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【博而励北京】侯子超个展“愚人的宝石”

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博而励画廊将于2019年12月14日荣幸呈现艺术家侯子超在画廊的首次个展“愚人的宝石”。

艺术家为本次展览设置了一道观看的前情：以橙红色作为每一幅绘画的起点，埋藏在一系列对景观的描绘中，使之成为观看的线索，试图引发关于日常视觉经验的探讨 —— 在那些随处可见、气势如虹的山河图画背后，反映出的对于世俗欲望的追逐，以及埋伏于风景之后的权利想象。在此，“宝石”既比拟精神的需求，也并不矛盾地指向物质本身；“愚人”既是具有批判意味的普世描述，同时也是艺术家对自身创作中堂吉诃德式的自嘲。

侯子超近几年的绘画围绕风景展开，却并未在其中摒弃人为的痕迹，而是将关注点放在暗含人为因素的场景氛围中 —— 一处景点、一块被切割的石头、潺潺流动的喷泉、林中将熄的炊火......它们因人而起，却不可见其人。人与自然之力，以一种调和的方式被凝固下来。在艺术家新近的绘画作品中，他没有将风景视作超然物外的象征，而是成为了唤起世俗欲望的图腾，指向一种更弘大的、更强烈的、英雄式的风光肖像。

《绿洲（Oasis）》占据展厅空间左侧的整面墙壁，首先成为视觉的焦点。硕大的红日划开电子荧幕一般平滑的湛蓝色，屹立在近处的雪山呼唤着征服，标志性的喷泉与落日余晖交相辉映，展开一幅具有煽动性的壮丽图景。一层展厅的绘画延续了艺术家对“光、水、石”的关注，却以一种更戏剧性、符号化的方式表现；二层空间展出的作品则突出了绘画语言本身，它们在相同的情境中被创作出来，选择隐晦地折返绘画内部，拆解绘画的语义内涵，让可能的真理，隐藏在扁平的画面之下。

文/ Yvonne Y.

侯子超：愚人的宝石
展期：2019年12月14日至2020年1月19日
开幕：2019年12月14日，下午4至7点
地址：博而励画廊 | 北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路二号院798艺术区D-06

The Boers-Li Gallery is honored to present artist Hou Zichao's first solo exhibition "Light breaks where no sun shines" on December 14th, 2019.

For this exhibition the artist has set up a foreseeable antecedent: the color tangerine functions as the starting point for each painting, buried throughout the series of depicted of landscapes it becomes a visual clue, attempting to incite the exploration of the everyday visual experience—behind the ubiquitous, images of majestic rivers and mountains—what’s reflected is the pursuit for desires of the secular world; and the perceived power that lie latent behind the landscape.

Hou Zichao’s recent work has mainly revolved around the exploration of landscape painting. Without having ever abounded the traces of artificiality, the focal point has been placed within the realm of the implicitly manmade landscape—A scenic spot, a stone sliced in half, a trickling fountain, a campfire dying in the forest… They arise because of man, but the cause of their existence remains absent, the forces of man and nature are hence solidified harmoniously. In his recent paintings, the artist sees the landscape not as a symbol of transcendence, but as a totem evoking worldly desires, pointing to a grander, more intense, heroic style of portraying the landscape.

"Oasis" occupies the entire wall on the left side of the space and becomes the initial focal point. The fiery red sun splices through the smooth, LED screen-like blue, and the lofty snow-capped mountains in the foreground call for conquest. The iconic fountain and the setting sun intertwine, making for a provocative spectacle. The paintings on the first floor of the exhibition hall continue the focus on "light, water, and stone", but in a more dramatic, symbolic way. On the second floor of the exhibition hall, more painterly works will be exhibited, which are created in the same context. The works are done in a more obscure way, retracing the interior of the painting, and dismantling its semantic connotations, so that the possible truth may lie hidden under the flat picture.

Translation / Jude Keeler (阿德)

Hou Zichao: Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines
Dates: December 14, 2019 to January 19, 2020
Opening: December 14th, 2019, 4-7pm
Address: Boers-Li Gallery | D-06, 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

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About the Artist

侯子超生于1988年，2009-2012年就读于中央圣马丁艺术与设计学院，2013年毕业于切尔西艺术学院，现工作、居住于北京。侯子超艺术实践涵盖绘画与装置等多种媒介，他的作品关注当今文化语境中人与自然的冲突以及引发的现实问题，利用图像语言强调人造景观与真实自然的距离，以及人造地景与现实生活之间的隔阂。侯子超个人项目及个展包括：“喷泉”，傲鳗&云图，北京（2018）；“光.水.石”，亦安画廊，上海（2017）。参与的群展包括：“爱的艺术：亲密”，今日美术馆，北京（2018）；青衿计划，正观美术馆、关山月美术馆，北京、深圳（2016）等。

Hou Zichao (b.1988) obtained his B.F.A. degree from Central Saint Martin College of Art and Design in 2012, and completed his M.F.A degree from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2013. With a multi-media approach, his artistic media range from painting to installation. Hou’s works focus on the conflicts between human beings and nature in contemporary cultural context, utilizing diverse visual languages to emphasize the distance between artificial landscape and nature, as well as the rupture between constructed scenery and real life. Hou Zichao has been the subject of solo exhibitions including, "FOUNTAIN", AOMA, YT Creative Media, Beijing(2018); "Ray. Stone. Wave", Aura.a Gallery, Shanghai(2017). Hou Zichao's works and projects have been included in group exhibitions including, "LOVE LOVE LOVE: Intimate" Today Art Museum, Beijing(2018); "Elite Young Artists Program" in Rightview Art Museum & Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Beijing&Shenzhen(2016) and etc.