张鹏（Peng Zhang）的个展“眷眷之乡”（Nostalgia）正在于南柯画廊展出。“我从村里来”，这是张鹏在表达自己的艺术想法的时候会反复提及的话，彰示着他体内深嵌的、来自根源的影响。展览将观众带回了艺术家童年时的农村生活，通过大型装置装置和纸本绘画，呼喊着他对于过去农村生活的深情怀恋。张鹏通过他的创作探索人与土地之间的紧密关系，并由此定位从草木的乡村漂移到水泥都市的自己。
Peng Zhang's solo exhibition “Nostalgia” is now on display at Nan Ke Gallery. “I come from the village” is a phrase that Peng Zhang repeatedly mentions when he expresses his artistic ideas, demonstrating the deep-rooted influences embedded in him. The exhibition takes the viewer back to the rural life of the artist's childhood, and through large-scale installations and drawings on paper, shouts out his deep nostalgia for the rural life of the past. Through his creations, Peng Zhang explores the close relationship between man and the land, and in doing so, positions himself as he drifts from the grassy countryside to the concrete city.
"Xanthiums and earth bricks"
如果从展览的顶层向下，第一件作品即是大规模装置：“记忆中的村民”。张鹏将来自家乡与童年田野的元素——苍耳变作夯实的“土砖”，以唤起有关乡村邻里关系的想象与表征。“我小时候常常和邻居们在一起玩苍耳子，它会粘在毛衣或者头发上，成为我们嬉戏的道具。”这种亲密的互动与勾连，正如村民之间鸡犬相闻的、交织的亲密而浓厚的情愫。
被夯实的苍耳子如同真正的土砖一样，被规则地“晾晒”在层层叠叠的稻草上。“这种传统的制砖方式也反映了我对童年农村生活的怀念，它们象征着那种质朴又充满温情的日常。”苍耳的倒刺天然地钩织在一起，矗立在城市的建筑结构中，不断暗示与自然连结的眷恋。
From the top of the exhibition, the first work is a large-scale installation“Villagers in Memory”. Peng Zhang transforms xanthiums, an element from his childhood fields, into compacted “earth bricks” to evoke imagery and representations of rural neighborly relations. “When I was a child, I used to play with xanthiums, which would stick to our sweaters or hair and become props for us to play with.” This intimate interaction and collusion is as close and strong as the intertwined sentiments between the villagers.
The tamped-down xanthiums are regularly “dried” on layers of straw, just like real earth bricks. “This traditional way of making bricks also reflects my nostalgia for the rural life of my childhood, and they symbolize the simple and warm daily life.” The barbs of the xanthiums are naturally intertwined and stand in the city's architecture, constantly suggesting an attachment to the connection with nature.
"Countryside，on paper"
张鹏 Peng Zhang
宣纸综合
Watercolor, ink, pencil on rice paper
140h x 70w cm
© Courtesy of the artist
"When the Past Fade"
Exploring the lower level of the exhibition, “Weaving Memories” is a joint work with his neighbors, villagers with whom he actually grew up. They recreated scenes of rural labor by rolling grass ropes: “This creative process is not only a means of artistic expression, but also a way to revisit the past.” The rope symbolizes the close relationship between the villagers and recalls the rural life that may have faded away.
For Peng Zhang, “cooperation” is the core of this work. "Many of my large-scale installations utilize craftsmanship inherited from the countryside. During the weaving process, I work together with the villagers, which is not only the birth of a work of art, but also our shared memories of the close-knit neighborly relationship in the past." And when these heavy fabrics are dispersed in the space, they seem to constitute a Spring Festival-like counterpoint to the tightly packed rows of the upper space, suggesting everything about rural relationships - united, collocated, uniform and natural.
张鹏 Peng Zhang
Rice straws, bamboo sticks
尺寸可变 Dimensions variable
© Courtesy of the artist
"Rooted Dirt"
当脚步贴近大地，来到展览的底层，切实的土壤暗示了一切创作的根源与答案。土地是张鹏所有艺术创想的培养基，也是他情感寄托的所在。“土地对于我来说不仅是成长的基础，更是我创作的源泉。我希望人们一进门就可以看到它，继续往上，就会了解我是如何生长起来，拓展开来，如同开枝散叶的植物一样。”作品“乐园”通过真实的种植，复刻了他童年在田地中嬉戏和学习的记忆。“土地教会了我如何生长，如何与自然和他人互动。我在其间学会了如何耕种，与人交流、联系，并最终到达绘画创作。”
张鹏 Peng Zhang
泥土、种植、绘画
Dirt, planting, painting
尺寸可变 Dimensions variable
© Courtesy of the artist
Rooted in the era of rapid urbanization, “Nostalgia” prompts the viewer to review the rural life yet to reconsider its presence and absence in the city. As one passes from floor to floor of the exhibition, a “fabric” of rural memories, woven with xanthiums, earth bricks and paper cuttings, softly unfolds, exploring and confronting the depths of attachment with all the tenderness that has not yet been spoken of, or has only been gazed at.
文/付若瑄
Text by Roxane Fu
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