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Andy Harper
AOTH
Bronwyn Barton
Federico Mazza
Glib Franko
Maria Kozak
Philippe Van Gele
Tarik Chebli
Tomoharu Okamura
Zhang Yuhuan
Zheng Junlong
Jaewon Jung
Heng Art Museum
COORDINATE SYSTEM
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Curator: Guo Jianguang
Organiser: Xima Gallery | Heng Art Museum
Co-sponsor: Yudian art
Duration
2023.9.23-2023.10.23
Opening Time: Saturday, September 23, 2023 14:00
Address: Lingfeng Street intersects with Zhusi Road in Xihu District, Hangzhou City.
Xima Gallery (Heng art Museum)
Art has always been a fascinating field, expressing emotions and exploring ideas in unique ways, inspiring our understanding of the world. This exhibition focuses on multidimensional creation, guiding the audience into an open and boundary-breaking art world through the showcase of artists' works. "Coordinates" centers around abstract art and brings together a series of works from artists around the world.
These works break free from the confines of traditional art, not only expressing the emotions of individual artists but also triggering independent thinking and igniting boundless imagination in the audience. Through these works, artists convey their reflections on social issues from independent perspectives. The artists' creative concepts and experimental attempts allow us to reexamine the traditional coordinates of art and expand them into a broader and more inclusive realm.The power of art lies in its diversity and inclusivity.
Therefore, we should embrace art of different styles, perspectives, and viewpoints, enabling art to truly become a medium of communication and dialogue. Let us, together with the artists, courageously push the boundaries of creation, engage in dialogues with art, and discover new stories and meanings through communication. Through these efforts, we can experience the true charm of art, understand it, and actively participate in the great journey of artistic creation.
Andy Harper
Andy has his own interpretation of creation, with a layer of transparent varnish film laid on the smooth surface of the support. Brushes and various tools move on this surface, creating a constantly evolving collection of marks that evoke a parallel botanical world. Driven by intuition and muscle memory, his hand moves quickly on the surface. These paintings witness a thousand rapid decisions. Every twist, jerk, stroke, rhythm, division, and incision into the wet paint confirms this. Soon, the resin film begins to harden and gel. When the artwork dries, these paintings become a record, not of the visual world, but of the thoughts themselves.
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Bronwyn Barton
born in 1961 on Australia's Gold Coast, has exhibited remarkable artistic talent despite not receiving formal education in art. Since embarking on her artistic journey, she has been nominated for the Blue Thumb Art Prize three times and has won the Eclectica Exhibition Championship twice. Starting from 2018, she has actively participated in various group exhibitions and solo shows. Up to now (2023), she has held two solo exhibitions, "Brushstrokes" and "Leap Forward," receiving significant attention. Barton's artwork is vibrant, intricate, and lively. Her unique style incorporates layers of complexity and reflects her own thoughts and emotions.
Federico Mazza
The Transit series draws inspiration from the mundane elements of daily life. In our modern world, people are constantly rushing between different locations, often overlooking the scenery along the way. With a serene and delicate emotional touch, the artist explores these familiar landscapes from a philosophical perspective. Through abstract techniques and the interplay of warm and cool tones, they invite us into a tranquil world, where we can transcend the boundaries of time and space, and experience a soothing and purifying effect on the soul.
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Glib Franko
Glib Franko is a young Ukrainian artist known for his proficiency in graphic creations and paintings. He derives inspiration from observing masterpieces in art history, which have contributed to the formation of his own painting techniques and style. In his creations, he combines these masterpieces with spontaneity and seeks to strike a balance with the contemporary ambiance they generate. Drawing inspiration from natural landscapes and everyday life, he explores the limitless possibilities of color, magically reshaping reality. His subjects are diverse, with each creation tailored to the specific environment, be it sketching fantastical characters based on his familial surroundings or creating abstract works inspired by lush nature. It is evident that he draws inspiration from his immediate surroundings. Though he often employs black and white as dominant hues, the shapes he constructs impart them with depth and coherence, or rather, his creations present colors in a more liberated and versatile manner.
Maria Kozak
Maria Kozak, born in Poland and currently residing in New York, is a graduate of the New York Art Academy, holding a Master's degree. Her paintings serve as a visceral expression of the artist's inner world, reflecting societal, natural, and sublime themes. They also convey hidden aspects of the human subconscious that people often try to conceal or overlook, such as darkness, light, control, stillness, movement, reality, and virtuality. Through her artwork, she effortlessly and naturally conveys the current social landscape. Maria's works are highly artistic and cherished by art enthusiasts from around the world, leading to invitations for her participation in numerous major art exhibitions. Over the past decade, she has been repeatedly invited to participate in the "Take Home a Nude" auction event hosted by Sotheby's. Her works have been featured in internationally renowned magazines and websites such as the Wall Street Journal, Cool Hunting, and Artsy. Additionally, she is an alumna of the New Museum Art and Technology Incubator, New Inc, and has been invited by Microsoft to be one of the first participating artists in their online art gallery.
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Tomoharu Okamura
Tomoharu Okamura's works prominently employ natural light, harmoniously blending complex color palettes with his surroundings and nature. They not only embody aesthetic beauty but also convey a moral perspective that discerns the eternal within transient moments of luminosity, and perceives eternity within fading eternity. Metaphorically capturing life's brevity.
Tomoharu Okamura
Tomoharu Okamura's works prominently employ natural light, harmoniously blending complex color palettes with his surroundings and nature. They not only embody aesthetic beauty but also convey a moral perspective that discerns the eternal within transient moments of luminosity, and perceives eternity within fading eternity. Metaphorically capturing life's brevity.
Philippe Van Gele
Philippe Van Gele is an abstract artist from Belgium. His works mostly consist of landscape paintings that evoke an abstract sense of reality from exotic places: the Svalbard archipelago, Bromo, and mythical locations each have their own aura. The titles of his works can be unusual or unknown names, allowing the viewers to project their own travel interests and exotic dreams onto them. Philippe primarily uses acrylic paint on canvas, which undergoes extensive grinding, dripping, or scratching to create a hazy yet captivating and expressive impact. The glimmers on the water surface and the amber glow of clouds are meticulously shaped with skillful technique. His paintings are lyrical and vibrant, not ostentatious, but unexpectedly soft and tranquil, creating a mysterious atmosphere. His artworks are highly sought after and esteemed by art enthusiasts worldwide, with exceptional appreciation and collectible value.
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Tarik Chebli
The paintings of Tarik Chebli feature animals - butterflies, fish, birds, and some monkeys. There are also plants - wild grass, hardy plants, and flowers. All of these elements contribute to a thickness of paint, the chaos of splashes and spots, and the proliferation of colorful marbled patterns. The emergence of the animals and plants is generated through various random operations: the more or less fluid matter sprayed, the clustering of thick slurry, the invasion of scratching marks, and friction. At first glance, the painting may seem like the result of playful manipulation. However, the formation of this world of life is not merely the transformation of the randomness of matter into shapes: some fish, some birds, some flower corollas are intentionally drawn and colored, and overlayed on the surface, unperturbed by the irregularities of support. Thus, tension and disharmony exist in Tarik Chebli's paintings. The painting strikes a balance between material enjoyment and the reproduction of figurative images, which is ambiguous. The spontaneous outbursts seem to express the vitality of the animals and plants. There is also a saturated space, an overly full world, buzzing and suffocating, as if this natural concept is an illusory structure, a product of distant images and memories.
Zheng Junlong
The "Dreams with Shapes" series presents the artistic achievements of Zheng Junlong's abstract expressionist paintings in a particular stage.The artist merges both the concrete and abstract forms of dreams, using dreams as a bridge between reality and fantasy, blurring the lines between the dreamlike and the real. The dreams with shape are also formless, allowing each viewer to reflect upon their own self. Through the transformation of dreams into paintings, poetry is born, and dreams become the inspiration for creation. Currently, the "Dreams with Shape" series is evolving to explore further possibilities, bringing forth greater freedom of expression in different times and spaces, forming unique spiritual landscapes.
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Jaewon Jung
Jaewon Jung explores and reinterprets various forms of "forests" she discovers in the urban environment from her own perspective. While reviving the disappearing or creating ideal natural forms at the crossroads, she constantly questions what is a "true" landscape painting in this era.
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AOTH
AOTH is an emerging abstract painter who utilizes the tranquil elements of nature's fluidity to release emotions often overshadowed by masculine expressions. AOTH's artwork represents the essence of abstract romanticism and a renewed interest in the Fauvist movement. She is renowned for her delicate use of color, Her artworks evoke a dreamlike quality, creating an ethereal love story poem.She frequently showcases her signature element, koi fishes, in reimagined landscapes. Especially in her figurative works, there is a subtle touch of sensualism. AOTH's pieces are filled with tender romanticism and poetic grace, captivated by numerous art enthusiasts.
Zhang Yuhuan
When viewers see the physical works of this delicate glass ceramic piece, they approach it with caution, for beautiful and easily fleeting objects inspire pity. Their voices naturally become softer, even their breathing becomes tense as they slowly approach, with a mix of desire and hesitation, to observe and study it, with both anxiety and reverence. The process of firing thin glass within ceramics is a research direction Zhang Yuhuan studied during her graduate studies in Germany, and it is a topic that holds great significance from both an artistic and technical standpoint. Glass is a completely new material for her, a whole new field. The creative and experimental process with this new material is always surprising, full of anticipation, and also brings a lot of tension. Thin glass serves as a connection and also a barrier. It connects the world of tiny particles, the union of technology and nature, and the embodiment of human sensibility. It isolates space and manifests as indistinct memories, yet existing vividly in the mind. Its beauty is an imprint of life that cannot guarantee complete safety; it resembles a free state that drifts and condenses with the wind in the realm of natural science. While it appears fragile, on the verge of collapse at any moment, it remains resilient and encourages further exploration and contemplation. The process of this thin glass merging with fired ceramics is, in essence, a journey of self-discovery. It represents contradiction, fusion, forgetting, and faith.
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LOCATIONS
Lan Art Center: No. 2596, Boao Road, Yingfeng Street, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Chinia
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