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2023.9.28—2023.10.31
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今格空间荣幸地宣布，陈彧凡在今格空间的第二次个展“新作”将于2023年9月28日开幕，展期持续至10月31日。
本次展览将呈现陈彧凡“衍生物”系列中最新的作品。在艺术家几十年的创作实践中，城市迁徙是一种空间属性，每个空间既是一个地理概念，又包含这个城市的过往历史、现实结构和文化诉求。城市对于艺术家超越了本体的乡愁，迁徙中的“风景”是陈彧凡对过往与未知之间的度量，这种精神体验使得他在创作时不断地反观周遭环境，并试图通过作品抵达现实之外的精神空间。
陈彧凡从“衍生物”系列深入生成「被切割的风景」、「被折叠的风景」、「剩余的风景」，这些“风景”侵染在有关原乡文化象征背景中。“衍生物”系列作品通过不同方向的丙烯颜料的流淌以达到空间上的微妙变化。四个角的微翘充满了冲突、反抗、不安分的戏剧性。反复地“流淌”是艺术家对作品性格的反复塑造并赋予它存在的价值，也是艺术家自我修行的物化。
当下，碎片化的信息正在充斥着我们。每个信息又像一个个小气泡有自己独立的空间，「被切割的风景」里所呈现出的各种信息正如气泡一般，亦是混杂的，不确定的。在信息时代的洪流中，个体的声音纷纷失去了轮廓，逐渐原子化，被孤立，并很快在我们的记忆中被瓦解，变得不真实，然后消失；「被折叠的风景」画面中感性与理性交织、冲突，用抽象的形式语言回应了当下复杂的信息认知逻辑；在艺术家看来，冲突、反抗、不安分所影响的周遭环境，对每个人的意义都不一样。瞬息万变的世界「剩余的风景」中剩余的那片风景也许不是最好的但是属于自己的理想景致。
艺术，能改变这个世界吗？改变不了，但我可以做一些东西，谈论一些事情。虽然物理空间的维度无法改变，但可以通过艺术来塑造精神空间。
——陈彧凡
Ginkgo Space is honored to announce that Chen Yufan’s second solo exhibition at Ginkgo Space, “New Works”, will open on 28 September 2023 and run until 31 October.
This exhibition presents the latest works in Chen Yufan’s “Derivative” series. In the artist’s decades-long practice, urban migration is a spatial attribute; each space is both a geographic concept and encompasses the city’s past history, real-life structure, and cultural aspirations. The city has transcended the artist’s ontological nostalgia, and the migratory “landscape” is Chen Yufan’s measure of the past and the unknown, a spiritual experience that has led him to constantly reflect on his surroundings and to attempt to arrive at a spiritual space outside of reality through his works.
Chen Yufan’s “Derivative” series generates “The Cut Landscape” “The Folded Landscape” and “The Remaining Landscape”, which are imbued with a background of cultural symbolism related to the original home. The “Derivative” series of works achieves subtle spatial changes through the flow of acrylic paint in different directions. The four corners are slightly curved, full of conflict, resistance, restlessness, and drama. Repeatedly “flowing” is the artist’s repeated shaping of the character of the work and giving it the value of existence, as well as the materialization of the artist’s self-cultivation.
Nowadays, fragmented information is flooding us. Each piece of information is like a small bubble with its own independent space, and the various pieces of information presented in “The Cut Landscape” are just like bubbles, which are also mixed and uncertain. In the torrent of the information age, individual voices have lost their outlines, gradually atomized and isolated, and soon disintegrated in our memories, becoming unreal and then disappearing. In the picture of “The Folded Landscape”, sensibility and rationality are intertwined and in conflict, responding to the complex logic of information and cognition in the present with abstract formal language. In the artist’s view, the surrounding environment, which is affected by conflict, resistance, and insecurity, has different meanings for each person. In the ever-changing world, “The Remaining Landscape” may not be the best, but it belongs to one’s own ideal scenery.
Can art change the world? It cannot. But I can make things and talk about things. Although the dimension of physical space cannot be changed, it is possible to shape the spiritual space through art.
— Chen Yufan
