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离魂 Departed Soul

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个人展览 Solo Exhibition

展期 Opening

05/13/2023 05/13/2023

策展 Curator

邹一智，钱秦运 Zou Yizhi, Blanca Qian

介绍 PRESS RELEASE

此次展览以张炜于08-14年间的生活记忆为叙事主线，忠实再现的不在于事实细节，而更是萦绕至今挥之不去的情感痕迹。历史的可计量细节是无意义的，至少对于生命来说是虚无的，最真实的应是当时当刻直击直觉感官的情绪。那些终日沉湎于世界表象无法自拔的人们是“幸福的”，那一位看透影子本质的智者必然为自己的清醒付出代价，但也许这就是他所追求的幸福。

在张炜的作品中，人或物都是没有轮廓的，单薄的，魅影似的，只是小片色块与色块间的交叠拼凑；他所取用的色彩带来一种抽离感，在还原着半醒的梦境中即将与现实交汇的不确定的视觉认知。色彩对于张炜来说等同能量，色彩的构成犹如炼金术士的实验，看似依赖偶发实质遵循严谨的科学逻辑；色彩需经由千锤百炼的实验方可提纯其中蕴涵的情感。画面所流露的德国表现主义式的虚梦醉境，使观者坠入漫游者的世界里，生活中的细碎片段像水滴一样流入心底，像勾起回忆的蒙太奇，建构起异化了现实时间与空间的平行世界，令人烦扰的心理基调和无明显形象特征的人物也无疑唤起了蒙克式的幽闭恐惧症的焦虑。这些幽灵似的人物，或即将走向观众，或正在远离，在恍惚的梦境里飘忽不定；这场非虚非实的叙事中，观者的主体视角与被观看的客体视角之间的“裂痕”得以被“缝合”。 The exhibition takes Zhang Wei's memoirs of his life from the year of 2008 to 2014 as the main narrative line, faithfully reproducing not only the factual details but also the lingering emotional trails. Measurable details of history are meaningless, or at least meaningless to live. The most real are the emotions that inspire intuition at this moment. A wise man who sees the nature of shadows must pay the price of sobriety, but perhaps this is the happiness he seeks.

The people and objects in Zhang Wei's work are featureless, thin, and ghostly, just small blobs of color layered on top of each other. The colors he uses to create abstract sensations reproduce the uncertain visual perception of the impending intersection with reality in a half-waking dream world. The color scheme resembles an alchemical experiment that seems to be episodic but follows strict scientific logic. Purifying the emotions contained in colors requires thousands of experiments to refine them.

张炜(b.1983)生于浙江温岭; 2003 年完成德国柏林艺术大学巴度尔教授的夏季学院绘画课程; 2004 年 4 月完成德国艺术家克里斯蒂安(Abraham David Christian)教授的绘画课程; 2005 年毕业于中国美术学院综合艺术系; 现工作及生活于上海。

近年主要展览经历包括:个展:“离魂”，BLANKgallery，上海，中国(2023年); “春潮”，BLANKgallery，上海，中国(2022年); “半开的⻔”，工作室画廊，上海，中国(2022年); “迎春画展”，站台中国，北京，中国(2021年); “约翰摩尔绘画奖 10 周年巡回展”，四川美术学院美术馆，重庆，中国(2021 年); “约翰莫尔绘画奖作品展”，上海⺠生美术馆，上海，中国(2020年); “⻘年之光”，泰达文化艺术中心，天津，中国(2019年); “新星势力— —全国新⻘年藝術家作品展”，关山漾美术馆，武汉，中国(2019年)。 Zhang Wei (b.1983) was born in Wenling, Zhejiang Province, China; he completed the Summer Academy Painting Course taught by Professor Badol at the University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany in 2003; he completed the Painting Course taught by German artist Abraham David Christian in April 2004; he graduated from the Department of Integrated Arts of the China Academy of Art in 2005; he now lives and works in Shanghai.

"Departed Soul", BLANKgallery, Shanghai, China (2023); "Spring Blooming", BLANKgallery, Shanghai, China (2022); "Half Open Door", Studio Gallery, Shanghai, China (2022); "Welcome Spring Painting Exhibition", Platform China, Beijing, China (2021); "John Moore Painting Award 10th Anniversary Touring Exhibition ", Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Art Museum, Chongqing, China (2021); "John Moore Painting Prize Exhibition", Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2020); "Light of Youth", TEDA Culture Center, Tianjin, China (2019); "New Star Power - National New Young Artists Exhibition", Guanshanyang Art Museum, Wuhan, China (2019).

艺术家 ARTIST

张炜 Zhang Wei