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黄铅笔之涂鸦,
Yellow Pencil-Scrawl
160 x 200 cm
acrylic on canvas
中国当代画廊
王可个展 － “你要听我的”
2008年6月28日-7月30日。开幕式：6月28日， 下午3点
中国当代画廊将举办“王可个展 － 你要听我的”。展览时间为2008年6月28日至2008年7月30日。开幕式为：2008年6月28，下午3：00点。届时艺术家将出席开幕式，欢迎大家踊跃参加！
王可毕业于中国美术学院，她是卡通一代中最具有才华的一员。王可选择在大尺寸的画布上画出别具风格的卡通形象，她认为这些卡通形象以拟人的风格再现了自己的神情。卡通是她自我反思的媒介，艺术家的创作题材是最具个人主义色彩的。对于她的创作，王可说“每天我都对自己进行严格的自我评价;我似乎每天都在画我自己”。
王可是在中国实行计划生育时出生的，所以这一代人都是独生子女，这些孩子同时感受着孤独和溺爱。与此同时，中国的改革开放使西方文化迅速涌入中国，国家在传统与现代化之间寻求自身的平衡，所以1979年之后出生的一代人，他们也正在寻找着他们自己的声音。
为了鉴别自我的外在特征和内心深处灵魂的特征，艺术家将重点放置在细节的描述上，例如：一件服装的接缝，瞬息的一现的眼神和iPod（苹果播放器）的按钮。画布上有大片单一的颜色，但也不乏对细节的描述。借助于这些细节，艺术家表达了所要传递的信息以及她对细小部位的关注。
王可作品的主题是通过呈现细节从而表达自己的思想。有些画面上狡猾的人物精打细算着。有些画面能直接与观众产生对话，例如“我的泡泡”。在其它的作品中，比如“起飞”和“黄铅笔之涂鸦”则展示了艺术家更严肃的一面。将此次展览中的所有作品看作为一个整体，则体现了王可对自我的探索。其中包括各式各样的丰富的神情，如滑稽的、富有批评的、具有讽刺意味的、梦幻般的、郁闷的、压抑的或挖苦的。她的画有力地阐述了人性是由这些神情互相结合的，通过这些丰富的神情从而体现了人性的各个层面。
2007年王可在中国当代北京画廊的个展“大脸”和纽约画廊的“卡通一代”，均为王可带来了知名度。接下来她将在巴西圣保罗的托马斯科恩画廊举办展览，此展的开幕时间为2008年6月13日。
My Bubbles
2008
acrylic on canvas
Chinese Contemporary Gallery
Wang Ke – You Must Listen to Me
28 June – 30 July 2008
opening : 28 June 2008, 3 pm
For immediate release – Chinese Contemporary Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of You Must Listen to Me, an exhibition of new works by Wang Ke. The artist has prepared fifteen new paintings that will be on display 28 June – 30 July 2008 at Chinese Contemporary’s Beijing gallery in Factory 798. There will be an opening held on 28 June 2008, 3 pm where the artist will be present.
A graduate of the China Academy of Fine Art in Hangzhou, Wang Ke is one of the most talented stars of the Cartoon Generation. Through her quest for individual identity, Wang Ke chooses to paint oversized, stylized heads, which she claims are anthropomorphic interpretations of her own facial features. Employing cartoon imagery as a vehicle for self-reflection, the artist volunteers the most physically unique element that she lays claim to, her body, for critique. As Wang Ke says of her work, ‘Everyday I put myself through a rigorous self-assessment; it seems like everyday I have to paint myself.’
Wang Ke is a product of the One Child Policy which has resulted in a generation that has known both the oppressive loneliness and lavish attention which being an only child fosters. Combining this with the rapid influx of Western culture after Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms, it is no wonder that those born after 1979, like Wang Ke, are grappling with finding their voice in a country seeking its own balance between tradition and modernity. In order to extract and distinguish those qualities which drive her definition of self and elucidate the innermost psyche, the artist focuses on minute details – the cross-stitching pattern of a clothing seam, a gleam in the eye, the nodules of an iPod. Large swaths of canvas are painted in solid blocks of color, yet it is the details that lend the paintings their character and that convey the artist’s preoccupation with the expressive quality of minutia.
The subjects of Wang Ke’s paintings illustrate the artist’s belief in the value of depicting small vignettes as a reflection of her frame of mind. At times the characters are sly, with calculating, engaging eyes that cajole their audience into a direct dialogue – as in My Bubbles. In other works, such as Take Off and Yellow Pencil Scrawl, Wang Ke’s figures communicate the artist’s reserve, aloofness and altogether wistful reflections. When viewed as a whole, the paintings on display in You Must Listen to Me are a manifestation of Wang Ke’s exploration of herself – whether they be comical, critical, ironic, dreamy, morose, repressed, or quizzical. Through her paintings, the artist demonstrates clearly and resolutely the extent to which an individual is a synchronized, myriad compilation of these sentiments and that it is often the imperceptible components of life that reveal an individual’s various facets.
Wang Ke’s 2007 Solo Show Big Head and her inclusion in the exhibition Cartoon Generation, held at Chinese Contemporary Beijing and New York respectively, both met with unbounded success. The artist’s work will also appear in the upcoming show Cartoon Generation, set to open 13 June 2008 at Thomas Cohn Gallery in Sao Paolo, Brazil. |
