凝固与流掠 —— 孙晨祎油画艺术创作解读

孙晨祎是灰墙艺术签约并着力推荐的年轻艺术家。2015年他从家乡上海出发去美国深造，现在回到他的母亲城市，带着他已在美国纽约等地成功巡展的“地铁系列”作品。提及纽约，绝对不是为了告诉大家，这些作品因海外镀过金而身价不菲，而是想就此展开关于孙晨祎这个灵感来源的讨论。Sun Chenyi is a young artist who is delegated and recommended in great efforts by Greywalls Art. In 2015, he set out from hometown Shanghai to study in the United States. Now he returns to his mother city with his "Subway Series" works that have been successfully toured in New York and other places in the states. Referring to New York is definitely not to tell you that these works are valuable because they have been exhibited overseas, but to start a discussion on Sun Chenyi as a source of inspiration.

《等待（Waiting）》布面油画 110×145cm 2019年

关于孙晨祎的艺术创作，我想从意和艺两方面来谈谈我的看法。先说意，也就是艺术家想表达的思想和理念。据艺术家自述，他的地铁系列是想描述当下在城市高压环境中每个个体的孤独及与世界的隔离。我认为，意图是明确的，表达也是到位的。首先，地铁是大城市的标记之一。其次，地铁是普通上班族通勤的主要交通工具。其三，白领们是否能准点上班打卡，一是要看地铁的准点率，二是要看准点到站的地铁是否拥挤到无法搭乘。其四，白领们加班很晚的时候是否能赶上末班地铁。最后，则是一个心态问题：不管车厢是拥挤还是空荡，地铁搭乘者当时的心情如何？是否身边有人陪伴？是否有大城市的归属感？这么多属性和思考，被地铁这一件东西给一网打尽了，可见艺术家对艺术语言归纳和概括的能力可谓是高超的。孙晨祎地铁系列的作品中都增加了视觉上的纵逝感，把三维思考叠加到了一个画面，这个时候，人物是凝固的，空间是移动的，而时间在飞速流逝。考虑到这里，我脑中闪现了本篇评述的标题——凝固与流掠，但也仅仅是个模糊的概念。Re Sun Chenyi's artistic creation, I want to talk about my views from two aspects: meaning and technique. First, meaning, that is, the thoughts and ideas that the artist wants to express. According to the artist's own account, his Subway Series is to describe the loneliness of each individual and his/her isolation from the world in the current urban high-pressure environment. I think the intention is clear and the expression is in place. First of all, the subway is one of the symbols of big cities. Secondly, the subway is one of the main transportation means for ordinary office staff to commute. Third, whether white-collar workers can punch in on time depends on the punctuality rate of the subway and whether the subway arriving on time is too crowded to take. Fourth, whether white-collar workers can catch the last subway when they work late. Finally, it is a question of mentality: whether the carriage is crowded or empty, what was the mood of subway passengers at that time? Are you accompanied? Do you have a sense of belonging to a big city? So many attributes and thoughts have been wiped out by the subject -- subway. It can be seen that the artist's ability to summarize his artistic language is superb. Sun Chenyi's works of Subway Series add a transient sense in vision, superimposing three levels of thinking on a picture. At the same time, the characters are solidified, the space is moving, and time is passing rapidly. In view of this, the title of this review - solidification and flow sweep - flashed in my mind, but it is only a vague concept.

《纽约Newyork》布面油画 80×120cm 2020年

意的第二层意思是艺术的共通性和无国界。世界上每个大都市的地铁，都像其脉络，四通八达，输送着人流，也传递着文化和思想。人类可以有不同种族和肤色，地铁里播报的语言也可以各不相同，但是有几点一定是共通的，那就是向乘客宣讲列车的起点、到站和终点。孙晨祎把原本有地域差别的各国地铁，通过共同的显著特征进行了串联，从而令他的艺术语言达到了无国界的认同感。但有趣的是，他还采录世界各国地铁运行和播报的声效，似乎想通过个体的差异性，特别是文化背景和地理环境的不同，来进一步加深其作品共通性的认定。从艺术的世界性来看，单一地区地铁场景的美术绘制是定点的表达，而融汇了多个场景的地铁主题系列作品，则成就了某人在不同地点面对物是人非时的一份份感叹。

《就是这样 This is The Way》布面油画 45.5×45.5cm（含框） 2021年

The second reading of the artist’s meaning is the commonality and borderless of art. The subway in every metropolis in the world, like its context, extends in all directions, conveying people, culture and ideas. Human beings can have different races and skin colors, and the language broadcasts in the subways can also be different, but there must be several points in common, that is, to tell passengers about the starting point, arrival and destination of the train. Sun Chenyi connected the subways of various countries with regional differences through common salient features, so that his artistic language reached a sense of identity without borders. But interestingly, he also collected sound effects from subway operation and broadcasting all over the world. It seems that he wants to further deepen the identification of the commonality of his works through individual differences, especially cultural background and geographical environment. From the perspective of artistic cosmopolitanism, the art drawing of subway scenes in a single area is a fixed-point expression, while the subway theme series works integrating multiple scenes have made someone sigh when facing the changes of things and people in different places.

《大都会Metropolitan》布面油画 120×80cm 2020年

再来说艺，也就是绘画技巧。前面曾提到，地铁系列都带有很强的视觉纵逝感，大多数画面中，只有视线焦点的人或物是固定的，这种固定也是相对周遭环境的移动而言的，所以固定的人或物也没有做非常细致的处理，而周遭环境则通过相同色系颜料的水平交错铺展来表现它们在视网膜上的极短停留，文学一点说那叫流光掠影。跳出地铁系列，来看艺术家的其他创作，则会为凝固和流掠这两个概念找到更多的解读。这篇评述的标题就此确定。艺术家的部分人物或静物写生，因为没有周遭环境瞬移的影响，所以较地铁系列精细很多，虽然离超写实还有很大的距离，但艺术家还是用成熟的笔法固定住了模特的某个姿态或神情。孙晨祎好象也沉醉于用粗放或流掠的方式来画静止的人或物，这和视觉的短暂成像无关，而是借此技法表达自己所不能表达，表达自己在创作时的模糊状态，艺术家把这种流掠，用在了自画像上，也延伸用到了他的抽象作品上。

《紫Purple》布面油画 60×45cm 2021年

Then talk about technique, that is, painting skills. As mentioned earlier, the Subway Series have a strong sense of visual transience. In most pictures, only the people or objects with the focus of sight are fixed, which is also relative to the movement of the surrounding environment, so the fixed people or objects are not handled very carefully, and the surrounding environments shows their very short stay on the retina through the horizontal staggered spread of the same color system pigments. In literature, it is called Flash Past. If jump out of the Subway Series and look at other works of the artist, we will find more interpretations of the two concepts of Solidification and Flash Past. The title of this review is thus determined. Some of the artist's characters or still life portraits are much more refined than the Subway Series because they have no influence of the rapid change of the surrounding environment. Although there is still a great distance from super realism, the artist still uses mature brushwork to fix a certain posture or expression of the model. Sun Chenyi seems to be addicted to painting still people or things in an extensive or sweeping way, which has nothing to do with the short-term imaging of vision，instead, he uses this technique to express what he can't express as well his fuzzy state when creates. The artist uses this sweeping in self portraits and extends it further to his abstract works.

《编号202012 No.202012》布面油画 90×180cm 2020年

通过我的评述，希望大家能了解到，艺术家有艺，有才华，但他的作品更多地在表达他的意，如果观者能对艺术家的思想和状态感同身受，那么孙晨祎的作品对这样的观者来说就是一种莫大的精神安慰。Through my comments, I hope you can understand that the artist is artistic and talented, but he is more expressing his meaning. If the viewer can feel the artist's thought and state, Sun Chenyi's works are a great spiritual comfort to him/her.

艺术家简介

孙晨祎

青年艺术家、策展人，2015 年获得复旦大学上海视觉艺术学院学士学位；2018 年获得美国萨凡纳艺术与设计学院艺术 M.F.A.硕士学位。先后参加了第 33 届切尔西国际艺术比赛展览、美国迈阿密艺术巴塞尔 Art Basel 和纽约 Artexpo 艺术博览会等。2018 年在艺术巴塞尔 Art Basel 上签约画廊 Miami Art Collection。2019 年在纽约曼哈顿 SOHO 区域 PARASOL PROJECTS画廊成功举办了地铁系列个人巡展的首个展出“New York Station”。期间还将个人作品参与 2019 年第 27 届年度纽约 Friend Academy 学院教育筹款拍卖活动。