“彩溢宣香-法国艺术家季菡西个人作品展”将于2017年1月20日至2月5日在上海多伦现代美术馆展出。

季菡西是来自法国的艺术家，其作品中岩画般的肌理和象形文字结合起来的画面，迅速的把我们的思绪推向了远古。关于艺术中的原始主义，是现代艺术里面一个重要的话题。特别是在现代绘画史中，从后印象派、立体主义以来，原始主义无论在题材还是形式上都获得了艺术史上的价值。像季菡西那样，她带着深深的法国现代艺术的背景，而努力去回溯这种法国艺术中的东方来源，她尝试从中国的书法入手，用宣纸自身渗透的效果和能力，来理解东方艺术中的深度。

本次展览展出了季菡西从1999年至今创作的15组不同系列和风格的作品，从这些作品中我们可以看到季菡西对于东西方文化进行交融的尝试和理解。她将东方的书法风格、象形文字、中国山水画系列、重彩系列与西方的镶嵌画彩色玻璃窗交织在一起，作品在斑驳的肌理下，变得有时间的维度和远古的梦幻，让我们有很多的图像暗示和联想，特别是在她近期创作的一组作品中，她对作品的材料进行大胆试验，大面积的色彩和粗犷的轮廓线，以及各种非水墨的颜料综合在一起形成的覆盖力，让她的绘画具有了厚重感。尽管季菡西使用的是宣纸，但是经过加工的宣纸直接变成了各种肌理语言，宣纸的凹凸所流露出来的皱褶和飞白痕迹，像是繁复的笔触在画面上移动，在模糊的画面背后，我们依然可以看到风景和文字符号碎片式的呈现。这种绘画中的东方，形成了季菡西自己本身的绘画语言，也开拓了一个绘画语言发展的方向。

这次展览既是她已往成果的展示，又有新的探索 ，她笔耕不辍，在激情与磨砺中用火一般的热情表达她对绘画艺术及中国文化的无限热爱。

 

Color Flows-New Birth On Xuan Paper

Organizer： Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

Curator： Anne-Cecile Noique

Art Critic：Dr. Lin Ma

Opening Ceremony： 4 pm， 21st， January， 2017

Exhibition Time： 20th， January，2017- 5th，February，2017

Location：Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art (No.27 Duolun Road)

Well-known French artist Cecile Girard’s solo exhibition”Color Flow － New birth on Xuan Paper’’ will be open to the public from January 20th to February 5th 2017 at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art.

Cecile Girard is a French painter. In her works， the slate-like textures are merged with pictograms， which spontaneously plunge our thinking into ancient times. Speaking of Primitivism in art history， it has always been a significant theme with its much historic value – whether in terms of subject or form – especially when after the movement of Post-Impressionism and Cubism in modern art history. Like Cecile， though with her deep-rooted background of French Modern Art， she devoted herself into the religious search of its Oriental source of inspiration. Commencing with her studies on Chinese calligraphy， Cecile explores it with the property of Xuan paper to self-permeate so as to comprehend the profundity of Eastern Art.

This exhibition includes over 45 works produced by Cecile Girard from 1999 up to nowadays， which encompasses 15 series of different styles. From these works， we will perceive her perspectives about the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures through her experimentation of intertwining： calligraphic style， pictogram， Chinese landscape painting， Zhongcai， and stained glass. With the variegated texture， the works become in possession of dimensions of time and of remote fantasies， which evoke an allusion to diverse pictographs and imagination. Especially in her recent works， the paintings are endowed with a sort of sense of heaviness as a result of – her adventurous experimentation with material， her use of extensive field of colors， and her bold expressions with outlining； at the same time， infused with the power from the superimposition of various non-ink pigments. Though Xuan paper is used and after being processed with special treatment， it turns immediately into different languages of texture， in which the wrinkles and the hollow strokes reveal from the concavo-convex of the paper-as if， with the innumerous brushstrokes in shifting space its traces. Underneath the vague surface， we can still see the presentation of landscape and writing symbols in a form of fragments. Hence， this Eastern vision in her painting forms into Cecile Girard’s own pictorial vocabulary， simultaneously， originating a new orientation of art language.

This exhibit not only shows her past achievements， new explorations， and aslo her continuous enthusiasm for the art of painting and infinite love for the Chinese culture.