展览现场 ⎜《进行时》张勇个展在北艺塘美术馆开幕

2024年11月30日，《进行时》张勇个展在北艺塘美术馆成功开幕！

展览以《进行时》命名，展出张勇近年创作的系列综合材料作品，作品分为几部分：架上绘画，以烟痕为语言，灼烧纸面，层层叠叠书写戒烟日记文字，是时间的艺术;综合材料，以发泡材料塑造造型，挤压，膨胀，内爆，流淌……极具视觉冲击力，架上浮雕绘画特征！行为摄影，艺术家置身于抽了真空的封闭的密闭袋子里，活生生的成为人形雕塑，有单人有双人，是雕塑又似沙发，作品表现力特别，面貌独具风格!

展览由资深策展人庄伯五担任，嘉宾艺术家周祁主持开幕，主办北艺塘美术馆刘馆长，嘉宾代表长春师大美术学院院长曲鸽，策展人庄伯五，艺术家张勇等分别作了发言!

展览现场，各界精英人士与艺术家张勇作品进行深度互动交流，艺术家的众多嘉宾师友、同窗到场祝贺！

据悉展览将展至2024年12月14日。

On November 30, 2024, Zhang Yong's solo exhibition "Ongoing" was successfully opened at Beiyitang Art Museum!

The exhibition is named "Ongoing" and displays a series of mixed media works created by Zhang Yong in recent years. The works are divided into several parts: easel painting, using smoke marks as language, burning paper, and writing layers of quitting smoking diary texts, which is the art of time; mixed materials, using foam materials to shape, squeeze, expand, implode, flow... It has great visual impact and the characteristics of easel relief painting! Behavior photography, the artist is placed in a sealed bag with a vacuum pumped out, and becomes a living human sculpture, with single and double people, sculpture and sofa, the works are particularly expressive and unique in style!

The exhibition was hosted by senior curator Zhuang Bowu and opened by guest artist Zhou Qi. The organizer, Director Liu of Beiyitang Art Museum, guest Dean Qu Ge of Changchun Normal University Academy of Fine Arts, curator Zhuang Bowu, artist Zhang Yong and others made speeches respectively!

At the exhibition site, elites from all walks of life had in-depth interactive exchanges with artist Zhang Yong's works, and many of the artist's guests, teachers, friends and classmates came to congratulate!

It is reported that the exhibition will be on display until December 14, 2024.

开幕现场

Opening ceremony

嘉宾艺术家周祁主持发言

Guest artist Zhou Qi gave a speech

嘉宾长春师大美术学院院长曲鸽发言

Guest speaker Qu Ge, Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts of Changchun Normal University, made a speech

北艺塘美术馆刘馆长发言

Director Liu of Beiyitang Art Museum gave a speech

策展人庄伯五发言

Curator Zhuang Bowu speaking

艺术家张勇发言

Artist Zhang Yong speaking

前言

Preface

暧昧的能指快感

文/庄伯五

材料本身即是一种语言符号，也是能指和所指的集合。

艺术家张勇运用日常建筑上聚氨酯作为作品的表达手段，这种工业化材料有一种日常暖性的可塑，膨胀的预期，恣肆的变化，在创作过程会出现各种已知和未知的可能性暧昧快感。张勇的作品上不单单是物质的声音，或者纯粹物理层面的东西，而是这物质声音的自我心理印迹，抑或透过属于感觉声音表象来表达艺术家的隐喻观念，我常常把它叫做“物质化”的艺术作品。

张勇作品经过时间的繁育，呈现出黄色脂肪充盈的肉体肌肤状态，通过后期的破坏和映照，出现了关于权力、身体伤害与死亡的存在所指，其创作方法论也恰恰是当下学院中对于当代艺术中综合材料的可解读阈值。

经过十多年温度、湿度的侵袭，张勇的材料作品已经出现色彩和质感的微小变化并趋于某种平衡，物理层面达到了一种脆弱的稳定性，或许也是这种特别材料进入艺术创作中必不可少的时间检验。

当下科技飞速发展，AI突飞猛进，艺术也面临诸多可能性和挑战。手机的极大普及和海量信息碎片彻底消解了传统媒体的权威地位，纸媒、电视将逐渐退出历史舞台。作为80后的艺术家张勇，也敏锐的意识到AI在未来可能是颠覆性改变人类社会，他希望通过AI生成图像，然后自我人力通过绘画方式去模仿与对话，通过无意义图像制作来舒缓碳基生命面对AI的惶恐和焦躁。

张勇近期的实验绘画，有的类似电视无信号的雪花图案、或电视停播的图像暗指、或色彩渐变式个人体悟……一切都在图像进行中的不确定状态，这种来自AI支撑下的图像再造，已不是原有绘画意图，而是把肉身消耗在智能图像的纠缠中，或者这种修行状的自我纠缠，是艺术家对现实语境紧迫性的一种无奈的逃避与安慰，是一种暧昧的能指快感。

2024年11月11日凌晨于北京

Ambiguous Signifiers of PleasureWritten
by Zhuang Bowu

Material itself acts as a language, a union of the signifier and the signified.

Artist Zhang Yong uses polyurethane, a material commonly found in construction, as a medium for his work. This industrial material has a warm, pliable quality with the potential to expand and morph unpredictably, generating a unique pleasure from the ambiguous possibilities, both known and unknown, that arise during creation. Zhang’s work doesn’t simply convey a material “voice” or a purely physical presence; instead, it carries a psychological imprint of this voice, expressing a sense of personal metaphor through its sensory and textural layers. I often refer to such creations as “materialized” artworks.

With time, Zhang’s work has matured, its textured surfaces becoming reminiscent of fleshy skin with rich yellow tones. Through deliberate degradation and reflection, his pieces evoke themes of power, bodily harm, and mortality—symbols that align with the boundaries and interpretive possibilities of mixed media in contemporary art education.

Over more than a decade, exposure to temperature and humidity has caused slight but essential changes in the colors and textures of Zhang’s materials, achieving a fragile equilibrium that underscores the need for temporal validation when unconventional materials are introduced into the realm of artistic creation.

In our age of rapid technological advancement and AI’s meteoric rise, art confronts new possibilities and challenges. The ubiquity of smartphones and fragmented data has profoundly shifted traditional media’s authority, gradually sidelining paper and television. As an artist born in the 1980s, Zhang Yong is keenly aware of AI’s potential to transform human society. He explores this by generating AI images and then reinterpreting them through manual painting, a process of imitation and dialogue that he hopes will ease the anxiety and unease that carbon-based beings feel toward AI.

In Zhang’s recent experimental paintings, some resemble static “snow” from a TV screen with no signal or evoke off-air images with subtle gradients, expressing personal contemplation. Everything is in a state of image flux, a tension maintained by AI-based image reconstruction. This process is no longer bound to original artistic intent but instead finds the artist entangled in a dance with intelligent imagery, physically and mentally. Such self-tangling becomes a meditative retreat for the artist, both an escape and a comfort in confronting the pressing urgency of contemporary reality—an ambiguous pleasure found in signification.

部分作品图片

Some pictures of the works

图左《光与色》四联 尺寸可变 A4灯箱，塑料色片 2024

Left: Four panels of “Light and Color”, size variable, A4 light box, plastic color sheets 2024,

图左《现代生活》80x60cm AI制图喷绘，灯箱 2024
图右《现代生活》90x120cm 摄影喷绘，灯箱 2024

Left: "Modern Life" 80x60cm AI graphics printing, light box 2024 Right: "Modern Life" 90x120cm photography printing, light box 2024

图左《消失的图像》79.5x69cm 纸本丙烯 2024；
图右《戒烟计划》115x72cm 手工纸，香烟等 2010～2024

Left: "Disappearing Image", 79.5x69cm, acrylic on paper, 2024; Right: "Quit Smoking Plan", 115x72cm, handmade paper, cigarettes, etc., 2010-2024

张勇《春祭》140x160cm 布面聚氨酯，丙烯 2009

Zhang Yong, Spring Festival, 140x160cm,
Polyurethane and acrylic on canvas, 2009

张勇 《浴系列》三联画 木板聚氨酯，铁丝，镀锌板，纱布，色粉，油彩综合 2012

Zhang Yong "Bath Series" triptych Polyurethane on wood,
iron wire, galvanized sheet, gauze, color powder, oil paint 2012

图左《双孔的研究》90x120x20cm;
图右《椭圆形印迹》22x35cm
木板，亚麻布，聚氨酯，色粉 2012

Left: Study of Double Holes 90x120x20cm; Right: Oval Imprint 22x35cm Wood, linen, polyurethane, color powder 2012

张勇《暂停之后》布面聚氨酯，丙烯，色粉等 120x180x8cm 2024

Zhang Yong, After the Pause, Polyurethane, acrylic, pigment, etc. on canvas, 120x180x8cm, 2024

张勇 图左《隐形的台阶》
图右《与蓝色有关的白天和黑夜》 40x60cm
布面聚氨酯，色粉，丙烯 2024

Zhang Yong Left: Invisible Stairs Right: Day and Night Related to Blue 40x60cm Polyurethane, color powder, acrylic on canvas 2024

张勇 《红黄蓝加黑白的秩序》 40x60cm 纸本丙烯 2024

Zhang Yong, The Order of Red, Yellow, Blue, Black and White, 40x60cm, Acrylic on Paper, 2024

张勇 《静止》 40x50cm 纸本丙烯 2024；

Zhang Yong, Stillness, 40x50cm, acrylic on paper, 2024

张勇《祥祥》二联 79.5x69cm x2 纸本丙烯 2024

Zhang Yong two-panel painting 79.5x69cm x2 acrylic on paper 2024

展览海报

Exhibition Poster

展览名称：《进行时》Exhibition:《 -ing》

艺术家：张勇

Artist: Zhang yon

策展人：庄伯五

Curator:Zhuang Bowu

主办单位：北艺塘美术馆

Organized by Bei Yi Tang Art Gallery

开幕时间：2024年11月30日下午3:00

Opening reception: November 30, 2024,3pm

展期：2024年11月30日-2024年12月14日

Duration: November.30,2024-December.14,2024

地点：北京市通州区宋庄小堡北塘艺术区

Address: Beitang ArtZone, Xiaopu, Songzhuang,

Tongzhou District, Beijing

关于艺术家：

About the Artist

张勇

1985年生于中国湖北省公安县

毕业于中央美术学院油画系

2011年获中央美术学院油画系第七届工作室开放展最佳创意奖

2012——2017年受聘于湖北美院壁画与综合材料系

2014年参加韩国三炭美术馆艺术驻留项目

长春师范大学美术学院客座讲师

山东师范大学美术学院综合材料绘画研究所研究员

现工作生活于北京

个展：

2024 “进行时” 北艺塘美术馆 中国北京

群展：

2014 “百花齐放‘学院之星’平行展 798零空间 中国北京

“十七届北京画廊博览会” 农业展览馆 中国北京

“黑灭白兴火雕塑艺术展” 三炭美术馆 韩国江原道

2015 “五岳新诠释作品展” 上苑艺术馆 中国北京

“中心轴_超越境界——中韩美术交流展” 798先声画廊 中国北京

“‘异流·同源’中国东盟艺术双年展” 中国南宁

2016 “周而复始——丹培拉绘画多重诠释研究展” 中央美院美术馆；清华美院美术馆；上海马利美术馆；湖北美院美术馆；内蒙古包头市美术馆

2017 “周而复始-综合材料绘画研究展” 安徽省芜湖市博物馆；西南民族大学高小华美术馆；深圳大学美术馆；邯郸韩玉臣美术馆

“城市之光——国际高等艺术学院公共视觉艺术交流展” 上海虹庙艺术中心 中国上海

“一山清凉” 西山龙泉寺 中国北京

“彼此” 拾SPACE 中国北京

2018 “周而复始-综合材料绘画研究展” 内蒙古乌兰察布美术馆；保利艺术博物馆

2019 “周而复始-综合材料绘画研究展” 吉林艺术学院美术馆；上海马利美术馆 ;重庆美术馆

“滴水穿石——现场展” 拾SPACE 中国北京

2020 “光州·北京国际交流展” 而已美术馆 中国北京

About the artist:

Zhang Yong

Born in Gong'an County, Hubei Province, China in 1985

Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Won the Best Creativity Award at the 7th Studio Open Exhibition of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011

Employed by the Mural and Comprehensive Materials Department of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts from 2012 to 2017

Participated in the Art Residency Program at Samtan Art Museum in South Korea in 2014

Guest lecturer at the School of Fine Arts, Changchun Normal University

Researcher at the Institute of Comprehensive Materials Painting, School of Fine Arts, Shandong Normal University

Currently works and lives in Beijing

Solo exhibition:

2024 “Ongoing” Beiyitang Art Museum Beijing, China

Group exhibition:

2014 “A Hundred Flowers Blooming ‘Academy Star’ Parallel Exhibition 798 Zero Space Beijing, China

“The 17th Beijing Gallery Expo” Agricultural Exhibition Hall Beijing, China

“Black Extinguish White Xing Fire Sculpture Art Exhibition” Samtan Art Museum Gangwon-do, South Korea

2015 “Five Mountains New Interpretation Works Exhibition” Shangyuan Art Museum Beijing, China

“Central Axis_Transcendence-China-Korea Art Exchange Exhibition” 798 Xiansheng Gallery Beijing, China

“‘Different Streams, Same Origin’ China-ASEAN Art Biennale” Nanning, China

2016 “Repetition-Multiple Interpretations of Danpela Paintings Research Exhibition” CAFA Art Museum; Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum; Shanghai Mali Art Museum; Hubei Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum; Baotou Art Museum, Inner Mongolia

2017 “Repetition-Mixed Materials Painting Research Exhibition” Wuhu Museum, Anhui Province; Gao Xiaohua Art Museum, Southwest University for Nationalities; Shenzhen University Art Museum; Handan Han Yuchen Art Museum

"Light of the City - Public Visual Art Exchange Exhibition of International Higher Art Colleges" Shanghai Hongmiao Art Center Shanghai, China

"A Mountain of Coolness" Xishan Longquan Temple Beijing, China

"Each Other" Shi SPACE Beijing, China

2018 "Repetition - Comprehensive Material Painting Research Exhibition" Ulanqab Art Museum, Inner Mongolia; Poly Art Museum

2019 "Repetition - Comprehensive Material Painting Research Exhibition" Jilin Art Institute Art Museum; Shanghai Mali Art Museum; Chongqing Art Museum

"Dripping Water Wears Away Stone - Live Exhibition" Shi SPACE Beijing, China

2020 "Gwangju Beijing International Exchange Exhibition" Eryi Art Museum Beijing, China

“龙吟巴中”跨媒介当代艺术展在四川巴城记忆文创园举行