展览·HdM | 罗曼·贝尼尼个展《冰冷的热带》
HdM 画廊非常荣幸地推出法国艺术家罗曼·贝尼尼（Romain Bernini）个展《冰冷的热带》。此次是艺术家继 2018 年伦敦个展后与 HdM 画廊的再次合作，届时将展出其十余件最新创作。展览将于 12 月 5 日开幕，持续至 2021 年 1 月 16 日。
关于展览
罗曼·贝尼尼的创作有着广泛的灵感来源：货物崇拜、万物有灵论、巫毒教象征主义等。由此，我们可从三条线索来展开本次展览中的作品：
作为罗曼·贝尼尼《Vahana》系列作品的延续，《外交官》系列的名字源自哲学家巴蒂斯特·莫里佐（Baptiste Morizo）一部探讨人类与野生动物之间关系的著作。来自异域的鸟儿被放置在绝对抽象的背景前方，仿佛是来自虚无远方的雕塑，具有神话般的意味。
《Grans Bwa》系列作品中没有任何动物形象的出现，丛林从前至后逐渐陷入了平面的色彩。画面中的植物形象大都来源于艺术家的日常生活：候诊室、家附近的公园或是花店中的植物。静止的状态和硬朗的造型让植物们呈现出一种超自然的特征，让观者无法对它们进行地理上的判断与认知，也暗示了艺术家对“异域”的理解以及工作室本身作为“远方”的定义。
日常打扮的男女老少以各式目的不明的造型出现在彩色丛林中，映射着现代人在当代环境下的抑郁心境：迷失其中，难辨去路，也无法看清周遭的环境。这是罗曼·贝尼尼最标志性的系列之一，也是其艺术实践思考的缩影——以身体的感知和美学价值去建立艺术家与观者之间的共鸣。
罗曼·贝尼尼（Romain Bernini）1979 年出生于法国蒙特勒伊，2004 年毕业于法国索邦大学获硕士学位，目前工作和生活在巴黎。贝尼尼曾受邀参与罗马美第奇别墅驻留项目，并于 2008 年获得第一届安托万·马林（Antoine Marin）绘画大奖。曾被法兰西岛（Frac Ile-de-France）、尚贝里博物馆、丹麦维堡市、埃米尔杰基金会、法国兴业银行、马林收藏和帕普雷克等多个公共及私人基金会收藏。
展览· HdM 伦敦 | 罗曼·贝尼尼（Romain Bernini）个展《自由幻境》
Exhibition: Romain Bernini | Tristes Tropiques
About the Exhibiton
Romain Bernini’s work is influenced by a variety of sources: cargo cult, animism, voodoo symbolism etc. The current exhibition features three types of works.
In the first, exotic birds are set against an entirely abstract background. This lends the birds a mythical aspect. Coming from the void, they appear statuesque and preternatural. A continuation of a previous group entitled Vahana, they are named Diplomat in reference to a work by the philosopher Baptiste Morizot discussing the relationship between man and wild life.
The second group of works features jungles. Lacking any kind of animals, these jungles gradually recess into a colored plane of color. Composed with elements from the artist’s everyday environment: plants in waiting rooms, trees from a nearby park and local florists, the sheer stillness and imposing appearance of the plants, as well as the impossibility to identify them geographically suggests a supernatural character. Yet their origin suggests a commentary on the meaning of exoticism and on the definition of the studio as the embarkment room of a plane or as an exotic destination in itself.
Romain Bernini, Territory, oil on wood, 35x27cm, 2020
Finally, the third group of paintings includes men, women and children in everyday clothes set into colorful forests. Perhaps the most representative of Bernini’s works, they seem to symbolize the melancholia of modern men in their contemporary environment. Lost in pathless jungles, the characters are unable to make sense of their surroundings. This perhaps epitomizes Bernini’s thought on the role of his artistic practice: to give body and aesthetic value to a shared feeling between the artist and his audience.
Born in 1979, Romain Bernini is a graduate from the Sorbonne University. His work has been shown in many solo shows especially in Paris and New York. His paintings have been included in many group shows at the Tripostal in Lille (FR), the Musée des Beaux-arts in Tourcoing (FR), the Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea, and the Museum of Chambery, France. He has been also commissioned for permanent works in Paris and in Macao . He has been a resident of the Villa Medicis in Rome (IT)..