【SPURS 新展】我居住在可能性中
我居住在可能性中
2022年7月16日至8月21日
Gallery I｜SPURS Gallery，北京朝阳区酒仙桥路二号院798艺术区D-06
SPURS Gallery荣幸地宣布将于2022年7月16日推出群展“我居住在可能性中”。展览由Melanie Ouyang Lum策划，将在Gallery I呈现罗斯卡连多（Ross Caliendo）、黄宇兴、格雷格·伊托（Greg Ito）、斯科特·卡恩（Scott Kahn）、雅格布·帕金（Jacopo Pagin）、邱岸雄和郑路等七位艺术家以风景为主题的绘画及雕塑作品。
尽管这一事实可能会令一些人感到惊讶，有着几百年历史的风景画传统正在当代艺术中重新兴起。“我居住在可能性中”深受艾米莉·狄金森的同名诗作启发。在这部诗中，诗人把自然界和神性联系起来。虽然是一名隐士，狄金森却可以通过诗歌超越物理空间的限制去“远行”。已经持续了两年有余的疫情深刻地改变了我们的生活方式，许多人通过风景画寻求自由、庇护、灵感和慰藉。展览将同时呈现来自欧洲、美国和中国不同代际艺术家的作品。
罗斯卡连多把风景画当作他色彩实验的场域。颜料被厚涂在单色底漆之上，经过刷子或刮刀的处理与露出的后者形成鲜明对比，并被特制的画框进一步突出。直接取自艺术家直觉的山水树石，由非自然的色彩渲染而出，形成一派奇幻瑰丽的景象。“我居住在可能性中”将呈现卡连多最新创作的两件作品，其中三联画《邂逅》是他至今最大尺幅的作品。
黄宇兴混用荧光色与传统色，融会油画与工笔重彩技法。作品中重叠的山峦和潋滟的湖泊上一圈一圈的细密线条，暗合自然景物本身的肌理，也鉴证艺术家的创作过程。跳跃的颜色与高远的意境拉锯，个中张力值得玩味。
格雷格·伊托超扁平、剪贴画式的风景图像上覆盖着从他作为日裔美国人的个人史、家族史采撷的视觉语汇，如锁孔、窗户、日月、野火等等。他电影画面般的作品含义幽微，带有浓厚的自传意味，却也指向爱、死、希望和悲剧之类永恒的主题。
斯科特·卡恩以现实生活为灵感来源，视他的作品为他及周围世界的视觉日记。他用细致的笔触绘出的寓言式场景，散发着魔幻现实主义式的神秘气质，流露出人在自然面前无可回避的孤独感觉。
雅格布·帕金杂出生于意大利，现生活和工作于布鲁塞尔。他揉杂意大利民间传说、神秘学、超现实主义摄影和流行文化等美学元素，并将无意识引入他神秘的受自然启发的作品。画面中的静物与人物形象，犹如荣格所说的“原型”，帮助艺术家克服个人的维度进入集体精神。
邱岸雄把自然和历史两个他长期关注的主题放在一起思考。人类现代文明的产物堆叠在万古不移的山川之前，在这幅废墟式的画面中动物悠然自得仿佛对身后的变化浑然不觉。不同历史的碎片交织出发人深省的荒诞图景。
郑路在近年的个人实践当中逐渐构建和完善自己的艺术逻辑和语言系统，将物质、文字、水、时间、空间等概念纳入自成体系的观念构架中，形成独特的表现方式。他把自然现象转化为数字模型，最终以不锈钢结构的雕塑呈现。
展览将持续至2022年8月21日。
格雷格·伊托，《我们在黎明时分出发》，2022，布面丙烯裱于木板，168 x 122 cm | Greg Ito, We Leave at Dawn, 2022, acrylic on stretched canvas over panel, 168 x 122 cm
I Dwell in Possibility
July 16 - August 21, 2022
Gallery I | SPURS Gallery, D-06, 798 Art Zone, 2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing
SPURS Gallery is pleased to announce “I Dwell in Possibility”, a summer group exhibition presenting works by Ross Caliendo, Huang Yuxing, Greg Ito, Scott Kahn, Jacopo Pagin, Qiu Anxiong, and Zheng Lu with varied approaches to landscape painting and sculpture. The exhibition is curated by Melanie Ouyang Lum, and will be on view in Gallery I from July 16, 2022.
Although it may be surprising to some, the centuries old tradition of Landscape painting is making a resurgence in contemporary art. This exhibition takes inspiration from Emily Dickinson’s famous poem “I Dwell in Possibility” where she links the natural world with the divine. Although Dickinson was a recluse, through her poetry she was able to travel far beyond the confines of her physical space. The last two years of the pandemic have profoundly changed the way that we live and many seek freedom, refuge, inspiration and solace through Landscape painting. This exhibition juxtaposes generations of artists from Europe, the United States and China.
Ross Caliendo uses landscape painting as his field of colour experiments. The paint is thickly applied to a monochrome primer, which is then brushed or scraped off to expose the underpainting and further accentuated by an artist designed frame. Mountains, trees, and rocks have been taken directly from the artist’s intuition and are rendered in unnatural colours, creating a fantastical and majestic scene. “I Dwell in Possibility” presents two of Caliendo’s most recent works, of which the triptych Encounter is his largest work to date.
Huang Yuxing mixes fluorescent lighting with traditional colours, blending oil and brushwork techniques. The fine lines around the overlapping mountains and glistening lakes in this work allude to the texture of the natural landscape itself, a testament to the artist’s creative process. The tension between jumping colours and sublime emotions is worth pondering.
Greg Ito’s ultra-flat, elegantly cut landscapes are overlaid with visual vocabulary drawn from his personal and family history as a Japanese American. His cinematic works are subtle and autobiographical, but they also point to eternal subjects such as love, death, hope, and tragedy.
Scott Kahn relies on real-life as a source of inspiration treating his work as a visual diary of himself and the world around him. His allegorical scenes, painted with meticulous brushstrokes exude an aura of magical realism and mystery, revealing the inescapable loneliness of man in the presence of nature.
Jacopo Pagin was born in Italy and based in Brussels, he mixes elements of Italian folklore, the occult, surrealist photography, and pop culture, and introduces the unconscious into his mysterious nature-inspired work. The still life and human figures in his images are like what Jung called ‘archetypes’, helping the artist to overcome the individual dimension and enter the collective spirit.
Qiu Anxiong puts together two themes that have long preoccupied him: nature and history. The products of modern human civilization are stacked in front of mountains and rivers that have remained intact for ages, and in this ruinous image, the animals are at ease as if oblivious to the changes behind them. The fragments of different histories are interwoven to create a thought-provoking dystopian scene.
Zheng Lu has gradually built and refined his artistic logic and language system in his recent practice, incorporating concepts such as substances, words, water, time, and space into a self-constructed conceptual framework, forming a unique way of expression. He transforms natural phenomena into digital models, which are eventually presented as sculptures of stainless steel structures.
The exhibition is on view until August 21, 2022.
郑路，《极光边缘》，2022，不锈钢，60 x 85 x 36 cm | Zheng Lu, Aurora Edge, 2022, stainless steel, 60 x 85 x 36 cm
关于艺术家
罗斯卡连多，1988年出生于美国宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡。2011年，他于哥伦布艺术设计学院获得艺术学士学位；现生活和工作于加州洛杉矶。
卡连多的作品曾在纽约的Grifter空间、俄亥俄州哥伦布的No Place画廊、加州蒙特西托的Penske项目、洛杉矶的Phil画廊、纽约的Fisher Parrish画廊、洛杉矶的Blum & Poe画廊及洛杉矶的Night画廊展出。
Ross Caliendo (b. 1988, Pittsburgh, PA) graduated with a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design. Caliendo has exhibited at Grifter Space (New York, NY), No Place Gallery (Columbus, OH), Penske Projects (Montecito, CA), Phil Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Fisher Parrish Gallery (New York, NY), Blum & Poe (Los Angeles, CA), and Night Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), among others. Ross Caliendo lives and works in Los Angeles.
黄宇兴，1975年出生于北京。
黄宇兴的作品在同时期的艺术家中非常具有代表性，常常以精巧的技法反映并保留其创作过程。艺术家将颜色、笔触以及创作时的手工痕迹通过不断地叠加和融合，保留在了画布上。他的作品中那些精细的笔触和强烈的色彩源自于中国传统写实技法“工笔重彩”，同时，艺术家也在作品中融入并不断延续具有标志性的当代绘画风格。
黄宇兴的艺术实践非常具有深意。在最初时呈现为基于现成图像的表现主义改写；到利用“人体解剖学”与“结构主义建筑元素”构建画面的冲突性张力；再到后来彻底迎来了色彩的真正释放，重构了个人创作的内在体验。色彩的张力与作品背后冷峻的生命意义，形成了鲜明、鲜有的对比。
河流、气泡、宝藏、日出与日落，这些我们最为熟知的创作元素，在他的画作中以绚烂夺目的视觉效果呈现，却饱含着对个体、自然、生命、政治等无限的追索与考究。
Huang Yuxing (b. 1975, Beijing) is widely recognized among his generation for his dexterous ability to create paintings that reflect and preserve the process of their creation. Colors, brushstrokes, and traces of the artist’s hand endure on his canvases after being continuously overlaid and blended. The meticulous brushstrokes and intense colors that pervade his works are grounded in the traditional Chinese realist technique, ‘Gongbi Zhongcai’, while building upon these principles through a signature contemporary style that continues to evolve.
Huang’s artistic practice is marked by exceptional depth: while his works may at first recall an Expressionist style, they are deeply rooted in a detailed construction of landscape and human form that effuses vibrant color and reflects the experience of creation. Huang’s works are marked by a sharp and clear contrast between the vitality of color and the harsh realities of life. Rivers, bubbles, treasures, sunrises, and sunsets are recurring motifs in his works that are presented with dazzling visual effect, yet embody the artist’s extensive study of individuals, nature, life, politics, and beyond.
格雷格·伊托，1987年出生于美国加州洛杉矶。2008年，他于旧金山艺术学院获得艺术硕士学位；现生活和工作于加州洛杉矶。
伊托的作品曾在东京的Maki画廊、加州洛杉矶的Anat Ebgi、魁北克蒙特利尔的Division画廊、安大略多伦多Arsenal当代、纽约的Jeffrey Deitch、纽约的Alexander Berggruen、加州的长滩艺术博物馆、纽约的Lyles and King及加州旧金山的Yerba Buena艺术中心展出。今年，圣迭戈ICA推出了伊托的首场机构个展“All You Can Carry”。伊托的作品已经被加州洛杉矶的LACMA及佛罗里达州的迈阿密ICA列入永久收藏。
Greg Ito (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA) earned his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. His work has been exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions at museums and galleries including Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; Division Gallery, Montreal, QC; Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto, ON; Jeffrey Deitch New York, NY; Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Lyles and King, New York, NY; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – YBCA, San Francisco, CA. His first museum solo exhibition, All You Can Carry, was on view at ICA San Diego earlier this year. He is in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Ito lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
斯科特·卡恩，1946年出生于美国马萨诸塞州的斯普林菲尔德。他于费城的宾夕法尼亚大学获得本科学位；1968年，他前往艺术学生联盟，师从抽象表现主义画家西奥多罗斯·斯塔莫斯，并接触了许多其他初代抽象表现艺术家，包括马克·罗斯科。
离开学校后，卡恩大部分时间生活在美国东北地区——纽约和一些小城镇。他的艺术实践反映出一种凝思自然的恒久孤独感。
作为一名画家，卡恩的艺术想象从一个更广阔的主观与地理空间中浮现出来，它超越了物质与非物质。艺术家的作品既呈现了迷人且近乎田园风光式场景，又刻画了种种探索具有心理学意味的肖像，它们打破了沉浸思考与超现实主义所带来的意义消解之间的界限。
Scott Kahn (b. 1946, Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American painter with a long exhibition history, primarily in New York, and abroad. Kahn draws inspiration from life and considers his oeuvre to be a visual diary of the world around him. His subject matter reflects the people and places which he experiences. Drawing from memory and imagination, his work has a dream-like, surreal quality.For the last several years Kahn has been working at home in Westchester, New York, but maintains a studio in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Rutgers University. He spent a year in Theodoros Stamos' class at the Art Students League in New York.Kahn has been a recipient of awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and a residency at the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk. His work is included in major corporations and two museums in China, including the Long Museum, and the ICA Miami in Florida. His work is in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater.
雅格布·帕金，1988年出生于意大利，是一位画家、装置艺术家和雕塑家，在布鲁塞尔生活和工作。帕金的描绘对象代表了护身符或进入不同感知的门，突出了艺术家深层的迷幻兴趣，同时也使哲学和历史的探索成为可能。帕金于2012年毕业于威尼斯美术学院，获得绘画和装饰学位。随后，他于2018年毕业于布鲁塞尔的LUCA艺术学院，获得了纯艺术硕士学位。帕金的作品曾在Germano Celant、Alessandra Franetovich、Carola Cometto、和Emanuelle Luciani的策展项目中展出。帕金在世界各国都展出过作品，包括在安特卫普的Everyday Gallery画廊、米兰的CB32、意大利的Castella Malaspina di Massa Carrara、马赛的Manifesta XIII、柏林的HVW8、伦敦的Chalton Gallery画廊和纽约的The Hole。
Jacopo Pagin (b. 1988, Italy) is a painter, installation artist, and sculptor who lives and works in Brussels. Pagin’s rendered objects represent amulets or doors into a different kind of perception, highlighting the deep psychedelic tendencies of the artist as well as allowing for philosophical and historical inquiry.
Pagin graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice with a degree in painting and decoration in 2013. He subsequently graduated with an MFA in Fine Arts from LUCA School of Arts, Brussels in 2018. Pagin’s work has been shown in curatorial projects by Germano Celant, Alessandra Franetovich, Carola Cometto, and Emanuelle Luciani. Pagin has shown internationally, including at Everyday Gallery, Antwerp; CB32, Milan; Manifesta XIII, Marseille; HVW8, Berlin; Chalton Gallery, London; and The Hole, New York.
邱岸雄，1972年出生于四川成都，1994年毕业于四川美术学院，2003年毕业于德国卡塞尔大学艺术学院，2007年起至今执教于华东师范大学设计学院。其作品涉及绘画、动画、录像、装置等不同媒介，结合中国传统人文精神和新媒体形式，展示他对历史文化的思考和对现代文明的批判，形成纷繁复杂的异世图景。同时，邱岸雄于2007年创立的未知博物馆，是近年当代艺术生态建设中的活跃力量。
邱岸雄的代表作包括水墨动画《新山海经》《民国风景》《山河梦影》以及大型影像装置《为了忘却的记忆》等作品。《新山海经》以《山海经》神话为框架探讨了人与自然的关系以及对现代工业文明的反思与批判，作品具有一种梦幻色彩：清晰的图像与离奇的叙事交织在一起，忠实、准确地描绘了我们的世界的荒诞。《民国风景》《山河梦影》《为了忘却的记忆》则以视觉史诗的形式展示了作者对中国近代历史的思考。邱岸雄的最新个展“人间世——鲜卑利亚”展示了艺术家新创作的6幅架上绘画、以及一系列铜版画，呈现了他对历史与自然这两个他一直关注的主题的思考，以及对绘画这一传统媒介的独特认知。最新创作的影像装置《人类纪》则表达了对身体这一主题的思考，作品拓展了影像、雕塑、舞蹈与空间的关系与边界。
邱岸雄的作品为海内外众多机构收藏，包括纽约大都会博物馆、纽约现代艺术博物馆、纽约布鲁克林博物馆、哥本哈根ARKEN现代艺术博物馆、堪萨斯大学Spencer艺术博物馆、东京都美术馆、奥斯陆Astrup Fearnley博物馆、苏黎世艺术博物馆、悉尼白兔美术馆、香港M+、上海余德耀美术馆、上海当代艺术博物馆等。
Qiu Anxiong (b. 1972, Chengdu) graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1994 and later studied at the University Kassel's College of Art in Germany. From 2004, he has been teaching at East China Normal University.
Qiu’s representative works include animation New Classic of Mountains and Seas, Minguo Landscape, Temptation of the Land, and video installation Staring into Amnesia. Based on Chinese mythology, Classic of Mountains and Seas, New Classic of Mountains and Seas deals with the relationship between human beings and nature as well as modern industrial civilization. Minguo Landscape, Temptation of the Land, and Staring into Amnesia, on the other hand, conveys the artist’s meditation on modern Chinese history. In his recent solo exhibition, Anthropogene- Siberia, Qiu shared his new paintings and etchings concerning history and nature, two themes he has been interested in for quite a long time. This body of works also demonstrates the artist’s refreshing spin of the medium of drawing while the video installation Anthropocene blurs the boundaries of video, sculpture, dance, space, and their relationships between one another.
Qiu’s works are collected by institutions around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, the Kunsthale Zurich, the White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, M+, Hong Kong, Yuz Museum Shanghai, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, etc.
郑路，1978年生于内蒙古赤峰市，现工作和生活于北京，郑路于1998—2003年就读于鲁迅美术学院雕塑系，2007年获得中央美术学院雕塑系硕士学位。2005年获得LVMH青年艺术家大赛奖学金在巴黎国立美术学院学习。郑路主要从事不锈钢结构的雕塑和装置创作，以及平面、多媒体、舞台和公共艺术等形式的创作。
郑路在近几年来不断的个人实践当中逐渐构建和完善了自己的艺术逻辑和语言系统 。他将物质、文字、水、时间、空间等概念纳入自成体系的观念构架中，形成了个人独特的语言表现方式。同时也借此来暗喻生命状态的多样性和可能性，及如何应对自然、自性和自我之间的关系。
Zheng Lu (b. 1978, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia) is an artist based in Beijing. Zheng Lu studied at Lu Xun Fine art Academy from 1998-2003 before continuing to Beijing's prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts from 2004 until 2007. While still in school Zheng won the LVMH Prize which provided the artist with three months training at The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ENSBA, Paris. Zheng has mainly produced sculpture and installation work with steel structure, and also two-dimensional, multimedia, stage and public art.
Zheng gradually constructed and perfected his art logic and language system in the continuous practice. He integrated various concepts such as material, writing, water, time and space into his self-contained conceptual framework, and formed his own unique expression of language. Meanwhile, his work also implies the diversity and possibility of the state of life and discusses how to deal with the relationship between nature, self-nature and ego.
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2022年7月16日至8月21日
Gallery I｜SPURS Gallery，北京朝阳区酒仙桥路二号院798艺术区D-06
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2022年7月16日至8月21日
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