展览名称：灰之深处Ⅰ
艺 术 家：张洹
展览时间：2012.9.06-2012.11.04
开幕酒会：2012.9.05, 5:00-8:00pm
地点： 其他画廊︱画廊空间（上海市莫干山路50号9号楼101）
展览名称：灰之深处Ⅱ
艺 术 家：张洹
展览时间：2012.9.08-2012.10.12
开幕酒会：2012.9.07, 3:00-6:00pm
展览地点：其他画廊︱项目空间（上海浦东祖冲之路2277弄21号楼1层）
参观预约电话：021-33836378
Booth Wo2 SH CONTEMPORARY 2012
2012上海当代博览会展位：W02
DATE: Sep 7th - Sep 9th
展览日期： 2012.9.7-9.9
其他画廊•上海空间很荣幸举办“灰之深处——张洹”。
张洹是引人注目的革新者，在过去数十年，他已然成为最为重要的国际艺术家之一。从20世纪90年代令人痴迷的行为艺术 到近年来非同寻常的雕塑和装置作品，张洹的作品几乎已经成为中国当代艺术的代名词。
张洹1965年生于河南，1993年毕业于北京中央美术学院油画系。从未想过要当一名传统画家的他却迅速进入北京艺术东村，当时那里的许多画家都在极度艰苦恶劣的条件下工作。正是在那里，张洹开始了激进的行为艺术实践，并首次引起国际关注。这些行为艺术作品都以艺术家本人的身体为载体，非常考验人，有时甚至非常残酷。
当然，毋庸置疑，这些作品也是极具冲击力，极富诗意的。
1998年至2005年期间，张洹在纽约工作，经常与美国的知名美术馆和画廊合作进行行为艺术和摄影创作。但这只是一个开始，2005年回国后，张洹迎来了创作的巅峰。回国后，他在上海工业园区成立大型工作室，创作的主题和所用材料都极富个人特色：用皮革和城市寺庙中的香灰创作了奇特的雕塑形象和具象派画布；大型木刻版画；木板雕刻；铜质佛像等等。
在张洹后来的作品中，行为艺术中纯粹的身体特征依然切实存在。同样地，他也延续了起初对精神实践和超然存在的极大关注，以及祖先观念和人类记忆的重要性。对于痛苦的表达，张洹从不陌生，本着公然对抗的伟大精神，他的作品一直在挖掘这一主题。
其他画廊这次的“灰之深处——张洹”是一次难得的机会，通过这次展览，观众可以看到张洹2006和2007年的重大转型作品。当时张洹已经成立上海工作室，正在创作第一批木刻版画、香灰绘画、雕塑作品以及皮革和铜质作品，这些作品也是后来令他名声大振的作品。本次展览还将展出早期极富魅力的小型香灰头颅系列、重要的香灰绘画作品和早期的一尊皮革佛像头。水墨作品“七窍生烟”系列是一次低调的表演，但却是一次极有价值的尝试，它为后期具有重大意义的大型雕塑作品做了铺垫。而具有里程碑意义的版画作品则体现了艺术家的得心应手和艺术雄心。
张洹的作品极受欢迎，并被全球许多知名美术馆和私人藏家收藏。“灰之深处——张洹”恰恰为观众提供了一个亲自解读这位非凡艺术家艺术生涯的难得机遇。
Untitled No.10, 2006, Incense ash, 150×100cm
无题10 2006 香灰 150×100厘米
Xiao Xu, 2007, Incense ash, 150×100cm
小徐 2007 香灰 150×100厘米
Ash Life NO.1, 2007, Ash, Steel, Wood, 40×40×39cm
香灰生命1 2007 香灰,钢和木头 40×40×39厘米
Tui Bei Tu No.61, 2007, Woodcut, 250×360cm
推背图61 2007 木刻 250×360厘米
Untitled, 2006, Woodcut, 200×117cm
无题 2006 木刻 200×117厘米
Untitled, 2006, Woodcut, 170×103cm
无题 2006 木刻 170×103厘米
The OTHER GALLERY | Shanghai Space is pleased to announce the opening of From the Ashes - Zhang Huan.
Zhang Huan is a remarkable innovator who has clearly emerged as one the most important international artists of past few decades. From the hypnotizing performance images of the early 1990s to the sculptures and installations of recent years Zhang Huan’s work has become almost synonymous with the understanding of contemporary art from China.
Born in Henan province in 1965 Zhang Huan graduated in 1993 from the oil painting department of Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Art. He never sought to work as a conventional painter but moved quickly to Beijing’s East Village where many artists of his circle were working together in harsh and unforgiving conditions. Here Zhang developed the radical performance practice for which he first came to international attention. Using his own body as the site for his creation,these performances were often physically demanding and even cruel.
They were also undeniably haunting and poetic.
Between 1998 and 2005 Zhang Huan spent a formative period working in New York. There he developed his performance and photographic work often in collaboration with important American museums and galleries. It was on his return to China in 2005 however that the artist entered an intensely creative period. Setting up a large studio complex in the industrial outskirts of Shanghai Zhang started working with what were to become signature materials and themes: leather and incense ash gathered from city temples with which he created strange sculptural figures and representational canvases; huge woodblock prints; carved wooden panels; copper Buddha figures and so on.
The sheer physicality of Zhang Huan’s performance remainedtangible in all of this subsequent work. Likewise, he continued to develop his original core concerns of spiritual practice and transcendence as well as a sense of ancestry and the importance of human memory. Zhang Huan was never astranger to the expression of pain and his work continued to explore this theme in a great spirit of public resistance.
The OTHER GALLERY’s exhibition From the Ashes - Zhang Huan is a rare opportunity to see important transitional works produced by Zhang Huan mainly in 2006 and 2007. Zhang had already set up his Shanghai studio and was producing his first woodblock prints, ash paintings and sculpturesas well as the hide and copper works for which he was later to become so celebrated. The current show includes an early series of enchanting, small ash heads, an important ash painting and an early Buddha head in leather. The ink on paper Smoking Buddha pieces are disarmingly pared-down renditionsand are extremely valuable early explorations of what were to become significant large sculptural works. The monumental woodblock works display the artist’s sure hand as well as the scale of his artistic ambition.
Zhang Huan’s work is highly sought after and is found in many of the most important museum and private collections worldwide. From the Ashes - Zhang Huan is a rare chance for the public to piece together a part of the narrative of this extraordinary artist’s career for themselves.