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米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺 Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.悟-物
Woo-Woo
BANK金库空间即将在秋季迎来艺术家米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺（Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.）的个展。目前，米格尔首个机构个展“悟-物”正于北京UCCA尤伦斯当代艺术中心展出，展览将持续至2024年9月8日。此次展览的标题亦体现了帕亚诺的多元文化背景及其对语言学的深入研究，中英文标题"Woo-Woo" 与“悟–物”同音。"Woo-Woo"一词指“被认为缺乏科学依据的非常规信仰，尤其是与灵性、神秘主义或替代医学相关的信仰”，该词据说源于20世纪80年代，模拟了人们想象中鬼神哭泣的声音。“悟”（觉醒/开悟）–“物”（物体/物品）二字的组合并不常见，可以理解为蕴含智识的材料或开悟的兽类。在帕亚诺看来，"Woo-Woo"与“悟–物”是语言（因此也是文化）交汇、充盈、渗透与瓦解的焦点。多元文化碰撞的奇思异想不仅是帕亚诺绘画的主题，也深刻体现了这位能讲中文的多米尼加裔美国黑人艺术家的人生感悟与思考。THE VAULT Space of BANK will soon welcome a solo exhibition by artist Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. in the fall. Currently, Miguel's first institutional solo exhibition, "Woo-woo," is on view through September 8, 2024 at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.In line with Payano’s multicultural background and passion for linguistics, the title for this exhibition “Woo-Woo” is a bilingual pun in Chinese and English. In English, it refers to “unconventional beliefs regarded as having little or no scientific basis, especially those relating to spirituality, mysticism, or alternative medicine.” This word is thought to have originated in the 1980s, and to mimic the imagined sounds of wailing ghosts. In Chinese, the two characters, which roughly mean “awakening/enlightenment (悟)” and “object/thing (物)” are not commonly seen together, but might refer to intelligent materials, or to sentient beasts. Payano sees this as a linguistic, and thus a cultural, point of convergence, abundance, cross-pollination, and collapse. The whimsical alchemy of cultures meeting is not just a subject for his paintings, but a deeply felt part of his life as a Black, Sinophone, Dominican-American artist.
展览现场
Installation View
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摄影师：杨灏
Photo: Yang Hao
米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺 Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
金核黄昏 又名 旁观者们 Dusk of the Golden Pit aka Onlookers
布面综合材料 Mixed media on canvas![]()
米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺 Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
朝雀翁
混合材料，木板 Mixed media on plywood![]()
米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺 Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
Peace From the Riverfront
油画,丙烯,画布 Oil and acrylic on canvas
Nine Songs of the Mountain Ghosts 此次“悟-物”展览的系列活动“山鬼·九歌”的创作背景，引用自战国时期诗人屈原作品，是一篇祭祀山神的乐歌。叙述了一位多情的山鬼，在山中与心上人幽会以及等待尚未到来的心上人过程中起伏的情绪。艺术家想象中的神仙形象在他塑造的场域中与猴子的形象重合，借着全诗描绘出一幕幕瑰丽而又离奇的动人场景。艺术家米格尔邀请了作曲者Nigls、舞者杨静雯同他一起展开超越时空的想象，交融不同媒介、开启多重艺术史之间的对话，弥合看似不同文化的鸿沟。艺术家米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺（Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.）的作品里，常常将不同主题，通过具体形象组合在一起，桃子和嘴巴的结合不仅代表了人的形象，还代表了语言和思想交流。他的作品试图创造出一种普遍适用于人类的共同经验，其中透露出艺术家与众不同的言说方式，它包含了米格尔本身沿袭自加勒比海的文化传承、在新英格兰地区受到的教育，以及在中国度过的时光里得到的启发。通过学习米格尔熟练掌握了多种语言，对他而言，所谓的语言不仅限于语法、词汇和句式结构。而是一种媒介，蕴含着看不见的深厚文化传统。![]()
《山鬼·九歌》表演于北京尤伦斯当代艺术中心呈现，2024
现场图摄影：赵浩淼。视频致谢艺术家
Nine Songs of the Mountain Ghost at UCCA Beijing, 2024
Photo: Zhao Haomiao. Video courtesy of the artist
关于艺术家 About the Artist
米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
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米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺1980年出生于美国纽约，目前工作生活于北京。2003年于马萨诸塞州威廉斯敦的威廉姆斯学院获得中文和工作室艺术双学士学位后，帕亚诺搬到北京，并于2008年获得中央美术学院油画系硕士学位。2020年，他又于美国纽约市立大学亨特学院获得工作室艺术硕士学位。因其在不同语言和文化环境生活的经历，帕亚诺愈加意识到语言的重要性，以及语言在相互理解和相互关系中的应用。虽然他早 期的作品主要是绘画，但近年其艺术实践扩展到雕塑和类雕塑形式，将自己具有代表 性的“桃嘴”与其它图像、纹理，以及现成品或组合物体相结合，形成融合绘画与雕 塑的奇特肖像。作品曾于美国纽约Charles Moffett(2023)、意大利米兰Galeria Poggiali(2022)和美国洛杉矶Make Room(2021)展出。他还参加了圣巴巴拉当代艺术博物馆(美国加州，2022)和沙特阿拉伯迪里耶双年展(沙特阿拉伯，2021) 等群展。
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. (b. 1980, New York, lives and works in Beijing) is an Afro- Caribbean visual artist. After completing his dual B.A. degree at Williams College in Chinese Language and Studio Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts (2003), Payano moved to Beijing, where he completed his M.F.A. in Oil Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (2008). He also obtained an M.F.A. degree in Studio Art from Hunter College, The City University of New York (2020). Having had the experience of navigating between different languages and cultures, Payano became increasingly attuned to the importance of language and its application in our understanding of and relation to one another. Though his works are mainly paintings in his earlier career, the artist has expanded his practice in recent years to embrace sculptural and quasi-sculptural forms with his distinctive peach-mouths joined with other images, textures, and found or assembled objects that form strange human- like portraits that fuse painting and sculpture. His previous solo exhibitions include “ Out From ” (Charles Moffett, New York, USA, 2023); “ Sojourn Summits ” (Galleria Poggiali, Milan, Italy, 2022); and “ Elusive Nature ” (Make Room, Los Angeles, USA, 2021). He has also participated in group shows such as “This Basic Asymmetry” (Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, California, USA, 2022) and “Ad-Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones” (Saudi Arabia, 2021).
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