展期 Period：
2023.12.1—2023.12.30
艺术家 Artist：
策展人 Curator：
地点 Venue：
索卡艺术 Soka Art（北京）
新闻稿 Press Release：
索卡艺术荣幸宣布：王小双《生命礼赞》以及张银亮《螺旋航行》展览将于2023年12月1日正式开幕，展览特邀宁文策展，首次呈现了两位艺术家创作于2023年的二十余件新作。
一直以来，对身体、距离、情感的思考是王小双的一条创作主线；而《生命礼赞》则呈现了艺术家从2022年开启的另一创作主题“对生命的探索”，这也是艺术家近期创作的核心。展览名称《生命礼赞》因此而来，呈现了2022年之后，艺术家对于生命以及人生新的感悟；作品也从之前较为个人的心理体验，逐渐更为宽广。《生生不息1》是这个新系列的第一张作品，灵感来自2022年艺术家孩子的降生；而《沉思者》是新系列的最后一张作品，与作品《生生不息1》一首一尾、遥相呼应，表达了艺术家对生与死的思考：生命的回归不是终结、是另一种重生。
王小双的作品容易让人联想到西方古典主义绘画，尤其是文艺复兴时期的作品。看似与现实无关的画面人物，却是现实之中人的镜像，她们彼此交织而成一幅幅抽离的生活图景，以“可见”反应“不可见。王小双的绘画看上去是具象的、平面的、静止的，而画面下则蕴藏着强大的生命力。无论是旧作还是新作，都有一些一脉相承的特点：（1）她作品中始终贯穿着一种，神秘的静谧感。（2）王小双喜欢画人，而作品中人物的眼神，多少有些怪诞——他们都很少直视观者。（3）服饰上，画面总好像把你带入中世纪的欧洲——无论是宽松的大袍，还是褶皱的、收紧的袖口。而在王小双的新作中，两个新的特点出现了：（1）突破了艺术家以前绘画的平面感。王小双首次尝试用砂石胶泥混合丙烯颜料，这样呈现出的画面会有颗粒感和一定的厚度，好像古老的岩壁画，增加了画面的质感。（2）用色上，新作中出现了色彩饱和度更高的作品，打破了之前低饱和度为主的特点。
《生命礼赞》体现了艺术家对生命的尊重、敬畏和感恩之情，是对生命存在和生命力量的赞颂。生命礼赞不只是对自身生命的认同和珍视，亦是对他人生命的尊重与关怀。通过向生命致敬和珍视，让我们更深刻地体验到生命的美好和神奇，以及自身与整个宇宙之间的联系和共生关系。
Soka Art is pleased to announce the exhibitions of Wang Xiaoshuang's "Rhapsody of Life" and Anna Nganleong Cheung's "Spiral Voyage" will be held on December 1, 2023 at Soka Art Beijing. The exhibitions, curated by Ning Wen, presented more than twenty new artworks created by both artists in the year 2023.
Reflections on the body, distance, and emotions have always been one of the main lines of Wang Xiaoshuang's artistic creation, and "Rhapsody of Life" presents another creative theme, "Exploration of Life", which is also the core of the artist's recent creations starting in 2022. Hence the title of the exhibition "Rhapsody of Life", which presents the artist's new understanding of life and living after 2022, and the new works gradually become broader and more expansive compared to the previous works that focused on individualized psychological experiences. The first work of the new series, Circle of Life·1, is inspired by the birth of the artist's child in 2022, while Meditator, the last work in the new series, echoes Circle of Life·1，expressing the artist's thinking on life and death: the return of life is not the end, but another kind of rebirth.
Wang Xiaoshuang's works are reminiscent of Western classical paintings, especially those of the Renaissance. The characters in the paintings that seem to have nothing to do with reality are the mirror images of people in reality, they are intertwined with each other to form an abstracted scene of life, reacting to the invisible with the visible. Wang Xiaoshuang's paintings appear to be figurative, flat and static, but underneath the picture lies a powerful vitality. Both her old and new paintings are characterized by a number of similarities: (1) A mysterious sense of tranquility is always present in her works. (2) Wang Xiaoshuang prefers to paint individuals, and the eyes of the characters in her works may be a bit strange, they rarely look directly at the viewer. (3) As for the costumes, the images always seem to transport viewers to medieval Europe – whether it is a loose robe, or ruffled and tightened cuffs. And in Wang Xiaoshuang's new works, two new features have emerged: (1) It breakthrough the flatness existing in the artist's previous paintings. For the first time, Wang Xiaoshuang attempts to mix acrylic paint with sandstone collodion, which presents a grainy feel and a certain thickness, as if it was an ancient rock fresco, increasing the texture of the painting. (2) Regarding the use of color, new works with higher color saturation have appeared, breaking the predominantly low saturation in previous works.
"Rhapsody of Life" embodies the artist's respect, reverence and gratitude for life, celebrating the existence and power of life. The salute to life is not only about cherishing one's own life, but also about respecting and caring for the lives of others. By honoring and cherishing life, we can experience more deeply the beauty and magic of life, as well as the connection and symbiotic relationship between ourselves and the entire universe.
