新展预告 | 「杯子，花，桌布」王草、张杨彪双个展
| 杯子，花，桌布 |
张杨彪 Zhang Yangbiao
15:00-18:00
地址 Address
上海市静安区长乐路888号
No.888ChangleRd, 1F
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- About the Exhibition -
工作室画廊很荣幸将于 2023 年 2 月 18 日举办艺术家王草、张杨彪的双个展《杯子，花，桌布》。展览将着力于展示两位艺术家近期大型尺幅的绘画创作。
王草和张杨彪同为九零后，属于较为年轻的一代，但是在绘画的主题和工作方式上却颇为“传统”：不追求表面艺术形式和⻛格的时尚，不跟随艺术潮流的更迭，而是把个人生活的真实状态和体验作为驱动艺术创作的核心动力。这在当前的艺术环境中显得极为稀缺和珍贵。这也是工作室画廊之所以选择在今年的开年展把两位艺术家的作品介绍给大家的原因。
张杨彪创作的《冰格》和红⻩绿三种颜色的《塑料杯》，尺寸感巨大，物品像纪念碑一样撑满整张画布，颜色的饱和度很高，但视觉效果又朦朦胧胧，有种若即若离的疏离感。虽然你还能辨识塑料杯被放置在了一个圆形的桌面上，画面似乎交代了它们所在的位置，但是又给观众营造了一种不知在何处的错觉。这难道不是我们真实生活的写照么？我们以为掌握着自己的生活，可是却连最熟悉的周遭事物都时常视而不⻅。我们每天为何奔波，要去向哪里？画面中萦绕着迷人的光感，让人放松愉悦，你似乎能感受到艺术家给出的答案，对生活意义的所指清晰明了。
张杨彪:《绿色塑料杯》，布面丙烯
Zhang Yangbiao: Green Plastic Cup, Acrylic on canvas
160(h) x 130(w) cm, 2022
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这些平常生活的物件只是艺术家通向绘画真理的引子。身处中国成为世界工厂的大环境、大时代背景下，张杨彪在描绘静物时，放弃了传统意义上的画笔，这种更容易跟随手感的中介，而是使用喷笔。与它所描绘的对象一样，一种由工业化的生产逻辑所诞生的产品。它最大的特点就是无法像画笔那样勾勒出现清晰的轮廓，这就是画面朦胧感的非文学化的物理证据。但是艺术家却保留和强化了这样的效果，说明了工具和主题的统一性。用一种极其难产生轮廓的工具去尽可能地塑造所画之物的形象，正是在这样看似矛盾，南辕北辙的方向中，产生了艺术的张力。它的奥妙在于艺术家需要在作画过程中不断前后移动身体来控制把握轮廓的清晰度。所以画作最终被我们所⻅的不仅仅是形象本身，更是身体在空间中的腾挪的活的气息。
王草所画的对象常常会超出画外。你无法看到描绘对象的完整形象。这种形象的不完整，或许来源于她⻓期通过拼接几张宣纸来组织一张更大的画面有关。这些不完整的桌子、花瓣和布纹，营造出特殊的视⻆。重要的不是你看到了什么，看清楚了什么，而是在一个瞬间你看了，从某个方向、某个⻆度看。这种惊鸿一瞥是关于时间，而不是关于画的内容。这就是为什么如此简单的内容，我们却觉得耐人寻味。我们不会去探究一束花的物理结构是否呈现得合理。一段桌布只须提供简单到极致的明暗关系就无比丰富。所有这些绘画带给你的感觉像按下暂停键一样，一个瞬间既是永恒。一种宏大的叙事仿佛刚刚过去，又像即刻要开始。
Wang Cao: Untitled, Ink and color on paper (Chinese traditional bast fiber paper, Chinese pigment)
185(h) x 190(w) cm, 2020
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值得注意的是，虽然画面的尺幅很大，但是艺术家并没有走向对对象精细繁复地刻画，而是容纳了更多的笔墨细节。中国画传统的笔墨材料有很特殊的现象，每一笔下去都会被保留下清晰的痕迹，笔数多了、不肯定，往往会以失败收场。而王草需要在保持形象可辨识的最低条件下，尽可能地消除每一笔的色差，控墨，保持统一。简言之就是要动作迅速，且果断。我们试想一下，在一张巨大的画面中，艺术家高度凝神，一遍一遍地下笔，同时控制画面的统一性，最终完成画面。行为和过程被水墨记录，我们似乎不是在欣赏王草所画的具体内容，而是在观看一场演出，无数次笔墨形成的交响乐。
这与张杨彪用喷笔在画面前来来回回极其相似。同样选择了巨大的画面，但两位艺术家们选择放大的不是对静物细节的精描细刻，而是一遍一遍地玩味对材料和过程的控制从而演绎出独特的质感之美。
不管怎么说，今天像张杨彪和王草一样对生活进行观看确实是一件极有难度的事情。我们每天都被手机里的信息填满，少有时间看看周围的事物，与人交流，与周遭的环境互动。我们俨然生活在别处，在一个虚拟化的现实之中逐渐失去了看的能力，感受生命美妙瞬间的能力。
More Than Still Life
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Studio Gallery is honored to present the duo exhibition More Than Still Life by Wang Cao and Zhang Yangbiao on 18 Feb 2023. The exhibition will focus on their recently created large-scale paintings.
Wang and Zhang are both Millennials, however, the theme in their paintings and their working methods are quite "conventional": They don’t pursue certain art forms or fashionable styles superficially, nor follow the trends of art, but take the real state and personal life experience as the core force driving their art creation. This is extremely rare and precious in the current art environment. It’s also the reason why we chose to introduce their works to everyone in Studio Gallery's first exhibition this year.
Zhang’s Ice Tray and Plastic Cup in red, orange, and green bring a huge sense of size; the objects fill the entire canvas like a monument. The color saturation is high, but the visual effect is hazy and vague with a sense of alienation.
Although you can still recognize that the plastic cups are placed on a circular tabletop, it creates an illusion for the audience that they don't know where they are located. Isn't this just like our daily life? We think we are in control of our own lives, but we often overlook even the most familiar things around us. What are we rushing for? Where are we heading to? The answers by the artist seem hidden among all the fascinating light and shadow.
These objects of ordinary life are only the intro of the artist when chasing after the truth of painting. In the context of China becoming the world's factory and the background of the times, Zhang gave up the traditional tools like a paintbrush when portraying still life which is relatively easier to follow with the hands. Instead, he works with the airbrush - a product born from the logic of industrialized production, just like those objects in his paintings. The greatest feature of an airbrush is that it cannot draw a clear outline, which is the physical evidence of the non-literary nature of the hazy feeling in the picture. The artist keeps and emphasizes this visual effect showing the unity of the theme and the tool in his hand. To shape the object as much as possible with a tool that is extremely difficult to manage it, the tension of art is born here in the contradictory. The artist has to constantly move his body back and forth while painting to control the clarity of the outline. Therefore, what we finally see in the painting is not only the image itself but also the scent of life and the trace of the body moving in space.
The objects in Wang Cao’s paintings are often larger beyond the paper so that you cannot see the whole image of them. The incompleteness maybe comes from the working method that she assembles several sheets of rice paper for a larger picture. These partial tables, petals, and cloth texture build up a special perspective that is about time, not the object itself. Compare to what you see or what you recognize in the painting, it’s more important that you SEE it at this instant. That’s why we find the content so simple but intriguing and charming. We're not going to figure out if the painted flowers make sense following physical laws; a piece of tablecloth is already rich enough by offering its extremely simple shading. In the paintings by Wang, it’s like someone just hit the pause button freezing an instant to be eternal. A grand narrative seems to have just passed, or is on its way.
Noteworthily, Wang didn’t go forward to depict the object delicately on a such large scale but allowed more details of stroke and ink in her work. Materials for traditional Chinese painting are special since every single brushstroke is retained clearly; to paint with too many strokes or unconfidently often leads to failure in the end. Wang has to control the ink and melt away the colour difference of each stroke and maintain unity while keeping the image still recognizable. Just imagine: above a huge image, the artist is highly concentrated, painting over and over again, while controlling the unity of the picture, until finally completes it. she has to act fast with decisions. We are not seeing the concrete content of the painting, but watching a show, a symphony of countless strokes and ink which recorded all the actions and processes.
This is similar to how Zhang moves back and forward while painting with the airbrush. Working with huge-scale images, both of them choose not to extend portraying the still lifes into detail but play with the control of materiality in the repeating working process in order to perform this unusual and beautiful show of texture.
Nowadays, it’s not easy to see our lives like how Zhang and Wang do. Filled by so much information from the phone, we miss the time to look around and interact with real people and the environment. We seem to live elsewhere, losing our ability to see and feel wonderful moments in this virtualizing reality.
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- 艺术家介绍 -
- About The Artists -
王草 Wang Cao
Born in Shangdong, China in 1992. Graduated from High School Affiliated to CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts) in 2011 and graduated from the School of Chinese Painting at CAFA. Currently works and lives in Beijing.
张杨彪 Zhang Yangbiao
Born in Chengdu, China in 1990. Work with painting, currently works and lives in Shanghai and Chengdu.
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