盛奇——新作个展
2009年5月24日－8月17日
开幕酒会定于2009年5月23日下午3点至6点
F2画廊将举办盛奇第二次个展，本次展览将展出艺术家从2006年到2009年间创作的作品，共5个系列。颜料从画布上下滴下来——这是盛奇近期作品的一个标志性表现。
本次展览作品歌颂了在盛奇戏剧化的想像中成为主人公和主角的中国人民。同时本次展览还突出强调了艺术家客观地观察周围世界本来面目——极度美丽的混乱喧嚣——仿佛是在说，清晰的眼界是迈向个人和艺术自由的第一步。
“我们很期待这次特别的新作展览。作品表达很强烈，我相信观众会被作品的冲击而震惊，无论是视觉冲击还是理念冲击。盛奇的确已经成长为当今中国年轻一代艺术中比较有意思的体现时代脉搏的一位画家。”F2画廊弗羽森先生如是说。
关于盛奇
北京艺术家盛奇曾帮助建立了80年代中国第一个行为艺术群体“观念21”。1989年，这位艺术家有件著名的事件：他将自己的左手小指切掉，并离开中国前往欧洲学习，后来毕业于伦敦久负盛名的圣马丁艺术学院。
回到中国后，盛奇继续从事行为艺术。 他还开始将来自中国媒体的影像融入到新的摄影作品系列中：每幅照片都被摆放在艺术家的左手掌中，呈现出朋友或是家人亦或媒体的一幅小照片，而他的小指明显缺损了。这是一种照片中的照片，而手势充当了艺术家与观众之间的握手，将盛奇个人过去的经历同一个国家的集体记忆联系起来。
他回到中国后，精力更多地转向了绘画，审视各种社会问题，包括城市化、媒体以及这个国家过去和未来之间苦乐参半的冲撞。他那种有力的非学院式绘画风格，就像在他的《红黑历史》系列中所呈现的，通常似乎充斥着墨汁与鲜血。就规模和主题而言，此次个展充分显示出他至今在绘画方面所作出的最为成熟和志向高远的努力。
F2画廊即将推出新展
杭州年轻艺术家群展 – 9月5日至11月9日
曹应斌个展 – 2009年11月14日至2010年2月7日
CONTACT:
F2 Gallery Public Relations
Miriam Deller
Core Power Culture and Broadcasting Ltd, Beijing
China mobile: (86) 150 1152 7797
International mobile: (43) 699 1781 0912
E-mail: f2gallery.press@gmail.com
www.f2gallery.com
For further information about F2 Gallery, please contact Scarlett at:
Tel.: + 86 10 6432 8831
No. 319 Cao Changdi, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100015, China
E-mail: art@f2gallery.com
www.f2gallery.com
Sheng Qi – New Paintings
May 24 – August 17, 2009
Reception with the artist on May 23, 3 – 6 pm
For immediate release, Beijing, April 23rd 2009
The second solo show of Sheng Qi at F2 Gallery presents five different series of works of Sheng Qi that the artist developed between 2006 and 2009. The canvases are dripping with paint – a signature indicator of Sheng Qi’s recent works.
This exhibition celebrates the Chinese people who constitute the subjects and major actors of Sheng Qi’s dramatic imagination. The show highlights the artist’s objective to see the world around him as it really is– a profoundly beautiful chaos– as if to say that clear vision is the first step to both personal and artistic freedom.
“We are looking forward to this exceptional show of new paintings. These works are very strong and I believe visitors will be surprised by their impact, both visually and conceptually. Sheng Qi has really developed into one of the more interesting and relevant painters of a younger generation in China today.” says Fabien Fryns of F2.
About Sheng Qi
Beijing based artist Sheng Qi is a co-founder of Concept 21, China’s first performance–art group in the 1980s. In 1989, the artist famously severed his pinky from his left hand and left China for Europe, where he later graduated from London’s prestigious St. Martin’s Academy of Art.
After returning to China, Sheng Qi continued his performance art. He began to incorporate commercial images into a new photographic series: each photo featured a small photo from friends and family or from the media placed in the artist’s left palm, his pinky prominently absent. As “photo within a photo”, the gesture also served as a handshake between the artist and viewer, linking Sheng Qi’s personal past to a national collective memory.
Sheng Qi then increasingly turned to painting. His hard-hitting non-academic painting style, as in his series Black and Red, often seems to drip with ink and blood. His current solo show demonstrates his most mature and ambitious painterly effort to date, both in terms of scale and subject matter.
Upcoming Exhibitions at F2 Gallery
Young artists from Hangzhou - September 5 to November 9
Cao Yingbin - Solo Show - November 14 2009 to Feb 7 2010
CONTACT:
F2 Gallery Public Relations
Miriam Deller
Core Power Culture and Broadcasting Ltd, Beijing
China mobile: (86) 150 1152 7797
International mobile: (43) 699 1781 0912
E-mail: f2gallery.press@gmail.com
www.f2gallery.com
For further information about F2 Gallery, please contact Scarlett at:
Tel.: + 86 10 6432 8831
No. 319 Cao Changdi, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100015, China
E-mail: art@f2gallery.com
www.f2gallery.com