ArtDepot艺术仓库荣幸带来独家代理艺术家侯佳男第五次个展《晚风贼》，将于2024年4月27日在北京798艺术区空间呈现。本次展览将展出艺术家创作于2023-2024的十五件精选架上作品。
ArtDepot is proud to present Hou Jianan's fifth solo exhibition "Keep the Night Breezing", which will be presented in Beijing's 798 Art District on April 27, 2024. This exhibition will feature a selection of 15 painting works created by the artist between 2023 and 2024.
天空不会欺骗你
The Sky Will Not Deceive You
布面丙烯
Acrylic on Canvas
200 x 160 cm
2024
强势的媒介能够以一种隐蔽却强大的暗示力量重新定义现实世界，人们实际上生存在媒介所制造的巨大隐喻世界中不自知。——尼尔·波兹曼
Powerful media can redefine the real world with a hidden but powerful suggestive power, and people actually live in the huge metaphorical world created by the media without realizing it. -- Neil Postman
艺术家侯佳男因其近年来独特的绘画方式而被观众所熟知，从2022年个展《不要温顺地走进那片森林》中初具个人风格的景观塑造，到2023年个展《野餐》中精致绚烂但暗藏颓靡的图像陷阱，侯佳男笔下那些充满膨胀感的事物、迷离的光景与异样的质感通过甜美的表象，邀约观众一同进入由他精心构造、却又悄然揭露的欲望空间。
Artist Hou Jianan is well known to the audience for his special way of painting in recent years, from the initial personal style of landscape shaping in the 2022 solo exhibition " Do Not Go Gentle Into That Jungle" to the exquisite but decadent image traps in the 2023 solo exhibition "Picnic". The expansive things, blurred scenes and strange textures in Hou's works invite the audience to enter the desire space carefully constructed by him but quietly revealed through the sweet appearance.
只有风知道
Only the Wind Knows
布面丙烯
Acrylic on Canvas
140 x 110 cm
2024
而在这次的个展《晚风贼》中，侯佳男将超现实的景观呈现得更为直接，一如“晚风贼”这个展览标题——顷刻的美好如同晚风，使人不知不觉坠入甜蜜的陷阱，它和煦温柔但又轻快易逝，晚风贼也如艺术家画中那些揭开的帘幕与打开的窗口一般，它会偷走你最喜欢的东西，但同时也为你揭开覆盖真实世界幕布的一角。
In this solo exhibition "Keep the Night Breezing", Hou Jianan presents the surreal landscape more directly, just like the exhibition title in Chinese words - the beauty of the moment is like the night wind, making people unknowingly fall into the sweet trap, it is warm and gentle but light and fleeting, and the little thief is also like those curtains and Windows opened in the artist's paintings. It will steal your favorite things, but it will also open a corner of the curtain that covers the real world.
别处的夕阳
The Sunset Elsewhere
布面丙烯
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 80 cm
2024
展厅中呈现的艺术家近期作品，有着较于以往更加深重的色彩，以及对静物更加细致的描绘，无论是掩藏在靛蓝色阴影中的花朵还是鲜亮的柠檬，抑或是摇曳的烛光，不难令人想起艺术史中的荷兰17世纪静物画，那些精致的器皿与鲜美的瓜果一度也曾是荷兰“黄金时代”初生资本主义繁荣的象征。不同的是，四百年前的荷兰画家通过蔬果面包被腐蚀的孔洞体现时光的易逝与美好事物背后的虚无，而侯佳男则通过具有强烈质异感的、电子模型般的对物态的描绘，表达出了一种更为深刻的对“鲜活、美好、饱满”表象的揭露与图像式的反讽。甚至在他画面中那些超现实的场景，与充满当代屏幕荧光感的构图方式，在深层次中对“物之存在”也发出了进一步的哲学性追问。
The recent works of the artist presented in the exhibition have more dark colors than before, and more detailed depictions of still life, whether it is flowers hidden in indigo shadows, bright lemons, or flickering candles, it is not difficult to remind of the Dutch 17th century still life painting in the history of art. Those exquisite vessels and delicious fruits were once symbols of the nascent capitalist prosperity of the Dutch "Golden Age". The difference is that the Dutch painter 400 years ago reflected the perishable time and the vanities behind the beautiful things through the corroded holes in the fruit and vegetable bread, while Hou Jianan expressed a more profound disclosure of the "fresh, beautiful and full" appearance and pictorial irony through the depiction of the state of things with a strong sense of qualitative difference and an electronic model. Even those surreal scenes in his pictures, and the composition full of contemporary screen fluorescence, also issue further philosophical questions about the "existence of things" at a deep level.
遮天蔽日的媒介使我们仿佛生活在绿幕之中，甜美鲜明的画面固然曼妙，但美好总在乎于瞬间并非永恒，快感的得到也仅在那一刹那。那些凋敝的花朵似也象征着不完美的物质与真实的人生，沉溺于丰盛商品中的人们，或许也需要鼓起勇气，跳出楚门世界的浓重幻象，未必面对真实的世界，但面对真实的自己。
The media that covers the world makes us seem to live in a green screen. The sweet and vivid picture is beautiful, but the beauty always depends on the moment is not eternal, and the pleasure is only in that moment. Those withered flowers also seem to symbolize the imperfect material and real life, people addicted to rich goods, may also need to summon the courage to jump out of the Truman world's heavy illusion, not necessarily face the real world, but face the real themselves.
侯佳男| Hou Jianan
1992年生于吉林延边，2014年毕业于四川美术学院油画系本科，2018年毕业于四川美术学院油画系研究生，现生活工作于重庆。
侯佳男擅长提出概念，把绘画当作服务于概念的工具，而非目的。因此，他 不会强求于手感、肌理、明暗、形体这些绘画的细节。他会用建模软件得到一些想要的素材，用叠加的丙烯化解数码色彩的单调，把最日常的场景变得平滑而失真，体现出膨胀感和欲望感。艺术家在自己创造的世界里扮演着管理者的角色，以此为基调去构建画面。
Born in 1992 in Yanbian, Jilin, graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2014 with an undergraduate degree in oil painting, and graduated from Sichuan FineArts Institute in 2018 with a postgraduate degree in oil painting, and now lives and works in Chongqing. Hou Jianan is good at developing concepts and treats painting as a tool to serve the concept rather than an end. Therefore, he will not force painting details such as hand, texture, light and dark, and form. He will use modeling software to get some desired materials, use superimposed acrylics to dissolve the monotony of digital colors, and make most everyday scenes smooth and distorted, reflecting a sense of expansion and desire. The artist plays the manager role in the world he creates, using it as a tone to build the picture.
侯佳男亦擅长以虚构故事为主要脉络来进行创作，他的作品表现出快餐性、 消费性、娱乐性的冲撞感。“这种具有拉伸感的画面，就像如今不断扩大的欲望，”这来自他作为艺术家的敏锐直觉。侯佳男敏感地捕捉了网络虚拟的饕餮盛宴带给年轻一代的视觉过剩体验，虚拟性和美丽陷阱般的时代特征成为艺术家刻画的重要主题。他的作品中充斥了膨胀的华丽的虚拟视觉场景，在特定的时空传达网络图示看似华丽却脆弱的体验感，呈现了年轻一 代对现代消费主义社会及大众文化的观察与辨证思考。
Hou Jianan also specializes in creating fictional stories as the central vein, and his works present the sense of fast food, consumption, and entertainment rushes. “This kind of image with a sense of stretching is like the ever-expanding desire nowadays," coming from the artist's keen intuition. He sensitively captures the experience of visual excess brought to the younger generation by the virtual feast of the Internet, and the virtual and beautiful trap-like characteristics of the era become an essential theme for the artist to portray. The fictitious picture environment is filled with inflated and gorgeous virtual visual scenes, conveying the seemingly gorgeous but fragile experience of Internet iconography in a specific time and space, presenting the young generation's observation and dialectic reflection on modern consumerism society and popular culture.
他重要的个展包括:《野餐》(当代唐人艺术中心，北京)、《不要温顺地走进那片森林》(ArtDepot 艺术仓库，北京)、《发条幻象》 (ArtDepot 艺术仓库，北京)、《麦当劳计划——权利涂鸦剧》 (ArtDepot艺术仓库， 北京)等;参加重要群展包括:屏幕纵深 (广东当代艺术中心，广州)、Express Vol.2(长亭画廊，东京)、《后我世代—如何书写年轻艺术家》(当代唐人艺术中心，北京)、《适度甜蜜》(Tong Gallery+Projects，北京)、《我与我的赋格曲》(ArtDepot艺术仓库，重庆)等。侯佳男的作品也曾参加洛杉矶 Felix Art Fair、上海 Art021、T Art- Con、香港 Art Central、Fine Art Asia、艺术深圳等多家大型艺博会。
His important solo exhibitions include: Picnic (Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing), Do Not Go Gentle Into That Jungle (ArtDepot, Beijing), Clockwork Mirage (ArtDepot, Beijing), and The McDonald's Project – Right of Graffiti Drama (ArtDepot, Beijing); he has participated in important group exhibitions including: Screen Depth(Guangdong Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou), Express Vol.2 (Changting Gallery, Tokyo), Post-Me Generation-How to Write Young Artists (Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing), Moderately Sweet (Tong Gallery+Projects, Beijing), Me and My Fugue (ArtDepot Center, Chongqing), etc. Hou Jianan's works have also been exhibited at major art fairs such as Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, Art021, T Art-Con, Shanghai, Art Central, Fine Art Asia, Hong Kong, and Art Shenzhen.
