没顶画廊 | 商亮个展 “新主人” 将于7月13日开幕

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没顶画廊将于2019年7月13日荣幸推出艺术家商亮的个展 “新主人”。这是商亮在画廊的首次个展，展览将展出艺术家近期的绘画新作，呈现艺术家将人物与肖像视觉符号化的推进和绘画语言的探索。

毕业于中央美术学院油画系和实验艺术学院，商亮在严格的学院训练后开始了大量的绘画创作。有别于传统肖像画，肌肉变异的少年超人构成了她作品中趣味独特的视觉符号。在本次展览中，艺术家呈现了近一两年持续创作的“好猎手”和“沙发人”系列，以及全新拓展的“拳击人”形象：从具象的人体逐步变形提炼成一个抽象的、以拳击手套为肖像、没有面目和器官的“拳击人”形象。“拳击人”被真空抽离，没有背景、没有时空、没有依附，茫然强劲，又安静执拗。作为视觉符号，商亮所反复描绘的健壮肌肉已经脱离母体，成为一个独立的新物种，既是体能、战斗、征服的英雄主义象征，也是权力、孤独和矛盾体的暧昧隐喻。

这些进化变异的“拳击人”、躯体发育过度的“好猎手”、以及被禁锢在沙发上的“沙发人”系列新作，展现了艺术家个体视角下，对于“超人类”充满矛盾的雄性想象和幽默趣味。在对符号不断强调的同时，艺术家也构建了自己独特的形象特征与视觉语言。大尺幅的“拳击人”，色彩单纯，画面形象直接、有力；反复调整的笔触在画面上留下的痕迹，既是提炼轮廓也是在表达趋势和速度，既是安静的，也是膨胀迸裂的。

商亮《拳击人 No.4》2019，布上油画

Shang Liang, Boxing Man No.4, 2019, Oil on canvas

215 x 200 cm

商亮，1981年生于北京，现生活工作于北京和上海。2004年毕业于中央美术学院油画系，2009年毕业于中央美术学院实验艺术学院。力量和英雄主义，以及与此相关的战斗、征服等构成了近年来商亮作品中的主题和主要视觉形象。有别于传统肖像绘画，商亮的作品通过反复调整的笔触提炼出与此主题相关的人物形象和视觉符号，并发展出不同系列的绘画和雕塑作品，从最初的“正道仔”到“好猎手” 、“沙发人”和最新的“拳击人”系列。

近期参加的重要展览有：保时捷 “中国?年艺术家双年评选”提名艺术家群展，北京展览馆，北京，2019; “极限混合” 2019广州空港双年展，广州，2019；“YOHOOD 2018 全球潮流嘉年华”，上海世博展览馆，上海，中国，2018；“PLAY”，没顶画廊，上海，中国，2018；“思考本质不如消费形状”，没顶画廊，上海，中国，2017；“Portrait Now!”，丹麦腓特烈宫国家历史博物馆，哥本哈根，丹麦，2015；“少数分之一”，新北京前站，北京，中国，2016。

MadeIn Gallery is pleased to present Shang Liang’s solo exhibition “New Order” opening on the 13th of July, 2019, marking the first solo show of the artist in the gallery. The exhibition will feature Shang’s recent paintings, presenting visual symbolization of characters and exploration of painting language.

Receiving the rigorous training of the Oil Painting and the Experimental Art Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Shang executed a large amount of paintings. Unlike traditional portraits, the character of the “juvenile superhuman” with mutated muscles became a specific visual symbol in her work. The exhibition will showcase the series “Good Hunter” and “Sofa Man” that the artist continuously developed over the past two years, as well as the new series “Boxing Man”: a character which gradually evolved from a figurative human body to an abstract figure with the effigy of a boxing glove, without face or organs. The "Boxing Man" is remote, it doesn’t adhere to any specific background, time or space, it emanates a certain form of power, composure and obstinacy. As a visual symbol, the strong muscles repeatedly depicted by Shang have been separated from the matrix to become a new independent species. They embody notions of heroism, physical strength, battle and conquest, and constitute a metaphor for power, loneliness and contradiction.

These mutated "Boxing Man", exaggeratedly grown "Good Hunter" and the new series of "Couch Man" who are confined within sofas, all reflect the contradictory masculine imagination and humorous approach of these "superhumans" from the artist's perspective. While constantly emphasizing these symbols, the artist also built her own unique visual language. The simple colors, direct and powerful image of these large-scale "boxing man", the traces left by the repeatedly modified brushstrokes refine the contours of the subjects while evoking speed and movement, resulting in a calm yet bursting picture.

Shang Liang, born in Beijing in 1981, lives and works in Beijing and Shanghai. She graduated from the Oil Painting Department and the Experimental Art Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2004 and 2009. In recent years, notions of masculinity, heroism and the vocabulary that relates to them, such as power, strength and conquest, among others, have constituted major features in Shang’s works. Through repeated and textural brushstrokes she creates portraits, which unlike traditional ones, are based on specific characters as symbols revolving around these themes. Figures evolve through various series of paintings and sculptures, beginning with the "The Real Boy" series and followed by the series “Good Hunter”, “Sofa Man” and “Boxing Man”.

Her recent exhibitions include: Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” nominatees’ exhibition, Beijing Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China, 2019; “Extreme Mix” Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “YOHOOD 2018 global trend of Carnival”, Shanghai World Expo exhibition hall, Shanghai, China, 2018; “PLAY”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2018; “Form Consumption Over Substance”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2017; “Brewer J.C. Jacobsen's Portrait Award-the 2015 Portrait Now!”, The Museum of National History, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015; “One Of Few”, Xin Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China, 2016.

没顶画廊成立于2014年，由以生产艺术创造力为核心、致力于探索当代文化无限可能的没顶公司创办。没顶画廊以推广高质量的当代艺术家和活动为己任，推动当代文化的发展与交流。

没顶画廊合作艺术家包括：陈冷、陈英、丁力、艾略特 ? 多德（Elliot Dodd）、冯梦波、龚剑、何岸、李汉威、刘成瑞、刘娃、陆博宇、陆平原、苗颖、莫少龙、佩恩恩、商亮、沈莘、UMA、王思顺、王新一、夏云飞、徐大卫、徐震?、杨深、张联、郑源、朱昱。

MadeIn Gallery was founded in 2014, by MadeIn Company, a contemporary art creation company, focused on the production of creativity and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities. The gallery is dedicated to the promotion of talented international artists, holding high quality art events and exhibitions, with an accent on contemporary culture development and communication.

The gallery is in collaboration with the following artists: Chen Leng, Chen Ying, Ding Li, Elliot Dodd, Feng Mengbo, Gong Jian, He An, Li Hanwei, Liu Chengrui, Liu Wa, Lu Boyu, Lu Pingyuan, Miao Ying, Mo Shaolong, Payne Zhu, Shang Liang, Shen Xin, UMA, Wang Sishun, Wang Newone, Xia Yunfei, Xu Dawei, XU ZHEN?, Yang Shen, Zhang Lian, Zheng Yuan, Zhu Yu.

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