才华横溢的广西艺术家雷敏，屏蔽当今火爆的艺术市场，安心自然生活环境，潜心创作大幅油画作品。他的精神世界达到了一种高度自由的状态，极富创造力和想象力，极具创作激情，近年新作不断，画面变化颇多，画作尺幅巨大也难以尽情表现他目前驰骋在他的精神领域而一发不可收拾的状态。 雷敏以他丰富的想象力，旺盛的创作欲和自由无忌的技巧，不断地创作出一批又一批大幅油画，一部分作品有着对称的构图，国画的笔触。艺术家更自由地在西画技法中融入中国画技巧，收放自如如临无人之境。集广西这片中国少数民族聚居的广袤土地之灵气，聚中国深厚的传统文化和当代迅猛发展的世态之精华，作品浓缩的象征具有更广泛、更真切的指涉，它成为一种亲密关系之下的暗示语言。 雷敏作品中场景的超自然的错觉赋予画面一种不可思议的戏剧性特性，体现了一种对正在进行的仪式的感受。他常常以一种逆反于惯常的艺术感受来进行创作，无所顾忌。他的作品是通过大脑向人们讲述一个漫长的讽刺故事，画面或多或少地掺和着幽默和漫画的诡异气息。 开幕时间：2007年8月30日 19：30pm 展览时间：2007年8月30日至2007年9月27日，15：00-23：00 地点：顶层画廊，南京东路479号先施大厦12层 电话：021-6352 0256 www.topart.cn http://www.topart.cn Solo Exhibition of Lei Min’s New Paintings The interest towards Guangxi artist Lei Min was kindled by his seemingly strange works, which are constructed form unusual articles and take on a surrealistic look. These days, his new works is going to be shown in Shanghai. When the interview was finished, he had successfully managed his goal of remaining to be mysterious or in fact, inscrutable, leaving us with more questions than before. Lei was very frank concerning his experience. “After I graduated from Shanghai Drama Academic in 1985, I began a ten year business career in Shenzhen, the most exoteric city of the time. During that period I worked in interior decoration, beauty salons and even medical clinics.”Through he returned to his hometown without becoming a millionaire, he confessed that China’s economic reform has affected him strongly. “That ten year’s experience keeps influencing me in my creative process and through my career as an artiest began only 5 years ago when I returned to Nan Ning, Guangxi Province, art creation to me is always as familiar as part of my life, thanks to a seemingly inconsistent but in fact continuously enriching youth.” Lei’s painting series is flooded by the imagines symbolizing an absurd weaving between man and women, which in their usage of configuration and colors appear to show the dualism of sexual relationships, “Although the images look confusing and oppressive, the surrealistic scenes surrounding them provide the same picture with a dramatic feeling.” When the artiest was asked about his paintings’ conception and meaning, he refused to give them a clear definition, saying that his intention is to allow those who, by chance, experienced similar events as him to resonate. “A painting should not necessarily be understood by everybody, because different people have different life styles; but all life, in a way, is homologous, and I am more willing to let the audience analyze the underlying meanings at their own will.” “Probably it’s a name matching with time, but the original intention for it is no more than a name for my subject seriously depicting the perplexing relationships between two sexes.” It is indeed Lei’s emphasis, and he has been trying to declare it experimentally. “I really hope that my paintings can bring people another level of sense. which tells that there is always unknown and mysterious presence behind our mundane lives.” From this point, sex looks mors like a bridge leading human being to an unearthly garden. Individuality in the art world today is as important as it is with other fields, and Lei defines his own style as “without rhyme or reason.” He is still unknown but believes that sooner or later the world will accept his particular way. By Jun Wu Opening Reception: 19：30, Aug. 30th, 2007 Exhibition Period: Aug. 30th, 2007 --- Sep. 27th, 2007 (15:00-23:00) Venue: The Room with A View, 12th F. No.479 Nanjing Rd(E), Shanghai . China More info: 021-6352 0256 雷敏艺术简历： 1962年出生于广西 1985年毕业于上海戏剧学院 现居南宁 1985年 ’85新潮国际艺术巡回展 珠海，深圳，日本 2003年 鸟鸟系列——雷敏油画个展 上海顶层画廊 2004年 二人转 ——雷敏 王喜波 油画作品展 上海顶层画廊 2005年 七夕——雷敏油画个展 上海顶层画廊 2005年 精灵的吟唱——雷敏大幅油画作品展 上海顶层画廊 2007年 来自东亚之风——第三回中日韩艺术巡回展 上海顶层画廊 日本 韩国 2007年 雷敏新作展 上海顶层画廊 Lei Min 1962, Born in Nanning, Grang Xi Province 1985, Graduated from Shanghai Theademy Univercity 1985 ’85 International Art Exhibition, Zhuhai &Shenzhen China, Japan 2003-2007 , Solo exhibition of 5 times, Shanghai, Room With a View Gallery 2007 “Wind From East Asia” Contemporary Art Exhibition -Third Stop, Shanghai, Room With a View Gallery, Japan, Korea 画家手记---雷敏 形象的男与女的荒谬组合一直是我图式中惯用的做法，无论从形态以及色彩的运用似乎都在暗示着性关系的双重性。这些人物不同的性方式形象化地给予画面一种意淫的错乱和苦闷，然而场景的超自然的错觉却又赋予画面一种不可思议的戏剧性特性，体现了一种对正在进行的仪式的感受。就像在萨满仪式中，一个化妆成女性的男子仿佛要摄入女性本体，并试图治愈有关性的伤病一样。 我图式的母题----性（又名鸟鸟），迄今为止我再也找不出比“鸟鸟”更加适当的词来暗喻“性”的标题了，那种带有孩童般的语境，以及不伤大雅的行为意识，很像永无休止的唠唠叨叨的梦呓一般。它浓缩的象征具有更广泛、更真切的指涉，它成为一种亲密关系之下的暗示语言。 一件作品在很大程度上创造的因素总是第一位的，我常常以一种逆反我的惯常的艺术感受来进行创作，我不想作品归平和、正统的一类，我并不是绘画圈内的人，但不是外行，所以我无所顾忌。虽然我的想象与技法远没有达到我所追求的效果，不过这仅仅是时间问题。 图解运用语言，联系与含义沿着一条笨重的路线输送意象，而理想是绕过认识上的造作状态直接攻入客体生命的核心。在很大程度上作品是通过大脑向人们讲述一个漫长的讽刺故事。 我的画面总是或多或少地掺和着幽默和漫画的气息。我从不打草图，而是让形象直接进入画面，如果在画一幅图时必须打草稿的话，我难以想象能否继续完成下去。在我看来，哪怕这一点点的重复都可能动摇我最初的动力。我是一个易变的人，一幅画从开始到完成，我真的说不清还有多少与原来的构想有相似之处，也或许是我对图形要求过于苛刻，经常做出的一种貌似“颠覆性”的举动，尽管多数情况下是徒劳的，但我依然坚持着这样的习性。