BLANKgallery上海空间即将呈现朱湘闽个人展览：水平对置 Horizontally Opposed

开幕时间 | Opening Reception

2024/11/06  16:00-18:00

地点 | Venue

上海普陀区莫干山路50号M50艺术园17号楼102室 

102, Building 17, M50 Art Park, No.50 Moganshan Road, Putuo District, Shanghai

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BLANKgallery上海将于11月6日至12月5日欣然呈现艺术家朱湘闽在画廊的首次个展：水平对置。展出从2023年初创作至今的17件绘画作品。展览将与电子音乐人GUAN合作呈现，形成音乐与绘画之间互相解析、互相衬托的独特观看方式。
新系列作品从雅克·戈蒂埃·达戈蒂著作“解剖天使”作为原点。艺术家起初通过对于这件作品重复描摹的方式试图对原稿及其含义象征性“占有”，在描摹的过程中一种新的体会和感受被启发，最终提炼出新的绘画重点和演绎方式。新的绘画语言承接朱湘闽一直以来对于解剖学系统性的关注和研究，与生活体验相结合，诞生出崭新的内容和充满空间感的方向。

BLANKgallery Shanghai is pleased to present Horizontally Opposed, artist Zhu Xiangmin's debut solo exhibition at the gallery, running from November 6 to December 5. This show features 17 paintings created from early 2023 to the present and is presented in collaboration with electronic music artist GUAN, creating a multisensory experience that brings music and painting into a unique, mutual dialogue.

This new series draws inspiration from Jacques Gautier d'Agoty's The Anatomy of an Angel. Zhu initially approached the work by repeatedly tracing the original manuscript, a symbolic act of “possessing” its form and meaning. This process sparked fresh perspectives, leading him todistill new focal points and interpretive techniques within the new series of work. Zhu's new visual language builds on his systematic exploration of anatomy, now expanded by combining living experiences, yielding content on canvas that is layered with spatial depth and expressivedirection.

As the core concept in the creative process, Horizontally Opposed originates from the artist's comparison of theanatomy, dynamic movement of horizontally opposed engines, the experience of dense infomation in contemporary life rapidly passing through the body, and are ligious-like aesthetic image of divinity. By extracting symbolic elements, these interdisciplinary themes ultimately reveal the artist's integrated concept of Horizontally Opposed.

Compared to the surrealist paintings of H.R. Giger and Hans Bellmer that exploretherelationship between the human body and machinery, Zhu Xiangmin's paintings no longer express this relatonship through specific imagery. Instead, his works convey a distinct musicalquality and echo the creation mechanisms of electronic music. Rather than relying on specificlyrics to communicate content, the process of collecting "information"(like sound) is being amplified, eventually forming structures built from modules and frequencies. The resulting works aim to present a spiritual and vital spatial scene. The smaller pieces in the exhibition serve as "modules" within the creative process, building up to larger structured works through a highly consistent state of mind and body, forming acontinuous creative logic.

The artist's creative method has always been closely related to physical presence and movement of the body. Compared to the previous, freer approach, the new working method is more restrained and rational, resembling a training process where the body imitates themachine. This method combines bodily perception to determine the final feelings and contentpresented, gradually completing the work through a "imitation-copying-growth"process. This deliberate training also echoes Zhu Xiangmin's research on the relationship between the humanbody and the machine in terms of creative method, exploring whether an artist can work like a machine while simult aneously seeking the part closest to being "human".

He was born in 1989, Hunan, China. Zhu xiangmin received a bachelor’s degree in 2012, and a master’s degree in 2015 from the China Academy of Art majoring in oil painting. Currently he lives and works in Hangzhou, China.

Solo Exhibition: "Float Like A Butterfly", TOKU Gallery, Nanjing, China, 2023; "The Body Electric", Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2018; "An Image, An Eidolon", Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2016; Study the Phenomena of Nature·Ideal, Grand Space, Beijing, China, 2015. 

Group Exhibition: "Asphalt", GENE GALLERY, Shanghai, China, 2024; "K", Martin Goya Business, Hangzhou, 2022; "Mirror Mirror Tell Me", TOKU Gallery, Nanjing, China, 2022; "IT'S A JOKE", ARCH GALLERY, Changsha, China, 2021; "The Timing of Drifters", Martin Goya Business, Hangzhou, China, 2021; NEW WEST LAKE, MoCA Pavilion, Shanghai, China, 2021; "The Sequel of Light, RPP, Shanghai, China, 2021; Zhu Xiangmin&HAM: Reboot, Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2020; Jinan International Benniale Youth Project, Jinan, China, 2020; "Montage", Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China, 2020; SOUTH FACING, East Gallery, Nanjing, China, 2020; etc.

他以独特的数码反乌托邦美学为个人特色，在对声音与其它媒介的把玩中形成了自己的奇特思路，以人机关系为核心批判性地看待数字社会。GUAN的作品是癫狂的，音乐类型以融合、多变著称，从现实经验和未来想象中凝练出了一套“高科技自然主义”的声音体系，激进的声音实验塑造出一个个疯癫且有机的的诡谲景象。

GUAN的创作载体不仅显于音乐，对多种工具、材料的批判性探索也时常作为创作出发点。演出形式横跨Audio-Visual、合成器Live、DJ，且常与趣味相同的艺术家、艺术组织进行合作，例如LazyBackHome、ChillChill、马丁戈雅生意、BRDG等，且创立了杭州实验性俱乐部音乐厂牌FunctionLab。音乐作品主要发行于摩登天空、FunctionLab、美丽唱片、The Collection Artaud，已发行专辑3张及若干EP。

GUAN is an electronic music producer, digital media artist, and educator based in Hangzhou. He graduated from the China Academy of Art.

Distinguished by a unique digital dystopian aesthetic, GUAN has crafted his own distinct approach to sound and other media, critically examining the relationship between humans and machines within digital society. His work is characterized by its eccentricity, blending and shifting across musical genres. Drawing from real-life experiences and futuristic imagination, GUAN has developed a “high-tech naturalism” sound system where radical sonic experimentation shapes bizarre and organic landscapes.