沈勤、陈琦：零度

　　Shen Qin & Chen Qi：Zero Degree

　　艺术家/ Artists：沈勤 Shen Qin、陈琦 Chen Qi

　　展期/ Date：2016.9.3－10.9

　　开幕酒会暨讲座/ Reception and Art Talk：2016. 9. 3（Sat) 4:00pm

　　主讲人/ Art Talk Speakers：沈勤 Shen Qin、陈琦 Chen Qi

　　蔡耀庆Abe, Tsai You-ching（历史博物馆展览组研究员Researcher, exhibition division, Museum of History）

　　地址/ Venue：亚洲艺术中心台北一馆｜台北市建国南路二段177号

　　Asia Art Center Taipei I | No. 177, Sec. 2, Jianguo S. Rd., Taipei

　　亚洲艺术中心荣幸地宣布，我们即将于2016年9月3日举办沈勤、陈琦在台湾的首次个展“沈勤、陈琦：零度”，身为国家一级美术师的沈勤，遥想宋画风格、回顾旧时代的光景；陈琦，中央美院教授，以水印版画的观念性著称。两人相交近四十年再探他们创作的早期思想，赋予当代诠释，以双个展的形式交流感受回归“零度”能带来何种新的能量。9月3日开幕当天两位艺术家将从北京来到台北与历史博物馆展览组研究员蔡耀庆对谈，展览将持续至10月9日。

　　沈勤，1958年生于南京，经过“八五新潮”洗礼，创作出古典但不囿于古典的自我意识之作。有别于唐代画家精于佛道人物，宋画的特点在于诗意，沈勤作品近似宋画的风格，对于墨的晕染他把握得当，具象与抽象的平衡，在技法和概念这两个层次上展现。沈勤在江南度过少年时代，现在的创作在一次次的重复书写中反刍，正是怀旧避世的艺术家拿着老照片企图从浑沌脑海中提取记忆，而每次从不同角度去看，模糊印象中总有一些事物特别锐利。陈琦评沈勤的画“清冽，自然，干净，没有丝毫‘作’的痕迹，如一泓清泉，清澈透底。”

　　同为南京人的陈琦，生于1963年，他以创作水印版画为主，实验版画各种非典型的作法。陈琦是中国版画界重要的人物之一，沈勤第一次见到陈琦作品时惊叹道：“我当时对版画的意识还停留在柯勒慧支K·the Kollwitz（1867-1945)和德国表现主义的表达中，而陈琦的作品，如此明确地寻找东方文化的表达符号，他是最早的先行者”。陈琦早已摆脱版画的意识形态，转而琢磨意象性、绘画性、文人特色。这同时也说明他乃是不断为版画的视觉体验和观念拓展，提出贡献的一人。这次特别展出以“错位印法”制作的版画，是他第一次尝试突显版的自由力量其实不取决于版的凹凸使得版画印出什么画面，而在于版与画双方各有自己的生命力，以此观念的推进呈现给他在台湾的首次展览。

　　沈勤与陈琦二人相识近四十年，他们有一个共同点，就是对于自己艺术生命开始的地方相当执着。沈勤是经历中国纯朴时代的最后一代人，过去对他来说是年龄渐长记忆犹新，他就像是一个紧紧抓旧时代尾巴的人，从当代的视角重探个人记忆以及当时接触到的艺术新象所带给他的影响；陈琦则是解构版、重新画、“版/画”在陈琦的重构中被赋予新的意义。他们都像是回归到零度，重新思索零本身是什么，两人的交流呈现于这次“沈勤、陈琦：零度”双个展当中。

　　关于艺术家

　　沈勤，1958年生于南京，少年时即随赵绪成先生习画。1978年考入江苏省国画院中国画研究班，为“85”美术运动时期水墨革新派的代表人物之一，现为江苏省国画院国家一级美术师。重要个展包括2015年苏州博物馆“洇·氤·霪·滢－沈勤个展”，1991年广州美术学院美术馆“沈勤画展”；重要联展包括2015年亚洲艺术中心（北京）“沈勤&陈琦作品展”，“枕流漱石－当代文人艺术展”，2014年上海喜玛拉雅美术馆“时间的节点－中国·1980的水墨景观”，1986年中国美术馆“江苏十人中央美院邀请展”。近期展览为2016年由亚洲艺术中心（台北）举办的“沈勤、陈琦：零度”。

　　陈琦，1963年生于南京， 2006年获南京艺术学院美术学博士学位。现任中央美术学院研究生院常务副院长、博士生导师。作品被大英博物馆、维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆、阿什莫林艺术与考古博物馆、伦敦苏富比美术学院、欧洲木版画基金会、纽约国立图书馆、福岗美术馆、中国美术馆、上海美术馆、广东美术馆、江苏省美术馆收藏。重要个展包括2016年上海半岛美术馆“陈琦的时间：1983-2016”，2013年中国国家博物馆“时间简谱－陈琦艺术作品展”，2008年英国杜伦大学东方博物馆“陈琦木刻”，1993年中国美术馆“陈琦水印版画第一回展”；重要联展包括2015年亚洲艺术中心（北京）“沈勤&陈琦作品展”，2012年上海美术馆“原点的维度－2012上海国际版画展”，2011年上海美术馆“观城－国际版画邀请展”，2009年德国法兰克福当代艺术馆“传统的复活－中国当代艺术展”，1995年日本横滨美术馆“神奈川国际版画艺术节－日本当代版画和战后50年世界脚步”。近期展览为2016年由亚洲艺术中心（台北）举办的“沈勤、陈琦：零度”。

　　Asia Art Center is pleased to announce the exhibition Shen Qin & Chen Qi：Zero Degree by artists Shen Qin and Chen Qi on September 3rd, 2016. This will be their first exhibition in Taiwan. Shen Qin, a Chinese national A-level artist, indulges in a painting style reminiscent of the Song dynasty which harks back to the days of an older era; Chen Qi is a professor at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, recognized for his conceptual view in watermark woodblock printing. The two have had creative styles that are closely akin since they were young, and now, nearly 40 years after the artists first met, they revisit their early creative thoughts to interpret them with a contemporary awareness. The dual solo exhibitions aim to examine what new momentum will converge by returning to “Zero Degree.” On September 3rd, the day of reception, the two artists will be travelling to Taipei from Beijing for a talk with Abe, Tsai You-ching, a researcher of the exhibition division at the National Museum of History. The exhibition is on view through October 9th.

　　Shen Qin, born in 1958 in Nanjing, had been immersed within the ’85 New Wave Movement allowing Shen Qin to create distinctive works born out of the Chinese classical paintings but unrestrained by them. Contrary to the Tang dynasty painters who are trained to depict figures in Buddhism andTaoism, the unique quality of Song dynasty painting lies within its poetic values. Shen Qin’s work bears resemblance to the style of Song dynasty painting; he is adept in the control of ink as well as the balance between figurative and abstract, visible through both technique and concept. Shen Qin spent his youth in southern China prior to reform and opening up; he ruminates over his work through repeated writings, as though his nostalgic and distant heart is attempting to retrieve memories from the tousled mind, while some things remain sharper than others amidst obscurities each time through various perspectives. Chen Qi praises Shen Qin’s paintings to be “clear, natural, pure and without a trace of ‘pretense’, like a spring with utter clarity.”

　　In 1963, Chen Qi was too born in Nanjing. He works primarily with watermark printmaking, experimenting with various atypical printmaking approaches. As a significant contributor to Chinese printmaking, Shen Qin was astounded when he first came across Chen Qi’s work：“My perception of printmaking still lingered in the expressions of K·the Kollwitz and German Expressionism while Chen Qi’s work had been searching for expressive symbols unique to Eastern culture; he is undoubtedly the first to do so.” Chen Qi has abandoned printmaking ideologies and turned to polish its imagery, painterly qualities, literati values, thereby validating his continuous contribution to the expansion of printmaking visual experiences and concepts. The exhibition will present works created through the method of “displacement printing”; this is his first time undertaking the task of accenting the versatility of woodblocks as it does not depend solely upon the textures of the woodblock to create imagery but rather the distinct verves of both the woodblocks and prints, and with this concept propels his first exhibition in Taiwan.

　　Shen Qin and Chen Qi have known each other for close to 40 years and they have one thing in common, and that is the commitment to where their art had begun. Shen Qin is of the last generation to experience the rustic era of China, his past stays vivid even as he ages. He is like one who does not let go of the bygone times, revisiting the remaining impacts of intimate memories and the then artistic ventures through a contemporary approach, while Chen Qi deconstructs the woodblocks,reestablishing prints, “woodblocks/prints” are now endowed with new interpretations through reconstruction. It is as if the artists have returned to zero to consider again the connotation of “zero” itself, and their exchange presents “Shen Qin, Chen Qi：Zero Degree” dual solo exhibitions.

　　About the Artists

　　Shen Qin, born in Nanjing, China in 1958, He studied painting under Zhao Xucheng as a young pupil. In 1978, he enrolled in the Academy of Chinese Painting at Jiangsu Traditional Chinese Painting Institute. He is one of the key figures in innovating Chinese ink during the ’85 New Wave Movement, he is now a painter at Jiangsu Traditional Chinese Painting Institute. His selected solo exhibitions include：Yin·Yin·Yin·Ying- Solo Exhibition of Shen Qin（Suzhou Museum, 2015) and Shen Qin’s Ink Painting Exhibition（Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, 1991). Selected group exhibitions include：Art Works by Shen Qin & Chen Qi, Rest on Water and Gargle with Stone－Chinese Contemporary Literati Art（Asia Art Center Beijing, 2015), A Fragment in the Course of Time－Landscape of Chinese Ink Art in 1980s（Shanghai Himalayas Museum, 2014), Jiangsu 10 Artists Invitation Exhibition at China Central Academy of Fine Arts（National Art Museum of China, 1986). Shen Qin’s recent exhibition, Shen Qin& Chen Qi：Zero Degree, will be on view at Asia Art Center Taipei in 2016.

　　Chen Qi, born in Nanjing, China in 1963, received Ph.D degree from Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. He is currently a professor at China Central Academy of Fine Arts and advisor to graduate students. Public Collections include：British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, The Europe MubanFoundation, New York Public Library, Fukuoka Art Museum, National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, Jiangsu Art Museum. His selected solo exhibitions include：The Time of Chen Qi ：1983-2016,（Shanghai Peninsula Art Museum, 2016), The Notation of Time－Exhibition of Chen Qi’s Art（National Museum of China, 2013), Chen Qi Woodcuts（Durham University, 2008), Woodblock Prints by Chen Qi（National Art Museum of China, 1993); selected group exhibitions include：Art Works by Shen Qin & Chen Qi(Asia Art Center Beijing, 2015),The Origin of the Dimension－Shanghai International Printmaking Exhibition 2012(Shanghai Art Museum, 2012), View of the City－International Print Invitation Exhibition（Shanghai Art Museum, 2011), Revival of Tradition－Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition（Museum of Contemporary Art in Frankfurt, 2009), Kanagawa International Print Festival -The Contemporary Prints of Japan and the World -Steps in Post War 50 Years（Yokohama Museum of Art, 1995). Chen Qi’s recent exhibition, Shen Qin&Chen Qi：Zero Degree, will be on view at Asia Art Center Taipei in 2016.

　　（编辑：杨晶）