【新展预告】｜大象—卜云军个展

大象—卜云军个展

The Elephant in the Room

—— Bu Yunjun’s Solo Exhibition

艺术家 Artists

卜云军 Bu Yunjun

策展人 Curator

贺潇 Fiona He

展览日期  EXHIBITION DATE

2023.09.28-11.05

开幕时间  OPENING TIME

09月28日 下午3:00

北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号798艺术区798东街D10号

NO.D10 East 798 St, No.4, 798Art Zone, Chaoyang District, Beijing.

仚東堂荣幸地宣布将在798空间推出艺术家卜云军的全新个展——《大象》（The Elephant in the Room），此次展览由独立策展人贺潇策划，集中呈现艺术家近年来以摄影、绘画等形式展开的创作探索与思考。

从油画系毕业后，卜云军一直将摄影作为主要创作媒介。因居家隔离的环境所限，原本的摄影工作难以实现，意外地让他重回似乎已过于拥堵的绘画赛道，却也以新的作品面貌接续上原有的创作。在新的系列中，卜云军采用了一套“制作型”的绘画方式：将随手拍摄的手机照片作为起点，通过墨或油画棒为媒介在纸本、绢本、布面与木板诸多材质上重复劳作，在图像的显现与遮蔽的微妙缝隙中，注入个体性的隐秘感知。

《无题》系列中，卜云军将墨在木板布面上反复累积，然后精细打磨到一种镜面状态，使得图像迂回地再度“显现”；油画棒本身的材质特点，在《无题》系列中被用作造型的手段，写实地表现图像存在的暧昧多义；而在《无题-花》系列中，绢本水墨的双面特质被分别加以呈现，以探索光线、物象与主观体验之间的诸多样态。

在英文中，词根同源的光学（optics）与视觉（optic）相互纠缠，从语意上便暗示了两者的相互依赖。光为事物带来了“影”与“像”，就像摄影离不开“明”与“暗”的对照。此次展览将以卜云军多年前拍摄的工作室照片为起点，作品中他有意遮蔽镜头局部，以突破写实性的限制；而这种"遮蔽"作为痕迹与线索，一直延续到近期的创作中。过往的摄影经验让卜云军逐步确认了对待图像的态度，然后在“写实”与“抵抗图像”的矛盾中，将其过渡、转换到新的媒介。

无论是使用更加“机械复制”的摄影进行创作，还是回到相对“传统”、“手工”的绘画，卜云军无意在技术上有所突破，但更不会为其所规划与限制。展览着力呈现的，是艺术家在创作上所坚持的观念与态度。显然，观众不会真的在展厅找到一头大象，至于能收获的到是“大象无形”般的玄妙体悟、抑或“盲人摸象”似的阐释游戏，还是与“房间中的大象”的意外遭遇，线索皆在作品中。

Santo Hall is pleased to announce artist Bu Yunjun’s solo exhibition, “The Elephant in the Room,” at the gallery’s space in the 798 Art District, curated by Fiona He. The show focuses on the artist's latest artistic explorations and reflections in painting and photography.

After graduating and receiving an education in the oil painting department, Bu Yunjun has been using photography as his primary medium of art practice. During the pandemic, self-isolation made it difficult for the artist to process his photos, which unexpectedly made him return to the painting. This increasingly congested and competitive path turns out to steer the artist to expand the boundary of his practice, presenting new directions in his works. In his latest works on view in this exhibition, Bu Yunjun adopted a set of "production" methods: using cell phone photos taken casually as a starting point and repeatedly laboring through works such as ink on silk, oil pastel on canvas, and oil pastel on paper, infusing personal sensibilities into the subtle crevasse between appearance and concealment of the image.

In the Untitled series, Bu Yunjun repeatedly layers ink on a cloth-covered board and then finely polishes it to achieve a reflexive quality, allowing the image to "appear" faintly. The unique material characteristics of the oil pastel become the means of generating forms that realistically embody the multiple and ambiguous meanings of the image. In the Untitled - Flowers series, the double-sided qualities of ink on silk are presented separately to explore the many patterns between light, object, and subjective experience.

In English, optics and optic come from the same root, underscoring their semantic interdependence. Light brings "shadow" and "appearance" to things, just as photography introduces "light" and "darkness." This exhibition begins with a photograph Bu Yunjun took a few years ago in his studio, in which he intentionally obscured parts of the lens to interrupt the confines of capturing something realistically. This way of "obscuring" the image has been carried over as traces and clues in his recent works. The artist’s previous photographic experience has allowed him to elucidate his attitude towards image-making and transfer and translate the paradigm between realism and resistance to image-making across other art mediums.

Whether Bu Yunjun adopts photography’s "mechanical reproduction" to create artworks or returns to the relatively "traditional" and "hands-on" approach to painting, his intention is neither to invent new techniques nor to be setback by them. This exhibition aims to present the artist’s creative concept and attitude in the context of his art practice. Obviously, one would not see an elephant in the exhibition hall. Whether they can grasp the metaphor of "the great image has no form," a playful "missing the woods for the trees," or even an unexpected encounter with the "elephant in the room," the clues are found in the artworks.

关于艺术家

卜云军

Bu Yunjun

1982出生于四川

毕业于西南交通大学艺术学院

现工作生活于北京