新展预告 | 「载玻片」三人展
Slides
Trio Exhibition
陈国宝、约翰内斯·博西西奥、俞菲尔
Chen Guobao, Johannes Bosisio, Yu Feier
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万一空间于2023年开年荣幸呈现艺术家陈国宝，约翰内斯·博西西奥（Johannes Bosisio）和俞菲尔的三人展 —— “载玻片”，以期呈现三位青年艺术家近年来透过不同视角对“物”的理解与诠释。全球化语境下的三位艺术家带着各自的思考分别探索了具有平凡但值得重新审视的日常之物、碎片化但有未来赛博格意味的工业之物及古典审美影响下凝聚精神性思考的诗意之物。
平凡之物具有承载日常琐碎信息的功能，不断发展变化的时代也同样烙印在这些看似普通而不起眼的物件上。陈国宝以油画棒为主要创作媒材，持续关注并描绘频繁出现在自己生活中的碎片，比如收据、食物、风景等等，并为这些实物烙上强烈的个人存在标签。
在每次自信的落笔间，陈国宝将对颜色的清晰认知与构图的明确把控主宰着画面，将难以操控的媒介运用得游刃有余，在笔触叠加中呈现个人对物象和记忆的思考。频繁出现的日常之物能否被重新审视，这个问题对艺术家具有特殊挑战性，而营造视觉经验反差感也是他在创作艺术实验样本中的重要关注点。
约翰内斯的画作中，特写的工业化金属局部近似透过载玻片观察到的物质结构，成为他透过艺术实践不断审视现代技术和重译后现代主义的探索样本载体。在如此的视觉冲击下，这些局部仿佛都具备复杂的生命，人本主义赋能为理解机械增添了一层自我审视的意涵。
对物象的精神性探索也持续延展在俞菲尔的创作中。受古典中国画的美学与书画论的审美观念的影响，俞菲尔将冷凝与平衡的质感在笔触叠加间渗透于蜂窝纸板中，试图不断提取物象本身的纯粹气质。她的特写对象无论是人物肢体还是物件局部，均有一种独特的锋利气场，疏离感与冷静的旁观者姿态使画作本身有着被多重解构的可能性。
海报设计
周嘉慧
Slides
Trio Exhibition
At the start of 2023, W.ONESPACE is honored to present “Slides,” the trio exhibition of artists Chen Guobao, Johannes Bosisio and Yu Feier, to reveal their understanding and interpretation of "objects" through different perspectives in recent years. In as globalized context, three emerging artists bring their own reflections to explore everyday objects that are mundane but worth revisiting, industrial objects that are fragmented but with future cybernetic implications, and poetic objects that gather spiritual thoughts under the influence of classical aesthetics.
A microscope slide is a transparent sheet that carries a sample of cells or tissue sections. For research purposes, it may be placed under the microscope by means of a smear or press. In the field of biological research, compared to the short lifespan of human beings, slide specimens may be preserved permanently, remaining a powerful carrier for people to explore the microscopic world for a long time. The three artists, Chen Guobao, Johannes Bosisio and Yu Feier, observed and experienced diverse objects through different perspectives, as if they were slicing the observed objects in different ways, in order to reveal and explore the larger truth and connotation behind the samples. At the same time, W.ONESPACE also echoes and juxtaposes the creative qualities of each artist with antique objects, and synthesizes documentary materials to restore the imagination of historical fragments projected behind an artifact or even a fragmentary specimen. In this special exhibition, through these slides from different periods, viewers have the chance to observe and understand "objects" from different people and different perspectives, from the past to the present, and from the present to the future.
Ordinary objects have the function of carrying daily trivial information, and the evolving times are also imprinted on these seemingly inconspicuous objects. Using oil pastels as his main medium, Chen Guobao continues to focus on depicting the fragments that frequently appear in his life, such as receipts, food, landscapes, etc., and he always brands these objects with a strong personal presence. Every time he paints, the artist dominates the picture with a clear perception of color and exquisite control of composition, using this difficult medium with ease and presenting his personal reflections on objects and memories in the superposition of brushstrokes. Whether or not frequently appearing daily objects can be re-examined by people is a special challenge for the artist, and creating a sense of contrast in visual experience is also an important focus of his artistic creation.
Industry and machinery, as one of the representative objects of the frontier of technological development, are constantly referred to in the history of human civilization, whether in the use of technology or in literary imagination and artistic creation. Johannes Bosisio has developed a unique direction in the field of human-computer interaction by using broken metal as the master theme, and Natural Cyborg and mechanical deconstruction as the theoretical background. He aims to depict the local details of mechanical metal construction. In Johannes's paintings, the close-up industrialized metal part is similar to the material structure observed through the slide, which has become the carrier for his exploration of modern technology and retranslation of postmodernism through his art practice. With such a visual impact, these parts seem to have complex lives, and the empowerment of humanism adds a layer of self-examination to the understanding of machinery.
The spiritual exploration of objects is also continuously extended in Yu Feier's creations. Influenced by the aesthetics of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy and painting theory, the artist permeates the honeycomb cardboard with condensed and balanced textures in an overlay of brush strokes, trying to extract the pure temperament of the object itself. Feier’s close-up subjects have a unique sharp aura, whether they are human limbs or partial objects, and her sense of detachment and position as a calm spectator make the paintings themselves have the possibility of being deconstructed in multiple ways. As a time-carrier, the artistic image covers a slice of the artist's thoughts within a certain period of time, and what is shown in the artwork is not the result of the artist's thinking, but the process of thinking. This is an experiment about precision and intuition. The artist gradually completes the process of dissecting herself through gazing, breathing, and feeling, and her creation also manifests the "spirit"（神）she has always contemplated and comprehended between the collision of nothingness and reality.
Through their respective perspectives, the three emerging artists contemplate different aspects of objects in the present time and space. Their diverse practices constitute a very different but homogeneous field of study, while the “microscope slides" of their individual artistic creations gradually accumulate as experimental samples and show us the objects and the world from multiple perspectives. As a completed "relic" sample, they allow the viewer to read and experience the artist's personal or contemporary legacy through the lens of personal experience, thus stimulating a more poignant and authentic realization.
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Born in Fujian, China in 1993.
Graduated from the Third Studio of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. He currently lives and works in Beijing. The artist held solo exhibitions at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Beijing Han Art Space, and participated in group exhibitions at Shanghai West Bund Art Center, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and LuXun Academy of Fine Arts Museum.
Using oil pastels as his main medium, Chen Guobao continues to focus on depicting the fragments that frequently appear in his life, such as receipts, food, landscapes, etc., and he always brands these objects with a strong personal presence. These "physical evidences" can help viewers to locate and narrate the work in time and space. Due to the directness and difficulty in operation of oil pastels as the painting medium, every time the artist paints, he needs to have a clear perception of color and exquisite control of composition. Using this difficult medium with ease, he presents his personal gaze and reflections on objects and memories in the superposition of brushstrokes.
约翰内斯·博西西奥
Johannes Bosisio
Born in Cavalese, Italy in 1994.
Graduated with honors from the Royal College of Art in London in 2022 with a master's degree in painting. He currently lives and works in London, UK and Berlin, Germany. Over the past few years, Johannes' work has toured in Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and China.
Johannes Bosisio focuses on and depicts the details of machinery and substances of metal in broken forms. During creation, he constantly explores and looks for new materials such as glitter, glue, and steel frames, and constantly enriches his painting language, with such comprehensive materials, that depicts and translates industrial metal objects. At the same time, his study experience in London also gave him a wealth of inspiration, from cultural conflicts brought by different races to the cultural integration presented on social media, the coexistence and separation of the two diametrically opposed have become the nourishment of his thinking and creation. His field of study is wide-ranging, from the study of Natural Cyborg theory to the application of dystopian doctrines, and inspiration from books and literature has led the artist to explore and extend the relationship between the mechanical and the human.
Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1995.
Graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. She currently lives and works in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Her works have participated in group exhibitions of many domestic art museums and art institutions, such as Today Art Museum, Taizhou International Convention and Exhibition Center and Shanghai Exhibition Center.
Yu Feier’s research and creation focus on spiritual exploration and temperament extraction of objects. The combination of the aesthetics of traditional Chinese painting with the expression of Western painting brings a unique look to Yu Feier's artworks. The artist permeates the honeycomb cardboard with condensed and balanced textures in an overlay of brush strokes. Feier’s close-up subjects have a unique sharp aura, whether they are human limbs or partial objects, and her sense of detachment and position as a calm spectator make the paintings themselves have the possibility of being deconstructed in multiple ways. In this experiment about precision and intuition, the artist completes the process of dissecting herself through gazing, breathing, and feeling, and her creation also manifests the "spirit"（神）she has always contemplated and comprehended between the collision of nothingness and reality.