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2024.3.26—2024.5.16
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香港—藝術門荣幸地宣布英国著名艺术家玛吉·汉布林的个展《玛吉·汉布林: 夜深》将于3月26日至5月16日期间在香港画廊举办，并与今年的香港巴塞尔艺术展同期举行。这次展览是汉布林自2019年在北京和广州举办回顾展以来在亚洲举办的首次个展。藝術門也将在香港巴塞尔展位上展示艺术家的一幅重要新作《水之墙》。
汉布林占据着独特的艺术家地位，她在整个职业生涯中始终秉持叛逆精神，使她成为英国艺术界最受赞誉的女性艺术家之一。这种精神在她向具开创性的知识分子致敬的作品中显而易见，如致敬18世纪重要的女权倡导者玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特的作品，以及纪念19世纪作家奥斯卡·王尔德和20世纪作曲家本杰明·布里顿等人物的纪念雕塑。汉布林的作品根植于她自己的生活经历，灵感源自人、地方，并从她作为一个具有酷儿视角的先锋艺术家的身份中汲取灵感。汉布林将绘画视为一种亲密的体验，她认为无论花费多少时间来创作一幅画，它都必须用一瞬间去表达深刻的肉体感受。
《玛吉·汉布林: 夜深》的作品将包括两个从未公开展示的崭新系列。其中包括2023年系列作品中的《性感》、《绮梦》和《将吻》，探讨了静夜和流云所见证的诱惑和亲密感。此外还有2021年的《夜空》和《夜云》，呈现连结东西方、南北方的普遍主题。闪烁的云彩出现；它们美丽而转瞬即逝，是我们动荡世界下拥有和平与安宁的预兆。
对于汉布林来说，深夜一直是个不朽的主题。她在十四岁时已第一次从卧室的窗户画出了夜空。六十多年后，艺术家再次回到深夜作为她的主题，她认为这是一个神秘的境界：沉默、反思、诱人、多变和亲密，既真实又寓言，梦想与现实共存。汉布林引用奥地利诗人赖纳·玛丽亚·里尔克的诗《夜》作为这两个系列作品的核心：
You, darkness, of whom I am born—
I love you more that the flame
that limits the world
to the circle it illuminates
and excludes all the rest.
But the dark embraces everything:
shapes and shadows, creatures and me,
people, nations—just as they are.
It lets me imagine
a great presence stirring beside me.
I believe in the night.
受中国和日本的绘画所影响，《夜深》展览中的作品展示了一种让人联想到中国书法的技巧。这种联系可追溯到汉布林学习艺术时的学生时期，她经常研究大英博物馆展出的中国水墨画。每天开始用墨水作画已经成为她日常创作的基本部分。这些影响在一幅全新的大型三联画《边缘XXX》中、即将在香港巴塞尔艺术展上展出的著名《水之墙》系列新作中可能最为明显。《水之墙》系列自2014年在伦敦国家美术馆首次亮相以来一直在持续创作中，探索了水的多面性，既是生命维持的力量，又具有破坏性，让人感到无力却平静，突显了我们在更强大的事物中寻求身份认同的倾向。
此次展览亦将呈现全新彩绘青铜雕塑系列中的精品，该系列是汉布林著名的《余波》系列的延伸，迄今已在英国、意大利和中国的博物馆展览中展出。这些雕塑与坚实的文人石和变化无常的轻盈云彩同时产生共鸣。另外，作为艺术家与突破性创意二人组（Maxine Leonard和Valerie Wickes）创办的著名杂志Beauty Papers合作的一部分，展览还将展示一件全新的实心银雕塑，名为《银色沉睡者》。该杂志融合了艺术、文化和美感，银雕塑亦是杂志首件参与构思的作品，以一种自传式的表现形式和雕塑形态捕捉汉布林的肖像，重新定义美的领域和仪式。
玛吉·汉布林表示：“我很高兴能回到香港并与林明珠女士合作。我的展览以深夜为主题，是我整个职业生涯中一再着墨的主题。夜晚是一个神秘的领域，交织了美丽、恐惧、欲望和梦想，邀请我们进入其中。”
藝術門创办人林明珠女士表示：“我对于我们能够在香港的画廊以及香港巴塞尔艺术展的群展中展示玛吉·汉布林的最新作品感到无比欣喜。她对英国艺术界的贡献是毋庸置疑的，我相信她以极其直接的方式为新一代艺术家开辟了道路。她的职业生涯中不断突破界限、拒绝墨守成规，艺术作品在深层次上继续与我产生共鸣。”
Hong Kong—Pearl Lam Galleries is delighted to announce Maggi Hambling: The Night, a solo exhibition by renowned British artist Maggi Hambling at its Hong Kong gallery from 26 March to 16 May, coinciding with this year’s edition of Art Basel Hong Kong. This marks the first solo exhibition by Hambling in Asia since the artist’s museum retrospectives in Beijing and Guangzhou in 2019. Pearl Lam Galleries will also showcase an important new Wall of Water painting by the artist at its Art Basel Hong Kong stand.
Hambling occupies a unique position as an artist who has consistently embraced a spirit of rebelliousness throughout her career, making her one of the most celebrated female artists in the British art scene. This spirit is evident in her tributes to seminal intellectual figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft, an important advocate for women’s rights in the 18th century, and memorial sculptures honouring figures like the 19th-century author Oscar Wilde and the 20th-century composer Benjamin Britten. Rooted in her own lived experiences, Hambling’s work remains a reflection of and draws inspiration from people, places, and her identity as a pioneering artist with a queer perspective. Viewing painting as an intimate and physical experience, Hambling believes that regardless of the time dedicated to a painting, it must culminate in a single moment—akin to the profound physicality of love.
The Night will include two new series of paintings that have never been seen before. This includes her 2023 series with works titled Sexy, Sexy Dream, and About to Kiss, which explores the seduction and intimacy to which the silent night and shifting clouds can bear witness. It also includes Hambling’s Night Sky and Night Clouds paintings from 2021 that present a universal subject connecting the East and West along with the North and South. Shimmering clouds appear; beautiful and fleeting, they are omens of peace and serenity above our turbulent world.
For Hambling, nighttime has been an enduring subject, having first painted the night sky from her bedroom window at age fourteen. Over six decades later, the artist returns to the night as her subject, which she considers to be a mysterious realm: silent, reflective, seductive, shifting, and intimate, both real and fabled where dreams and reality coexist. Hambling cites Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem The Night as being central to both these series of paintings:
You, darkness, of whom I am born—
I love you more that the flame
that limits the world
to the circle it illuminates
and excludes all the rest.
But the dark embraces everything:
shapes and shadows, creatures and me,
people, nations—just as they are.
It lets me imagine
a great presence stirring beside me.
I believe in the night.
Influenced by Chinese and Japanese paintings, the works featured throughout The Night showcase a technique reminiscent of Chinese calligraphy, a connection rooted in Hambling’s art student days when she would regularly study Chinese ink drawings on display at The British Museum. Drawing in ink at the start of each day has become a fundamental part of her daily creative ritual. These influences are perhaps most apparent in a new and large triptych titled Edge XXX and a new painting from the celebrated Wall of Water series, which has been ongoing since its debut at The National Gallery, London in 2014, to be showcased at Art Basel Hong Kong. The Wall of Water series explores the multifaceted nature of water, both its role as the sustenance of life and its ability to destroy, where one feels both powerless and yet peaceful, highlighting our inclination to seek identity in something more formidable.
A selection of new sculptures rendered in painted bronze expands on Hambling’s celebrated Aftermath series, exhibited to date in museum shows across the UK, Italy, and China. The new Aftermath sculptures resonate simultaneously with the solidity of scholar’s rocks and the lightness and shifting impermanence of clouds. A new solid silver sculpture titled Silver Sleeper will also be presented as part of a collaboration between Maggi Hambling and Beauty Papers, the groundbreaking creative duo (Maxine Leonard and Valerie Wickes) and celebrated publication, where art, culture and beauty collide. Silver Sleeper is Beauty Papers Artefact No.1: an autobiographic manifestation, a portrait of Hambling captured in a sculptural form that redefines the territories and rituals of beauty.
Maggi Hambling says, “I’m excited to return to Hong Kong and to be working with Pearl Lam. The subject of my exhibition, the Night, is one I have returned to throughout my career. Night inhabits a mysterious territory where beauty, fear, desire and dream combine and invite us in.”
Pearl Lam, Founder of Pearl Lam Galleries, says, “I’m delighted to present new and recent works by Maggi Hambling at our gallery in Hong Kong and in our group presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong. Her contributions to the British art scene are truly exceptional, and she is someone whom I believe has carved a path for a new generation of artists with a brutally honest and direct approach—consistently pushing boundaries and refusing to conform throughout her career. Her artworks continue to resonate with me on a deeply personal level.”
