陈曦《中国“她”艺术》代表性艺术家

董林拍摄  Dong Lin shooting

陈曦

1968 生于新疆

1987 毕业于四川美术学院附中

1991 毕业于中央美术学院油画系第四工作室

现居北京，任中央美术学院教授、硕士生导师

Chen Xi 

1968 Born in Xinjiang

1987 Graduated from the High School Attached to Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

1991 Graduated from the 4th Studio of the Oil Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts

Currently Lives in Beijing, Professor in Central Academy of Fine Arts, Master Tutor

如何向死去的解释所发生的  布面丙烯  2017

How to explain what happened to the dead

Acrylic on canvas

300x180cmx4

21—昨日荣耀  布面丙烯  2017

21 – Yesterday’s Glory

Acrylic on canvas

120×100cm×21

时间的形象：陈曦的艺术历程

吕澎

陈曦已经意识到，我们今天的生活发生的改变已经不能够局限于周遭看到的现实，世界正在发生根本性的转变，我们观察的视线已经超出了历史所给予的范围，世界是不断转动并结构性关联的地球，全球化意味着政治、经济、文化以及社会生活的多重渗透和影响，我们完全不可以用过去的思维模式套进今天瞬息变化的生活。这就是为什么陈曦越来越采用不同的方式和手段来解构她的艺术世界的原因。

Image of Time: Chen Xi's Artistic History

Lv Peng

Chen Xi has realised that we have today's life changes can't confined to see around the reality, the world is undergoing fundamental changes, we look at the line of sight is beyond the scope of history to give, the world is rotating and structural relation of earth, Globalization means multiple infiltrations and influences of political, economic, cultural and social life. There is absolutely no way we can fit past thinking patterns into today's rapidly changing life. This is why Chen Xi is increasingly using different ways and means to deconstruct her art world. 

正在显形之一面  空心樟木  2018

Showing one's true colours-one sided

Filled with hollow camphor wood

直径300cm，高400cm

在中国仍然面临制度性缺陷而历史又留下大多包袱的情况下，全球性的种种危机也渗透进来，变化的速度是那样地让人难以承受，以致恐惧与无助的心理油然而生。当人文主义的关怀还是中国的重要话题时，西方国家早已对自由主义与民主逻辑的弊病开始了批判性的质疑。于是，对陈曦来说，比较、并置、综合以及归纳更具有概括性和历史性的问题，就成为艺术家近期的工作。

While China still faces institutional flaws and most of the baggage of history, global crises have seeps in, and the pace of change is so overwhelming that fear and helplessness arise. When the concern of humanism is still an important topic in China, western countries have already begun to critically question the drawbacks of liberalism and democratic logic. Therefore, for Chen Xi, comparison, juxtaposition, synthesis and induction are more general and historical issues, which have become the artist's recent work. 

暗黑的光  雕塑 （铸铜 纳米喷漆） 2018

Dark Light 

Sculpture (Cast Copper nano spray paint)

248x111cm

陈曦从2013年开始进行了古今中外要素与符号的结合与并置，她把在媒体上看到的与自己日常生活中的物品放置在一起，以便碰撞出意想不到的矛盾与冲突。在《21－今日之局》（2016－17年）和《21-昨日荣耀》（2017年）里，陈曦使用了厄普代克的逻辑，让一只兔子来串联今天人类的——不仅仅是中国的——问题。同时，她也注意到当年波伊斯面对兔子的困惑：“如何向死去的解释所发生的”？这些问题是知识者都比较熟悉的，但是艺术家用她综合的手段再次提出：问题是继续存在的，人类并没有解决这些问题。

Since 2013, Chen Xi has been combining and juxtaposing ancient and modern elements and symbols at home and abroad. She puts what she sees in the media together with objects in her daily life in order to collide unexpected contradictions and conflicts. In "21-Today's Situation" (2016-17) and "21-Yesterday's Glory" (2017), Chen Xi uses Updike's logic to use a rabbit to connect the problems of today's humanity -- not just China -- with each other. At the same time, she notes that Boyce was puzzled by the rabbit: "How to explain what happened to the dead?" These problems are familiar to all intellectuals, but the artist uses her comprehensive approach to put forward once again: the problems are continuing, and humans have not solved them. 

“21-今日之局”创作中  2017
"21- Today's Situation’" in creation

陈曦借用了她几十年来的不同艺术手法：寓言式的，象征性的，讽刺的甚至文学的，最终，这些问题“所指涉的都是人的问题，我所忧虑的不是我个人或者某个人群的问题， 而是对今天的整个人类精神及行为的某种质疑⋯⋯”四联画《如何向死去的解释所发生的》，将艺术史作为问题的出发点，这样，圣母、艺术家、兔子以及人，在陈曦看来，都面临着难以解释的问题，而这样的串联却是一种象征性的古今中外的历史问题的呈现，它们是现实中的问题，同样，也是人类未来的问题。

Chen Xi borrowed from her different artistic techniques over the decades: Allegorical, symbolic, irony and even literature, in the end, those problems "become is person's question, my concern is not my personal or a population problem, but the today of the whole human spirit and the behavior of a certain question..." Quadruple painting "How to explain what happened to the dead", the art history as the starting point of the problem, in this way, In Chen Xi's view, Madonna, artist, rabbit and human are all faced with problems that are difficult to explain, Such a series is a Symbolic presentation of historical problems at all times, at home and abroad. They are problems in reality, and also problems in the future of human beings.

有菌观察室  绘画声光装置  2019

Bacterial Observation Room

Painting sound and light installation

300x500cm

她承认“作为一个个体我们对现实毫无能力， 我只能试图表露一种质疑潮流的态度。”她知道这已经涉及到了她根本无法控制的种种因素：权力、政治、以及可能危及人类的其他力量。她只能——哪怕叫“不得不”——坚守一个最为基本的立场：人的主体性！所有的艺术问题，即便再复杂与困难，陈曦也保持着这样的态度：充分展示人的生命的可能性。

2017年12月4日

"We as individuals have no capacity for reality," she admits. "I can only try to express an attitude of questioning the trend." She knew it involved factors beyond her control: power, politics, and other forces that might endanger humanity. She can only -- even if call "have to" -- stick to a most basic position: human subjectivity! All artistic problems, no matter how complicated and difficult, Chen Xi maintains such an attitude: to fully demonstrate the possibility of human life.

December 4, 2017

中国记忆之新闻联播首播  布面油画  2008

Chinese Memory—The news broadcast premiered

Oil on canvas

130x180cm

大亨酒店  布面油画  1993

Tycoon Hotel 

Oil on canvas

180x160cm

主要个展

2018 逃跑的兔子——陈曦新作展，民生现代美术馆，北京

2016 陈曦：所以记忆，香港大学美术博物馆，香港，中国

2011 被记忆——陈曦个展，中国美术馆，北京，中国

1997 陈曦油画展1987—1997，国际艺苑美术馆, 北京，中国

主要联展

2020 与历史同行-四川美术学院建校八十周年展，川美美术馆，重庆，中国

2020 RTSM 线上国际展览第三期：孤岛

2020 在思想中-中国当代艺术的思想史与方法论，广东美术馆，广州，中国

2019 凝视与创生；以中国看欧洲－木星美术馆开馆展，木星美术馆，深圳，中国

2019 融－中国当代油画研究展，波恩现代美术馆，德国

2019 回归童年-威尼斯双年展中国特展，威尼斯，意大利

2018 “欢乐春节.艺术中国汇”，纽约大都会展览馆，纽约，美国

2017 花样年华——中国当代女性艺术家作品展，温哥华保利艺术馆，温哥华，加拿大

2017 首届安仁国际双年展，成都安仁，中国

2016 对景成三人——女性艺术研究展，马奈草地美术馆，北京，中国

2016 第三届南京国际美术展，百家湖美术馆，南京，中国

2015 绘画:20×20，保利艺术博物馆，北京、香港、澳门，中国

2014 “在场——绘画作为思想和技术的产物”第二届中国油画双年展，中国美术馆，北京，中国

2013 第55届威尼斯双年展特邀展-《历史之路-威尼斯双年展与中国当代艺术二十年》威尼斯，意大利；当代美术馆，成都，中国

2012 中国当代艺术展，伊斯坦布尔现代美术馆，伊斯坦布尔，土耳其

2010 改造历史——2000—2009年的中国新艺术主题展, 北京国际会议中心，北京，中国

2009 第四届成都双年展, 成都国际展览中心，成都，中国

2007 上海艺术博览会国际当代艺术展, 上海展览中心，上海，中国

2006 首届中国当代艺术年鉴展，中华世纪坛美术馆，北京，中国

2003 今日中国美术大展,中华世纪坛美术馆, 北京，中国

2000 中国女性艺术.政治展，女性博物馆，丹麦

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018 Escape rabbit - new works by Chen xi, minsheng modern art museum, Beijing, China

2016 ChenXi, So remember,The University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong,China

2011 Be Memorized—Chen Xi's Solo Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

1997 Chen Xi Oil Painting Exhibition 1987-1997, International Art Museum, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Walking with History: The 80th Anniversary Exhibition of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Art Museum, Chongqing, China

2020 RTSM Online International Exhibition Issue 3: Isolated Island

2020 In Thought : The Ideological History and Methodology of Chinese Contemporary Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2019 Gaze and Creation;Europe from China - Jupiter Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Jupiter Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2019 Melt - Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Research Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art Bonn, Germany

2019 Return to Childhood -- Special Exhibition of China, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2018 "Happy Chinese New Year. Art China", metropolitan museum of art, New York, USA

2017 Blossom age — Chinese contemporary female artist works exhibition, vancouver poly art museum, Canada

2017 The first Anren international biennale, Anren, Chengdu, China

2016 Scene into three people, Female Art Research Exhibition,Manet Art Museum,Beijing,China

2016 The 3rd Nanjing international fine arts exhibition, Baijiahu art museum, Nanjing, China

2015 Painting:20x20,Poly Art Museum,Hongkong,Beijing,Macao,China

2014  "Presence —painting as a product of thought and technology", the 2nd Chinese oil painting biennale, National art museum of China, Beijing, China

2013 The 55th Venice Biennale Invited Exhibition "The Road to History -- The Venice Biennale and Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art", Venice, Italy;Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China

2012 Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul,Turkey

2010 Reshape History 2000-2009 Themed Exhibition of Chinese New Art, Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China

2009 The 4th Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu International Exhibition Center, China

2007 SH Art Fair International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China

2006 1st Annual Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, China Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, China

2003 Today Chinese Fine Arts Exhibition, Art Museum of China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China

2000 Chinese women's art. Political Exhibition, Women's Museum, Denmark