纸上·布上
——沈小彤的画(第一回)
艺术家｜ARTIST
沈小彤 Shen Xiaotong
出品人｜PRODUCER
陈素婷 Chen Suting
策展人｜CURATOR
邢宇 Xing Yu
开幕时间｜OPENING TIME
2024.9.22 15:00
展览日期｜DURATION
2024.9.22-12.24
周二-周日 Tue.-Sun. 10:30-17:30
展览地点｜VENUE
素画廊 Sukie Gallery
北京市西城区北京坊W4号楼B1层
B1-01, Building W4, Beijing Fun, Langfang Toutiao 21, Xicheng District, Beijing
策展人文章
THE CURATOR'S ARTICLE
沈小彤的绘画与当代主流的观念绘画最大的不同来源他的世界观。一种对世界有着更深刻理解的世界观。
沈小彤当下的作品不再强调那一代艺术家普遍的宏大叙事，而是将自身对世界的认识，以内敛克制的讲述方式逐步呈现。
艺术的力量到底是什么？沈小彤已不再受累于这类问题，他以他独有的绘画方式反复诠释着对美的打磨，在这样的反复中，现代主义的观念、东西方艺术的边界逐渐模糊。他的花果系列仿佛是最简单的绘画练习，但就是在这样创作探索当中，沈小彤走过中国四十年的时代变奏。从最初本我意识的观念绘画进入到超我精神的文人绘画。在这当中集体与个体的互相印证更为深刻和突出。时代一路向前从不停歇，个人在变换的境遇之内逐渐从激进转向平和是一种历史必然。这次展览的作品与之前相比，更值得观者思考在个体身上所发生的命运波折。也可以通过沈小彤个人的绘画线索，比对那些时代与个体命运的跌宕起伏。
展览中有竹林，有花果，可以想象泉声、雨声、心身，它们最终沁润在浓浓的肖像画中，或许还散发着一丝丝淡淡的神伤，但这可看作是某种和解的表达，与时代的和解，与自我的和解，与艺术的和解，在这样的结构之中美学的表达似乎只是一种隐喻。
——策展人 邢宇/文
The most significant difference between Shen Xiaotong's paintings and the dominant trends in contemporary conceptual art stems from his worldview—a worldview marked by a profound understanding of the world.
In his current works, Shen Xiaotong no longer emphasizes the grand narratives that were prevalent among his generation of artists. Instead, he progressively presents his understanding of the world through a restrained and introspective manner of storytelling.
What, then, is the power of art? Shen Xiaotong is no longer burdened by such questions. Through his unique painting style, he continually refines and reinterprets beauty. In this ongoing process, the boundaries between modernist concepts and Eastern and Western art gradually blur. His "Flowers and Fruits" series may appear to be simple painting exercises, yet it is through such creative exploration that Shen Xiaotong traverses the forty-year evolution of China's contemporary art scene. His work moves from early conceptual paintings rooted in the id, to literati-style painting driven by the super-ego, where the relationship between the collective and the individual becomes more profound and prominent.
As time marches forward unceasingly, the shift from radicalism to tranquility in the individual’s changing circumstances becomes a historical inevitability. Compared to his previous works, the pieces in this exhibition invite deeper reflection on the vicissitudes of individual fate. By following Shen Xiaotong’s artistic trajectory, one can trace the turbulent interplay between historical eras and personal destinies.
The exhibition includes depictions of bamboo forests, flowers, and fruit—evoking the sounds of springs and rain, as well as body and mind. Ultimately, these elements converge in richly layered portraits, perhaps tinged with a subtle melancholy. Yet, this can be seen as an expression of reconciliation—reconciliation with the era, with the self, and with art. In this structure, the aesthetic expression appears as nothing more than a metaphor.
——by the curator, Xing Yu
关于策展人
ABOUT THE CURATOR
邢宇
《绝对艺术》创始人、出版人兼主编，策展人
Xing Yu
The funder, publisher and editor-in-chief of Art-Absolute, curator
关于艺术家
ABOUT THE ARTIST
沈小彤，1993年2月，南京，图片来源《我们这一代》肖全摄影
沈小彤
1968年生于四川省成都市
1989年毕业于四川美术学院版画系
现居成都市
过往个展
·2023年 “画·沈小彤的画”，龙美术馆（重庆馆），重庆，中国
·2022年 “画·沈小彤的画”，龙美术馆（西岸馆），上海，中国
·2019年 “画·沈小彤的画”，一马画廊，成都，中国
·2013年 “临湖泛海”，成都当代美术馆，成都，中国
·2010年 “2010-开始”，斯民国际艺苑，新加坡
·2008年 “沈小彤：时间·景2008”，千高原艺术空间，成都，中国
·2008年 “沈小彤个展”，汉雅轩画廊，香港，中国
·2007年 “时间·景”，斯民国际艺苑，新加坡
·2007年 “沈小彤新作展2007升艺术空间”，上海，中国
·2006年 “日记.我的风景”，好藏之美术馆，新加坡
·2006年 “清凉”，欣然艺术空间，北京，中国
·2006年 “映像诱惑06”，斯民国际艺苑，新加坡
·2005年 “映像诱惑”，斯民国际艺苑，新加坡
·2005年 “映像诱惑06”，升艺术空间，上海，中国
·2003年 “映像诱惑06”，东大名创库，上海，中国
·2001年 “映像2001”，汉雅轩画廊，香港，中国
·1998年 “Flanders Contemporary Art”，明尼阿波利斯，美国
·1997年 “诱惑日记”，中央美术学院画廊，北京，中国
·1994年 “日记·我的风景”，北京国际艺苑美术馆，北京，中国
Shen Xiaotong
1968 Born in Sichuan Province
1989 Graduated from the Painting Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Currently lives and works in Chengdu
Solo Exhibitions
·2023 Shen Xiaotong's Painting, Long Museum（Chongqing ), Chongqing, China
·2022 Shen Xiaotong's Painting, Long Museum(West Bund), Shanghai, China
·2019 SHEN XIAOTONG’S Painting, YIMA Gallery, Chengdu, China
·2013 Above the Water Cross the Sea, Museum of Contemporary Art，Chengdu, Chengdu, China
·2010 Beginnings, Soobin Art Int l, Singapore
·2008 Shen Xiaotong: Time-Scene 2008, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
·2008 Shen Xiaotong Solo Exhibition, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
·2007 Time, Scene, Soobin Art Int l, Singapore
·2007 Shen Xiaotong Solo Exhibition, Shine Art Space, Shanghai, China
·2006 Diaries: My Landscape: Art Retreat Museum, Singapore
·2006 Sobriety, L.J. Art Space, Beijing, China
·2006 Image Temptation 06, Soobin Art Int l, Singapore
·2005 Image Temptation, Soobin Art Int l, Singapore
·2005 Image Temptation 06, Shine Art Space, Shanghai, China
·2003 Image Temptation 06, DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China
·2001 Image 2001, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
·1998 Shen Xiaotong Solo Exhibition, Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA
·1997 Diary of Temptation: Shen Xiaotong Solo Exhibition, Gallery of Central
Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
·1994 Diary: My Landscape, International Art Museum, Beijing, China
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