LINSEED 艺术家 | 志韦 Zhi Wei
志韦 Zhi Wei
格子布面丙烯、墨汁、石英砂、扣子和线
Acrylic, Chinese Ink, quartz sand, button and
thread on plaid fabric
200 x 160 cm
志韦1997年出生于中国北京，于2019年毕业于牛津大学拉斯金艺术学院纯艺术系并获得一等荣誉学位，目前在北京生活和工作。
志韦的创作媒介囊括绘画、雕塑和装置，常常从生活、历史、流行喜剧、卡通和科学冷知识等片段中汲取灵感。艺术家惊叹于在这些片段中，创作者能够精心地将多样的各异元素组合在一起，从而催化出偶然生发的意义。志韦通常首先在 iPad 上进行外形的绘制和图像的拼贴，根据个人喜爱的素材创造出许多形式，再将这些脱离了原本语境的参考图像风格化，然后在其基础上进行叠加，由此建构出作为蓝本的数字图像。志韦在实践中广泛利用了蕾丝、薄纱、格子布、有机玻璃等非传统的平面材料。艺术家运用了一系列技巧，例如将墨汁稀释后用于格子布面染色、在绘画表面上叠加半透明薄纱、对裸露画框进行上色，这些做法既质疑了痕迹创作（mark-making）在绘画实践中的传统角色，同时又提供了多种新的可能性。非常规的材质不但具有现成品图像的性质，又具有自身的物质性，在这样的双重刺激下，艺术家会在创作过程中不断调整数字蓝本，进一步探索着绘画时的身体行动与图像创作（image-making）之间的关系。志韦钟情于一种天真可爱、异想天开的美学，常用简单的方法将绘画题材进行拟人化处理，例如缝上一颗纽扣当作眼睛。艺术家坚持在稍大于等身的尺幅上创作，从而将绘画想象成了具有一定自主能动性的“准主体”。工作室因此成为艺术家“创造”或“结交”朋友的地方，在那里，长时间工作的孤独转化成了苦乐参半的陪伴。
从左至右（Left to Right）：玛丽·斯蒂芬森（Mary Stephenson）， 志韦（Zhi Wei）， 石佳韵（Shi Jiayun）
展览现场 | 隔岸观火 Watch the Fire from the Shore
LINSEED Projects @ Oniment
2021年11月12日 - 2021年12月04日
在个体经验和脱离语境的参考资料的基础上，志韦通过数字图像语汇和非传统的材质，探索了图像创作、绘画行动和平面三者间相互依存的关系，触及了物体与图像、藏匿与暴露、物质与幻象之间的界限，亦在形式和情感的层面上深入讨论了表面感（superficiality）与真诚表达（sincerity）之间的张力。
Zhi Wei’s practice features the use of paintings, sculptures, and installations. Fascinated by the serendipity of meanings fermented in the artist’s careful assemblage of heterogeneous elements, they draw inspiration from fragments of mundanity, history, popular comedy, cartoons, and scientific trivia. Often starting with drawing and collaging on iPad, Zhi Wei invents forms based on personal sources, and stylises the choices of detached references, which are later superimposed to construct mediated digital imageries as blueprints. Unconventional surface materials, such as lace, tulle, plaid, and Perspex, are consistently featured in Zhi Wei’s practice. Through a series of strategies, such as the layering of translucent tulle over the painted canvas, the diluted Chinese Ink wash over the plaid fabric, and the colouring of exposed stretcher bars, Zhi Wei seeks new possibilities in painting production, where the role of traditional mark-making is called into questions. Stimulated by the readymade image quality and materiality of unconventional materials, the artist adjusts the digital blueprints throughout the painting process, where the relationship between the physical act of painting and the image-making process is contested. Enthralled by the aesthetics of cute and whimsicality, Zhi Wei personifies their subject matters through simple gestures like stitching buttons that represent eyes onto the painting surface. Persistently working on a scale slightly larger-than-life, Zhi Wei explores the possibility of conceiving painting as a ‘quasi-subject’ that has a level of autonomy and agency. The studio thus becomes a place for the artist to ‘make’ friends, where the solitude of long studio hours transforms into a bittersweet companionship.