余启平
余启平的绘画好就好在似真如幻，并不‘真实’的图像及其人物上，那种憨态、那般狡黠、那股迷离、那番入定，假作真时真亦假，入乎其内，披图入情；出乎其外，观其高致。一半痴迷一半间离，捉迷藏一般捉摸不定，有如看着余老师戴着红色时尚镜架的含笑的脸靥一半是学者的深沉一半是艺术家的幽默，其实内里根本的是一半是海水，一半是火焰。
Qiping YU 余启平
BIOGRAPHY
Education:
1984 graduated from Nanjing Art Academy
Career:
1984-91 Editor of Jiangsu Painting Magazine, Jiangsu Fine
Art Publishing House
1991- emigrated to Japan as an artist-in-residence
余启平简历
1980 考入南京艺术学院美术系，主修中国画
1984 毕业于南京艺术学院
两幅作品入选第六届全国美展
就职于江苏美术出版社，任《江苏画刊》编辑
1991 赴日本［取得艺术家签证的资格］，离开《江苏画刊》。
1992 个展 Ctiy Gallery 香港
1996 个展 北京国际艺苑美术馆
2000 个展 Imura Art Gallery 京都
2001 个展Fuji Gallery大阪
2003 个展Coju Gallery京都
2005 个展 东京映像 东京
2007 个展 日本京都文化博物馆 京都
2008 个展 孔画廊 北京/首尔
2010 个展J·Gallery上海
2010 个展 Fukuzumi Gallery大阪
2011 北京国际艺术博览会 北京
2011 个展 阁蕊莉画廊 上海
2012 艺术北京
2012 个展 奈良
2012 上海国际当代艺术展
2013 艺术北京
2014 上海艺术博览会
2015 个展 上海大韵堂艺术馆
2016 个展 梧桐美术馆
2017 个展 安簃艺术空间 上海
2018 个展 安簃艺术空间 上海
2019 个展 安簃艺术空间 上海
2021 个展 逸空间 南京
2021 个展 COSPACE上海
2022 二人展 上海大沪艺术空间
2022 四人展 刘海粟美术馆 上海
CRITIQUE D’ART艺术评论
余启平的绘画好就好在似真如幻，并不‘真实’的图像及其人物上，那种憨态、那般狡黠、那股迷离、那番入定，假作真时真亦假，入乎其内，披图入情；出乎其外，观其高致。一半痴迷一半间离，捉迷藏一般捉摸不定，有如看着余老师戴着红色时尚镜架的含笑的脸靥一半是学者的深沉一半是艺术家的幽默，其实内里根本的是一半是海水，一半是火焰。
艺术评论家徐明松 2020
Yu Qiping's paintings are as good as they look real as illusions, however, their images and figures depicted seem to appear to be not 'real', producing a kind of humble, cunning, confusing, serene sense, looks like when it is false, it might be true or vice versa. If you go inside the image, you will be in love with it; if you go away from the image, you will enjoy its elegance. In your eyes, the image might be half obsessed, half alienated, unpredictable like hide-and-seek, just like watching Mr. Yu's smiling face wearing a red fashionable frame, half a scholar's deepness, half an artist's humor. In fact, what's inside is half sea water and the other half flame.
Xu Mingsong, an art critic 2020
余启平给我们铸造了一个懵懂的世界，它内敛、含蓄、沉酣，但在世的真理却绽放着，它能唤起你的宁静感，对于持存之物的专注和渴念，冲突被消解了，化成了对本真抒情的渴求，对神秘欢乐的向往——在这里智慧是没有意义的，真正有意义的是对审美生存的沉酣。
这种追求也体现在余启平的绘画技巧上，他深刻地理解了中国画的种种传统技法，但是，又对他们做了现代主义的改造，并在此基础上形成了自己独特的绘画语汇，这种语汇构成了“新东方主义”审美倾向的语汇基础。我非常喜欢余启平的这种绘画美学：一种渗透着极其浓厚的新东方意味的风格和倾向。它不是佛家禅意的简单复归，也不是道家出世思想的再现，而是在现代背景之下，通过对机械、拥挤、忙碌、无谓等在世状态的规避，而显现出的对人的本真在世状态的追求和阐释，我将它命名为“新东方主义”绘画：它追求的是无我不分、浑然未醒、混沌整一。
葛红兵 上海大学文学院
Yu Qiping has created vague world for us. It is introverted, reserved, and intoxicated, but the truth of the world is blooming. It can arouse your sense of tranquility, focus and desire for the things that persist, and conflicts are dissolved and turned into the thirst for authentic lyricism, the yearning for mysterious joy – wisdom is meaningless here, and what is truly meaningful is the indulgence of aesthetic existence.
This pursuit is also reflected in Yu Qiping’s painting skills. He has a deep understanding of various traditional techniques of Chinese painting, but has made modernistic transformations to them; on this basis he has formed his own unique painting vocabulary. This vocabulary constitutes the lexical basis of the aesthetic tendency of “Neo-Orientalism”. I like his painting aesthetics very much: a style and an inclination permeated with a very strong new oriental meaning. It is not a simple return to Buddhist Zen, nor is it a reproduction of Taoism’s thought of detachment from the world, but in a modern context. Through the avoidance of mechanical, crowded, busy, useless and other living conditions, it shows the true nature of human beings, the artist intends to reveal the pursuit and interpretation of the state of being human beings in the world. I named it “New Orientalism” painting: what it pursues is nothingness, unawareness, chaos and unity.
Ge Hongbing
School of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University
Show:
1992 Solo exhibition, City Gallery, Hong Kong
1996 Solo exhibition, Museum of International Plaza Hotel, Beijing
2000 Solo exhibition, Imura Gallery, Kyoto
2001 Solo exhibition, Fuji Gallery, Osaka
2003 Solo exhibition, Coju Gallery, Kyoto
2005 Solo exhibition, Ginza Gallery, Tokyo
2007 Solo exhibition, Kyoto Culture Foundation / The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
2008 Solo exhibition, Gong Gallery, Beijing and Seoul
2010 Solo exhibition, J • Gallery, Shanghai
Fukuzumi Gallery, Osaka
2011 CIGE gallery, Beijing, Shanghai
2012 Art Beijing,
Solo exhibition, Nara
Sh Contemporary, Shanghai
2013 Art Beijing, Beijing
2014 Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai
2015 Solo exhibition, Dayuntang Art, Shanghai
2016 Solo exhibition, Wu Tong Art Museum, Shanghai
2017 Solo exhibition, ANYI Gallery, Shanghai
2018 Solo exhibition, ANYI Gallery, Shanghai
2019 Solo exhibition, ANYI Gallery, Shanghai
2021 Solo exhibition, East Gallery, Nanjing
Solo exhibition, Cospace, Shanghai
2022 A two-man joint exhibition, Shanghai United Art Space, Shanghai
A group exhibition of four artists, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
2022 Solo exhibition Gallery ICI LABAS 798 Art Zone, Beijing
Tableaux à exposer参展作品
1. Noble Guy 公子世无双24x34cm 2019
Ink and colors on rice paper 纸质、水墨设色
2. Stop at the Corridor回廊止步 45x46cm 2021
Ink and colors on rice paper 纸质、水墨设色
3. Idle in Dreams闲中梦中
45x46cm 2021
Ink and colors on rice paper 纸质、水墨设色
