艺术家  Artist

杨放 Yang Fang

策展人  Curator

黄轶群 Kelvin Huang

展   期  Exhibition Duration

2023.07.15 - 08.27   

时   间  Open Hours  

11:00 - 18:00

主   办  Organizer  

逵园艺术馆 Kui Yuan Gallery

地   点  Venue

广州市越秀区恤孤院路9号

No.9, Xuguyuan Rd, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou

无人喝彩 · 炭烤棉花

Nobody Cheers · Char-grilled Cotton Elf

木板综合材料 Mixed media on wood, 40×50×4.5cm, 2021

杨放 Yang Fang

青年艺术家、EveryArt艺术全媒体平台联合创始人。1993年生于湖南长沙，2015年本科毕业于西安美术学院油画系，2018年硕士毕业于意大利威尼斯美术学院油画系，现工作生活于上海。作品曾被松美术馆、威尼斯美院美术馆、西安美术学院美术馆等机构及众多国内外藏家收藏。

Young artist and co-founder of EveryArt art all-media platform. Born in Changsha, Hunan in 1993, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in 2015 as an undergraduate and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Venice Academy of Fine Arts in Italy in 2018 as a master. She currently lives and works in Shanghai, China.

「 手上有糖   I Got Candies」

一直以来，杨放都以细腻、乐观的视角观察生活，用真诚的方式进行艺术探索和创作。简单是她所追寻的方向，去掉繁复的技法，保留最想表达的真情实感，以纯真和真实记录生活，探讨成长，在空白的画布上，完成自我与外在世界的对话。她的作品总是极具辨识度，不管是在方形木板上描绘的一个个形态不一、情绪饱满、色彩缤纷的人物形象，还是融合了二维与三维概念的不同系列主题作品，都带有强烈的属于她特有的艺术特征。杨放在勇敢直白的表达中，以可爱治愈的表现形式消解了现实的凌厉与烦恼，让不断面临成长的你我找到内心的平静与前行的勇气。

Yang Fang has always been observing life from a delicate and optimistic perspective, and exploring and creating art in a sincere manner. Pursuing simplicity, she eliminates elaborate techniques and retains the true feelings that she wants to express the most. She records life and explores self-growth with an innocent and honest mind, completing the dialogue between herself and the external world on a blank canvas. Her works are always highly recognisable, whether they are depicting different shapes, emotions and colourful figures on square wooden panels, or different series of thematic works that fuse two-dimensional and three-dimensional concepts, they all carry a strong artistic identity that is unique to her. In her brave and straightforward expressions, Yang dissipates the harshness and worries of reality in her lovely and healing representation, allowing us to find inner peace and courage to move forward in the face of constant ‘growing-up’.

我方了  I'm Square

木板丙烯 Acrylic on wood, 10×10×4.5cm / 幅 / Each, 2022

其中，《我“方”了》系列是杨放对成长的疑问——小孩的世界都是糖果的颜色吗？童年就代表无忧无虑和天真无邪吗？小孩总是想快快长大，长大后就没有唠叨的爸妈和无休无止的作业补习，长大后就可以四处旅行和凶自己的孩子。他们一路上哭着、闹着、叛逆着就这样长大了，带着新的烦恼生活在自己的“小方格”里。他们努力装成大人模样，但似乎忘了其实每个大人都曾经是小孩。这个系列杨放创作了1001幅，作为连贯的绘画作品系列和形成时间跨度的行为作品，正因《一千零一夜》的童话陪伴着她成长，从那些天马行空的故事里她感受到了真诚、善良和对世界无穷的好奇心。她在创作中以这些人物作为载体，将纯真传递给更多人。

Among her pieces, the series I'm Square represents Yang Fang’s queries about growing-up - is the colour of a child’s world the colour of candies? Is childhood necessarily carefree and innocent? Children always want to grow up quickly, so that they can get rid of nagging parents and endless homework and tutorials, travel around and even have their own children to be strict with. Children cry, scream and rebel, all the way to their adulthood, and turn out to be living in their own ‘little squares’ with other worries and troubles. They try to act like adults, yet they seem to forget that every adult was once a child. The series completed with 1001 pieces, as a coherent series of paintings and performance work that form during a span of time. The tales from The Thousand and One Nights accompanied her time of growing up, and from which she felt the sincerity, kindness and endless curiosity about the world. Using these characters as a carrier in her works, she tries to share the sincerity with more people.

啾小妞  Pouting Girls

木板丙烯 Acrylic on wood, 20×20×4.5cm / 幅 / Each, 2022

而杨放笔下的啾小妞们，个个都长着一张不完美的啾啾嘴，她们时刻梦想成为大人口中的“完美小孩”，每天啾着小嘴，小脸也憋的通红，在大人面前表现成他们希望的模样。啾小妞就像一面镜子，照出了每个人生活中的不完美，杨放通过塑造不同的啾小妞，希望每个人都能在这些饱含童话色彩的形象中看到自己，收获更多勇气去拥抱自己的不完美，同时保护好自己心中那个童真快乐的小王子。

The Pouting Girls created by Yang Fang, strangely, all share an imperfect four-leaf-clovered, pouting lips. They are always dreaming of becoming the ‘perfect children’ they are told to be, pouting their lips and holding their breaths every day to behave as how the adults would expect. By portraying different pouting girls, Yang Fang hopes that everyone can see some parts of themselves in these fairytale-like images and gain more courage to embrace their imperfections, and remember to protect the happy, little child in their heart.

无人喝彩·充满快乐因子的蒲公英女孩

Nobody Cheers · The Happy Dandelion Girl

木板综合材料 Mixed media on wood, 40×50×4.5cm, 2021

杨放身边的朋友们被她定格在《无人喝彩》系列，他们每个人都有不同的成长经历和不同的人生际遇，杨放用不同植物的特性去表现每个不同的个体——有的人坚韧如三角梅，有的娇美如玫瑰花，有的清清淡淡如幽兰......他们都站在属于自己的舞台中央，也许台下并没有观众，也许大多数人生而平凡，但每个人却都是独一无二的存在，永远都是自己人生的主角。

Yang Fang’s close friends are framed in her series Nobody Cheers. Each of them has different experiences of growing up and different encounters in life and accordingly, Yang Fang uses the characteristics of different plants to represent each individual - some are as tough as Bougainvillea glabra, some are as delicate as roses, while some are as light as orchids... They all stand in the middle of their own stage, perhaps without an audience, or even though most of them might be born ordinary, nevertheless, each one is unique and always the protagonist of their own life.

三千浮沉  Floating World

布面油画、刺绣 Oil & embroidery on canvas, 50×50cm, 2018

《刺绣》系列源于杨放从小对少数民族服饰图腾的喜爱，那种无意识性的原始艺术表达穿透了杨放的内心，促使她在欧洲留学期间一直尝试在中国传统刺绣和西方油画之间找到平衡。在此系列中，她将刺绣层层累积，使画面达到油画堆砌的效果，并结合“天圆地方”的构图概念，把圆形刺绣放在方形画布的中央，圆形刺绣的部分代表着她的一方世界，也是她的瞳孔，像一座浮岛，像诺亚方舟，漂浮在大洪水后的世界，或者它本身就是一个世界。她希望通过这个系列由内向外去探寻人的外在与内在之间、人与人之间、人与自然之间的一种和谐关系。

The Embroidery series stems from Yang Fang’s love of ethnic minority costumes and totems since childhood. The unconscious and primitive artistic expression penetrated Yang Fang’s mind, prompting her to find a balance between traditional Chinese embroidery and Western oil painting during her studies in Europe. In this series, she accumulates layers of embroidery to give the image the effect of a stacked oil painting, and combines it with the ancient Chinese idea of ‘round sky and square earth’ as the composition concept, placing the circular embroidery in the centre of a square canvas. The circular part of the embroidery represents the little world of herself and her pupil, like a floating island, like Noah’s ark, floating in the world after the great flood, or maybe it is just a world itself. Through this series she hopes to explore a harmonious relationship among people, between the outside and the inside of people, and between people and nature.

来拍一张大头贴  Come and Take a Print Club Photo

木板丙烯 Acrylic on wood, 16×16×4.5cm / 幅 / Each, 2022

杨放小时候喜欢拍大头贴，和朋友或者自己，喜欢收集一本本小相册，把一个个大头贴到相册里，很天真，那是她快乐的童年回忆。而如今手机就能自拍，拍照也不再奢侈，但很多东西还是需要仪式感，于是她通过创作《来拍一张大头贴》系列，定格这些瞬间的快乐，并籍此保存自己心中永远的美好纯真。

成长，一直贯穿在生命的各个阶段，也是我们不断思考和探讨的永恒命题。在杨放的笔触下，那些成长过程中惶恐又焦虑的情绪或肆无忌惮的叛逆被明快的色彩和流动的线条抚平，被细腻的画面和柔软的光影治愈。成长的苦涩，都将化作手中的糖果。

When Yang was a kid, she was fond of using Print Club with friends or just by herself. She collected the photo stickers and made them into albums. It was such a joyful childhood memory. When selfies are so handy with a mere smartphone and taking photos are no longer something special, she feels that the sense of ritual of life is still needed. Through the series of Come and Take a Print Club Photo, she attempts to capture the fleeting moments of happiness and preserve the innocence and beauty in her heart.

Growing-up is an eternal proposition that we are constantly thinking about and discussing at each and every stage of our life. Under Yang Fang’s brushstrokes, the fearful and anxious emotions or unbridled rebellion in the process of growing-up are soothed by the bright colours and flowing lines, and healed by the delicate images and soft light and shadow. The bitterness of growing-up always, and always will, turn into candies in hands.

拥抱不完美之六   Embrace Imperfection No.6

木板丙烯 Acrylic on wood, 30×30×4.5cm, 2022

拥抱不完美之十  Embrace Imperfection No.10

木板丙烯 Acrylic on wood, 30×30×4.5cm, 2023

拥抱不完美之十三  Embrace Imperfection No.13

木板丙烯 Acrylic on wood, 30×30×4.5cm, 2023

逵园艺术馆成立于2012年，建筑为广州东山洋房五大名园之一，国家文物保护单位。作为推广大众艺术和当代艺术的平台，定期举办展览和文化艺术活动，现已成为广州文化艺术地标之一，当代艺术推广和文物建筑活化的范例。

Kui Yuan Gallery is actively engaged in many art events and has hosted a number of contemporary art exhibitions since its opening in 2012. It is also widely recognized as a success in heritage conservation and revitalization, and a must-see spot by visitors from worldwide.