展览时间：2024年3月1日-2024年3月25日
展览机构：又生空间CYCLE SPACE
展览地址：北京市朝阳区酒仙桥4号北京798艺术区798大院七星东街又生空间CYCLE SPACE
出品人：李雅璐 Producer Amy Lee
策展人：孟玥辰 Curated by Meng Yuechen
参展艺术家：曹金岩、马小萌（Toi）、曲笑小、于瑜
Artists：CAO Jinyan, Toi, QU Xiaoxiao, YU Yu
展览海报
展览介绍：
又生空间将于2024年3月1日呈现群展“秘密”，展出曹金岩、马小萌（Toi）、曲笑小、于瑜四位艺术家的近年作品。
曹金岩擅长运用绚丽色彩与细腻的笔触渲染都市女性生活中的光彩夺目和深邃神秘。她画面中的那些女性大都有着符合大众审美的修长肢体，妆容精致的脸庞，生活在华美的场景中，却表情单一。《智者》的画面中心是一颗装饰精巧的圣诞树，树下的女孩身着貂皮大衣和火龙果色的金色暗纹蕾丝袜，节日的温馨氛围里女孩只身一人，深紫色的背景里光斑闪烁，似有一只孤独的眼睛在默默注视着一切，仿佛在黑暗中隐藏着秘密。
《降雪》Toi
马小萌则以其独特的绘画风格为作品赋予了生命与活力。她的作品里奔跑的人和猫被分解成了图形、直线和曲线，看似立体主义的图像风格，源自于后千禧的二次元文化特质，加上舞动的笔触和颜料，展示了这一代艺术家心中另类的秘事--内心独有的欢愉和自由。“独生”有时不是客观的条件，而是一种心态，幼年独处，成长时独自寻找，成年后独自享受生活，不依靠外界，靠自我获取能量。
曲笑小的“秘密”则聚焦于自然界，简洁干练的线条和独特的构图手法，揭示了秘密的多重面貌。他的作品以多次层叠、打磨、抛光，呈现出中国传统漆器般的精巧层次。大面积纯色反而使得画面里的动物和植物隐秘生长在生机勃勃而奇幻的自然里，揭示着我们能看到的只是冰山一角，无法窥视的是深藏在大自然深处的密码。
《寻找中...》Toi 纸本丙烯 26cmx18cm 2023年作
中央美术学院国画专业毕业的于瑜，自幼习画，有着扎实的传统中国画功底，本科毕业后，又考取了中国艺术研究院的硕士，创作方向关注于传统语言及材料的当代转化。她敏锐的观察力和丰富的想象力，在多年对丝绢的相处中，找寻到创作的初心，并以此为出发点，创作了《作为生命的绢》这一系列。在传统缫丝工艺中注定被戗杀的蚕永远无法破茧成蛾，于瑜也因此被这种生命的无常所困住，但在了解了现代化的丝绢生产可以同时保证纺织与成蛾后，她又发现被牺牲的是成千上万的纺织工人，拥抱现代的代价是否只能是摒弃传统，这一刻死去的是蛾，还是我们熟悉而陌生的传承千年的技艺？
曹金岩、马小萌、曲笑小、于瑜四位艺术家的作品，以不同的艺术表现形式和视角，探索了“秘密”这一主题，无论是黑暗的、欢愉的，还是神秘的、古老的，都蕴含着独特编码，内涵无尽的可能。
《智者》曹金岩 亚麻布纸本综合、 丙烯、矿物颜料 130cmx80cm 2023年作
Cycle Space will present a group exhibition "Secrets" on March 1, 2024, featuring recent works by four artists: Cao Jinyan, Toi, Qu Xiaoxiao, and Yu Yu.
Cao Jinyan excels at using vibrant colors and delicate brushstrokes to render the dazzling and profound mysteries of urban female life. The women in her paintings often have slender limbs and exquisite makeup, living in gorgeous settings but with expressionless faces. In Sage, the center of the painting is an elaborately decorated Christmas tree, under which a girl dressed in a mink coat and a dragon fruit-colored gold lace stocking stands alone. Amidst the warm atmosphere of the holiday, the girl shines in a deep purple background, with light spots flickering like a lonely eye silently watching everything, hiding secrets in the darkness.
Toi brings life and vitality to her works through her unique painting style. In her paintings, running people and cats are decomposed into shapes, straight lines, and curves, creating a seemingly Cubist style that originates from post-millennial anime culture traits. Combined with dancing brushstrokes and pigments, they reveal the alternative secrets in the hearts of this generation of artists - the unique joy and freedom within. "Only Child" isn’t an objective condition but a mindset, a state of solitude in childhood, searching alone during growth, and enjoying life alone as an adult, relying on oneself for energy rather than external sources.
Qu Xiaoxiao's "Secrets" focuses on nature, revealing multiple facets of secrecy through concise, clean lines and unique compositional techniques. His works are layered, polished, and refined multiple times, exhibiting the intricate hierarchy reminiscent of traditional Chinese lacquerware. The extensive use of pure colors contrasts with the subtle growth of animals and plants in a vibrant and fantastical natural world, hinting that what we see is only a glimpse of the iceberg, and the deeper secrets of nature remain unseen.
Yu Yu, who graduated from the Chinese Painting department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, has been painting since childhood and possesses solid traditional Chinese painting skills. After graduating from her undergraduate studies, she went on to pursue a master's degree at the China National Academy of Arts, focusing on the contemporary transformation of traditional languages and materials. Her keen observation and rich imagination have led her to discover the original intention of creation through years of interaction with silk, resulting in the series “As the silk of life". In the traditional process of silk reeling, the silkworm destined to be killed can never break out of its cocoon to become a moth. Yu Yu has been troubled by the impermanence of life represented in this process. However, after learning that modern silk production can simultaneously guarantee both weaving and the silkworm's survival, she realized that it was the thousands of weaving workers who were being sacrificed. Does embracing modernity necessarily mean abandoning tradition? In this moment, is it the moth or the familiar yet alienated thousand-year-old craftsmanship that is dying?
The works of the four artists, Cao Jinyan, Toi, Qu Xiaoxiao, and Yu Yu, explore the theme of "Secrets" through different artistic expressions and perspectives. Whether dark, joyful, mysterious, or ancient, they all contain unique encodings and infinite possibilities.