Exhibition introduction
Rush to the Wilderness ：The pandemic era has shifted our perspectives and highlighted the interconnectedness of all beings, including the natural world. Inspired by our collective urge to return to the wilderness, we explore the relationship between nature, human identity, and connection in the aftermath of a global crisis in this exhibition. As we navigate a new normal, we are reminded of the vital role that nature plays in our lives, providing solace, nourishment, and a sense of belonging. Through art and reflection, this exhibition invites us to immerse ourselves in the diversity of flora and fauna, to appreciate the delicate balance of ecosystems, and to cultivate a deeper connection to the natural world as we move forward in a post-pandemic era.
展览介绍：奔向荒野
大流行时代改变了我们的观点，并凸显了包括自然界在内的所有生物之间的相互联系。受到我们回归荒野的集体渴望的启发，我们在本次展览中探索了全球危机过后自然、人类身份和联系之间的关系。当我们驾驭新常态时，我们会想起大自然在我们的生活中扮演的重要角色，它提供慰藉、营养和归属感。通过艺术和反思，本次展览邀请我们沉浸在动植物的多样性中，欣赏生态系统的微妙平衡，并在我们迈向后大流行时代时与自然世界建立更深层次的联系。
Selection criteria for the exhibition
The exhibition plan will be drafted by GALLERY NAT London, and will be called for globally in February 2023. It is open to outstanding professional artists from all over the world, and European art history critic Renaud Ego / Maxence Alcalde and GALLERY NAT London curator team will be invited / M P BIRLA MILLENNIUM ART GALLERY Tripartite joint selection. A total of 19 contemporary artists from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, India, China, and Hong Kong, China were finally selected from the 370 artists who submitted submissions from around the world, and will be held at M P, London, England from March 15th to March 21st, 2023 Live exhibition at BIRLA MILLENNIUM ART GALLERY. At the same time, the GALLERY NAT London curator team will hold an exhibition reception on March 15, 2023. During the exhibition, various art awards will be selected for the exhibition theme "Rush to the Wilderness". Each award is born from the works exhibited on the spot in line with the principles of fairness, justice and academics. After the end of the pandemic crisis, the world focuses on rationally returning to the inner connection of nature, philosophy, and human nature. The diversity of natural organisms, the inheritance of human civilization, and the changing contradictions of all parties in the society form a series of survival and thinking problems, and study the direction of social development.
展览评选标准
展览由GALLERY NAT伦敦起草展览方案，并于2023年2月份全球公开征集，面向全球的优秀职业艺术家，同时邀请欧洲艺术史评论家Renaud Ego / Maxence Alcalde 和GALLERY NAT伦敦策展人团队 / M P BIRLA MILLENNIUM ART GALLERY 三方联合遴选。最终从全球投稿的370位艺术家中推选出来自美国、英国、德国、意大利、印度、中国、以及中国香港共计19名当代艺术家最终入选并于2023年3月15-3月21日在英国伦敦M P BIRLA MILLENNIUM ART GALLERY 现场展出。同时GALLERY NAT伦敦策展人团队于2023年3月15日举办展览酒会。展览期间会进行本次展览主题《Rush to the Wilderness》各个艺术奖项评选。各个奖项本着公平、公正、学术的原则从现场展出的作品中诞生。全球在大流行危机结束后，着重理性的回归自然、哲学、人性的内在联系。自然生物的多样性与人类文明的传承与社会各方矛盾多变形成一系列的生存思考的问题，考究着社会发展去向.
Exhibition theme
展览主题
Rush to the Wilderness - London Contemporary Juried Exhibition
奔向荒野——伦敦当代评审展
Organizer / 主办
GALLERY NAT
M P BIRLA MILLENNIUM ART GALLERY
Curator /策展人
Xi Wang /Yue Yin / Wuchao Feng
Exhibition reception / 展览酒会
2023年03月15号16：00(Greenwich Mean Time）
Exhibition time / 展览时间
2023年03月15-21号
Exhibition address / 展览地址
4A Castletown Road West Kensington London W14 9HE
Exhibition Jury
展览评委
Renaud Ego
Renaud Ego French Parisian, art critic. He has been engaged in art criticism for twenty years and has written a large number of books on modern art and contemporary art, as well as architecture. Author of the monograph Latelier by Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber (Ash Edition, 2012), another monograph dedicated to the painter Al Martin Laplanète du painter (Pascal Gabert Edition, 2016), and numerous exhibition catalogs or prefaces.
Renaud Ego 法国巴黎人，艺术评论家。从事艺术评论工作二十年 ，撰写了大量关于现代艺术和当代艺术，以及建筑的著作。 是 Jean Arp 和 Sophie Taeuber 的专著作 Latelier 的作者（灰烬版，2012 年），另一本专门为画家 Al Martin Laplanète du painter 创作的专著（Pascal Gabert 版，2016 年），以及许多展览目录或序言。
Maxence Alcalde
Maxence Alcalde Ph.D. in Art Aesthetics, Science and Technology, Paris VIII University; contemporary art critic, curator. He teaches philosophy at esadhar (le havre)
Maxence Alcalde 巴黎第八大学艺术美学、科学和技术博士学位；当代艺术评论家、策展人。他在 esadhar（勒阿弗尔）教授哲学
The final selection of participating artists in the global public selection
全球公开评选最终入选参展艺术家
Prasad Beaven / Yan Chen / Xiangyu Dong / Chun Han / Phil Hohn / Mack Gingles / Yizhu Gong / Stacy Isenbarger / Xiaotong Jiang / Saruha Kilaru / Danlei Kong / Steve Kong /Francesca Miotto / Giulia Simeoni / Josh Spindler / Annie Trevorah / Yijuan Wang / Zhuo Yao / Yuyi
Part of the exhibition artist works
部分参展艺术家作品展示
Prasad Beaven
U.K./英国
Prasad was born in London, 1994 and spent 6 years of his childhood studying in India, the foothills of the Himalayas. This early immersion in the mountains fostered a love for the majestic beauty nature has to offer. As a practitioner of meditation, he emphasises the importance of his inner well-being and strives to constantly achieve a state of peace, knowing that this will permeate into his artwork.
Studying a Masters in the Princes School of Traditional Arts helped Prasad discover Chinese Landscape Painting which has been a great revelation for him. Through studying Chinese thought in painting he has understood the subtle significance of not just imitating nature but expressing his inner feelings about it.
Prasad Beaven Reflections II, 38 x 28 cm - Varvara Beaven
Prasad Beaven_splash_of_green,2022 - Varvara Beaven
Phil Hohn
Germany/德国
I am a German artist based in both Berlin and Frankfurt. I completed my formal education with a MSc in Social Psychology from London School of Economics in 2011. Seeking a way to combine psychology and creativity, I autodidactically obtained the skills of artistic practice. After learning how to develop ideas through physical and digital models, I gained experience in entry-level positions at two design and artist studios in Frankfurt and London. I then sought to learn more about production, and worked for a producer of larger design and art pieces. The technical knowledge I obtained about machines and the transformation of materials, qualified me for a position as designer and project leader at Olafur Eliasson's studio, Berlin, which I joined in 2014. I have been working with Eliasson for 8+ years, both in the conception and realisation of artworks. The environment of one of the biggest artist studios in the world has given me a unique and highly professional relationship with all aspects of artmaking. In 2019, I reduced my hours to focus on my own works. I found a small studio space near my hometown Frankfurt, and began producing my initial body of work I am now presenting.
Phil Hohn “Nature Nurture ”Sculpture, 68 x 35 x 63 cm, 2022
Stacy Isenbarger
U.S. / 美国
Stacy Isenbarger’s artworks provoke a sense of tactile memory. Collisions of materiality within precariously occupied space challenge viewers to confront the sentimentality of distance and restraint. Tensions created put us at odds with comfort and the familiar, asking us to confront the air shifting around us. Through her work we are often reminded of what seems just out of reach but perhaps still worth pursuing. Isenbarger’s creative pursuits include sculpture, installation, mixed-media drawings, student mentorship and supporting community exchange through art.
She works as an Associate Professor of Art + Design at the University of Idaho. Currently she shares her time between Moscow, Idaho, USA and Cardiff, Wales. When she's not teaching or making—and sometimes when she is—she's usually dancing since the act continuously validates her joy of community acceptance and shaking up space.
Cooling System_a - Stacy Isenbarger
Relieving_GabesPalm - Stacy Isenbarger
Yan Chen
China / 中国
Education: Master of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts
Exhibition: In May 2019, the 7th Berlin Sino-German Cultural Festival "Differences in Fusion" Contemporary Art Exhibition, Berlin Olbsitt Museum of Fine Arts); in August 2020, "Song of the Earth" - the first ICQC International Youth Art Exhibition International Contemporary Art Expo; November 2020 Our World - 2020 International Contemporary Art Exhibition French Expressionist Academy; June 2021 "Origin: Contemporary Painting Exhibition" Seogwipo City Art Palace (National National); July 2021 , Meet Tokyo in 2021. Modern Art Exhibition, Machida City International Print Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; February 2022, Grand Palais ART CAPITAL2022 in Paris - French National Spring Art Exhibition, Grand Palais Museum)
Yan Chen "Qi Dancing" acrylic on canvas 100×100CM 2020
Yan Chen "Small Toys" acrylic on canvas 100x80CM
Xiangyu Dong
China / 中国
Born in Anhui, China, Xiangyu Dong grew up in a traditional Chinese family. He went to the U.S. in 2017 and got his bachelor’s degree of Visual Arts (media) from the University of California, San Diego. His photography practice started from then. He is currently based in London and studying at Royal College of Art.
His works have been exhibited at Adam D. Kamil Gallery, San Diego in 2020, Hefei Contemporary Art Museum in 2021. In the same year, he also attended the 100 Impressions Group Exhibition in China and Every Where You Go Group Exhibition in London. He got honourable mention in 2020's International Photography Award.
Xiangyu Dong“Untitled” from series “In a Mood for Love”30x40cm, photography
Chun Han
China / 中国
Chun is a photographer and creative director based in New York. She was born in China in 1997 and grew up in Shanxi, a small city in the middle of Northern China. She graduated from University of California San Diego with Theatre and Communication major in 2019. She later graduated with a master’s degree in Fashion Photography at the School of Visual Arts in 2022. Chun’s photography and video work focus on the relationship between human beings and the social environment and serve as a therapy practice for herself to reconcile with her social and political trauma from current events.
Chun currently has her solo exhibition at Atelier Bois Shanghai, and had her work exhibited in Gramercy Gallery, New York; The EVAC, New York; Gallerie Sentiment, Paris; Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis; Black Box Gallery, Portland and Chateau Gallery, Louisville.
Chun Han“Remainings ”Photography, 48cm x 27cm
Chun Han“Silencing ”Video
Mack Gingles
U.S. / 美国
Mack Gingles was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. His narrative paintings have been exhibited widely across the United States and abroad. His work has been shown in the Museum of Modern Fine Arts in Belarus, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Macedonia, the Cvijeta Zuzoric in Serbia, and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum in South Korea. He was also selected by the London Celeste Prize and through publication in the circulated New American Paintings. He teaches at Baylor University where he is an Associate Professor of Art.
Mack Gingles “Hats Off to the Chef”Braided thread, acrylic, and oils on birch panel
32 cm x 21 cm; 2022
Yizhu Gong
China / 中国
Born in 1978. In June 2007, he received a bachelor's degree in public relations from Nanjing University. In 2010, he studied in the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts. In the same year, he participated in the restoration of Shanghai's national treasures. In 2013, he established Hua Ziqing's art calligraphy and painting studio and traveled to Taiwan. In Japan, he systematically studied Buddhism and Buddha statue restoration projects at Bodhi Academy, and will study at the College of Liberal Arts of Yangzhou University in 2020. He has been engaged in Buddhist art research for a long time, and his works have won exhibition awards in France, Italy, the United States, and Singapore for many times. It has been collected by famous people in Europe, America and Southeast Asia.
Yizhu Gong"Balance" 2021 40x40cm
Xiaotong Jiang
China / 中国
She regards photography as a way of exploring and communicating with the world which allows the viewer to wander through the world she has created and feel their own joy and loneliness.Her works focus on the connection between people and themselves, with others and with society, combining special output methods and various art forms with traditional photography.Rather than presenting something, she wants to create something new,so that the concept of the work itself can go beyond the content of the image.
Xiaotong Jiang“In the Dust of the World” Photo Installation, 2023
Saruha Kilaru
India / 印度
Saruha Kilaru, 24, completed her bachelors in painting from Amity University in India. She moved to London after that to study MA Print at Royal College of Art. Her practice is driven by a high sensitivity to colour and its ever-influencing presence in our environment. She explores this through the meditative processes of repetitive mark making and print making.
Saruha has worked previously with the EFA Blackburn print studio in New York, and also exhibited multiple works at the Artbuzz studios in Delhi. Her works were recently exhibited at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021 and Southwark Park Galleries along with Espacio gallery and Fine Liquids Art Gallery in 2022 in London. She has also won the High Prize for artistic excellence in 2022 along with being selected to be a part the Travers Smith Art Program.
Saruha Kilaru “waterlilillies”watercolour monoprint, 84 x 120 cm, 2022
Danlei Kong
Hong Kong, China /中国香港
Born in 1964, contemporary artist. In 2022, he will graduate from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in watercolor painting creation. During his 25-year career, he has successively founded professional magazines such as "Amazing Video", "China Golf", "Chinese Cuisine" and "Legend of Famous Watches"; established an influential annual selection event [China Golf Awards]; cooperated with international photography master Tom Published a Chinese-English bilingual large-scale album "Impression China Golf"; held many cross-border cooperation activities between golf and finance, real estate and fashion brands;
Danlei Kong"Chapter" Cigar Paper Collage 88x73cm
Steve Kong
China /中国
Steve's artistic practice is deeply concerned with the politics of the digital body within a post-human context. His exploration is driven by his reflection on the power dynamics between society and the individual, as well as his resistance to and questioning of authority.
Drawing on Shoshana Zuboff's observation that our lives are increasingly commodified as data, which is then exploited for social control, Yan's work incorporates Christian Fuchs' study of social media and the Panopticon to examine the ways in which different digital spaces shape our understanding of bodily authenticity. Through his art, Yan seeks to explore the concept of 'different ways of being personal, physical, spatial and self' in these complex virtual and real world environments. By navigating between the two realms, Yan's work offers a provocative and thought-provoking reflection on the blurred lines between the real and the virtual.
Steve Kong“Who's monitoring you?（1）”Oil painting , 40cmX30cm, 2023
Steve Kong“Who's monitoring you?（3）”Oil painting , 40cmX30cm, 2023
Francesca Miotto
Italy / 意大利
FRANCESCA MIOTTO (Venice, 1985) lives and work in Venice where, during the Covid period, she opened the art space Poblado studio.
She graduated with honours in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.
She uses oil painting as main medium.
PRIZES：2022 Combat Prize (long list)；2020 Arte Laguna Prize (long list)；2019 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London (long list)；2019 Finalist Premio Arte, Academy section；
Francesca Miotto“On the Fig tree ”oil on linen, 60x40 cm, 2023
Francesca Miotto“We run through the dark”oil on linen, 60x50 cm, 2023
Giulia Simeoni
Italy / 意大利
She is a multidisciplinary, figurative artist, physicist and dramaturg.
Her creation combines a poetical approach to everyday life with a sincere, disenchanted look at social and environmental topics.
Ancient techniques welcome ad hoc innovation. The mute dialectic of situations, concepts and shapes paves the way to an ethical journey of knowledge and recognition, to recreate a synthetic depth which does not shatter the cohesion of meaning between the things.
In 2022 she was awarded the Honorable Mention at the London Contemporary Art Exhibition “Spiel Allein”. In 2021 she was awarded the international Academic Prize of Philosophy and Aesthetics “Apollo Dionisiaco” for Contemporary Art and Poetry in Rome, along with the special mention of the critics at the International Festival of Contemporary Art “DeSidera” in Trieste. In 2020 she realised the Installation “Punto. Volume. Massa.” for the Festivaletteratura and the Diocesan Museum of Mantua, involving also visually impaired persons in the cultural dialogue.
She took part to several group and solo exhibitions in galleries, museums, and international fairs all over Europe.
Giulia Simeoni “Soffio (Egl. translation "Blow")”Sculpture of Alabaster, Plaster, Rattan Wood and straw r - Total volume (W x L x H) ca. 35 x 35 x 40 cm - Year 2023
Josh Spindler
U.K. / 英国
Josh Spindler learnt how to ‘see’ the Internet and he can no longer ignore its existence on the horizon. Making the Internet ‘visible’ is the first step into making it common knowledge that it is an entirely physical network that has been affecting this planet ever since its creation.
Today he focuses on making mostly lens based fine art that speculates a near future that visualises a world where the climate crisis has had an effect on how we see the world, due to extreme internet growth and energy usage. Direct cinema is key to his practice, grounded, humanistic point of views are important to making the ‘universe’ he has created feel real. Spindler takes the massive subject matters in his research, like Timothy Morton’s thoughts on hyperobjects, the placement of the internet as explored in Andrew Blum’s Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet and David Wallace-Wells specific breakdown of dangers in The Uninhabitable Earth, and applies them to everyday life through his unique visuals. Whether that be through portrait documentary, opportunistic photography or conceptual stories he funnels those ideas into personal and emotional pieces making them matter on a much more accessible level for the audience.
Josh Spindler“Margaret Gallagher is real”Video, 1080x1920, 2021
Josh Spindler“Seeking the Sun they found Oblivion”Video, 1080x1920, 2022
Annie Trevorah
U.K. / 英国
Annie Trevorah completes her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art this year. Taking a panoptic and cinematic approach, Trevorah’s multi-disciplinary practice includes sculpture, textiles, photography, print, video and sound. Her work communicates the socio-dynamic interplay between humans and nature and is grounded with concerns around society, justice and political comment. Trevorah has exhibited internationally with her first London solo show Symbiosis taking place in February 2023. Recent shows include Centro Culturale di Milano, Las Laguna Gallery, USA and 67 York Street, London. She is a finalist in the up-coming Chiaya awards show, has been longlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize and was commissioned by Wandsworth Council to produce a public sculpture in Battersea Park, replacing Barbara Hepworth’s Single Form whilst on loan. She was also awarded the Chianciano Biennale 2022 Prize for Photography and Digital Art and is a recipient of ICAC Art Critics Award.
Annie Trevorah“Totems (series of 4)” Jesmonite, paint, 17 x 84 cm, granite boulder 30 x 51 cm, 09/22
Annie Trevorah“Totems (series of 4)”Bronze resin, paint, curled branch, 16 x 64 cm, granite boulder 28 x 60cm, 12/22
Yijuan Wang
China / 中国
Yijuan Wang is a fashion designer from China now living in England. She first graduated in China in fashion design, and did further studies at Coventry University qualifying in fashion management. Yijuan has worked in the fashion industry as a designer with a specialism in garment drawing and creating fabric patterns. Drawing is her first love, working in the medium of digital art.
Yijuan Wang“The girl living in the wilderness.”digital 2023
Zhuo Yao
China/ 中国
Zhuo Yao ( b.1994) is a Chinese-born, London-based embroidery artist whose artwork Ink-Rhyme was collected by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron in 2019; artwork Embroidery(绣) was collected in the Chinese Silk Museum in 2022. She is constantly exploring the boundaries between art and craft, trying to connect more communities and emotions through her work and practice.
She got her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California State University, Long Beach in 2017 and currently studying MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. She is the founder of the contemporary exquisite lifestyle brand Yao Silk, which focuses on implementing creative design concepts for traditional Chinese hand embroidery Su Xiu (Chinese:苏绣). The brand cooperation cases include BMW, Adidas, Tencent, Shangxia, etc.
Her work has been exhibited at London OXO Tower Wharf (2022); London Design Festival (2022); the National Art Museum of China (2019); Suzhou Museum (2019); London 100% Design Week (2019); Jiangsu Modern Art Museum (2016) .
Zhuo Yao“Trapped”
Yuyi
China /中国
Ruxue Chen (Yuyi) graduated from the University of the Arts London - illustration & visual media. Currently living in London, freelance illustrator. Influenced by Cubism and Surrealism, he likes to explore the deconstruction and reconstruction of women and spatial memory in his works.
Her works have been shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards, China International Youth Comic Illustration Biennale, and 3x3 International illustration. Cooperate with Guomai Culture, Volvo, NetEase Cloud Music, Zhejiang Civilization Office, Zhejiang Energy Group, and other companies.
Yuyi“The Crowed Room”Medium：Mixed Media Painting（Slab/Stoneware clay/digital/Micro spray pigments）Size:750mm x 650mm Year:2022,11
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Our aim is to create a community that celebrates the diversity of young artistic voices and fosters a spirit of inclusiveness and collaboration. From emerging artists just starting out, to those already making a name for themselves, we believe that every artist deserves an opportunity to shine. Our curatorial team is comprised of a group of curators based in the US, UK, France, Spain, and China. Our shows have been curated in New York, Paris, London, Venice, Shanghai, Tokyo each year. We have also participated in art fairs such as the New York Art Fair, the Los Angeles Art Fair, and the San Diego Art Fair in the United States, the Grand Palais Museum Salon and the Louvre Art Fair in France, the London Art Fair in the UK, and the Italy Art Fair in Italy.
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