刘锋植肖像展
Portraits by Liu Fengzhi
艺术家：刘锋植｜Artist: Liu Fengzhi
展览时间：2020.9.19 — 2020.10.25
Duration：19 Sep, 2020 — 25 Oct, 2020
地点：北京798艺术区 艺·凯旋画廊
Venue：Triumph Gallery, 798 Art District, Beijing
我们很荣幸地宣布艺·凯旋画廊将于2020年9月19日在798艺术区推出艺术家刘锋植肖像展。作为刘锋植在艺·凯旋画廊的第二次个展，本次展览将囊括艺术家自上世纪90年代初期近30年创作的重要肖像作品，其中包括33件不同时期、不同风格的肖像油画以及部分珍贵的肖像手稿。Triumph Gallery is pleased to present “Portraits by Liu Fengzhi,” an exhibition centering on Liu Fengzhi's portraiture output on September 9, 2020, at the gallery’s location in Beijing 798 Art Zone. This will be his second exhibition at the Triumph Gallery, and this exhibition will offer an extensive overview of the artist’s oeuvre since the 1990s, featuring keyworks such as 33 portraits from different stylistic periods as well as preliminary works that are rarely exhibited in public. 本次展览为艺·凯旋画廊对艺术家刘锋植肖像系列作品的一次全面梳理。展览主要分为三个组成部分，其80年代后期到90年代初期在哈尔滨创作的肖像系列；1993年搬入北京圆明园画家村之后，所创作的妻子、孩子和朋友们；后期在宋庄开始创作，其中进行了大量的自画像以及对于历史人物的创作系列。This exhibition will act as a comprehensive survey on Liu Fengzhi’s creative impetus on portraiture. The exhibition is divided into three sections chronologically—from the early portraits he created in Harbin during the late 1980s to the early 1990s; a series that depicted his wife, children, and friends which he embarked on after his move into the Yuanmingyuan Artist Village in Beijing; to the late self-portraits and portraits of historical figures he created in his Songzhuang studio. 刘锋植1964年出生于中国哈尔滨市，1984年毕业于哈尔滨师范大学美术系，1993年搬至北京圆明园画家村，于2017年病逝。80年代正值西方现当代艺术思想引进中国，刘锋植早期的绘画深受欧洲后印象派主义的影响。1993年刘锋植远离家乡来到了北京圆明园画家村，重新踏上了追寻艺术梦想的新道路。经过了一次次的尝试。1995年以后的一些列作品中，刘锋植开始确立了自己独特的艺术风格。他的作品往往将线条从平涂的色彩中脱离出来，时而以轮廓出现，时而又完全独立地游走，在画面上漂浮，运动，仿佛是一种心理的轨迹、一种情绪在画面上游动，构成画面中生动且极具表现力的部分。Liu Fengzhi was born in Harbin, China, in 1964, and died in 2017. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Harbin Normal University and moved into the Yuanmingyuan Artist Village in Beijing in 1993. With the introduction of modern and contemporary Western art into China in the 1980s, Liu’s early works are deeply entrenched in the aesthetic influence of the European Post-Impressionism. In 1993, he moved from Harbin to the now-historicized Yuanmingyuan Artist Village in Beijing, which sparked an evolution in his career. After countless experiments with paint and styles, Liu Fengzhi arrived at this unique, singular artistic style in his works after 1995. His paintings are often characterized by a frenzy of lines that are free from the restraint of color, manifesting itself as contours and outlines, while sometimes existing as an untrammeled entity that floats and swims across his canvases boundlessly. His styles conjuring up almost a visual diagram that indicates one’s psychological activity, constituting images that are often extremely dynamic and brimming of life. 刘锋植的肖像创作对象广泛，从生活中的亲人、朋友，再到历史文化人物形象。他的肖像创作对象最多的是他的妻子英爱，且多以写生主。其中最具代表性的肖像画《妻子》，创作于1996年。这件作品描绘了妻子站立织毛衣的场景。画面中妻子手持两根毛衣针，身穿米色毛衣与花裤子，赤裸双脚，享受着为自己爱人或孩子编织毛衣的过程。艺术家巧妙的抓住了妻子的手部并进行精心创作，用对称的构图实现了画面的平衡。刘锋植通过对手的细节刻画展现了妻子的温柔与灵巧。据刘峰植的太太许英爱介绍，作为模特的妻子常常一坐或者一站就是多半天，有时候是自己在一边做家务，艺术家一边进行创作。这些对于妻子的刻画，流露出艺术家对于妻子的浓浓的爱意。
Liu Fengzhi’s portraits encompass an abundance of subjects, ranging from his family members and friends to historical and cultural figures. The most frequented subject in his body of portrait is his wife Yingai, and most of them are painted from life, which includes Wife, one of his most iconic portraits. Painted in 1996, the work depicted his wife knitting a sweater while standing. In the composition, his wife holds two knitting needles, cladded in a beige sweater and multicolored pants, with her feet bare, immersing herself in the process of knitting a sweater for her loved ones. With the thoughtful composition, the artist deftly captured the meticulousness of the knitter’s hands, reflecting her gentleness and dexterity through the painted details of the hands. According to Xu Yingai, the artist’s wife, the sitting sessions often lasted for an extended period, and the artist always painted her while she was doing chores around the house, revealing Liu’s subtle, yet deep, affection for his wife. 刘锋植非常擅长于对线条和造型的处理，有一种迅速抓住事物本质的天赋。相较于他用饱和度极高的大色块堆砌的作品，刘锋植的人物肖像往往运用了低饱和度、更加柔和的色彩，画面更加轻松、率性，倾注了更强烈的主观性和情绪色彩。Liu Fengzhi’s gesture is bold in its handling of lines and shapes, which bestows him the ability to capture the essence of his subject. Unlike his abstract works, which are often characterized by his employment of large, saturated color patches, his portraits incorporate a rather muted and softer palette, with spontaneous compositions that are imbued with personal emotion and subjectivity. 本次展览将持续到2020年10月25日，同期艺·凯旋画廊还将举办刘锋植肖像圆桌会议就刘锋植肖像作品学术性研究进行讨论。 This exhibition will be opened until October 25, 2020. On this occasion, Triumph Gallery will present a series of academic panels centering on the practice of portraiture within Liu Fengzhi’s artistic career. 刘锋植1964年出生于中国哈尔滨市，1984年毕业于哈尔滨师范大学美术系，于2017年病逝。近年来作品被海内外收藏家广泛收藏。无论是风景还是人物绘画，刘锋植作品都带有强烈的主观性和情绪色彩。他以自由而松散的笔触和线条将物体原有的体量感抽离，特别是借助线条的顿挫，曲折，盘旋，往复，疏荡，聚散式的运动，紧密地回应着瞬息间的情感跃动，进而对微妙而不易观察的心灵过程进行描述，抵达到高度抽象的状态。刘锋植怀着⼀颗充满激情和人文关怀的心灵来面对现实世界，在对外在世界的诗意性拆解与组合中，暗示了他对人们生存状态的深深思索。 他的个人展览包括：“刘锋植肖像展”（艺·凯旋画廊，北京，2020）、“刘锋植”（艺·凯旋画廊，北京，2019）、“刘锋植个人作品上海展”（子桐画廊，上海，2012）、“危情——刘锋植作品展”（中国炎黄美术馆，北京，2002），等。Liu Fengzhi was born in Harbin, China in 1964. He graduated from art department of Harbin Normal University in 1984, and he died in 2017. His works have been widely collected by collectors around the world. Whether it is landscape painting or portrait, Liu Fengzhi's works contain strong subjectivity and emotional features. With free and loose brushstrokes and lines, he pulls away the original volume of the object, especially with the help of lines that twists, turns, hovers, reciprocates, sways, and gathers, closely responding to the transient emotional changes. He further presents and delineates the subtle and unobservable mental process, in which, reaching a highly abstract state. Liu Fengzhi faces the real world with a heart full of passion and humanistic care. In the poetic dismantling and combination of the external world, it hints at his deep reflection on the living conditions of human beings.His solo exhibitions include: " Portraits by Liu Fengzhi" (Triumph Gallery, Beijing, China, 2020), "Liu Fengzhi" (Triumph Gallery, Beijing, China, 2019), “Liu Fengzhi’s Solo Art Exhibition” (Xun Art Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2012), "Dangerous Mood -- Liu Fengzhi Painting Exhibition", (Yanhuang Art Museum, Being, 2002), "Liu Fengzhi Oil Painting Exhibition" (Beijing, 1995), etc.
作者：艺·凯旋艺术空间
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