
玛丽安 · 古德曼巴黎画廊非常高兴在重新对公众开放的这段时间举办尼尔勒 · 托罗尼(Niele Toroni)的全新个展,展览已于5月16日开幕。这一次托罗尼仍然忠于其1966年确立的创作手法,呈现间距恒宽30厘米的50号笔刷痕迹(empreintes de pinceau n°50)。不同尺幅,材质各异(包括画布和泡沫板)的画作在画廊空间中形成呼应。
尼尔勒 · 托罗尼 / “尽在不同中”展览现场,玛丽安 · 古德曼巴黎画廊,2020
托罗尼声明的创作手法,听起来似乎是约束性的,但实际上却赋予了他极大的自由。仅凭借极其精简的工具(一支50毫米宽的平头漆刷,一副圆规和一个水平仪来测量间距,以及彩色颜料),50年来,他在各种类型材质的平面上,包括他受邀展出场地的墙面,创作出几千个色彩各异的单色痕迹。在诸如巴黎市立现代艺术博物馆和柏林汉堡车站美术馆等多家艺术机构,尼尔勒 · 托罗尼的墙面作品被永久地保留了下来。
尼尔勒 · 托罗尼 / “尽在不同中”展览现场,玛丽安 · 古德曼巴黎画廊,2020“托罗尼的画不管放在哪里都能恰适。无论所处地点、面积、空间,这些痕迹轻盈优雅,悄无声息地停驻在门框、窗户、高处或地处的角落、楼梯间、墙面上、玻璃上、画布上、报纸上、卷帘上、横幅上、大篷车上,甚至大酒桶上……它们居于空间之中,有如音乐的独特属性。”(注1)

尼尔勒 · 托罗尼 / “尽在不同中”展览现场,玛丽安 · 古德曼巴黎画廊,20201967年,巴黎市立现代艺术博物馆举办第18届青年油画沙龙(Salon de la Jeune Peinture),在其中的临时展览环节Manifestation I,托罗尼首次呈现间距恒宽30厘米的50号笔刷痕迹。他在当时即提出了自己对作画行为的观点,颠覆且激进。他认为画作是工作的成果,因而驳斥由主观性或灵感所牵引的艺术家这一概念。自那时起,他所定义的“工作/画作” (“travail /peinture”)便需要重复一个独特而极简的动作,托罗尼始终坚持由自己完成绝不假借他人之手。
尼尔勒 · 托罗尼 / “尽在不同中”展览现场,玛丽安 · 古德曼巴黎画廊,2020
“对我而言,作画从来不是借助现有的物体(以及形状、材料),并运用它们的位移(脱离原有环境)。倘若没有一支蘸满了颜料的50号笔刷,在一个表面上掠过以留下其痕迹,一个50号笔刷痕迹便不会预先存在,也就不可见。50号笔刷痕迹是作画行为的结果和见证,其本身并不会先于作画行为存在。重要的不是位移,而是绘画动作本身:我们大可尝试作画,无需有心理负担……管它是不是时髦呢!”(注2)

尼尔勒 · 托罗尼 / 《间距恒宽30厘米的50号笔刷痕迹》,2019 / 布面丙烯颜料 / 73 x 50 x 2.5cm
摄影:Rebecca Fanuele
尼尔勒 · 托罗尼提出的 “工作/画作”,不涉及任何叙事,也没有传递任何信息。重要的是,呈现给公众看的是什么。因此,在他的最新泡沫板拼贴中,痕迹遮盖住了艺术家早期展览照片的一部分,而从照片中可以看见当时的痕迹。这样的嵌套手法,不仅是为了重温过往,更为了更新我们的视觉体验,因为对于画家而言,“每一个50号笔刷痕迹都是不同的”。引导观看者体验这样的视角,这便是尼尔勒 · 托罗尼的雄心。对他而言,绘画首先是一场“视觉学习”(apprentissage de la vision)。

尼尔勒 · 托罗尼 / ©纽约瑞士学院
尼尔勒 · 托罗尼1937年出生于穆拉尔托,一座位于瑞士提契诺州马焦雷湖畔的村庄。1959年,他决定前往巴黎定居,成为一名画家。他如今仍在巴黎生活和工作。
尼尔勒 · 托罗尼曾在多个知名国际美术馆举办个展,其中包括:德国西根当代艺术博物馆(2017年)、纽约瑞士学院(2015年)、巴黎市立现代艺术博物馆(2015年、2001年、1989年和1985年)、意大利皮萨尼别墅(2012年)、德国kurhaus kleve美术馆(2012年)、日本城市艺术博物馆、芝加哥大学文艺复兴协会(1990年)、波尔多当代艺术博物馆(1997年)、阿姆斯特丹市立博物馆(1994年)、巴黎国家现代艺术博物馆(1991年)、f法国里昂美术博物馆(1988年)、瑞士伯尔尼美术馆(1978年)。托罗尼还曾多次参加重要国际展览,包括:第7届和第9届卡塞尔文献展(1992年和1982年)、威尼斯双年展(1972年和1976年)、圣保罗双年展(1991年)等。

尼尔勒 · 托罗尼提供的画作展览现场照片,瑞士伯尔尼美术馆,1978
尼尔勒 · 托罗尼曾获得多项大奖,包括:2016年德国锡根市颁发的鲁本斯奖(Rubenspreis)和2012年的梅雷特 · 奥本海姆奖(Meret Oppenheim Prize)。艺术家的大量作品被纳入众多机构的公共收藏,包括:纽约现代艺术博物馆(MoMa),巴黎国家现代艺术博物馆,柏林汉堡车站现代美术馆,苏黎世米格罗斯当代艺术博物馆,德国kurhaus kleve美术馆,法国斯特拉斯堡现代艺术博物馆,柏林版画和素描博物馆、波尔多当代艺术博物馆(CAPC)以及瑞士卢塞恩美术馆。
1 策展人玛丽 – 洛赫 ·贝荷娜达克,“托罗尼,使用说明:我所知的三五件事”,展览画册,波尔多当代艺术博物馆,1997年,第27页。
2 尼尔勒 · 托罗尼,“我的兴趣对象一直是画画”,“文字、笔记和书信”( 1962 -1997),展览画册,波尔多当代艺术博物馆,1997年,第110页。
Niele Toroni
Un tout de différences
Galerie Marian Goodman
May 15 - July 25 2020

Galerie Marian Goodman is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Niele Toroni. The exhibition will open on Saturday 16 May and, in keeping with the working method he defined in 1966, Toroni will display imprints of a No. 50 brush repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm. The gallery will present a dialogue between works of different dimensions and on various mediums, including canvas and foam board. If the definition of Toroni’s method sounds limited, in practice it has given him tremendous freedom as, with great economy of means (a flat brush 50 mm wide, a compass and a level for measuring distances, coloured paint) he has, over the last fifty years, applied thousands of monochrome imprints in a variety of colours over all kinds of surfaces, including the walls of the spaces where he has been invited to exhibit his work. In several institutions, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Toroni’s works have become permanent features.“Toroni’s painting is at home everywhere. Whatever the place, the surface, the space that is offered to them, the imprints fluently, surreptitiously, elegantly and unemphatically find their place, in door frames, windows, corners high and low, in staircases, on walls, on glass panes, on a canvas, on a newspaper, on a roll of paper, on a banner, a caravan and, why not, a wine barrel…They inhabit space as only music can do.” 1When he first showed the imprints of a No. 50 brush repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm, as part of the ephemeral Manifestation I exhibition during the 18th Salon de la Jeune Peinture at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, in 1967, Toroni was presenting his subversive, radical vision of the act of painting. He was thereby affirming that painting was the result of work and refuted the idea of the artist as someone guided purely by subjectivity or inspiration. Since then, what he designates as “work/painting” (“travail /peinture”) has called for the reiteration of one single, minimal gesture, which he makes a point of not delegating to anyone else.“For me it has never been a matter of using pre-existing objects (forms, materials) and playing on their displacements (disorientation). An imprint of a No. 50 brush does not pre-exist, it is not visible if there is not a No. 50 brush loaded with paint that is applied to a surface so that it can leave its imprint there. The imprint of a No. 50 brush results from and bears witness to a pictorial action, it does not precede it. It is not a matter of moving, but of painting: trying to make painting, without qualms… and too bad for fashion!” 2Toroni’s work/painting does not relate anything or deliver any messages. What matters is what is given to see. On the new collages on foam board, the imprints partly cover photographs of several of the artist’s earlier exhibitions. This mise-en-abyme evokes Toroni’s past but refers above all to the present, renewing our visual experience as “each imprint of a No. 50 is never the same”. Bringing the visitor to this perception is Toroni’s ambition, for him painting is above all an “apprentissage de la vision”. Niele Toroni was born in 1937 in Muralto, a village on the shore of Lake Maggiore in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. In 1959 he decided to leave Switzerland and came to Paris to become a painter. He still lives and works in Paris today.Toroni has had solo exhibitions in many leading museums, including the Museum für Gegenwarstkunst, Siegen (2017), the Swiss Institute, New York (2015), the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2015, 2001, 1989 and 1985), Villa Pisani Bonetti, Vicenza (2012), the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve (2002), the City Museum of Art in Japan, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1990), CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (1997), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1994), the Musée National d’Art Moderne (MNAM), Paris (1991), the Musée des Beaux-arts de Lyon (1988), the Kunsthalle Bern (1978). He has also taken part in major international events such as Documenta 9 (1992) and 7 (1982), the Venice Biennale (1972 and 1976) and the Sao Paulo Bieñal (1991).Toroni’s many prizes include the Rubenspreis, awarded in 2016 by the town of Siegen in Germany, and the Meret Oppenheim Prize (2012). His works are held in a numerous public collections: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, the Centre Pompidou-Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, the Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Strasbourg, the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, and Kunstmuseum Luzern.1 Marie-Laure Bernadac, “Toroni, mode d’emploi : trois ou cinq choses que je sais de lui,” in Niele Toroni, exhibition catalogue, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1997, page 27. 2 Niele Toroni in “L’objet de mon intérêt à toujours été la peinture,” in “Textes, notes et lettres (1962 -1997),”, Niele Toroni, exhibition catalogue; CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1997, page 110
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