赵小黎：吞噬·绽放
Zhao Xiaoli: INTRUSION·BLOSSOM
展期：2022年10月29日 - 2022年12月16日
艺术家：赵小黎
HOW+策展人：郑果
学术支持：陆蓉之
地址：HOW+SPACE 展厅一
上海市浦东新区祖冲之路2277弄1号3楼
主办：HOW+
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HOW+很荣幸的宣布，将于2022年10月29日起在HOW+项目空间展厅一呈现艺术家赵小黎的个展“吞噬·绽放”。
吞噬·绽放 ：多维度赵小黎的多频道艺术人生
文｜陆蓉之 Victoria Lu
赵小黎在艺术圈的横空出世，成为数据时代的多维度、多频道艺术⻔类的一派宗主：元媒体艺术(Meta-media Art)，是无法被归类到任何既有的范畴之内的。赵小黎开创了在今天数据时代难以被超越的艺术新⻔类，是一种属于元宇宙艺术发展进程的原生态艺术。
赵小黎首次个展“吞噬·绽放”，完整呈现了她对“元媒体艺术”的研究与概念。此次展览是对于数字时代艺术传播力度和广度的认知。
赵小黎 Zhao Xiaoli
《玫瑰入侵》 Rose intrusion，2021
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
120cm*160cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
赵小黎的艺术，根源于她的童年时代，随伺在她的爷爷身侧(家乡著名的老中医)，爷爷一边望闻问切看诊，小黎就在一边涂鸦，视觉形象混合了草药的味道，融合在爷爷浓厚的乡音，到中医问诊仪式化的终结，这要比⻄医看诊更多了几分戏剧性。再加上儿时院子里种了很多芍药和蜀葵，芍药花的妩媚多姿和蜀葵花的艳丽顽强，塑造了她孩童时期的世界，不是黑白的默片，而是声、色、味多元交织，鲜活、立体、动态的场景。从小体验、观察、记忆了各种巨细靡遗的极繁元素，早就构建擘划了赵小黎未来艺术生涯的初始蓝图。
「一个人创造出来的东⻄，有另一个人喜欢，就是艺术。」这就是赵小黎的创作理念，始于热爱，始于信念。她的艺术并不受限于中外艺术史流派的引导或限制，也不在乎用创作材料与形式。然而，她的美丽，是种不自觉的意外。在记录创作的过程中，她的身影竟单独成了她的艺术⻔类。
赵小黎的视频影像和她的绘画创作，结合为一体，是相辅相成的两面。画里出现的一些元素或者符号，在她的视频影像里，也会成为实体存在或场景式的素材，两者 完整地表达了她的艺术境界。赵小黎无疑的成为了这种多维度艺术的先锋。
赵小黎 Zhao Xiaoli
《不同的温度》 Different temperatures，2022
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
80cm*90cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
“吞噬·绽放”展出的作品是以赵小黎近年来的油画原作为主，是对大众所熟悉的视频作品提供了实物对照的补充。由于赵小黎是一位场景化的艺术家，她将画画融入 她的生活起居中，是她对于唯美主义(Aestheticism)的一种几近于耽溺的极端追求，成就了她今天的艺术面貌。这样执着于唯美的表现，在历史上唯一可以援引的案例，也许就是19世纪在欧洲昙花一现的审美运动，艺术的创作应该是美丽的，把审美价值凌驾一切，而不是服务于其他的。赵小黎选择表现美，最直接的题材，就是她自己。所以，她画的是心目中所向往的自己。
赵小黎 Zhao Xiaoli
《在荒芜中绽放》 Blooming in the Wilderness，2022
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
100cm*55cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
赵小黎的画像镜头捕捉特写，背景是彩色的留白，加上一些虚化或点缀的道具， 而不是描绘一个现实空间的场景。她的主题就是主体，不仅人物似乎是无龄化的虚构，甚至其时代感和种族特征也被淡化，她们像是时空胶囊里永恒的旅行者，被定格成美丽的记忆。云、月亮、花⻦、蝴蝶、树林，这些唤起她儿时记忆的元素，都是赵小黎常画的标记。
赵小黎 Zhao Xiaoli
《玫瑰与火焰相依》 Roses are with Fire，2021
布面油画 Oil on Canvas
120cm*150cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
令人惊艳的是，这次赵小黎推出了她的雕塑系列，是从她的绘画衍生出的再创作，细腻的赋彩使得雕塑有很强烈的绘画性，令人联想起中国固有的彩绘泥塑，和古埃及法老阿肯纳顿的王后-纳芙蒂蒂(Nefertiti)的彩绘塑像。随着数字时代科技的迭代更新，新的媒材让她找到了分享的出口，身为数字时代的多维度、多频道新艺术⻔类「元媒体艺术」的先锋，拥抱群众的赵小黎一步也没落下，持续闪烁着她的五彩缤纷在时空⻓河里尽情尽兴地穿梭。
赵小黎 Zhao Xiaoli
《燃烧的风筝 雕塑》 A kite in flames(sculpture)，2022
玻璃钢 Glass steel
200cm*155cm*147cm
致谢艺术家 Courtesy of the artist
关于艺术家
赵小黎 ｜ Zhao Xiaoli
潮流艺术家
抖音艺术推广官 抖音年度高光人物
微博十大艺术博主
EINA艺术硕士
Instagram知名艺术博主
个人社交媒体平台粉丝超2000万
曾用短视频的形式颠覆了艺术创作的传播，得到众多国内外知名媒体的报道。其作品大多表达自我在成长过程中遇到的情感和困惑，并将影像、空间、绘画相互融合， 形成了自我独特的情感表述。
学术主持
陆蓉之 ｜ Victoria Lu
中国当代艺术圈内以中文书写最早的
女性艺评家及策展人
现任台北实践大学创意产业博士班博导
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2007年创立动漫美学双年展(Animamix Biennial)，提出的21世纪动漫新美学论述
2008年担任北京月亮河当代艺术馆馆长，举办月亮河雕塑艺术节，策划798雕塑艺术节
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2011年策划第54届威尼斯双年展平行展《未来通行证-从亚洲到全球》。之后巡展到荷兰鹿特丹世界美术馆，台中台湾美术馆和北京今日美术馆三地
2014年担任威尼斯电影节电影市场亚洲影视空间总监
2016年陆蓉之成立《萌奶奶天团(SUPER M MAA PERFORMANCE GROUP) 》
2017年《萌奶奶天团》参加威尼斯双年展平行展《MODUS》展出及演出
2018年谢稚柳、陈佩秋、傅申、陆蓉之在北京故宫博物院武英殿举办《纵横千骨 两岸一家》联展
2019年制作与青年导演赵伯祚联合导演纪录长片《答应你》
2020年《答应你》获第33届中国电影金鸡奖学术放映
2022年发起并组织与威尼斯大学、威尼斯建筑大学联合举办《第一届年度元宇宙艺术展威尼斯》新媒体艺术研究展
2022年担任杭州富阳公望两岸圆缘园创始人
赵小黎：吞噬·绽放
Zhao Xiaoli: INTRUSION·BLOSSOM
Dates: Oct. 29 – Dec. 16, 2022
Artist: Zhao Xiaoli
HOW+ Curator: Zheng Guo
Academic advisor: Victoria Lu
Venue: HOW+SPACE ONE (3F, No. 1, Lane 2277, Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai)
Organizer: HOW+
HOW+ is pleased to announce the opening of INTURSION·BLOSSOM, a solo exhibition by Zhao Xiaoli, on October 29, 2022 at HOW+ SPACE ONE.
INTRUSION·BLOSSOM
Victoria Lu
The emergence of Zhao Xiaoli in the art world comes quite as a surprise to many and she has gradually turned out to become a key opinion leader of the multi-dimensional and multi-channel arts in the big data era – the Meta-media Art, which can hardly be classified into any existing category. She creates a new category of art that is hard to be surpassed in today's data era. It is a type of original art that belongs to the development process of metaverse art.
Zhao's first solo exhibition INTURSION·BLOSSOM presents a holistic picture of her research and concept of “meta-media art”. This exhibition shows the strength and breadth of art communication in the digital age.
Zhao Xiaoli
Rose intrusion，2021
Oil on Canvas
120cm*160cm
Courtesy of the artist
Zhao’s art creation could be traced back to her childhood experience. At a young age, she spent a lot of time following her grandfather around (a famous veteran traditional Chinese medicine doctor in her hometown) and would draw around while her grandfather was at work. The visual image, the smell of herbs, and her grandfather's strong local accent mixed together. The traditional Chinese medicine consultation was like a ceremony, rendering dramatic effects barely seen in Western medicine practices. In addition, a lot of peonies and hollyhock were planted in the yard. The charm of the peony and the gorgeous hollyhock shaped the world of her childhood. It was not like a black-and-white silent film, but a vivid, three-dimensional and dynamic scene with a variety of sounds, colors and tastes. She has experienced, observed and remembered all kinds of extremely complex elements since she was a child. That also heralds the initial blueprint for her future artistic career.
“Art is about one person creating something and another person loving it." This is what guides Zhao’s creative work, which begins with love and belief. Her creation is not limited to the guidance or restriction of Chinese or Western art history, nor does she care about the materials or forms. However, her beauty comes from the very unconsciousness. In the process of recording her creation, her figure alone becomes a signature element of her art.
Zhao's video images and her paintings form the two sides of a whole and complement each other. Some elements or symbols that appear in the painting will also be used as decorative or background materials in her video, which fully expresses her artistic realm. Zhao has undoubtedly become a vanguard of this multi-dimensional art.
Zhao Xiaoli
Different temperatures，2022
Oil on Canvas
80cm*90cm
Courtesy of the artist
The works exhibited in INTRUSION·BLOSSOM are mainly based on Zhao's oil paintings in recent years, which provides a physical supplement to the video works familiar to the public. Zhao is an artist adept in scene-creation and the integration of painting into her daily life. It’s exactly her extreme pursuit of aestheticism that has helped to shape her artistic style today. Perhaps the only case in history can be cited is the short-lived aesthetic movement in Europe in the 19th century which held that art creation should be beautiful, putting aesthetic value over everything else. Zhao chooses herself, the most convenient theme, to demonstrate her understanding of aesthetics. In other words, she draws the self she yearns for.
Zhao Xiaoli
Blooming in the Wilderness，2022
Oil on Canvas
100cm*55cm
Courtesy of the artist
Instead of depicting a scene of a real space, Zhao's painting captures close-up, leaving the background with pure colors, plus some blurring effect or embellishment. Her theme is the subject. Not only do the characters seem to be ageless and fictitious, but even their sense of the times and ethnic characteristics have been diluted. They are like eternal travelers in the time capsule, who have been fixed into beautiful memories. Clouds, the moon, flowers, birds, butterflies, and woods are all elements that arouse her childhood memories and often appear in her works.
Zhao Xiaoli
Roses are with Fire，2021
Oil on Canvas
120cm*150cm
Courtesy of the artist
Amazingly, Zhao also presents her sculpture series this time, which is a re-creation deriving from her paintings. Her delicate painting imbue the sculpture with strong painterliness, which reminds viewers of the colored clay sculpture in China, and the painted sculpture of Nefertiti, the queen of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton. With the iterative update of technology in the digital age, Zhao has found a channel for sharing with the help of new media materials. As a pioneer of the multi-dimensional, multi-channel art category of "meta-media art" in the digital age, Zhao Xiaoli, who embraces the masses with open arms and open studio, is unstoppable on her road of artistic pursuit and continues to shine her colorfulness surpassing time and space.
Zhao Xiaoli
A kite in flames(sculpture)，2022
Glass steel
200cm*155cm*147cm
Courtesy of the artist
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Zhao Xiaoli
Zhao is a pioneering subverter who has earned wide attention from renowned media both in China and abroad through the short videos featuring her visceral painting process. Combing video-making, the space and painting, her work delves into the emotions and confusions she encounters when growing up, presenting a unique and subtle means of expression.
Academic Advisor
Victoria Lu
She served as the Artistic Director of Shanghai Bund 18 Art Center, the Creative Director of Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, the Director of Beijing Moon River Contemporary Art Museum, and the Creative Director of Beijing Today Art Museum.
She was the curator of the Collateral Event: Future Pass: From Asia to the World, the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2022, she initiated and organized“The 1st Annual Metaverse Art@Venice”.
Currently she holds the position as the Professor of the Creative Industry Doctoral Program at Shih Chien University in Taipei and the Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia in Barcelona.
She is the Director of URBart Esthetics Research Program at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & EINA University School of Design and Art of Barcelona.
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