程起天霖：愿有情
2024年11月23日—12月29日
Gallery I｜SPURS Gallery，北京市朝阳区酒仙桥北路二号院798艺术区D-06
马刺画廊荣幸地宣布将于2024年11月23日呈现程起天霖个展“愿有情”。此次展览是程起天霖在画廊举办的首次个展，在Gallery I展出艺术家在近三年中创作的15件绘画作品。
“愿有情”的展览主题源于程起天霖在创作与生活中对“世间一切皆因爱而起，宇宙一切现象皆由心而动”的深刻体悟。艺术家描述道：“当生命生起了一颗能爱的心，走进了爱的可能性中，变成了有情众生，走进了有情世界，走进了祝福、奉献、无私、仁慈、宁静、平和、幸福、美好、互助、光明；却也走进了自私、贪婪、昏昧、嗔恨、烦恼、喧哗、污染、争斗、苦难。爱可以是一场欢悦浪漫的喜剧，也可以是一场荒谬怪诞的悲剧。爱为种种一切的根源，使万物紧缚，爱亦为一切种种的终止，使万物解脱。一切始终、生灭、前后、有无、聚散、取舍，爱可生憎，憎能起爱，念念相续，循环往复，流转轮回，皆是以爱之名的样貌。”——爱是宇宙间最根本的动力，它既是创造万物的原因，也是解除束缚的关键。
在这一系列作品中，程起天霖捕捉了那些因爱而产生的现象来描绘有情众生相——跳崖只为舍身饲虎的人、屈身下施喂养小动物的人、树下沉思生命来去的人、于林中道上行走求知的人、怀抱新生儿的母亲、相互探索的奏乐者、梦中相拥跳着华尔兹的情人、夜晚被山头月华惊动的鸟儿、为希望与美好而助念祈祷的人、情窦初开对爱好奇的女孩。人与人、人与天地交融在一起，在如水、如火、如繁花盛叶的画面中流动与相联。一切事物都相互依存、不断变化，对生命复杂本质的探索使得程起天霖的绘画充满了流动感和不确定性。步入展厅并不能直接看到作品的样貌，须先通过端景墙后移步换景才别有洞天，犹如克服了来自世界的纷乱与挑战、未知与压力后，爱的广大与包容的无限种诠释的可能才由此展开。“愿有情”是艺术家对人性与善恶争端的辩论，也是对生命根本力量的呼唤。
展览将持续至2024年12月29日。
程起天霖，《甘露水》，2024，布面油画，179 × 230 cm｜Chi Tien Lin Cheng, Sweet Nectar, 2024, oil on canvas, 179 × 230 cm
Chi Tien Lin Cheng: Journey Into Love
November 23–December 29, 2024
Gallery I | SPURS Gallery, D-06, 2 Jiuxianqiao RD.N, Chaoyang, Beijing
SPURS Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Chi Tien Lin Cheng’s solo exhibition, “Journey Into Love,” on November 23, 2024. As Cheng’s debut at the gallery, the exhibition features 15 recent paintings and drawings created by the artist from 2022 to 2024.
The theme “Journey Into Love” stems from a concept that Cheng has deeply contemplated in both his creative practice and his life: “It is love that gives rise to all beings in this world; it is the mind that stimulates all phenomena in the universe.” The artist describes, “Once life develops a heart capable of love, it enters the infinite possibilities of love, shapeshifted to become a sentient being in the sentient world, hence to be amongst blessing, devotion, selflessness, mercy, serenity, peace, happiness, beauty, and illumination. Yet it is also confronted by selfishness, greed, ignorance, hatred, agony, discord, impurity, confliction, and suffering. Love can be a euphoric, romantic comedy or an absurd, grotesque tragedy. Love is the root of all beings to be constrained; and love is also the termination for all to be liberated from the duality of beginnings and ends, birth and death, being and void, grasping and dispersing. Love may evoke hatred, and hatred can arouse love, weaving an endless loop of cyclical interplay between joyfulness and sufferings all in the name of love.”
In this new body of works, the artist portrays scenes of sentient beings, capturing the complex phenomena that derive from the notion of love—a man leaping off a cliff only to sacrifice himself to the starving tigress and her cubs; a woman bowing down to feed small animals; a man meditating on the transient nature of life under a tree; a man walking amidst the forest on the quest for knowledge; a mother cradling a newborn baby; musicians playing and harmonizing their new encounters; lovers waltzing to embrace each other in a dream; a bird startled at night by the moonrise over the mountains; figures praying for goodness; and a girl experiencing adolescence curious about the taste of love. These evocative yet ambiguous compositions blend together humans and nature, depicting interdependence and the ceaseless flux of existence, resembling the fluid, flaming, lush, and blooming, highlighting the interconnectedness and impermanence of the phenomenal world.
Entering the gallery, viewers are guided to first pass through a screen wall, symbolizing the necessity of confronting life’s chaos, uncertainties, and pressures before discovering the boundless compassion of love that unfolds within the space.
“Journey Into Love” reflects Cheng’s meditative inquiry into human nature, the eternal struggle between good and evil, and his belief in love as the fundamental force driving existence. This exhibition invites viewers to embark on an introspective journey, exploring the transformative and transcendent power of love.
The exhibition remains on view in Gallery I until December 29, 2024.
程起天霖，《念念回响》，2024，布面油画，150 × 80.5 cm｜Chi Tien Lin Cheng, Echo of Prayers, 2024, oil on canvas, 150 × 80.5 cm
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程起天霖，图片由艺术家提供｜Chi Tien Lin Cheng, image courtesy of the artist
程起天霖，1996年出生于台湾，2021年毕业于英国切尔西艺术学院，获纯艺术学士学位，现生活和工作于台湾三义。
程起天霖将绘画视为一种从对自我、社会乃至一切存在进行思辨的过程中诞生的富有哲理性的视觉表现。他将日常生活中的有形物象和无形的情感、精神进行观察与感悟融入创作，表达对宇宙微妙道性的主观体悟。
这种思辨命题使他在创作中感受到对古圣先贤的崇敬和向往。艺术家在颜料层次间反复堆叠、破坏、消融、模糊，在“破”与“立”的过程中，与即兴和偶然性共舞，探索边界和轮廓中的故事可能性。程起天霖以寓言式和象征性的叙事手法，表达他对历代宗教、文学典故和艺术形式的理解与再诠释，探寻绘画艺术在当代社会中的存在价值与可能性。
程起天霖的近期个展及双人展包括：“愿有情”，马刺画廊，北京（2024）；“时间之轮”，Linseed Project，兰心大戏院，上海（2022）；“Embodied Light”（与陶伊的双人展），Wilder Gallery，伦敦（2021）。参加的群展包括：“萦绕之所”，X美术馆三年展，北京（2023）；“Stranger Than Fiction”，Galleri Magnus Karlsson，斯德哥尔摩（2023）；“原创在天……上”，马刺画廊，北京（2023）；“隔岸观火”，Linseed Project，上海（2021）；“Postcards at Hellvi Kännungs”，Galleri Magnus Karlsson，哥得兰岛（2021）；“Deep Cut”，The Asylum Chapel Maverick Projects，伦敦（2021）；“Pith of the Pithless”，The Crypt Gallery，伦敦（2020）；“一象异相”，无空间，线上展（2020）；“Transience”，切尔西艺术学院，伦敦（2019）；“Being and Becoming”，off-site project，伦敦（2019）。
Chi Tien Lin Cheng (b. 1996, Taiwan) lives and works in Sanyi, Taiwan. He holds a BA(Hons) Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, London.
Cheng regards painting as a philosophical visual expression born from the process of reflection on the self, society, and all existence. By observing the tangible objects and the intangible emotions and spirit in daily life, he integrates these insights into his work, expressing a subjective understanding of the subtle Daoist nature of the universe.
This reflective theme instills in him a deep sense of reverence and aspiration toward the wisdom of ancient sages. The artist continuously layers, destroys, dissolves, and blurs the paint, dancing with spontaneity and chance in the process of “breaking” and “building”, exploring the narrative potential within boundaries and contours. Cheng uses allegorical and symbolic storytelling techniques to express his understanding and reinterpretation of religious, literary, and artistic references throughout history, seeking to explore the value and possibilities of painting in contemporary society.
Cheng’s recent solo and two-person exhibitions include “Journey Into Love,” SPURS Gallery, Beijing (2024); “The Wheel of Time,” Linseed Project, Lyceum Theatre, Shanghai (2022); “Embodied Light,” two-person show with Yi To, Wilder Gallery, London (2021). Recent group exhibitions include “Home is Where is Haunt is,” X museum Triennial exhibition, Beijing (2023); Stranger Than Fiction, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (2023); “Up In The Air,” SPURS Gallery, Beijing (2023); “Watch the Fire from the Shore,” Linseed Project, Shanghai (2021); “Postcards at Hellvi Kännungs,” Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Gotland (2021); “Deep Cut,” The Asylum Chapel Maverick Projects, London (2021); “Pith of the Pithless,” The Crypt Gallery, London (2020); “YIXIANG,” No Space, online exhibition (2020); “Transience,” Chelsea College of Art, London (2019); “Being and Becoming,” off-site project, London (2019).
SPURS 即将展出
程起天霖：愿有情
2024年11月23日—12月29日
Gallery I｜SPURS Gallery，北京市朝阳区酒仙桥北路二号院798艺术区D-06
