天安时间当代艺术中心——顾雄、杨述展

　　顾雄、杨述展

　　策展人：汤静

　　开幕酒会：2008年11月13日 周四 17:00 – 21:00

　　展期：2008年11月14日 – 2008年12月8日

　　周二至周日，10:00–22:00（周一参观请预约）

　　地址：天安时间当代艺术中心 北京市东城区前门东大街23号（前门23号院落东南侧楼）

顾雄作品

杨述作品

放逐与守望（汤静评论）

无边的穿行（叶永青评论）

　　八十年代中后期，顾雄和杨述先后毕业于四川美术学院，与现今备受国际艺坛关注的张晓刚、叶永青等一起，成为中国新潮美术运动西南地区最早且最活跃的艺术家代表。他们拥有敏感的艺术思维和扎实的绘画功底，参加过当时包括"1988西南现代艺术展"、"1989现代艺术大展"在内的重要艺术活动。正因为出色的创造力，他们得以较早留学海外，并长期浸淫于西方现代艺术发展。然而与中国当代艺术时空上的间离，并未让他们放弃对艺术理想的追求。多年来，他们以国际化的视野和自传体的书写方式,深刻地思考和回应着中西碰撞交融中身份及文化属性的命题。

　　顾雄旅居加拿大多年。信手拈来的日常生活元素，通过其敏感的触觉与纯熟多样的艺术形式，言说着寻求文化身份过程中的个人体悟，同时呈现出时代的变迁与特征；杨述坚持其中国式的涂鸦自叙，在色彩以及形象的元素中游刃有余。在创造性地对西方现代、后现代艺术进行大胆的转化的同时，逐渐将传统绘画特点交融其中。

　　天安时间当代艺术中心

　　北京市东城区前门东大街23号

　　电话：86 10 65598008

　　传真：86 10 65599260

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　　Upcoming Exhibition at the Beijing Center for the Arts at Legation Quarter

　　Exhibition of “Gu Xiong Yang Shu”

　　Curator: Tang Jing

　　Reception：2008.11.13, 17:00 – 21:00

　　Duration: 2008.11.14 – 2008.12.8, from Tue to Sun, 10:00 – 22:00 (Mondays on appointment only)

　　Address: No.23, Qian Men Dong Da Jie, Dongcheng District, Beijing (the southeast corner of Legation Quarter)

　　In late 1980's, Gu Xiong and Yang Shu have graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in succession. When the '85 New Wave Art Movement swept the southwest China, they devoted themselves into the wave and were deemed as pioneers of the very event together with Zhang Xiaogang and Ye Yongqing who draw the international attentions today. In the 1988 Southwest Art Show and 1989 China /Avant-Garde Art, they exhibited works full of skills and artistic sensitivity. Later that time, both the two went abroad for further education. For about two decades, their exposure towards the advancing of western contemporary art seems to set them far away from the aura of Chinese contemporary art; but it never stumble them from their pursuit of art ideals. For years, the two artists have devoted to carry out artistic practices under the context of cultural conflicts and interactions. It is their cross-cultural attempt and creation that endow them with profound understanding and insight towards the essence of different cultures.

　　Gu Xiong, now identified as a Canada-based multimedia artist with international reputation, has put his cross-cultural experiences, with great consciousness and sensitivity, into his visual languages of symbolizing daily objects to unveil the reality of the era in which the artist has been struggling for his cultural identity. The other artist, Yang Shu，has been always cohesive in his style of doodle following his dramatic treatment of agitate figures and strident colors. Instead of simply copying from the western modernism and postmodernism, he audaciously combines his works inspired by western art and artists with methods of Chinese traditional painting and spirit of its culture.

　　Beijing Center for the Arts at Legation Quarter

　　No. 23, Qian Men Dong Da Jie, Dong Cheng District, Beijing

　　P: 86 10 65598008

　　F: 86 10 65599260

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