艺术顾问及编委：
郎绍君、刘骁纯、皮道坚、陈丹青、边平山、唐辉
主办：高更画廊
支持：凤凰艺术、人民政协网、大艺网、中央美术学院艺讯网
学术支持：陈丹青
学术主持/主编：贾方舟
展览统筹：陈衍 董慧萍
视觉设计：一千遍工作室
展览时间：2016年3月16日－2016年4月15日
展览地点：北京市朝阳区望京SOHO塔2-A座-1211
开幕时间：2016年3月16日（周三）下午3点
“我的左手——朱新建”展暨《朱新建全集》第一卷新书发布将于2016年3月16日登陆高更画廊，本次展览由高更画廊主办，展览艺术顾问及编委由郎绍君、刘骁纯、皮道坚、陈丹青、边平山、唐辉担任，学术支持由陈丹青先生担任，学术主持及主编由贾方舟先生担纲，展览筹划为陈衍、董慧萍。
其人——“除了要吃饭其他就跟神仙一样”
八十年代朱新建先生给自己的画室取了一个斋名：“除了要吃饭其他就跟神仙一样斋”，应了他一味追求快乐的人生目标。著名画家陈丹青曾说：“就画的动机和画的状态，我还是找不出第二个人像朱新建这样的。新建的作品里头有种辛辣的东西，这种辛辣我想是时代给他的。”艺术评论家李小山曾说：“朱新建是个例证，他的敏感，他的锐利，他的广博，都是少见的。朱新建的作品在任何场合都能够被一眼看出，他的独特性和图式化确立了他在当代画坛不可动摇的地位。”
如贾方舟先生在《朱新建全集》序言中所述：“纵观中国的绘画史，直至今天他的前辈和同辈，他在艺术上的独特创造，还没有人可以取代。他的无禁忌的坦诚与率真，他游刃有余的笔底功夫，无不使他的艺术鹤立鸡群、独一无二。”
评论家栗宪庭将朱新建归为新文人画“南线”代表人物，并以此提出“泼皮文化”的概念，进而影响了后来的“玩世现实主义”。
其画——“我的左手”绝笔之作首展
本次展览经陈衍和董慧萍筹划两年之久，特别呈现了朱新建先生重病之后的左手之作，故此展名为“我的左手”，这批绝笔之作也是首次亮相。
如郎绍君先生所说，朱新建的画，其追求“简朴天真”、“单纯而有诗意”、“追求不会画画而又想要画好的那份感觉”，与陈师曾说的“纯任天真，不假修饰”的文人画，关良画戏曲人物，齐白石的“天真”，卢梭和夏加尔朴素绘画，都有近似处。换言之，朱新建的追求，不是心血来潮的偶然，而是“合规律性”的艺术现象。其独特点在于，使用的是古典水墨形式，表达的却是现代的情感和观念意识。这其中的难点，是如何对待追求笔墨技巧与反技巧倾向的关系。
其书——《朱新建全集》第一卷首发
《朱新建全集》由贾方舟主编，郎绍君、刘骁纯、皮道坚、陈丹青、边平山、唐辉担任编委，历时两年鉴别甄选出近两千张精品编辑而成。“我的左手——朱新建”展览暨《朱新建全集》第一卷新书首发式同期举办，此次展览一并奉上100本印有“新建图章”的特别版本供艺术同仁典藏。
“我的左手——朱新建”展览将在高更画廊展至2016年4月15日。
“My Left Hand – Zhu Xinjian” Exhibition &the Launch of the First Volume of The Complete Works of Zhu Xinjian is coming soon to Gauguin Gallery
Art Consultants and Editorial Advisory Members:
Lang Shaojun, Liu Xiaochun, Pi Daojian, Chen Danqing, Bian Pingshan, Tang Hui
Organizer: Gauguin Gallery
Supports: IFENG Art
CPPCC Network
Student.com.cn
CAFA ART INFO
Academic Support: Chen Danqing
Academic Director/Editor-in-Chief: Jia Fangzhou
Exhibition Coordinator: Chen Yan, Dong Huiping
Visual Design: x1000 Studio
Exhibition Date: March 16 – April 15, 2016
Exhibition Venue: Room 1211, Unit A, Tower No. 2 Wangjing SOHO, No. 10 Wangjing Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Opening: March 16, 2014, 3:00 pm, Wednesday
“My Left Hand – Zhu Xinjian” Exhibition & the launch of Volume I of The Completed Works of Zhu Xinjian will come to the Gauguin Gallery on March 16, 2016. This exhibition is hosted by the Gauguin Gallery, and it has invited Lang Shaojun, Liu Xiaochun, Pi Daojian, Chen Danqing, Bian Pingshan and Tang Hui as its art consultants and editorial advisory members. Academically supported by Mr. Chen Danqing, the exhibition has Mr. Jia Fangzhou as its academic chair and editor-in-chief, and it is coordinated by Chen Yan and Dong Huiping.
His Personality – In addition to eating, one should live like you are immortal.
In 1980s, Mr. Zhu Xinjian took the name for his studio: “The Studio that in addition to eating one should live like you are immortal,” in response to his constant life pursuit of happiness. Renowned painter Chen Danqing once said that, in terms of motives of the painting and drawing state, I still could not find anyone like Zhu Xinjian. There’s something spicy in his work, this kind of astringent satire I thought was endowed by age. Art critic Li Xiaoshan once wrote as follows, “His sensitive, and his sharp touch, his broad vision, are rarely seen. Zhu Xinjian’s work can easily be recognized, as his uniqueness and schematization establish his unshakable position in the field of contemporary painting.
As Jia Fangzhou described in his preface for The Complete Works of Zhu Xinjian, “Throughout the history of Chinese painting, even until today among all his predecessors and contemporaries, his unique creation in art, is irreplaceable. His frank and straight attitude is without any taboos, his grasp of brushes with effortless artistry makes his art outstanding and unique.
Critic Li Xianting classified him into the representatives of “South Line” of New Literati Painting, and thus he put forward the concept of “Ruffian Culture”, which further influenced later “Cynical Realism.”
His paintings – the First Exhibition of His Swan Work “My Left Hand”
Planned and coordinated by Chen Yan and Dong Huiping for two years, this exhibition specially showcases Zhu Xinjian’s work with his left hand after he had a serious illness, thus this exhibition was named after “My Left Hand”, and this series of his swan work are shown to the public for the first time.
Just as Mr. Lang Shaojun has said, Zhu Xinjian’s paintings are in pursuit of “naïve simplicity”, “innocent and poetic” and he “senses the feeling that one cannot paint but he wants to draw well,” this has similarities with the literati paintings described by Chen Shizeng as “pure and naïve, with no modifications”, opera characters painted by Guan Liang, the “innocence” of Qi Baiqi, and paintings by Rousseau and Chagall. In other words, Zhu Xinjian’s pursuit came not from a whim of chance, but it abode with the “regulated” artistic phenomenon. His unique feature lies in that, he used the form of classical ink and wash, portraying modern emotions and consciousness of concepts. The difficulty with this is how to treat the relationship between the pursuit of brush and ink skills and tendency to resist skills.
His book – the Launch of Volume I, The Complete Works of Zhu Xinjian
The Completed Works of Zhu Xinjian, was edited in chief by Jia Fangzhou, Lang Shaojun, Liu Xiaochun, Pi Daojian, Chen Danqing, Bian Pingshan, Tan Hui acted as its editorial advisory members, and it took them two years to discriminate and select nearly two thousand competitive works. The premiere of the book as well as the exhibition will be held and on this exhibition there are 100 books with a special version with “Xinjian Seal” for the collection by art colleagues.
“My Left Hand – Zhu Xinjian” Exhibition will remain on view till April 15th, 2016.
