拾萬北京 | 即将展出 | 刘川：伐木
拾萬空间（北京）非常荣幸地将于2023年9月16日呈现刘川个展：伐木。本次共展出艺术家近三年的部分创作，主要以绘画的语言去回应自我、身份、劳作、危机等切身感受，多重题材与面貌的五十余件作品。
Hunsand Space (Beijing) is delighted to present Liu Chuan's latest solo exhibition, "Lumbering" , starting from September 16th, 2023. This exhibition showcases a selection of the artist's works from the past three years, predominantly expressed through the medium of painting. Liu Chuan's art responds to personal experiences, identity, labor, crises, and other deeply felt sensations, encompassing various themes and expressions.
艺术家：刘川
展期：2023年9月16日 - 2023年10月15日
开幕：2023年9月16日（周六下午四点）
“伐木”源于刘川展前完成的一件作品《伐木工人》。画面上依稀可辨识出一个现代装扮的年轻人，拿着早期的伐木工具斧头，开始了一天重复的工作。无论你在社会中扮演什么身份，即使手中的工具看似变得先进，但我们仍会往复地沦陷入同样的困境，只是通道不同，体验的个体不同。创作与伐木在劳作中的相似性在于，都需考虑如何处理人、工具和材料的关系，从而获得某种意义。跳脱身份时，更多会思考，劳作的动机和必要性。刘川没有选择快刀，时间如一把钝斧，重复地、吃力地、笨拙地、缓慢地……砍下，伐木许许。
刘川 | Liu Chuan
伐木工人 | Lumberjacks
布面油画 | Oil on canvas
145 × 95cm
2023
刘川，1991年生于吉林，2013年本科毕业于鲁迅美术学院国画系，2018年硕士毕业于中央美术学院版画系，现生活工作于河北燕郊。追寻着反复覆盖的痕迹，观者可循回一个在不存在的边缘上徘徊的创作现场，它始终未完成。在自我审视和对现实的反馈中，刘川保有警惕，不断尝试、怀疑、推进，这个过程循环往复。创作里无奈的幽默感，是裹在严肃内核外的一层糖衣，仅为方便服用；画面初看浅显但有后劲儿，随着凝视的深入细节慢慢被发觉出来。刘川不会刻意强调技术，他试图充分地借用绘画来接近每一次精准的表达。
Artists: Liu Chuan
Duration：16 Sep. 2023 - 15 Oct. 2023
Opening: 4pm, 16 Sep. (Sat.), 2023
The title "Lumbering" originates from a piece created by Liu Chuan before the exhibition, titled "Lumberjacks" The artwork faintly reveals a modern-dressed young person wielding an early lumberjack tool, an axe, beginning a day of repetitive work. Regardless of the roles we assume in society or the apparent advancement of our tools, we find ourselves repeatedly ensnared in the same predicament. Only the paths differ, and the individual experiences vary. The resemblance between creation and lumbering lies in their shared consideration of how to manage the relationships between people, tools, and materials to extract meaning. When we step out of our roles, we contemplate more deeply the motives and necessity of labor. Liu Chuan does not choose a swift blade; time is like a dull axe, repetitively, laboriously, clumsily, and slowly... hacking away, logging, again and again.
Liu Chuan, born in 1991 in Jilin, graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Traditional Chinese Painting Department of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, and obtained a master's degree from the Printmaking Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2018. He currently lives and works in Yanjiao, Hebei. Tracing over repeated traces, viewers can follow back to a creative scene that hovers on the edge of nonexistence, perpetually unfinished. In self-examination and feedback from reality, Liu Chuan maintains vigilance, constantly experimenting, doubting, and pushing forward, a process that loops endlessly. The reluctant sense of humor in his creations is a sugarcoating wrapped around a serious core, simply for ease of consumption. The surface of the image appears simple at first but carries a lasting impact. As one gazes deeper, details gradually come to light. Liu Chuan does not deliberately emphasize technique; instead, he tries to make full use of painting to approach each precise expression.
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