国外艺术家 | 马克·格罗特詹 Mark Grotjahn

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马克·格罗特詹

Mark Grotjahn























马克·格罗特詹在视觉动态绘画、雕塑和纸上作品中将手势和几何与抽象和具象相结合。他的每一个系列都反映了一系列艺术史的影响,并以近乎痴迷的排列方式展开。
Mark Grotjahn combines gesture and geometry with abstraction and figuration in visually dynamic paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Each of his series reflects a range of art-historical influences and unfolds in almost obsessive permutations.
格罗特詹出生于加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳。他获得了科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的BFA和加州大学伯克利分校的MFA。在加州学习期间,他开始了他的第一个重大项目,标志交换(1993-98),在这个项目中,他画了他在洛杉矶附近商店看到的标志的复制品,然后让店主展示他的手绘版本来代替原件。1995年,Grotjahn是缅因州麦迪逊市Skowhegan绘画与雕塑学院的驻校艺术家。一年后,他搬到了洛杉矶,与同学布伦特·彼得森一起开设了短暂的画廊702室。
Grotjahn was born in Pasadena, California. He received a BFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. While studying in California, he began his first major project,Sign Exchange (1993–98), in which he painted replicas of signs that he saw in stores around Los Angeles, then had the store owners display his hand-painted versions in place of the originals. In 1995 Grotjahn was an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine. He moved to Los Angeles a year later and, with his classmate Brent Petersen, opened the short-lived gallery Room 702.

2001年,格罗特詹开始了《蝴蝶》系列。这些几何绘画和素描探索了双重和多点透视的结构,并随着格罗特詹改变构图和色彩而呈现出各种形式。2005年,洛杉矶哈默博物馆展出了一系列彩色和单色的蝴蝶纸上作品。2018年,洛杉矶县艺术博物馆展出了同一系列的50个厨房(2013-18),这是一件由50多个部分组成的作品,所有这些部分都是从单一构图演变而来的,并融入了早期绘画的残余痕迹。格罗特詹继续研究对称性、视角和形式,于2003年开始创作面部绘画。这些富有表现力的、拟人化的画布上的纸板作品通常会切掉部分,露出下面的画布。随着系列的进展,这些面孔变得不那么明显,更抽象,它们的曲线创造了空洞般的孔隙。
In 2001 Grotjahn began theButterfly series. These geometric paintings and drawings explore the constructs of dual and multi-point perspective and take on various forms as Grotjahn alters their composition and color. A selection of multicolored and monochromatic Butterfly works on paper were exhibited in 2005 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. In 2018 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presented 50 Kitchens (2013–18), from the same series, a work with more than fifty parts that all evolved from a single composition and incorporate residual traces of earlier drawings. Continuing his investigations of symmetry, perspective, and form, Grotjahn began the Face paintings in 2003. These expressive, anthropomorphic works of cardboard on canvas often feature sections cut away to reveal painted canvas beneath. As the series progresses, the faces become less apparent and more abstract, their curved lines creating void-like apertures.

除了他的绘画实践,马克·格罗特詹自2000年以来一直在制作面具,在他的工作室周围画纸箱,并在剪下的“眼睛”之间贴上纸管。TheMasks(2000-)虽然最初是一个不太正式的项目,但开始成为他绘画的新支架。2010年,格罗特詹开始铸造青铜面具。在许多雕塑中,他将青铜铸造工艺的残余物,如浇口和流道,融入并保留在他的最后作品中。就像他在绘画中所做的那样,格罗特詹经常大胆地在面具上签名,让他的签名作为构图元素出现。2014年,达拉斯的纳舍尔雕塑中心举办了格罗贾恩雕塑的第一次博物馆展览,包括小型和大型独立作品。
Alongside his painting practice, Grotjahn has been making masks since 2000, painting cardboard boxes lying around his studio and affixing paper tubes between cut-out “eyes.” TheMasks (2000–), although originally approached as a less formal project, came to assert themselves as a new armature for his painting. In 2010 Grotjahn started casting the Masks in bronze. In many of the sculptures, he incorporated and retained remnants of the bronze casting process, such as the sprues and runners, into his final work. As he does with his paintings, Grotjahn often boldly signs the Masks, allowing his signature to come forward as a compositional element. In 2014 the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas presented the first museum exhibition of Grotjahn’s sculpture, including small-scale and larger freestanding works.

2016年,马克·格罗特詹开始创作Capri作品(2016-),试图摆脱面部绘画,转而采用更具实验性、自发的工作过程。卡普里岛的第一批作品《新卡普里》是为意大利卡普里岛马拉帕特之家的私人展览创作的适度比例的画作。在这次展览之后,马克·格罗特詹创作了卡普里绘画(2016-),随后是自由卡普里系列(2018-),他在其中介绍了刮除厚漆区域的技术,然后将由此产生的“蛞蝓”排成一行,并在画布上的其他地方放置网格。
In 2016 Grotjahn began theCapri works (2016–), seeking to break away from the Face paintings in favor of a more experimental, spontaneous working process. The first Capri works, New Capri, were modestly scaled paintings created for a private presentation at Casa Malaparte in Capri, Italy. Following this exhibition, Grotjahn created the Capri paintings (2016–), followed by the Free Capri series (2018–), in which he introduced the technique of scraping out areas of thick paint, then placing the resulting “slugs” in rows and grids elsewhere on the canvas.

随着《蝴蝶》、《面孔》、《面具》和《卡普里》系列的不断扩展,格罗特詹利用Instagram进一步尝试重复和并置,采用网格格式以视觉上的井字球形式自由排列不同组合的图像。在他的整个作品中,格罗特詹通过发现他可立即识别的风格中的变化,揭示了作者姿态的复杂性。
As theButterflies, Faces, Masks, and Capri series continue to expand, Grotjahn uses Instagram to further experiment with repetition and juxtaposition, employing the grid format to freely arrange images in different combinations, in a form of visual tic-tac-toe. Throughout his work, by finding variations within his immediately identifiable style, Grotjahn reveals the complexities of authorial gesture.


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