《吸气 - 吐气》刘小累个展
从单头的意式机出品一杯黑咖啡，再给它打上奶泡。家里的条件有限，技术也尚未纯熟，艺术家听着散步时记录下来的白噪音，准备进入一段创作。工作室是家里的一个房间，表面上是属于艺术家的一隅，但貌似她的5岁儿子和老公也会时不时占领这个小房间，进行自己的抽象涂鸦或弹唱一曲乌克丽丽。 现在工作室外面，传来了孩子的喧哗，家里那条黑狗好像又开始搞破坏了........
经常听人说，艺术即是生活的日常。
从艺术殿堂的高处，回归到一个艺术家的日常。日日夜夜，不间断的创作，停不下来的笔，用绘画与文字记录许许多多的当下，些许写实，些许童话。
散步时刻Gallery 开幕以来的第二个展览，将进行《吸气吐气/take a deep breath》刘小累个人作品展。此次，我们将展示艺术家在100天持续创作状态下所产出的约40幅纸本绘画作品。在创作的进程中，她保留即兴，维持松弛，作品也随之变得更“轻”更“薄”，没有负担。
自由职业者刘小累以“插画师”自居，是一个没有艺术家包袱的创作者。她的创作主要围绕着不同形式的绘画，同时结合着自己的文字创作，也是一位有着成熟资历的做书人。随性的线条和单一的色块，她的作品往往充满自信与舒适。在她的创作思路里没有太多的“观念”，更多是日常生活里，对于人、动物与东西的观察与提炼。以她自己的视角和奇思妙想去搭建一个属于自己的小宇宙，然后把一些想法藏在其中。
每一笔，笔触的背后是什么？在不同艺术家的创作笔触里，可能是思想，可能是情绪，又或者是对于艺术创作的某种企图，也不乏有些干扰与噪音。艺术家面对着空白的“画布”，有人的心情犹如一次愉悦的户外散步，有人的心情往往像是一场野心勃勃的赶路....
吸气——吐气——take a deep breath。
有着从容却不随便的心态，专注但又不过于用力的投入，刘小累平时的创作仿佛是在维系着某种心灵状态上的即兴运动。对她来说，画画或许是一种跟散步和呼吸一样重要的日常吧。看似一枚治愈系插画师的刘小累，实际上她的作品，带着一种揉捏人间现实的魔法，等待着你来探个究竟！
在这次的展览中，我们既有完整的展墙展示刘小累100天创作里的精选作品，还布置了一些特别区域：如展厅设置了4面“自由画布”的区域，让艺术家在布展中也可以无限制地发散自己的想法，即兴添加、创作；如文字的体现，作为了解她的途径，也将在这次展厅的不同角落里被呈现；还有不能够忽略的艺术书和小zine，来自于刘小累关于艺术的实践，等等。值得一提的是，这次展览还准备一个小“伴奏”：在画廊进行刘小累的个人作品展览的同时，在散步去艺术商店中将同期进行滚水（小累的5岁儿子）的绘画作品mini快闪，让到场观众们可以一起来看看这对母子在创作与日常相处里的可爱缩影。
散步时刻Gallery很高兴可以在秋天的尾巴，开启这场我们独家代理艺术家刘小累的个展！在此我们诚挚地邀请新老朋友们来看画，来阅读、来感受，来进行一次关于艺术与生活日常的思考。
“Take a deep breath” Liu Xiao Lei Solo Exhibition
The art of making cappuccino at home, brewing the black coffee and adding the milk foam, limited conditions combined with scratchy technique, with some persistence, Liu somewhat manages a homemade version of the “real thing”. Putting on some white noise recorded during a regular walk, she gets ready to enter a period of creation. Her studio is a room in her home, originally a corner set out exclusively for herself. But it seems her husband and 5-year-old son have began to occupy the studio from time to time, beating out a tune with the ukulele, scribbling some form of abstract graffiti art. (p.s. His mini exhibition is held next door, concurrent to her mother’s ). Outside the studio, there seems to be some noise and ruckus, a distant outburst of a five year old child, and the black dog in the house seems to be dismantling something again.
It is often said that the inspirations of art lies within the moments of daily life. Away from the altars of contemporary art, returning to the day-to-day. Her days are filled with painting and typing away on the computer keyboard. She works toward recording life’s individual moments, putting together a part fiction, part reality sort of fairy tale.
“Take a deep breath” Liu Xiao Lei’s solo exhibition will be the second exhibition at the Champochic Gallery, since its opening in September this year. This time, we will show approximately 40 paintings produced by the artist in a state of continuous creation for 100 days. In this process, she embraced a relaxed attitude and retained the spirit of improvisation, subsequently the work became “lighter” and “thinner”, rid of all burden.
Liu Xiao Lei announces herself as a freelance illustrator and zine-maker, a true creator, freely painting away, carrying none of the weight and shackles bestow upon the title of an “artist”. Her work mainly revolves around different forms of painting, these pieces work intimately together with her works of literature and writing. An exploration of lines and simple colors, her paintings are comfortable and full of confidence. There isn’t a lot of “concept” in her method, just the observation and extraction of people, animals and things in the daily life. From this perspective, she plants her seeds of small ideas that grow into extraordinarily large worlds.
In the paint strokes of different artists, inspired by a thought, or perhaps an emotion, the attempt for artistic creation, lacks no interference and noise. Facing the “blank canvas”, some treat painting like a pleasant outdoor walk, while for some, it’s more often like an ambitious climb.
Take a deep breath.....
With a casual but focused mentality, in Liu’s state of mind, the painting “exercise” is one that may be as important as walking and breathing. As an artist, Liu works a kind of magic that kneads the realities of this world into her own fantasy, inviting you to awaken your imagination.
In addition to the 40 paintings exhibited, the artist has been given “free canvas” areas as well as the windows of the gallery to freely explore. With this, Liu will spread her ideas and creations without restriction. Furthermore, in different corners of the exhibition, the audience will find some of her daily and not yet reorganized writing, as well as her artist books and zines.
厦门市思明区民族路37号之1海祥大厦7楼
Level 7, Hai Xiang Building, 37-1 Min Zu Road, Siming District, Xiamen
Level 7, Hai Xiang Building, 37-1 Min Zu Road, Siming District, Xiamen
