協力空间欣然宣布将于2025年4月3日至5月4日举办展览“蓟花与灵缇犬”，呈现意大利艺术家里卡多·阿尔比耶罗（Riccardo Albiero）的最新绘画创作。

Double Double Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition “Garden of Thistles, Dream of a Borzoi,” from April 3 to May 4, 2025, featuring the latest paintings by Italian artist Riccardo Albiero.

里卡多在其绘画中试图创造另一种“现实”，那是他在内心世界构筑的一处灵性寓所。他的作品尺幅不大，似一扇扇窗，吸引观者凑近，窥见其中一隅；又如一块块拼图，散落于展厅，等待你来拼合。

Riccardo Albiero tries to create an alternative “reality” in his work, a spiritual abode that he constructs within his inner world. Modest in size, his paintings are like windows that invite the viewer to come closer for a glimpse, or like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle scattered in the gallery, awaiting to be pieced together.

里卡多·阿尔比耶罗，静谧之室（之二），2024

木板上蛋彩坦培拉，45 x 41 cm

艺术家自出生起便一直生活在意大利基奥贾——那是临近威尼斯的一座海滨小镇，并在久负盛名的博洛尼亚美术学院修习绘画。他对崇尚精神性的晚期中世纪艺术以及乔治·徳·基里科的形而上学绘画兴趣甚笃——从其对蛋彩颜料的娴熟运用、细腻精巧的笔触、不乏象征性的意象和梦呓般的场景，便可窥见一二。

Having lived in Chioggia, a seaside town south of Venice, since his birth, Riccardo studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, one of the oldest and most prestigious art schools in Italy. Growing up immersed in the rich artistic traditions of his home region, the artist is particularly drawn to late medieval art and Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Painting which influenced his work in subtle ways: his mastery of egg tempera, detailed depictions, oneiric scenes, and symbolic imagery.

里卡多的绘画或可被视作一则寓言，一方梦境，意象和场景背后寓居着他的内心，微妙的情感、隐匿的想望，说不清道不明，以象征和隐喻的方式显现。在某种意义上，他的创作是一次又一次探寻，既是对自身内在“真实”的探察，亦是对外在超越日常经验和物质世界的另一种“现实“的找寻，是探险亦是回归，是一场心灵的奥德赛之旅。

Riccardo’s paintings can be seen as a fable, a dreamscape. Behind the images reside his heart, his nuanced emotions and hidden desires - ineffable and inexplicable - expressed through symbols and metaphors. His work represents a constant quest, a probe into his inner “truth,” as well as a search for another “reality” that transcends everyday life and the physical world. It is an adventure and a return, a spiritual odyssey.

猎犬和刺蓟是艺术家画作中的主角。在西方宗教绘画中，灵缇犬常以忠诚之姿伴于圣徒左右，而刺蓟则象征着耶稣受难时头上所戴的荆棘冠——皆体现着对信仰的坚定和虔诚。它们带着前世的象征意蕴入画，被艺术家赋予了新的内涵，变得个人而私密，似有所指却难以辨析：在空无一人的老宅中寻觅着什么的灵缇犬，暗夜下花园一隅的刺蓟，被燃烧的火焰环绕的眼睛，悬吊的星星……似是现实中可见之物，却在艺术家细致的描摹、巧思的构图和堪培拉柔和的色彩中，变得意指模糊。事物背后似还隐着什么，却不得而知，它们化作氤氲在画面中的幽微灵韵，些许迷朦、神秘甚至诡谲，星星点点，萦于观者心畔。

Sighthounds and thistles are central characters in his work. In the Western tradition of religious paintings, greyhounds are often depicted as loyal companions accompanying saints, while thistles symbolize the Crown of Thorns placed upon Jesus Christ’s head at his crucifixion-both conveying piety and devotion to faith. They appear in Riccardo’s paintings with an aura of their past, and are imbued with new meanings - something private and intimate, yet hard to discern: a sighthound searching for something in a deserted room, a prickly thistle blossoming in the dark night of a garden corner, an eye encircled by burning flames, a dangling star…Through the artist’s delicate brushstrokes, deliberate compositions, and subdued tones of tempera paint, the ordinary is immersed in a dreamy atmosphere, mysterious and uncanny, lingering in the viewer’s mind.

让我们在展览中追随灵缇犬的脚印，展开一次灵性的求索。

文/齐元琳

里卡多·阿尔比耶罗 / Riccardo Albiero

1996 年出生于意大利基奥贾，毕业于意大利博洛尼亚美术学院绘画专业（学士）和视觉艺术专业（硕士）。目前在基奥贾工作和生活。

阿尔比耶罗的绘画围绕着西方中世纪晚期传统和意大利文艺复兴早期的意象展开，尤其关注宫廷背景中常见的圣经和世俗图腾。这些符号遗产被转化为个人的神话故事——灵缇犬、植物花卉和星空成为个人内心现实的主角们。

齐元琳 / Qi Yuanlin

策展人、写作者。现供职于木木美术馆，曾策划艺术家日内瓦·费吉斯、萨波尔齐斯·博佐在国内的个展，运营艺术自媒体“呓呀”。