A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Curated by Michael Hetian GUO

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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Curated by Michael Hetian GUO

A Clean Well-Lighted Place

Curator: Michael Hetian Guo
 

Artists: Chi Hui, Fu Mingxi, Jia Hui, Liang Hao, Liang Xiaoqing, Sun Meng, Wang Mingzhi, Yan Bingqian, Zhang Ke, Zhong Tianyue

 

February 26-April 10, 2022

Design Spring, Yuan Museum, No.104, Cao Chang Di International Art Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chao Yang District Beijing (Former Galerie Urs Meile)

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place comes from Hemingway’s short novel of the same title, which narrates a “waiting for Godot” kind of story. 
 
Two restaurant attendants waited in the mid-night for their last customer, an old man who was drinking alone to leave the restaurant. The old man was neatly dressed and well behaved, drank one cup after another…the younger waiter became extremely impatient while the older showed his sympathy towards him. The seemingly vague dialogue between the characters encloses a discussion of existence and nihility. This small, but clean and bright Spanish restaurant seems to be the only place for the elderly to fight fear, night, and death.
 

The epidemic has accelerated our fallen. For artists using painting as the medium, the white canvas is like a clean and well-lighted place to seek asylum and provoke confrontation. Painting itself is not only full of nihility, but also its breakthroughs in multiple levels. We invited 10 young artists to the exhibition. Instead of sticking to a grand discussion, the younger generation of artists carried out more exploration and deliberation on the surrounding environment and the refraction of their subconsciousness. 

  

Says the painter Jean Dubuffet, “I am convinced that any table can be for each of us a landscape as inexhaustible as the whole Andes range……” This seemingly disordered perspective is simply a breakthrough in the established methods for artistic creation that expresses the captured of subtle things. It is a common concern of these artists, whose strokes shuttle between virtual scenes and true stories, reminding us of the certainty of daily existence beyond the nihility framed by the times. 

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由 HAOstyle先生活、Yuan Museum、伯年艺术空间 共同策划主办，“2022北京草场地青年艺术家群展”之“一个干净明亮的地方”将于2月26日北京草场地国际艺术村隆重开幕。本次展览由郭鹤天担任策展人，汇集了来自十位青年艺术家的新近创作。此外，由其他五位年轻策展人分别策划的三场展览“间有闲时多云到阴”“轻重之躯”“一隅三生”也将在同期开幕。所有展览将持续至4月10日。

 

“2022北京草场地青年艺术家群展”，以“穿越时空的调色板”为总主题，出品人之一的金酉鸣先生与受邀的五位年轻策展人高郁韬、郭鹤天、陆向怡、王诗颖、王垚力，分别在四所原位于草场地的画廊空间内，策划了四场不同主题的青年艺术家群展。全部展览汇集共计81位出生于80、90、00年代为主的艺术家，涵盖绘画、摄影、雕塑、影像、装置等多种创作媒介，呈现多达数百件风格迥异的艺术家代表作品。探讨包括艺术家在以居所为例的自我空间中的创作模式、以艺术为线索探寻身体内部中轻与重之间的潜在关系、以绘画作为媒介展开艺术家潜意识中关于周遭环境的探索与推敲，并以展览作为平台，重述多元与包容作用于起始阶段与探索阶段的艺术家的重要性。所有展览将持续至 4月10日。

 

策展人、写作者、艺术史研究者、博士杨西作为展览的学术主持，将与我们共同聚焦当下青年艺术家们的创作与思考，结合由现实产生的艺术现象，探讨当下青年艺术家的整体面貌、其具备的时代特殊性和他们正在面对的挑战与机遇。与此同时，本次群展也是继“设计之春·北京草场地艺术生活示范区”于2021年启动之后，当代艺术与独立设计品牌之间的一次成功并极具开创性的结合与实践。

 

在此，特别感谢 先生活HAOstyle创始人温浩先生 和 Yuan Museum创始人宋涛先生 为“2022北京草场地青年艺术家群展”提供场地的大力支持。

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