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BANK 欣然宣布将于金库空间呈现米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺（Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.）的首次个展 “单细胞人类”（Single-Celled Humans）。帕亚诺的自传式印记和多文化背景贯穿于其视觉创作实践之中，绘画、现成品、图像、拼贴和雕塑组成了其 “厚拼贴 ”的视觉呈现，特质亦由此浮现。帕亚诺工作往返于中国和美国的工作室之间，他将丰富的象征主义与繁复的跨洲叙事交织在一起，汇编成属于他的个人词典。
在帕亚诺视觉世界的游戏之中，他持续探索，最终简化、拆解并捣乱了人体——形成了被称为单细胞人类替身的 “桃嘴”。桃子上拟人化的嘴唇被定格，以沉默的姿态自我表达。观众通过桃子的无声交流进入这些世界，以此成为被桃子所承认的存在。尽管观众无法准确解读桃子所诉的言语，然而与人类一样，桃子也拥有脆弱的外皮，一旦破裂，将会暴露出外表和精神上更深层的弱点。
帕亚诺的综合媒介作品拒绝单一的解释，它们探究了艺术家同时作为本地人和外来者所经历的多文化融合。在帕亚诺游历自己所陌生的地理位置时，这位热爱中国的艺术家更加意识到语言是连接人与人之间的重要桥梁。帕亚诺在北京生活了近二十年，忠实地成为了一名艺术家，而他作为一名在纽约上城区长大的多米尼加裔美国人，从涂鸦和中国传统艺术形式中汲取构图线索，以独特的视角重新认识了自己的视觉根源。
米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺1980年出生于美国纽约，目前工作生活于北京，是一位非裔加勒比视觉艺术家。2003年于马萨诸塞州威廉斯敦的威廉姆斯学院获得中文和工作室艺术双学士学位后，帕亚诺搬到北京，并于2008年获得中央美术学院油画系硕士学位。2020年，他又于美国纽约市立大学亨特学院获得工作室艺术硕士学位。因其在不同语言和文化环境生活的经历，帕亚诺愈加意识到语言的重要性，以及语言在相互理解和相互关系中的应用。虽然他早期的作品主要是绘画，但近年其艺术实践扩展到雕塑和类雕塑形式，将自己具有代表性的“桃嘴”与其它图像、纹理，以及现成品或组合物体相结合，形成融合绘画与雕 塑的奇特肖像。2024年，他于北京尤伦斯艺术中心举办了首次机构个展“悟-物”。他近期的重要群展有：“基本不对称性”（圣巴巴拉当代艺术博物馆，美国加州，2022），迪里耶双年展“摸着石头过河”（沙特阿拉伯，2021）。
米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺于工作室 Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. in his Studio
BANK is pleased to announce that Payno’s first solo show Single-Celled Humans in the VAULT. Payano’s visual arts practice spans his biographical imprints and multicultural heritages that rise to the surface of his “heavy collages” of visual renderings in painting, ready-made objects, image, collage and sculpture. Working between studios in China and United States, Payano weaves rich symbolism with a complex transcontinental narrative that forms his personal lexicon.
Within Payano’s visual world of play, he offers a continued search to ultimately simplify, dismantle and disrupt the human body – arriving at mouthed peaches, referred to as single-celled stand ins for humans. Floating against unpolluted backgrounds of light-filled, worlds that pulsate between the edges, the peaches’ anthropomorphic mouths are frozen, silenced in expressive positions. Viewers are guided into these worlds through inarticulate communications by the peaches that acknowledge a viewer’s existence yet one fails to decipher precisely what is said. However, as with humans, peaches possess delicate outer skins that may be ruptured to reveal deeper vulnerabilities in appearance and spirit.
The multimedia works resist singular interpretations and probes a merging of diverse cultures the artist simultaneously experiences as both native and foreign. As Payano navigates geographic locations foreign to himself, the artist, a Sinophile, heightens his awareness of language as a crucial bridge connecting people. While having faithfully become an artist whilst living in Beijing for nearly two decades, Payano’s unique vision reconnects with his visual roots as a Dominican-American who grew up in Uptown New York, drawing compositional clues from graffiti and traditional Chinese art forms.
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. (b. 1980, New York, lives and works in Beijing) is an Afro- Caribbean visual artist. After completing his dual B.A. degree at Williams College in Chinese Language and Studio Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts (2003), Payano moved to Beijing, where he completed his M.F.A. in Oil Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (2008). He also obtained an M.F.A. degree in Studio Art from Hunter College, The City University of New York (2020). Having had the experience of navigating between different languages and cultures, Payano became increasingly attuned to the importance of language and its application in our understanding of and relation to one another. Though his works are mainly paintings in his earlier career, the artist has expanded his practice in recent years to embrace sculptural and quasi-sculptural forms with his distinctive peach-mouths joined with other images, textures, and found or assembled objects that form strange human- like portraits that fuse painting and sculpture. He had his first institutional show “Woo-Woo” in UCCA, Beijing, 2024 and recent group shows includes “This Basic Asymmetry” (Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, California, USA, 2022) and “Ad-Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones” (Saudi Arabia, 2021). USA, 2022) and “Ad-Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones” (Saudi Arabia, 2021).
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米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺 Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
米格尔·安赫尔·帕亚诺 Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
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