新展 | 董大为：“背面” 即将开幕

董大为：背面

开幕：2019年9月7日（周六）15:00-18:00

展期：2019年9月7日-10月19日

今格空间将于2019年9月7日至10月19日呈现董大为个展“背面”。这是艺术家在今格空间的首次个展，将呈现艺术家马克笔系列作品的创作实践。

董大为持续多年利用马克笔的墨水特性创作的纸上系列作品，已成为他艺术实践中的典型面貌之一。与此同时，这些作品也在不断经受着表面化的解读。本次展览“背面”希望帮助观众了解作品表面背后的创作观念。

“背面”的涵义包括两部分：字面意思和隐喻意思。字面意思是指纸和画的背面，董大为的纸本作品往往是从纸的一面落笔，墨水洇到背面，最终展示的是纸的背面；隐喻意思，好比我们说台前幕后的幕后。董大为的创作有表面造型的部分，也有背后观念以及基由观念生成作品过程的部分，而背面就是背后观念的隐喻。

董大为的作品并不是完全凭主观和感性画出来的，而是遵循一定的客观逻辑和限定生成出来的。对于董大为来说，对客观的尊重是艺术作品与观众沟通的基础。本次展览将不仅展出艺术家的近作，也将展出作品草图、创作视频、甚至以往的失败作品，展示董大为创作实践的“背面”。

董大为1981年出生于中国大连，2004年毕业于鲁迅美术学院，2011年毕业于法国布尔日国立高等艺术学院。主要个展包括：2018 “现成写作”，飞地书局艺术空间，深圳，中国；2018 “背面”，香港巴塞尔艺术展亚洲视野单元，香港，中国；2017 “可见之光”，亚洲当代艺术空间，台北，台湾；2017 “尘归尘”，HDM 画廊，北京，中国；2016“普通读者”，杨画廊，北京，中国；2015 “云的理论”，空间站画廊，北京，中国；2015 “奇点”，贝浩登画廊，香港，中国等。

怡乐园春天 Process 1-4-1

纸上马克笔

65 X 50cm

2019年

怡乐园春天 Process 1-4-4

纸上马克笔

65 X 50cm

2019年

Dong Dawei :Backside

Opening:3-6pm, September 7th, 2019 (Saturday)

Exhibition Dates:September 7th to October 19th 2019

Ginkgo Space is delighted to announce Dong Dawei’s solo exhibition, “Backside” from September 7 to October 19, 2019. This show marks the artist’s first collaboration with Ginkgo Space, presents the artist’s series of work using color markers. 

DongDawei’s ongoing series of works on paper that uses color markers has become a visual icon of the artist’s practice. At the same time, these works are also being interpreted on a superficial level. This exhibition “Backside” aims to reveal the practice and concepts behind the surface of these works. 

“Backside”has two layers of meanings: the literal and metaphorical. The literal refers to the paper and the back of the painting. Dong Dawei’s works on paper often starts with one side of the paper and allows the ink of the markers to permeate to the back, which is what we perceive as the final work of art; the metaphorical, is similar to what we refer to as the back stage. Dong Dawei’s practice embodies the compositional aspects on the surface, as well as the procedural and conceptual aspects behind the surface, while the back is metaphorical for the notions behind these works.

DongDawei’s paintings are not necessarily done solely relying on subjectivity and sensibility but follow certain objective logic to grow within the set limitations. For Dong Dawei, paying respect to the objective is the basis of exchange between the work of art and the viewer. This exhibition will not onlyinclude the artist’s recent works, but also drawings, video documentation of his creative process, even some failed attempts, to reveal the “Backside” of Dong Dawei’s artistic practice.

Dong Dawei, born in Dalian, 1981, graduated from the Lu Xun Academy of Art in 2004. In 2011, he obtaining DNSEP with congratulations by the jury in ENSA-Bourges (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’art de Bourges), France. His main solo exhibitions include, Ready Wrote, Enclave Art Center,Shenzhen, China (2018); Backside, Insight Asia, Art Basel Hong Kong,Hong Kong, China (2018); Visible Light, A+ Contemporary, Taibei, Taiwan (2017); Dust to Dust, HDM Gallery, Beijing, China (2017);The CommonReader, Gallery Yang,Beijing, China (2016); The Theory Of Clouds, SpaceStation Gallery, Beijing, China (2015); A Singular Point, Gallery Perrotin, Hong Kong, China(2015), and etc.

怡乐园春天 Tetris x2

纸上马克笔

80 X 60cm

2019年

今格空间2014年在北京创立，作为一家将视野聚焦亚洲艺术生态的画廊，今格空间积极支持艺术家进入更为成熟和前瞻性的创作实践，帮助艺术家走向国际并建立其声望。我们的展览项目植根于对自身文化身份的探索与创新，亦关注艺术家在此领域与评论、策展和观者的深层对话。

Founded in 2014 Beijing, as an art gallery whose vision focuses on the ecosystem of Asia contemporary art, Ginkgo Space's mission is to provide active support to artists’ processes of developing and gaining greater perspectives on their artistic practices. With our collaboration, we hope to build the artist’s reputation and widen their international recognition. Our exhibition program is aimed at exploring and discovering the artistic practices that define our cultural identity, through which we are committed to setting up platforms for profound dialogues between the artists, critics, curators, and audiences of contemporary art.