开幕时间：2019-09-22 15:00-18:00

展览地址：北京市东城区安定门东滨河路3号院雍和家园二期3单元601室

参展人员：罗明君

展览介绍：

2018年开始，罗明君以她花园中一棵木兰树为素材进行创作。树的形状与动静姿态的变化很让她着迷，她决定通过油画、素描、水彩的形式来表现树的多样形态，并以此作为本次展览的主题。在瑞士，罗明君通过作品对照片的精确诠释而著名。这些照片记录了她在中国的童年和青年时期，主题涵盖家庭肖像、生活物品和日常情景。她用自传式的场景来展现她的过去与现在，用油画、水彩画、木炭、钢笔和水墨的形式，对这些人生体验与见闻，进行具有个人风格的探索。本次展览艺术家以《我从你身边走过》为题，将现实题材和个人情感用抽象的绘画方式进行了重塑。

In 2018, Luo Mingjun focused on depicting a magnolia tree in her garden in Switzerland. Fascinated with the forms and movements of the tree, she explored it further more as her subject matter in various formats, and made it the theme of this exhibition. Luo Mingjun is known in Switzerland for her highly controlled and precise interpretations of photographs from her childhood and youth in China: family portraits, domestic objects and everyday situations. She regards the autobiographical as a stage on which to project her past and present selves, her tender depictions in oil, watercolour, charcoal or pen and ink a highly personal exploration of things she has seen and experienced. The title of this exhibition, I walk beside you, demonstrates, however, through both paintings and watercolours, her skill in simultaneously exploring her realistic and highly personal subject matter whilst reinventing it as an abstract proposition in paint.

我从你身边走过

罗明君的花园里有一棵壮观的玉兰花树，它就在她工作室的窗外。她一边工作，一边透过窗户观察着这棵树四年之久，但从没想过要去画它。直到2018年，一位朋友告诉她，木兰树原生于亚洲，这个信息触动了她。这棵木兰树与她的人生不期而遇，这缘分和联系，让她感动、愉悦，她开始以这棵树为元素进行创作。树本身的形状与姿态的多样变化也很让她着迷，她希望用不同形式的绘画，来表达对这棵树的情感，是以成为本次展览的主题。

侨居瑞士的罗明君，以精确诠释她在中国童年和青年时期的照片而闻名：它们涵盖了家庭肖像、生活物品和日常情景。她用自传式的场景来展现她的过去与现在，将人生体验与见闻，用油画、水彩画、木炭、铅笔和水墨的形式，进行了具有高度个人风格形式的探索。展览以《我从你身边走过》为题，意味着艺术家选择关注当下，重视自我生活和艺术创作之间的关系，并指出一个事实：木兰树在罗明君出生之前就已经存在，并很可能比她活得更长久。

盛放的木兰树并不是艺术家描绘的第一棵树。灵感始于2018年，源自对火车窗外一棵树的惊鸿一瞥。树的沧桑和力量给她留下了深刻印象，由此成为一幅画的主题，这幅作品也将在本次展览中展示。不同于从远处展示这棵树的整体形象，木兰树系列的视角几乎总是局部和特写。木兰树如此地靠近她画室的窗户，真是触手可及。她对这棵木兰树如数家珍的熟悉，让它在被放大了细节的画中枝叶繁茂、花蕾饱满、花朵艳丽。然而，我们还是被一个细节所提醒：我们在观看的是一幅绘画。虽然罗明君的作品借鉴了实物和摄影图片，但她始终将整个系列控制在灰色色调里。画面会随着观众的移动而产生变化，远看是清晰的图像，近观却是简单的笔触。

木兰树系列另一个引人注目的特征，是树的复杂形态和空白背景之间的对比关系。起初，观众可能会将空白背景理解为天空，但罗明君并没有特意刻画天空，她只是简单地勾勒树枝，侧重去描绘单个花蕾与花朵的形态。花朵的繁簇，让空白的背景愈发神秘，带着如傍晚天光渐渐暗淡的质感。

本次展览除了油画作品，还有几幅小素描，它们线条密集、形态抽象，与油画的写实形成鲜明对比。在每天绘制油画作品前后，艺术家都会用铅笔在纸上随手画几笔，这拉长了素描的完成时间。绘画的过程就如构建这些笔画般缓慢。

展览中还包括一组刚完成的水彩画，画面似由宝石般的水滴组成，它们可以是一棵树、一座有台阶的建筑物或是绿色的水滴。面对画面上简单的用色和极简的铅笔轮廓，观者需要用想象去完成作品。这犹如我们想用镜头去捕捉的那些瞬间——它们仿佛只是在纸面上短暂地萦回。在《我从你身边走过》这个展览中，罗明君将现实生活与个人情感通过油画、水彩等绘画方式进行了抽象的重塑。

Felicity Lunn

瑞士PasquArt美术馆馆长

Luo Mingjun: I walk beside you

In 2018 Luo Mingjun took as the subject matter for an oil painting the magnificent magnolia tree in her garden in Switzerland. Although her view of the tree immediately outside the studio window had accompanied her practice for the last four years, the artist had never considered painting it until now. It was only after she had completed the work that a friend informed Luo Mingjun that the magnolia was a species indigenous to Asia. Touched and amused by this serendipitous link to her own life between China and Europe, but fascinated too by the forms and movements of the tree, she decided to focus on it as the theme of this exhibition, exploring it via a number of paintings in various formats.

Luo Mingjun is known in Switzerland for her highly controlled and precise interpretations of photographs from her childhood and youth in China: family portraits, domestic objects and everyday situations. She regards the autobiographical as a stage on which to project her past and present selves, her tender depictions in oil, watercolour, charcoal or pen and ink a highly personal exploration of things she has seen and experienced. The title of this exhibition, I walk beside you, indicates, however, the artist's choice to focus on the immediate present, the continuation of her life and artistic practice today. It also underlines the fact that the magnolia tree began its existence before Luo Mingjun was born and will probably outlive her.

The flowering magnolia is not the first tree to be depicted by the artist. Her initial inspiration was the glimpse of a tree from a train in 2018. Impressed by its apparent age and strength, she made it the subject of a painting, also presented in this exhibition. However, whereas this tree is shown almost in its entirety and from a distance, the views of the magnolia are always partial and close-up. Luo Mingjun's familiarity with the spreading branches, majestic buds and opulent flowers - so near to her studio window that she could reach out and touch them – is transmitted in the large scale of the painted details. We are always reminded, however, that we are looking at a painting: although Luo Mingjun interprets the magnolia from both life and from photographs, there is little detail and she restricts her palette throughout the series to tones of grey. In addition the paintings change with the viewer's movements, the clarity of the depiction from a distance dissolving into brushstrokes the closer one approaches the canvas.

One of the most striking features of the magnolia series is the relationship between the complex forms of the tree and the empty background. The observer inevitably reads the latter as sky, yet it is also significant that traditionally in Asian art only that which is important is depicted. Luo Mingjun focuses on the forms of the individual buds and flowers, indicating the branches more generally. The empty spaces that are inevitably created remain mysterious voids that often have the quality of light, specifically the fading light of evening.

Shown alongside the canvases are two small graphite drawings, their dense abstract surface contrasting with the paintings' realism. At the beginning and end of each day working on the images of the magnolia, the artist added more pencil strokes to the drawings, their slow construction thus mirroring the production of the paintings.

Also included in the exhibition is a group of recent watercolours. In each of these a single jewel-like colour is applied in droplets to form an image such as a tree, a building with steps or drops of green water. The withholding of description through colour, as well as the fact that the pencil contours are not always filled in, requires the viewer to mentally complete the work. These works are mere impressions of experiences captured in photographs, as though hovering fleetingly on the surface of the paper. In this exhibition, I walk beside you, Luo Mingjun demonstrates through both paintings and watercolours her skill in simultaneously exploring her realistic and highly personal subject matter whilst reinventing it as a more abstract proposition in paint.

Felicity Lunn

Director of Pasquqrt Kunsthaus Centre d'Art

罗明君简介

1963年 出生于湖南。

1983年 毕业于湖南师大艺术学院油画专业，留校任教4年，1987年辞职。 

现工作生活于瑞士和中国。

个展（节选）：

2019 我从你身边走过——罗明君新作展，AYE画廊，北京，中国

2018 舞台，Gisèle Linder画廊，巴塞尔，瑞士

2017 时间阡陌——罗明君作品展，AYE画廊，北京，中国

2016 此时此地，Pully美术博物馆，Pully，瑞士

打开门，Gisèle Linder画廊，巴塞尔，瑞士

2015 纸船，伯尔尼美术馆，伯尔尼，瑞士

2014 第三空间，Gisèle Linder画廊，巴塞尔，瑞士

关系，Aeroplastics 当代画廊，布鲁塞尔，比利时

2013 不远处，Louis Moret 艺术基金会，马蒂尼，瑞士

2012 米，Davel 14画廊，可利，瑞士

尘香，Gisèle Linder画廊，巴塞尔，瑞士

尘，北京艺门，北京，中国

2011 来回，龙德轩当代艺术中心，北京，中国

微风，Gisèle Linder画廊，巴塞尔，瑞士

南边的云，Raynald Métraux 版画工作室，洛桑，瑞士

2010 这里或那里，Kunstkeller Bern，伯尔尼，瑞士

2009 时空，Galerie Elisabeth Staffelbach，苏黎世，瑞士

读，Louis Moret 艺术基金会，马蒂尼，瑞士

2008 红尘，PasquArt美术馆，比尔，瑞士

沧海一粟，Gisèle Linder画廊，巴塞尔，瑞士

2007 半个局外人，苏河艺术中心，上海/北京，中国

群展（节选）：

2019 艺术中国，因特拉肯美术馆，因特拉肯，瑞士

2018 伯尔尼与汝拉州艺术家展，现代艺术空间，汝拉美术馆，汝拉，瑞士

2017 空白支票——AYE画廊在柏林，CFA画廊，柏林，德国

2016 基本原理——第五届Mediations双年展，波兹南，波兰

我的艺术收藏，PasquArt美术馆，比尔，瑞士

2015 双乳，Francine Delacrétaz 女性乳腺癌基金会，洛桑，瑞士

国风——中国当代艺术国际巡回展，圣之空间，北京，中国；阿斯特利美术馆，瑞典；戴亚基列夫现代艺术博物馆，圣彼得堡，俄罗斯 

2014 相遇——丝绸之路上的新艺术2014新疆双年展，乌鲁木齐，中国

平台，伊韦尔东当代艺术中心，伊韦尔东，瑞士

中国艺术家在瑞士，Palazzo美术馆，利斯塔尔，瑞士

布展 [沃州 2014]，洛桑州立美术馆，洛桑，瑞士

2014/2015 伯尔尼艺术家周年展，PasquArt美术馆，因特拉肯美术馆，瑞士

2013 Anderfuhren Art Prints，Ander Fuhren基金会，比尔，瑞士

占地一平方米·处境，林大艺术中心，北京，中国

2012 女性世界，图恩美术馆，图恩，瑞士

解构水墨——中国当代水墨展，上海多伦现代美术馆，上海，中国

我既是我所在的空间——瑞士女性当代艺术展，何香凝美术馆，深圳，中国

地标，Louis Moret 艺术基金会，马蒂尼，瑞士；巴黎，法国

瑞士摄影基金会摄影日，比尔，瑞士

2011 布展 [沃州 2011]，洛桑州立美术馆，洛桑，瑞士

第二呼吸，贝桑松美术学院，贝桑松，法国

2010 釜山双年展——现在！亚洲艺术家，釜山，韩国

2010中法当代艺术交流展“城市互联”，上海，中国

海世盛楼——上海地铁公共艺术展，上海，中国

2009 两湖潮流——湖南湖北当代艺术展1985-2009，广东美术馆，广州，中国

工业肖像，勒洛克勒美术博物馆，勒洛克勒，瑞士

2008 意派——中国抽象艺术30年，La Caixa Forum美术馆，帕尔马/巴塞罗那/巴德里，西班牙

放足，国际素描研究学院，澳大利亚

2007 全权委托提名邀请展，汝拉美术馆，穆铁，瑞士

业余社会——偏离中的展览，非艺术中心，上海，中国

Luo Mingjun

1963 Born in Hunan province

1983 Graduated from Fine Arts Studies, Hunan Normal University, China

1983-87 Assistant Lecturer, Fine Arts Faculty, Hunan Normal University, China

She lives and works in Switzerland and China.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2019 I Walk Beside You: Luo Mingjun New Works, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China

2018 En scène, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

2017 The Path of Time – Luo Minjun Solo Exhibition, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China

2016 Here and now, Musee d'art de Pully, Pully, Switzerland

Open the door, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

2015 A Paper Boat, Kunstkeller Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2014 The Third Space, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

Guan Xi, Aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium

2013 Close to Somewhere, Foundation Louis Moret, Martigny, Switzerland

2012 Rice, Davel 14, Cully, Switzerland

Perfume of the Dust, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

Dust, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2011 Go and Back, LDX Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China

Breeze, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

South of the Clouds, Atelier Raynald Métraux, Lausanne, Switzerland

2010 Here or There, Kunstkeller Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2009 Space-Time, Galerie Elisabeth Staffelbach, Zurich, Switzerland

Deciphered, Foundation Louis Moret, Martigny, Switzerland

2008 The Red Dust, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland

One Drop in the Ocean, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

2007 1/2 Alien, Creek Art Centre, Shanghai; Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2019 Art China, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken, Switzerland

2018 Cantonale Berne Jura, Espace d'art contemporain, Musée jurassien des Arts, Jura, Switzerland

2017 Blank Cheque - AYE Gallery Beijing in Berlin, CFA, Berlin, Germany

2016 Fundamental - the 5th Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland

My Art, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland

2015 Des seins à dessein, Foundation Francine Delacrétaz, Lausanne, Switzerland

Liberating: the Past from Present - Contemporary Art in China, SZ Art Centre, Beijing, China; Gallery Astley Museum, Sweden; Diaghilev Modern Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2014 The 1st Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Urumqi, China

Plateforme(s), Centre d'art Contemporain Yverdon-les-Bains, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

China.ch, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland,

Accrochage [Vaud 2014], Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

Cantonale Berne Jura 2014/2015, Centre PasquArt, Beil / Kunsthaus Interlaken, Switzerland

2013 Ander fuhren Art Prints, Foundation Ander Fuhren, Biel, Switzerland

One Meter Square : Situation, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China

2012 This is a Women's World, Kunstmuserum Thun, Switzerland

Undoing Shuimo, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

I am the space where I am-Swiss Women's Contemporary Art Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Paris-Martigny, because the card is more important than the territory, Foundation Louis Moret, Martigny, Switzerland; Paris, France

Swiss Photography Foundation Photography Day, Biel, Switzerland

2011 Accrochage [Vaud 2011], Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

Second Breaths, Regional School of Fine Arts, Besan?on, France

2010 Busan Biennial: Now! Asian Artist, Busan, Korea

Traffic Live: Sino-French Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Shanghai, China

Invisible City - Shanghai Metro Public Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China

2009 Trends in Hubei and Hunan --- Chinese Contemporary Art 1985-2009, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

The Faces of the Industry, Musée des beaux-arts Le Locle, Le Locle, Switzerland

2008 30 Years of Chinese Abstract Art, La Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain

Liberation Feet, International Drawing Research Institute (IDRI), Australia

2007 Carte Blanche, Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, Switzerland

Self-taught Society-Exhibition in Deviation, Fei Contemporary Art Centre, China