【Shangyuan Site】The property of a flower
[2023-9-26 17:16:52]
【Shangyuan Site】 The property of a flower
🌸学术主持:大卫 .布鲁贝克(美)、段少锋
Academic support:David Brubaker 、Shaohua Duan
🌼展览策划:韩淑英
Curator: Shuying Han
🍀策展助理:昭昭
Curatorial Assistant:joe
🌹主办单位:上苑艺术馆
Sponsor: Shangyuan Art Museum
🌸参展艺术家: 陈鱼 、程小蓓、董晓丽、韩祺、 韩淑英 、 刘姝铭、刘娜 、刘冰凌、 Ludwika Ogorzelec(波兰)、 李俊谊 、 彭怡、 曲巍巍 、孙鹏 、(孙少坤)、 陶艾民、王帅、王海燕、王海迪、吴洁、 吴敬 、梦露、姚丽双、 赵雅杰、Female artists: Chen Yu, Cheng Xiaopei, Dong Xiaoli, Han Qi,Han shuying, Liu Shuming, Liu Na, Liu Bingling,Ludwika Ogorzelec、Li Junyi, Peng Yi, Qu Weiwei, Sun Peng、 (Sun Shaokun) , Tao Aimin, Wang Shuai, wang Haiyan, Wang Haidi, Wu Jing, Wu Jie, Yao Lishuang, Zhao Yajie,
🌸开幕时间:2023年9月23日 15:00 Opening:September 23,2023
🌼展览时间:2023年9月23日~10月3日 Duration:September 23,2023to October 3,2023
🌹地址:北京市怀柔区桥梓镇沙峪口村上苑艺术馆二号展厅
Venue:Exhibition Hall No. 2, Shangyuan Art Museum,Shayukou Village, Qiaozi County, Huairou District, Beijing
“The Property of a Flower”By David BrubakerWhat do flowers represent and symbolize today? How do women use them in making their own art about contemporary life? In “The Property of a Flower,” women offer answers. With paint, fiber, glass, photographs, printmaking, video, and multimedia, these artists breath life into present times.Many of the artists express feelings about cycles of growth, blooming, and passing away. Liu Na suggests the period of gestation with her fiber work “The Roots of Life,” while Zhao Yajie uses colored glass to explore feelings about embodiment and reproduction. Wu Jia and Peng Yi emphasize blossoming in life by making colorful fireworks and starbursts. This vitality appears in Sun Peng’s photograph of magnolia leaves; the color of the magnified leaves suggests a pure heart. The briefness of full bloom is a theme in Han Qi’s delicate paintings and Wang Shuai’s vibrant color photographs of blossoms. The topic of the multimedia installation by Liu Shuming is the steady unfolding of life; globes filled with images of skirts in different styles mark on-going decades in her grandmother’s life. Yao Lishuang also suggests development with her symbols for paths of movement. By painting flowers in skeleton-like patterns, Qu Weiwei offers thoughts about passing on; returning to the earth is a cycle that supports new life.Another theme is the presence of flowers in everyday dwelling. Wang Haiyan paints vivid red petals of flowers in a vase on a table top. Dong Xiaoli also paints flowers in vases; but her large canvases include the household environment, so the beauty of flowers is within the spaces of daily life.Meditation and realizing one’s own nature in actual life are also explored. In Chen Yu’s Meditation Garden series, flowers are a source of peace; the wide and almost formless leaves suggest a path for reinterpreting the relation of self and the realm of nature. In “Garden of Intension,” Li Junyi paints the flower with no name that is between color and form. Wang Haidi writes that her prints of banana leaves point to a mysterious space; the overlapping leaves link real existence with the realm of the void. Tao Aimin applies a calligraphic script from Jiangyong women to create leaf-like strokes in painting; she points to the everyday work of women and speaks for them to break through darkness to find the light of freedom. Using lithography, Han Shuying has created a flower with human and animal figures that are joined with a creativity and curiosity that raises thoughts of Hieronymus Bosch. Finally, with innovative batik techniques, Liu Bing Ling presents a flower that symbolizes finding your heart and letting the vitality of life appear in the universe. Four artists develop themes related more specifically to the natural environment. Wu Jing’s soft wool weavings produce a mysterious or dream-like harmony with mountains and waters; one of these works is presented in digital video. Cheng Xiaobei paints trees full of life amid mountains; the result is a feeling of connection that leads to thoughts of wandering in nature. There is Sun Shaokun’s powerful performance recorded on video years ago; corn is transformed from a material thing into art that supports the spiritual practice of cultivating harmony with the earth. Finally, in one photograph, a sparking blue-green structure joins neighboring trees at twilight; Ludwika Ogorzelec reminds viewers that they are in the space of natural environments.In this exhibition, flowers are not merely beautiful things. For the artists here, they offer ways to communicate the value of natural life in all of its moments and cycles. Even a single petal manifests a unity with the present where life is most manifest. 2023-9-17
作品选
陈鱼作品
程小蓓作品
董晓丽作品
韩祺
李俊谊
刘冰凌
刘娜
刘姝铭
彭怡作品
曲薇薇作品
孙少坤
陶艾民
吴洁
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每一朵花都是不一样的存在
文:段少锋
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