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“化身 Incarnation”
松美术馆 Song Art Museum
2024.06.08-08.11
每周二(Tue)至周日(Sun)，10:00-18:00
王一参加松美术馆群展“化身”展出作品《雅各宾 No.4》（Jacobine No.4）。此次展览分为三个章节，邀请六位艺术家分别讨论文化烙印与先天感知如何被实体化的呈现，由寓言开始，通过自身的感知，最终归于自我意识的化身。
王一试图挖掘那些过去或是现在事物的投影，它们可能出现在原始信仰的图腾上，大自然的奇境內，封建时代的宫阙中，大运动的旗帜间，近未来的科幻电影里……他将其化简成一个个单纯的形状，拆解重组，用无意义承载意义，用矢量图形藏匿意志。他将此种方式表达为委婉的转进，借助“象征几何学”的外壳，重新唤起人们记忆经验里的感知，并在当下我们的社会形制中赋予其新的所指和隐喻。
《雅各宾》
道德的形状，
勤劳的机器。
仁慈的效率，
博爱的审判。
——王一
Wang Yi participated in the group exhibition "Incarnation" at Song Art Museum, presenting his work Jacobine No.4. The exhibition was divided into three chapters, inviting six artists to discuss how cultural imprints and innate perceptions are manifested physically, starting from allegories, through personal perceptions, and ultimately culminating in the embodiment of self-awareness.
Wang Yi attempts to excavate the projections of past or present entities, which may appear on totems of primal beliefs, within natural wonders, in feudal palaces, among the banners of great movements, or in sci-fi movies of the near future. He simplifies these into mere shapes, deconstructing and reassembling them, using meaningless vectors to carry significance and conceal intentions. He expresses this method as a tactful transition, employing "symbolic geometry" as a shell to reawaken perceptions contained within collective memory experiences and assigns new meanings and metaphors within our contemporary societal structure.
Jacobine
The form of morality,
A machine of diligence grand.
The efficiency of kindness,
The judgment of universal love.
-Wang Yi
王一，《雅各宾 No.4》，2021，黑色钢化玻璃、灰色钢化玻璃、单向钢化镀膜玻璃、黑色阳极氧化铝合金联合件，140 x 170 x 330 cm；“化身”，展览现场，松美术馆，北京，中国，2024
Wang Yi, Jacobine No.4, 2021, black tempered glass, gray tempered glass, one-side coated tempered glass, black anodized aluminum alloy joints, 140 x 170 x 330 cm; "Incarnation", installation view, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2024
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“焕光内外 Glow Within and Beyond”
奥薇达上海品牌之家 ORVEDA Shanghai
2024.06.20-07.31
每周一(Mon)至周日(Sun)，10:00-22:00
王一受奥薇达（ORVEDA）品牌邀约于建业里奥薇达上海之家举行个展“焕光内外”。展览由策展人祝羽捷策划，呈现王一全新作品。
Wang Yi was invited by the ORVEDA to hold a solo exhibition "Glow Within and Beyond" at the ORVEDA Shanghai Home in Jianye Village. The exhibition, curated by Tutu Zhu, showcased a series of new works by Wang Yi.
“焕光内外”，展览现场，ORVEDA品牌之家，上海，中国，2024
"Glow Within and Beyond", installation view, ORVEDA Shanghai Home, Shanghai, China, 2024
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“山水化境 Timeless Masterpieces”
New Art Museum Singapore
2024.06.22-11.10
每周二(Tue)至周日(Sun)，11:00-19:00
王一参加New Art Museum Singapore群展“山水化境”呈现全新作品。传统与现代媒介交织而成的创作成为超越时间的当代诗歌，展览邀请了七位跨越不同年代和媒介的中国艺术家，展出了众多的绘画和雕塑作品，并辅以数字媒体体验。王一作品通过抽象形式结合现代材料探索了城市发展、意识形态与自然历史之间的关联。
Wang Yi participated in the group exhibition "Timeless Masterpieces: Contemporary Chinese Art Through the Ages" at the New Art Museum Singapore, presenting his new works. The exhibition featured seven Chinese artists spanning different eras and mediums, showcasing a variety of paintings and sculptures, complemented by digital media experiencesm, interwoven with traditional and modern mediums, become contemporary poetry that transcends time. Wang Yi's works explore the connections between urban development, ideology, and natural history through abstract forms combined with modern materials.
“山水化境”，展览现场，New Art Museum Singapore，新加坡，2024
"Timeless Masterpieces: Contemporary Chinese Art Through the Ages", installation view, New Art Museum Singapore, Singapore, 2024
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“波罗仙揭谛 Paracezegadi”
上海美术电影制片厂 Shanghai Film Group
2024.08.03-08.20
周一(Mon)至周日(Sun)，11:00-18:00
王一参加仙揭谛（SANDGADI）群展“波罗仙揭谛”呈现作品《水经图》，仙揭谛是以跨领域合成、转换与跨文化融合为宗旨的综合创作型厂牌，通过联合艺术家、设计师、传统工匠或其它各类文化工作者来完成共同创作。
《水经图》从水文地图中获取灵感，王一使用树脂材料与自然水体中的藻类、矿物质、金属粉末、泥土等混合，作品中的色彩都是来源于水生态系统中自然物质或污染元素本身具有的颜色。在树脂逐渐凝固的最初几个小时内，不同混合物的表面张力、密度、化学成分之差别使艺术家预先设计的构图形态产生不可预见的持续变化；艺术家需要不断“治水”，以达到偶然性与章法的平衡。而传统手工烧制的霓虹灯则抽象地解构了古今河道湖泊的形态，曲折连灭，如东方山水散点式的笔触般漫游倒映在沉积的形色上，诗意地将古代与当代、时间与空间融合。
Wang Yi participated in SANDGADI group show "Paracezegadi", presenting his work Homage to <the Commentary on waterways>. SANDGADI is a comprehensive creative label with the aim of cross disciplinary synthesis, transformation, and cross-cultural integration. It collaborates with artists, designers, architects, traditional craftsmen, or other cultural workers to achieve joint creation.
Drawing inspiration from hydrographic maps, the artwork Homage to <the Commentary on waterways> by Wang Yi incorporates resin mixed with natural elements like algae, minerals, metal powders, and soil from water bodies. The colors in his work are sourced directly from natural substances or pollutants found within the aquatic ecosystem. In the initial hours of the resin's solidification, differing surface tensions, densities, and chemical compositions among the mixtures provoke unforeseen ongoing alterations in the artist's preplanned compositional forms. Therefore, the artist must continually "manage the waters" to maintain a balance between randomness and structure. Meanwhile, traditional handblown neon lights abstractly deconstruct the forms of rivers and lakes from ancient to modern times, flickering in multiple twists and turns. They mirror the roaming, pointillistic strokes of Eastern landscape painting, poetically merging the ancient and contemporary, as well as time and space, in their sedimentation of colors and shapes.
王一，《水经图》，2017-2024，碳粉、三氧化二铁粉、三氧化二铬粉、锡粉、铜粉、干藻粉、红土、树脂、镜面pvc、手工制玻璃霓虹灯，200 x 130 cm
Wang Yi, Homage to <the Commentary on waterways>, 2017-2024, carbon powder, iron(III) oxide powder, chromium(III) oxide powder, tin powder, copper powder, dried algae powder, red clay, resin, mirror-finish PVC, handmade glass neon lights, 200 x 130 cm
文字与图片由艺术家惠允
Texts and images courtesy of the artist
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
王一，1991年出生于上海，2016年硕士毕业于中国美术学院油画系，现生活工作于上海。
王一的创作围绕着对城市和自然环境的抽象化表达，探讨绘画的形式、材料和观念的转换。他试图通过用缓慢的个人手工劳作对峙快速生产消费的模式，以当代性的视觉感受回溯对于古典绘画艺术的敬意。王一的艺术创作是新一代中国抽象艺术家的典型之一，他们中的许多人选择了在创作中放弃任何对政治或社会的明显评论。在纯粹形式的探讨之外，王一则保留了部分根源于现实社会和自然的线索，他在作品中通过将单一的结构元素反复组合，讨论“一与全”的社会关系，同时指涉出网络环境中单元和集体、特性与统一间的相互消涨。
王一近期的个展包括“当明有暗当暗有明”，AIKE，上海，中国，2020；“一切现象都是几何的”，蜂巢当代艺术中心，深圳，中国，2018；“表里：克洛德·维尔拉&王一”，HdM画廊，北京，中国，2018；“一日光”，AIKE，上海，中国，2016；“王一”，HdM画廊，杭州，2014；“无物”，J:GALLERY，上海，中国，2012。
Wang Yi was born in 1991 in Shanghai, China. He graduated with an MFA from the Oil Painting Department at the China Academy of Art. Currently, he lives and works in Shanghai.
Wang Yi's artistic creations revolve around the abstract expression of urban and natural environments, exploring the transformations in the form, material, and concept of painting. He attempts to confront the rapid production and consumption model through slow-paced, individual manual labor, invoking a contemporary visual appreciation that pays homage to classical art. Wang Yi exemplifies the new generation of Chinese abstract artists, many of whom consciously abstain from overt political or social commentary in their artworks. Beyond pure formal exploration, Wang Yi retains elements rooted in real societal and natural contexts. In his pieces, he repeatedly combines singular structural elements to discuss the social relationships between the individual and the collective, also hinting at the interplay between units and collectives, uniqueness and uniformity within the context of network environments.
His recent solo exhibitions include “Dark Light Bright Night”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2020; “Geometry Rules All Phenomena: Wang Yi”, Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China, 2018; “Inside and Outside: Claude Viallat & Wang Yi”, HdM Gallery, Beijing, China, 2018; “Yi Ri Guang”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2016; “Wang Yi”, HdM Gallery, Hangzhou, China, 2014; “Nothing”, J:Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2012.
