
开幕时间:2021.11.20(周六) 16:00 - 18:00
展览时间:2021.11.20 - 2021.12.31
展览地点:北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路 4 号 798 艺术区七星东街
HdM 画廊非常荣幸地宣布将于 2021 年 11 月 20 日推出艺术家曼纽尔·马蒂厄(Manuel Mathieu)个展《巫毒之子》,由鲁明军担任策展人。此次是艺术家与画廊的第二次个展合作,届时将展出其最新布面绘画作品及纸本作品,展览将持续至 12 月 31 日。
继 2018 年在 HdM 画廊北京空间的首次个展后,艺术家曼纽尔·马蒂厄的创作在保留原有力量的同时更在不断地发展演变。他开始尝试创作户外绘画,并运用陶瓷及纺织物等不同材料创作装置和雕塑。马蒂厄的绘画语言变得更加开放,试验性地将灰尘、硅胶和燃烧后的布料纳入画面之中。对马蒂厄而言,装置和绘画慢慢变得相互依存。
©HdM GALLERY《第一滴》,布面综合材料,203.2x228.6cm,2021
将液体倒在地上,以此来纪念众神、祈福或祭奠死者,是海地一种古老的祭祀仪式,也是曼纽尔·马蒂厄此次个展作品的灵感源泉。展览中尺幅最大的创作名为《第一滴》,而其它作品则被命名为《肖像》。马蒂厄试图提出一种逐步蔓延的作品构成,想象着绘画是自身的一种迭代。稀释的液体象征着祭祀的奠酒,撞击地面后四处扩散,其所铺洒的区域宛如被浸透的地面,与具有雕塑感的坚实区域形成辩证关系。马蒂厄并非在创作一组纯抽象的绘画,而是试图在自身的画面中追寻文化中超乎自然的力量。
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《权力的错觉》,布面综合材料,203.2x190.5cm,2021
曼纽尔·马蒂厄 1986 年出生于海地太子港,2016 年毕业于伦敦大学金史密斯学院,获艺术硕士学位。马蒂厄 2020 年在蒙特利尔美术馆和多伦多核电站当代美术馆举办个展,曾参加巴黎大皇宫、华盛顿博物馆、伦敦当代艺术学院、纽约 Paul Kasmin 画廊和伦敦高古轩画廊等重要美术馆和画廊的群展项目。作品被鲁贝尔家族、纽约摩根大通集团及加拿大和海地的国家纳入收藏。2022 年夏天,他将在上海隆拉蒂基金会举办一场全新的大型作品展。2022年夏天 Longlati 基金会将会在上海空间举办曼纽尔·马蒂厄的全新个展。
Exhibition: Manuel Mathieu | Son of VoodooOpening: 2021.11.20 (Sat.), 16:00 - 18:00
Duration: 2021.11.20 - 2021.12.31
Location: 798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
HdM Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Manuel Mathieu’s solo exhibition “Son of Voodoo” curated by Lu Mingjun on November 20, 2021. This is the artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery. It includes 8 new paintings and some works on paper. It will last until December 31, 2021.
Since his first exhibition at HdM Gallery Beijing in 2018, Manuel Mathieu’s work has retained its innate strength while undergoing some evolutions. The artist has developed outside painting, producing installations and sculptures with various materials including ceramics and cloths. In his paintings, he has enlarged his palette and experimented with dust, silicon as well as burnt cloth. For him, his instillations and his paintings have a dialectical relationship.
©HdM GALLERYApparition 1, mixed media on canvas, 182.8x172.7cm, 2021
In the present group of works, Manuel Mathieu has been influenced by the concept of libation, an ancient ritual whereby a liquid was poured onto the floor as a way to honor the gods, attract good fortune or pay respect to the dead. Mathieu tries to envision his paintings as a kind of iteration of himself, hitting against the ground and spreading around. As a result, the largest painting of the exhibition is entitled The First Drop while others are called Portrait. In the composition of these works, Manuel Mathieu attempted to suggest the idea of a gradual spread as well as a dialectical relationship between diluted, liquid areas that stand in for the drink poured during the libation, and more sculptural, solid areas that are meant to represent the ground drenched therewith. As such, Mathieu does not simply offer a straightforwardly abstract group of works, but rather he tries to endow his paintings with a symbolic force that verges on the transcendant.
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Serial, mixed media on canvas, 190.5x203.2cm, 2020
Born in Haiti in 1986, Manuel Mathieu has already been widely exhibited. He enjoyed solo presentations of his work at the Power Plant in Toronto as well as at the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. More recently, he participated in group exhibitions at Paul Kasmin Gallery New York and Gagosian Gallery London and at Song Museum Beijing. A major new exhibition of his works will be held in the summer of 2022 at Longlati Foundation in Shanghai.