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Bilingual newsletter - please scroll down for English 喻紅/黃金界個展
2011年9月13日-9月24日
上海美術館
9月12日（貴賓預展）
上海美術館主辦
長征空間協(xié)辦
喻紅，中國最重要的藝術家之一。獨立的思維、獨特的視角和極富個性的繪畫語言，作為80年代的“新生代”藝術家，喻紅從女性的精神處境、身份和價值觀表現(xiàn)現(xiàn)實生活。近四年她的創(chuàng)作進入黃金期，不斷出現(xiàn)宏篇巨構，在2009年和2010年連續(xù)舉辦兩個反響很大的個展之后，這次在上海美術館展出的 “黃金界”，將占據(jù)上海美術館一層兩大主展廳約2000平米的場館，由張晴策劃，歷時一年多的籌備，在9月12日開幕的這個展覽將是今年秋季上海藝術熱季中最引人注目的大展之一，針對上海美術館的歷史建筑這一特殊空間結構而策劃的展覽結構和展示方式，將全面呈現(xiàn)喻紅近四年的創(chuàng)作脈絡和代表作品，“黃金界”是藝術家喻紅藝術生涯總結性的一次個展。
喻紅本次在上海美術館將展出29幅作品，展覽由三個部分作品組成，展覽以“黃金界”命名，突顯喻紅圍繞著金色主題為背景的作品風格，從鴻篇巨構到小幅精品，皆以金色為底，無論是與中國古典繪畫還是歐洲宗教繪畫傳統(tǒng)的對話，還是從俗世生活到超越現(xiàn)實的想象，在幽暗神秘而莊嚴的展覽空間里，這些作品構成時間的隧道和跨越日常經(jīng)驗與神圣性之迷境。
第一個部分為2009年廣東美術館“時間內(nèi)外”喻紅個展的兩幅主要作品《春戀圖》和《天梯》，長達12米的《春戀圖》根據(jù)中國古代油畫《搗練圖》的畫面結構圖而作；高達六米的《天梯》對應埃及西奈山圣.凱瑟琳修道院的宗教藏畫《天梯》。兩幅中外古代時期的作品各有其故事，但喻紅作品畫面上的形象和敘述已經(jīng)是當今之生活和全新的闡釋。
第二部分是2010年北京尤倫斯當代藝術中心喻紅個展“金色天景”的全部四組大型天頂畫，作品《天井》、《天問》、《天擇》、《天幕》，它們分別是喻紅對中國傳統(tǒng)繪畫，敦煌、新疆克孜爾千佛洞壁畫以及西方傳統(tǒng)繪畫作品研讀后得到靈感而創(chuàng)作。作品將延續(xù)天頂展出的方式，讓人們從下往上觀看，改變的不僅是作品的觀看方式，也象征隱喻著對生命經(jīng)驗的不同感受。
第三部分由從未展出的新作構成，皆為一年來成就的力作。主體作品為一大型祭壇畫，從形式到結構都以西方宗教祭壇畫出發(fā)，融進了中國當代社會生活的復雜場景與生命狀態(tài)。其它的作品多為對日常生活中那些轉瞬即逝的感人時刻的生動捕捉，《不能自己的律動》跳繩系列，《互相角力》拔河系列，《圍觀》系列等都生動而鮮活的再現(xiàn)了當今社會語境下年輕人的生活狀態(tài)，看似動態(tài)的畫面上卻永恒的定格了人物豐富的情緒與行動。在這個快速發(fā)展和物欲橫流的當代社會中，人們的核心價值觀發(fā)生了巨大的改變，藝術家通過作品對不同時空中的價值觀對話和并置，使繪畫構筑起溝通當下與歷史情境的橋梁，在金色平面背景的襯托下，那些生動而活態(tài)的人物形象巧妙地傳達出當下人們的無意義狀態(tài)，并把崇高、唯美、神圣的古代宗教繪畫中的至高無上的價值觀在當下進行了重新的解構。喻紅通過對傳統(tǒng)文化的研究和重新解讀，結合對現(xiàn)實社會的關注和反省，創(chuàng)作出跨越不同文化樊籬、直追生命本質引起人們重新思考的一種新語意，更突出了作品的層次感。
喻紅，1966年出生于北京，畢業(yè)于中央美院后留校任教至今，現(xiàn)生活、工作于北京。
本次展覽由上海美術館主辦，長征空間協(xié)辦。同期將由國際出版社CHARTA出版展覽畫冊全球發(fā)行。由展覽的策展人中國美術館展覽部主任張晴，古根海姆美術館高級策展人ALEXANDRA MUNROE和著名學者杜小真為畫冊撰寫論文。
Golden Horizon
2011.09.13 - 2011.09.24
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Yu Hong Solo Exhibition
Shanghai Art Museum
Sept 13th – 24th, 2011
Sept12th (VIP Preview)
Organized by Shanghai Art Museum
Supported by Long March Space
An accomplished and versatile painter, Yu Hong (b.1966) is one of China's most celebrated female artists. As one of the New-Generation artists beginning their artistic careers as a revolt against traditional socialist realism in 1980s, Yu Hong centers her practice on her experience as a woman, taking inspiration from both her own everyday life and the lives of others around her. The world that she creates through her art encapsulates a sense of time and memory that is intermingled in the delicate scenes that she portrays. Working on canvas, silk or resin, with oil, pastel or fabric paint, her recent series often result in large-scale works that are personal and emotionally reflective.
Following two the two acclaimed solo exhibitions “In and Out of Time (2009, Guangdong Museum of Fine Art) and “Golden Sky” (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 2010), Yu Hong’s “Golden Horizon” will take over Shanghai Art Museum’s main exhibition hall, showcasing a brand new body of new paintings along with a selection her most celebrated works over the past four years.Curated by Zhang Qing, “Golden Horizon” is composed of twenty-nine paintings divided into three sections. The paintings range from intimate scales to a major composition of multiple canvases and draw on a wealth of research and scholarship related to classic antiquity of Chinese and “Western” art, reflecting Yu Hong’s interest in the idea of spirituality and how it is presented aesthetically and formally in history through architecture and artworks. Yu Hong’s new body of work elevates the banal into the realm of sublimity by preserving those fleeting moments of affection in her day-to-day life on her gold-foiled canvases.
The first section of the exhibition includes two key works, Ladder to the Sky (2008) and Romance of Spring (2008). The six meter high painting Ladder to the Sky is related in subject and composition to The Ladder of Divine Ascent from Saint Catherine's Monastry on Mount Sinai. In Romance of Spring, a work spanning twelve meters in length, Yu Hong takes the classical Chinese Tang Dynasty painting The Court Ladies Preparing Newly-Woven Silk as direct influence. For Yu Hong, the search for ideas of beauty, the divine and the sacred is a relished daily task found in her immediate social community, her figures, carefully rendered in colorful detail, depict each individual's strength and spirit.
The second section consists of four major frescoes paintings, Atrium (2010), Questions for Heaven (2010), Natural Selection (2010), Sky Curtain (2010). This body of paintings cites its influence from an Italian ceiling fresco depicting the triumph of Hercules, a Buddhist cave painting in Dunhuang’s Mogao Grottoes, a small etching by Francisco Goya, to a cave painting that once adorned the grottoes of Kizil, in Xinjiang Province. Displaying these paintings on the ceiling in the manner of classical frescoes changes not only the perspective of viewing and the interaction between viewer and subject, but also the perception of art and life.
The third section is composed of brand new paintings made in the past year that will debut in “Golden Horizon”. The central piece is Yu Hong’s most ambitious work to date. It takes the form and composition of classical Catholic altar painting, filling the canvases with ordinary lives in the heightened social, cultural and political situation of China now. The exhibition also includes three new series, Spontaneous Motion, Wrestling and a body of paintings of various snapshots of contemporary lives, such as Silence and Balance among others. Altogether they portray a realistic representation of the everyday experiences, exploring especially how the younger generation maintains the delicate relationship between tradition, career, family life and social expectations.
Yu Hong appropriates iconic western and eastern classical antiquity in the attempt to create works of art that transcend cultural barriers and communicate a language that is universal. Her autobiographical approach to art world friends, family and personal experience against the upheavals of recent Chinese history, give world-changing events a more human significance and put private milestones into a broader context.
Yu Hong was born in Beijing in 1966. She graduated with Master of Fine Arts in 1996 from the Central Academy of Fine Art where she also teaches. She currently lives and works in Beijing.
“Golden Horizon” is organized by Shanghai Art Museum and supported by Long March Space. The official catalogue of the exhibition will be published by Charta.
【編輯：趙立東】
