YANG SHU
From nearly the past 30 years, beginning with “Southwestern Art Exhibition” in Chengdu and “89 Art Grand Exhibition” in Beijing, Yang Shu’s art works have been a special view among Chinese contemporary art. His artistic style is unique and obvious, combining various elements from Structuralism, Expressionism, scrawling and so on. His painting is between embodiment and abstract, which is highly distinguishing and full of variety and abundant senses of depth in the clues of artworks.
During the nearly 30 years’art practices, Yang Shu keeps away from what is popular and avoids repeatedly creation and refuses to obey any powerful narratation. At the same time, he constantly overturns himself, thus during every period, his new works are full of chanllenges and bring surprises. At present he is not only the special mark of southwestern contemporary art in China, but also one of the most importante artistic cases in Chinese contemporary art-world, although his attitude of life is calm and humble, out of exposure of celebrity. Now, his artworks have developed into an entirety, which is the object of intensive study and has offered a view with large span and strong force.
On 12th March 2016, solo exhibition of the same name with the artist “Yang Shu”will be opened at A Thousand Plateau Art Space. This exhibition is going to mainly present his artworks of recent two years, which is explosive and reveal a totally different adventure of him. Besides, some of his importante works, scripts, and documents during different periods since 1978 will also be presented. This exhibition is based on study of documents and arrangement of artworks in order to offer more profound views and reference, and it will also be the content of study followed up. This exhibition focuses on his new works, connecting complicated thought and feelings of his works during different periods.
Yang Shu’s paintings always creat a dazzling atomosphere, and combine description, revelation and provocation together, seems like soliloquies or more like changing the audience, art and the whole world into the object of his paintings. This time the art space will make a visual area belongs to Yang Shu’s artworks, integrating works of different periods, releasing the inspiration and visual life. The exhibited artworks will bring a massive visual feeling and also help people understand the context of his works and take a journey to his magic and individualistic heroical art experience.
从近三十年前在成都“西南艺术大展”和北京“89艺术大展”开始，杨述的作品就成为中国当代艺术一道别样的风景。他拥有独特而显而易见的艺术风格，将结构主义、表现主义、涂鸦等元素结合在一起，作品介于具象和抽象绘画之间，形成了极富辨识度，却又充满变化，层次丰富的作品脉络。
在近三十年的创作生涯中，杨述一直远离流行，警惕重复化的创作，也拒绝附庸任何权力化的叙述；同时，他也在不断地颠覆自己，每个阶段的新作品都充满挑战，并带来惊喜。虽然他的生活态度是从容而低调的，缺少明星式的曝光，但今天看来，他已经不仅是西南当代艺术的特殊标志，也是中国当代艺术界越来越重要的个案之一。今天，他的作品形成了一个整体，不仅是深入研究的对象，也提供了极富跨度和张力的观看方式。
2016年3月12日，艺术家的同名个展“杨述”将在千高原艺术空间开幕。展览将重点呈现杨述近两年创作的，具有爆发力的崭新作品，展示他又一次截然不同的冒险。同时，亦将呈现他从1978年至今，不同阶段的部分重要作品、手稿、以及文献记录。展览以文献研究和作品梳理为基础，力求为现场观看提供更具深度的视野和参照，而展览也成为进一步跟进研究的基础。本次展览力求以新作品为主，跨越漫长的时空，把他不同时期的作品所带来的，复杂的思考和体验串联在一起。
杨述的绘画总是能够营造出一种炫目的氛围，并将述说、启示、和挑衅结合到一起；像是自言自语，又像是把观众，或者艺术，或者整个世界，都变成了他描绘的对象。本次展览的现场空间将营造出属于杨述作品的视觉场域，让不同年代的作品交织在一起，释放出延绵的灵感和视觉生命。展出作品在带来厚重的视觉感受的同时，也帮助人们更深入了解杨述作品的来龙去脉，游历他魔幻而富有个人英雄主义色彩的艺术道路。
