偏锋新艺术空间即将参展2019年巴塞尔香港展会-亚洲视野单元，带来中国实验水墨的领军人物张羽个展，呈现上茶系列作品，展会期间艺术家将进行上茶行为表演，展位3D29。

PIFO Gallery is pleased to present Tea Feeding of Chinese artist Zhang Yu, has served as one of the pioneers in experimental inkwash painting in China at Insight, Art Basel Hong Kong 2019, the booth is 3D29.

艺术家 / 张羽

1959年生于天津，1988年毕业于天津工艺美术学院。现工作、生活于北京。

张羽是中国九十年代以来实验水墨的灵魂人物，他的艺术创作反映了中国水墨现代性在视觉形式与内在精神上的一种发展方向。八十年代后期开始三十余年反复探索的水墨实践，展示了他对生命及艺术本质永恒性的内在诉求与表达。“灵光”系列是张羽真正意义上探寻水墨现代性问题的开始，也是对书写的笔墨终结。他放弃传统笔墨中心主义的创作理念，对水墨媒材特质性能重新认识与再挖掘，以光、残圆、破方这些基本的图式符号，建构起一个个超越于日常生活经验之上的精神性的宇宙图景。美国9·11灾难之后创作的“每日新报”系列以水墨拼贴的艺术语言，表现他作为一个当代艺术家对现实社会的思考和人文关怀，探索与当下经验相连接的水墨表达方式。2002年再创作的更为简化的心手相应的“指印”系列，建构了一个属于自己的完整的艺术创作系统，一个个的指印单纯繁复的过程，使抽象性的图像逐渐化为痕迹，是以文化概念的行为方式针对艺术问题的表达。2008年张羽提出水墨不再等于水墨画，主张水与墨回归到自然世界中的本来状态，近年来的上水、上墨、上茶系列的艺术创作则是对水墨问题的终结，彻底走出水墨，通过一个本来非常纯粹，又无直接意义的装置行为，传达超越日常观念的思想认识，所呈现的是一种重新认知的形而上的有无关系，并探索其置于不同自然文化语境中的多重关系与可能性，以及他在新的时代背景下对当代艺术问题的思考。

张羽曾策划编著了《中国现代水墨画》《二十世纪末中国现代水墨艺术走势》等丛书，并接连策划了多次水墨艺术展，九十年代实验水墨成为中国艺术史发展中的重要一环，张羽有其不可或缺的影响与推动作用。张羽的艺术创作被广泛收录于中国知名艺术评论家巫鸿、高名潞、吕澎的重要艺术史著作中。

上茶 2019126-211 (行为、装置)

Tea Feeding 2019126-211 (Performance, Installation)

宣纸、祁门红茶、白色瓷碗

Xuan Paper, Qimen Red Tea, White Bowls

350 x 96 cm

2019

Artist / Zhang Yu

Born in Tianjin in 1959, China. He graduated from Tianjin Fine Arts Academy of Arts and Crafts in 1988. Currently he lives and works in Beijing.

As Zhang Yu has served as one of the pioneers in experimental ink wash painting since the 1990s in China, his artistic practice manifested the development of the modernity of ink wash painting in reference to visual form and inner spirit. The thirty years of continued investigation into the practice of ink wash painting since the late 1980s, in a sense, manifestly revealed his inner needs and outward manifestation of the intrinsiceternity of life and art. Through the “Devine Light” series, Zhang Yu formally embarked upon probing into the modernity of ink wash painting and discontinued his calligraphy literally. Distancing himself from the traditional ideology centering on pen and ink, the artist started to re-observe and reexamine the characteristics of media in ink wash painting, putting together a series of spiritually cosmic schemata beyond the daily experiences by means of underlying representational symbols such as light, incomplete circle and unfinished square. The “Daily Newspapers” created after the 9/11 attacks in the United States, on a basis of the artistic language of ink collage, prominently displayed the artist’s thought and humanistic concern for the realistic society as a contemporary artist, attempting to locate an appropriate medium of expression that could correlate the existing experiences and ink wash painting. Linking heart and mind, through the more simplified “Fingerprints” series created in 2002, the artist brought about a unified scheme of artistic creation of his own. The process of repeated fingerprinting one by one allowed the abstract images to turn to marks, functioning as a means to touch upon artistic issues in a way of cultural sense. Zhang Yu pointed out in 2008 that ink wash was no longer equal to ink wash painting, he asserted that ink and wash should go back to the basics in the domain of natural world. The recently created series including the Shang Shui (Feeding Water), Shang Mo (Feeding Ink), and Shang Cha (Feeding Tea) demonstrated the end of his concern about issues of ink wash. Dissociating from ink wash, the artist showcased his thoughts and awareness beyond the everyday viewpoints through an installation-based performance that’s naturally conceptual yet not directly conveying any messages. All of it was to present a sort of metaphysical relation re-recognized and to look into its multiplied relationships and possibilities in the naturally cultural context in addition to the artist’s reflections on the contemporary art under the circumstances of the new era.

Zhang Yu edited the books “Modern Chinese Ink Painting” and “Trends of Modern Chinese Ink Works at the End of the Twentieth Century”. In addition, Zhang Yu curated a great number of art exhibitions featuring ink washpainting, undoubtedly, his influence and contribution to promoting the ink wash painting allowed the experimental ink painting of the 1990s to be a major part of the history of Chinese art and its development. Zhang Yu’s artistic works have been widely featured in a range of major books of art history penned by prominent Chinese art critics such as Wu Hong, Gao Minglu and Lü Peng.

张羽 Zhang Yu, 2016

重要个展

2018

张羽，偏锋新艺术空间，北京

捏造——张羽的存在艺术，弘光艺术中心，弘光科技大学，台中

2017

超常——张羽在新竹，一诺艺术，新瓦屋客家遗址，新竹

2016

是否水墨？——大闲与张羽作品双个展，艺倡画廊，香港

上水——张羽的五台山方式，五台山南山寺、佑国寺、中台，山西

2014

张羽：意念的形式，广东美术馆，广州

基本原理：张羽视觉进化论，三尚当代艺术馆，杭州

2013

修行——张羽作品展1991-2013，光州市立美术馆，光州

意念的形式：张羽作品展，佛光缘美术馆，高雄

在马爹利干杯——水墨，干邑马爹利香特露庄园，干邑

2012

封存的指印，其他画廊，上海

指印，Sem-Art画廊，蒙地卡罗

2011

修·行：张羽指印作品1991-2011，今日美术馆，北京

合流：张羽、索涵·卡德里双个展，Sundaram Tagore画廊，纽约

2010

迷漫的指印，国父纪念馆，台北

2009

指印：张羽修行的痕迹，关渡美术馆，台北

2004

张羽实验水墨艺术展，古豪士当代艺术画廊，纽约

2001

张羽实验水墨展，红楼基金会，伦敦

1992

张羽现代水墨艺术展，比纳耶乌现代美术馆，莫斯科

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2018

Zhang Yu, PIFO Gallery, Beijing

The body of entering into mud and soil - The Art of Zhang Yu, Hungkuang University Arts Center, Taichung

2017

Beyond Ordinary - Zhang Yu in Hsinchu, Performance and Installation Art Exhibition, INNO Art, The Hakka Site of the New Tile House, Hsinchu

2016

Whether Ink and Wash: Duo solo exhibition of Liu Jian and Zhang Yu, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong

Water Feeding- Mount Wutai, Shanxi

2014

Zhang Yu: The Form of Notion, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

Fundamental: Zhang Yu’s Visual Darwinism, Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou

2013

Cultivation Practice: Zhang Yu's Fingerprint Works 1991-2013, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju

Conception and Form: Zhang Yu's Works, Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Kaohsiung

Occurrence: Drinking a Toasting at Martell-Ink and Wash at the Martell Chateau, Cognac

2012

Sealed Fingerprints, Other Gallery, Shanghai

Fingerprints: Performance/Red/Water, Sem-Art Gallery, Monte Carlo

2011

Cultivation Practice: Zhang Yu's Fingerprint Works 1991-2011, Today Art Museum, Beijing

Fingerprints - Zhang Yu, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York

2010

Diffused Fingerprints - Zhang Yu's works, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei

2009

Fingerprint Traces of Zhang Yu's Cultivation Practice, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei

2004

Divine Light: Ink Paintings by Zhang Yu, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA

2001

Zhang Yu: Experimental Ink and Wash, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK

1992

Chinese Artist Zhang Yu: Modern Ink and Wash, Belyaevo Modern Art Museum, Moscow, Russia

重要群展

2018

极简主义：空间、光与物，艺术科学博物馆，新加坡国家美术馆，新加坡

抽象，一种绘画修辞 中德艺术比较研究——抽象群展第十一回，偏锋新艺术空间，北京

INK，格平根市立美术馆，格平根

2017

艺术家与他们的中国册页，康州学院美术馆，康州

2015

书写的现代主义终结：从井上有一、李禹焕到张羽，关渡美术馆，台北

2013

原道 / 中国当代艺术新概念，香港艺术馆，香港

Ink art 水墨，大都会艺术博物馆，纽约

2012

意方 / 极多之比，长岛大学希尔伍德美术馆，长岛

墨：中国艺术，沙奇画廊，伦敦

无形之形：中国当代艺术展，卡尔舒特艺术中心，伦茨堡布德尔斯多尔夫

2011

象由心生——抽象群展第四回，偏锋新艺术空间，北京

伟大的天上抽象—21世纪的中国艺术，罗马当代艺术馆，罗马

2008

水墨≠水墨画 / 张羽、李华生、梁铨作品展，和静园艺术馆，北京

意派：中国“抽象”艺术三十年，帕尔马美术馆，巴塞罗那美术馆，马德里美术馆

走向后抽象——抽象群展第一回，偏锋新艺术空间，北京

2005

中国 I上墨：當代實驗水墨展+实验水墨演讲会，瑞月宮，里爾，巴黎国际艺术城，巴黎

2004

横滨国际电影节：视像群—中国当代艺术新学院方式，艺术银行1929马车道，横滨

2002

东+西：中国当代艺术展，维也纳艺术家之家，维也纳

2001

梦：中国当代艺术展，亚特兰蒂斯美术馆，伦敦

1998

蜕变与突破：中国新艺术展，P·S·1当代艺术中心，旧金山现代艺术馆，亨利美术馆，纽约，旧金山

1996

重返家园：中国当代实验水墨联展，瑞曼画廊，世界日报画廊，旧金山

1991

第27回亚细亚现代美术展，东京都美术馆，上野森美术馆，东京

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2018

Minimalism: Space.Light.Object., ArtScience Museum, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore

Abstraction as Painterly Rhetoric. A Case Study Between Germany and China, PIFO Gallery, Beijing

INK. Zeitgenössische Tuschemalereiaus China, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen

2017

Artists and the Chinese Folding-books, Art Gallery of the College of Connecticut, Connecticut

2015

The end of Modernity in Calligraphy: From Yuichi Inoue, Lee Ufan to Zhang Yu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei

2013

The Original Way - New Concepts in Chinese Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

Ink Art: Pastas Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2012

Towards Notion - Maximalism in Contrasts, Hillwood Gallery of Long Island University, Long Island

Ink: The Art of China, Saatchi Gallery, London

Shape Without Shape: Chinese Contemporary Art, Hütte Rendsburg, Büdelsdorf

2011

Abstract Art 4: Visible Soul, PIFO Gallery, Beijing

Chinese and Italian Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Museo Rivelli di Arte Moderna eContemporanea, Rome

2008

Ink and Wash ≠ Ink and Wash Painting: Zhang Yu, Li Huasheng, Liang Quan, He jingyuan Art Center, Beijing

Yi Pai: 30 Years of Abstract Art in China, La Caixa Forum Palma, La Caixa ForumBarcelona, La Caixa Forum Madrid, Palma, Barcelona, Madrid

Abstract Art 1:Towards Post, PIFO Gallery, Beijing

2005

Upcoming Ink Painting: Modern Ink Painting Exhibition, Palais Rihour, Lille, France

2004

Yokohama International Film Festival: Visual Group, Neo-Academicism of China, BankArt 1929, Yokohama

2002

Ost + West: Ausstellung für die Zeitgenössische Kunst aus China, Künstlerhaus in Wien, Vienna

2001

Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art, The Atlantis Gallery, London

1998

Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition, MoMA P.S.1, Henry Art Gallery, New York, San Francisco

1996

Home coming: Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash, Gallery on the Rim, World Journal Gallery, San Francisco

1991

27th Asian Modern Art Exhibition, Tokyo-to Art Museum, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

重要公共收藏

美国

大都会艺术博物馆，纽约

艾丝戴拉基金会美术馆，纽约

洛杉矶郡立博物馆，洛杉矶

树华艺术教育基金会，旧金山

旧金山中华文化中心，旧金山

欧洲

红楼基金会，伦敦

路易斯安那美术馆，哥本哈根

比纳耶乌现代美术馆，莫斯科

贝纳通美术馆，威尼斯

奥兰斯卡基金会美术馆，日内瓦

鲁汶大学博物馆，鲁汶

中国

中国美术馆，北京

上海美术馆，上海

广东美术馆，广州

香港艺术馆，香港

广州美术学院美术馆，广州

Public Collections (selected)

USA

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chicago

The Estella Collection Foundation, New York

Shuhua Art Educational Foundation, San Francisco

Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco

Europe

Red Mansion Foundation, London

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen

Belyaevo Modern Art Gallery, Moscow

Benetton Museum, Venice

Olenska Foundation Art Museum, Geneva

University of Louvain Museum, Louvain

China

National Art Museum of China, Beijing

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

Hongkong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

University City Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou