地点：尼古拉·沃尔纳画廊 （Galleri Nicolai Wallner 丹麦-哥本哈根）
艺术家：大卫·史瑞格里（David Shrigley）
开幕时间：2024.02.23.
人们慢慢地揭示自我——David Shrigey作品展
David Shrigley’s practice pointedly questions our understanding of truth and meaning, and the reality and banality of our day-to-day life. Working primarily with drawing, as well as sculpture, installation and animation, Shrigley challenges us to look at what we have accepted or take for granted as true or as convention.
Working from a humorous, often deadpan, place, Shrigley’s near iconic style combines text and imagery in an often juxtaposing way—creating a space for us to interrogate the ideas he’s presented us with. Ranging from topics like spilt beverages, haircuts, or going up stairs, to politics, death and more surreal and existential questions, Shrigley brilliantly weaves them together in a way that feels both personal, relevant, and thought-provoking. Depictions of regular objects like mirrors, shoes and doors, as well as animals, the weather, and other natural phenomena reiterate and ground his practice in what we often dismiss as mundane.
Shrigley’s use of wit combined with keen observation skills brings together many of the diverse, complex and often contradictory elements of human emotion, existence, and the realities that we all share. In so doing, he validates our experiences, while at the same time engaging us to interrogate the status quo.
With this exhibition, David Shrigley introduces a collaging technique into his works on paper. Incorporating cutouts of his own painted element into his established drawing practice, he deftly layers them in ways that feel both chaotic yet deeply intimate, enveloping us in a thought or a moment. This is echoed in Shrigley’s bold use of large brushstrokes in pinks, blues, yellows and greens, often covering the majority of the paper, drawing us in and in a way blocking everything else out, allowing us to interact with the works one at a time.
The result is an incredibly immersive experience, and one that is ultimately very human.
David Shrigley OBE (b. 1968, UK) has received international and critical acclaim for his work, with many notable solo and group exhibitions worldwide. He was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize Award in 2013, following his major mid-career retrospective at the Hayward Gallery (London). In 2016, David Shrigley’s seven meter tall “thumbs up” sculpture was unveiled in Trafalgar Square, for the Fourth Plinth Commission. Shrigley’s works are found in prominent collections around the world, including Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate Britain (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum Ludwig (Cologne) and the National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen) among many others. In 2020, Shrigley was awarded an OBE Officer of the Order of the British Empire in The Queen’s New Years Honours list for services to Visual Arts.
Since 1996, Galleri Nicolai Wallner has been collaborating with David Shregley.
机译：
大卫·史瑞格里的实践尖锐地质疑了我们对真理和意义的理解，以及我们日常生活的现实和平庸。Shrigley主要从事绘画、雕塑、装置和动画工作，他向我们提出挑战，让我们审视我们已经接受或认为理所当然的真实或传统。
史瑞格里在一个幽默、常常面无表情的地方工作，他近乎标志性的风格以一种经常并置的方式将文本和图像结合在一起——为我们创造了一个质疑他向我们提出的想法的空间。从洒掉的饮料、理发或上楼等话题，到政治、死亡以及更超现实和存在主义的问题，Shrigley以一种既个人化、相关又发人深省的方式将它们巧妙地编织在一起。对镜子、鞋子和门等常规物体以及动物、天气和其他自然现象的描述，重申了他的实践，并奠定了我们通常认为平凡的基础。
施莱格利对智慧的运用与敏锐的观察技巧相结合，将人类情感、存在和现实中许多多样、复杂且往往矛盾的元素结合在一起。通过这样做，他验证了我们的经验，同时让我们质疑现状。
通过这次展览，大卫·史瑞格里在他的纸上作品中引入了拼贴技术。他将自己绘画元素的剪纸融入到既定的绘画实践中，巧妙地将它们分层，既让人感到混乱，又让人感到非常亲密，让我们沉浸在一个想法或一个瞬间。Shrigley大胆地使用了粉红色、蓝色、黄色和绿色的大笔触，通常覆盖了纸张的大部分，将我们吸引进来，并在某种程度上屏蔽了其他一切，使我们能够一次一个地与作品互动。
其结果是一种令人难以置信的身临其境的体验，而且最终非常人性化。
大卫·史瑞格里 David Shrigley OBE（生于1968年，英国）因其作品获得了国际和评论界的赞誉，在世界各地举办了许多著名的个人和团体展览。2013年，他在海沃德画廊（伦敦）举办了职业生涯中期的大型回顾展，并获得了著名的特纳奖提名。2016年，大卫·施赖格利的七米高的“竖起大拇指”雕塑在特拉法加广场为第四柱基委员会揭幕。施莱格利的作品在世界各地的著名藏品中都有发现，包括现代艺术博物馆（纽约）、英国泰特美术馆（伦敦）、蓬皮杜中心（巴黎）、路德维希博物馆（科隆）和丹麦国家美术馆（哥本哈根）等。2020年，施莱格利因对视觉艺术的贡献而在女王新年荣誉名单中被授予大英帝国勋章。
自1996年以来，尼古拉·沃尔纳画廊一直与大卫·史瑞格里合作。
