展览 | “ Blush & Flush ” 陈天歌 & 杜秋锐 双个展
凹凸空间荣幸联合艺术家杜秋锐及陈天歌，共同推出艺术家双个展《Blush & Flush》
关于展览 About exhibition
在经济飞速发展的当下，一切平和安逸的幻想似乎都变得触不可及并以残酷的速度离我们远去。面对着摇摆不定的现状，似乎所有的志得意满都不得不瞬息停止。所有当下的所作所为都将为未来奠定基础并且最终将反射到每个个体身上。在我们这一代人的成长轨迹中，不可抗拒的社会规则已然如行星间的引力一样将我们各自推入命运的无尽暗流。面对生活中种种不可抗力般的奇闻轶事，似乎一切事后反应都已然变成了无用的安慰剂。与其奋力挣扎追逐时代的发展并与之齐平，放弃挣扎似乎是更好的避世选择。艺术家在这个洪流中作为持有独特话语权的观察者，思考者，他们可以运用独特的角度对于现实世界感悟并运用情感化的表达方法予以投射。
Two participating artist in the exhibition viewed the contemporary society from the perspective of young people. Through their exaggerated and personalized expression techniques, they showed different narrative in their works of art, whether they were girlish or worldly and humorous, showing their inner echoes of the development of the current era.
In Qiurui's paintings, the observer is able to be aroused and elicit their unique personal memories, whether happy or sad, in the process of watching the complex narrative of the work, thus creating an atmosphere of profound details and establishing an emotionally subtle connection. Through his unique childhood fantasy and memory, Qiurui constructs a virtual world, in which he uses comic book characters to compose exaggerated and crazy narration and witty theatrical setting, showing a kind and familiar sense of resonance. The inner nature of the anxiety, sadness and uneasiness implied in the artist's heart is expressed by the delightful colors and the underlying narrative between the characters. At the same time, he uses Chinese Dama, a representative symbol full of contradictions and collective impressions, as a unique perspective to guide observers into the world of his works, and satirizes the seemingly reasonable but capricious life with weird and exaggerated roles where everyone is the protagonist and there is a drama going on in every corner.
天歌的作品则更多关注于自我隐匿。
婆ism III, oil on Canvas, 24cm x 30cm, 2020, by Tiange
幽灵般的形象直接设置在了画面前景，将与抽象背景对比鲜明的线条结构并置于同一干净简洁的画面内。她的作品作出了各种强烈的情感声明，藉由这些作品，展示了内心深处最强烈和压倒性的状态，一种基于自我意识的，希冀于得到回应的欲望，使其作品成为强有力的个人宣言，成为具有反思的文化实践，使得观者可以携带自身的经验差异来唤起感性的共鸣。
Tiange's work focuses more on concealment. The ghostly image is set directly in the foreground, contrasting the line structure with the abstract background and placing it in the same clean and concise picture. Her works has made various strong emotional statement, by these works, shows deep inside the most intense and overwhelming state, a kind of based on self awareness, hoping to get a response, making his works a strong personal statement, become a reflection of the cultural practices, viewers can carry their experiences differences to raise their own emotional resonance.
关于艺术家 About artist
Qiurui Du is an artist who grew up in Beijing, China and is currently based in New York City. Having grown up in an artistic family his love of art grew tremendously. Queer identity and life experience give Qiurui a unique point of view and inspiration in art. Qiurui believes that art is a way to tell stories and, through his work, he expresses his emotions and ideas with vibrant color and animated images. In his work, he deconstructs his inner fears and loves as well as subjects from pop culture and those inspired by his surroundings and daily experiences within the social framework. In the Qiurui’s recent solo exhibitions “A Bizarre World” (May, 2018), “New York Struggles” (March, 2019), and “The Adventure Of Dama Wang” (April, 2019), he has explored his childhood memories with the particular attention to the social conflict and pop cultures that were influenced by China’s tremendous development and used acrylic to create a colorful imag- inary world with dark humors to address the social issues, such as environmental problems, the conflict between poor and rich, and traditional Chinese lifestyle in modern Chinese society.
陈天歌
Daily Fantasia I, Oil on Canvas, 24cm x 30cm, 2020
Claudia Tiange Chen is a graphic designer and a multi media artist from Beijing, China and is currently based in New York. Before she became a designer, it seemed that design and art had never crossed her path directly, which, nevertheless, has made her what she is today. Chen used to be a cellist, figure skater, equestrian and even fervent traveller, because she was convinced that we should not be restricted by a label. Rather, we should shatter conventional boundaries valiantly, for everything in life has something in common, including arts and design. Chen believes that the arts bond everything in life and everything is interlinked.
Most of Chen’s work are focusing on people’s relationship to other matters in the world, such as animals, space, nature etc.. And she is trying to use art as a way to show the humanity throughout different relationships. Chen's works are not dedicated to exploring the basic good or evil of humanity, instead just use her own work to appeal the truth of the humanity.
凹凸空间为年轻艺术家、设计师及策展人提供展览空间、服务及交流平台。
我们致力于为城市社区提供丰富的当代艺术和文化体验。
它是一个实验室、一个社区，
透过展览、实验和孵化的方式，
让人们相会、工作、生活于此。
aotuspace provides young artists, designers and curators a stage, service and platform to share ideas. We are dedicated to providing a rich contemporary arts and cultural experience.
aotu is a laboratory, a community for art.
Through exhibiting, experimenting, and incubating.
we welcome people to meet, work, and create here.