展览预告｜兰昭形个展《旅行者》将于5月28日开幕
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Venue: D06, Middle 2nd St., 798 Art Zone, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, BJ
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Tong Gallery+Projects 荣幸宣布，将于2022年5月28日推出艺术家兰昭形个展《旅行者》，呈现艺术家近年来的绘画与雕塑作品，展览将持续至2022年7月3日。敬请关注！
Tong Gallery+Projects is honored to announce that the solo exhibition of artist LAN ZHAOXING The Traveller will be open from May 28th, 2022 to July 3rd, 2022, during which the artist's latest paintings and drawings will be presented. Look forward to seeing you there!
他们缓步前行，穿过一片景色，这片景色在寂静中满怀期待，然而能够期待的只有雨水和夜晚。
——赫尔曼·布洛赫《梦游人》
这是继2017年“野火”与2019年“阿卡迪亚”展览后，兰昭形在 Tong Gallery+Projects 第三次举办个展。
你仍能在作品中感受到兰昭形鲜明的个人印记。季节与自然，故乡的山脉，她所爱的作者或哲学家，象征精神栖息之所的避世小屋 …… 之于兰昭形，就如圣维克多山之于塞尚，被永无疲倦地在画布上反复描绘。
然而不同以往，在这次展览中，真实与幻象的界限变得更为模糊：小狗毛豆从兰昭形工作室的窗户向外探，窗外却是20公里外某棵大树的树影——如同接近天光时在梦与醒之间逡巡的旅行。若要从中醒来，你只能像特朗斯特罗姆说的那样：“从梦中往外跳伞”。
五年间，兰昭形仍深陷荒野——在人生的第一场个展中，她写道：“要把自己的情感陷入在荒野中。”如今，她依旧自甘在其中前行，只是更孤独了。她愈发干净、凝练的画面，仿佛也是一种绘画上的“寡言”。三年间的独行中，兰昭形时常陷入一种无意识的创作状态，她称之为一种“权力”：“仿佛它在要求我这么画，而不是那么画。” 与其说是兰昭形在画画，不如说是画面找上了她，逼她展现它。对于艺术家而言，这是一种幸运的受难。
兰昭形 LAN Zhaoxing, 在春天的毛豆 Maodou in Spring, 布面油画 oil on canvas, 80 × 80 cm, 2022
她无疑更自如，也更丰厚了。画布更深处，永远是她在哲学层面上对自我的反复思考。你亦可将这次展览看作是她在这一千多个日夜中，独自不断叩问的回响与低语，永远诚实地面对自己的内心。而这是需要勇气的：在世界的日益喧闹中，独行者需要承担查拉斯图拉所忠告的风险，准备好自焚的火焰。而兰昭形随时都准备坦然地剖开心脏——
“把你的爱与创造力带进你的孤独中，朋友，公道早晚会被证明。
把我的眼泪带进你的孤独中，我多么爱那些为了超越自己而牺牲的人!”
（节选自尼采《查拉斯图拉如是说》）
They walked slowly through a landscape. However, they can only walk slowly through the silent scenery of the night.
——Sleepwalker Herman Bloch
This is the third solo exhibition held by LAN Zhaoxing in Tong Gallery + projects after "Wildfire" in 2017 and "Acadia" in 2019.
You can still find LAN Zhao's distinctive personal mark in his works. Season and nature, the mountains of her hometown, her beloved author or philosopher, the seclusion cabin symbolizing the spiritual habitat...These things are to her what mount San Victor is to Cezanne, are repeatedly depicted on the canvas tirelessly.
However, different from the past exhibitions, the boundary between reality and illusion has become more blurred: the dog Maodou probes out of the window of LAN's studio, but outside the window is the shadow of a big tree 20 kilometers away - like a journey between dream and wake at dawn. If you want to wake up from it, you can only jump as Tomas Tranströmer said: “Skydiving from the dream”.
兰昭形 LAN Zhaoxing, 普罗米修斯的沉思 The contemplation of Promutheus, 原木, 胶合板 wood and Plywood, 31 × 22.8 × 6 cm, 2019
Five years later, LAN Zhaoxing is still in the wilderness - in her first solo exhibition of her life, she wrote: “I need to put myself into the wilderness of feelings." Now, she is still in it but more lonely. Her increasingly clean and concise picture seems to be a kind of "silent" in painting. During her three-year lonely walk, LAN often fell into a state of unconscious creation, which she called “a power": "As if it was asking me to draw like this but not like that." It's not so much LAN painting as the picture found her and forced her to show it. For artists, this is a lucky suffering.
LAN Zhaoxing is undoubtedly more freely. Deeper in the canvas is always her repeated reflection on herself at the philosophical level. You can also regard this exhibition as the echo and whisper of her constant inquiry alone in these more than 1000 days and nights, and always face her heart honestly. And this requires courage: in the increasingly noisy world, the lone Walker needs to take the risk advised by Zarathustra and prepare for the flame of a self immolation. And LAN was ready to expose her heart at any time——
"Bring your love and creativity into your loneliness my friend. Justice will be proved sooner or later. Bring my tears into your loneliness, how I love those who sacrifice to surpass themselves!”
(excerpt from Also sprach Zarathustra Nietzsche)
兰昭形（1977，中国山西）
2017 野火，Tong Gallery+Projects，北京
2020 2020: 松美术馆邀请展，北京，中国
1997-2001: Bachelor, Sculpture, College of Fine Arts, Shanxi University
2006-2008: Master Course with Equivalent Educational Level, Oil Painting, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2020 2020: SONG ART INVITATION EXHIBITION, Beijing
2019 Arcadia, Tong Gallery+Projects, Beijing
2017 Wildfire, Tong Gallery+Projects, Beijing
Group Exhibitions
2019 West Bund, Shanghai, China
2019 Art Shenzhen, China
2019 Lan Zhaoxing and Renqian Yang: Between Mountains,
Fou Gallery, New York, US
2018 ASIA NOW Paris, Paris, France
2018 Art Shenzhen, China
2018 Duration, Powerlong Art Central, Hangzhou, China
2018 Art Busan, Korea
2017 Art Shenzhen, China
Tong Gallery+Projects 15年诞生于798艺术区某巷。作为一家年轻的当代艺术画廊，希望通过国内外艺术家高品质的艺术展览，呈现具有实验性和探索意义的互动项目，以北京为起点慢速而轻快地生长。
Tong Gallery+Projects, founded in 2015, sits at some alley in 798 Art Zone. As a young contemporary art gallery, we hope to deliver interactive projects with experimental and exploratory significance by presenting high-quality art exhibitions by domestic and foreign artists, growing slowly and briskly starting right here, from Beijing.