Xiong Yu - Time Node

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 exhibition “Xiong Yu - Time Node”, which is also the opening exhibition after A Thousand Plateaus Art Space’s first relocation since it was founded seven years ago. On the first and third floors, you will see Xiong Yu’s recent works during the past three years, there also includes the artist’s new exploration.

Xiong Yu is an iconic artist of 1970s and 1980s. Many characters of the generation born in mid-1970s have been presented in his paintings, such as the dream, the cartoon-like visual style, a kind of hallucinatory, and the “cool” of image and color. There is always a unique atmosphere of theatrical performance and elegant visual signs in his works. He has also triggered our thinking of growth and the present living condition.

As an artist who was educated in the collage for ten years, Xiong Yu knows classical painting well. Talking about his recent works, he mentions his understanding and borrowing from the European classical paintings - the classical charm, instead of falling into the rigid pattern of classical paintings. In the new creation, he continues the theatrical atmosphere of his early works, but fills the appearance of the story with the sense of breath. At the same time, he also hopes that both the characters in the picture and himself are silent and that he “pours the soul into the characters” through the substantive contact on canvas. On the disposition of the recent works, except for more loose brushwork, Xiong Yu starts to present the same content in different forms. He seems no longer immersed in the emotion expressed in the painting, but begins to rethink and summary. Such as the representative works of this exhibition - one “Time Node” of the “Longest Journey”.

Xiong Yu was born in 1975 in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. In 1995, he was graduated from the Affiliated High School of Sichuan Academy of Fine arts. In 1999, he was graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. In 2002, he received Master’s degree from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. He is now assistant professor in Art College of Sichuan University and curator of Museum of Sichuan University. His works have been collected by many public art institutions and collectors, including Museu De Arte De Sao Paulo (MASP), Shenzhen Art Museum, HeXiangning Art Museum and Wuhan Art Museum.

熊宇——时间的节点

2013年7月13日-9月10日

千高原艺术空间

千高原艺术空间荣幸的为大家呈现艺术家熊宇的个展《熊宇——时间的节点》，这个展览也是千高原艺术空间创立七年来首次迁址的首展。您将在一层和三层展厅里看到的是艺术家熊宇近三年完成的部分作品，这些作品蕴含了艺术家新的探索。

熊宇作为70、80的标志性艺术家，在他的绘画中体现了1970年代中后期一代人的许多特征，比如梦想，漫画的视觉风格，幻觉似的体验，形象和颜色的酷。他的作品画面常常拥有独特的舞台情景氛围、优美典雅的视觉符号，并通过象征、隐喻引发我们对成长和当下生存状态的思考。

作为一名经历了十年学院训练的艺术家，熊宇拥有深厚的古典主义绘画背景，在谈论他新近的绘画时，他谈到了对欧洲古典绘画的理解和借鉴——古典的气韵，但却不陷入古典绘画的僵硬格局。新作延续了他过去作品的舞台情境氛围，但却让舞台视觉洋溢了呼吸感。同时，他也希望画中的人物和画外的自己都处在安静的状态，通过彼此在画布上的实质性接触，“把灵魂灌注在人物身上”。新作画面的处理使用了更多的松动笔触，他开始将相同的内容用不同的形式呈现出来。他似乎不再只是沉浸在画面所表达的情绪中，而是开始反思和总结，正如这个展览中的代表作品——“无尽的旅程”中的一个“时间的节点”。

熊宇1975年出生于四川省成都市，1995年毕业于四川美术学院附中，1999年毕业于四川美术学院油画系获学士学位，2002年毕业于四川美术学院油画系获硕士学位，现为四川大学艺术学院副教授，四川大学美术馆馆长。他的作品被圣保罗国家美术馆（MASP）、深圳美术馆、何香凝美术馆、武汉美术馆等国内外公共艺术机构和私人收藏家广泛收藏。