索卡艺术｜展位1B01 巴塞尔香港艺术博览会

索卡艺术荣幸地宣布将于2018年巴塞尔香港博览会展出三位重要艺术家个展，分别为洪凌，毛旭辉与张英楠。

洪凌（b.1955-）从1990年起开始游历四方，并在安徽省南部的黄山这个被列为联合国教科文组织世界遗产之一的地区设立工作室。自1990年起，洪凌的作品便受到他在中国，亚洲，非洲，欧洲以及包含南北极在内的世界许多偏远地区等地旅行时获得的经验深深影响。这些经验被记录在他的作品。他的作品强调个人的人类经验与价值，并呼应黄山山峰中动人且强烈的季节变化。他与环境不安的本质呼应了他停留过，旅行过的地方，并且反应在他的画作上。洪凌作品流露出略具冲突的现代感与自省性。他的作品也诉说关于一位艺术家个人发展的故事，还有他对大自然的拥护以及心灵层面的成长。让我们亲眼见证过去半个世纪间，中国政经社会的剧烈转变。

 Hong Ling, Dissolved Autumn  融秋  Oil on Canvas 

 150 x 160 cm 2017 

毛旭辉（b.1956-）是80年代中国西南前卫艺术团体的领军人物，他与张晓刚等艺术家在1985年时组织了「新具象」绘画展。毛旭辉只创作与自己生命有关的艺术。2018香港巴塞尔，索卡将呈现毛旭辉近年来最重要的作品「剪刀丛林-无处可逃」。这件重要作品融合许多艺术家自1980年代到今日，发展出各阶段的重要隐喻符号。观者可以轻易的发现几个重要线索：1980年代的家长系列，1990年代的日常史诗系列，2000年代的剪刀系列，2014年的紫色系列，所有艺术家标志性的系列都被浓缩在这件作品中。「剪刀丛林-无处可逃」发自于艺术家女儿3年前的离世。离世的动机至今依旧是谜团。从那时开始，艺术家试着从宗教旅行中寻找救赎，他去了印度，尼泊尔，西藏等地。他在印度瓦拉纳西感受最强烈。印度教深信瓦拉纳西是天堂与人间的交汇点。印度教庆祝诞生与死亡都在经流过瓦拉纳西的恒河。毛旭辉说他不确定自己是否能庆祝女儿的逝世，但是他却在他的绘画中找到救赎。即便因为无法承受的痛苦，让他很难动笔创作，但工作室就是他的瓦拉纳西。观者可以从作品看到尖锐的剪刀如大雨般落下，充满恐惧的男人在剪刀丛林中无处可逃。「剪刀丛林-无处可逃」被视为艺术家过去十年最重要的代表作。

Mao Xuhui, Scissor Jungle．No Where to Hide 剪刀叢林．無處可逃  Acrylic on Canvas 200 x 300 cm 2016 

张英楠（b.1980-）来自中国最古老的城市之一，陕西宝鸡，目前定居工作在北京。张英楠的父亲为部队军人，艺术家从小与父亲的部队ㄧ起生活，因此孩时记忆为团体生活，人与人的关系很亲近。因此当张英楠在2006年搬到北京时，他开始发现，原来都会生活与宝鸡截然不同。北京是世界上人口最密集的城市之一，但是人与人的距离却是极为遥远。艺术家提出了问题，什么是社会的本质？都市化与现代化加速的改变世界，所有事物看似都更为简单方便，但所有事物却也看似更为困难与不方便。因此，张英楠的作品用无声音的色调，描绘了超现实的状态。他尝试捕捉中国社会的矛盾与当下他所属的时刻。他的作品渗入了神秘与宁静的气氛，这也是艺术家最擅长阐释的。

 Zhang Yingnan, Faraway 去遠方  Oil on Canvas 

130 x 170 cm 2018 

Art Basel Hong Kong 2018
Galleries, Booth 1B01
29-31 March 2018 
VIP Preview 27-28 March 2018 

Hours:
Tuesday, 27 March, 2 – 8 pm
Wednesday, 28 March, 1 – 9 pm
Thursday, 29 March, 1 – 9 pm
Friday, 30 March, 1 – 8 pm
Saturday, 31 March, 12 – 6 pm

Soka is pleased to announce the participation in the 2018 Art Basel Hong Kong. Soka will feature three important artists from China: Hong Ling (b.1955), Mao Xuhui (b.1956) and Zhang Yingan(b.1981). 

Hong Ling (b.1955-) began to travel widely and set up a studio residence in the picturesque region of Mount Huangshan in southern Anhui Province, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the 1990s. Since 1990, Hong’s work has also been richly informed by his extensive travels across China, Asia, Africa, Europe and many remote parts of the world, including the north and south polar regions— experiences documented in his works. His works embody personal human experience and values in the ways they echo the dramatic and intense seasonal changes among the high peaks of Huangshan. His uncertainty nature with the surroundings responds to where he stays and travels reflect onto his works. Hong’s works is also provocatively modern and reflexive. Hong’s works also tell a story of one artist's personal development, his embrace of the natural world and his spiritual growth, and as such, provide evidence before our eyes of the dramatic social and political changes that have transformed life in China over the last half century.

 Hong Ling, Rainin Bamboo Creek 溪篁賞雨 
 Oil on Canvas 170 x 260 cm  2017 

Mao Xuhui(b.1956-) was the leader of the avant-garde community in southwest China in the 1980s, having organised the touring exhibition "New Concrete Image" with painters like Zhang Xiaogang in 1985. Mao only conducts works related to his life and himself. At 2018 ABHK, Soka will be presenting Mao’s recent major work, Scissor Jungle-No Way to Hide. This magnificent work combines several important hidden metaphor symbols at every stage developed by the artist from the 1980s to the present. Viewers could spot easily several leads: 1980s Paternalism series, 1990s Daily Epic series, 2000s Scissor series and 2014s Purple series all the signature series of the artist are condensed into the work. The Scissor Jungle - No Way to Hide derived from the artist daughter’s suicide three years ago. The motivation is remain a mystery today.  Since then, the artist tried to find the salvation from his religious journey. He traveled to India, Nepal and Tibet. He felt hardy in Varanasi, India, where Hinduism believed Veranasi is the connecting point of heaven and earth. Hinduism celebrates birth and death in the same place by Veranasi, Ganges River. Mao said he is uncertain if he could celebrate her daughter’s death, however, he found his salvation when he immerse into his painting. The studio is his Varanasi although this is very difficult for him to paint because of unbearable suffering. The audience can see from the work: the sharp scissors is falling like heavy rain and the scary men are running nowhere. Scissor Jungle- No Way to Hide is regarded as one of the most remarkable and important works of the artist during past ten years.

Mao Xuhui, TheBackrest Chair 靠背椅 
Oil, Acrylic on Canvas 195 x 195 cm 2018 

Zhang Yingnan (b.1980-) comes from one of the most ancient cities in China, Baoji, Shanxi Province and currently works and bases in Beijing. Zhang’s father served as soldier that Zhang grown up with father’s military and it was about group life of his childhood memory. People were close to each other. When Zhang moved to Beijing at 2006, he started to realize the urban life completely different from Baoji. Beijing’s population is the most crowded in the world however people are extremely distant from each other. He raises the question what is the nature of the society? Urbanization and modernization change the world quickly, everything is closer and yet distant. Therefore, Zhang Yingnan depicts works with surreal places in muted color tones. He tried to capture the contradictory of the society of China and the contemporary moment where he belongs. His painting exudes mysterious and tranquil atmosphere theme that are most often explored by the artist.

Zhang Yingnan, Life is a Dream 浮生若夢 

Oil on Canvas 200 x 150 cm 2017