Wen Wu, Untitled, Oil on Linen, 200 x 300 cm, 2014-2015

文倵 无题 亚麻布面油画 200 x 300厘米 2014-2015

Wen Wu Solo Exhibition | 文倵个展

Opening Reception 开幕酒会：Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 6:00pm-8:00pm

Duration 展期：April 29－June 10 2015

Artist 艺术家：Wen Wu 文倵

Leo Gallery Hong Kong 狮语画廊.香港

Hong Kong | SoHo 189 Art Lane

189 Queen's Road West,Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

香港上环皇后大道西189号

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2015年4月，香港狮语画廊邀请旅德艺术家文倵带来了他最新近创作的系列作品，展览以艺术家的名字命名。艺术家文倵毕业于德国杜塞尔多夫艺术学院大师班，层举办过多次国际个展和群展，作品先后被欧洲著名美术馆和私人收藏家所收藏，是近期活跃在中国当代艺术画坛的海归艺术家，以前所未有的独特绘画创作技法和画面呈示而受到广泛地关注。

20年的旅德生涯，在多重文化、历史和与语言的环境下，文倵展开了对绘画历程的反思，如何解放过去，融合现在，投射未来成为他思考的重心。切割机成为文倵在机器时代印象最为深刻的物品，食物切割机的标准化、痛感和强迫力直指人心。文倵仿真切割机的原理制作了自己的工具，试图让机器碰触手工创作的绘画，他将绘画的厚颜料用“切割机”一片一片分解，在这个过程中，处在当下的我们能发现过去的某个时刻，那一刻凝结在若隐若现又微微扭曲的新画面里，时间和历史通过机器的侵入展示在作品中。这种层层切割形象的过程和结果，既在“破坏”图像的同时，又在“生成”新的图像；手工的绘画被工业的切割再次塑形，文倵的作品无疑打开了新的绘画维度。用他的话来说：“我的未来：在过去+现在的不断生成中进行……”

狮语画廊首次将文倵的独特绘画带到香港，让我们和艺术家一起在手工和机器间穿梭，在画面中欣赏时代的痕迹。

28.04.2015 Leo Gallery will hold Wen Wu Solo Exhibition in SoHo 189 Art Lane Leo Gallery Hong Kong Space. This exhibition will display Wen Wu’s newest collection of works. Wen Wu moved to Germany 20 years ago and he graduated from master class Dusseldorf state Arts Academy, Germany. He also held many international solo shows and was featured in many of Europe's leading galleries and private collectors’ collections..Wen Wu became an active member in the Chinese contemporary art scene with an unprecedented painting technique; the images he created ultimately received extensive attention.

Having spent 20-years touring his artwork around Germany, submerging himself in the country’s culture, history, language and environment, Wen Wu began to reflect on the history of painting and how to liberate the tradional compositions of the art form in a new and exciting way.

Wen Wu became fascinated with a food cutting machine he used daily in Germany, which propelled him to use a large cutting machine as the main tool in creating his master pieces. Wen Wu uses this machine to carve a thick layer of oil paint on canvas, in hopes to expose undefined lines that are normally hidden deep under the layers of colours he piles on canvas.

Wen Wu tries to simulate the creative processes of machine-made and man-made works of art. He creates work with a thick paint "cutter," in the process of his creation he works towards capturing the first distorted moment of a new picture when it is being sliced, where both time and the concept of destruction are questioned in one space. The thick layer of paint he slices into two, emphasizes a "destruction" and “creation” , “past” and “present” of an image. Wen Wu's work opens up a new painting dimension and visual rhethoric. Leo Gallery for the first time will take Wen Wu’s unique paintings to Hong Kong.

部分作品 Selected works

Wen Wu, Untitled, Oil on Linen, 100 x 150 cm, 2014-2015

文倵 无题 亚麻布面油画 100 x 150 厘米 2014-2015

Wen Wu, Untitled, Oil on Linen, 100 x 100 cm, 2014-2015

文倵 无题 亚麻布面油画 100 x 100厘米 2014-2015

Wen Wu, Untitled, Oil on Linen, 100 x 100 cm, 2014-2015

文倵 无题 亚麻布面油画 100 x 100厘米 2014-2015

Wen Wu, Untitled, Oil on Linen, 100 x 100 cm, 2014-2015

文倵 无题 亚麻布面油画 100 x 100厘米 2014-2015

Wen Wu, Untitled, Oil on Linen, 100 x 100 cm, 2014-2015

文倵 无题 亚麻布面油画 100 x 100厘米 2014-2015