Julia Steiner：“转变”

    展览地点：麦勒画廊 北京－卢森，北京
    艺 术 家：Julia Steiner
    开幕时间：2010年1月30日,下午4：00 － 下午7：00
    展览时间：2010年1月30日 – 2010年4月4日

    展览地址：北京市朝阳区草场地村104号，邮编;100015
    开放时间：每周周二－周日，上午11：00－下午6：30
    电话: +86 10 64333393
    传真：+86 10 64330203

    Title: Julia Steiner – A Tense Turn
 

    Venue: Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing – Lucerne, Beijing Branch
    Artists: Julia Steiner
    Opening: from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., Saturday, 30th January 2010
    Exhibition: 30th January 2010 – 4th April 2010

    Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing:
    Caochangdi No.104, Chaoyang District, 100015 Beijing.
    Opening Hours: 11.00 am – 6.30 pm, from Tuesday to Sunday.
    Phone: +86 10 64333393
    Fax: +86 10 64330203

    2009年10月，瑞士艺术家Julia Steiner进驻北京麦勒画廊“旅居艺术家工作室”，开始了在中国的短期生活。归期将近，麦勒画廊举办展览“转变”，挑选了她在这段旅居生活中创作的部分作品进行展出。

    Steiner的艺术创作以素描画为主。她的某些大幅作品，由多张纸面拼置而成，在对象和抽象的两极间跳跃。水粉画的画法凸显了作品由暗到明的层次感，绘画过程中纸白部分被有意留出。从作品的整体结构看，画面的留白部分以精确的形式和碎片保持了作品的平衡。作品的大型性使得观者无法一眼将整幅画作尽收眼底，驱使观者目光扫视画面，不断转换观看方式。

    这些在中国创作的作品情境上颇为紧密，作品以张力感为出发点，这种张力感在作品使用材料的表面性质、在体态中、在自然的形式中（如莲叶的形态）得到展示。作品蕴含的能量以运动的形式显现出来，这种运动贯穿绘画过程始终，时而中断，时而凸显。

    Steiner的作品结构看起来有一层叙事的底子，但这种叙事并非逻辑上成立，而是要求我们用不同的解读方式进入，以透析作品复杂的多义性。正是这样，Steiner在她的画中创造了开放的想象空间，使观众着迷。

    文章：Karin Seiz

    翻译：苏伟
 

    Julia Steiner "A TENSE TURN"

    Since October 2009 Swiss artist Julia Steiner (*1982, Büren zum Hof) has been the artist-in-residence at the studio operated by the Galerie Urs Meile in Beijing. Now, the Galerie Urs Meile is presenting the results of Steiner’s visit in an exhibition titled "A TENSE TURN", featuring a selection of works created by the artist in China.

    As an artist, Steiner’s work involves an intense exploration of drawing. Her large works, some of them assembled out of several sheets of paper, alternate between the figurative and the abstract. Using a painting technique known as gouache, the artist is able to create a spectrum of layers ranging from dark to light, and in the process of drawing, some of the blank, white planes of the paper are left exposed.
 

    In Steiner’s complex compositions, these empty spaces are balanced with precisely positioned forms and fragments. Since the drawings are so large, it is impossible for the viewer to see them in their entirety all at once. The eye is forced to sweep across the surface, as the viewer moves from one perspective to the next.

    Created in China, these densely atmospheric works arise out of a sense of tension, visible in the surface condition of the materials, in the poses and natural forms, such as the leaf of a lotus blossom. Energy is manifested as movement, which passes through the drawing and is broken off or accentuated in particular places.

    The compositions seem to be subject to a narrative structure whose logic, however, ultimately remains inconclusive; rather, it suggests different readings or interpretations, adding yet more substance to the complicated, multiple layers of the works. Steiner’s drawings are thus illusionary, open spaces that entice the viewer into their fascinating maelstrom.

    Text: Karin Seiz
    Translation: Allison Plath-Moseley