“NOW-FUTURE现在-未来”当代年轻艺术家群展

    展览时间：2009年8月8日-8月31日
    展览地点：北京 新时代画廊
    参展艺术家：许向东、钟山、贾刚、由金、张永正、夏航、郑路、胡华、罗甜甜
    电话：+86-10-59789282
 

    NOW-FUTURE
    夏芸
 

    一直致力于发现并推出中国当代艺术新锐的新时代画廊，将于2009年8月举办主题为“现在-未来”的当代年轻艺术家群展。

    “现在-未来（NOW-FUTURE）”这一主题，展示出北京新时代画廊：即着眼于中国现在的新一代年轻艺术家的发现发掘，又着力于中国当代年轻艺术家、中国当代艺术的未来发展。

    此次参展的艺术家，出生于70、80年代。在新的时代，他们的艺术，探索着新的主题，展现着新的艺术表达方式，以此表达自己对这个时代和生活的感受思考。

    许向东，“循形而入”，强调造型艺术中的一种“虚空”、“负形”以及在混沌氤氲中生成着丰富的“形”和“象”；他创造了一种独具魅力的造型，这造型本身就让人产生丰富的联想和想象，产生对世间万物的关照和思考，产生诸多对人类当代生存困境的感触。钟山，以“双相艺术”的语言，即以双联并列对置的形式来呈现，反映同一物象两两不同的相互对应，展现着物象在时间和空间、真实和虚拟、现实和想象……中所呈现出来的复杂多变的存在状态。

    贾刚，擅长以符号化的丰富肢体语言来展现各种姿态。“我画中的形象，有着丰满圆润的体型，柳叶眉，单凤眼，樱桃小嘴，两点腮红，美人肩，这是一种我称为的“新唐人”形象。”（贾刚）由金，擅长“乱码”的艺术语言。作品在色彩缤纷中展现出沉郁、升华、毁灭的氛围，预示着现代科技的发展，资讯的发达，经济的飞速，消费欲望的高涨……之背后潜藏的危机与隐患，这是我们现代人生活的现实世界。张永正，以“玄律”（“玄”，是神秘、奥妙、难以言说之意；“律”，是力线的律动，暗喻宇宙、自然、人类绵延而生生不息）的艺术语言，强调神秘的生命律动。它是以蕴涵书法之气自由抒写，以中国古代“五行”观赋色，以中国古人哲学思想观照万物，呈现出一种阴与阳、天地与自然、心灵与宇宙间的循环、活跃、至动而有韵律的艺术境界。夏航，喜欢“玩”的大男孩，做“‘玩’的雕塑”。“组装、拆解”是夏航雕塑艺术的特征，“玩”是其雕塑艺术的本质。在一次次的穿插、连接、组合中，作品的形象亦在不断生成演变着，构成一个魔术般的世界。郑路，以“文雕”（文字、文韵与雕塑艺术相结合）为特征，成为艺术家感悟思考现实，进行艺术表现的媒介。在其中，既突出作品自身存在的一种文韵、意韵，又映射着一种 “虚”、 “空”、“阴”、“阳”。并且在光源的作用下，作品进一步在“存与留”、“虚与实”中无穷变幻延伸开来。 胡华，以“俏皮”的艺术，有意味的符号，黑白灰为主的冰冷冷漠的色调，冷眼远距离地透视玩味着芸芸众生，好奇探索着自我、人类及宇宙世界。罗甜甜，以“自我审视、独生现实”的视角，展现现实社会真实自我的再放大或另一个放大，或者说是对“自我”更加精彩、完美、偶像化的虚构形象的重塑。她的艺术中表现着中国当代独生一代的现实存在状态。

    本次展览将集中展现上述艺术家的新近力作，相信将再次带给您一次特别的艺术之旅。

    Exhibition Listing on August of NEW AGE ART GALLERY


    Theme: NOW-FUTURE
    Opening: 2009.8.8 3:30pm
    Date: Aug 8, 2009—Aug 31, 2009
    Artists: Xu Xiangdong, Zhong Shan, Jia Gang, You Jin, Zhang Yongzheng, Xia Hang, Zheng Lu, Hu Hua, Luo Tiantian
    Venue: New Age Gallery, 8502#,D09 Area, 798 Zhong Er St., No.4 Jiu Xian Qiao Road, Chao Yang District, Beijing. PC: 100015
    Tel：+86-10-59789282 

    NOW-FUTURE
    Xia Yun
 

    New Age Gallery, which is committed to discovering and introducing to the public young contemporary artists, is going to hold a group exhibition entitled “Now-Future” for young contemporary artists in August 2009.

    Now-Future, as a title, is indeed an embodiment of the gallery’s guideline, namely, to
devote to discovering talented young artists in the broader context of the future for the young artists and for contemporary art in China as well.

    The contributors to this exhibition, as artists born in the 70s or the 80s, concentrated on new themes with new artistic expression, voice their reflections about our age and our life.

    Xu Xiangdong, “following the form”, highlights such quality of “emptiness” and “negative form” in art, in addition to the rich “form” and “image” generated in chaos. The unique models elicit rich association, imagination, reflection on the universe, and feelings about the predicament of human life. Zhong Shan, resorts to “art of double image” as the artistic medium, namely, to present and to mirror by juxtaposing of double image the correspondence between two different facets of the same image, so as to the reveal complex and flexible forms the image takes on in space and time, in the real world and the virtual one, in reality and imagination… Jia Gang excels in bringing forth various postures by means of rich codified body language. “The figures in my paintings are invariably cast in the image of ‘new Chinese’, lump, with long and slender eyebrows, slanting eyes, a small mouth, two slightly rouged cheeks, widow’s peak narrow shoulders.”(Jia Gang) You Jin, as an expert of “garbled symbols”, by building a gloomy, elevating and destructive atmosphere in rich colors, confronts us with the reality in which crisis and dangers loom large in the seeming prosperity of science, communication, economy and consumerism. Zhang Yongzheng’s artistic language of “mysterious rhythm” (“mysterious” denotes the quality of being mysterious and inexplicable; “rhythm” refers to the rhythmic movement of the line of force, signifying the eternity of the universe, nature, and the human race), by featuring the mysterious pulse of life. It is based on the inherent spirit of freedom in Chinese calligraphy, accompanied with the essence of Chinese “Five Elements” and ancient Chinese philosophy for the observation and review of all the creatures, so as to reveal the circle of life, active movement, dynamic and regular transformation in the kingdom of art composed by Yin and Yang, the heaven and the earth, the soul and the universe. Xia Hang, a grownup boy who enjoys “game”, brings us sculptures for “play”, as each can be “assemble” and “disassembled”. Each time they are inserted, connected and combined, new images are continually generated or transformed to form a magical world. In Zheng Lu’s works, “characters and sculpture” (combination of characters, their charm and sculpture as a whole) Such sculptures naturally become a medium for life experience and artistic expression. Therefore, the charm of words and their connotation are highlighted, and "emptiness" and "hollowness", "Yin" and "Yang" are reflected as well. The illuminated works thus begin their journey of inexhaustible changes and extension, wandering between "to be or not to be" and "to be fantasy or to be reality". Hu Hua’s “funny art”, characterized with richly loaded symbols, cold colors based on black, white and grey, creates a grave, rational, heavy, and apathetic atmosphere in which the artist remains a detached observer, pondering the bustling crowd, exploring curiously the self, the human race and the universe. Luo Tiantian, from the perspective of “self-examination and only-child reality”, deals with the enlarged self in the real world or another magnified self, or the more skillful, perfect and idolized recast of the imaginary image of “the self”. Her artistic realm constitutes the real picture of the life reality of the only child generation in China. 

    The exhibition will be a collection of the recent tour de force of these artists, and will surely take you on an exceptional journey of artistic discoveries.
 

 【编辑：霍春常】