盛奇——新作個展
2009年5月24日－8月17日
開幕酒會定於2009年5月23日下午3點至6點
F2畫廊將舉辦盛奇第二次個展，本次展覽將展出藝術家從2006年到2009年間創作的作品，共5個系列。顏料從畫布上下滴下來——這是盛奇近期作品的一個標誌性表現。
本次展覽作品歌頌了在盛奇戲劇化的想像中成為主人公和主角的中國人民。同時本次展覽還突出強調了藝術家客觀地觀察周圍世界本來面目——極度美麗的混亂喧囂——仿佛是在説，清晰的眼界是邁向個人和藝術自由的第一步。
“我們很期待這次特別的新作展覽。作品表達很強烈，我相信觀眾會被作品的衝擊而震驚，無論是視覺衝擊還是理念衝擊。盛奇的確已經成長為當今中國年輕一代藝術中比較有意思的體現時代脈搏的一位畫家。”F2畫廊弗羽森先生如是説。
關於盛奇
北京藝術家盛奇曾幫助建立了80年代中國第一個行為藝術群體“觀念21”。1989年，這位藝術家有件著名的事件：他將自己的左手小指切掉，並離開中國前往歐洲學習，後來畢業于倫敦久負盛名的聖馬丁藝術學院。
回到中國後，盛奇繼續從事行為藝術。 他還開始將來自中國媒體的影像融入到新的攝影作品系列中：每幅照片都被擺放在藝術家的左手掌中，呈現出朋友或是家人亦或媒體的一幅小照片，而他的小指明顯缺損了。這是一種照片中的照片，而手勢充當了藝術家與觀眾之間的握手，將盛奇個人過去的經歷同一個國家的集體記憶聯繫起來。
他回到中國後，精力更多地轉向了繪畫，審視各種社會問題，包括城市化、媒體以及這個國家過去和未來之間苦樂參半的衝撞。他那種有力的非學院式繪畫風格，就像在他的《紅黑歷史》系列中所呈現的，通常似乎充斥著墨汁與鮮血。就規模和主題而言，此次個展充分顯示出他至今在繪畫方面所作出的最為成熟和志向高遠的努力。
F2畫廊即將推出新展
杭州年輕藝術家群展 – 9月5日至11月9日
曹應斌個展 – 2009年11月14日至2010年2月7日
CONTACT:
F2 Gallery Public Relations
Miriam Deller
Core Power Culture and Broadcasting Ltd, Beijing
China mobile: (86) 150 1152 7797
International mobile: (43) 699 1781 0912
E-mail: f2gallery.press@gmail.com
www.f2gallery.com
For further information about F2 Gallery, please contact Scarlett at:
Tel.: + 86 10 6432 8831
No. 319 Cao Changdi, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100015, China
E-mail: art@f2gallery.com
www.f2gallery.com
Sheng Qi – New Paintings
May 24 – August 17, 2009
Reception with the artist on May 23, 3 – 6 pm
For immediate release, Beijing, April 23rd 2009
The second solo show of Sheng Qi at F2 Gallery presents five different series of works of Sheng Qi that the artist developed between 2006 and 2009. The canvases are dripping with paint – a signature indicator of Sheng Qi’s recent works.
This exhibition celebrates the Chinese people who constitute the subjects and major actors of Sheng Qi’s dramatic imagination. The show highlights the artist’s objective to see the world around him as it really is– a profoundly beautiful chaos– as if to say that clear vision is the first step to both personal and artistic freedom.
“We are looking forward to this exceptional show of new paintings. These works are very strong and I believe visitors will be surprised by their impact, both visually and conceptually. Sheng Qi has really developed into one of the more interesting and relevant painters of a younger generation in China today.” says Fabien Fryns of F2.
About Sheng Qi
Beijing based artist Sheng Qi is a co-founder of Concept 21, China’s first performance–art group in the 1980s. In 1989, the artist famously severed his pinky from his left hand and left China for Europe, where he later graduated from London’s prestigious St. Martin’s Academy of Art.
After returning to China, Sheng Qi continued his performance art. He began to incorporate commercial images into a new photographic series: each photo featured a small photo from friends and family or from the media placed in the artist’s left palm, his pinky prominently absent. As “photo within a photo”, the gesture also served as a handshake between the artist and viewer, linking Sheng Qi’s personal past to a national collective memory.
Sheng Qi then increasingly turned to painting. His hard-hitting non-academic painting style, as in his series Black and Red, often seems to drip with ink and blood. His current solo show demonstrates his most mature and ambitious painterly effort to date, both in terms of scale and subject matter.
Upcoming Exhibitions at F2 Gallery
Young artists from Hangzhou - September 5 to November 9
Cao Yingbin - Solo Show - November 14 2009 to Feb 7 2010
CONTACT:
F2 Gallery Public Relations
Miriam Deller
Core Power Culture and Broadcasting Ltd, Beijing
China mobile: (86) 150 1152 7797
International mobile: (43) 699 1781 0912
E-mail: f2gallery.press@gmail.com
www.f2gallery.com
For further information about F2 Gallery, please contact Scarlett at:
Tel.: + 86 10 6432 8831
No. 319 Cao Changdi, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100015, China
E-mail: art@f2gallery.com
www.f2gallery.com