展期 Period：
2024.4.27—2024.6.2
艺术家 Artist：
策展人 Curator：
赵倩颖 Serena Zhao
地点 Venue：
艺术仓库 ArtDepot（北京）
新闻稿 Press Release：
ArtDepot艺术仓库荣幸带来独家代理艺术家侯佳男第五次个展《晚风贼》，将于2024年4月27日在北京798艺术区空间呈现。本次展览将展出艺术家创作于2023-2024的十五件精选架上作品。
强势的媒介能够以一种隐蔽却强大的暗示力量重新定义现实世界，人们实际上生存在媒介所制造的巨大隐喻世界中不自知。——尼尔·波兹曼
艺术家侯佳男因其近年来独特的绘画方式而被观众所熟知，从2022年个展《不要温顺地走进那片森林》中初具个人风格的景观塑造，到2023年个展《野餐》中精致绚烂但暗藏颓靡的图像陷阱，侯佳男笔下那些充满膨胀感的事物、迷离的光景与异样的质感通过甜美的表象，邀约观众一同进入由他精心构造、却又悄然揭露的欲望空间。
而在这次的个展《晚风贼》中，侯佳男将超现实的景观呈现得更为直接，一如“晚风贼”这个展览标题——顷刻的美好如同晚风，使人不知不觉坠入甜蜜的陷阱，它和煦温柔但又轻快易逝，晚风贼也如艺术家画中那些揭开的帘幕与打开的窗口一般，它会偷走你最喜欢的东西，但同时也为你揭开覆盖真实世界幕布的一角。
展厅中呈现的艺术家近期作品，有着较于以往更加深重的色彩，以及对静物更加细致的描绘，无论是掩藏在靛蓝色阴影中的花朵还是鲜亮的柠檬，抑或是摇曳的烛光，不难令人想起艺术史中的荷兰17世纪静物画，那些精致的器皿与鲜美的瓜果一度也曾是荷兰“黄金时代”初生资本主义繁荣的象征。不同的是，四百年前的荷兰画家通过蔬果面包被腐蚀的孔洞体现时光的易逝与美好事物背后的虚无，而侯佳男则通过具有强烈质异感的、电子模型般的对物态的描绘，表达出了一种更为深刻的对“鲜活、美好、饱满”表象的揭露与图像式的反讽。甚至在他画面中那些超现实的场景，与充满当代屏幕荧光感的构图方式，在深层次中对“物之存在”也发出了进一步的哲学性追问。
遮天蔽日的媒介使我们仿佛生活在绿幕之中，甜美鲜明的画面固然曼妙，但美好总在乎于瞬间并非永恒，快感的得到也仅在那一刹那。那些凋敝的花朵似也象征着不完美的物质与真实的人生，沉溺于丰盛商品中的人们，或许也需要鼓起勇气，跳出楚门世界的浓重幻象，未必面对真实的世界，但面对真实的自己。
ArtDepot is proud to present Hou Jianan's fifth solo exhibition "Keep the Night Breezing", which will be presented in Beijing's 798 Art District on April 27, 2024. This exhibition will feature a selection of 15 painting works created by the artist between 2023 and 2024.
Powerful media can redefine the real world with a hidden but powerful suggestive power, and people actually live in the huge metaphorical world created by the media without realizing it. -- Neil Postman
Artist Hou Jianan is well known to the audience for his special way of painting in recent years, from the initial personal style of landscape shaping in the 2022 solo exhibition " Do Not Go Gentle Into That Jungle" to the exquisite but decadent image traps in the 2023 solo exhibition "Picnic". The expansive things, blurred scenes and strange textures in Hou's works invite the audience to enter the desire space carefully constructed by him but quietly revealed through the sweet appearance.
In this solo exhibition "Keep the Night Breezing", Hou Jianan presents the surreal landscape more directly, just like the exhibition title in Chinese words - the beauty of the moment is like the night wind, making people unknowingly fall into the sweet trap, it is warm and gentle but light and fleeting, and the little thief is also like those curtains and Windows opened in the artist's paintings. It will steal your favorite things, but it will also open a corner of the curtain that covers the real world.
The recent works of the artist presented in the exhibition have more dark colors than before, and more detailed depictions of still life, whether it is flowers hidden in indigo shadows, bright lemons, or flickering candles, it is not difficult to remind of the Dutch 17th century still life painting in the history of art. Those exquisite vessels and delicious fruits were once symbols of the nascent capitalist prosperity of the Dutch "Golden Age". The difference is that the Dutch painter 400 years ago reflected the perishable time and the vanities behind the beautiful things through the corroded holes in the fruit and vegetable bread, while Hou Jianan expressed a more profound disclosure of the "fresh, beautiful and full" appearance and pictorial irony through the depiction of the state of things with a strong sense of qualitative difference and an electronic model. Even those surreal scenes in his pictures, and the composition full of contemporary screen fluorescence, also issue further philosophical questions about the "existence of things" at a deep level.
The media that covers the world makes us seem to live in a green screen. The sweet and vivid picture is beautiful, but the beauty always depends on the moment is not eternal, and the pleasure is only in that moment. Those withered flowers also seem to symbolize the imperfect material and real life, people addicted to rich goods, may also need to summon the courage to jump out of the Truman world's heavy illusion, not necessarily face the real world, but face the real themselves.
