TIMES FIGURE｜方凯：时代人物中的肖像气质

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艺术家方凯

ARTIST｜FANG KAI

20年代：时代人物中的肖像气质

THE ICONOGRAPHIC TEMPERAMENT OF THE AGE

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艺术家方凯善于提取人物本身在与时光印记、岁月划痕相交错的特有元素，由精准的思辩方式至图像底色中形象的自然显现。附以尖锐、深邃、虚无，甚至触不可及的表情状态，刻录一张张现实人物在虚拟空间里的真实面相。主体意志“还原”肖像背后的结构载体，便是艺术家方凯释义不同症候生命内含的气质格调，以及对于人性欲望“弥散”而流露的心理投射。

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Article/Hui Shuwen

绘画艺术，对于方凯来说，不仅是他与现实环境、生活状态并置交融的一场生命奇遇，还是与它长时间角力而产生的一种真实的语言介质。20年代的今天，艺术家方凯以时代人物中的肖像为面相蓝本，继而照映人性错综复杂的内在精神。在他的绘画创作中，语言的丰富度考量和造型秩序的错位性编排，成为传递个体情绪的核心表征，承载着艺术家主体思想状貌当下社会人物的重要知觉力。

For fang kai, the art of painting is not only a life adventure in which he blends with the real environment and living state, but also a real language medium produced by wrestling with it for a long time. Today in the 1920s, the artist fang kai takes the portraits of the figures of The Times as his blueprint, and then reflects the intricate inner spirit of human nature. In his painting creation, the richness of language and the dislocation arrangement of the modeling order become the core representation of individual emotions, bearing the important perception of the artists' subjective thoughts and social figures.

某一情境，或是场域景象的再现，基于作者将画面内容嵌入着具有独特语言的个人风貌。肖像这一物质是艺术家方凯的述状媒介，他提取人物本身在与时光印记、岁月划痕相交错的特有元素，由精准的思辩方式至图像底色中形象的自然显现。附以尖锐、深邃、虚无，甚至触不可及的表情状态，刻录一张张现实人物在虚拟空间里的真实面相。主体意志“还原”肖像背后的结构载体，便是艺术家方凯释义不同症候生命内含的气质格调，以及对于人性欲望“弥散”而流露的心理投射。

The representation of a scene, or a scene in a field, is based on the author's embedding of the content of the scene into a personal style with a unique language. The portrait is the describing medium of the artist fang kai, who extracts the unique elements that interweave with the time imprints and time scratches of the figure itself, from the precise and speculative way to the natural manifestation of the image in the background color of the image. Attached to the sharp, deep, nihility, even touch the state of expression, recorded a piece of real characters in the virtual space of the real face. The structural carrier behind the "restoration" of the portrait of the subject's will is the temperament style of the life of different symptoms as interpreted by the artist fang kai, as well as the psychological projection of the "diffusion" of human desires.

人物肖像的深入描绘，是构成艺术家方凯绘画创作的主要内容。从他近些年的作品中，我们可以观察到在他绘画中穿引的一条隐秘的线索：即缓慢去除人物表面粉饰的矫揉造作，透视人在困境中生命的坚质和忍耐。他以生活中的朋友面孔作为绘画原型，在画布上一遍一遍地覆盖和解构人物完整、残缺的造型，强烈而丰富的绘画性，直逼我们漠然麻木的视觉感官和身心肢体。

The deep description of portrait is the main content of artist fang kai's painting creation. From his works in recent years, we can observe a secret clue in his paintings: to slowly remove the affectation of the surface whitewashing of the characters, and to look into the firmness and endurance of people's lives in difficulties. He used the faces of his friends in life as his painting prototype, covering and deconstructing the complete and incomplete shapes of the characters over and over again on the canvas. His strong and rich painting style threatened our indifferent visual senses and body and body.

正如大卫·休谟所述：“我们无从得知因果之间的关系，只能得知某些事物总是会连结在一起，而这些事物在过去的经验里又是从不曾分开过的。我们并不能看透连结这些事物背后的理性为何，我们只能观察到这些事物的本身，并且发现这些事物总是透过一种经常的连结而被我们在想像中归类”。

As David Hume put it, "we have no way of knowing the relationship between cause and effect, only that certain things are always joined together, and these things have never been separated in the past. We cannot see the reason behind the connection, we can only observe the things themselves, and find that they are always classified in our imagination through a constant connection.

艺术家方凯塑制的人物造型基以单体形象独自呈现，横向以及纵向勾勒的肖像面孔，在这些构图不一的画面中变化、延展，逐步撕裂拟像初始的面纱，层层递进的色域面积，于结构转折处相隙分布，柔软地拂拭端凝静穆、惊恐不安的五官。犹如存于天幕中隐约闪现的“幽灵”，夹杂的温度气息，向前袭来，再悄悄地退回到阴郁迷幻的背景色中。

Artist Fang Kai with molding character modelling to monomer image rendering alone, transverse and longitudinal draw the outline of a portrait of the face, changes in the composition of the picture, stretched, tear simulacra initial step by step, layer on color gamut area, in turn with phase gap distribution structure, soft wipe the facial features of the serene and alarmed. Like the "ghost" that dimly flashes in the sky, the mingled air of temperature comes forward, and then quietly falls back into the dark and psychedelic background.

他试图强调和恢复色彩属性和人物之间的某种关联，营造出一种若即若离的空间效果。这种绘画语言的呈现，无疑彰显了他对人物气质的深度捕获与提炼的敏锐度。自上而下间，从左到右的人物造型的各式植入；适宜的角度方向，矫正出更为饱满的个性姿态；眼神相觑又分离，顺着既定的轨迹路径，逐渐定格……服饰的淡化愈显人物心灵慰籍的庇佑所的精神坍塌，或是“上帝之眼”在探视着芸芸众生，面孔的异质状态和气质特征，则是艺术家方凯对于现实世界始终保持警惕与自我内省的心性态度。

He tries to emphasize and restore some relation between color attribute and character, build a kind of space effect that is neither distant nor distant. The presentation of this painting language undoubtedly reveals his sensitivity to the depth of capture and refinement of character temperament.

From the top down, from the left to the right of the various character modeling implant; Suitable Angle direction, corrects a fuller personality posture; Look at each other and separate, along the established path, gradually freeze... The weakening of the costumes makes the spiritual collapse of the shelter of the spiritual comfort of the characters more obvious, or the "eye of god" is looking at the common people, the heterogeneous state and temperament of the faces, which is the psychological attitude of the artist fang kai to keep alert to the real world and introspect himself.

在自己的工作室中，方凯日复一日地以强者的口吻命令自己：把潜在的表达欲、突破惯性的决心以及一点点安全感指向画面。源于内心的精神性，沉默的自我对话，使得他画面内部的力量即使处于秩序之下，仍然如此夺目。

一遍一遍的，他反复塑造画面，并从中不断获取提示、改善之道或破坏欲。他沉浸在这种处理信息的行动里，企图心逐步消解、深化为气质，体现在无意言说的结果之中，体现在诸多从现实得到的暗示里。——徐畅

◐ 关于艺术家·方凯

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FANG KAI

方凯｜FANG KAI

1983年生于安徽六安，2007年毕业于南京艺术学院油画专业。现工作生活于南京。

个展

2018

《形象的荒谬》方凯的绘画艺博画廊上海

2015

《方凯》金鹰当代艺术空间南京

联展

2019 《感觉的逻各斯》

南京艺术学院美术馆南京

2019 《方法论》

艺博画廊上海

2018 江汉繁星计划（第六回）：天桥——交叉的经验

武汉美术馆武汉

2018 《框架》

广州三年展平行展广州

2018 《关于水的想象》

威狮国际艺术中心福州

2017 《过江心洲》

南京艺术学院美术馆南京

2013 《FangKai-MaoYan Becoming》

Atkins & Ai Gallery 北京

2013 “复调”21种状态

南京艺术学院美术馆

2012 《绘画之中》毛焰师生展

大未来林舍画廊台北

2011 《shanghai now》墨尔本

2011 《墙》南京青年当代艺术展

◐ 关于策展人·惠书文

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HUI SHUWEN

惠书文｜Hui Shuwen

独立策展人、艺术写作者。CONUTER-FEIT 猎质当代艺术双年展品牌创办人，猎质当代艺术展总策展人。Rainbow box project发起人，An Art Space策展人。主要从事中国当代艺术史论研究与写作、当代艺术批评实践、展览策划及独立艺术空间的创建与运营等工作。

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