磅礴——杨识宏近作展

磅礴——杨识宏近作展
Majestic Momentum - Yang Chihung Recent Works

策展人/ Curator: 王绍强 Wang Shaoqiang
学术支持/ Academic Support: 殷双喜 Yin Shuangxi,王端廷 Wang Duanting,彭锋 Peng Feng

艺术家/ Artist: 杨识宏 Yang Chihung

展览时间/ Duration: 2019.4.3 - 5.5
开幕式/ Opening: 2019.4.3 (Wed.) 15:00
艺术讲座/ Art Talk: 2019.4.4 (Thu.) 10:00-12:00

主办单位/ Organizer: 广东美术馆Guangdong Museum of Art
支持机构/ Supporting Organization: 亚洲艺术中心Asia Art Center

地点/ Venue: 广东美术馆5 & 6展厅
Exhibition Hall No.5 & 6, Guangdong Museum of Art
广州市二沙岛烟雨路38号
No.38, Yanyu Road, Ersha Island, Guangzhou




“磅礴——杨识宏近作展”是艺术家杨识宏在广东美术馆的首次集中展示,也是继2015年东京上野之森美术馆个展之后的又一次创作梳理与深度呈现。本次展览由广东美术馆主办,亚洲艺术中心为支持机构,王绍强馆长担任策划,殷双喜、王端廷、彭锋担任学术支持,共计展出二十余件巨幅画作,涵盖艺术家近年来的绘画创作和文献史料,包括有关创作之珍贵信札、手稿、照片以及七八十年代报刊杂志,立体地呈现了杨识宏的绘画发展轨迹及抽象创作历程。

杨识宏1947年出生于台湾,1968年毕业于台湾艺专美术科(现台湾艺术大学),1979年移居美国。他是第一位获得纽约现代艺术博物馆(MoMA)P.S.1当代艺术中心“国家工作室”计划奖助的华人艺术家。1989年获得“杰出亚裔艺术家奖”。杨识宏的艺术创作涵盖摄影、版画、素描、水墨、陶瓷、绘画等诸多领域。其对“生命意义的探讨”是创作思考的主轴。他的艺术经历了一个从具象到抽象的发展历程:从最初对自我“存在”的反思;到“都市文化”的批判;及80年代旅美后涉及“后现代的浪漫与象征主义”;至90年代开启以“植物美学”为抽象绘画创作风格;2000年以后则开始于内在世界的精神性探讨。

本次展出的巨幅画作气韵生动、气势磅礴,展现了东方绘画的含蓄与诗意,杨识宏对于中国书法的理解亦转化为抽象艺术的用笔源泉,其创作体现出一种东方式的深厚内蕴与精神平衡。

在创作的同时,杨识宏也担任传播艺术知识的重任,他所撰写的《现代美术新潮》于1987年出版,介绍西方艺坛最新的思潮、理论,为许多艺术家提供了深度的介绍及启发。2013年美国Discovery Channel探索频道邀请杨识宏为华人艺术绘画类的代表人物,以他的创作生命为题摄制《华人艺术纪》专题节目,于全球播放。其作品曾被美国阿尔德里奇当代艺术博物馆、亨廷顿美术馆、阿肯色艺术中心、纽约市立大学、新加坡美术馆、台湾美术馆、台北市立美术馆、广东美术馆等重要机构收藏。杨识宏几十年来的绘画创作对抽象与具象、东方与西方、传统及当下的辩证与思索,不仅在其创作生涯留下深刻轨迹,同时也成就了他极富个人特色的绘画美学。


Asia Art Center is pleased to announce the Opening of Majestic Momentum - Yang Chihung Recent Works at Guangdong Museum of Art on April 3rd, 2019. The exhibition marks a sequential milestone peering shrewdly into the artist’s expansive oeuvre since his solo exhibition at The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, in 2015. The organizer of this exhibition is Guangdong Museum of Art, Asia Art Center as the supporting organization. Wang Shaoqiang is the curator, and three scholars: Yin Shuangxi, Wang Duanting and Peng Feng as academic support. In the display are: more than twenty pieces of monumental-sized paintings, drawings and historic documents including letters, manuscripts, photographs and print publications from the 1970s and 1980s; overall, the curation retraces the sophistication of Yang’s artistic creation toward the abstracted realm.
Yang Chihung was born in 1947, in Taiwan. After graduating from the Taiwan Academy of Arts (now  Taiwan University of Arts), he emigrated to the United States of America in 1979. Yang is the first artist of Chinese descent to be awarded a fellowship at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center National Studio Program in New York. His pioneering works soon landed him the Outstanding Asian American Artist award in 1989. Yang Chihung’s artistic career spans over photography, prints, sketching, ink, ceramics, paintings and other fields. The core of his practice is stemmed within his explorations into the meaning of life. His art has journeyed through a course from figuration to abstraction: from his earliest reflections on self existence, then came criticisms of urban civilization; he ventured into post-modernist expression of romanticism and symbolism when he first immigrated to the United States in the 1980s before beginning a series of abstract paintings with the theme of botanical aesthetics in the 1990s. After the year 2000, he stopped to delve back into spiritual explorations of the inner world.
The monumental-sized paintings displayed in this exhibition are full of vivid vigour and majestic momentum, showing the overtone and poetics of Eastern aesthetics. Yang Chihung's profound understanding of Chinese calligraphy has subliminally inspired his abstract art creation, which manifests an Eastern expression connoted of  intrinsic essence and spiritual harmony.
In addition to being an art creator , Yang has also contributed tremendously as an art disseminator. His book The New Trends in Modern Art, published in 1987, provided in-depth introductions on the newest theories of western art and inspired lots of artists. In 2013, Discovery Channel invited Yang as the representative artist of painting to documented his artistic achievement in the program Chineseness, was broadcasted all over the world. His works have been collected by many important institutions such as The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Huntington Art Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, The City University of New York, Singapore Art Museum, the Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Guangdong Museum of Art, etc. Yang's art creation over the decades has revealed his dialectical thinking about abstraction and figuration, the East and the West, the tradition and the present. These thoughts have become the backbone of his characteristic aesthetics, as well as consolidated into an influential art career.



对位 Counterpoint   203x153cm  布面丙烯 Acrylic on canvas  2016


孤傲 Pride and Solitary  170x221cm  布面丙烯 Acrylic on canvas  2014


喷发 Eruption  200x200cm  布面丙烯  Acrylic on canvas  2018


信仰 Faith  200x200cm  布面丙烯  Acrylic on canvas  2018


再生 Resurrenction  200x230cm  布面丙烯 Acrylic on canvas  2016-2017


峥嵘 Outstanding  203x153cm  布面丙烯 Acrylic on canvas  2014