5.8开幕 | “我是自己的陌生人” 姚志燕作品展

展览名称：我是自己的陌生人——姚志燕个展

艺 术 家 ：姚志燕

策 展 人 ：冯博一

展览时间：2021年5月8日——2021年6月7日

开幕时间：2021年5月8日（星期六）下午4点

展览地点：北京798成当代艺术中心

Exhibition: A Stranger to Myself —— Yao Zhiyan Solo Exhibition

Artist: Yao Zhiyan

Curator: Feng Boyi

Duration: May. 8th. 2021 —— June. 7th. 2021

Opening: May. 8th. 2021 4:00pm

Location: Cheng Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art Zone, Beijing

策展人语（冯博一） Curator s Words：

这是艺术家姚志燕在北京的首次个展，呈现了他2018-2021年最新的创作履迹。20幅油画和32幅水彩、素描，针对于现代化城市中“陌生人”的概念，视觉形象既幽默，又荒诞，且黑色。

This is the first solo exhibition of artist Yao Zhiyan in Beijing. It presents his latest creative track from 2018 to 2021. Twenty oil paintings and thirty-two watercolors and sketches are aimed at the concept of Strangers in modern cities. The visual image is humorous, absurd, and black.

走远 Walk Far Away

布面油彩 Oil on canvas 80X100cm 2018

弟兄们，世人恨你们，不要以为稀奇

Marvel Not, My Brethren, If The World Hate You

布面油彩 Oil on canvas 150X200cm 2020

姚志燕笔下的“陌生人”，不仅是某个来自外来或潜在的让人感到疑惑的“异乡客”，更多地是指我们日常生活，尤其是在网络空间中，我们和匿名的陌生人在一起的共同境遇，抑或使自我，包括我们，都迷失在陌生人的群体里。

The Strangers in Yao Zhiyan s works is not only a Stranger who makes people feel confused from outside or potential, but also refers to our daily life. Especially in cyberspace, common circumstances that we stay together with anonymous strangers, which may make myself, including us, lost in the group of strangers.

你好 Hello

布面油彩 Oil on canvas 200X200cm 2021

传说 Legend

布面油彩 Oil on canvas 80X100cm 2018

方言 Tongues

布面油彩 Oil on canvas 150X200cm 2021

因此，姚志燕的作品都是围绕人与自我、人与人之间幽微的陌生关系，其想象力充满着混杂、孤寂和暧昧的情结，塑造和建立了一个自我封闭又无限延伸的世界，并在不确定的变幻中捕捉和固定那一个个片断的瞬间。而他钟情于空白、半透明和镜像的反射，其实是化解了由神秘造成的尴尬与压抑，如同被黑暗及光明所吸引的芸芸众生。当人们面对自身和他人难以克服的困惑时，对人性脆弱、无力的表现，才能使理解、宽容得以发生。

Therefore, Yao Zhiyan’s works revolve around faint strange relationships between man and himself, man and man. His imagination is full of mixed, lonely and ambiguous complexes, shaping and establishing a self enclosed and infinitely extending world, trying to capture and fix those moments in uncertain changes. His passion for blankness, translucency, and mirrored reflections, which actually resolves the embarrassment and depression caused by the mystery, just like all mortal beings are attracted by darkness and light. When people face the insurmountable puzzles of themselves and others, only the performance of fragility and powerlessness in human nature can make understanding and tolerance happen.

艺术家简介

姚志燕出生于武汉，1992年定居深圳。早年开始探索不同的艺术媒介的可能性，并与艺术家、美术馆及不同机构进行合作。一直在中国大陆、中国港澳和美国的机构捐赠绘画作品。作品多次受邀参加中国大陆及港澳、德国的展览。

Yao Zhiyan was born in Wuhan and settled in Shenzhen in 1992. In his early years, he began to explore the possibilities of different art media, and cooperated with artists, art galleries and different institutions. He has been donating paintings to institutions in China and the United States. His works have been invited to participate in exhibitions in China and Germany.

2006年至今，先后接受中国、美国、加拿大等艺术机构及媒体的采访和专题报道；2010年，当选为中国深圳人物志地图成员；2011年，被选为澳大利亚中国艺术家计划的艺术家成员。作品被中国、澳大利亚、德国、美国、法国等国家的私人、美术馆等机构收藏。

Since 2006, he has successively received interviews and special reports from China, the United States, Canada and other art institutions and media. In 2010, he was elected as a member of Shenzhen People s Chronicle Map of China. In 2011, he was selected as an artist member of Australian Chinese Artists Program. His works have been collected by private, art museums and other institutions of different countries and regions, such as China, Australia, Germany, the United States, France, etc.

我是自己的陌生人——姚志燕个展将于2021年5月8日（周六）下午4点，在成当代艺术中心开幕，敬请期待！

Yao Zhiyan s solo exhibition will open at Cheng Contemporary Art Center on May 8th, 2021 (Saturday) at 4:00 PM. Stay tuned!