Acquavella画廊举办中国当代艺术家曾梵志在美国的首次个展
展览时间：2009年4月2日 -- 5月15日
纽约 -- 2009年2月3日 -- Acquavella画廊将承办中国当代艺术家曾梵志在美国的第一次个展，时间是2009年4月2日 -- 5月15日。这次展览将展出大约20件曾梵志新近的作品，包括新的风景系列和最近的肖像系列。而且，大部分作品将是第一次向公众展示。曾梵志在中国当代艺术家圈子里还是很受欢迎的。在2008年5月的香港佳士得拍卖会上，他的作品“面具系列 No.6”以970万美元成交，也创下了中国当代艺术拍卖的最高纪录。
“我们期待为曾梵志举办他在美国的第一个个展，”Acquavella画廊总裁William Acquavella说，“从上世纪90年代开始，他的作品就在世界主要的美术馆展出，并被很好的画廊销售。现在在亚洲，他已经是他这个时期最令人羡慕的艺术家了。他的强有力的出众的作品不仅探究了个人，而且也展现了社会。
曾梵志出生在1964年，经历了中国的文化大革命。他就读于湖北美术学院，在那里，他受到表现主义的深深影响。他毕业时的作品反映出了当时的社会和文化，也是他的试金石。而他的“面具”系列作品是他的一次突破。画面中的中国年轻人都带着红领巾，他们的姿势带着明显的共产主义特点，就如同卡尔•马克思和毛主席。而他最近的抽象风景系列则是由强烈的笔触和基本的颜色构成。
1993年以后，曾梵志开始来到北京居住和工作。他的作品广泛的在世界上很受欢迎的美术馆展览过，包括上海美术馆、中国美术馆（北京）、德国波恩当代艺术美术馆、瑞士伯尔尼美术馆、西班牙巴塞罗那现代艺术博物馆和香港艺术中心。
这次展览同时还会推出同步画册。其中包括所有参展作品图片和对艺术家本人的提问和回答。Acquavella画廊座落在纽约79街18号。为这次展览会在周一到周六10:00am -- 5:00pm开放。想要了解参观信息，请登陆www.acquavellagalleries.com 或拨打 212-734-6300。
Acquavella是一个家族式的画廊，由Nicholas Acquavella于1921年创建。画廊最早是专门针对意大利文艺复兴时期的作品。但在1960年，William Acquavella加入他父亲的画廊后，画廊主要经历转入19和20世纪许多主要艺术品，包括印象派，后印象派，立体主义和超现实主义大师的作品。目前，William Acquavella先生的女儿Eleanor，儿子Nicholas和Alexander也加入到了画廊的运作当中。现在整个20世纪的艺术品都成为画廊的范畴，包括抽象表现主义和流行艺术。
在过去的8年时间里，Acquavella将很多绘画作品和雕塑卖给世界各地的私人收藏家和博物馆。画廊也举办过很多美术馆级的展览，包括莫奈、埃德加•德加、塞尚、阿尔弗雷德•西斯莱、皮尔-奥古斯都•雷诺阿、卡米耶•毕沙罗、阿米地奥•莫迪里阿尼、皮埃尔•博纳尔、伊夫•唐居伊、费尔南•莱热、毕加索、马蒂斯、罗伯特•劳森伯格、利奥奈尔•费宁格、阿尔贝托•贾科梅蒂和约安•米罗。Acquavella画廊独家代理著名英国艺术家卢西安•弗洛伊德、詹姆斯•罗森奎斯特和代缅•劳比。
Michael Findlay, Esperanza Sobrino和Tsutomu Takashima是画廊的主管。他们三人有着丰富、宽广的经验和资历，覆盖专业的艺术获得、评估和教育领域。画廊经营范围包括法国、意大利、日本和西班牙，尤其是英国。
ACQUAVELLA GALLERIES PRESENTS
FIRST U.S. SOLO EXHIBITION
OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST ZENG FANZHI
Zeng Fanzhi on view April 2 – May 15, 2009
New York, NY – February 3, 2009 – Acquavella Galleries will present the first U.S. solo exhibition of Chinese contemporary artist Zeng Fanzhi from April 2 – May 15, 2009. Most of the approximately 20 oil on canvas works in the exhibition, featuring Fanzhi’s newest landscapes and recent portraits, will be shown publicly for the first time. Fanzhi is one of the most in-demand of his peer group, and set a new world auction record for Chinese contemporary art in May 2008, when his diptych Mask Series 1996 No. 6 sold for $9.7 million at Christie’s in Hong Kong.
“We look forward to presenting Zeng Fanzhi’s first exhibition in the United States,” said William Acquavella, President of Acquavella Galleries. “Since the early 1990s, he has been shown in major museums and sold by major galleries and is now the most admired figurative artist of his generation in Asia. His powerfully distinctive paintings explore personal identity and social convention.”
Zeng Fanzhi was born in 1964, and came of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. He studied at the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in his province, where he was deeply influenced by Expressionism. From his graduate work on, Fanzhi’s paintings have reflected these cultural and critical touchstones, from his breakthrough “Mask” series, featuring Chinese youths wearing the traditional bandanas of the Red Guard, to portraits of Communist figureheads such as Marx and Chariman Mao, to his recent abstract landscapes filled with intense brushstrokes and primary colors.
Since 1993, Fanzhi has lived and worked in Beijing. He has exhibited widely at acclaimed institutions such as the Shanghai Art Museum, National Art Museum (Beijing), Kunst Museum Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bern, Santa Monica Art Centre (Barcelona), and Art Centre (Hong Kong).
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with full-color reproductions and a Q&A with the artist. Acquavella Galleries, located at 18 East 79th Street, New York, will be open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm for the run of the exhibition. For visitor information, please visit www.acquavellagalleries.com or call 212-734-6300.
About Acquavella Galleries
Acquavella is a family-owned gallery founded by Nicholas Acquavella in 1921. The gallery first specialized in works of the Italian Renaissance, but in 1960, when William Acquavella joined his father, the focus of the gallery expanded to major works of the 19th and 20th centuries, including masters of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism. Recently, William Acquavella has been joined by daughter Eleanor and sons Nicholas and Alexander, and the entire scope of the 20th century is now represented, including Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
For over eighty years, Acquavella has sold major paintings and sculpture to private collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery has presented museum-quality exhibitions of Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Sisley, Renoir, Pissarro, Modigliani, Bonnard, Tanguy, Léger, Picasso, Matisse, Rauschenberg, Feininger, Giacometti, and Miró. Acquavella is the exclusive international agent for the renowned British painter Lucian Freud, James Rosenquist, and Damian Loeb.
Michael Findlay, Esperanza Sobrino and Tsutomu Takashima are the directors of Acquavella. Their combined experience represents a wide range of expertise in acquisition, appraisal and education. Business can be conducted in French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish as well as English.