當代唐人藝術中心——香港

策展人：魏星 

時間：2010年10月4日 – 10月24日

地點： 當代唐人藝術中心 – 香港

         香港上環荷李活道233號

         荷李活商業中心地庫

         週一至週六 10.30 am – 6.30 pm
         （周日以及公共假期閉館）

開幕酒會：香港當代唐人藝術中心誠邀您參加於2010年10月4日（週一）下午5:30-7:30 的開幕酒會。 屆時藝術家將會出席

特別感謝北京仁藝術中心的大力支持！

展覽背景

　　閆珩和申大鵬都是80後的藝術家，從美術學院畢業後他們都選擇了繪畫作為他們的終身事業。他們都具有很強的專業背景，經由紮實的藝術訓練所顯露出的高度的寫實及表現功力在80後的藝術家中不可多見，再加上兩位年輕人豐富的想像力和善於獨立思考的精神，使得他們的作品即流露出現實的關懷，同時又擺脫了上一代藝術家因為耽溺於符號的挪用和觀念的鋪陳，從而造成感性和情感的缺失的定式，以奇詭的想像與精美的畫面，去觸動觀者內心的敏感。

　　這一代藝術家不太關注意識形態的價值判斷，而更多地忠實於他們個人的內心感受的表達。閆珩以第一名的專業成績畢業於魯迅美術學院第三畫室，他的作品既觸動現實，以一個年輕人的視角去觀看和表現當下的社會景觀，同時又把想像的符號與現實的畫面融合在一起，在其中又有年輕藝術家的心理欲望的隱秘交織，從而呈現出一種生動而又奇詭的圖像，畫面既有現實主義的風格，又充滿了表現主義的色彩。

　　申大鵬的作品則更多的是對於藝術家自身的內心心理活動的關照，他的作品以極為細膩和高度寫實的手法，去表現身邊熟悉的人和事物。但它們又並非是現實主義的，而是帶有超現實的風格，並且把流行的卡通樣式與超級寫實的技巧完美地結合在一起，從而形成了他自己的個人風格。觀看他的作品猶如一次深入藝術家內心夢境與情感世界的探索，在由豐富的色彩與形式交織成的想像空間裏旅行。

　　閆珩1982年生於中國遼寧，2007年畢業於魯迅美術學院， 現生活工作於北京

　　申大鵬1983年生於中國遼寧，2006年畢業于天津美術學院， 現生活工作于大連

如有任何詢問，請致電香港當代唐人藝術中心 +(852) -25449918 / 25449919 或傳真： +(852) – 25449920 或電郵：www.tangcontemporary.com www.tangcontemporary.com

M   E   D   I   A                R   E   L   E   A   S   E

Tang Contemporary Art – Hong Kong presents

Fabled Landscape -

By Yan Heng & Shen Dapeng

 Curator: Wei Xing

Date:      Oct 04 – 24, 2010        

Exhibition @    Tang Contemporary Art – Hong Kong

Basement, Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road

Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Mon - Sat 10.30 am – 6.30 pm
(Closed on Sun and Public Holidays)   

With special thanks to Yan Club Arts Center

Exhibition Background

Yan Heng and Shen Dapeng are post-80’s artists, after graduating from their respective art academies, they both chose painting to be their life-time careers. They have highly acclaimed academic backgrounds, their skills shown through excellent foundations in realistic and expressive painting abilities stands out among post-80’s artist, their rich imagination and spirit of independent thought gives their artworks a sense of attentiveness to reality and at the same time, allows them to break away from the cliché of the iconic, borrowing and the symbolic of their predecessors which results in the lacking of emotions and sensibilities. Thus the elegant images filled with strange imaginations are created which rings with the deepest sensitivities of its viewers.           

Artists of this generation care little about ideology, instead they devote their creativity to the expression of their inert emotions and feelings. Being one of them, Yan Heng graduated from No.3 Studio, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art. His artworks touches upon the reality in which the society is observed from the perception of the youths where the icons of imagination and the reality are interwoven, where the desires and secrets of the youths too are the overall groundings, creating lively and strange images of realism but in an manner of expressionism.

Shen Dapeng’s artworks reflect more of his psychological activities, he uses highly detailed and representational methods in the portrayal of people and the environments around him. More surrealistic than representational, his style is the perfect merge of the hyper-realistic and the cartoon/comic. Looking at his artworks is like a voyage through the dreamscape of the artist filled with colours and forms.   

Yan Heng was born in Liaoning in 1982, he graduated from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art in 2007, he is now working and living in Beijing.

Shen Dapeng was born in Liaoning in 1983, he graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Art in 2006, he is now working and living in Dalian.

OPENING RECEPTION: Tang Contemporary Art – Hong Kong cordially invites you to the opening party on Monday, Oct 04 2010, 5:30 pm onwards.

For Public and Media Enquires, please contact the gallery at +(852) – 25449918/25449919 Fax: +(852) – 25449920 or hk@tangcontemporary.com, http://www.tangcontemporary.com