Page 199 - 当代艺术
P. 199
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES 艺术家简历
季大纯(b.1968) 1968年生于中国江苏。1993年毕业于中国中央美术学院油画系四画室。现工作生活于北京和柏林。季大纯
Ji Dachun 很多作品都有西方后现代主义的印迹。他的早期作品一方面具有传统文人画的气质,在画面中大量留白,
主题更是来自中国传统山水画中常见的取材树木和假山。另一方面,熟读西方艺术史的季大纯,作品中充
2
斥着怪诞形象和各种器官,展示着对大自然的异样欣赏,显示出超现实主义色彩,打破了观者对易懂的、
直接的、美好的画作的偏爱。
对季大纯来说,画一些符合大众期待的画作也许很容易,然而他却颠覆了风格流派的限制,着意去削弱其
所创作的艺术形象外在的美感。因为它既不顺应季大纯自己的文化,也不依存于西方所偏爱的概念图形。
反而这种看似孤立的图像属于一种更大的体系。如观者所见,季大纯拒绝与任何一种特定的现实对话,而
是去追寻自然与文化的无常。正因如此,荒诞也许是一枚特殊的滤镜,透过它我们得以理清原本难以解释
的作品。
季大纯近期的画作大多都是更加复杂难懂的抽象画。不时还在全黑的背景中作画。但问题始终存在,他的
作品与通常的现实并不一致。当很难一语道出一个艺术家来自何种文化时,也许正是艺术家在全球化大环
境下前进的重要途径。季大纯可能不自觉的选择了他的风格,他的艺术所表现出来的也恰恰就是拒绝被归
类的原则。如此这般,风格的不确定也却是吸引了每一个对当代艺术感兴趣的个体。
季大纯的艺术很难被语境化。这种拒绝构成了他审美观的一部分。大部分艺术基于某种被广泛接纳的内
涵,而艺术家拒绝呈现轻易产生共鸣的意象。也许,季大纯的目的就在于:抛开对他作品的解释才是理解
他的创作的关键。季大纯聪明的地方在于他让他的作品脱离了外界所赋予的意义,因为只有这样,才能走
自己的路。在如此拥挤的竞争环境中,艺术家试图想要找到表达自我的方式,就需要有一定的特质。这种
特质正是季大纯极度所要追求的。
他的作品朴实无华,令人难忘。阐明自己对于当下的理解也是一种成就。一方面,我们必须承认跨文化所
带来的错综复杂,与此同时,我们还要把一种文化对另一种的影响降到最低。这种双管齐下的做法并不是
软弱,而是一种力量—正是我们从季大纯的艺术作品感受到的。个展:2022 “丙烯一层皮儿—季大纯
近作”,艺凯旋画廊,北京;2020 “雨中雨,云中云,见枯其些”,Nagel Draxler 画廊,柏林,德国;
2017 “沉默之声—季大纯新作”,AYE 画廊,北京;2015 “季大纯,Barbara Gross 画廊”,慕尼黑,
德国;“超现实主义的现实—季大纯”,路德维希美术馆,科布伦茨,德国;2014 “无家可归”,尤伦
斯当代艺术中心,北京;2013 “忘掉欲望 与云相伴”,罗马当代美术馆,罗马,意大利;
1968 Born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China. 1993 Graduated from Oil Painting Department
of CAFA. Ji Dachun currently lives and works in Beijing and Berlin.Many of Ji Dachun’s
works have western postmodernism influence. On the one hand, his early works have the
temperament of traditional literati paintings, leaving large amounts of white space, and the
theme covers trees and rockeries commonly found in traditional landscape paintings. On the
other hand, Ji Dachun, who is familiar with western art history, is full of grotesque images
and various organs, showing strange appreciation of nature, showing surrealism and breaking
the viewer’s preference for easy-to-understand, direct and beautiful paintings. For Ji Dachun,
it may be easy to draw paintings cater to public’s expectations. However, he has subverted
the restrictions of genre and weakened the external beauty of the artistic images he created.
Because it does not conform to Ji Dachun’s own culture, nor does it depend on the conceptual
standard preferred by western aesthetics.
On the contrary, this seemingly isolated image belongs to a larger system. Ji Dachun refuses
to talk to any specific reality but pursues the impermanence of nature and culture. Because
of this, absurdity becomes a unique filter. Most of Ji Dachun’s recent paintings are abstract
paintings that are more complicated and difficult to read. From time to time, he also painted
on an all-black background. But the problem still exists. His works are not consistent with
common reality. It might be easier for artists to advance in the global environment when it’s
hard to tell what kind of cultural upbringing the artist had. Ji Dachun may have chosen his style
unconsciously, and what his art shows is precisely the principle of refusing to be classified.
Thus, the uncertainty of style attracts every individual who is interested in contemporary art. It