明日开幕| 【我自然 With Nature】4.6-5.26

在东方文化中，“自然”不仅指代原野山林，更形容一种自由洒脱、自然而然的生命姿态。以拙朴的自然状态为美感来源，透过景物的具象表面萃取其精神本质，遵从“道法自然”的哲理，共同构成了中国古代文人精神的精髓。此次索卡艺术呈现的6位艺术家在国际艺术界扮演着重要角色，他们精通东方文化与西方现代艺术，在艺术创作中探索“自然”在东西方哲学、历史、社会学等多个层面的解读可能性，为古老的文人精神增添多元复合的摩登译本。

In the Eastern culture, "nature" not only refers to the wilderness and forest, but also describes a free and simple attitude towards life. Taking the simplistic natural state as the source of beauty, extracting the spiritual essence through the concrete surface, and obeying the philosophy of "Taoist Nature",  together constitute the very essence of the ancient Chinese literati spirit. The six artists presented by Soka Art each plays an important role in the international art world. With profound understanding in Eastern culture and Western modern art, each of them explores the possibilities in defining "nature" on the aspects of Eastern and Western philosophy, history and sociology, adding their multi-composite modern translations to the ancient literati spirit.

“玩世写实主义中的精神自由”

The Spiritual Freedom in Cynical Realism

中国玩世写实主义的代表者方力钧也更是活成了当下时代的文人——自1988年以来开始所创造的“光头泼皮”的形象，以玩世、泼皮幽默的艺术语言有力抨击了自80年代末起中国社会中弥漫的乏味、沉闷、无奈生存状态，刻画出向往精神自由的时代诉求。

Fang Lijun, the representative of China's cynical realism, truly lives as a literati of the current era. His "shaved head" image created in 1988 has effectively attacked the boring, dull and helpless living conditions in Chinese society since the late 1980s, which cynically captures the generational demands for spiritual freedom.

方力钧 Fang Lijun

(左) 2016 (/100), (右)2017 (/18)

 木刻版画 Woodblock Print

80x60cm / 244x122cm

2016 / 2017

方力钧 Fang Lijun
1998.11.15 4/8
488x605cm
木刻版画 Woodblock Print
1998

玩世、泼皮幽默作为一种在精神上自我解脱的方式，不但是后'89时期的一种标志，甚至作为中国知识分子的一种传统方式，可以在中国历史上找到许多例证，尤其政治高压时期，如魏晋之际的士大夫，多以狂士自嘲，并以放浪形骸的生活作为对付高压政治的方式，来达到自我解脱的目的。

Cynical and poetic humor as a way of spiritual self-liberation is not only a sign of the post-89 period, but even a traditional way of Chinese intellectuals, many examples can be found in Chinese history, especially political high pressure. During the period, such as the scholar-bureaucrats of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the self-deprecating of the madman, and the way of dealing with high-pressure politics, to achieve self-liberation.

“理性解构下的自然元素”

Rational Deconstuction of Natural Elements 

丹尼尔．埃斯卡纳齐来自世界上最受尊敬的中国艺术品经纪古董世家Eskenazi家族。丹尼尔起初接触摄影，来自于家族事业的需要，因为他们每年都会为古董拍摄图录，出版画册。 Eskenazi出版的画册，品质永远是最高的，每一张都图片都是完美无懈，不论是灯光，角度，校色，都是完美。这一切美感呈现，都来自于丹尼尔对于美与自然的极高追求。

Daniel  comes from the world's most respected Chinese art dealer family Eskenazi. Daniel first came into contact with photography due to the needs of family business, since they used to take pictures of antiques and publish albums every year. The quality of the album published by Eskenazi is always the highest. Every picture is perfect, whether it is lighting, angle or school color. All these aesthetics come from Daniel's high pursuit of beauty and nature.

丹尼尔·埃斯卡纳齐 Daniel Eskenazi

每时，每分I Each Minute, Every Hour I

 艺术微喷 Archival Ink Jet Print

48Φ cm, 10Φ cm

2017

在丹尼尔的摄影创作中，他擅长运用简约的构图方式，进行有如考古调查学般的行为，层层剖析地解离对摄影物象的观察研究，他的摄影技巧不同于西方反传统运动的艺术推展，丹尼尔的作品是一种人文的「理学」，理学建立在个体的自觉之上，讲求的是细密分析出的个人修养。自小就深受中华文化薰陶的丹尼尔，长时间累积对东方文物研究的经验，让他具备了非常敏锐的观察力，也奠定日后作品视觉独具穿透力的结构强度。

In Daniel's photographic creation, he manages to use simple composition methods which almost like archaeological investigations, dissecting and dissecting the observation of photographic objects. His photography skills are different from those of Western anti-traditional movements. Daniel's work has a character  of humanistic "science". The science is based on the individual's self-consciousness, and it is about the personal cultivation that is carefully analyzed. Daniel, who has been deeply immersed in Chinese culture since he was a child, has accumulated a long history of research on oriental cultural relics, which has given him a very keen observational power and laid the structural strength of the unique visual penetration of his works in the future.

丹尼尔·埃斯卡纳齐

Daniel Eskenazi

白色物语 I White Speech I

 艺术微喷 Archival Ink Jet Print

50 x 37.5 cm

2015

丹尼尔·埃斯卡纳齐

Daniel Eskenazi

无题VI 系列：你的图像 Untitled VI Series：Pictures of You

 艺术微喷 Archival Ink Jet Print

58 x 43 cm

2013

丹尼尔说他自己向来是个以视觉深度感受环境的人，并且经常对世界怀着敬畏之心。他周旋于各种材料之间，如昆虫、海洋贝类、矿物、山石、风景或是烟雾等自然、人文、历史以及地理学科领域，并进一步将这些对象原有的物理性质形象感性化，细腻的捕捉出生命与创造的深层精神和哲学思考。丹尼尔的创作一如哲学人般的思考，在西方强调摄影技巧与视觉艺术主导的体制之外，更添加文化内在修养的精神信仰特质。

Daniel confesses that he has always been a person who feels the environment with visual depth and often has awe of the world. He is interspersed between various materials, such as insects, marine shellfish, minerals, rocks, landscapes or smog, such as nature, humanities, history and geography, and further sensible and delicate the physical image of these objects. Capture the deep spiritual and philosophical reflections of life and creation. Daniel's creation is like a philosophical thinking. In addition to the emphasis on photography and visual art in the West, Daniel adds the spiritual beliefs of cultural inner cultivation.

“古物中的人性之美”

The Beauty of Humanity in Antiquities

仇国仕，大家熟知的仇国仕是苏富比拍卖亚洲区主席，在他手中，屡屡创下中国艺术的拍卖纪录，这次，仇国仕又给藏家带了新的惊奇，他将首次以当代艺术家的身份，首次于北京索卡艺术参展当代群展：「我自然」。

Nicolas Chow, the well-known chairman of Sotheby's in Asia, has repeatedly set new auction records for Chinese art. This time, he is once agian bringing surprises to the collectors: he will be presenting as a contemporary artist for the first time at Beijing Soka Art in the  group exhibition: "with nature".

仇国仕 Nicolas Chow

A Carved Wood Standing Figure of a Bodhisattva 

数码影印/纸基相纸

Digital Silver Print on Fiber Base Archival Paper

66x100cm

2018

仇国仕来自一个历史悠久艺术世家，他身为明代重要艺术家仇英的后人。祖父仇炎之，被评为二战后最伟大的三位华人收藏家之一，晚年定居瑞士日内瓦。父亲仇大雄早年在巴黎大茅舍艺术学院学习，40岁后从工作退休，全心走向专职艺术家道路。在耳濡目染的环境中，仇国仕从小在日内瓦长大，精通英法中文，他右脑沁入在祖父仇炎之对中国古董器物的古美术中，左脑又深受父亲仇大雄对当代艺术的审美薰陶。也让他对美感的认知，更包容宽广，更层次丰厚，或是这也是间接造成仇国仕屡屡创下中国艺术的世界拍卖纪录的原因，因为他对艺术的感知是立体的，而且融贯古今，没有设限。

Nicolas Chow comes from a family with a long history of art. He is a descendant of Chow Ying, an important artist of the Ming Dynasty. The grandfather Edward Chow was named one of the three greatest Chinese collectors after World War II and settled in Geneva, Switzerland.  His father Franklin Chow studied at the Academy of the Grande Chaumière in Paris in his early years. After he was 40 years old, he retired from work and went all out to the road of full-time artists. In the environment of deafness, Nicolas Chow grew up in Geneva and was proficient in English and French. He inherits the passion for ancient art of grandfather Edward Chow's and is also deeply influenced by his father Franklin Chow's aesthetic of contemporay art. With these influences, Nicolas sees beauty in an inclusive and comprehensive form.This is perhaps also the reason why Nicolas has repeatedly set the world auction record of Chinese art---because his perception of art is three-dimensional, and it is integrated into ancient and modern times, with no limitations.

仇国仕 Nicolas Chow

An Imperial Inscribed Bronze Incense Dish 

数码影印/纸基相纸

Digital Silver Print on Fiber Base Archival Paper

100 x 66.5cm

2018

这次在北京索卡展出的「我自然」，将有八件仇国仕的摄影作品。每件作品都巧妙的与中国文人艺术有了连结。在仇国仕的镜头下，「文人艺术」回到人与人之间的亲密情感，有了七情六欲，充满浪漫，极富有高感染力的镜头，结合了当代摄影与文人艺术，开拓当代新的文人品味。

The <With Nature> exhbition will feature 8 pieces of photography by Nicolas Chow with each piece  cleverly linked to Chinese literati art. Under his lens, "literary art" returns to the intimate feelings between human beings, With a passionate, romantic, and highly appealing lens, Chow combines contemporary photography with literati art, opening up the contemporay interpretations of literati culture.

仇国仕 Nicolas Chow

A Bamboo-root 'lotus pod' Ruyi Sceptre 

数码影印/纸基相纸

Digital Silver Print on Fiber Base Archival Paper

100x66.5cm

2018

此次作品中的「莲蓬」，在传统中国寓意中，莲有出淤泥而不染的雅致精神，然而透过仇国仕的眼睛，莲变得有了姿态与灵魂，艺术家透过光线与另一种角度的诠释，将莲的活泼激发了出来，有如在闷滞的气氛中，注入了爽朗的笑声。

In the work "A Bamboo-root 'lotus pod' Ruyi Sceptrem, the lotus, which signifies the graceful spirit of purity in the traditional Chinese culture,  has tranformed into a gesture and soul through the eyes of Chow. Through the interpretation of light and alternative angles, the artist inspires the liveliness of the lotus, like a pleasant laughter in a stagnation atmosphere.

“山水气韵间的天人合一”

"The Harmony between the Landscape and the Artistically"

洪凌于1955年出生在北京，90年代初洪凌开始在黄山建立自己的画室，他将中国传统绘画的造型观念、技术手法与西方油画艺术形式相融合，创作出具有中国绘画美学精神的艺术作品，被视作是中国传统山水文化的延续与创新。

Hong Ling was born in Beijing in 1955. In the early 1990s, Hong Ling began to set up his own studio in Huangshan. His works combine the traditional Chinese painting style and technical methods in the Western oil painting, creating an aesthetic that is unique to the Chinese culture. For this reason, Hong Ling's work is regarded as the continuation and innovation of Chinese traditional landscape culture.

洪凌 Hong Ling

雾罩春深 Spring in the Mist

 布面油画 Oil on Canvas

158x308cm

2018

洪凌在许多方面都展现了向文人艺术家致敬的情怀。文人艺术家起源于宋代，并且创作了许多后人熟知的「文人绘画」。这些艺术家大部份来自官僚体系的学者，诗人，文人作家，这些身份甚至可以追朔至汉代，他们在中国艺术与文化扮演非常重要的角色。洪凌的作品来自道家对自然的喜爱，并且渴望得到物体的本质，而非物体的表象，道法自然的至高之境，也是洪凌创作中所追求的大美精神。

In many respects, Hong Ling has expressed his tribute to literati artists. The literati artist originated in the Song Dynasty and created many "literati paintings" that are well known to later generations. Most of these artists are scholars, poets, and literati writers from the bureaucracy. These identities can even be traced back to the Han Dynasty. They play a very important role in Chinese art and culture. Hong Ling's works come from Taoist love of nature, and he is eager to get the essence of objects, not the appearance of objects. The natural supremacy of Taoism is also the great spirit pursued by Hong Ling's creation.

洪凌 Hong Ling

故山琼影 Fine Trace
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
200x250cm
2014

洪凌曾说：「我觉得人其实来自于自然，最终也将归于自然、归于泥土。其实人的本性是贴近自然的，当接触它的时候，就会觉得更贴切、更舒服。我在画抽象画的时候，总是觉得跟我的心不通，心里不踏实。直到画了山水画之后，进入不是很具体的写实，也不是抽象，而是在这两者之间保留了客观物象那样壹种更符合神韵、更符合结构、更符合意境和心性的一种阶段。」

Hong Ling once said: "I think people actually come from nature and will eventually return to nature and belong to the soil. In fact, human nature is close to nature. When it comes into contact with it, it will feel more appropriate and more comfortable. I am painting. When I was painting abstractly, I always felt that my heart was unreasonable and my heart was not practical. After I painted the landscape painting, I entered a not very concrete realism, nor an abstraction, but preserved the objective object between the two. More in line with the charm, more in line with the structure, more in line with the mood and heart."

“以土造石背后的易经哲理 ”

From Soil to Rocks: the philosophy of  <I Ching>

赵梦毕业于中国美院陶瓷系，后在哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心担任研究员，他的作品被各大重要美术馆收藏，包括美国波士顿美术馆，辛辛那提博物馆，瑞士Ritzberg博物馆，他熟稔中国传统艺术与哲学，在每一件作品中试图开拓陶瓷的艺术定义，他用实验的心态积极探索陶瓷的新当代定义，在东西方文化交流间，诠释出新的陶瓷审美形式，带来陶瓷作为艺术的媒介的新的感受。

Zhao Meng graduated from the Ceramics Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts and currently associates at Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His work has been collected by major art galleries, including the Boston Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Museum, and the Ritzberg Museum in Switzerland. Zhao Meng is familiar with Chinese traditional art and philosophy. In each of his works, he actively explores the new contemporary definition of ceramics with an experimental mindset. In the cultural exchange between the East and the West, Zhao Meng's works interpret the new aesthetic form of ceramics, bringing new interpretations to ceramics as a medium of art.

赵梦 Zhao Meng

雕塑2 Sculpture – 2 

陶瓷 Ceramics

36(H)x40(L)x16(W)cm

2018

赵梦 Zhao Meng

雕塑1 Sculpture – 1 

陶瓷 Ceramics

36(H)x40(L)x16(W)cm

2018

赵梦 Zhao Meng
祥云图4 Propitious Cloud No.4
陶瓷，宣纸，墨，亚克力
Ceramics/Xuan Paper/Ink/Acrylic
80x150cm
2018

赵梦熟读「易经」，「易经」的英文是 Book of Change，中文的意思是「改变的圣经」，陶瓷本身就是ㄧ个关于「改变」的媒介，塑形时的手感，上釉时的配料，烧造时的温度等等，每一件陶瓷出来都是不一样的改变。赵梦用他的热爱延续中国古代文人的情怀，用古老的陶瓷来重新诠释，用他理解的方式呈现，使得许多西方艺术机构都非常喜欢赵梦作品，赵梦呈现了自我文化的深度，用艺术的语汇，让更多人认识中国文化的高度。

Zhao Meng is familiar with the book of <I Ching>, whose name refers to "the Book of change." Ceramic itself is a medium for "change". Each ceramic is unique through different shaping, glazing ingredients, temperature during firing and other factors. With his love, Zhao Meng continued the ancient Chinese literati's feelings and reinterpreted the ancient pottery in a unique way, which was appreciated by many Western art institutions. Zhao Meng presents the depth of self-culture and uses the vocabulary of art to let more people know the height of Chinese culture.

“绞胎中流淌的文人动脉”

"The Flowing Literati Artery"

曾小俊，1954年在北京出生，1981年于北京中央美术学院壁画系毕业。其后移居美国，在波士顿工作了十四年，综览欧美藏中国古物、古画浩瀚典藏，并于1997年返回中国。在北京生活的曾小俊，借当代文人精神的启发，探索千年来中国文人传统蕴藏的精粹。他以其当代文人的锐利眼光，以及运用革新的艺术语言，诠释传统画作中具代表性及源远悠长的作画题材。

Zeng Xiaojun was born in Beijing in 1954. He graduated from the Mural Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1981. After moving to the United States, he worked in Boston for 14 years. He reviewed the collections of ancient Chinese and antiquities in ancient times, and returned to China in 1997. Born in Beijing, Zeng Xiaojun, inspired by the spirit of contemporary literati, explores the essence of the Chinese literati tradition in the millennium. With his sharp vision of contemporary literati and his use of innovative artistic language, he interprets the representative and long-lasting motifs of traditional paintings.

在此次展出的绞胎系列中，曾小俊将绞胎图案平面铺展，构成一幅现代主义绘画，将唐代独有的绞胎枕美感，在当代的语境中平面打开，带给观者不同视觉美感。观者可从画中肌理感受主体的动脉与灵魂，与自然融为一体。曾小俊不仅是ㄧ位扎根北京的艺术家，同时还是学者及收藏家，他精鉴古典家具，善藏赏石清玩，所鉴赏、收藏、创作之艺术，流露文人雅逸气质。

In his latests series , Zeng Xiaojun spreads the flat pattern of the twisted-body portcelain from the Tang Dynasty into a modernist painting, which creates an unique sense on the traditional a under the contemporary context. The viewer can feel the body's arteries and souls from the texture and integrate with nature. Zeng Xiaojun is not only an artist who has taken root in Beijing, but also a scholar and collector. He is a master of classical furniture, a collection of stone appreciation, an art of appreciation, collection and creation, revealing the temperament of the literati.

曾小俊 Zeng Xiaojun

唐枕梦之一/二/三 Dream of Tang Ware I/II/III

 设色纸本 Ink and color on paper

108.5x227.5cm/147x188cm/108.5x227.5cm

2018

索卡艺术·北京将于 4月6日 举办群展 “我自然” 的开幕仪式，现场将有参展艺术家亲自出席，并有威士忌共和国 Whiskey Republic 酒饮的特别支持。此次展览由郑嘉莹女士策展，为大众呈现海内外6位艺术家的作品，敬请期待。

Soka Art · Beijing will hold the opening of the group exhibition “With Nature” on the afternoon of April 6th, which will be attended by the featured artists and supported by Whiskey Republic. The exhibition is curated by Ms. Crystal Cheng, and will present a series of painting, photography and sculpture from 6 renown international and Chinese artists, please stay tuned!

 部分参展作品 

方力钧 Fang Lijun

2017   (/68)

 木刻版画 Woodblock Print

60x80cm

2017

丹尼尔·埃斯卡纳齐 Daniel Eskenazi

无题IV 系列：你的图像

Untitled IV Series：Pictures of You

 艺术微喷 Archival Ink Jet Print

43 x 58 cm

2013

丹尼尔·埃斯卡纳齐 Daniel Eskenazi

无题II 系列：你的图像

Untitled II Series：Pictures of You

 艺术微喷 Archival Ink Jet Print

58x43 cm 

2013

丹尼尔·埃斯卡纳齐 Daniel Eskenazi

每时，每分VI Each Minute, Every Hour VI

 艺术微喷 Archival Ink Jet Print

10Φ cm

2017

丹尼尔·埃斯卡纳齐 Daniel Eskenazi

每时，每分VI Each Minute, Every Hour II

 艺术微喷 Archival Ink Jet Print

48Φ & 10Φ cm

2017

丹尼尔·埃斯卡纳齐 Daniel Eskenazi

每时，每分IV Each Minute, Every Hour IV

 艺术微喷 Archival Ink Jet Print

10Φ cm

2017

丹尼尔·埃斯卡纳齐 Daniel Eskenazi

每时，每分III Each Minute, Every Hour III

 艺术微喷 Archival Ink Jet Print

10Φ cm

2017

丹尼尔·埃斯卡纳齐 Daniel Eskenazi

每时，每分 V Each Minute, Every Hour V

 艺术微喷 Archival Ink Jet Print

10Φ cm

2017

仇国仕 Nicolas Chow

A Boxwood Seated Figure of Vajrasattva by PanXifeng 

数码影印/纸基相纸

Digital Silver Print on Fiber Base Archival Paper

100x67cm

2018

仇国仕 Nicolas Chow

Untitled

数码影印/纸基相纸

Digital Silver Print on Fiber Base Archival Paper

66x100cm

2018

仇国仕 Nicolas Chow

A Rootwood Incense Stand

数码影印/纸基相纸

Digital Silver Print on Fiber Base Archival Paper

66.5x100cm

2018

仇国仕 Nicolas Chow

A Bronze Ruyi-Handled Incense Burner

数码影印/纸基相纸

Digital Silver Print on Fiber Base Archival Paper

66.5x100cm

2018

仇国仕 Nicolas Chow

A Parcel-gilt Bronze ‘Tortoise’ Waterdropper

数码影印/纸基相纸

Digital Silver Print on Fiber Base Archival Paper

67x100cm

2018

赵梦 Zhao Meng

祥云图-5  Propicius Cloud No.5

 陶瓷、宣纸、墨、亚克力

Ceramics/Xuan Paper/Ink/Acrylic

100x100cm

2018

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索卡艺术中心成立于1992年台湾台南，2001年北京索卡艺术中心成立，为中国最早以美术史观及学术角度来经营的画廊。索卡现今拥有北京，台北，台南艺术中心，成为一家跨足中国经典和当代艺术，亦致力于推广亚洲当代艺术，影响力涵盖全球的国际性画廊。

北京 Beijing

北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路2号798艺术区8502信箱 100015

798 Art District, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing P.O. Box 8502 100015

开放时间 Opening hours：10:00-18:30 （周一公休 Closed on Monday）

T/86-10-5978-4808

F/86-10-5978-4810

E/infosokaart@126.com

台北 Taipei

台北市中山区堤顶大道二段350号 10462

No. 350, Sec. 2, Tiding Blvd., Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, 10462

开放时间 Opening hours：10:00-19:00 （周一公休 Closed on Monday）

T/+886-2-2533-9658

F/+886-2-2533-9660

E/info@soka-art.com.tw

台南 Tainan

台南市安平区庆平路446号70842

2F, No.446, Qing Ping Road,An Ping District Tainan, Taiwan, 70842

开放时间 Opening hours：10:00-19:00（周一公休 Closed on Monday）

T/+886-6-297-3957

F/+886-6-297-3907

E/sokaart.tn@gmail.com

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