Twenty-one 廿一点
CHAI YIMING 柴一茗
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GALLERIA DELL'ARCO, SHANGHAI
opening: July 3rd 2010
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Galleria dell'Arco - Aike Gallery is pleased to announce the new solo show of Chai Yiming, Twenty-one. A series of new inks on rice paper will be on display in the Shanghai space located in 50 Moganshan Road.
This set of new inks takes a subtle step forward from the previous body of works by Chai Yiming, where fantastic and bizarre creatures populating a void and ambiguous ground, give life to a costant struggle between certainty of nature and its relentless expansion and reduction.
Altough forms are rendered with bright tones and ample gestures, this new series of lethargic landscapes disclose a land of phantoms and shadows. Such as a stake of translucent photos of the same object overlapping each other with a slight displacement, the contour of every form, be it a building, a tree or a stone is uncertain and elusive whilst its mass remains solid.
Like at Twenty-one at night, when the daylight has just given its way, shapes acquire
a temporary glare of clarity, before being swallowed by the darkness.
Moreover, "Twenty-one" is the name of a gambling game, which, in this case, refers to a peculiar aspect
of the artist's creative attitude: adopting a certain kind of permissive disposition, the shapes, forms and lines originated from the tip of the brush engage the viewer in a sort of hide-and-seek, partly evading and partly pursuing the object the artist wants to represent, resembling the logics of a gambling game.
INFO
2/F, No. 1 Building, 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai, China
hours: every day from 10 am to 6 pm
tel/fax +86 21 52527164; shanghai@dearco.it
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廿一点
2010年7月3日至8月29日
开幕酒会：2010年7月3日，周六，晚6-9点
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艾可画廊（上海）荣幸推出艺术家柴一茗个展《廿一点》，本次展览甄选近十五幅画家近作，包括了画家最近开始创作的楼房系列。
本次展览略微不同于之前的作品，以往柴一茗的艺术总是会有一些怪异荒诞的生物充斥在空旷的不明确的空间里，使生命挣扎在自然的确定性和生命的流变之中。
尽管画中的形体怡然的处在明亮的调子里，但这种了无生气的环境却显露出魅影一般的特征，就好像一系列内容相同的半透明照片不太规则的重叠在一起。房子、树、鸟的外形都变得模糊起来，但体量保持着稳定。如同晚上21点，当日光退让，形体在完全被黑暗吞没前，得到了一丝清澈的张扬。
二十一点也是一种纸牌游戏的名称，是对画家一直以来创作状态的指代：那是一种放任的个性，造型、色彩、线条都从其笔下放任而出，寻觅又逃避着艺术家想表达的东西，和观者玩起了捉迷藏的游戏，就像在进行一场人生的自我博弈。
INFO
地址：上海市莫干山路 50号（M50艺术创意园区） 1号楼2楼
展览时间 7月3日到8月29日
营业时间 上午10点---下午6点
联系方式 电话/传真 021-52527164 E-mail：shanghai@dearco.it
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