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卢卡斯·莱希特尔 Lukas Leichtle
《苏雷纳肖像1/2》Recording of Soorena 1/2, 2021
亚麻布面油画，木板装裱 Oil on linen mounted on wood panel
60 x 50 cm
Nov. 11th
Lukas Leichtle (b. 1995, Germany)
Nov. 12th
Kiki Xuebing Wang (b. 1993, China)
Nov. 13th
Li Hei Di (b. 1997, China)
Nov. 14th
Tom Howse (b. 1988, UK)
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卢卡斯·卢齐乌斯·莱希特尔于1995年出生在德国亚琛。他的绘画实践基于重新调整光线感的纸稿和数字图像，遵循意大利文艺复兴时期特别使用的底漆原则，逐层渲染表现出晶莹通透的视觉效果。他的作品病理性地审视现实中温柔脆弱的瞬间，充分利用人造物般的皮肤，变形的肢体语言，戏剧性的聚光和不确定的身份来调动观者的心理反应。
莱希特尔现生活和工作于柏林，并就读于柏林魏森西艺术学院油画专业。他的作品曾展出于上海LINSEED Projects（2021年）；安特卫普Newchild画廊（2021年）；柏林布鲁克博物馆（2021年）；柏林Galerie Sandra Buergel（2021年）； 伦敦Samuele Visentin（个展；2021年）；伦敦Eve Leibe画廊（2021年）；柏林Weserhalle（2020年）等。他的作品被北京X美术馆；卡萨布兰卡Fondation Alliances；格斯塔德Alex Hank藏品等收藏。他的作品刊登于《Vogue》《i-D》《福布斯》杂志。他的首次机构个展也将于2023年在新亚琛艺术协会举办。
王雪冰1993年生于中国郑州，本科毕业于洛杉矶加州大学（University of California, Los Angeles），并于英国皇家艺术学院（Royal College of Art）获艺术硕士学位，目前生活与工作在伦敦。在其个人经历的辗转变迁中，周遭环境的流动令其往往以新奇的角度观察并接近现代消费主义。她的绘画作品常以时装、首饰、皮包、手表等奢侈品作为切入点，物体本身的尺寸、位置和自身价值被重置、模糊、边缘化，画面中失衡或荒谬的比例令这些物件显得庞大，细碎或氤氲；备受追捧的珠光宝气从聚光灯下被移开，从巨幅商业广告中被剥离，艺术家以此探索庸常之物被赋予价值的过程，虚构与真实在王雪冰的绘画中互相暗示交合。
艺术家近期个展包括：A Robin Red Breast In a Cage，Puts All Heaven In a Rage，2021，PM/AM Gallery，伦敦；绿光与蝎，2020，LINSEED Projects，上海；近期主要群展包括：隔岸观火，2021，LINSEED Projects，上海；Reality Check，2021，Guts Gallery，伦敦；John Moores Painting Prize 2020，2021，National Museum Liverpool，Walker Art Gallery，利物浦；Still @Live，2021，MAPA Gallery，伦敦；Barbican Arts Group Trust open，2019，伦敦；Sympathetic Magic，2019，Zona Mista，伦敦。王雪冰于2020年获英国约翰·莫尔绘画奖（John Moores Painting Prize 2020）首届新兴艺术家奖（Emerging Artist Prize）；作为约翰·莫尔绘画奖首位华人获得者，她于同年再次获得约翰·莫尔观众臻选奖（Visitors’ Choice）。
李黑地，1997年出生于中国沈阳，1997年出生于中国沈阳，曾就读于美国马里兰艺术大学和英国伦敦艺术大学切尔西学院，2020年获艺术学士学位，现就读于伦敦皇家艺术学院绘画硕士专业。综合自己切身的成长和情感经历，李黑地发展出了一套暧昧而独特的绘画符号语言，这些绘画作品常常位于大众电影文化、性别表演和静物传统的交界地带。而在其多样而具有强烈表现力的雕塑、装置和表演实践中，艺术家亦持续探索自身内在的性别和身体经验的多样性，在挑战着异性恋本位霸权的同时，暗示着纯粹欲望的本能、真实和自由。
汤姆·豪斯1988年生于英国切斯特，2011年毕业于伦敦艺术大学温布尔顿艺术学院，现工作生活于伦敦。豪斯的创作时常游移于现实与幻想之间，对人类学抱持的极大兴趣引申其独特的视角，探索着难以被全面认知的世界中诸如宇宙、自然、地球或是人类的奥秘。人们常常通过传说和神话来解释未知，安抚对未知的恐惧，而豪斯也被这些故事所深深吸引。其作品中的场景往往取材于自然与日常，流畅精准地勾绘出的逻辑世界中却又透露着一丝荒谬，而不失纯真。不同于单点透视所带来的单一世界，豪斯通过平面移动营造多元视点，在画面层次中堆积不同维度，述说着生命与无限宇宙之间的交织。
艺术家近期个展包括：“鸽子草地野鸭宫殿”，2021，LINSEED，上海；“仿生月蕨峡谷”, 2021，荔枝一号画廊，伦敦；“前寒武纪沼泽爵士”，2019，奥普达画廊，挪威；“后天体土壤”，2017，罗德·巴顿画廊，伦敦；“二手蟾蜍诗歌”，2017，坦尼亚波画廊，慕尼黑；“大叶蚁塔沼泽”，2015，坦尼亚波画廊，慕尼黑。近期主要群展包括：“隔岸观火”，2021，LINSEED，上海; “舞台之惠”，2020，Frestonian画廊，伦敦；“我一定是出现了幻觉”，2019，Ratskeller画廊，柏林；“万花筒”，2019，萨奇画廊，伦敦；“Condo伦敦”，2019，Koppe Astner，伦敦；“约翰·摩尔绘画奖展览”，2018，沃克画廊，利物浦。汤姆·豪斯于2018年获英国约翰·摩尔绘画奖，并曾于2012年和2011年获卡特琳奖与普鲁内拉·克罗奖提名。
Lukas Luzius Leichtle (b. 1995, Aachen, Germany) bases his artistic practice on the sketches and digital images after the manipulation of light, and follows the diktat of imprimatura in Renaissance Italy to embody the translucent and luminous effect through gradual layers. In his work, Leichtle has pathologically scrutinised the tender, fragile states between real moments to evoke different uncanniness through his representation of cyborgian skin, deformed body, theatrical spotlights and uncertain identity.
Leichtle lives and works in Berlin and is currently studying at the painting department of Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. His work has been shown at LINSEED Projects, Shanghai, (2021); Newchild Gallery, Antwerpen (2021); Bruecke Museum, Berlin (2021); Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin (2021); Samuele Visentin, London (solo; 2021); Eve Leibe Gallery, London (2021); Weserhalle, Berlin (2020), among others. His work is in the collections of X Museum, Beijing; Fondation Alliances, Casablanca; Alex Hank Collection, Gstaad. His features have been included in Vogue magazine, i-D magazine and Forbes magazine. His first institutional solo exhibition is coming at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (2023).
Kiki Xuebing Wang was born in 1993, Zhengzhou, China. After living in Los Angeles for many years and graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles, she continued her study in London, UK, and acquired her Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art. Wang’s paintings explore a twisted view of modern consumerism through the lens of luxury fashion and other objects of desire. Taken down from the spotlights and high pedestals, peeled off from massive billboards and commercial campaigns, the trending garments portrayed are trapped, marginalized, displaced, and obscured in the paradox of scale, location and value, examining the possibility to transform the non-valuable into the valuable, and to discern fictions from realities.
Wang is currently living and working in London. Her recent solo exhibitions include: A Robin Red Breast In a Cage, Puts All Heaven In a Rage, 2021, PM/AM Gallery, London; The Green Ray and The Scorpions, 2020, Linseed Project, Shanghai; and her selected group exhibitions include: Watch the Fire from the Shore, Linseed Project, 2021, Shanghai; Reality Check, Guts Gallery, 2021, London; John Moores Painting Prize, National Museum Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 2021, Liverpool; Still @Live, MAPA Gallery, 2021, London; Barbican Arts Group Trust open, 2019, London; Sympathetic Magic, Zona Mista, 2019, London. And her works have been awarded by Visitor Choice Prize, John Moores Painting Prize, 2020 and Emerging Artist Prize, John Moores Painting Prize, 2020.
Li Hei Di, born in Shenyang, China in 1997, studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Chelsea College of Art - University of the Arts London and received her Bachelor of Arts in 2020. She is currently studying for a master’s degree in painting at the Royal College of Art in London. Based on her own growth and her emotional experience, Li Hei Di has developed a semiotic system of painting that is ambiguous and unique, which often lies at the intersection of popular films culture, gender performativity and classic still life. In her diverse and expressive practice of sculpture, installation and performance, the artist continues to explore the diversity of her own gender and body experience, challenging the supremacy of heterosexuality, alluding to the instinct, the truth, and the freedom of pure desire.
Tom Howse was born in 1988 in Chester, UK. He graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in 2011 and currently lives and works in London. Howse’s paintings balance between realism and fantasy. With his unique anthropological perspective, his works explore what the artist describes as the dichotomy between our quest to know and our fallibility to comprehend, explaining the mysteries of the cosmos, the earth, humanity, and the existence of natural phenomena that has bewildered humankind since ancient times. Taking its form in folklore and myths, Howse is interested in how humans are drawn towards explanations found within these stories and how they are used to soothe the fear of the unknown. Howse’s aesthetics is often based on nature and daily life; the lucid worlds he visualized reveal a touch of absurdity without losing innocence, lending to the experimental and the otherworldly. The perspective in his works is utilized via shifting flat planes, opposing a singular vanishing point that allows for a feeling of moving through a singular world. As we subsequently cross through into a whole new universe at each dimension of the paintings’ existence, Howse’s works trace the interweaving among lives and the infinite universe.
His solo exhibitions includes: ‘Pigeon Grass Mallard Palace’, 2021, LINSEED Projects, Shanghai; ‘Moonwort Gorge Replica’, 2021, Lychee One, London; ‘Precambrian Swamp Jazz’, 2019, Galleri Opdahl, Norway; ‘Post-Celestial Compost’, 2017, Rod Barton Gallery, London; ‘Secondhand Toad Poems’, 2017, Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich; ‘Gunnera Bog’, 2015, Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich; and his selected group exhibitions includes: ‘Watch the Fire from the Shore’, 2021, LINSEED, Shanghai; ‘The Stage More Beholding’, 2020, Frestonian Gallery, London; ‘I Must Be Seeing Things’, 2019, Ratskeller Galerie, Berlin; ‘Kaleidoscope’, 2019, Saatchi Gallery, London; ‘Condo London’, 2019, Koppe Astner, London; ‘John Moore’s Painting Prize’, 2018, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. In 2018, Tom Howse was one of five artists to receive the John Moore’s Painting Prize and was shortlisted for the Caitlin Prize (2012) and the Prunella Clough Painting Award (2011).