对明摆在眼前的现实产生怀疑。绘画的“再现”是以欺瞒为前提的。因此，通过本次展览看到的作品，对作为绘画存立根据的“再现的欺瞒性”进行一次委婉的自我表白。
An ambiguous boundary between the reproduced reality and the actual reality is seen through the work. Through this, we raise doubt on the reality itself that is said to clearly exist. The act of reproduction in painting is basically based on deception. Therefore, the works shown in this exhibition also appear to be indirect self-confessions about the ‘deception of reproduction’ which is the basis of the existence of painting.
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安德烈·塔可夫斯基的鸟笼 230x290cm 布面油画 2019-2020
Andrei Tarkovsky's birdcage 230x290cm Oil on canvas 2019-2020
在艺术作品中生存的“艺术”，其存在的真理是通过作品中展现出来的。而此时，其“存在的真理”同时具有主体与客体的两面性。
Art which lives and breathes is a work of art that reveals the truth of existence in the work itself, and in the same time, this truth of existence has a double-sidedness of being both subjective and objective.
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红笼 1 200x250cm 布面油画 2020-2021
Red cage 1 200x250cm Oil on canvas 2020-2021
作品梳理着时间，掠过时间整理着看不见的记忆，提供着能将被自己所有的时间。当下包含着过去的记忆与对未来的期待，而在没有先例的疫情下使用有限的时间，通过构成本次展览的观众与艺术家的作品，体验并感受“此时此刻的‘当下’与任何时刻所谓‘当下’一直在保持前进的状态”。
Art deals with time. Art provides time to think about memories and to trace memories back in time that are not visible. Let us take our precious time to understand and think about the work of the artist and the audience who are joining the exhibition at this moment in the unprecedented pandemic situation, that the present is a continuation of the present which contains memories of the past and expectations of the future in itself.
以上文字节选自《天空上的星星在闪烁吗？》-李章旭
The above text is excerpted from "Are the stars truly shining in the sky?" -LEE Janguk
关于艺术家
徐小国
1977年生于陕西西安，2000年毕业于西安美术学院油画系，现工作生活于北京。徐小国的作品涉及绘画，图片，影像，声音等艺术形式，近年来获得“798艺术节青年艺术家邀请展”一等奖，“北京电影学院国际新媒体艺术三年展” 影像艺术青年艺术家学院奖,“光华千玉奖”等等。其作品多次参加国内外重要艺术机构的群展，其中包括瑞士卢塞恩美术馆、莫斯科当代艺术博物馆、澳大利亚白兔美术馆、波兰BWA美术馆、尤伦斯当代艺术中心、今日美术馆、中央美术学院美术馆、台北当代艺术馆、台北关渡美术馆、澳门艺术博物馆、OCAT当代艺术中心、朱屺瞻艺术馆、石家庄美术馆、当代唐人艺术中心、伊比利亚当代艺术中心、白盒子艺术馆、学古斋、香港奥沙艺术中心。
重要个展包括:“徐小国近作”徐小国个展，当代唐人艺术中心； “枝曼间隙”徐小国个展，当代唐人艺术中心； “徐小国”徐小国个展，当代唐人艺术中心；《CIGE—艺术家养成之路》徐小国个展”；“空间纹体”，今日美术馆；“small country”，白盒子美术馆；“2011徐小国‘降噪’6/25”，蒓萃艺术空间；“两条路线-翁奋/徐小国双个展”,BWA美术馆；“圣迹—徐小国作品展”，荔空间；“戏幕背后”徐小国个展，香港奥沙艺术中心 — 新加坡；“徐小国个展”，香港奥沙艺术中心 — 上海；“等待演出”徐小国个展，香港奥沙艺术中心 — 香港；“徐小国个人展览”，尔东强艺术中心；“人造风景”徐小国个展，朱屺瞻艺术馆。
Xu Xiaoguo
He majored in Oil Painting and graduated from the Xu Xiaoguo Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. Currently based in Beijing, Xu Xiaoguo works take various artistic forms such as painting, pictorials and video、experimental music. In recent years, Xu Xiaoguo had been lauded with various accolades for his art, including but not limited to first prize for the "798 Arts Festival Young Artists Recommendation Exhibition", the "Academy Award for Young Artists of Film Media" from the Beijing Film Academy International New Media Arts Triennial Exhibition and the "Guanghua Qianyu Award".
Xu has actively participated in numerous exhibitions both at home and abroad. Significant solo exhibitions of his include“XU XIAOGUO RECENT WORK”Xu Xiaoguo Solo Exhibition ,2016 “BE-TWEEN THE GREEN” Xu Xiaoguo Solo Exhibition,Xu Xiaoguo Solo Exhibition in 2015 at Tang Contemporary Art Beijing, From Space to Textureby Today Art Museum, Small Country by White Box Art Centre, 2011 Xu Xiaoguo ‘De Noise’ 6/25 by Chun Cui Contemporary Art Space, DWIE LINIE/TWOLINES– an Exhibition by Weng Fen and Xu Xiaoguo at the BWA Gallery, Traces of the Sacred –Xu Xiaoguo Solo Exhibition at Li Space, Drama Behind the Curtain Xu Xiaoguo Solo Exhibition at the Osage Gallery Singapore, Xu Xiaoguo Solo Exhibition at the Osage Gallery Shanghai, Wait For the Show Xu Xiaoguo Solo Exhibition at the Osage Gallery Hong Kong, Xu Xiaoguo Solo Exhibition at the Deke Erh Art Center and Artificial Landscape Xu Xiaoguo Solo Exhibition at the Zhu Qizhan Art Museum.
鸣谢
空间设计
王昀
灯光设计
邵晓明