陈墙“地平线” 即将开幕

陈墙：地平线

开幕：2019年6月22日（周六）15:00-18:00

展期：2019年6月22日-8月3日

今格空间荣幸地宣布，艺术家陈墙个展“地平线”将于2019年6月22日在今格空间开幕。此次展览是陈墙第一次在北京举办个展，届时今格空间将呈现艺术家2018至2019年期间创作的两个系列的绘画作品，展览持续至8月3日。

从上个世纪九十年代至今，陈墙一直在抽象绘画方向上探索。他的创作脉络大致分为四个时期：九十年代初在纸和画布上用小幅铅笔平勾线条，寻找纯粹“观看”概念的探索。用只“看”不“读”去强化“感知”；2007至2013年只为“感知”而画，放弃装饰形式语言，画笔和调色盘，让颜料充分自由，画面更加纯粹，更进一步让“感知”从传统的绘画“认知”中解脱出来，由于颜料的自然堆积，对视觉神经上形成刺激，艺术家意在深度警醒视觉“感知”。2013年至今艺术家更加深入探讨“感知”新意，选择呈现而非表现。艺术家融合运用中西方最古老的绘画材料，通过宣纸与墨和画布与油彩的糅合，将东、西方性的固定概念打破创建新的感知系统。呈现给观者一个即不东方也不西方的画面，从而体会新的感知自由。

今格空间与陈墙首次个展合作 “地平线”正是 “感知”新意的提炼、升华。他用一条横线横跨画面中部，将画面一分为二，意在打破画面的完整性。但视觉的惯性力又会迅速将那条横线变为地平线，让刚刚形成的分裂状态瞬间消失，画面又被地平线统一在了天空与地面之中。艺术家试图突破与建立一个自由的感知系统。

陈墙1960年出生于中国湖南，1989年毕业于上海华东师范大学艺术系，目前生活、工作于上海。他曾在阿拉里奥画廊（“陈墙：想法不重要”，2018年，上海，中国）、艾德维克美术馆（“陈墙 – 感知“，2018年，斯德哥尔摩，瑞典）、帕斯库艺术空间（“余光 - 陈墙抽象作品展”，2017年，瑪萨袅，瑞士）、InselHombroich艺术基金会（“相距2米2”，2011年，诺伊斯，德国）、上海美术馆（“陈墙抽象绘画展”，1995年，上海，中国）、等机构举办个展；亦曾在上海当代艺术博物馆（“时空书写：抽象艺术在中国”， 2015年，上海，中国）、蜂巢当代艺术中心（“秩序的边界”，2015年，北京 ）、北京东京艺术工程（“念珠与笔触”，2003年 , 北京）等机构参加过群展。 

作品19-7

布上宣纸、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

布上宣纸、墨、油彩

144 x 186cm

2019

今格空间2014年在北京创立，作为一家将视野聚焦亚洲艺术生态的画廊，今格空间积极支持艺术家进入更为成熟和前瞻性的创作实践，帮助艺术家走向国际并建立其声望。我们的展览项目植根于对自身文化身份的探索与创新，亦关注艺术家在此领域与评论、策展和观者的深层对话。

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.