震荡的高光·光与色彩的绘画探索丨李姝睿

展览名称：Exhibition

震荡的高光：High Light: Splendor Worn Thin in the Recesses of Time

艺术家：Artist 李姝睿：LI Shurui

展期：Duration 2021.1.31 - 2021.4.10

展览地址：Venue 龙美术馆（西岸馆）第二展厅 上海徐汇区龙腾大道 3398 号

Gallery 2, Long Museum (West Bund)

3398 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China

2021 年 1 月 31 日至 2021 年 4 月 10 日，龙美术馆（西岸馆）将推出艺术家李姝睿个展“震荡的高光”。探讨绘画本体边界，及光与色彩的功能性、社会性、政治性等。

作为艺术家在国内首个美术馆个展项目，展览《震荡的高光》将以艺术家长期以来关注的创作命题与工作方法作为基本线索，通过展厅中七组面向广泛又彼此互文关联的系列绘画及绘画装置作品，以非时间线性的方式展开。

Long Museum (West Bund) will present artist Li Shurui’s solo exhibition, "High Light: Splendor Worn Thin in the Recesses of Time," from January 31 to April 10, 2021.

The study of "light" and "color" and their cultural connotations constitute the core of Li Shurui’s artistic practice.

The artist is convinced that the use of "light" and "color" can embody, record, and shape individuals’ needs and spirituality in different cultures and times, which is also related to their collective ideology in a broader sense. In recent years, the artist has developed a more comprehensive system of work methods. Drawing from her life experiences, Li Shurui explores the boundaries of the painted medium, as well as the functional, social and political nature of light and color through a highly personal approach and its extended practice.

Marking the artist’s first museum solo exhibition in China, "High Light: Splendor Worn Thin in the Recesses of Time" unfolds from Li’s long-standing subject matter and work methods in a non-linear fashion through seven series of multi-faceted and inter-connected paintings and installations.

Sharp（局部 detail），铝，喷漆 aluminum, paint，整体尺寸可变 overall dimensions variable，2013-2015

不同时代图景中的像素（局部）

Pixels of the Images that Represent Eras (detail)

，宣纸上墨和矿物质颜料 ink and mineral pigment on rice paper

，木板裱布上丙烯 acrylic on canvas on board

，整体尺寸可变 overall dimensions variable

，2019

百年前之人所见的阳光与今人有何不同？人造发光源的技术演进是否又不断影响着我们对世界的体认与记忆？展览开篇的《不同时代图景中的像素》针对光色所包含的年代气息开启了一场考古式的调研。艺术家长期以来有意识地收集不同时代与地区的光与色彩的资料信息，将这些时间来源不同的视觉印记以感性的方式高度抽象化并档案化，试图展现出一个不断演变的由光与色彩演绎的文化风景。与此相关联，《繁荣的》、《盛世》等抽象绘画作品则在光与色彩提示的区域性和时代性上进行了更为具体的切片式展开，并借此进行社会评议。

How is the perception of sunlight today different from that a century ago? Does the technological evolution of artificial lighting continue to influence our perception and memory of the world? The exhibition opens with Pixels of The Images That Represent Eras, embarking on an archaeological investigation into light colors as embodiments of epochal characteristics. The artist has been consciously collecting information and materials on light and color from different periods and regions for a long time, who perceptually abstracts and archives these visual marks from different eras in an attempt to present an evolving cultural landscape illuminated by light and color. In the same vein, abstract paintings such as Prosperous and Age of Prosperity present specific fragments of this subject, addressing the regional and contemporary nature of light and color and making social commentaries.

盛世

Age of Prosperity

，布面丙烯

acrylic on canvas

，300×300 cm，2020

展览的另一条线索，是艺术家在个人绘画语言上的探索演进。长期以来，艺术家将各类发光体以及人类视觉系统特征高度抽象化为色彩、大小不同的点，并以此作为基本语素，展开个人艺术语汇、语法的构建试探。如果说《深白》中高度凝练的分析式抽象是对这一语言系统的综合性展现，那么近期《补一个春天》系列、《但见天中彩》系列中对具象和抽象的融合，乃是对这一系统的自我破除和超越尝试。而其演变的内在逻辑与驱动力则是，艺术家作为一个实在的生命个体，向着更为真实而切身的生活敞开。

The other thread of the exhibition revolves around the artist’s evolving exploration in the language of painting. Over time, the artist has abstracted various illuminations and the characteristics of human visuality into colors and spots of different sizes. Adopting these essential linguistic elements, Li Shurui attempts to construct artistic vocabulary and grammar of a personalized language. If the highly condensed and analytical abstraction of Deep White is a comprehensive presentation of this linguistic system, her recent Making Up for Lost Spring and All ze Knows is Sky and Colors integrate figuration and abstraction to unravel and transcend this system. The inherent logic and driving force of their evolution are that the artist, as a living individual, opens up to more real and tangible life.

深白

Deep White

，绘画装置

painting installa

tion

，木板裱布上丙烯

acrylic on canvas on board

，114 件

pieces

，整体尺寸

overall dimensions

：540×1000cm，2016-2017

以上四件作品为《补一个春天》系列。

“高光”（highlight）本身包含着一种具体美术用语和某类时刻、境遇的双重含义。同时，“高光”（high light）亦是对所谓“高级艺术”（high art）、“高级文化”（high culture）在某种意味上的含蓄指涉。展览以《震荡的高光》为题，即是对上述艺术家创作线索的回应，并昭示着一些正在进行中的转变。

The term "highlight" is both an artistic terminology and embodies a kind of moment and situation. Whereas "high light" subtly underscores the so-called notions of "high art" and "high culture." The title of the exhibition, "High Light: Splendor Worn Thin in the Recesses of Time" responds to the artist’s above-mentioned creative threads and indicates some of her ongoing transformations.

关于艺术家 About the Artist

李姝睿，1981 年生于重庆，2004 年毕业于四川美术学院，获亚洲文化协会（ACC）2016 年纽约奖助金驻留项目。现工作生活于北京和大理。

近期个展包括：

- 震荡的高光，龙美术馆（西岸馆），上海，中国（2021）

- 浪荡在抽象与具象之间，Carl Kostyál，米兰，意大利（2020）

- LSR·多情，New Galerie，巴黎，法国（2018）

- 光的萃取，Salt Project，北京，中国（2018）

- LSR·深白，空白空间，北京，中国（2017）

近期的群展包括：

- Good Pictures, Jeffrey Deitch, 纽约, 美国（2020）

- Restons Unis: You’ll Never Walk Alone，贝浩登，巴黎，法国（2020）

- 李姝睿-Zevs，New Galeries，巴黎，法国（2019）

- Only Connect!，Braverman Gallery，特拉维夫，以色列（2019）

- 经由时光的九次旅程，余德耀美术馆，上海，中国（2019）

- 万物灵源，龙美术馆（西岸馆），上海，中国（2019）

- 漫游者之歌，空白空间，北京，中国（2019）

- Who Cares，New Galerie，巴黎, 法国（2019）

- 经由时光的九次旅程，米兰王宫，米兰，意大利（2018）

- 一沙艺世界：探索社会几何形态，三亚·亚特兰蒂斯，三亚，中国（2018）

- 星群，格鲁吉亚国家博物馆，第比利斯，格鲁吉亚（2017）

- No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection，国际女性艺术博物馆，华盛顿，美国（2016）

- 转向：2000 年以来的中国当代艺术，上海民生当代美术馆，上海，中国（2016）

- 已然/未然，民生现代美术馆，上海，中国（2015）

Li Shurui (b. 1981, Chongqing) received her BFA at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (SFAI) in 2004. Li was granted 2016 New York Fellowship Program of Asian Cultural Council (ACC). Li Shurui currently lives and works in Beijing and Dali.

Recent solo exhibitions include:

- High Light: Splendor Worn Thin in the Recesses of Time, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China (2021);

- Somewhere Between Abstract and Concrete, Carl Kostyál, Milan, Italy (2020);

- LSR·Tenderest Affection, New Galerie, Paris, France (2018);

- Light Extracts, Salt Project, Beijing, China (2018);

- LSR·Deep White, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2017).

Recent group exhibitions include:

- Good Pictures, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, USA (2020);

- Restons Unis: You’ll Never Walk Alone, PERROTIN, Paris, France (2020);

- LI Shurui - Zevs, New Galeries, Paris, France (2019);

- Only Connect!, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2019);

- Nine Journeys Through Time, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (2019);

- Spiritual Origin, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China (2019);

- A White Space Odyssey, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2019);

- Who Cares, New Galerie, Paris, France (2019);

- Nine Journeys Through Time, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy (2018);

- A World in a Grain of Sand : Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Deometries, Atlantis, Sanya, China (2018);

- Constellation, Georgian National Museum Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (2017);

- No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA (2016);

- Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016);

- No Longer / Not Yet, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2015).