展期 Period：
2023.8.19—2023.10.8
艺术家 Artist：
策展人 Curator：
地点 Venue：
沪申画廊 Space & Gallery Association
新闻稿 Press Release：
SGA沪申画廊荣幸宣布将举办艺术家高嘉璐于画廊的首场个展《复活节》，展期为2023年8月19日至10月8日。作为西方传统节日之一，复活节于春分日第一个望日后的星期天举行，故在岁时节序中，有万物复苏的世俗性含义。艺术家的创作基本围绕着“复活节”的内涵展开，通过对“希望”和“重生”等普世命题的关注，传达其身为生命个体的人文主义关怀。此次展览将展出艺术家的“人物”系列和“蛋”系列。其中，“人物”系列将展出艺术家以列奥纳多·达·芬奇(Leonardo da Vinci）代表作《最后的晚餐》为基础创作的同名作品。
高嘉璐凭借其曼妙的想象力及任缘造化的书写，创造出具有独立意义的符号系统。在纽约视觉艺术学院获得艺术学士学位后，她又进入罗德岛设计学院攻读硕士学位。她以油画颜料作为自我创作的主要媒材，在造型和文字之间寻找关联性，并将图示表现在画布上。
艺术家的创作基于对抽象语言的研究，她对具有独立系统意义的文字符号进行挖掘，并与当代艺术中的图示相结合，形成独特的视觉语言。她以直觉式的用笔和构图，从线条和符号的意义与结构中寻求色彩/图像与普世命题的联结。色彩与线条的对比和运动，以及其所构成的几何形象形成叙事，单纯的技法和简洁的画面编排，抽离了赋予在色彩与线条之上的历史负担，使画面达到抽象而纯净的视觉效果。
高嘉璐醉心于思考文字之外的世界。在饱满的画面结构和现代主义式的色彩张力中，艺术家独有的符号在画面中自在穿梭，灵性而富有想象力的形象表露着艺术家浪漫而诗意的表达。人物化的、被抽象化的脸庞显现出艺术家对人文主义的关怀，而那些独特的文字符号如同不断跳跃的音符，又为平面的绘画注入音乐性。
Space & Gallery Association is pleased to present the inaugural solo exhibition of Gao Jialu: Easter, at our Shanghai gallery. The exhibit is on view from the 19th August 2023 through till the 8th October 2023. As a traditional Western festival, Easter has always come the first Sunday after the Paschal moon, and thus has a secular meaning of rebirth and revival in seasonal festivals. The artist's works are centered around the connotations of Easter, conveying her humanism as an individual through her concerns for universal propositions such as "hope" and "rebirth". The exhibition will feature the artist's series "Figures" and "Eggs", of which the series "Figures" will feature the artist's eponymous work based on Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper.
Gao Jialu has created a system of symbols with independent meanings through her imaginations and spontaneous writings. After receiving her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, she pursued her MA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Using oil paint as her primary medium, she has been seeking a correlation between shape and symbols and has been expressing her iconographies on the canvas.
The artist’s works show the exploration of a unique abstract language. She has been exploring the pictorial significance of independent, systematic character symbols in contemporary art. With intuitive brush strokes, she seeks the connection between colours and images from the meaning and structure of lines and symbols. The contrast and movement of colors and lines form geometric images which composes a narrative. Meanwhile, the simplicity of technique and arrangement abstracts the burden of history that is placed on the colours and lines, allowing her paintings to achieve an abstract and pure visual effect.
Gao is interested in thinking about the world beyond characters. In the full-bodied structure and the tension of modernist colours, the symbols self-originated by the artist pass freely through her works, and the spiritual and imaginative images show the artist's romantic and poetic expression. The abstracted faces of the figures show the artist's concern for humanism. The unreadable symbols are like notes jumping around, bringing musicality to the flat canvas.
