动物脑－德国海德堡席勒画廊首展于幸泽新作系列！

　　我们荣幸地宣布于幸泽新作“动物脑”系列2015年6月4日在德国海德堡席勒画廊首展成功！
　　“昔者庄周梦为蝴蝶，栩栩然蝴蝶也，自喻适志与，不知周也。俄然觉，则蘧蘧然周也。不知周之梦为蝴蝶与，蝴蝶之梦为周与？”
　　—《庄子·齐物论》
　　庄生梦蝶这个典故的迷人之处在于，作为思考主体的人发现自己的存在可能并不是绝对的，也有另外的一种可能性，就是人生可能是蝴蝶的一场梦而已。且不管这个典故的哲学意义，我想问的一个问题是，动物会做梦吗？动物也能思考吗？他和我们有一样的大脑吗？这样，我们把一个哲学问题转换成了科学的问题或者是生物的问题，但是有趣的是艺术家现在把它变成了一个艺术的问题，也给出了一个艺术的解释和想象。画家于幸泽的新作系列“动物脑”，就是这一系列问题的一种富有新意的角度变换思考的结果。
　　现任教于上海同济大学的青年艺术家和学者于幸泽曾经留学德国杜塞尔多夫艺术学院和卡塞尔艺术学院。虽然师从德国新表现主义大师伊门道夫和麦雅等人，幸泽的作品一直具有较强的具象特征和个人风格。他的“气泡”系列持续很多年，创作出很多令人赞叹的佳作，同时通过气泡所表现的大千世界也体现了艺术家的哲学思考。实际上，幸泽毕竟在德国留学多年，对西方抽象艺术或是表现手法耳濡目染，对一些抽象或者是不具体的图像一直怀有浓厚的兴趣。新作“动物脑”系列即是一些抽象艺术方面的尝试，但是又有某种思考和所指在其中。关于这批作品，画家自己说道：“我不是画人或者本人的经验及感受，我描绘的是非人的。例如：作画的时候我幻想我是一只熊，熊是如何看待这个世界的图像，我尝试把我的这些绘画指向熊的大脑，熊和我都是幻觉。”在于幸泽以往的作品当中，也多次出现过动物形象，艺术家常赋予动物十分丰富的象征意义，但多是以具象的形式表现。这次灵感又是来自从动物，但是思考的角度和表现方式却都有了全新的意味。
　　于幸泽以动物的脑细泡图案为媒介，抛开他已有的图像处理手法，用反习惯和反思维的方法来处理图像，为自己的创作开辟了一个新的方向。作品的意义更超越传统哲学命题，而以全新的艺术视角，在思维中两次换位：从人到动物，再从思维到微观。由此，艺术家赋予了抽象绘画一种新的思考和哲学意义。
　　赵洲写于海德堡

　　2015年5月31日
　　It is my honor toannounce that Yu Xingze’s new works, namelyAnimal Brain series will debut at Gallery Schillerstrasse, Heidelberg, Germany on June4,2015!
　　At beginning I would like to recite the famous story told by Chuang-Tse: "Previously, I, Chuang-Tse,dreamed that I became a butterfly fluttering here and there and was as happy asa butterfly. I knew I was very happy with myself, though I did not know that Iwas Chuang-Tse. Suddenly I awoke, and there I was, myself again. Now I do notknow whether it was Chuang-Tse dreaming that he was a butterfly or a butterflydreaming that it was Chuang-Tse."This story is quitefascinating, because wefind that our own existence may not be absolute and that there is anotherpossibility -- our life might be a butterfly’s dream. Regardless of thephilosophical significance in this story, the question we want to ask is: Cananimals dream or think? Do they have the brains as we have? Thus we convert aphilosophical question into scientific or biological question. But it isinteresting that our artist now turns it into an artistic question and gives anartistic interpretation and imagination. Mr. Yu’s Animal Brain series is aresult of thinking about these serial questions from a new prospective.
　　As a young artist and nowteacher at Tongji University in Shanghai, Mr. Yu once studied in Düsseldorf ArtAcademy and Kassel Art Academy in Germany. While under the influence of Germanneo-expressionist masters J?rg Immendorff (1945-2007) and Ludwig Meyer, Mr. Yu has a strong figurative character and personal stylein his works. He has created his Bubble series for many years with impressiveresults. The world that is expressed via bubbles reflects the philosophicalthinking from the artist. In fact, after studying in Germany for many years, hehas a very good understanding on Western abstract art or expressionistictechnique with a keen interest in abstract or “informell” paintings. AnimalBrain series is an attempt in the abstract art and is also mixed with somereflections. About this series, the artist says, "I would like to drawnon-human things instead of the people with my experience and feelings. Forexample, while drawing, I fancy I am a bear, I think how the bear treats theimage of the world. I try to think from the standpoint of the bear. The bearand I are all illusions." In his previous works, animal images haveappeared many times. The artist often gives animals rich symbolic meanings, andthey are manifested through figurative forms. In the new series, theinspiration comes from the animal again, but the angle of thinking and themethod of expression have a whole new dimension.
　　Mr. Yu takes the patternof the brain cell of the animal as the media. Putting aside conventionaltechniques, he adopts unconventional and uncustomary methods to process images,opening up a new direction in his new art works. The significance of the worksis not only beyond the traditional philosophical proposition, but also with anew artistic perspective, the thinking is shifted twice: from human to animal,then from thinking to microscopic view. Thus, the artist gives the abstractpainting a new thinking and philosophical significance.
　　Dr. Zhao Zhou
　　Heidelberg
　　May 31, 2015

　　艺术家简历：
　　于幸泽
　　1976年生于中国辽宁岫岩
　　1996-2000年毕业于鲁迅美术学院油画系获学士学位2002-2003年德国杜塞尔多夫美术学院自由艺术系伊门道夫教授工作室2003-2005年毕业于德国卡塞尔(Kassel)美术学院自由艺术系麦雅教授工作室获硕士学位2005-2006年毕业于德国卡塞尔(Kassel)美术学院自由艺术系获绘画Meistschueler学位2010-2013年毕业于中央美术学院建筑学院设计艺术学获博士学位2007-2013年任教于中央美术学院
　　2013- 任教于上海同济大学
　　2007- 现工作居住中国上海北京/德国波鸿
　　XINGZE YU
　　1976 Born inXiuyan,Liaoning Province, China

    1996-2000 graduated from the LuXun Fine Arts Academy,Shenyang, Chinabachelor's degree
　　2001-2002 Duesseldorf Fine Arts Academy,underprofessor Jorg Immendorff, Germany

2002-2005 graduated fromthe Academy of Fine Arts University of Kassel，Germanymaster's degree.
　　2005-2006 Enters the class studio of Professor Jurgen Meyer(Meistschueler)Academy of Fine Arts University ofKassel ， Germany

    2010-2013 graduated from China Central Academy of FineArts Academy of architecture design arts, Beijing, China. Ph.D.
　　2007-2013 Teaching position at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing,China

    2013- Teaching position atTongJi University , Shanghai, China2007 Now lives and works between Shanghai, Beijing and Bochum Germany

    动物脑－德国海德堡席勒画廊首展于幸泽新作系列

    展出时间：2015年6月04日－7月31日
　　地点：德国海德堡席勒画廊
　　Schillerstrasse 1
　　69115 Heidelberg, Germany
　　Tel: ＋49-6221-7355338