展览名称：“秘响”—— 徐累新作展
开幕酒会： 10月10日周六 15：00 － 17：00
展览时间：2009年10月1日至10月29日
展览地点：颐和安缦 北京市颐和园宫门前街1号
红盒子工作室和龙美仙艺术中心很高兴此次为大家呈现出最近由现居北京的当代艺术家徐累在颐和安缦的水墨画展。他的画将中国传统的墨汁和毛笔的运用技法与西方的超现实主义紧密结合，用其饱满的墨和色彩的调和融合了东西方绘画传统的象征性的主题，其作品充满了诗意的神秘，触动灵魂的诱惑力以及视觉上带给人们的强烈冲击力。徐累的画也正是通过这种艺术的隐匿性来诠释其作品所要表达的智慧，讽刺，以及微妙的情色编码。它是一个无解的迷，是永远不会结束的侦探式的故事。这样的作品正是出自于这样一位游走在中国传统古代文化和其充满活力的当代文化之间的艺术家。徐累是独一无二的。
徐累的作品作为探索中国绘画的当代转折已经在一些重要的国际性大展中展出，包括1989年在中国美术馆举办的作为当代艺术分水岭的中国前卫艺术大展，以及古根海姆博物馆1998年在纽约及2000年在西班牙毕尔巴鄂举办的中华文明艺术五千年大展。2008年，徐累还在美国国会图书馆的亚洲文化研究中心的赞助下举办了个展。2011年，他的作品将作为在纽约大都会博物馆举办的中国当代艺术展中展出。此外，徐累的作品已经被一些重要的博物馆和国内外私人所收藏。
徐累毕业于南京艺术学院美术系中国画专业. 现居北京，工作于中国艺术研究院创作研究中心.
作为在即将到来的2010年1月12日到2月12日在纽约画廊由龙美仙艺术中心呈现的大展的预展，本次展览可以称得上是其中的精华部分。
VEILED MESSAGES: New Paintings by Xu Lei
October 1 – 29, 2009
Cocktail Reception: 3-5pm Saturday, October 10, 2009
Aman at Summer Palace, 1 Gongmenqian Street, Beijing
RedBox Studio and Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art are pleased to present recent ink paintings by the Beijing based contemporary artist Xu Lei at the Aman at Summer Palace. Combining traditional Chinese ink and brush techniques with the spirit of Western surrealism, his paintings are poetic mysteries, cerebrally enticing and visually arresting with their saturated ink and color palette and fusion of symbolic motifs from Eastern and Western painting traditions. Infused with wit, irony and a subtle coded eroticism, Xu Lei’s paintings reveal through the art of concealment. Riddles without answers, detective stories without endings, Xu Lei’s paintings are the work of a unique artist steeped in China’s cultural past and engaged in its dynamic present.
Xu Lei's works have been featured in important international exhibitions exploring the contemporary transformation of Chinese painting, including the watershed China/Avant-Garde exhibition at the China Art Museum in 1989 and 5000 Years of Chinese Art and Civilization at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1998 and Bilbao in 2000. In 2008 Xu Lei had a solo exhibition sponsored by the Asian Divison at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In 2011, his paintings will be included in a major exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. His work is represented in major museums and private collections in China and abroad.
Xu Lei (b. 1963) is a graduate of the Fine Arts Department of the Nanjing Arts Institute. He currently lives and works in Beijing.
The artist will be present at the cocktail reception. Refreshments and hor d'oeuvres will be provided compliments of Potocki Wodka and Aman at Summer Palace.
This exhibition previews highlights from the upcoming exhibition presented by Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art LLC at Joan B. Mirviss Ltd, 39 East 78th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10075, January 12-February 12, 2010.
The Presenters
Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art (New York)
Mee-Seen Loong is an established expert in Chinese works of art and consultant representing contemporary Chinese artists. Prior to the establishment of Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art LLC she was Senior Vice President, Head of International Asian Business Development and Client Services and a senior specialist in the Chinese Works of Art Department in Sothebys New York. She now provides art advisory services to individual collectors, institutions and corporations in the United States and Asia.
During her thirty-year association with Sothebys, Ms. Loong was the Co-Director of the Chinese Works of Art department in North America and Managing Director of Sotheby's Hong Kong. She has worked on some of the best collections of Chinese art to come up at auction in the last quarter century, including J.M. Hu, The J.T. Tai Foundation, T.Y. Chao, Paul and Helen Bernat, The British Rail Pension Fund, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, the Estate of Laurance Rockefeller and the Sackler Collection.. She has advised on art exhibitions in museums and galleries in Asia and North America.
RedBox Studio (Beijing)
RedBox Studio is an art advisory and curatorial project organization based in Beijing dedicated to promoting contemporary art in China, organizing exhibitions between Beijing and New York and facilitating placement of specific artist works for private collectors, corporations and foundations worldwide.
Katherine Don and George Chang, former directors of New York galleries focusing on contemporary Chinese art, have been involved in the promotion of contemporary art for over ten years in Beijing and New York, serving as a bridge for cultural exchange between East and West. Their curatorial projects recognized early now established contemporary Chinese artists including, Zhu Wei, Ji Dachun, Peng Wei, Zhang Hongtu, and Qiu Xiaofei. Recent projects include the first international display of the Columbia University Neiman Print Studies Center collection, including works by artists Kara Walker, Kiki Smith and William Kentridge at the Today Art Museum in Beijing.
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