熊宇 Xiong Yu

Xiong Yu was born in 1975 in Chengdu, Sichuan. Currently he teaches in Art Institute of Sichuan University and works as the Head of Sichuan University. He graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts attached middle school in 1995, then entered Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1999, and got master's degree from Sichuan Academy of Fine Art in Oil Painting of Visual Arts Department in 2002.

As a iconic artist born after 1970s, Xiong Yu is always under the spotlight.Under the background of Classical painting, and impacted by the current pop culture, Xiong Yu, as a man born after 1970s, has a cultural experience full of collision, the images of Xiong Yu's works do not exist in reality, but from a kind of creation.

From the paintings of Xiong Yu, We can find many characters of the generation born in mid-1970s, such as dream, the cartoon visual style, the illusion-like experience, the “cool” in image and color, the feeling of addictive e-culture. Xiong Yu is an artist with the background of classicism, while influenced by cartoon, as all of them who were born in early 1970s. Therefore, he can break the prison of the social reality, and construct his own artistic language through the living beings of the surreal and virtual world. The living beings produced by the imagination under the androgen function, as well as the roles of the recent Tarot, emphasize and highlight the human faith. Through his works, Xiong Yu constructs a unique, independent and omnipresent image. The presented living beings are all given identities of symbolism, delicacy, and metaphor, thus their new thinking of existence on the background of themselves emerged.

Reveal

Xiong Yu Solo Exhibition

15 Dec 2018 - 28 Feb 2019

A Thousand Plateaus Art Space is pleased to present the artist Xiong Yu’s solo exhibition - “Reveal” on 15th of December (Saturday). The metaphorical images and the reconstruction of illusory...

Blue Forest

Xiong Yu Recent Works

17 Jan - 28 Mar 2015

熊宇的绘画一直以略带卡通风格的大眼睛形象为代表，表现了如孩童般纯净而充满想像的内心世界，以及画家作为成年人所面对的各种喜悦，忧伤，和困惑。在新作品里，这一形象被不断弱化，直至消失。最大的变化不仅是题材，还来自背景和肌理的处理。在新的场景中，熊宇引入了类似版画的作画技术，以及平面化的装饰纹理，让画面具备了特殊的斑驳感，凸显出视觉或思绪的凝结瞬间。 “蓝树林”这个题目，不但描绘了一个充满想像和思绪的内心世界，也来自画笔与视觉之间纠缠而迷人的互动关系。在大约两年前于千高原举办的个展中，熊宇呈现出对欧洲古典绘画形式，尤其是构图的借用，寻求在新的框架中表露某些更具深度和共通性的情感。那些作品显然受到了古典戏剧的抒情结构的影响。在这批新作品里，他进行了不同的尝试，跳出了古典的框架，开始在更直接的视觉结构中寻求突破。在最近创作的作品中，一些直接的笔触和这些效果相融合，让画面具备了更丰富的层次。这样的效果让观者的视觉不断与情感相连接，并产生共鸣，让熊宇的作品和蕴藏其中的情绪变得空前可信。这种效果被在名为 “No.3”的小幅作品里得到了更大限度的表达。一个形象模糊的人站在前景处，他的阴影制造出自身的实体感，并将画面的主体部分变成了一幅斑驳的壁画。这幅画的主体部分除了肌理的变化之外，也使用了比以往更多的直接画法。它不仅显现出熊宇对新的绘画模式的尝试，那个站在壁画前的形象，也像是画家本人在审视自己过去的作品。这也许预示着画家在未来的作品中会展现更多的可能性。在“记忆指南”和“菲特的小说”两幅画里，画家同样展示了与自己的画作之间的抽离感。我们也许可以认为，在他的这些新作品里呈现出的印刷质感，是画家对自己过去的情绪一种封存和告别。这样的猜测来自一些个人既有风格被进一步削弱的作品：例如在“No.1”和“No.2”两幅实际上也没有被命名的作品里，标志性的形象消失了，情绪透过笔触，肌理，色彩，和新的人物外貌被表现出来。对于以上这些尝试，最富有成果的作品就是名为“新世界”的三联画，这张作品打开了一个极富构思的空间，三部分均由近境的树枝，中景的水面和远景的树林构成，但通过色彩的对比，近处的景物显得非常疏远，而远景似乎更具真实感；三幅画面的构图有意错开，咋看之下空间不统一，却正好与远近错落的视觉相统一，它们构成了非写实的画面，实际上描绘的并非景物本身，而是画家的内心感受在视觉上的再现。这也许只是他一系列更为大胆的，抛弃图像化风格的尝试的开始。对一个已经拥有成熟面貌的画家来说，这样的尝试是建立在深厚创作经验之上的，而且是更需要勇气并且值得不断期待的。

Xiong Yu

Time Node

13 Jul - 10 Sep 2013

Xiong Yu - Time Node July 13 - September 10, 2013 A Thousand Plateaus Art Space A Thousand Plateaus Art Space is pleased to present the artist Xiong Yu’s solo...