《艺无反顾——叶勇艺术回顾展》即将开幕

艺无反顾 ——叶勇艺术回顾展

前 言

《自画像》200x155cm 布面丙烯 2017

叶勇，是继中国当代艺术圆明园时期之后“北漂当代艺术家”中的一个典型案例。本次“叶勇艺术回顾展”既是叶勇个案呈现，同时也是中国当代艺术的“当下性”研究：当下的艺术处境、当下艺术家的生命状态、当下的社会问题等等。

For Art Without Looking Back--Ye Yong's Art Retrospective Exhibition

 Preface 

Ye Yong (1969.10.7-2024.1.7), a contemporary artist from Hubei, received undergraduate and master's education in the Oil Painting Department of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, and engaged in oil painting teaching at Hubei Academy of Fine Arts. Therefore, Ye Yong's early artistic creations were typical academic realistic and concrete oil paintings, but his artistic heart was never willing to do so. Ye Yong's artistic life is constantly negating, rebellious and transforming. He achieved three important "turns" in total: Firstly, his identity transformation: from an oil painting teacher in an institutional college to a freelance artist outside the system; Secondly, the transformation of his creative direction: from the realistic concrete painting to the abstract expression works; Thirdly, the regional transfer: from Wuhan city of Hubei Province to the capital of Beijing.

In 2021, Ye Yong was invited to hold a solo exhibition at Beijing Jindu Art Center in Beijing 798. Later, he moved his studio from Wuhan to Beijing and focused on the contemporary art creation. Being a "Beijing drifting contemporary artist" is Ye Yong's artistic ideal and a major turning point in his life. He chose this free and arduous artistic path willingly and "without looking back". In the studio of Jiu art district in Liqiao, Beijing, he worked completely selflessly, just like when he broke out of the box in the performance work "Express Ye Yong". His artistic passion and life energy at this time finally"broke out", thus he created a large number of large-scale abstract expression paintings until his sudden death in the cold winter of 2024.

Ye Yong is a typical case among the "Beijing drifting contemporary artists" after the Yuanmingyuan period of Chinese contemporary art. This "Ye Yong’s Art Retrospective Exhibition" is not only a case presentation of Ye Yong, but also a "contemporary"study of Chinese contemporary art: the current artistic situation, the life state of current artists, current social problems etc.

Ye Yong is a scholar-type painter with reading, cultivation, concepts, passion and touch. Therefore, viewing Ye Yong's art works requires a certain visual reading experience: his realistic and concrete paintings are not simple reproduction and refinement of objects. They have multiple perspectives, not only the painter's own inner aspirations and emotions, but also include elements such as film and pop art; The visual power of the pictures in Ye Yong's abstract expression works is overwhelming, but the visual impact of the picture form is still superficial. We should also think more about metaphors outside the picture: visual metaphors and cultural metaphors.

The exhibition is divided into several sections: In hall 1, it is displayed mainly by Ye Yong's realistic paintings; In hall 3, it is shown by Ye Yong's transitional works from realistic concrete to abstract expression; In hall 4, it is presented by Ye Yong's large-scale "Red and Black" abstract expression works, and includes installation, performance art (video) works, as well as objects and daily necessities from Ye Yong's studio, to comprehensively present Ye Yong's artistic life.

What is important is not art, but the scene of art to commemorate Ye Yong!

                                                     2024.8

                                          Han Tao Art Museum

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