展期 Period：
2023.11.4—2023.12.16
艺术家 Artist：
策展人 Curator：
地点 Venue：
蜂巢当代艺术中心 Hive Center for Contemporary Art（北京）
新闻稿 Press Release：
蜂巢当代艺术中心荣幸地宣布，将于2023年11月4日至12月16日在蜂巢|北京主展厅推出艺术家王赫的最新个展“极目之游/ Roam of Infinite Vision”。此次展览是王赫于蜂巢|北京的首次个展，由策展人于非策划，将聚焦王赫近五年来创作序列中的重要节点作品与最新完成的绘画探索。
王赫一直以来因他身份的特殊性而备受瞩目。供职于故宫博物院的他兼有“古书画复制人”与“当代艺术家”的双重身份。王赫日常所面临的关键课题即在于消化“古”与“今”的对峙。不同时间、不同空间的碰撞与交互关系构成了王赫创作的主干，一个个各有侧重的系列之作如同枝叶般由此生发扩展。古典与传统从未被视为包袱与顾忌，反而成为王赫得以源源不断发掘新知的珍贵宝藏。他以细腻的工笔技法效仿古意却不执著于复古本身。王赫真正看重的是全力调动当下时代对于时空纵深前所未有的高维理解，用精妙入神的绘画语言去构建兼容并蓄的多重世界。
此次展览恰逢王赫开启个人创作的第十年。“极目之游”作为展题意在概括王赫多年创作的内在核心：以极限的目力开启富于洞见的觉察，链接微观与宏观的物象，贯通古今虚实的时空；以逸趣横生的姿态操纵视角的游弋与转换，在静止的画面中注入新的观看可能性的动势。王赫不断在画面里开辟不同形制的视窗，并为其填充意想不到的视野。时空作为一种画面关系，经由目光穿针引线，从而有了景中景、画中画，有了幻与真密不可分的世界。最终，王赫用肉身之眼去观看，用器具之眼去观察，用思维之眼去观想，直至他完备自洽的绘画观、时空观与世界观蔚然成型。
展览试图呈现的是一座微缩了时空的观览之园。在峰回路转、高低错落的路径旁，散落着王赫所创造的一个个既独立又连贯的绘画天地。首尾相连的展场同构于由画面内部延展而出的闭合时空与循环缠绕的视线。内与外、近与远、自然与科技、现实与幻想，这些既对立又统一的相互关系均被囊括于他的绘画空间之中。信步漫游于王赫的绘画园林，极致的目光与无限的思绪得以由此释放。
Hive Center for Contemporary Art is honored to announce the latest solo exhibition of Wang He, Roam of Infinite Vision, on view from 4 November to 16 December 2023 at Hive Beijing’s main gallery hall. This marks Wang He’s first solo show at Hive Beijing, which focuses on his most important works from the artist’s practice for the past five years and his most recent painting adventures. This exhibition is curated by Yu Fei.
Wang He has always been recognised for his exceptional profile. Working at the Palace Museum, he embraces the dual identity of both a duplicator of antique paintings and calligraphy and a contemporary artist. In his everyday life, Wang He confronts the pivotal challenge of reconciling the ‘ancient’ and ‘contemporary’. Collisions and interactions between various times and spaces comprise the structure of his practice, in which series of works with different emphases emerge and flourish like branches and leaves. Classics and traditions have never been regarded as encumbrances or inhibitions but instead have become precious assets for the artist to constantly explore and acquire. He emulates the sense of antiquity with his delicate brushwork techniques without being fixated on returning to the ancients. What Wang He truly values is to fully mobilise the unprecedented high-dimensional comprehension of the depth of space-time in the current context, and to construct multiple worlds that are all-embracing with the subtle and refined language of painting.
This exhibition marks the tenth anniversary of Wang He’s personal practice. The title of the exhibition, Roam of Infinite Vision, intends to summarise the core of Wang’s practice over the years: to initiate an insightful consciousness with the utmost vision, to connect micro and macro realities, and to transcend the time and space between the ancient and the contemporary; and to manoeuvre the cruising and shifting perspectives with a playful attitude, introducing new viewing possibilities into the static images with a dynamic momentum. Wang creates windows of different forms in his work, where he then adds unexpected horizons. Time and space, as a pictorial relationship, are threaded through the gaze; thus, we have a scene within a scene, a painting within a painting, and a world where illusion and truth are inseparable. At last, Wang He sees with his physical eyes, observes with his instrumental eyes, and contemplates with his spiritual eyes, until his complete and self-contained view of painting, time and space, and the world has come into being.
This exhibition attempts to present a garden of time and space viewed in miniature. Alongside the paths that twist and turn, situated high to low, there scatters an array of independent and coherent worlds of painting created by Wang He. Spatially connected throughout, the exhibition space is composed of a closed space-time and a looped and entwined line of sight that extends out from the panels of the paintings. Inside and outside, near and far, nature and technology, reality and illusion, these relationships, both opposites and unities, are encapsulated in the space of his paintings. Wandering through Wang He’s garden of painting, the utmost vision and infinite thoughts can thus be unleashed.
