展期 Period：
2023.9.23—2023.10.29
艺术家 Artist：
地点 Venue：
狮語画廊 Leo Gallery（上海）
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新闻稿 Press Release：
狮語画廊荣幸宣布将于2023年9月23日至10月29日呈现艺术家布拉德·布朗（Brad Brown）与陈开的双个展“光·迹”。本次展览将汇集布朗创作生涯中最具代表性的两个系列作品与陈开近一年内的十余件新作。
阳光穿过迷雾洒落在旧金山的海湾, 越过广阔的太平洋, 千重浪的另一岸是上海缓流入海的黄浦江与苏州河。布拉德·布朗与陈开的抽象绘画创作在旧金山与上海并行、交汇、构成流动的对话。他们的系列绘画创作是画布上的时间累积与视觉档案、是笔触与色彩间流淌间的诗意与想象力的有机物。
布拉德·布朗于1987年开始创作他的纸本绘画系列“The Look Stains”，于2001年开始创作木板油画“Piece”，两个系列至今保持“未完成”的状态。不再龃龉于“完成”与“未完成”的二元对立, 画家的日常创作所生成的变化如植物般生机盎然地生长。系列中上千幅画作编织成一张视觉信息网络, 通过装订、剪贴、重组变化着形态。它们如同连环画或幻灯片, 每幅画作中的事物以奇妙地方式产生关联、轻柔地说笑。之于布拉德·布朗, 他的画作之间相互独立，但从不孤单。
陈开的布面丙烯绘画不仅局限于大尺幅抽象画作所展现的崇高感, 更为明晰的是, 点彩绘画和对细节的体验是画家与画作材料产生情感驱动的一部分。在“重复与差异”中, 重复是新, 是细微的差别、也是超越基础规则的尝试。点彩画的笔触与变幻的色块之间是游牧式的流动与安营。陈开曾在旧金山湾区附近的萨利托（Sausalito）海岸国家公园进行了一年的艺术家驻留项目, 工作室窗外, 毗邻太平洋的晨昏雾霭, 风中摩挲舞蹈的桉树, 成为记忆流转于画布上层叠的光影。
无论是布拉德·布朗根茎般生长的画作，还是陈开非中心化的“星图”, 都指向艺术对人内心世界与日常生活的表达与突破。你可以理解一幅画, 而无需知道它被固然定义为何。
文/于潍颖
Leo Gallery is delighted to present Shimmer and Stain, a joint exhibition of Chen Kai and Brad Brown, on view from September 23 to October 29, 2023. The exhibition will feature two of the most iconic series of works from Brad Brown's career, as well as more than a dozen new works by Chen Kai from the past two years.
Sunlight pours through the mist on San Francisco Bay, illuminating the vast Pacific Ocean. On the other side of the waves lie Shanghai's Huangpu and Suzhou River, which flow tranquilly into the sea. Brad Brown and Chen Kai's abstract paintings engage in a fluid dialogue between San Francisco and Shanghai. Their series of paintings represents an accumulation of time, the painters’ visual archives on canvas, and organisms of poetry and imagination that flow between brushstrokes and colors.
Brad Brown began his series of works on paper, The Look Stains, in 1987; and a body of oil paintings on cradled panels titled, Piece, in 2001. Both projects have remained “unfinished” ever since. No longer restricted by the dichotomy between the states of "completed" and the "not completed", the artist's daily creations grow and thrive like plants with vitality. Like a comic strip or a slide show, the objects in each painting are connected in a marvelous way and respond to each other. For Brown, his paintings are independent, but never alone. The series comprises thousands of paintings arranged into a network of visual information that undergoes constant transformation through the painter's assembly, cutting, pasting, and reorganization. The objects in each painting are splendidly connected and interact with each other like a comic strip or slide show. Each of Brown's paintings is independent, yet never alone.
Chen Kai's paintings go beyond the sense of sublime arising from large-scale abstraction. What stands out is Chen’s persistence in experiencing details through pointillism, which partially provokes the painter’s emotion towards his painting materials. In “repetition and difference,” the “repetition” highlights novelty, nuance, and an attempt to go beyond the ground rules. Nomadic flow exists between brushstrokes and shifting colors in pointillism. Chen Kai spent a year in an artist-in-residency program at the Marin Headlands in Sausalito near San Francisco where he could view morning mists, the gentle twilight of the Pacific Ocean, and eucalyptus trees dancing in the wind from his studio window. These eventually transformed into layers of light and shadows on his canvas.
Whether it's Brad Brown's paintings, which grow like rhizomes, or Chen Kai's paintings, scattered like "starry nights", they all ultimately lead to the expression of one's inner world and a breakthrough from mundane life. You can appreciate a painting without necessarily knowing how it's defined.
Text / Yu Weiying
