本次展览带来的三位艺术家邱志杰、游思、及郑重宾，各自运用古老媒介宣纸，创作出不同的当代作品。他们每个人都已经研习传统媒介多年，但同时也一直在不断尝试更多实验性材料与技法，以挖掘艺术创作的无限可能。展览由三人各自独立的个案组成，艺术家们将以传统的纤薄纸张为媒介，展开丰富的多媒体对话。邱志杰，中国最有名的以灵活运用多种媒介见长的艺术家之一，将在沪申画廊的中庭空间呈现几幅高挂的长卷，以开启一种重塑传统意味的新方式;游思则擅长运用生动色彩，以非常规的绘画技术，充分利用宣纸吸收水的特性，彻底改变水墨画与自然物之间的关系。而他创造的小有机个体在从一片陶土丛林中跳脱出来，列队穿行于画廊的地面及天花板间;郑重宾叙事诗般的黑白画作则在中国久远的传统水墨最基本的原则上，融入了西方抽象表现主义的演说。同时他极简抽象主义风格的录像作品表达了艺术家对于中国传统绘画的深深回响。

XUAN, ETC.
Qiu Zhijie, You Si, Zheng Chongbin

Duration: July 15th, 2011 – August 31st, 2011 (11 am – 9 pm, Mon-Sun)
Opening: July 15th, 2011, Friday, 6 – 8 pm
Location: Shanghai Gallery of Art @ Three on the Bund (3rd Floor, 3 Zhongshan Dong Yi Road Shanghai)

This exhibition brings together three solo projects of artists who are using the ancient medium of xuan paper in vanguard ways: Qiu Zhijie, You Si and Zheng Chongbin. While each of these artists has long been dedicated to working with this traditional material, they have at the same time also explored their artistic pursuits through other more experimental media and techniques. Qiu Zhijie, one of China’s most versatile and celebrated artists will display installation work along with several towering scrolls in SGA’s atrium space, which recast traditional signifiers in enlightening new ways.  Using vivid colors and an unorthodox painting technique that exploits xuan’s ability to absorb water, You Si reinvents Chinese painting’s relationship with natural subject matter. You Si’s signature organic little characters are also manifest in a ceramic forest that parades across the gallery’s floors and ceilings. Zheng Chongbin’s gestural black and white paintings merge the discourse of Western abstract expressionism with the most basic tenets of China’s long ink tradition. At the same time Zheng’s minimalist video work echoes his devotion to Chinese traditional painting.