Cover news reporter Yang Fan
This weekend, a solo exhibition by Liu Ke, a young artist from Hunan, opened in Chengdu. The exhibition has a very cool and literary name: "Every day is the last day, every day is the first day", and his exhibition is composed of large blocks of color and sharp lines, which look very abstract and have the futuristic style of "cyberpunk". On the afternoon of March 21, the K space of the exhibition site also held an artist sharing meeting, which attracted many local literary and artistic young people to come to observe and punch in.
The times are developing, art is changing, and the abstract paintings of the former high and low have become more and more intimate, so this exhibition is quite popular with young people. The exhibition is also the first important solo exhibition held by artist Liu Ke in the southwest region, mainly showing the results of his exploration and research in the field of abstract art in the past five years.
As a Hunan artist born in 1976, Liu Ke began to express his art in a purely abstract way in a reverse realistic way from a university undergraduate. In the forefront of the economy of Guangzhou to study, work, creation, life, witness the urbanization of the old and new replacement and continuous expansion, desire and material consumption of the expansion, more than 20 years, creation, reading, thinking, across the long river of history and art masters and theorists in the history of art dialogue, speculation, constantly subvert themselves, looking for their own painting language.
Although the vertical lines of Liu Ke's works in the canvas space are constantly stretched, when he experienced the master of color divisionism, Bartney. A divided picture of Newman's art, the master of spatialism Lucio. The power of Fontana art to cut the picture feels that it is still far from their direct conceptual power. So he used the method of gradual division, the picture was divided by a dense longitudinal line, turned to cover, the gap became smaller and smaller, and the gap condensed more concentrated power.
The cultural tension of ideas is revealed through the collision of vertical or horizontal blocks, extending the energy. The division and coverage of straight lines and right angles in Liu Ke's art are also traces of the artistic individual life's spiritual experience of facing social reality, art history, rights, and desires.
Since the experience of the global new crown epidemic in 2020, Liu Ke's feelings about life are even stronger. He believes that every day is the last day, such as the end of the century, the disappearance, the end and the objective state of condensation; each day is a new day, an objective scenario that can be expected in the future, and a sense of historical ritual in the timeline. All of this meets again in time, and each day becomes an expectation, a condensation point, a past tense, and a history. It was also a turning point after the creation of his Channel series.
Yang Kai, curator of the exhibition, told the cover news reporter: "Since Liu Ke participated in the "Glass" Chinese Contemporary Abstract Art Invitation Exhibition in K Space in 2007, I have been paying attention to his art and witnessing his artistic growth. Thirteen years later, he planned and held his abstract art exhibition again, and he could feel the artistic ideals, explosiveness and creativity of a generation of young artists in the line time. ”
How did Liu Ke's abstract paintings with a personal style come into being? He himself answered the audience's questions at this exhibition: "Once when I was making the background color of the canvas, I tried to use black and white strips to make the bottom of the picture. After making one layer, I felt that it was not ideal, so I began to cover another layer with white, and felt that through these covers, the lines squeezed out between the color bars made me feel that there was a vertical and deep space, so I decided to let this picture become a picture. ”
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