张小涛：黄桷坪的春天

北京艺门画廊个展

2016年6月1日-8月10日

黄桷坪的春天，（2012-2016）

北京艺门画廊非常荣幸有机会又一次为艺术家张小涛筹办个展，他是四川美术学院新媒体系的创始人之一。展览将呈现其90’32“的数字动画纪录片《黄桷坪的春天》（2012-2016），这也是国内第一部动画记录长片。这部纪录片融合了不同的技术和视听语言，讲述一个孩子在60、70年代四川重庆的成长故事，影片营造了文革后的忧郁气氛，描绘了文革后催生的另一种同样沉重的心理高压——高考。

张小涛早期片长半小时的动画影像作品《迷雾》（2014），最近刚刚在纽约的奥尔布赖特·诺克斯艺术馆举办的展览“ScreenPlay：LifeInAnAnimatedWorld”(2015)中展出.

这是目前为止，运用动画这一技术手段的最大型的博物馆级群展，展览涵盖了来自20个国家将近40位艺术家在过去25年的作品。

张小涛的数字动画和新媒体艺术受到国际关注，是在作品《萨迦》（2010-2011）和《量量历险记》（2012-2013）在第55届威尼斯双年展（2013）展出后。2015年他参加了莫斯科双年展。2012年他的《萨迦》入选了第7届亚太三年展。

张小涛运用动画这一形式开拓了纪录片的呈现方式，并在此次展览中，展出来自于电影灵感而创作的纸上和油画作品，并且刚刚在第六届莫斯科双年展（2015）中展出。

 

May 30， 2016

For Immediate Release：

Zhang Xiaotao： The Spring of Huangjueping

Solo Exhibition at Pékin Fine Arts

1 June – 10 Aug， 2016

The Spring of Huangjueping – (2016) Video Still

Pekin Fine Arts is pleased to host our 2nd solo exhibition by Zhang Xiaotao， co-founder of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute’s New Media Department.  The exhibition will present an abridged version of “The Spring of Huangjueping” (2016)， the two-hour digital animation documentary movie that was entered into the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival. The artist， for the first time， uses diverse animation techniques to present a documentary film， telling a child’s story of growing up in Sichuan’s Chongqing in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The mood of the film is one of post Cultural Revolution melancholy， combined with a new and equally tough psychological pressure： The gruelling intensity of post-Cultural Revolution university entrance exam passing. The film focuses on a classmate who survived the Cultural Revolution， only to commit suicide after not passing the university entrance exam.

Zhang’s earlier 30 + minute long video animation work， “Mist” (2014) was recently on exhibit at the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo， New York， in “Screen Play： Life In An Animated World” (2015)， the largest museum group exhibition to-date of artists using animation techniques and tropes in their work. Nearly 40 artists were included from over 20 countries， with works covering the past 25 years.

Zhang’s work with animation film， 3D digital video and related techniques first gained international attention following the exhibit of “Sakya” and “The Adventures of Liang Liang” video animations in the 55th Venice Biennale (2013).

In addition to pioneering the idea of presenting a documentary film in animation form， in Zhang’s 2nd solo exhibition with Pekin Fine Arts the artist will also show new works on paper and canvas inspired by scenes from his video work， and recently exhibited at the 6th Moscow Biennale (2015).