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名称：杨泳梁 | 不朽之境

开幕时间：2019 年 5 月 17 日（周五） 18:00 - 20:00

展览时间：2019 年 5 月 17 日 - 2019 年 6 月 12 日

展览地点：HdM 伦敦 | 42 Conduit Street, Mayfair, London W1S 2YH

HdM 画廊伦敦空间高兴地宣布我们将于 2019 年 5 月 17 日举办艺术家杨泳梁个展《不朽之境》，此次展览是艺术家与 HdM 画廊的首次个展合作，也是其在伦敦的首次个展。展览将展出杨泳梁近年创作的数件作品，其中包括摄影、影像、VR 和限量艺术书等多种媒介创作。展览将持续至 2019 年 6 月 12 日。

*特别感谢德玉堂画廊对本次展览的支持与合作。

关于展览

杨泳梁从 2005 年开始从事当代艺术的试验与创作，涉及摄影、绘画、影像与装置等多种媒介。结合自身学习经历和自幼所受的中国传统美学与文化熏陶，杨泳梁的作品自然形成了一种独树一帜以当代方式延续中国传统绘画的面貌——形式上符合传统的审美情趣，媒介和表达却充满后现代色彩。其最广为人知的当代水墨山水图像由无数影像所构成，远看烟波渺渺气蕴灵动，近观如阅读一则现代文明的发展寓言。

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杨泳梁，《不朽之境 2》，虚拟现实，2017

山水——是中国精神的象征，是传统东方人文主义和谐精神，中国古人更通过描绘山水来赞美自然。但在现代性的进程中，古人所构建的传统山水世界不论从视觉还是精神都在逐步瓦解。“山水”于今，定是以城市为前提，与新的景观、新的城市和新的环境密不可分。杨泳梁作为上海乃至中国城市的飞速发展的见证者，则希望通过“城市山水”引发人们对当今社会现状的反思。此次展览中的作品《外面》是通过拍摄一系列快被拆除的旧工厂破败窗框，以此纪念那些即将消失的城市建筑。《夜游记》是杨泳梁的第一次尝试三屏 4K 的影像作品，用城市建筑的影像作为画笔，峰峦叠嶂地谱写出一幅以宋代山水绘画风格为蓝本的数码影像创作——城市夜景融入无垠的星空，人造和自然的世界互相交叠，和谐地共生于一个光怪陆离的超现实主义画面中。而个展同名作品《陌入止境》则通过一个全副武装的武士和三足乌鸦现实与梦境的交织，用精致的画面描绘了城市给人的“梦魇”，延续着他对都市化现代化问题的探讨和研究。此外，本次展览还会展出杨泳梁的第一件基于虚拟现实的作品《不朽之境》，届时观众可在戴上 VR 眼镜走进一片可进入的、全景式的、虚拟的中国山水。

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杨泳梁，《水图之一》，高清视频，2018

杨泳梁 1980 年出生于上海，1999 年毕业于中国美术学院上海设计分院视觉传达设计专业，现生活工作于上海和纽约。他的作品广泛展出于各大重要美术馆与双年展，其中包括美国纽约大都会博物馆、UCCA 尤伦斯当代艺术中心、莫斯科双年展和上海 MoCA 等；他的作品亦被众多美术馆、公共机构和个人收藏，如大都会博物馆（美国纽约）、大英博物馆（英国伦敦）、维多利亚国家艺术馆（澳大利亚墨尔本）、布鲁克林美术馆（美国纽约）、巴黎现代艺术馆（法国巴黎）、Franks-Suss收藏（英国伦敦）及Ｍ＋Sigg收藏机构（中国香港）等。

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杨泳梁，《陌入止境 3》，高清视频，2015

Exhibition: Yang Yongliang | Eternal Landscape

Opening: 2019.05.17 (Fri.), 18:00 - 20:00

Duration: 2019.05.17 - 2019.06.12

Location: HdM London | 42 Conduit Street, Mayfair, London W1S 2YH

HdM GALLERY London presents Eternal Landscape a solo show by leading Chinese, multimedia artist Yang Yongliang. It will be his first major collaboration with HdM GALLERY and his first solo exhibition in London.

*Special thanks to Matthew Liu Fine Arts for its support and cooperation in this exhibition.

About the Exhibiton

Yang Yongliang has one of the most distinctive practices in the Chinese contemporary art scene. Working with photography, video and VR, he inhabits the subject and aesthetics of traditional Chinese landscape painting and powerfully and acutely reiterates them in the light of the modern world. At first glance Yang Yongliang’s images appear to simply deploy the iconography of Chinese landscape painting; mountains, rivers and waterfalls depicted in ethereal settings, wreathed in mist. They seem to exude the traditional sensibility of that genre - a reverence for the value and harmony of nature. On closer inspection however, the pictorial elements reveal themselves to be formed of, variously, photographic and video collages of dense Chinese cities, manifest in all their frantic and expansive modernity. In this moment of double-take, Yongliang’s work communicates the tension and dissonance in the contemporary Chinese experience, between traditional ideas and forms and the extreme changes wrought by rapid economic development.

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Yang Yongliang, Silent Valley - A Scorpion and Missile, Ultra Giclee Print, 66x180cm, 2012

Eternal Landscape showcases the essence of Yongliang’s practice through a curated selection of his most important recent works. The highlight of the show Journey to the Dark, 2017 is Yongliang’s greatest video work to date. Employing a three-channel 4K format, the work depicts an epic, nocturnal landscape of steep mountains set against a bright, starry sky. In the quintessential fashion of his work, the landscape comprises a video collage of areas of cities, shot at night. Lights shine and flicker and traffic flows, conjuring the powerful sensation of the city being alive. An ambient soundscape completes the viewer’s immersive experience, pulsing with the beat and sounds of technology and snippets of classical music drifting in and out of hearing.

Immersion in an entirely different world is provided by Eternal Landscape, 2017 is the artist’s first Virtual Reality work. A specialist in commercial 3-D modelling and animation, Yongliang has been adept at using this new technology for his artistic ends. Eternal Landscape places the viewer in a mountain landscape culled from a traditional landscape painting. Humans and their culture are absent, leaving the misty rocks to the deer and the occasional, prowling tiger.

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Yang Yongliang, MONOCHROME, EternalLandscape, 2017

Views of Water, 2018, is a series of digital videos that take the works of Song Dynasty painter Ma Yuan (c1160-1225) as their starting point. Ma~q~s classic studies of water concentrated on the qualities and properties of water in motion. Yang~q~s contemporary iterations carefully recreate key aspects of these historic images in digital video but translate the static bodies of water back into an active, animated state. A 21st century perspective informs a further reading of Views of Water, beyond the formal and aesthetic. At this time, perhaps more so than any other, water is becoming an issue of global concern both in terms of water security and sea level rise. Yang~q~s subtly manipulated waterscapes are imbued with a feeling of disquiet or unrest, remaining at a distance from reality.

Outside, 2006, is a series of photographic works that present expansive views of landscapes seen from within abandoned and soon-to-be demolished factories and industrial spaces from Yongliang’s hometown. As with all his works, the images offer a melancholy and philosophical mediation on the relationship between humanity and our rapidly changing environment. ©HdM GALLERY

Yang Yongliang, View of Water No.5, HD Video Installation, 2018

Yang Yongliang was born in Shanghai in 1980. He graduated from the Shanghai Design School of the China Academy of Fine Art in 1999 with a major in visual communication design. He currently lives and works in Shanghai and New York. His works are widely exhibited in major art galleries and biennales, including the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, the Moscow Biennale, etc. His works are also featured in numerous art galleries and public institutions. And personal collections such as the Metropolitan Museum (New York, USA), the British Museum (London, UK), the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York, USA), the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (Paris, France), Franks-Suss Collection (London, UK) and M+Sigg Collection (Hong Kong, China).