HOW+SPACE 新展预告 | 周松：膨胀宇宙
周松：膨胀宇宙
Zhou Song: Inflating Universe
展期：2022年09月04日 - 2022年10月21日
艺术家：周松
HOW+策展人：郑果
地址：HOW+SPACE 展厅二
上海市浦东新区祖冲之路2277弄1号3楼
主办：HOW+
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HOW+很荣幸地宣布，将于2022年09月04日起在HOW+项目空间展厅二呈现艺术家周松（Zhou Song）的全新个展“膨胀宇宙”（Inflating Universe）。
艺术家周松突破传统创作媒介的框架，用极具逻辑的思维与人文关怀的内核解构日常生活的片段，重建暗藏深意的非日常宇宙。无论绘画还是雕塑，在周松的作品中，形式与内容相辅相成。艺术家通过棱角分明的视觉形象，扣问着人与万物的本源，继而反转观众对艺术的既定印象，从点滴引出更为宏大的思考。
周松的全新个展“膨胀宇宙”用艺术审视当下的生存环境，探讨了一些具有普世意义的社会问题。此次展览呈现了艺术家周松的两个重要创作系列：“膨胀”系列和“草莓”系列。两个不同时期的系列作品，向观者展现了艺术家在创作领域不断探索的过程，从超写实主义到超现实主义，周松不断超越突破着图像的边界，给作品叠加赋予全新的概念，并在“膨胀”系列中，将异形边框的运用做到极致。
周松 Zhou Song
《永恒的神话》The Myth of Eternality，2021
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
232cm*160cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
膨胀系列
The Inflating series
“膨胀”系列描绘了一幅当代醒世录，周松用犀利又不失幽默的方式将主体困在几何画框内，任其无限膨胀却又将其束缚，从而构成一种不动声色但充满张力的抗衡。膨胀至变形的躯干与物体，暗喻了无限的欲望与万物生长的过程；超现实的表层变化，实则是人性本身的写照；而看似即将冲破边界却又被约束的形态，则映照着个体在社会中矛盾的现实状态。
同时，周松通过将动物与人体的结合、水果与植物的抽象几何化，进一步探讨了人类与自然互相共生、重塑的关系与可能。从宏观角度来说，膨胀这一主题恰如宇宙演化的过程，是万物发展的规律。在有限的时空里，不同物种在无限的宇宙中互相交汇碰撞，也体现了艺术家在缜密严谨的创作中独有的浪漫气质。在视觉上，大胆的创作形象又与异形边框达成一种平衡。夸张的处理及强叙事感的设计留给观者无限思考的空间，丰富的色彩与虚拟现实的交错，进一步打开了人们对作品的想象。
周松 Zhou Song
《共生》Symbiosis，2022
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
476cm*120cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
周松 Zhou Song
《膨胀的世界》Inflating Society，2020
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
160cm*160cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
草莓系列
The Strawberry series
展览所呈现的“草莓”系列诞生于当下，却可以追溯到艺术家本人的创作初期。在周松的创作早期，草莓就以超写实的风格出现在油画中。当观众凝视它时，似乎可以感受到其正随着时间流逝而逐渐腐烂的过程。娇艳欲滴的鲜红草莓，象征着跳动的心脏，充满欲望又不堪一击。艺术家通过逼真的笔触，带来超越画作本身的体验感。周松对于作品所传递的意向，在不断的探索中，随着时代发展再度展开。以草莓为原型的雕塑作品，将超写实的平面图像立体化，进行了全新的超现实表达。金属质感的表层打开了观者对于机械和赛博格的联想，看似流动实则凝固的草莓汁水呼应了自然与科技在这个时代中构建的全新关系。
周松 Zhou Song
《永恒的心》Eternal Heart，2022
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
200cm*160cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
在去中心化的世界里，自然、人类、科技三者的关系在周松的作品中被深度探讨。人类不再是世界的中心，我们既是旁观者，也是切身的参与者；既是消费者，也存在于宇宙的循环链条中。艺术家通过本次展览对这个时代提出了戏谑但不失哲学意味的思考，相应的，观者也会在作品中获得对现实及自我的重新审视。
关于艺术家
周松 ｜ Zhou Song
周松，1982年出生于江西，2006年毕业于天津美术学院油画系，现工作生活于北京。周松的绘画和雕塑等作品在艺术、科学和哲学的交叉地带探索着生物形态学与机械美学之间的联结，既有后人类主义的意味，又具有深厚的人性。无论是当代应用科学的潜在后果，抑或是宇宙不断膨胀对人类欲望和命运的无形影响，周松的绘画都在矛盾和开放的状态中焕发着生命力。
个展包括 “质·能 周松个展”（北京嘉德艺术中心，2022）; “周松个展作品展”（今日美术馆，2009）。重要群展包括“Personal Structures—第59届威尼斯双年展平行展”（威尼斯本柏宫，2022）; “Re-Thinking Future—第十三届古巴哈瓦那双年展”（哈瓦那大剧院起源画廊，2019）; “第五届成都双年展”（成都现代艺术馆，2011）;“首届今日文献展”（今日美术馆，2007）。作品曾在巴塞罗那现代艺术博物馆、法国大皇宫、佛罗伦萨达巴索古堡、德国波恩当代艺术馆、维也纳大学、布达佩斯YBL创意艺术中心、洛杉矶苏富比、多伦多艺术中心、圣地亚哥沙赫特宫、秘鲁应加·加西拉索文化中心、巴拿马当代艺术博物馆、巴拿马运河博物馆、哥斯达黎加国家画廊、委内瑞拉国家美术馆、中国美术馆、今日美术馆、北京嘉德艺术中心、广东美术馆等地展出。重要奖项包括第十一届佛罗伦萨国际双年展“洛伦佐国际装置艺术奖”（2017）；第五届五四国际青年艺术节绘画大奖（2012）；天津美术学院毕业创作一等奖和全国美术院校优秀作品提名展铜奖（2006）。
周松：膨胀宇宙
Zhou Song: Inflating Universe
Dates: September 04 - October 21, 2022
Artist: Zhou Song
HOW+Curator: Zheng Guo
Venue: HOW+SPACE TWO (3F, No. 1, Lane 2277, Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai)
Organizer: HOW+
HOW+ is pleased to announce the opening of Inflating Universe, solo exhibition by Zhou Song, on September 04, 2022, at HOW+ SPACE TWO.
Zhou Song’s artistic practice goes beyond the boundaries of traditional media, deconstructs fragments of everydayness through a logical mind and humanistic vision, and reconstructs a universe that transcends the dailiness and is teeming with hidden profundity and implications. In Zhou’s works, both his paintings and sculptures, the forms and contents are always mutually reinforcing each other. Through the sharply vivid visual images, the artist inquires into the very essence of human beings and virtually everything, and then subverts viewers’ fixed impression of art, inspiring them to reflect from a more macroscopic perspective.
Inflating Universe, Zhou Song’s new solo exhibition, investigates the living environment of the contemporary times through art and probes into social issues that are of universal significance. The exhibition features a selection of works from the Inflating series and Strawberry series, two of the most significant series in Zhou’s practice. The two series, from different periods of his artistic career, demonstrate his continuous exploration in the field of art. From hyper-realism to surrealism, Zhou Song constantly transcends and breaks through the boundaries of images, giving new interpretations to the superposition of works. In the Inflating series in particular, it can be perceived that the use of alien-shaped frames has been brought into play to the ultimate extreme.
周松 Zhou Song
《永恒的神话》The Myth of Eternality，2021
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
340cm*223cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
The Inflating series
The Inflating series, in a sense, could be reckoned as a contemporary version of Stories to Awaken the World, a Chinese story anthology compiled in the 17th century. In his sharply humorous manner, Zhou Song manages to confine the subject within the geometric frame, leaving it to inflate infinitely and in the meantime imposing restraints upon it. As a result, tension and confrontation could be intuitively sensed from within the calmness and serenity on the surface. Bodies and objects that have inflated to the point of deformation form a metaphor of infinite desires and the growth process of all things. The surreal changes on the surface are in fact a reflection of humanity; while the forms that seem about to break through the boundaries but are in fact under restraints mirror the contradictory realities that all individuals are faced with in society.
Moreover, by the combination of animal and human figures and geometric abstraction of fruits and plants, the artist probes further into the relationships and possibilities of mutual symbiosis and remodeling between human beings and the nature. From a cosmological perspective, inflation is at the core of universe evolution; in other words, it’s the law of development of all things. In a finite time and space, different species encounter and interact with each other within the infinite universe, casting light on the artist’s signature romantic temperament that forms an intriguing contrast with his meticulous and rigorous approaches. Visually speaking, the bold images strike a riveting balance with the alien-shaped frames. The strong senses of exaggeration and narrativity leave viewers with enormous room for reflection, while the interplay of rich colors and virtual reality further opens up people’s imagination towards the work.
周松 Zhou Song
《新世界III》A New World III，2021
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
175cm*200cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
周松 Zhou Song
《天国》Heaven，2022
不锈钢镜面抛光 Stainless steel Sculpture
26.5cm*26.5cm*60cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
The Strawberry series
The Strawberry series is a recent series the artist works on, but it’s origin could be traced back to the early days of Zhou’s practice. In the early stage of Zhou Song’s practice, strawberry already appeared on his oil on canvas in a surrealistic manner. Gazing closely at it, viewers would feel as if they were witnessing its gradual decay over time. The delicately red strawberry symbolized a beating heart, full of desires and yet too fragile to stand a single blow. The highly realistic brush strokes brought viewers with a sense of experience beyond the painting itself. What the artist intends to convey through the work is under constant development and exuberant with new vitality as time goes by. Sculptural works based on the strawberry transform the two-dimensional hyper-realistic image into the three dimensional for new and surreal expressive possibilities. The metallic surface inspires viewers to associate it with machinery and cyborg. The seemingly flowing but in fact frozen strawberry juice echoes the brand new relationship between nature and technology in this era.
周松 Zhou Song
《万物·永恒》Universe·Eternality，2022
不锈钢镜面抛光雕塑 Stainless steel Sculpture
25cm*25cm*31cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
In a decentralized world, the relationships among nature, human beings and technology are extensively and profoundly explored in Zhou Song’s work. Human beings are no longer the center of the world. We are both the spectators and the players; we are the consumers existing on the circular chain of the universe. In Inflating Universe, Zhou Song proposes a playful yet philosophical reflection upon the era we live in; and accordingly, viewers get a chance to reconsider the reality as well as the self from a new perspective.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Zhou Song
Zhou Song (b. 1982, Jiangxi, China) graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. His paintings and sculptures explore intersections between machine aesthetics and biomorphism at the nexus of art, science and philosophy; they imagine futures at once posthuman and deeply humane. Whether questioning the potential outcomes of contemporary sciences, or the impact of the constant expansion of the universe on human desire and destiny, Zhou’s paintings thrive in a state of contradiction and openness.
Zhou’s solo exhibitions include “Mass-Energy Zhou Song Solo Exhibition” (Beijing Guardian Art Centre, China 2022) and “Zhou Song Solo Exhibition” (Today Art Museum, China 2009). Important group exhibitions include “Personal Structures" (European Cultural Centre Art Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice 2022); “Re-Thinking Future -13th Havana Biennale” (Galeria Origenes, El Gran Teatro de la Habana, Cuba 2019); “5th Chengdu Biennale” (Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, China 2011) and “The First Today’s Documents Exhibition” (Today Art Museum, China 2007). His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the National Art Museum of China, Today Art Museum, Beijing Guardian Art Centre, Guangdong Art Museum, European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, Grand Palais in Paris, Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Kunstraum Villa Friede in Bonn, University of Vienna, YBl Creative House in Budapest, Sotheby’s in Los Angeles, Toronto Centre for the Arts, Palacio Schacht in Chile, Inca Garcilaso Culture Center in Peru, Panama Contemporary Art Gallery, Panama Canal Museum, Costa Rica National Gallery, National Art Gallery of Venezuela, among others. He has received many important awards, graduating with the first place BFA thesis from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (2006) and placing bronze at the National Art Academy’s Excellent Work exhibition (2006), as well as receiving the "Painting Award" at the 5th May 4th International Youth Art Festival (2012) and the "Lorenzo International Installation Art Award” at the 11th Florence Biennale (2017).
Zhou currently lives and works in Beijing.
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