在画廊初创期的2008年，我们在上海莫干山路50号的老空间举办过一个群展，艺术家都是来自鲁迅美术学院的毕业生，其中就有曲岩。

时隔10余年，曲岩的个展即将在画廊迁址后的复兴路空间举办。他的作品在坚持、演化。从工业的、颓废的，到刚强的张力里面蕴涵着修行人的潇洒和超脱，拥有时间沉淀后的思考和积累。

色彩感觉里不变的是主色调碳灰，也欣然发现近作蕴藏了一些蓝、绿新色的实验和尝试。

废墟

你记忆里的故事

自有情节

和我记忆里的片段

脱节，迥异

在雨中

不用雨伞的我

再也看不到你的大手

怜惜我的模样

心离开了

应该就回不来了

16年的故事

终结兴许可以再出发

废墟里

你熟悉的身影

在关怀另一个身影

也好吧

废墟的雨

树叶让我们看不见森林，年少时我们往往会太满，缺乏「余白」的轻松。曲岩的画面从张力十足到现在的略见余裕，其实画面里可以看到他真实的历史和自画像。

Rainy Ruins

In 2008, when Shun Art Gallery was in its infancy, we held a group exhibition at the old space in 50 Moganshan Road in Shanghai, featuring graduates of the LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, QU Yan was one of the participators.

More than a decade later, QU Yan's solo exhibition will be held at the gallery's current and relocated space in Fuxing Road. His works are persistent and evolving from an industrial and decadent state to a strong tension expressing the dash and transcendence of a practitioner, with the reflection and accumulation of time.

The main hue of carbon gray in his paintings remains unchanged, but one may also be pleased to find that his recent works contain some new experiments and attempts of blue and green.

Ruins

The story in your memory,

Has its own plot.

The fragments in my memory,

Disconnected, disparate.

In the rain,

The one who doesn’t need an umbrella,

Won’t be able to see your big hands,

Had mercy on me.

Once The heart has left –

It might not return.

A story of 16 years,

When it ends, maybe it could start again.

In the ruins,

Your familiar figure,

Still caring another one.

It's okay,

The rain in the ruins.

The leaves prevent us from seeing the forest, and when we are young we tend to be too self-conscious, lacking the ease of "blanking". Qu Yan's images have changed from a full tension to the veiling space now. Meanwhile, through those images, the authentic history and self-portraying are presenting.

曲岩 QU Yan 出生于1980年，2006年硕士毕业于鲁迅美术学院油画系，现生活工作于上海。个展：凝聚与奔放，东篱画廊，台北 中国（2015）；“梵行手记”曲岩单车骑行川藏线油画与摄影双个展，非马美术馆，成都 中国（2014）。群展：艺来艺往两岸东篱，东篱画廊，台北 中国（2017）；明心见性，香海画廊，上海 中国（2016）。艺博会：亚洲画廊艺术博览会——中日韩画廊精品展，中国文化部，上海 中国（2012）。 Born in 1980, graduated from Master of Oil Painting, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 2006, Now living and working in Shanghai. Solo Exhibition: Condensation and Enthusiasm, Dongli Gallery, Taipei China (2015); Journal of Brahmacariya Oil Painting and Photography Exhibitions of Qu Yan’s Bike-riding Trip along the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, Feima Gallery, Chengdu China (2014). Group Exhibition: Art to Cross-Strait, Dongli Gallery, Taipei China (2017); Find One’s True Self, Xianghai Gallery, Shanghai China (2016). Art Fair: Art Gallery Art Fair—China-Japan-Korea Fine Art Gallery Exhibition, Shanghai China (2012).