索卡北京 | “旅途”参展艺术家介绍① 闫占城、郑孟强
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“旅途”参展艺术家介绍
全新群展“旅途”已于02月25日在索卡艺术北京空间开幕，展览将持续展出至03月26日。
此次展览以“旅途”为题，邀请了六位艺术家展示他们近年的艺术作品。他们以有着丰富的经验，在创作中已慢慢趋于稳定。旅途，作为体验世界的媒介，为他们的创造性表达提供出口。绘画，以一种直接的方式交流，消除了时间屏障的存在。六位艺术家用各自不同的创作面貌去探索艺术的内在含义，踏上永无止境探索的旅途。
本文将介绍参展的其中两位艺术家，闫占城和郑孟强。旅途中形形色色的人物是令人念念不忘的。在闫占城和郑孟强的画中，正是这种特殊的形象和他们自身所带有的隐喻之感展现了艺术创作的灵魂。
Journey Exhibiting Artists Introduction I
Our latest exhibition Journey is on view until March 26. The exhibition, titled Journey, invited six post-80s artists, including Xu Zhen, Yan Zhancheng, Yang Xun, Zhang Ben, Zheng Mengqiang, and Zhou Dong, to showcase their recent artworks. They have years of practice in painting and thus have slowly established their style. Journey, as a medium for experiencing the world, provides opportunities for creative expression. Painting, as a direct way of communication, eliminates the existence of time barriers. Using painting as the medium to preserve ideas, artists explore the spiritual and philosophical aspects of art, embarking on a journey of never-ending exploration.
This article will introduce two of the artists, Yan Zhancheng and Zheng Mengqiang. All kinds of people we met on the journey are memorable. In Yan Zhancheng and Zheng Mengqiang’s paintings, the characters were depicted uniquely thus metaphorically revealing the soul of artistic creation.
闫占城和郑孟强作品在“旅途”展览现场
在闫占城画布上，人物形象仿佛具有一种特殊的叙事性，能把人带入艺术家所营造的故事情节之中。他们的五官总是被微小的笔触轻轻带过，但这一笔一画却有着描绘了人物情绪的能力，带有些忧郁的，回避视线的，或是直视着画面之外的。而这些现实生活中的人物或是虚拟的形象和画面中种种线索交织在一起构建了一个场景，被纱笼罩住。观看者不禁想要试图让画中的人物敞开心扉，道出他们的心事。
闫占城作品在“旅途”展览现场
闫占城曾这样描述他的创作过程，“阅读的记忆和旅途中的记忆转变为色块，最后变成一种特定的颜色，储存在记忆中的东西回来，形成画面的组合。” 1
闫占城 Yan Zhancheng, P,
2022, 布面油画 Oil on canvas，120 x 100cm
闫占城 Yan Zhancheng,
起初是黄色的 It was Yellow Originally,
2022, 布面油画 Oil on canvas，300 x 220cm
而郑孟强作品中的人物则有些亲切暧昧。在暖暖的阳光下，一男一女，两个身影享受着悠闲时光。他们或是斜靠在阳台上或是在沙滩上悠然自得的躺下，像是在进行最亲密的谈话；又像是在谈话之中忽而停顿，彼此默契的享受暖风下片刻的宁静。不论是人物圆润且不带棱角的轮廓还是低饱和度柔和的色彩，画面有一种温暖的力量能抚平心中的焦躁不安。在浮躁的日常生活和城市钢筋水泥之下，谁不想像画中的人物一样，寻找一隅私密的空间，和亲密的人共度片刻闲暇呢？
郑孟强作品在“旅途”展览现场
郑孟强在创作中试图重现那些消逝在时间里却沉淀在意识深处的记忆片段。因此作为作品主体的人物时常被定格在某个微妙的时刻，徘徊于暧昧和疏离之间，隐藏着亲密和脆弱的迹象。在被情绪架空的意象空间中，以静止和隐晦的姿态，述说人性的柔软和自省的力量。2
郑孟强作品在“旅途”展览现场
In Yan Zhancheng’s painting, the characters seem to have a special narrative power that brings people into the specific setting. The artist uses soft and loose brushstrokes to illustrate their facial features. With some melancholy feeling, the man and women that were depicted avoid eye contact with the viewer, looking straight out of the picture frame. And these real-life characters, or virtual avatars, are interwoven with the various clues to build a scene, sometimes shrouded in a veil. The viewer cannot help but ask them to speak their mind.
Yan Zhancheng once described his creative process as follows: "The memories of reading and travel are transformed into color blocks, into a specific color that is stored in the memory, and finally come back to form a combination of pictures." 1
郑孟强 Zheng Mengqiang, 白兰湾 Bailan Bay, 2023,
布面油画 Oil on canvas, 200 x 150cm
On the other hand, the characters in Zheng Mengqiang's paintings are more intimate and ambiguous. Under the warm sunlight, two figures, a man and a woman, enjoy their leisurely time. They either recline on the balcony or lie down on the beach as if they are having the most cherished conversation. Or they are suddenly pausing in the middle of the dialogue, enjoying a moment of tranquility under the warm breeze. Whether it's the unangular silhouettes or the soft low saturated colors, the painting has a warm power to soothe the restlessness in the heart. Under the frenetic daily life and the steel and concrete of urban living, who would not want to find a private space to spend some cozy time together just like the characters in the paintings?
In his works, Zheng Mengqiang tries to recreate those fragments of memories that have faded away in time but settled deep in his consciousness. Therefore, the characters, the subjects of his works, are often framed in a subtle moment, hovering between ambiguity and detachment, hiding signs of intimacy and vulnerability. In the imaginary space emptied of emotions, they speak of the softness of human nature and the power of self-reflection in a still and obscure manner.2
艺 术 家 介 绍
闫占城
Yan Zhancheng
闫占城，1984年生于延安，2008年毕业于西安美术学院油画系，现工作、生活于北京。
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Yan Zhencheng was born in 1984 in Yan’an, China. He graduated from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts Oil Painting Department with a bachelor’s degree in 2018. He currently lives and works in Beijing, China.
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郑孟强
Zheng Mengqiang
郑孟强1987年生于中国福建，2011年毕业于天津美术学院油画系。现生活和工作于中国北京。郑孟强的创作大多以他所经历和沉淀的情感作为依托和引线，从个人记忆和自我感知中搜寻创作灵感。他的作品试图探索绘画的诗意，尽管最初的立意可能源于真实生活片段或电影摄影图像，但他将瞬间性的灵感、情感克制下来，经过长时间的酝酿，对画面元素进行重组提炼，通过对形体的概括、色块的分割，形成了抽象几何的画面构成，创造出一个非现实的清晰的具象。同时在色彩的运用和选择上，也做了大量的概括和提炼，弱化了色彩的对比关系，近乎单色调的柔和色彩流露出更加朦胧的神秘感。这种内敛敏感的画面特质，让他的作品呈现出更多浪漫现实主义的意味。
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Zheng Mengqiang was born in Fujian, China in 1987. He was graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. He currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Zheng Mengqiang's works are based on his experiences and emotions, searching for inspiration from personal memories and self-perceptions.
His works attempt to explore the poetry of painting. Although the initial ideas may originate from real-life fragments or cinematographic images, he restrains his momentary inspirations and emotions, and after a long period of brewing, he reorganizes and refines the picture elements, forming an abstract geometric composition through the generalization of forms and the division of color blocks, creating a clear figuration of non-reality. At the same time, the use and selection of colors are also heavily generalized and refined, weakening the contrasting relationship of colors and revealing a more hazy and mysterious sense with the almost monochromatic soft colors. This introspective and sensitive quality of his images gives his works a more romantic realist meaning.
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1. 文字内容基于与艺术家的对话
Content based on a dialogue with Yan Zhancheng
2. 文字内容基于艺术家作品自述
Content based on Zheng Mengqiang’s Artist Statement
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