展览预告｜陈拍岸《那你要不要做艺术家?》
弥金画廊与广州画廊合作推出艺术家陈拍岸的个展《那你要不要做艺术家?》。展期为2021年5月29日至2021年6月28日。
《那你要不要做艺术家?》是艺术家陈拍岸在上海的首次个展。陈拍岸此次展览带来十张大型平面作品，将弥金画廊转化成其个人审美与经典绘画主题互相参照的独立微观世界。这些作品通过对经典绘画主题的呈现，作为艺术家对绘画元素的探索总结的其中一个组成部分，展示了艺术家本人对艺术品的审美与艺术品的功能性的理解，同时也对当代社会现实作出评论。
经典主题绘画是陈拍岸基于自己的生活和早期接触油画经验为灵感创作的，而“绘画”的主题是普世性的——由可辨识且为人熟悉的几大绘画元素：风景、静物、花卉、抽象构成，出现在自绘画诞生以来的各个时代各个流派的创作中，各种尺寸，颜色，形状的点线面静置于画面中，汇总在一起，共同构建了“美”。
展览的核心“画”对艺术家来说是早年接触“美”的记忆的象征之一。对他来说，拥有“画”这个行为已经成为作为“人”精神富足的象征。这同时也是家庭装饰传统和世界的消费主义文化所固有的内核。虚构，堆叠，重组的痕迹在展览中随处可见，陈拍岸在各种画面中不断重复使用相似的颜色与结构，从而不断进入新的关系以及不可避免地改变特征和形式。对陈拍岸来说，一件作品永远是下一件作品的参照对象。
展览中出现的所有作品画面均由矢量绘图软件Adobe Illustrator完成，并采用了艺术微喷和acrylic face mount装裱技术制作。在这种装裱技术中，亚克力被用于表面得到一个通透光滑的工业产品质感，亚克力的导光特性导致画面颜色晕出，形成柔和的色块边缘。画作均采用大型铝制龙骨背架作为背部稳定性支持，并使作品画面悬浮于墙面，产生轻盈之感。
Tablet painting, giclée on acrylic face mount
"Be an Artist Then?" is artist Chen Pai'an's first solo exhibition in Shanghai. Chen brings ten large-scale plane works to the exhibition, transforming Gene Gallery into an independent microcosm in which his personal aesthetic and classical painting themes are cross-referenced. Through the presentation of classic painting themes, these works, as part of the artist's exploration and summary of painting elements, show the artist's own understanding of the aesthetic and functional aspects of artworks, and also make comments on contemporary social realities.
Classical theme paintings are inspired by Chen Pai'an's own life and early experience with oil painting, while the theme of "painting" is universal -- it is made up of recognizable and familiar painting elements: Landscape, still life, flowers and abstract composition have appeared in the creation of all ages and schools since the birth of painting. Points, lines and surfaces of various sizes, colors and shapes have been placed in the picture, and are gathered together to jointly construct "beauty".
The "painting" at the heart of the exhibition is for the artist one of the symbols of his memory of early exposure to "beauty". For him, the act of owning "painting" has become a symbol of spiritual abundance as a "person". It is also inherent in the home decorating tradition and the world's consumerist culture. Traces of fiction, stacking and reorganization can be seen everywhere in the exhibition. Chen Pai'an repeatedly uses similar colors and structures in various pictures, thus entering into new relationships and inevitably changing features and forms. For Chen, a work is always a reference for the next one.
All the works presented in the exhibition were created by Adobe Illustrator, using both acrylic face mount and acrylic microspray. In this mounting technology, acrylic is used to get a transparent and smooth industrial product texture on the surface. The light conduction property of acrylic causes the color of the picture to halo out, forming a soft edge of color block. In all the paintings, a large aluminum keel back frame is used to support the stability of the back, and the works are suspended on the wall to produce a sense of lightness.
Chen Pai'an was born in Guangzhou, China in 1988. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, and is currently based in Guangzhou. Chen often works with digital painting, image, text, and video ,to demonstrate the translationality among them. text, dialectics, and visuals, based on which he develops his artistic practice.
陈拍岸的个展有：“那你要不要做艺术家？”，弥金画廊，上海，中国（2021）；“开什么玩笑”，广州画廊，广州，中国（2019）；“滋生在尾房的”，1a Space，香港，中国（2018）。部分群展：“60169019”，Brownie Project，上海，中国（2019）；“前置未来”，东莞市文化馆，东莞，中国（2019）；“From Its Course Into Channels”，Hessel Museum of Art，纽约，美国（2019）；“大健身”，南京艺术学院美术馆，南京（2018）；“陈拍岸，黃永生，伍思波”，TABULA RASA，北京，中国（2018）；2017深港城市/建筑双年展，深圳，中国（2017）；“陈拍岸、黄山、赖志杰、黎卓华、文俊杰”，广州画廊，广州，中国（2017）；“所见非所见”，Fort Mason Festival Pavilion，旧金山，美国（2017）；“画内音”，OCAT图书馆，深圳，中国（2017）；第三届CAFAM双年展，中央美术学院美术馆，北京，中国（2016）；“出了广东的鸡不是鸡”，Reformer Space，上海，中国（2016）；“场域的毛细管”，广州美术学院美术馆，广州，中国（2016）；“机构生产”，广东美术馆，广州，中国（2015）。
Chen’s selected solo exhibitions includes: "Be an Artist Then?", Gene Gallery, Shanghai, China (2021); “What Kinda Joke Is This”, Canton Gallery, Guangzhou, China (2019); “Breeding in the Last Room”, 1a Space, Hong Kong, China (2018). His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions such as "60169019", Brownie Project, Shanghai, China (2019), “Prepositive Future”, Dongguan Culture Center, Dongguan, China (2019); “From Its Course Into Channels”, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, America (2019); “Big Workout”, AMNUA, Nanjing, China (2018); “Chen Pai’an, Wong Wing Sang, Wu Sibo”, TABULA RASA, Beijing, China (2018); 2017 Bi-city Biennale Of Urbanism / Architecture, Shenzhen, China (2017); “Chen Pai'an, Huang Shan, Lai Zhijie, Lai Cheuk Wah, Wen Junjie", Canton Gallery, Guangzhou, China (2017); “What You See Is Not What You See”, Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, America (2017); “Rhythm-analysis”, OCAT Library, Shenzhen, China (2017); 3rd CAFAM Biennale, Museum of CAFA, Beijing, China (2016); “Aint No Chicken Outside The Canton”, Reformer Space, Shanghai, China (2016); “Capillaries Of The Field”, Museum of GAFA, Guangzhou, China (2016); “Institution Production”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2015).