陳墻：地平線

開(kāi)幕：2019年6月22日（周六）15:00-18:00

展期：2019年6月22日-8月3日

今格空間榮幸地宣布，藝術(shù)家陳墻個(gè)展“地平線”將于2019年6月22日在今格空間開(kāi)幕。此次展覽是陳墻第一次在北京舉辦個(gè)展，屆時(shí)今格空間將呈現(xiàn)藝術(shù)家2018至2019年期間創(chuàng)作的兩個(gè)系列的繪畫(huà)作品，展覽持續(xù)至8月3日。

從上個(gè)世紀(jì)九十年代至今，陳墻一直在抽象繪畫(huà)方向上探索。他的創(chuàng)作脈絡(luò)大致分為四個(gè)時(shí)期：九十年代初在紙和畫(huà)布上用小幅鉛筆平勾線條，尋找純粹“觀看”概念的探索。用只“看”不“讀”去強(qiáng)化“感知”；2007至2013年只為“感知”而畫(huà)，放棄裝飾形式語(yǔ)言，畫(huà)筆和調(diào)色盤(pán)，讓顏料充分自由，畫(huà)面更加純粹，更進(jìn)一步讓“感知”從傳統(tǒng)的繪畫(huà)“認(rèn)知”中解脫出來(lái)，由于顏料的自然堆積，對(duì)視覺(jué)神經(jīng)上形成刺激，藝術(shù)家意在深度警醒視覺(jué)“感知”。2013年至今藝術(shù)家更加深入探討“感知”新意，選擇呈現(xiàn)而非表現(xiàn)。藝術(shù)家融合運(yùn)用中西方最古老的繪畫(huà)材料，通過(guò)宣紙與墨和畫(huà)布與油彩的糅合，將東、西方性的固定概念打破創(chuàng)建新的感知系統(tǒng)。呈現(xiàn)給觀者一個(gè)即不東方也不西方的畫(huà)面，從而體會(huì)新的感知自由。

今格空間與陳墻首次個(gè)展合作 “地平線”正是 “感知”新意的提煉、升華。他用一條橫線橫跨畫(huà)面中部，將畫(huà)面一分為二，意在打破畫(huà)面的完整性。但視覺(jué)的慣性力又會(huì)迅速將那條橫線變?yōu)榈仄骄€，讓剛剛形成的分裂狀態(tài)瞬間消失，畫(huà)面又被地平線統(tǒng)一在了天空與地面之中。藝術(shù)家試圖突破與建立一個(gè)自由的感知系統(tǒng)。

陳墻1960年出生于中國(guó)湖南，1989年畢業(yè)于上海華東師范大學(xué)藝術(shù)系，目前生活、工作于上海。他曾在阿拉里奧畫(huà)廊（“陳墻：想法不重要”，2018年，上海，中國(guó)）、艾德維克美術(shù)館（“陳墻 – 感知“，2018年，斯德哥爾摩，瑞典）、帕斯庫(kù)藝術(shù)空間（“余光 - 陳墻抽象作品展”，2017年，瑪薩裊，瑞士）、InselHombroich藝術(shù)基金會(huì)（“相距2米2”，2011年，諾伊斯，德國(guó)）、上海美術(shù)館（“陳墻抽象繪畫(huà)展”，1995年，上海，中國(guó)）、等機(jī)構(gòu)舉辦個(gè)展；亦曾在上海當(dāng)代藝術(shù)博物館（“時(shí)空書(shū)寫(xiě)：抽象藝術(shù)在中國(guó)”， 2015年，上海，中國(guó)）、蜂巢當(dāng)代藝術(shù)中心（“秩序的邊界”，2015年，北京 ）、北京東京藝術(shù)工程（“念珠與筆觸”，2003年 , 北京）等機(jī)構(gòu)參加過(guò)群展。 

作品19-7

布上宣紙、墨、油彩

100 x 80cm

2019

Gingko Space is to announce artist Chen Qiang’s solo exhibition, "Horizon" on June 22, 2019. For this first solo exhibition in Beijing, the artist will present two series of paintings completed from 2018 to 2019, and the exhibition will continue to August 3th, 2019. 

Since the 1990s, Chen Qiang has been engaged in exploring abstract painting. His artistic career can be generally divided into four periods: his line drawings on paper and canvas in the 1990s, during which the artist searched for notions of pure "looking" to emphasize on "perception" through "looking" without reading. In the following period, from 2007 to 2013, his painting focused on "perception". By abandoning decorative forms, brushwork, and palette, Chen afforded freedom to the paint, so his imageries would become more genuine and further emancipates "cognition" from "perception" in traditional painting. Works from this period are marked by the natural accumulation of paint to stimulate visual experiences, from which, the artist aimed to achieve heightened alertness in visual “perception”. Since 2013, Chen Qiang further explores new meanings of "perception". For example, since one's "perceptive" angle in looking at art is either East or West, the artist tries to challenge and generate a free system of perception from the indoctrinated models of the East and West.   

Gingko Space’s first collaboration with artist Chen Qiang in his solo exhibition, “Horizon” aims to explore the extractions and sublimation on the new meanings of "perception". Chen paints a horizontal across the middle of each painting that divides the image in two, with the aim to undermine its entirety. Our visual conventions would quickly conceive this line as a horizon, so such division would disappear immediately, and the imagery would then come together as sky and earth from this horizon. The artist aims to challenge and generate a free system of perception. 

1960 Born in Hunan, China.1989 Graduated from Fine Arts Department, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.Currently working and living in Shanghai, China. 2018 CHEN Qiang: Not only the Idea, Arario Gallery, Shanghai.2018 CHEN QIANG – INRE PERCEPTION, Edsvik Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.2017 AFTERGLOW - OPERE ASTRATTE DI CHEN QIANG, Pasquee, Massagno, Switzerland.2011 A Distance of 2.2 Meters, Insel Hombroich Foundation, Neuss, Germany.1995 Chen Qiang’s Abstract Paintings, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China.2015 CALLIGRAPHIC TIME AND SPACE: Abstract art in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.2015 THE BOUNDARIES OF ORDER, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.2003 Prayer Beads & Brushwork Strokes, Beijing Tokyo Art Engineering, Beijing, China.

作品19-9

布上宣紙、墨、油彩

144 x 186cm

2019

今格空間2014年在北京創(chuàng)立，作為一家將視野聚焦亞洲藝術(shù)生態(tài)的畫(huà)廊，今格空間積極支持藝術(shù)家進(jìn)入更為成熟和前瞻性的創(chuàng)作實(shí)踐，幫助藝術(shù)家走向國(guó)際并建立其聲望。我們的展覽項(xiàng)目植根于對(duì)自身文化身份的探索與創(chuàng)新，亦關(guān)注藝術(shù)家在此領(lǐng)域與評(píng)論、策展和觀者的深層對(duì)話。

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.