HOW+SPACE 新展预告 | 龚旭：虎罗汉
龚旭：虎罗汉
Gong Xu: Tiger Arhat
展期：2022年07月15日 - 2022年08月18日
艺术家：龚旭HOW+策展人：郑果
地址：HOW+SPACE 展厅一
上海市浦东新区祖冲之路2277弄1号3楼
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HOW+很荣幸地宣布将于2022年07月15日在HOW+项目空间展厅一呈现艺术家龚旭的全新个展“虎罗汉”。
来自上海的青年艺术家龚旭，同时拥有独立创作者及艺术衍生品牌主理人的多重身份。他的作品极具个人风格，在保留了传统东方元素的画面里，运用大胆的色彩与叙事结构，再加以专属于80、90成长环境下的文化背景，展现了一种多元的艺术表达与颠覆的世界观。
“虎罗汉”作为龚旭在本命年的一次创作纪念，同时也是他“十二生肖”艺术计划的一种延续。展览以广为流传的民间传说，与文学内容为创作脉络，打开思维，进行天马行空的另类解读。艺术家将自己定位成当代叙述者，站在想象中“敦煌画师”的立场，用非说教的角度传递着对传统文学及民俗文化的思考。展览现场将以具有哲学意向的庙宇元素，碰撞带有娱乐流行色彩的酒吧元素呈现。
龚旭，《柏拉图大战三太子》，2017
综合材料，30 x 60cm
致谢艺术家
在作品形式上，艺术家也进行了与以往不同的自我突破。将大型装置与连环画式绘画进行结合，对生肖图腾进行解读，并赋予其全新的生命力。绘画作品以连环画形式进行展开，艺术家将这种源于敦煌的古老创作模式与两件大型老虎装置互相关联，将绘画中的二维形象三维化，带来视觉上的奇观体验。
龚旭，《行者戏虎之三》（手稿图），2022
320 x 180 cm
致谢艺术家
诸如作品《行者戏虎》，重塑了主人公——武松与老虎的关系，通过再叙事的创作手法打破观者对既定故事的印象，并产生不一样的联想。本次展览意在消除传统故事里的暴力成分，同时加入创作者对于自然和谐的崇拜，与对当下流行元素的观察。展览也着重思考东西方对人物描绘的区别，将不同文化在作品里进行交织穿插。
关于艺术家
龚旭 | Gong Xu
龚旭，1986年出生于上海。2006年毕业于中国美术学院附中。2010年毕业于中国美术学院油画系，获学士学位。2017年创立个人品牌 “魔都⻰王”。作为品牌创始人， 他大胆的使用商业模式作为中国传统文化的多元化输出端口， 将众多富含古老文化精粹的艺术产品推向大众。
龚旭：虎罗汉
Gong Xu: Tiger Arhat
Dates: July 15 - August 18, 2022
Artist: Gong XuHOW+ Curator: Zheng Guo
Venue: HOW+SPACE ONE (3F, No. 1, Lane 2277, Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai)Organizer: HOW+
HOW+ is pleased to announce the opening of Tiger Arhat, solo exhibition by Gong Xu, on July 15, 2022, at HOW+SPACE ONE.
Shanghai-based young artist Gong Xu is an independent art practitioner slash brand owner. Known for a very distinct personal style, Gong Xu manages to unfold diverse artistic expressions and subversive world-views through bold colors, narrative structures and the delineation of the cultural background unique to those born in the 80s and 90s while retaining elements of traditional eastern culture.
Born in the zodiac year of tiger in 1986, he is in the third round of zodiac year of birth. Tiger Arhat as a work to commemorate the year of special meaning marks a kind of continuation of his The Twelve fierce animals of the Chinese zodiac project. The exhibition takes household folk tales and literature as its source of inspiration, and presents a mind-opening and unconventional perspective of interpretation. Seeing himself as a narrator of the contemporary times, the artist takes the position of the imaginary “painter from Dunhuang” and shares his perception of traditional literature and folk culture in a non-preachy and story-telling manner. The contrasting combination between a philosophical delineation of temples and bar elements featuring entertaining and pop colors presents an intriguingly vivid imagery.
Gong Xu, The “war” series, 2017
Comprehensive material, 30 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist
In terms of the form of the works, the artist has also managed to make a breakthrough and tried something different from before. This time he endeavors to put large-scale installation on view in juxtaposition with the comic-book style paintings to imbue new verve into the interpretation of the totems of Zodiac symbols. As a matter of fact, the comic-book style derives from the cave paintings in Dunhuang which, to some extent, are like a panoramic comic book. By building connection between the paintings and two large-scale tiger installations, the artist manages to transform the two-dimensional images on the paintings into three-dimensional, which brings a visual spectacle to the viewing experience of the audience.
Gong Xu, Pilgrim Wu Song Teasing a Tiger, 2022
Draft, 320 x 180 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Take the work Pilgrim Wu Song Teasing a Tiger for instance. It reshapes the relation between the protagonist Wu Song, the famous tiger-beater, and the tiger, breaking the viewers’ fixed impression of the widely familiar story and inspiring new and different associations through re-narration. The exhibition intends to cast light on the artist’s adoration for an amicable and harmonious nature as well as his perception of the pop elements of the “now” while diluting the sense of violence commonly seen in traditional folk stories. In the meantime, the exhibition also probes into the difference between the depiction of characters in the East and the West by interweaving different cultures into the same context.
About the Artist
龚旭 | Gong Xu
Born in Shanghai in 1986, Gong Xu graduated from the Affiliated High School of China Academy of Art in 2006. In 2010, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of CAA with a bachelor's degree. In 2017, he founded his personal brand "SHANGHAI DRAGON KING". As the founder of the brand, he boldly uses the business model as a diversified outlet of Chinese traditional culture and has brought to the public many art products rich in the essence of ancient culture.
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