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Paris Internationale
Booth 2.3
亨利·柯桥德
Henry Curchod
安全地带
Safe Spaces
VIP预览 VIP Preview:
2023.10.17 11:00–20:00
公众日 Public Opening:
2023.10.18-22 12:00–19:00
地点 Location：
17 Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière
75009 巴黎, 法国
关于展位
About the Project
Gallery Vacancy荣幸地宣布于2023年Paris Internationale呈现艺术家亨利·柯桥德的个人项目“安全地带”，展位号2.3。此次项目将展出艺术家的最新创作，通过一系列大尺幅的绘画作品来探究“安全空间”这个从心理治疗延伸到公共讨论的概念。以柯桥德对日常观察的解构和实践中不同透视方式的应用为启点，“安全地带”探索空间化的生活方式中，“内/外”的边界和过渡结构，以及探讨“安全性”相关的社会、文化和政治问题。
在“安全地带”中，柯桥德的多维度叙述方式通过他对空间建构和不同透视的结合展开，提示了局内人和局外人之间时时切换、非静止的状态，这种跨越边界的创作方式也对社会规范的一致性进行反思。源自艺术家的伊朗血统以及在世界各地生活的经历，《迈向光芒》（2023）和《成功之道》（2023）皆展现了流动性和动态。在特定的景深空间和平行四边形的视觉框中，艺术家捕捉了画面的中心人物以身体跨越或穿过壁垒的瞬间，似乎暗示了一种超越空间、异想天开式的移动。柯桥德用鲜明的色调和标志性的油画棒线条活灵活现地勾勒出人物的调皮动态，其看似天真的活泼视角让人联想到尚未习得线性透视的儿童对世界的描绘。这种天真贯穿了柯桥德的艺术实践，然而，透过作品标题的暗示与潜藏在场景中与幽默表象相悖的蛛丝马迹，观众最终不可避免地窥见其中的讽刺寓言和隐喻的社会性话题。
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200 × 170 公分（78 3/4 × 66 7/8 英寸）Oil and charcoal on canvas200 × 170 cm (78 3/4 × 66 7/8 in) 受波斯细密画的启发，柯桥德将复杂的空间架构和视角结合到一个不稳定且不拘一格的平面时空之中。在艺术家看来，画布是他发散内在意识的安全空间，同样，画作的本身即是通往另一个想象空间的通道。他的艺术实践不仅关注对于空间的处理，更是诙谐的融合了叙事性形象和冷幽默，这在作品《真情时间》（2023）中最为鲜明。与展览中的其他画作相呼应，此件作品寓意了艺术家对生活在当代社会的不安。标题借用设计和广告行业的非正式术语里“抹泪提案（tissue meeting）”（指与客户分享创意思路却往往受到否定的经验）的概念，暗合了画中患者在心理咨询中向医生吐露心声的场景。主角的脸部表情被抹去，以匿名者的身份掏心掏肺地向观者展露内心的脆弱和挣扎。另外，用于擦泪的“纸巾（tissue）”一词在其原义中也具有人体组织的含义。在此，艺术家巧妙地将文字影射在画面内容中。面对当前情绪沸腾的场面，身穿白色大褂的从业者表现得超然冷漠，他的姿态动作比身旁的窗帘更显僵硬，无动于衷地旁观他人逐渐瓦解。“安全地带”开辟了一个交织丰富的符号、日常观察和社会现象的场所，创造出一种充满惊喜和意外的视觉体验。伴随着画作中灵活的透视角度，展览的呈现形式试图将观众置身于一个自我意识的空间中，鼓励观者时时调整观看角度，以适应不断变化的视角，呼应了我们所经历的始终处于变化的存在状态。![]()
200 × 170 公分（78 3/4 × 66 7/8 英寸）Oil and charcoal on linen200 × 170 cm (78 3/4 × 66 7/8 in) Gallery Vacancy is pleased to present artist Henry Curchod’s solo project Safe Spaces at Paris Internationale 2023, Booth 2.3. Featuring the artist’s latest venture, the presentation showcases a series of large-scale paintings to investigate the notion of “safe space”, a term brought into the public discourse from the psychotherapist’s room. Safe Spaces metabolises Curchod’s subversive observations from daily encounters and his continued engagement with painterly perspectives to explore the concept of spatial barriers dominant in our everyday life––mainly the separation of “inside/outside” and transition between spaces–– as well as to question the social, cultural and political issues associated with “safeness”.
In this presentation, Curchod’s multitudinal storytelling technique unfolds through his manoeuvring of spatial construction and perspectives, suggesting a non-static position between the insider and the outsider, crossing boundaries to contemplate on the conformity nature of social norms. Stemming from the artist’s Kurdish-Iranian heritage and experiences living in different parts of the world, Glow (2023) and Recipe for success (2023) illuminate the sense of mobility and dynamism. Within the designated shallow space and parallelogrammical frames, the central figures are captured in the moments of physically trespassing wall-like barriers, indicating whimsical scenes of fleeing across different realms. Further accentuated by his striking colour palette and signature shading technique with oil sticks and charcoal, these give his paintings a filtered impression of faux naivety. Yet compelling as they are to a child’s portrayal of the world devoid of linear perspective, this same intense innocence is the guiding thread into multiple layers of sardonic allegories and metaphors that chronicle contemporary events. ![]()
200 × 170 公分（78 3/4 × 66 7/8 英寸）Oil and charcoal on linen200 × 170 cm (78 3/4 × 66 7/8 in) Inspired by Persian miniature paintings, Curchod synchronises the crowded architecture of spaces and perspectives into one erratic, eclectic, and uncertain view. Much as a canvas is the revelatory space of an artist’s inner consciousness, each painting is a portal for the viewer to an imagined realm. The artist’s practice composes a unique fusion of narrative figuration and dry wit, coinciding with the interplay between various spatial treatments. This is evident in Tissue Session (2023), which, like many of his other paintings in the presentation, is a parable for the psychological disquietude we associate with living in contemporary society. Here, Curchod draws an uncanny likeness from the concept of “tissue meeting” —commonly referred to as an informal presentation of creative work to a client in the design and advertising industry— to a patient’s confession to a doctor in psychotherapy. The protagonist has no recognisable facial features, only to be seen as an anonymous soul revealing so much of his innate being that his organs are radically pouring into view. Curchod limns a cynical wordplay to the word ‘tissue’, a reference to both our bodily cells and that thing used to dry our tears. For what seems an intense and emotional scene, the practitioner in a white cloak sits unperturbed, stiffer than the seaweed curtains beside him, as the figure rips itself apart.Safe Spaces carves out a site of visual experience filled with surprise and bewilderment where rich symbols, daily observations, and social phenomena intersect. Elaborating on the paintings’ disorienting perspectives, the presentation format stages its viewers in a self-conscious space. As we constantly recalibrate and negotiate with the arena of display, such adaptive response reconciles with our always-in-flux state of being.Paris Internationale 艺博会线上展厅
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亨利・柯桥德，1992年出生于美国帕罗奥图，现生活和工作于伦敦。柯桥德2014年毕业于新南威尔士大学艺术学院。以具象绘画为表达方式，柯桥德在他的大尺幅画布中填充进紧凑的叙事以及丰富的人物姿态。他采用不寻常的透视和构图方式来渲染画中梦境般的场景和戏剧性间存在的张力。近期个展包括：“安全地带”，Gallery Vacancy于Paris Internationale，巴黎，2023；“Hugging a tree is like kissing a dog”，Shoot the Lobster，纽约，2023；“Trouble on the Event Horizon”，MAMOTH，伦敦，2023；“Rice is god’s dandruff”，Chauffeur，悉尼，2022；“Set Your Friends Free”，Mamoth，伦敦，2021；“Sharing the Sky”，Sumer Gallery，陶朗加，2021；“Inside Head, Outside Head”，Martin Browne Gallery，帕丁顿，2021。近期群展包括：“闲人出差 II”，Gallery Vacancy，上海，2022；“In Between”，Spurs Gallery，北京，2022；“Distance is Comfort”，Chauffeur，悉尼，2022；“Of Foxes and Ghosts”，Mamoth，伦敦，2022。近期驻留及入围奖项包括：“R&F Residency”，纽约，2023；“PPP/Oostmeijer Residency”，阿姆斯特丹，2023；“The Ramsay Art Prize”，2023；“The Sulman Prize”，2023；及“Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship”，2021。
Henry Curchod, born in 1992 in Palo Alto, US, now lives and works in London. Curchod received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of New South Wales in 2014. He creates dynamic scenes filled with tension and theatricality, exploring his diverse cultural background of Kurdish-Iranian descent and Western upbringing on both a personal and a global level. In his figurative painting practice, Curchod introduces unorthodox perspectives and compositions, illuminating a dreamlike, whimsical, and anecdotic reality. His solo exhibitions include: Safe Spaces, Gallery Vacancy at Paris Internationale, 2023; Hugging a tree is like kissing a dog, Shoot the Lobster, New York, 2023; Trouble on the Event Horizon, Mamoth, London, 2023; Rice is god’s dandruff, Chauffeur, Sydney, 2022; Set Your Friends Free, Mamoth, London, 2021; Sharing the Sky, Sumer Gallery, Tauranga, 2021; Inside Head, Outside Head, Martin Browne Gallery, Paddington, 2021. Recent group exhibitions include: Vacation II, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2022; In Between, Spurs Gallery, Beijing, 2022; Distance is Comfort, Chauffeur, Sydney, 2022; Of Foxes and Ghosts, Mamoth, London, 2022. He was the recipient of the R&F Residency, New York, 2023; the PPP/Oostmeijer Residency, Amsterdam, 2023; and finalist for the Ramsay Art Prize, 2023; the Sulman Prize, 2023; and the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, 2021.
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