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白盒子艺术馆很荣幸地宣布“物的褶皱——王家增个展”将于2018年12月8 日开幕，本次展览由汪民安担任学术主持。此次是白盒子艺术馆与艺术家王家增的首次个展合作，将呈现王家增最新创作的十余件作品。

王家增的作品通常以北方工业城市废墟为主题，灰暗沉郁的笔调，擅于运用工厂的工人形象、铁盒子和厂房等元素作为象征性符号来揭示被弃物与剩余物的当代价值。王家增曾画过很多被铁皮包裹的人，它们置身在铁的包围中仿佛置身于一个个监狱中，没有自己的面孔，只有一个个序列的数目记号，而此次展览所呈现的新作与以往的创作形式有所不同，这批作品的另一种类型，是用铁皮和钢板制作的类似装置的作品。艺术家王家增跳脱出以往连续涂抹方式来勾勒建筑与建筑承载的空间，将表达形式简化，并采取了一种架上作品的形制，将作品挂于墙上。

艺术家通过各种途径收集废弃的铝和铁等金属物质，将其形状改变，通过锤击、焊接、打磨，制造了一个个物的褶皱，烧制后布满无规则的坎坷的折痕展示出一种凝重感。不同于版画、油画中绘制的被挤压的图形，这样的“形若枯骸”的状态使这份沉重感更加凝练。王家增认为像铁这样的金属物质是工业主义最简单明了的基础和指代，是对工业主义吞噬人的讽喻，它们被当作符号是王家增对工业和当代世界一种讽刺性解读。金属物质具有殊相和共相的哲学关系，而人操纵金属也被金属操纵，人伤害金属的同时也被其所伤害，人和金属之间相互扭曲，相互纠缠的关系则象征着工业时代的铁律。

王家增的新作不仅仅是阐述历史，简单的展示过去，他想利用褶皱物与观者之间构建成一种隐喻关系，使每个面临这种褶皱物的人，都能感受到赤裸裸的强力的无所不在，仿佛这些强力就是加诸于观者自身的。王家增赋予了这批作品“强力不仅落在身体上，也会通过落在物上而对人形成震慑”的具有哲学性的意义，将人们带入到了对物与权力的思考之中。

白盒子的展厅就如人们生活的密闭空间，艺术家将作品悬挂在墙上，或者将它们捆绑在钢板上，或者以盒子的形式对它们囚禁，并对它们对监狱中的囚徒进行编号一样进行编号，作品栖身于有限的空间内构筑成一座拟人式的“复仇”景象。

It is with great honor that the Whitebox Art Center hereby announces the openning of Wrinkles of Object – Solo Exhibition of Wang Jiazeng on December 8th 2018. The exhibition will be chaired academically by Wang Minan. It will be the debut cooperation between the Whitebox Art Center and Wang Jiazeng, the master artist, and over 10 of his masterpieces will be displayed in the gallery.

Wang Jiazeng’s works usually would theme on the industrial ruins in North China. He is skillful in representation of workers’ images, and elements like iron boxes and workshops are used as symbols to reveal the contemporary value of industrial abandons and wastes. Wang Jiazeng painted numerous human figures being wrapped up by iron sheets, who are surrounded by the metal in the likes of people being jailed. These individuals are not facially visible and are marked by codes. The upcoming exhibition will present his new works that will differ from the past patterns. What is new about the new exhibits is that they are presented like devices made of iron boards and steel plates. The artist shakes off from his conventional way of repeated layers of paints to outline the architectures and the space they carry, and he adopts simplified forms of art that will be hung on the walls.

The artists collected various abandoned metal materials, - aluminum and iron – and shaped them into wrinkled objects by continuous hammer-strikes, welding, grinding, a sense of dignity and gravity is therefore presented after the surface of the metals being made full of wrinkles and folds in a irregular way. Different from printmaking, oil-paintings present squeezed patterns and such haggard appearance adds to the sense of gravity. To Wang Jiazeng, iron, as a metal, is the very basis of industrialism, and it enslaves human in the industrial age. Iron is interpreted by Wang Jiazeng, ironically, as the symbol of industry and modern world. The metals have philosophic implication in them – humans are manipulating and manipulated by metal; humans harms and are harmed by metal. That the relation between humans and metals are mutual-twisting and tangled together is the law of the industrial age.

Wang Jiazeng’s new works goes beyond the narration of history. By establishing a metaphoric relation between the wrinkles and the audience, he tries to present an omnipresent heaviness on the viewers, in a seeming way that the viewer are personally under the pressure of such weight. Wang Jiazeng endows the works the meaning that the weight can not only be felt by human, but humans will be shocked by observing the weight falling on objects. Thus the audience will be brought into the reflection on the relation between rights and objects.

The Whitebox’s showrooms serve as enclosed space, on their walls hung the works of the artist. The exhibits are either tied up with steel boards or encased in metal boxes and they are coded as prisoners. In a limited space the works constitute an image of ‘Revenge”.

王家增简历
1963年  出生于辽宁省沈阳市
1992年　毕业于鲁迅美术学院版画系
1993年  中央美术学院油画技法研修班
1992至2011年 任教于鲁迅美术学院  教授 
现任教于中国人民大学艺术学院  教授  绘画系主任 中国美术家协会会员

个展：
2018年4月《无名之地》          筑中美术馆／北京
2017年6月《无名之地》                      上海半岛美术馆／上海
2016年4月《城迹》                               中国产业金融博物馆／沈阳
2015年4月 《王家增作品展》                  悦美术馆／北京
2015年2月  《城迹》王家增作品展                 中国金融博物馆／北京 
2014年8月 《工业印痕》                                高士画廊／台北
2014年4月《工业日记——王家增油画展》 济南美术馆／济南
2012年11月  王家增作品展                         爱慕美术馆/北京
2012年3月 《喧嚣中的静默》王家增作品展            悦美术馆/北京
2011年9月  王家增纸本作品展                         韵画廊/北京
2011年3月 《原色》王家增油画展                   今日美术馆/北京
2010年5月王家增版画作品展上海敦煌艺术中心/上海
2009年3月  《存在》王家增油画展                 今日美术馆/北京
2009年3月  王家增纸上作品展                          XYZ画廊/北京
2008年8月  《向生活致敬》 王家增油画展         800号美术馆/上海
2008年7月  王家增版画展                              XYZ画廊/北京
2008年7月 《难以释怀的空间》王家增油画展      威诺里萨画廊/北京
2008年3月 《 盒子中的人》王家增油画作品展           高地画廊/北京
2002年3月　    王家增作品展海上山艺展中心/上海

获奖：
中国鲁迅版画奖
中国第十四届版画展铜奖
中国第十五届版画展铜奖
中国第七届三版展银奖
中国第八届三版展银奖
中国第十七届版画展银奖

中国第十六届版画展优秀奖
中国高等院校版画年会展学院奖
中国第十九届版画展优秀奖

公共收藏：
　
60余件作品被英国大英博物馆、剑桥大学阿什莫林博物馆、杜塞尔多夫博物馆、中国美术馆、上海美术馆、广东美术馆、中央美术学院美术馆、中国版画博物馆北京今日美术馆、浙江美术馆、关山月美术馆及安徽、四川、贵州、青岛、辽宁、黑龙江等美术馆、虚苑美术馆收藏，

出版：《今日中国艺术家——王家增》，《王家增作品集》、《王家增铜版画集》、《空间的重构》等

Resume of Wang Jiazeng
Born in the city of Shenyang in 1963
1992 graduated from the Department of Printmaking Luxun Academy of Fine Arts.
1993 Postgraduate Program sponsored by Central Academy of Fine Arts in oilpainting techniques
1992 – 2012 professor of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, currently professor of Department of Paintings, School of Art Renmin University of China.

Solo Exhibitions
2018 “Spectres of Yesteryear”, an exhibition at Zhuzhong Art Museum Beijing
June 2017 “ Anonymous Land” , an exhibition at Peninsula Art Gallery Shanghai
May 2017 “Wang Jiazeng’s Paintings on Paper, an exhibition, Beijing
April 2016 “Trace of A City” , an exhibition at China Enterprise Finance Museum, Shenyang
August 2014 “Industrial Prints”, an exhibition at Taipei
April 2014 “Industrial Diary – Wang Jiazeng’s Oil painting”, an exhibition at Jinan Art Museum, Jinan
November 2012 “Wang Jiazeng’s Works”, an exhibition at Aimer  Art Museum, Beijing
March 2012 “Quietness amid Noise”, an exhibition at Joy Art Museum,Beijing
September 2011 “Wang Jiazeng’s Paintings on Paper”, an exhibition at Yun Gallery, Beijing
March 2011 “Primary Color”, an exhibition of oilpaintings at Today Art Museum, Beijing
May 2010 “Wang Jiazeng’sPrintmakings”, an exhibition at Dunhuang Gallery, Shanghai
March 2009 “Existence”, exhibition of Wang Jiazeng’s works, Joy Art Museum , Beijing
March 2009 “Wang Jiazeng’s Works on Paper”, an exhibition at XYZ ArtGallery， Beijing
August 2008 “Salute to Life”, Wang Jiazeng’s oilpaintings exhibition, 800 Art Gallery, Shanghai
July 2008 “Wang Jizzeng’sPrintmakings”, XYZ Gallery, Beijing
July 2008 “Hard to Relieve”, exhibition of oilpaintings, Beijing
August 2008 “People in Boxes”, oilpaintings exhibition, Highland Gallery, Beijing
March 2002 “Exhibition of Wang Jiazeng’s Works”, Art Center, Shanghai

Prize-winning Record
Luxun Printmaking Prize
Bronze of 14th National Printmaking Exhibition of China
Bronze of 15th National Printmaking Exhibition of China
Silver of 7th Printmaking Exhibition
Silver of 8th Printmaking Exhibition
Silver of 17th Printmaking Exhibition
Prize of Excellence of 16th National Printmaking Exhibition
Academy Award of Art Academies of China Exhibition
Prize of Excellence of 19thNational Printmaking Exhibition

Public Collections
Over 60 paintings have been collected by The British Museum，Ashmolean Museum,Dusseldorf Museum, China Art
Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, CAFA Art Museum, China Print Art Museum， Beijing Today Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum Guan Shanyue Art Museum and museums
in Anhui, Sichuan, Guizhou, Qingdao, Liaoning, Heilongjiang,
Shenzhen
.
Publications
“Chinese Artist Today – Wang Jiazeng”,  “Collection of Wang Jiazeng’s
Works” ,“Wang Jiazeng’s Copper Plate”