胶囊上海｜Frieze NY｜闫欣悦

胶囊上海将于2022年纽约弗里兹（Frieze）艺术博览会的Frame单元呈现中国艺术家闫欣悦的个人项目“呼吸之间”。

闫欣悦最新创作的架上作品呈现了她就都市生活这一母题所拓展的多个切面。她将个体身在都市的境况及从中所观察到的瞬间和情节，通过想象转换到画布上。其中，欲望、焦虑、忧郁等情绪传达出个体在情感上的疏离感。

Yan Xinyue 闫欣悦 | The Witch Girl 算命女孩 | 2022 | oil on canvas 布面油画 | 140 x 110 cm

当代都市作为一个空间，日趋呈现出一种无名性、去地域化的特点，从而化为相似的“风景”。在闫欣悦的画面中，这些“风景”以多变的笔触和参照文艺复兴时期湿壁画的色彩来构建，艺术家试图通过刻画当下感知的方式放大主体的意识，在娴熟的技法中来探索画面的叙事性及可传达的力量。而人物在其中失去了公共性的压抑，却也失去了群体性存在的安全感和归属感。艺术家将最能捕获情感的所指前置，并以抽象化的方式处理背景去塑造画面中多层空间之间的张力。如《算命女孩》中泪滴从少女的脸颊滚落，指引观者的目光投向中心位置的水晶球；《再来一杯》前景中那些晶莹的水珠示意着都市白领的辛酸，与勃艮第色所充斥的画面打造出醉酒少女形成的浑然一体。火辣的红色树叶在《城市下的情感》中隐约地勾连出“Love”字样，赋予了这下意识抬头仰望都市空中的瞬间渴望，妒忌等情感，而不断延伸的空间投射着艺术家的自我意识与客观现实间的距离。闫欣悦希望在对完美和不完美的对比、转换中，让冲突融于同一平面。

一种纯然的漂泊感弥漫在闫欣悦的绘画中，《云中飞翔》上仿似坠落的带有翅膀的身体与抽象化处理的背景形成某种张力，示意着意识上的出逃。《精致的家2》中有生命的兰花借助突出的质感，呼之欲出地投射着“生命在都市”的生机与欲望……如同影片花絮般，艺术家并未给出确定的空间、时间、动机，而只是展现出漫无边际的人生行程中某些“决定性的瞬间”，她希翼观者自行勾勒出生活在都市女性，如何在工作的夹缝间找到一种超然存在的痕迹。

Yan Xinyue 闫欣悦 | The Sophisticated Home #2 精致的家2 | 2022 | oil on canvas 布面油画 | 135 x 108 cm

Text / Fiona He

Capsule Shanghai is pleased to participate in the Frame section of Frieze New York 2022, presenting “Breath to Breath”, a solo project by Chinese artist Yan Xinyue.

Yan Xinyue’s recent paintings unveil multiple facets of her understanding of urban life. With imagination, the artist translates individual circumstances, fleeting moments, and episodes she observes in the city onto the canvas, on which Yan highlights emotions such as passion, anxiety, and melancholy with a sense of detachment.

The contemporary city has been increasingly characterized by anonymity and delocalization, thus being transformed into similar “landscapes." These “landscapes” are constructed by a roster of painting techniques and color tones referring to Renaissance frescoes in Yan's images. She attempts to amplify subjective consciousness by portraying the perception at a particular moment and exploring possibilities of pictorial narrative and tension with skillful techniques. The artist foregrounds the objects that best capture emotions and abstracts the tension between multiple picture planes in the background. 

For example, in The Witch Girl, the girl’s teardrop rolls down her cheek, guiding the viewer’s gaze to the crystal ball at the center. The bright and fine droplets in the foreground of Give Me One More Glass signify the bitterness of white-collar workers in the city, fusing with the drunken girl in the burgundy-colored infused background. The vibrant red leaves in Affection Under the City Light subtly outline the word “Love," transforming the subconscious look up at the urban sky into a moment of desire, or even jealousy, while the ever-expanding space symbolizes the distance between the artist’s subjectivity and the objective reality. By contrasting and transforming perfection and incompleteness, Yan conjures these conflicting elements into one surface.

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由于上海市近期防疫要求，胶囊上海于3月10日起临时闭馆，开放时间将另行通知。为您造成不便，深表歉意。

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