展讯 | 郑孟强个展「季风拂过东礵岛」将于7月2日开幕！

季风拂过东礵岛

Monsoon winds blow over Dongshuang Island

郑孟强 个展

Zheng Mengqiang's solo exhibition

可以画廊将于2022年7月2日举办今年的第四场展览。本次荣幸邀请到艺术家郑孟强为大家带来个展“季风拂过东礵岛”。本次个展是艺术家与可以画廊的首次合作，展览将呈现郑孟强一年多以来的二十余件新作。

祥云 

布面油画

300x200 cm

2022

郑孟强故乡的季风天气赋予了作品独属于东南海域的“家乡温度”。季风的周而复始推动着记忆的更新回溯。郑孟强的画面人物简练概括，几何化的日常生活景观在画中坚实又柔软。画面中的细节表现被抽离出来，遗留下的是更强烈的精神性冲击。日常化的作品母题更直接地与观者发生互动，裹挟着观者并和人们一起“凝望远方”。这种表达方式带来的结果是不言而喻的：减轻了视觉的负担后，精神上的感受就增加了。

“人”一直都是郑孟强的作品内核。故乡的意象在作品中也常常得见，红色的礁石、大海和沙滩。在南方海边长大的郑孟强用油画的质地表达了独属于水墨的氤氲气息，试图在画面中寻找一种能够填补自己心灵轮廓的力量。

人物肖像的情感传递将个体的精神孤寂转化成了更为广泛的群体感受。画中的人们经常凝视远方，他们此刻在“赤岸”相互陪伴，但却似乎期待着远处的“桃花岛”。郑孟强说，他们在瞭望的是“没有在画幅内呈现出来的光”，从更广泛的意义上来说，这是一种群体性共情和追逐。

“我试图用绘画的方式重现并保存一个更接近自我内心和自在真实的情感世界。在作品里，我选择自己最熟悉的故乡和最亲近的人作为表达情感的载体。这种具有安全感和归属感的环境氛围，让我可以在作品中呈现自己最私密、积淀最深的那部分情感，完成我内心中最真实自洽的表达。”

——郑孟强

最后的旅行 

布面油画

300x200 cm

2021

KeYi Gallery will hold the fourth exhibition this year on July 2, 2022. It is my honor to invite artist Zheng Mengqiang to bring you a solo exhibition "Monsoon winds blow over Dongshuang Island". This solo exhibition is the first cooperation between artists and KeYi gallery. The exhibition will present more than 20 new works by Zheng Mengqiang since more than a year ago.

The monsoon weather in Zheng Mengqiang's hometown endows his works with the "hometown temperature" unique to the southeast sea area. The repetition of monsoon promotes the renewal of memory. The figures in Zheng Mengqiang's paintings are concise and highly-generalized, and the geometric landscapes of daily life are both solid and soft in his artworks. Details are removed from the image, and the mental impact left behind is stronger. The daily motif engage with the viewers more directly, forcing the viewer to "stare into the distance" with people in paintings. The results of such expression is obvious: when the visual burden is relieved, the spiritual experience is increased.

"People" has always been the heart of Zheng Mengqiang's works. Images of hometown could also been found in artworks, such as red rocks, ocean and sand beach. Zheng Mengqiang, who grew up in the harbour of southern China, uses the texture of oil painting to express the unique dense atmosphere of ink painting, trying to find a power to fill spiritual outline in the picture.

The emotional transmission of portraits transforms individual spiritual loneliness into a broader group feeling. The people in the paintings often stare into the distance. They are in the company of each other at the ‘red Bank’, but seem to be looking forward to ‘the peach blossom Island’ in the distance. What they were looking at, Zheng said, was "the light that doesn't show up in the picture," a broader sense of communal empathy and pursuit.

"I try to reproduce and preserve a real and free emotional world that is closer to my heart by means of painting. In my works, I choose the hometown I am most familiar with and the people closest to me as the carrier to express my emotions. This environment with a sense of security and belonging allows me to present my most private and deepest feelings in my works and complete the most authentic and consistent expression in my heart."

--Zheng Mengqiang

关于艺术家

郑孟强，1987年出生于福建，2011年毕业于天津美术学院油画系，现生活工作于北京。

Zheng Mengqiang, born in Fujian in 1987, graduated from the oil painting department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2011, and now lives and works in Beijing.