正在展出 | 巴西绘画大师阿尔弗雷多·沃尔皮 Alfredo Volpi
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阿尔弗雷多·沃尔皮 Alfredo Volpi
格莱斯顿画廊 ｜ 纽约第64街东130号（上东区）
Gladstone Gallery, 130 East 64th Street, New York
展期：2017.11.04 – 12.22
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
▲ 《无题》Untitled, c. 1970's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas； 68 x 103 cm
▲ 《无题》Untitled, c. 1970's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas； 34 x 25 cm
▲ 《无题》（局部）Untitled (detail), c. 1970's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
格莱斯顿画廊将呈现巴西已故画家阿尔弗雷多·沃尔皮（Alfredo Volpi, 1896 - 1988）的历史回顾展，这标志着艺术家在美国举办的首次个人展览。阿尔弗雷多·沃尔皮是巴西最具影响力和最受人敬仰的画家之一，他被著名公共知识分子马里奥·佩德罗萨（Mario Pedrosa）称为是“他那个时代的大师”。沃尔皮在巴西现代主义的崛起中磨砺了个人的绘画技艺，他将日常生活中截取的灵感转化为色彩鲜亮的抽象图形——从庆典的横幅到行列式的排屋——这一极具代表性的创作手法使他在艺术史上留下了深远的影响。
▲ 《立面》，1950年代晚期–1960年代早期，Fachadas, late 1950's to early 1960's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas; 107.8 x 72.1 cm
▲ 《立面》（局部），1950年代晚期–1960年代早期，Fachadas (detail), late 1950's to early 1960's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
沃尔皮与巴西的具体主义（Concretism）艺术运动保持了若即若离的关系。这场艺术运动于上世纪中叶在巴西掀起，以塔尔西拉·德·阿马拉尔（Tarsila do Amaral）、沃尔德·科代罗（Waldemar Cordeiro）等艺术家为代表。作为一名自学成才的画家，沃尔皮以别具一格的美学风格区别于这些同时代的学院派画家，他在素人艺术和传统美术之间的交叉地带，占得了一块独属于自己的创作领地。沃尔皮年幼时便随家人从意大利卢卡移民到巴西圣保罗，他在坎布西（Cambuci）度过了余生，这座城市和它的海景成为了沃尔皮创作生涯中源源不断的灵感来源。沃尔皮对绘画的最早探索，发生在他还是一名粉刷匠学徒的时候，这门技艺不但使他能够娴熟地处理绘画表面和混合颜料，还让他对建筑和城市空间产生了浓烈的兴趣。上世纪三十年代，沃尔皮开始在空闲时间创作绘画，周遭生活的点点滴滴成为了他作品中的表现对象——也就是坎布西和其周围地区。然而，沃尔皮直到三十年代末才真正发展出了属于他自己的标志性的绘画风格。在四十年代和五十年代中，沃尔皮开始在绘画中描绘建筑物的表面和基本的旗帜图案，他通过使用各种蛋彩颜料，制造出混色的视觉效果。沃尔皮将纯艺术实践和他早期的设计经验相结合，在他极富感召力同时经过了深思熟虑的色彩运用中，这些日常生活中的场景和事物，被巧妙地转化为绘画作品中的抽象图案之风景。日常生活中的各种元素在他独特的绘画风格中被解构和再展示，驱使他这样做的另一驱动力，则是他最初希冀打破早期现代主义艺术实践的边界之愿望。
▲ 《旗子与旗杆》Bandeirinhas com mastros, c. 1970's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas; 59.5 x 85 cm
▲ 《旗子与旗杆》（局部）Bandeirinhas com mastros (detail), c. 1970's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
本次展览聚焦于五十年代末至七十年代沃尔皮最重要的创作阶段中的诸多方面，展出的作品中有很多此前从未在巴西境外展览过。这些绘画主要描绘了建筑面的表面、旗帜和海景，它们都是沃尔皮最为熟悉的创作主题。与此同时，有关沃尔皮作品的第一部英文专著也将同期出版。这部著作汇集了艺术史学者罗德里格·莫拉（Rodrigo Moura）关于沃尔皮作品的新论文，以及阿拉西·德·阿玛拉（Aracy de Amaral）、威利斯·德·卡斯特罗（Willys de Castro）和马里奥·佩德罗萨（Mario Pedrosa）对沃尔皮的过往论述，这是这些文章第一次被翻译成英文。
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
▲ 《航海元素》Elementos Náutico, c. 1970's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas; 23.7 x 32.5 cm
▲ 《航海元素》（局部）Elementos Náutico (detail), c. 1970's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas
阿尔弗雷多·沃尔皮1896年出生于意大利卢卡，1988年于巴西圣保罗逝世。沃尔皮在世时曾在众多艺术机构举办过个展，其中包括：圣保罗现代艺术博物馆；巴西建筑师协会，阿雷格里港，巴西；坎皮纳斯当代艺术博物馆，巴西；安德拉德市政图书馆，圣保罗；圣保罗城市地铁中心——Metrô；里约热内卢现代艺术博物馆。在沃尔皮去世后，他的作品也曾在诸多美术馆和艺术机构中展出，其中包括：Paulo Kuczynski Escritório艺术画廊；圣保罗大学当代艺术博物馆，巴西；布鲁塞尔美术宫，比利时；莫雷拉·萨勒斯艺术中心，里约热内卢，巴西；圣保罗当代艺术中心，巴西；帝国皇宫，里约热内卢，巴西；奥斯卡尼迈耶博物馆，库里提巴，巴西；布宜诺斯艾利斯拉丁美洲艺术博物馆，阿根廷；圣保罗中央银行文化中心，巴西；中央银行价值美术馆，巴西利亚，巴西；圣罗文化中心；里约热内卢国家美术馆，里约热内卢；劳林达·桑托斯·罗伯文化中心，里约热内卢；以及圣保罗州立美术馆。1953年，沃尔皮在第二届圣保罗艺术双年展上被授予了巴西绘画大奖。他的作品曾被收录于1950、1952、1954、1962和1964年的威尼斯双年展。
▲ 《航海元素》Elementos Náuticos, c. 1960's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas; 68 x 103 cm
▲ 《航海元素》（局部）Elementos Náuticos (detail), c. 1960's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
This exhibition of historic works by Brazilian painter Alfredo Volpi (1896 – 1988) is the first solo presentation of his work in the United States. Volpi is regarded as one of the most influential and celebrated Brazilian painters, who the preeminent public intellectual Mario Pedrosa called “the master of his time.” Honing his craft during the rise of modernism in Brazil, Volpi has made a lasting impact on the history of art through his signature approach to depicting the forms of everyday experiences—from festival banners to common row houses—in vibrantly chromatic abstraction.
▲ 《无题》Untitled, c. 1960's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas； 108 x 72 cm
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
▲ 《无题》（局部）Untitled (detail), c. 1960's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas
Tangentially connected with Concretism, the mid-century Brazilian artistic movement that included Tarsila do Amaral, Waldemar Cordeiro and others, Volpi occupied a liminal space between naïve and fine art, as a self-taught artist with a distinct aesthetic style that distinguished his work from the academic painters of his time. Volpi emigrated from Lucca, Italy to São Paulo, Brazil as a child, spending the remainder of his life in Cambuci, which inspired the city and seascapes that filled his oeuvre. Volpi first explored the medium of paint as an apprentice to a wall decorator, where he not only perfected a craftsman’s ability to prepare surfaces and mix pigments, but also became interested in architecture and urban space. In the 1930s, Volpi began to paint in his free time, turning to subjects that were immediately at hand—namely Cambuci and the surrounding area. However, it was not until the end of that decade when he began to fully develop a signature style of painting. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Volpi began to depict building façades and rudimentary flags in his paintings using a parti-colored array of tempera paints. Volpi’s evocative and thoughtfully considered color palettes transformed these everyday scenes and subjects into abstract patterned landscapes, connecting his fine art practice with his early work as a designer. This initial impulse to deconstruct and reshow elements of everyday life through his unique style of painting also demonstrated his early attempts at pushing the boundaries of early modern art practices.
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
▲ 《立面》Fachadas, c. 1960's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas； 71.7 x 108 cm
▲ 《立面》（局部）Fachadas (detail), c. 1960's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas； 71.7 x 108 cm
This exhibition focuses on the different aspects of his practice during his most engaging phase between the late 1950s and mid 1970s. Gathering major works, many of which have never been exhibited outside of Brazil, the paintings on view survey the façade, banner, and nautical paintings with which he is most associated. On this occasion, the first major monograph in English of Volpi’s work will be published which includes a new essay on his work by scholar Rodrigo Moura and historical writings on the artists by Aracy de Amaral, Willys de Castro, and Mario Pedrosa, translated into English for the first time.
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
▲ 《立面》Fachadas, c. 1960's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas； 72 x 36.4 cm
▲ 《立面》（局部）Fachadas (detail), c. 1960's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas； 72 x 36.4 cm
Alfredo Volpi was born in 1896 in Lucca, Italy, and died in 1988 in São Paulo. Throughout his lifetime, Volpi had solo exhibitions at Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Campinas, Brazil; Biblioteca Municipal Mario de Andrade, São Paulo; Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo - Metrô; and Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. Subsequent to his death in 1988, many institutions have shown Volpi’s work, including Paulo Kuczynski Escritório de Arte, São Paulo; Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo; Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium; Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro; Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo; Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro; Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Espaço Cultural Banco Central, São Paulo; Museu de Valores do Banco Central, Brasília, Brazil; Centro Cultural São Paulo; Museu Nacional de Belas-Artes, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Laurinda Santos Lobo, Rio de Janeiro; and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. In 1953, Volpi won the prestigious Grand Prix for Brazilian painting at the second São Paulo Art Biennial. Volpi was also included in the Venice Biennale in 1950, 1952, 1954, 1962 and 1964.
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
▲ 《立面》Fachadas, c. 1950's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas； 71.4 x 52.1 cm
▲ 《立面》（局部）Fachadas (detail), c. 1950's；蛋彩、画布 Tempera on canvas；71.4 x 52.1 cm
▲ 展览现场，格莱斯顿画廊，2017.11.04–12.22 / Installation view at Gladstone Gallery, 2017.11.04–12.22.
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