EXHIBITION TITLE 展览名称
等待 Waiting for the Inevitable
郅敏 Zhi Min
张晨 Zhang Chen
Chaoyang District, Beijing
凯旋画廊荣幸宣布将于2024年7月14日至8月31日期间，推出艺术家郅敏在画廊空间的首次个展「等待」。展览由张晨担任策展人，展出艺术家作品20余件，包括最新完成的陶瓷、金属、青铜等雕塑作品。
本次展览着重呈现艺术家以时间为主题的一系列新作。郅敏的等待既在空间中书写了“非线性叙事”，也在时间里显现为“历史的颜色”，郅敏的近作既让人联想起超越个体的“宇宙主义”，让作为雕塑媒介的石头、泥土与陶瓷等材料，上升到宇宙爆炸的时刻与热力学的燃烧定理，同时也在“大千世界”中深入到地层的内部，从太空叙事向下延伸至“深度时间”，或者说，转换成中国人眼中真正的自然。我们看到，郅敏的作品同时表露着来自欧普艺术的现代视觉，并且蕴含着属于中国历史的悠久传统，正如“河图洛书”同时连接着大地的河流与天顶的银河，郅敏所思考的雕塑空间及其个人艺术史的时间维度，便这样在一件件作品之间徐徐展开。
本次展览来自艺术家的等待，来自主动创作和被动行为的往返与辩证，来自郅敏多条创作线索的彼此等待与齐头并进。雕塑家与他的作品在宇宙空间的停留，在鸿蒙之中的徘徊，也早已准备好降落回世间，在连贯的创作中进入到下个阶段的新的等待。
TRIUMPH GALLERY is pleased to announce Waiting for the Inevitable, the artist Zhi Min’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, from July 14 to August 31, 2024. The exhibition, curated by Zhang Chen, features more than 20 works by the aritst, including newly completed sculptures of ceramics, metal, and bronze sculptures.
This exhibition will focus on presenting a series of new works by the artist with the theme of time. Zhi Min’s waiting concludes a "Non-linear Narrative" in space and appears as a "Color of History" in time. His recent works remind people of the "cosmic” that transcends the individual and makes the medium of sculpture the medium of "cosmism.” His recent works are reminiscent of a transcendental "cosmic,” in which materials such as stone, clay, and porcelain, as sculptural mediums, are elevated to the moment of the cosmic explosion and the combustion theorem of thermodynamics while at the same time penetrating deeper into the inner stratum of the earth in the "Boundless Worlds.” It then extends downward from the space narrative to the "Depth of Time.” Or, in other words, to the real nature in the eyes of the Chinese. His works simultaneously express the modern vision of Op Art and the long tradition of Chinese history, just as "Trigrams of Luo and Yellow Rivers" connects the rivers of the earth and the Milky Way of the zenith at the same time. The sculptural space and the temporal dimension of his personal art history unfold between each work.
This exhibition is a testament to Zhi Min’s journey of active waiting, a result of the dynamic interplay between active creation and passive behavior, and the mutual waiting and simultaneous progress of his multiple creative threads. His works, like the sculptor himself, have traversed cosmic space, wandering amid the heavens, and are now ready to land back in the world, marking the beginning of a new phase of waiting in coherent creation.
二十四节气-秋分 Twenty Four Solar Terms-Autumn Equinox
青铜抛光 Polished Phosphor Bronze, 114×80×125cm, 2021
郅敏，1975年出生，现工作生活于北京。中国艺术研究院雕塑院常务副院长、教授、博士研究生导师。
郅敏的作品以其观念性特征显著，他将雕塑作为哲学观念的物态形式，与传统艺术表现论有明显区别 。他的作品探索个体与自然、经验与超验的关系，呈现从具象到抽象的转变，跨越传统审美，直接通达于哲学 。郅敏通过雕塑艺术，探讨了自然观、科学观，以及华夏文明的哲学阐释方法，同时也是面向当代创造力的尝试 。
郅敏近三年主要获奖有：2022年12月3日，郅敏作品《二十四节气——立秋》荣获第39届佛罗伦萨文学与艺术奖雕塑类金奖，成为首位获得该奖项的中国艺术家。2020年，作品《鸿蒙》获第8届“明天雕塑奖”金奖及年度大奖；2021年，作品《舟》获北京冬奥组委主办的“2022北京冬奥会国际公共艺术大赛优秀奖”，并成为7件落地作品之一；2022年，作品《天象四神—青龙》获“首届景德镇国际陶瓷双年展”铜奖。
郅敏在中国美术馆、湖北美术馆、上海美术馆、法国巴黎文化中心、北京壹美美术馆等重要学术机构举办过11次个人展览，曾参加“达喀尔双年展"、“法国中法艺术展”、“意大利中国当代艺术展”等国际展事。参加北京双年展、武汉双年展、成都双年展，中国文联、中国美协举办的全国性展览数十次。
作品被中国美术馆、中国美术家协会、上海美术馆、湖北美术馆、宁波美术馆、中国雕塑博物馆、国家艺术基金、清华大学、北京大学、中国艺术研究院、中央美术学院、中央电视台、联合国教科文总部、美国罗德岛设计学院等重要学术机构收藏。
Zhi Min, born in 1975, is currently lives and works in Beijing. He serves as the Vice President, Professor, and PhD Supervisor at the Sculpture Institute of the Chinese Academy of Art.
Zhi Min's work is distinguished by its conceptual nature, using sculpture as a material form of philosophical ideas, distinct from traditional artistic expressions. His pieces explore the relationship between the individual and nature, experience and transcendence, showcasing a transition from figuration to abstraction that transcends traditional aesthetics and delves directly into philosophy.
Though sculpture, Zhi Min examine perspectives on nature, science, and the philosophical interpretations of Chinese civilization, while also pioneering creativity in contemporary art.
Notable awards in the past three years include:
· December 3, 2022: Gold Award in Sculpture at the 39th Florence Literary and Art Award for "Twenty-Four Solar Terms - Beginning of Autumn," making him the first Chinese artist to receive this honor.
· 2020: Gold Award and Annual Grand Prize at the 8th Tomorrow Sculpture Awards for "Hong Meng."
· 2021: Excellence Award at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics International Public Art Competition for "Boat," one of seven commissioned works.
· 2022: Bronze Award at the First Jingdezhen International Ceramic Biennale for "Four Celestial Animals - Azure Dragon."
Zhi Min has held 11 solo exhibitions at prestigious academic institutions such as the National Art Museum of China, Hubei Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Paris Cultural Center, and Beijing One Art Museum. He has also participated in international exhibitions including the Dakar Biennale, Sino-French Art Exhibition, and Italy-China Contemporary Art Exhibition, as well as numerous national exhibitions organized by the China Federation of LIterary and Art Circles and the China Artists Association.
Zhi Min’s works are collected by prominent academic institutions and organizations including the National Art Museum of China, China Artists Association, Shanghai Art Museum, Hubei Art Museum, Ningbo Art Museum, China Sculpture Museum, National Art Fund, Tsinghua University, Peking University, China Academy of Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Central Television, UNESCO Headquarters, and the Rhode Island School of Design in the USA.
张晨，美术学博士，现任中央美术学院人文学院副教授、硕士生导师，研究方向为视觉文化理论、西方艺术史、中外美术比较等。曾赴意大利威尼斯美术学院、法国巴黎艺术史研究中心、哈佛大学意大利文艺复兴研究中心、德国柏林世界文化宫访学交流。获第九届IAAC国际艺术评论奖（2023）、首届新世纪当代艺术基金会“墨缘”艺术史研究与写作资助计划（2023）等奖项。现主持国家社科基金艺术学青年项目“现当代身体艺术理论研究”，完成国家社科基金后期资助优秀博士论文出版项目。专著有：《身体·空间·时间——德勒兹艺术理论研究》（中国社会科学出版社，2020），译著有：《印象主义》（人民美术出版社，2014）、《1985年以来的当代艺术理论》（合译，上海人民美术出版社，2018）、《意大利文艺复兴新艺术史》（合译，江苏凤凰美术出版社，2024）等8部，在《文艺研究》、《美术研究》、《文化研究》等学术期刊发表论文多篇，也从事当代艺术的策展与评论写作。
Zhang Chen, Doctor of Fine Arts, currently an associate professor and master's supervisor at the School of Humanities, Central Academy of Fine Arts. His research interests include visual culture theory, Western art history, and comparison of Chinese and foreign art. He has visited the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Italy, the Center for Art History Research in Paris, France, the Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Harvard University, and the Palace of World Culture in Berlin, Germany. He won the 9th IAAC International Art Critic Award (2023), the first New Century Contemporary Art Foundation "墨缘" Art History Research and Writing Funding Program (2023), and other awards. He is currently the host of the National Social Science Fund Art Youth Project "Research on the Theory of Modern and Contemporary Body Art", and has completed the National Social Science Fund Post-Funding Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Publishing Project.
