展名 / Title:  境象主义——桑火尧作品展

Affective-Imagoism: Artworks by Sang Huoyao

艺术家 / Artist: 桑火尧 Sang Huoyao

展期 / Duration: 2020.12.26 (Sat) - 2021.3.7 (Sun)

开幕 / Opening: 2021.1.16 (Sat) 3:00pm

地点 / Venue: 亚洲艺术中心（北京）

Asia Art Center (Beijing)

北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路2号大山子798艺术区（周一休馆）

Dashanzi 798 Art District, No.2, Jiuxianqiao Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing

亚洲艺术中心荣幸地宣布“境象主义——桑火尧作品展”将于2021年1月16日下午三点开幕。此次展览是继2019年上海龙美术馆“境象主义——桑火尧作品展”、2018年新加坡当代美术馆“桑火尧——境象主义作品展”、2017年中国美术馆“混沌——桑火尧境象主义作品展”之后，艺术家对“境象主义”概念的又一次深化的认知表达。本次展出的作品共计五十余件，为艺术家近年来的全新创作，且首次集中展出。除了架上绘画亦有装置创作，更丰富地呈现了艺术家新的创作与思考，并进一步构建了境象主义美学的神秘、崇高、纯粹与深邃。 

自1998年以来，桑火尧一直持续坚持中国水墨艺术的当代性及水墨艺术国际化的探索之路。从自我创作实践出发进行梳理，将东方哲学、美学与对当下的独特感悟结合起来，持续追求形而上的精神旨趣，逐渐形成方块积叠的方法论以及境象主义艺术观。并使之成为自己独特的艺术语言和符号。在创作形式上刻意尝试并放弃了中国画的“略似之形”和书法之线。在笔墨上抽象朦胧混沌，但在构成的空间上，艺术家依然希望呈现出东方绘画的哲学意蕴——老庄的虚无、空灵、静和之境。中国人的易经文字、汉字和“天圆地方”之说都是他思考的哲学根基。在这一过程中桑火尧逐渐确立了自己的境象方块水墨风格——方块美学。

在新的阶段，尤其是近三年来艺术家尝试在混沌的作品中增加理性的符号，纯粹而丰富。如2020年创作的大型作品《今年》(This Year)、《日志》有英文有符号，以此来回应当下。而两件小型作品，在画面中浮动气韵的“方形”之上出现了如无限（∞）和倒置的问号（?），也是艺术家关切作为个体的人对自然、社会的种种思索。这些既是艺术家在探索中国美学过程中与西方符号学理论的进一步的讨论，同时也是艺术家用艺术介入社会与生活的一种方式。

桑火尧在多年创作的过程中形成“桑氏方块”的理论名称是以艺术符号学的还原方式，从现实生活中提取具有符号学意义的图景，转换为以当代中国水墨为载体的符号“言语”。其中形成的具备个人表现准则和规范的艺术“语言”，是艺术家“自我”的水墨符号体系的形成标志。画面中呈现出叠加的方块与交织中透过忽隐忽现的“光”，完整了桑火尧水墨作品中气韵生动的传达与中国美学思想中“大音希声，大象无形”的形而上感知。我们能够看到，近些年来，桑火尧积极探索水墨的边界，强化色的使用与效果，增加了中国艺术在当代的表达力。他以单色的色块为艺术矩阵，以抽象性的笔墨语言为内在结构，以根植于中国传统的“境象主义”艺术为创作载体，试图在理性的西方抽象艺术与东方哲学间架起一座对话之桥。

Asia Art Center is honored to announce that "Affective-Imagoism: Artworks by Sang Huoyao" will open at 3 pm on January 16, 2021. After "Affective-Imagoism - Sang Huoyao’s Works Exhibition" (Long Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019), "Sang Huoyao Solo Exhibition - Horizons of the Mind" (Museum of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, 2018), "Chaos - Exhibition of Sang Huoyao’s works" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2017), the new exhibition features his deepened cognitive expression regarding the concept of "Affective-Imagoism", with more than 50 new artworks in recent years. In addition to paintings, there are also art installations, which more abundantly present the artist's new creations and thoughts, and further construct the mystery, sublime, purity and depth of "Affective-Imagoism" aesthetics.

Since 1998, Sang Huoyao has initiated his exploration of the internationalization of ink art, adhering to the contemporary nature of Chinese ink paintings. Based on practices of self-creation, he combines Eastern philosophy, aesthetics and unique perceptions regarding the present, pursues metaphysical spirituality, and eventually forms a stacking methodology of "Affective-Imagoism", including the artistic concept, language and symbols. In terms of form, he deliberately abandons the lines of calligraphy. From the perspective of brush and ink technique, his artworks seem abstract, hazy and chaotic, meanwhile in the space of composition, Sang Huoyao continues to present the philosophical artistic conception of Eastern painting, which is the emptiness and tranquility put forward by Chuangzi. In the process of artistic innovations, Sang Huoyao gradually establishes his unique square aesthetics of "Affective-Imagoism", inspirated by the philosophical foundation of I Ching characters, Chinese characters, and the theory of "round sky and square earth".

In the new stage, especially in the past three years, Sang Huoyao tries to add rational symbols to Chaos works. For instance in 2020, Sang Huoyao created large-scale works "This Year" and "Diary" which contained English characters and symbols, responding the present situation. In the two small works, phenomena such as infinity (∞) and inverted question marks (?) appear on the floating "square" in the painting, revealing the artist's various thoughts on nature and society as an individual. Sang Huoyao is not only exploring Chinese aesthetics and Western semiotic theories, but also using art to intervene in society and life.

Sang Huoyao has formed the theory of "Sang's Cube" , extracting semiotic images from real life, and transforming it into a symbolic language based on contemporary Chinese ink painting. In this process, Sang Huoyao's personal performance guidelines and standardized artistic "language" construct his symbolism system of ink paintings. The dim "light" through the superimposed squares in the work demonstrates the vivid transmission of rhyme in his ink paintings and the metaphysical perception of "great music has the faintest notes, the great form is without shape" in Chinese aesthetics. Sang Huoyao actively explores the boundaries of ink paintings in recent years, strengthens the use of color, and increases the expressive power of Chinese art in contemporary art. He uses monochromatic color blocks as the artistic matrix, and abstracts the language of ink as the internal structure rooted in the traditional Chinese "Affective-Imagoism". Thus, Sang Huoyao intends to build a bridge of dialogue between rational Western abstract art and Eastern philosophy.

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About Artist

桑火尧，1963年生于浙江，中国美术学院国画系毕业，获硕士学位。中国艺术研究院艺术创作指导委员会委员，中国画院副院长，国家一级美术师，中国美术家协会理事，清华大学吴冠中艺术研究中心研究员。现工作生活于北京。

 主要个展:“境象主义-桑火尧作品展”（亚洲艺术中心，北京，中国，2020），“境象主义—桑火尧作品展”（龙美术馆，上海，中国，2019），“境象主义—桑火尧个展”（人可艺术中心，杭州，中国，2018），“桑火尧—境象主义作品展”（新加坡当代美术馆，新加坡，2018），“混沌—火尧境象主义作品展”（中国美术馆，北京，中国，2017），“诗意的相遇—桑火尧作品展巡展”（弘川现代艺术博物馆，青州，中国，2017），“诗意的相遇— 桑火尧作品展”（潍坊博物馆，潍坊，中国，2017），“心界—桑火尧作品 1/2展”（復言社，北京，中国，2017），“桑火尧与史蒂芬对话展”（年代美术馆，温州，中国，2016），“桑火尧与罗斯科：色度在呼吸”（人可艺术中心，杭州，中国，2016），“时间的棱—桑火尧个展”（復言社，北京，中国，2016），“境象—桑火尧展1/2展”（玉衡艺术中心，上海，中国，2015），“云端—桑火尧作品展”（恒庐美术馆，杭州，中国，2015），“桃花江上—桑火尧境象水墨作品展”（华氏画廊，上海，中国，2014），“在湖上—桑火尧2014境象新作展”（人可艺术中心，杭州，中国，2014），“境象主义— 桑火尧作品展”（广东美术馆，广州，中国，2013），“境象— 桑火尧作品展”（上海美术馆，上海，中国，2012），“境遇游—桑火尧个展”（今日美术馆，北京，中国，2011），“境象 · 桑火尧个展”（索卡艺术中心，台北，2010），“半日闲情—桑火尧境象个展”（索卡艺术中心，台北，2009）

 主要群展：“水墨进行时: 2000 - 2019”（广东美术馆，广州，中国，2020），“时代叙事—山东美术馆馆藏精品展”（山东美术馆，济南，中国，2020），“培根铸魂—70年70人美术作品展”（中国国家博物馆，北京，中国，2019），“第二届武汉水墨双年展《墨与物》”（武汉美术馆，武汉，中国，2019），“ ‘异同&共生’— ‘16+1’中国 · 中东欧当代艺术展”（索菲亚中国文化中心，索菲亚，保加利亚，2018），“第四届中国画院双年展”（中国美术馆，北京，中国，2018），“2015－2016 中国艺术研究院艺术创作大展”（中国美术馆，北京，中国，2016），“2015－2016 中国当代水墨年鉴展”（今日美术馆，北京，中国，2016），“中国色”（亚洲艺术中心，北京，中国，2015），“水墨演义—中国当代水墨国际巡展”（中间美术馆，北京；布鲁塞尔；芝加哥，2015），“虚薄之境—对画：山水与风景”（上海明圆美术馆，上海，中国，2015），“第十届意大利佛罗伦萨国际当代艺术双年展《艺术与城市主题展》”（佛罗伦萨，意大利，2015），“水墨新语—新水墨联展”（江苏美术馆，南京，中国，2014），“亚洲当代艺术群展”（今日美术馆，北京，中国，2012），“亚洲当代艺术展”（台湾美术馆，台中，中国，2012），“亚洲当代艺术联展”（荷兰当代艺术馆，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰，2011），“第54届威尼斯双年展平行展”（威尼斯，意大利，2011），“俄罗斯中国文化节《水墨中国艺术展》”（莫斯科，俄罗斯，2008）

 公共收藏：中国国家博物馆（北京）、中国美术馆（北京）、今日美术馆（北京）、上海美术馆（上海）、龙美术馆（上海）、广东美术馆（广州）、浙江美术馆（杭州）、山东美术馆（济南）

Sang Huoyao, born in Zhejiang Province, China in 1963, currently lives and works in Beijing. He completed his master degree of Chinese Painting from Chinese National Academy of Arts, and currently works as a member of the Artistic Creation Steering Committee in Chinese National Academy of Arts, the vice-president of China National Academy of Painting and a National First-Level artist. Adding to this multi-varied background is also his experience as a researcher in the "Wu Guanzhong Research Center" in Tsinghua University.

Significant Solo Exhibitions: "Affective-Imagoism: Artworks by Sang Huoyao" (Asia Art Center, Beijing, China, 2020), "Affective-Imagoism: Sang Huoyao's Works Exhibition" (Long Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019), "The Cosmic Spirit - Sang Huoyao Hangzhou Solo Exhibition" (Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China, 2018), "Sang Huoyao Solo Exhibition -  Horizons of the Mind" (Museum of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, Singapore, 2018), "Chaos-Exhibition of Sang Huoyao's works" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2017), "Poetic Encounters - Itinerant Exhibition of Sang Huoyao's works" (Hongchuan Museum of Modern Art, Qingzhou, China, 2017), "Poetic Encounters- Sang Huoyao's Works Exhibition" (Weifang Museum, Weifang, China, 2017), "Universe Within - Works of Sang Huoyao 1/2 Show" (Fuyan Commune, Beijing, China, 2017), "Sang Huoyao's Dialogue with Stephen Exhibition" (Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China, 2016), "Sang Huoyao and Rothko: Breathing Tone" (Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China, 2016), "Edge of Time - Sang Huoyao's Solo Exhibition" (Fuyan Commune, Beijing, China, 2016), "Jing Xiang - Sang Huoyao Solo Exhibition" (Alioth Art Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2016), "Cloud - Sang Huoyao Art Work Exhibition" (Henglu Art Museum, Hangzhou, China, 2016), "Peach Blossoms on the River - Sang Huoyao Jing Xiang Ink Painting Exhibition" (Hwa's Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2014), "On the River -Sang Huoyao Jing Ink Painting Exhibition" (Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China, 2014), "Jing Xiang – Sang Huoyao Art Works Exhibition" (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2013), "Jing Xiang - Sang Huoyao Art Works Exhibition" (Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2012), "Universal Tour - Solo Exhibition of Sang Huoyao" (Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2011), "Jing Xiang - Solo Exhibition of Sang Huoyao" (Soka Art Centre, Taipei, 2010), "Half A Day's Leisure - Jiang Xiang, Solo Exhibition of Sang Huoyao" (Soka Art Center, Taipei, 2009)

 Group Exhibition: "Ink Painting on Going: 2000 - 2019" (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2020), "Narration of Times: Shandong Art Museum Collection Highlights"(Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, China, 2020), "Chinese National Academy of Arts Group Exhibition" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2019), "Ink and Things" - The Second Biennial Exhibition of Wuhan Ink Art (Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China, 2019), "Similarities and Diversities in Symbiosis - China & CEEC Contemporary Art Exhibition" (Sofia Chinese Cultural Center, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018), "The 4th Biennale of China National Academy of Painting" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2018), "2015-2016 Art Creation Exhibition of Chinese National Academy of Arts" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2016), "Annual Review Exhibition of China Contemporary Ink Painting 2015-2016" (Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2016), "Chinese Color"(Asia Art Center, Beijing, China, 2015), "Contemporary Ink Art Evolution Itinerant Exhibition"(Inside-out Art Museum, Beijing; Brussels; Chicago, 2015), "Infra-Mince Realm-Painting to Painting: Mountains, Rivers and Landscape" (Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2015), "Art and City Theme Exhibition", The 10th International Contemporary Art Biennale (Florence, Italy, 2015), "Ethereal Dimness: New Ink Painting Invitational Exhibition" (Nanjing Avant-garde Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China, 2014), "Asia Contemporary Art Group Exhibition" (Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2012), "Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition" (Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, China, 2012), "Asia Contemporary Art Group Exhibition" (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2011), "Collateral Event of Chinese Art" at the 54th Venice Art Biennale (Venice, Italy, 2011), "Chinese Ink Painting Art Exhibition" in Russian-Chinese Cultural Festival (Moscow, Russia, 2008) Public Collections: National Museum of China (Beijing), National Art Museum of China (Beijing),  Today Art Museum (Beijing), Shanghai Art Museum (Shanghai), Long Museum (Shanghai), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou), Zhejiang Art Museum (Hangzhou), Shandong Art Museum (Ji'nan).