【SPURS 新展】王加加：永恒的夏天

王加加：永恒的夏天

2023年7月15日—8月20日

Gallery I｜SPURS Gallery，北京朝阳区酒仙桥路二号院798艺术区D-06

马刺画廊荣幸地宣布将于2023年7月15日推出王加加的全新个展“永恒的夏天”，这是艺术家在画廊举办的第三次个展。展览将呈现其来自“森林Roots”系列的5件全新的大尺幅绘画和一幅炭笔速写，展现了王加加对个人生命经验的感悟和线描的绘画方法的拓展。此系列作品的创作开始于2022年1月，并在去年王加加于上海油罐艺术中心的个展“扶摇直上”中进行了首次展示。

对于3岁就与父母移居到伦敦的王加加来说，从13岁便开始学习的中国画的线描技法，在他近几年的生活创作中变得越发清晰可循。在新系列作品中，王加加的创作方法从过去以打印数码图像和拼贴为基础转为线描，是他进一步拥抱中国画的审美传统和儿时训练经验的体现。

线描如桥梁，帮助他打开了种种沟通与建立平衡的机制。画面中强烈喷涌的力量感通过线条的勾勒，反而延展出了更加丰富的浪漫气质及神秘感。在色彩上，王加加继续使用了对比强烈的颜色，作为网络数字一代的他更容易被这样的色感吸引、也更擅于使用它；在下笔前，他通常需要经过一段时间的深思熟虑，而只要画笔落下，他就要快速地将线条一口气完成。在“森林Roots”系列中，绘画的节奏感与色彩、笔触和空间通过线描的技法找到了平衡状态，树木与枝蔓深扎进画布生长着，王加加敏锐地抓住了线条会在特定方向上展现运动张力的特点，体现了树木张扬生长的动势与规律。

对于少年时期的王加加，山水画与线描学习更像是他望向中国的窗口，而这些对于现在的他则更像是根基，串联了记忆中或潜意识中那些文化碰撞、交融的空间与时间。“做梦/拂晓/别跑/这不是终点/永恒的夏天”，这些低声絮语般的作品名字提取于王加加随手写在画面上的文字——展览“永恒的夏天”会让观众在时间仿佛已经静止的夏日午后，看见情感与思绪在画布上随性、明快地生长。

展览将在马刺画廊Gallery I持续展出至2023年8月20日。

王加加，《树 #73（做梦）》，2023，喷漆、布面油画，200 x 300 cm | Wang Jiajia, Tree #73 (Dream On), 2023, spray paint, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm

Wang Jiajia: Endless Summer

July 15–August 20, 2023

Gallery I | SPURS Gallery, D-06, 798 Art Zone, 2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing

SPURS Gallery is pleased to present “Endless Summer,” an exhibition by Wang Jiajia on July 15, 2023. This will be his third solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will present five large scale paintings and a charcoal sketch from his “Roots” series, showcasing the artist’s deep reflection of his life experiences and his expanded practice with the Chinese line drawing technique. Wang began creating this series in January 2022, and the same year in July, first introduced it to the public in his show “A Tree Cannot Pick Up Its Roots” at TANK Shanghai. 

For Wang, who moved to London with his parents at age 3, the line drawing techniques which he began engaging with as a child became much more conspicuous in his recent creations. In this new series, Wang, exchanging the digital collage-based images with line drawing, further embraces the aesthetic traditions of Chinese art and connects with his trainings from his earlier years. 

Playing with line drawing is like constructing a bridge, enabling Wang to generate mechanisms that open up conversations and establish balances. Through the delineation of lines, the gushing forcefulness in his images is enriched with a certain romanticism and mysteriousness. In terms of the palette, Wang continues to utilize contrasting colors — as part of the “digital generation,” he is more attracted to this sort of intense chromatic sensation and thus is adept at manipulating it. Before his strokes, he usually takes plenty of time in thinking; but once his brush touches the canvas, he completes the lines in a single movement. In “Roots,” the rhythm, colors, strokes, and spaces of his works finds balanced harmony in the line drawing structure.  The trees and vines dig deeply into the canvas. Wang keenly grasps the momentums that lines create when they travel in certain directions, and uses them to render the sprawling, upward flourishing of vegetation. 

For Wang in his teenage years, Chinese shan shui painting and line drawing are like the lens of a looking glass through which he sees China. But now, they are more like roots, linking the spaces and times of cultural conflict and reconciliation that may exist in his memory or subconsciousness. Dream On, Daybreak, Don’t Run, This Is Not the End, Endless Summer: these dreamlike whispers of names are from words written impromptu on Wang’s images. “Endless Summer” — on summery afternoons when time seems frozen — will invite viewers to see feelings and thoughts grow vividly unbridled across canvases and frames. 

The exhibition will be on veiw in Gallery I at SPURS Gallery until August 20, 2023. 

关于艺术家

王加加，1985年出生于北京，3岁随父母移居伦敦，2008年毕业于英国中央圣马丁艺术与设计学院，获得学士学位，现生活和工作于北京。

同他的许多同代人一样，王加加在电视的普及、互联网的出现、流行文化的渗透中成长起来。自2016年开启“冒险”系列以来，艺术家综合数码简图拼贴、行动绘画笔触与丝网印刷技术，已经收获了许多关注。王加加的绘画看似布满抽象的笔触和厚重的颜料，但其每一笔在下笔之前都不乏思考。与西方绘画从素描和颜色入门不同，他的绘画训练始于勾线和临摹。用一种新且当代的方式表达较为传统的概念，是艺术家创作的核心线索之一。

以创作过程与结果的博弈作为形成作品面貌的方法，以及艺术家对现成品图像的有意选择，令王加加的艺术在围绕着当代景观中无处不在的数码图像展开叙事的过程中，形成了流行元素与经典制式矛盾之下不同文化庞杂交融的精神图谱。

王加加近期的个展包括：“永恒的夏天”，马刺画廊，北京（2023）；“A/S/L”，德萨画廊，香港（2023）；“扶摇直上”，油罐艺术中心项目空间，上海（2022）；“日照”，潇当代美术馆，日照，山东（2021）；“锃光瓦亮”，马刺画廊，北京（2020）；“FOMO: Fear of Missing Out”，Tao Art Space，台北（2020）；“带你飞”，博而励画廊，北京（2018）；“平行现实”，德萨北京，北京（2016）。他参与的群展包括：“使徒统绪”，马刺画廊，北京（2021）；“CLEAN”，马刺画廊，北京（2020）；“以梦为陆”，宝龙艺术中心，厦门（2019）等。

Born in Beijing, China in 1985, Wang Jiajia has received a BA Honours Degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art& Design in 2008, and currently lives and works in Beijing.

Like many of his generation, Wang was eclipsed with the populization of the television, the advent of the Internet, and the ubiquity of pop culture. Building upon the artist’s breakthrough “Adventure” series from 2016, works combine digital collage, action painting and silkscreen printing in a confident, magnificent display. Wang's paintings seem to be full of abstract brushstrokes and heavy pigments, but each stroke does not lack in thinking. Unlike Western paintings, which starts from sketching then to color, Wang’s painting training began with drawing lines and imitating master’s work. Expressing more of a traditional concept in a new and contemporary way is one of the core creative thinking of the artist's creation.

As the artist uses the contention between creative process and outcome to shape the artwork, and consciously selects readymade images, a narrative process unfolds around the ubiquitous digital images of the contemporary landscape, presenting us with a psychic constellation of different cultures intersecting amidst conflicting elements of popular culture and classical canon.

His recent solo exhibitions include, “Endless Summer,” SPURS Gallery, Beijing (2023); “A/S/L,” DE SARTHE Gallery, Hong Kong (2023); “A Tree Cannot Pick Up Its Root,” TANK Shanghai, Project Space, Shanghai (2022);”The Sun Is in My Eyes,” Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, Shandong (2021); “Elegant, Circular, Timeless,” SPURS Gallery, Beijing (2020); “FOMO: Fear of missing out,” Tao Art Space, Taipei (2020); “Pop the Champagne,” Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing (2018); “Alternate Realities,” de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing (2016). He has also participated in group exhibitions including, “Apostolic Succession,” SPURS Gallery, Beijing, (2021); “CLEAN,” SPURS Gallery, Beijing (2020); “One if by Land,” Powerlong Art Center, Xiamen (2019), etc.

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王加加：永恒的夏天

2023年7月15日—8月20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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