新展 | “沈忱 : 第二回 日记/1990年代实验丙烯” 即将开幕
沈忱 : 第二回 日记/1990年代实验丙烯 开幕：2019.12.14（周六）15:00-18:00
展期：2019.12.14 - 2020.2.25
今格空间将于2019年12月14日至2020年2月25日呈现沈忱系列研究展的“沈忱: 第二回 日记/1990年代实验丙烯”。这是艺术家在今格空间的第三次个展。
本次展览延续了2018年艺术家在该系列展览的“沈忱 : 第一回 书写/1980年代抽象水墨”的研究线索。1980年代初期，沈忱开始了水墨抽象主义的探索，他以现代主义的视角重新审视中国画的美学范畴。画面上大片的留白，只有一些水平和纵向的或者旋转的半圆的书法性笔触零星分布在画面上，将中国画的留白和书写性的笔墨转向一种以抽象主义和极简主义为主的形式主义。
1988年，沈忱前往美国寻求艺术上的突破，旅美生活的三十年深刻影响了沈忱的艺术观念和历程。本次展出的即是沈忱在1990年代到美国后十多年间创作的近二十件“日记”系列作品。他以水墨的精神性为基石，以材料的实验转换为起点，在创作的认识论和方法论上进行了全面的实践探索。沈忱通过持续的实验认识到丙烯这种水性材料不但在很大程度上能再现水墨的气质、韵味，而且能够通过无限次的叠加出现超越水墨的丰富表现力。这个阶段的作品大部分都堆叠覆盖如油画，颜色却仍旧以墨色为主，微量的其它颜色起着调节作用。他一方面将丙烯材料的“厚”进行了深入研究，同时也为之后创作的“无题”系列作品中将丙烯走向“薄”埋下了伏笔。在形式语言上，沈忱80年代实验水墨中出现的纵向笔触和线条，在多变化和游刃有余的笔触组合中，作为一种主要的视觉语汇开始明确。但较之实验水墨更注重笔触之间的关系、画面的心理空间和时间的过程性再现等视觉要素。与此同时，较之实验水墨阶段，多联画也开始频繁出现在沈的作品中，多联画的横向排列方式和画面的的纵向线条亦产生了更为微妙的空间关系。
本次展览后，今格空间将在“画廊周北京”期间继续开启“沈忱: 第三回 无题/2000年以来的创作”，今格空间试图通过三次个展从更广阔的视角观察沈忱1980年代、1990年代以及2000年以后的创作线索。
沈忱1955年出生于中国，现居住和工作于纽约和上海。他早在中学，后在上海艺术学校（当时为“上海五七艺校”）开始接受艺术教育。1982年在上海戏剧学院毕业后迁居北京。1988年获斯考海根艺术学院奖学金赴美，同年转入纽约工作室艺术学院，次年又就读于波士顿大学。1991年起定居纽约。
沈忱为80年代中国抽象绘画和实验水墨的先行者之一，并活跃于当时的“地下艺术沙龙”。早在大学期间，他就组织并参加了实验画展“野蔷薇”。之后，他的作品开始在各地美术馆展出，如上海美术馆，宁波美术馆等。1984年，他在北京中国记者协会举办了第一次个人展览。从此他开始与亚洲及欧美多家机构合作，作品展现在世界各地美术馆，其中包括：中国美术馆、罗马美术学院、今日美术馆、三尚当代艺术馆、上海大学美术馆、昆斯美术馆、南通美术馆、证大美术馆、何香凝当代美术馆、西湖美术馆、多伦美术馆、明园美术馆、年代美术馆、喜马拉雅美术馆、元典美术馆、上海龙美术馆、美国华人博物馆、辛格美术馆、瑞克琳豪森美术馆、波弘美术馆、杜尔巴赫美术馆和柏林ＭＥ美术馆等。作品被世界各地多家美术馆、艺术基金会及私人收藏。
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Shen Chen II: Diaries /Experimental AcrylicPaintings from the 1990s Opening:
December 14 (Saturday), 2019 15:00-18:00
Exhibition period:
December 14, 2019, to February 25, 2020
Ginkgo Space presents Shen Chen’s series of research exhibitions “Shen Chen II:Diaries / Experimental Acrylic Paintings from the 1990s” from December 14, 2019, to February 25, 2020. This presentation marks the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery.
This exhibition extends from the artist's exhibition series since 2018, "Shen Chen I: Calligraphy / Abstract Ink Painting from the 1980s". At the beginning of the 1980s, Shen Chen began to explore the abstraction of ink painting, who adopted a modernist perspective for the investigation of Chinese painting aesthetics. The large area of his imagery has been left blank, leaving some horizontal, vertical or spiraling semi-circle calligraphic brush works on canvas, with which he transformed the bland space and calligraphic features of Chinese painting towards a formalism consisted of primarily abstraction and minimalism.
In 1988, Shen Chen pursued artistic breakthroughs in the U.S. and these last three decades have left a profound impact on his artistic journey. This exhibition comprises of nearly twenty works of the "diary" series in the 1990s from the first decade since he arrived in the U.S. Taking the spirit of ink painting as his cornerstone,and the experiments on the medium as the starting point, he embarked on comprehensive practice and exploration on the notions and approaches of his practice. Shen Chen's ongoing experiments allowed him to recognize that acrylic, a water-based medium, can present the qualities and dispositions of ink painting, but also highlight the rich expression of ink painting in its infinite number of layers. Works of this period have been layered as oil paintings, and the colors are primarily based on ink, the small number of colors served as visual stimulations. On the one hand, he studied the"thickness" of the acrylic paint, at the same time, laying the ground for the "thinness" of this medium in his later Untitled series. Formally speaking, Shen Chen’s experimental ink paintings from the1980s where his vertical brushwork and lines in various combinations have become one of his most apparent visual languages. However, compared to his experimental ink painting, those works focused on the relationship between the brushwork,the psychological space of the composition and the notion of time from thecreative process. At the same time, unlike the works from his experimental period, seriality also began to appear frequently in Shen’s works, the horizontal alignments of the works and the vertical lines on canvas generate a subtle spatial relationship.
After this exhibition, Ginkgo Space will launch “Shen Chen III: Untitled / Works since 2000”. With these three solo exhibitions, the gallery attempts to broaden the perspective on looking at the artist’s journey of the 1980 s, 1990s and after 2000 through this series of comprehensive presentations.
Born in China in 1955, Shen Chen is a New York and Shanghai based artist. He began his art education in high school and continued his training at Shanghai Art College (previously known as the Shanghai “5.7” Art School). He moved to Beijing after earning his BFA from the Shanghai Theater Academy in 1982. In 1988, he went to the United States on a fellowship as artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Later that year, he moved to New York upon receiving an exchange student fellowship from the Studio School of Painting and Sculpture. He continued his studies at Boston University on an MFA scholarship the following year. He has lived in New York since 1991.
In the 1980s, Shen Chen was one of China’s pioneers of Chinese abstract painting and experimental ink painting. He was an active member of “Art Salon” (an underground art movement). In 1978, he organized an experimental exhibition “Wild Rose” while he was still in college. Since then, he has shown his works at various art museums, including the Shanghai Art Museum and Ningbo Museum of Art. He held his first solo show in 1984 at the China Journalist Society in Beijing, collaborating with galleries in Asia, Europe and America, and has continued showing his work in China and abroad at venues including the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Roma Academy of Fine Arts, Today Art Museum, Nantong Museum of Art, San Shang Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai University Museum, Queens Museum of Art, Zhendai Museum of Modern Art, Hexiangning Museum of Contemporary Art, Xi Hu Art Museum, Doulun Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Chinese in America, Ming Yuan Museum of Art, Epoch Art Museum, Yuan Art Museum, Himalaya Museum of Art, Singer Museum of Art, Bochum Museum, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Museum Hurrle Durbachand and ME Collection Berlin…
今格空间2014年在北京创立，作为一家将视野聚焦亚洲艺术生态的画廊，今格空间积极支持艺术家进入更为成熟和前瞻性的创作实践，帮助艺术家走向国际并建立其声望。我们的展览项目植根于对自身文化身份的探索与创新，亦关注艺术家在此领域与评论、策展和观者的深层对话。
Founded in 2014 Beijing, as an art gallery whose vision focuses on the ecosystem of Asia contemporary art, Ginkgo Space's mission is to provide active support to artists’ processes of developing and gaining greater perspectives on their artistic practices. With our collaboration, we hope to build the artist’s reputation and widen their international recognition. Our exhibition program is aimed at exploring and discovering the artistic practices that define our cultural identity, through which we are committed to setting up platforms for profound dialogues between the artists, critics, curators, and audiences of contemporary art.
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开放时间 11:00-18:00 周二至周六（Tues-Sat）
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