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展览名称：十万火急——迈克尔·圣·阿曼德个展

展览时间：2018年9月15日-10月14日

开幕酒会：2018年9月15日周六 下午3：00

展览地址：798艺术区 ICI LABAS艺栈（北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路2号798东街D10号）

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“迈克尔·圣·阿曼德的画作唤醒了我们对深刻真相的感知，有关我们的世界，有关世界的我们。”

     ——罗伯特·梅兹格（博士， 奥德里奇当代艺术博物馆名誉董事，雷丁博物馆名誉董事 ）

自2018年9月15日起至10月14日，迈克尔·圣·阿曼德的多形态画作和混合媒体艺术作品将会在798艺术区ICI LABAS艺栈展出（地址：北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路2号798东街D10号）。开幕式将于2018年9月15日周六下午3：00举办。欢迎您来观赏艺术作品，与艺术家见面，并参与到这次精彩活动中来。

Only Two Left

Everything or Nothing

来自西南佛罗里达州的知名视觉艺术家迈克尔·圣·阿曼德将会展出他在北京创作的新作（包括他的E.L.E系列的全球首展）。艺术家迈克尔·圣·阿曼德凭借他对于源自内心的、充满力量与活力的色彩的运用以及他的创作主题——影响人性的条件而闻名。他的作品挑战智力、看似矛盾，在观看者中激起讨论，延续着他从一个充满问题且神秘的虚幻世界中挖掘真理的探寻。他引领观众开启一段跨越多重视角观看抽象叙事场景之旅，通过对空间，光，颜色和视角的运作将行动绘画与客观题材相结合。

Chateau Mere II

Replicant

Sudan

迈克尔·圣·阿曼德的画作需要我们以一个新的方式来观察世界，既要考虑我们的相互依赖性，也要思考我们存在的普遍性。我们被迫认识到我们的冷漠所带来的影响，叩问自己我们的责任是什么，我们愿意奉献多少。贯穿迈克尔·圣·阿曼德作品的各个主题涉及范围广阔，显示着阿曼德对于连接这些主题的相互关系的洞察能力，比如科技瓦解社会互动，环境破坏，社会经济冲击，社会对青春的痴迷这些主题也仅仅是一小部分。他甘愿探索未知，把我们的注意力带回到我们常常忽视的事物上，并提醒着我们，美好就存在于我们的奋斗与挣扎之中。可以清楚地看到，他的作品中有着深深扎根的精神力量。

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迈克尔·圣·阿曼德的才华为他赢得了无数有声望的奖项。他曾在美国乃至国际范围内展出过他的作品：其中包括了佛罗里达州的巴塞尔卫星博览会/艺术展；达拉斯的德巴斯克画廊；纽约惠特尼美国艺术博物馆；华盛顿D.C.的华盛顿艺术工程；巴黎索邦大学；波尔多的现代艺术博物馆；格鲁吉亚共和国第比利斯的格鲁吉亚国家博物馆；德国柏林的飞鹰画廊；新西兰的乔治弗雷泽画廊等，仅在此列举一二。他的作品在世界上的博物馆，公司和私人藏品中均有收藏。目前，迈克尔·圣·阿曼德担任北京朝阳区赫德双语学校的驻校艺术家，这所私立双语学校建于2017年，将最先进的国际教育理念和中国文化相结合，旨在培养国际化的中国人。

Michael St. Amand’s dynamic paintings and mixed-media combines will be on exhibit at Gallery ICI LABAS, 798 Art Space No.2, Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, #D10, Beijing, China from September 15 to October 14, 2018. The Opening Reception is Saturday, September 15, 2018 at 15:00. Come enjoy the artwork, meet the artist, and partake in this dynamic event. This exhibition is one you definitely do not want to miss!

Internationally renowned and Southwest Florida-based visual artist, Michael St. Amand, will showcase his new works created in Beijing including the world premiere of his E.L.E. series.

The artist is known for his use of visceral powerful and vibrant colours as well as his subject matter – conditions that affect humanity. St. Amand’s intellectually provocative and paradoxical work encourages discourse among viewers, continuing his quest to dissect truth from fiction in a world with expanding questions and mystery. The artist leads his audience on a journey across multiple views of abstract narrative scenes, combining action painting with objective subject matter while playing with space, light, colour, and perspective.

St. Amand’s paintings ask us to look at the world in a new way and to consider not only our interdependence, but also the universal nature of our existence. We are forced to recognize the repercussions of our own apathy and then ask ourselves what are our responsibilities and how much are we willing to sacrifice. The themes that run through Michael St. Amand’s work are vast in scope and indicative of his insightful ability to see the correlations that connect them: technology disintegrating social interaction, environmental extinction, socio-economic impact, and societal obsession with youth, are just a few. In his work lies a deeply rooted spirituality that becomes evident by his willingness to explore the unknown, bringing our attention to things we would normally over-look while reminding us that within our struggle resides beauty.

Michael St. Amand has earned numerous prestigious awards for his talents. The artist has exhibited his artwork in the United States and internationally, including SCOPE/Art Basel, Florida; Debusk Galleries, Dallas; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; The Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; La Sorbonne, Paris; Musee' D' Art Moderne, Bordeaux; The Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia; EAGL Gallery, Germany; George Frasier Gallery, New Zealand – just to name a few. His work can be found in museum, corporate, and private collections around the world. Currently, St. Amand is the Artist-in-Residence at HD Beijing School – a private bilingual school founded in 2017, blending the best of International education philosophy with Chinese culture to educate globalised Chinese.

"Michael St. Amand's paintings awaken our senses to profound truths concerning our world and our place in it."

——Robert P. Metzger, Ph.D.（Director Emeritus of the Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art, CT and Director Emeritus of The Reading Museum, PA.）

For more information, visit the artist’s website: http://www.michaelstamand.com

更多信息请参考艺术家个人网站： http://www.michaelstamand.com

展览名称：十万火急——迈克尔·圣·阿曼德个展

展览时间：2018年9月15日-10月14日

开幕酒会：2018年9月15日周六 下午3：00

展览地址：798艺术区 ICI LABAS艺栈（北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路2号798东街D10号）