龚新如个展《娱乐至上》正在火热展出

艺术家︱Artist :

龚新如

策展人︱ Curator: 

黄壹

画廊支持 | Gallery Support:

Crossing Art

展览简介

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

“娱乐”成为了这个时代鲜明的特征，甚至渗透到政治、宗教、新闻、体育、教育和商业等不同领域。这种娱乐化的趋势使得人们越来越沉迷于短暂而刺激的感官快乐，而导致的是对社会生活深入思考的忽视。

2024年5月11日，“娱乐至上”——龚新如个展在上海叁柒贰叁美术馆展厅A开幕。展览由叁柒贰叁美术馆主办，黄壹担任策展人。艺术家龚新如带来以有机玻璃作为主要创作媒介的新作品19组。展览于2024年5月12日起对公众开放，持续展出至2024年6月23日。

"Entertainment" has become a distinctive feature of our era, permeating various fields such as politics, religion, news, sports, education, and business. This trend towards entertainment has led people to increasingly indulge in brief, stimulating sensory pleasures, resulting in a neglect of deep thinking about social life.

On May 11, 2024, the "Play For Fun" solo exhibition by Gong Xinru opened in Hall A of the Shanghai 3723 Art Museum. The exhibition is hosted by the 3723 Art Museum, with Huang Yi as the curator. Artist Gong Xinru presents 19 new works primarily using plexiglass as the creative medium. The exhibition opened to the public on May 12, 2024, and will continue until June 23, 2024.

“娱乐至上”展览现场

In Gong Xinru's works, symbolic elements are omnipresent. Traffic signs, human outlines, and distorted arrows are stylized, flattened images. While these may appear as ordinary symbols, they acquire new life and meaning in Gong Xinru's works. These symbols are not only symbolic, such as traffic signs representing "rules," human faces representing "the public," and twisted arrows representing "inner turmoil," but they are also tools used by Gong Xinru to critique and reflect on society.

“娱乐至上”展览现场

In the artist's view, acrylic itself is a symbol. Its smooth and glossy surface, along with its garish colors, make acrylic an ideal medium for Gong Xinru to express his artistic concepts. The garishness of acrylic serves as a metaphor for the plethora of entertainment and sensory stimulation products inundating today's society, such as the internet, television, and video games, which satisfy the public's basic needs but also gradually turn people into dependents of entertainment. Additionally, the fragility of acrylic further suggests that under the influence of an entertainment-dominated culture, people are increasingly losing their self-control and rational thinking abilities.

《肖像——B2314》系列

有机玻璃，300×240cm，2023

作品赏析

APPRECIATION

《肖像——B2315》系列

有机玻璃，150×120cm，2024

《肖像——B2419》系列

有机玻璃，150×120cm，2024

《肖像——B2421》系列

有机玻璃，150×120cm，2024

《肖像——B2412》系列

有机玻璃，150×120cm，2024

《品牌肖像》系列

有机玻璃，37×33×56cm，2012

《囧途系列——踏途32》

有机玻璃，120×210cm，2014

《囧途系列——踏途49》

有机玻璃，120×120cm，2014

展览现场

EXHIBITION SITE

艺术家介绍

ARTIST

龚新如

Gong Xinru

视觉艺术家。

1998年毕业于上海戏剧学院舞台美术系平面设计专业；现生活工作在上海；大学毕业后从事广告设计工作， 2006年用工作之余的碎片化时间开始创作，直到2010年初辞去工作开启了职业艺术创作生涯。受交通标识的启发，在2010完成了的“在路上”--“迷途系列”的创作，后来相继呈现的“肖像系列”，“面具系列”，”踏途系列”，“阡陌系列”；绘画作品“书写系列”，”梦魇系列”，“空相系列”... ...艺术创作涉及绘画，材料，装置，影像，摄影等领域。

Gong Xinru is a visual artist, graduated from the Stage Arts Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1998. Currently living and working in Shanghai.

After graduating from college, he started working in advertising design and began creating with fragmented time in 2006. It wasn't until early 2010 that he resigned from his job and began his career in professional art creation. Inspired by traffic signs, he completed the creation of the "On the Road" - "Lost way Series" in 2010, and later presented the "Emoticons on Juerney Series",  "Mask Series", "Treading Series", and "Qianmo Series" successively; Painting works "Writing Series", "Dreamworld Series", "Empty Phase Series" ……Art creation involves fields such as painting, materials, installation, imaging, photography, etc.