Xu Lei

Xu Lei

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Xu Lei (1963 -) was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. In 1984, he graduated from the Department of fine arts, Nanjing Academy of Arts, majoring in Chinese painting. He has been engaged in professional creation and research for many years in Jiangsu Academy of Chinese painting.

Introduction:

Xu Lei (1963 -) was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. In 1984, he graduated from the Department of fine arts, Nanjing Academy of Arts, majoring in Chinese painting. He has been engaged in professional creation and research for many years in Jiangsu Academy of Chinese painting. He is currently working in the creation research center of China Academy of art, art director of Today Art Museum and editor in chief of classic magazine. Xu Lei's painting is a special type. His paper traces "starting from pleasure and integrating intelligence" show the value of new humanistic style. It not only has exquisite and elegant aesthetic appearance, but also has broader cultural significance. Just as some critics have commented, "Xu Lei's art may be the real beginning of the contemporary transformation of Chinese painting, and his personal location is just right The critical line between history and modernity.

Group exhibition:

"Modern Chinese Art Exhibition", China Art Museum; "5000 years of Chinese civilization art exhibition", Guggenheim Museum, New York; "cross strait new voice / contemporary painting language Exhibition", Taipei Timon Art Center / Hong Kong Art Center; "new Chinese Painting Exhibition", Shanghai Liuhai Sumei Art Museum, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum; "Paris Chinese culture season - Modern Chinese ink and sculpture exhibition", Pierre Cardin center, Paris; "alternative modern reality of the back four exhibition", taimen Art Center, Taipei; "paper and color art exhibition", Shanghai Taikang Art Museum; "different and the same contemporary international art exhibition", Shanghai Duolun Art Museum; "changing step by step" Photography Exhibition, Nanjing Art Museum; "one on one: their eyes" - China eight photography exhibition, New York Qianbo Gallery; "Oriental Oriental contemporary art exhibition", Slovenian National Art Museum; "dragon dream" - Chinese contemporary art exhibition, Dublin Irish Museum of modern art; "the first art literature Nomination Exhibition", Hubei Academy of Fine Arts Museum; "city skin" - possibility research of contemporary urban image, Macao Tashi Art Museum / Shenzhen Art Museum Museum; "turning hands into clouds, covering hands with rain - Contemporary Art Exhibition", Beijing TS1 Contemporary Art Center; "Jiangnan - works exhibition of Hong Lei, Tang Guo and Xu Lei", Beijing TS1 Contemporary Art Center; "poetic reality: Reinterpretation of Jiangnan", southern Visual Art Museum; "new classic five people Exhibition", Taipei National Father memorial hall; "where to go - China contemporary art exhibition,", Hong Kong Convention Center Exhibition Hall.

Individual exhibition:

The Museum of art of Jiangsu Province, the art advocacy Gallery of Hong Kong, and the browse & Darby Gallery of London.

work

There are many famous Chinese painters: Xu Lei (Hebei Education Press), Xu Lei: the secret of illusion (Hong Kong Art Gallery), Xu Lei's new works (London browse & Darby Gallery), empty city (Hebei Education Press), gate of the extraordinary, the other side of dream (Jiangsu Art Press), etc.

report

Summer is coming. I don't know how many metaphors there are behind this sentence, such as mood and pictures. With the imaginative works in my mind and the driving experience on the way to interview, my mood is cool enough. I want to report Xu Lei from the bottom of my heart. Like reading his works, I carefully read every article of him and the classic magazine edited by him. Almost all the questions we want to know about him will be answered. In fact, it is not. It's raining all the time. I hid in the coffee shop and met Xu Lei. What impresses me most is the insipidity and profundity on his face. No one will deny Xu Lei's talent. Xu Lei in front of us is not just a face with a clear outline, a work with pleasing eyes, and an excellent article What's more, he is so complicated but so simple, so profound but so hard to say

The influence of Xu Lei's works

It should be impressive: Xu Lei, who studied Chinese painting, his works are far beyond the scope of Chinese painting. Xu Lei, who graduated from Nanjing Art Institute and majored in Chinese painting, has been engaged in artistic creation and research for many years. The paper trace of "starting from pleasure and integrating intelligence" is unprecedented in both traditional fine brushwork painting and contemporary art. Just like the classic magazine, which he carefully created, it not only has exquisite and elegant quality content, but also makes viewers enjoy it quietly. They can't help taking good care of it and keeping it in private. Before 1989, Xu Lei, a young art activist, took part in the eighth five year art movement. At that time, he made some acrylic on paper, which was influenced by surrealism and conceptual art. For example, in "normal heart and lung", the intention of the work is to tell others that the more beautiful things are, the closer they are to death, and there is a distance between phenomenon and essence. This view still extends to today. After the modern art exhibition in 1989, Xu Lei suddenly got tired of the struggle in the name of "avant-garde". He thought that it was just posture, not self-determination, not the essence of aesthetics, not even the cultural foresight. Although the phenomenon was very complicated, the intrinsic real value was very weak. He realized that the so-called "avant-garde" and "backcourt" of art are self deceiving. The freedom of creation is not a slogan, but a tacit opinion. This opinion should be integrated into the vast historical memory. Under the premise of tradition and personal ability, creation means the ambition of transformation, not flattery or flattery. A person's undercurrent may be the truth of the times. since the 1990s, Xu Lei has been wandering alone. He firmly believes that another kind of modernism with Chinese characteristics has been discovered by him. From the "old palace" series to the evolved theme of "labyrinth", his fate of traveling alone in Yihai also proves that Xu Lei is a person living in "the back of the times". Maybe it's an adventure game. Due to his professional experience, he has been dealing with traditional Chinese materials for many years. Based on this special "emotional" accumulation, paper and ink naturally become indispensable materials in his works. But Xu Lei's painting seems to have no apparent relationship with the corresponding inherent mode: painting with the most traditional familiar propaganda, but not adopting the familiar traditional Chinese painting content, which inevitably makes people at a loss.

A problem is in front of people

Which circle should Xu Lei belong to? In addition to the general title of "contemporary art", Xu Lei occupies a unique title, no one will regard him as a similar one to sum up. This situation is very similar to the relationship between baltis and his contemporaries: he is not in style, he is not suitable for the situation, he is opinionated, and he expects a broader result with his private nature. Therefore, it is difficult to clarify the beauty of his works simply by using the words of "avant-garde" or "traditional". In Xu Lei's words, his works are "four unlike": traditional materials and modern shape; far away from the era of "ideology", but reflecting the general dilemma of human nature; with the modern "concept" proposition, it seems to be in line with the delicate style of traditional art. Xu Lei's contribution to the successful transformation of Chinese traditional fine brushwork painting is only one aspect of his polyhedron, and his significance may be more important is the wisdom reproduction of contemporary Chinese art in the height of inheriting traditional aesthetics. with the growing popularity of the art market, the eagerness for quick success and instant benefits of works of art is particularly serious, and the simple "symbol" has become the so-called "new trend", which makes people unavoidably nervous. As the first person to represent Chinese artists to the United States to participate in the "U.S. - China cultural exchange program" in 2008, Xu Lei emphasized the charm of "time" in Chinese art with the advantage of Chinese text in his speech at the library of Congress recently. Speaking of this, Xu Lei put forward different views on the fact that art is completely occupied by space: "in fact, traditional Chinese art emphasizes more on time, and space is contained in time, which is different from the characteristics of Western art. However, our current art completely sacrifices everything to the space. The work is large and empty, and the way to greet people's eyes is like a simple fast food to satisfy the audience, as long as it is clear at a glance. However, the original traditional art is not like this, in front of a painting, we can get the fun of winding paths, enjoy the solution of time, including psychological time, the context, hidden opportunities. Emphasizing the power of the work in the space and ignoring the long thinking can only give the audience an excuse to be lazy and cultivate a kind of instant superficial interest, which may bring entertainment, but it is not the best respect for the audience's wisdom, and it also gives up the more profound right of art. " compared with the exaggerated expressions commonly used in contemporary art, Xu Lei's paintings are particularly quiet: there is neither eye-catching pornography, bloody violence, nor distorted winking, nor obvious signs The first impression of Xu Lei's works is that the quiet pictures are well woven with stories with deep answers. I know that maybe his works won't attract your attention at the first time, but I'm absolutely sure that once you notice it, it's natural that you can't extricate yourself. You will find that you have gradually entered the visual trap buried by him, happily enjoying the beauty of the details carefully designed by the artist, as well as many profound metaphors and humility to art, which is just like his way of doing things: moistening things silently. with a magic hand, you can feel the secret outside the picture this

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