诗的破格｜杨双庆&程鹏 双个展
2017年9月，望远镜迎来了在北京的五周年纪念，这也是望远镜秋季的第一个展览。此次参展的艺术家是来自西安的杨双庆和北京的程鹏，这也是两位艺术家第一次在北京举办个展。
杨双庆此次展出的有纸上作品、布上油画、木板上油画以及一个短片。杨表示，绘画像感受天气，由生活反馈于身心，又通过绘画显现出来，绘画内容包括生活过的环境、飞到太空去脱离生死的想象、科技的可能性，记忆等等。生死问题、欲望、情绪状态的变化，这些都是他关注和喜欢表达的。他的作品像风一样，很难解释来自哪里或者将要在哪里结束，他也并不追求具体的答案或者形象，一切都是不确定的。“画是首先画给自己的，不欺骗自己，他人才能看到真诚，才能理解。”
杨双庆，1982年出生于西安，2006年毕业于西安美术学院，现工作生活于西安。重要个展有：诗的破格，杨双庆&程鹏双个展，望远镜，北京（2017）；五味十字，OCAT，西安（2016）；长安一片月，谷公馆，台北（2013）。重要群展包括：开关，西安当代美术馆，西安（2014）； 一个人的剧场，何香凝美术馆，深圳（2011）； 七零八落，陈绫蕙当代艺术空间，北京（2007）等。
程鹏此次展出的是《碎石路中的泥潭》，该系列由80幅小的黑白纸上作品组成，全部绘画的灵感基于艺术家对于法国作家波德莱尔的《巴黎的忧郁》的阅读，每张作品几乎都对应书中具体的文学意象。程鹏试图呈现出诗集中被抛入现代生活的抽象主体，以不同的方式进行自我调节与自我升级的过程。程鹏将他的作品分组，通过特别的展示方式，形成了自己的视觉散文，观者可以在不同的位置与墙上的作品进行动态对话。
程鹏，1987年出生于山东，2012年毕业于中央美术学院实验艺术系，2009年毕业于山东艺术学院综合绘画系，现工作生活于北京。重要展览包括：诗的破格，杨双庆&程鹏双个展，望远镜，北京（2017）；复调II——中国艺术生态调查北京站，南京艺术学院美术馆，南京（2014）；首届CAFAM未来展：亚现象，中国青年艺术生态报告，中央美术学院美术馆，北京（2012）；中央美术学院2012届毕业生作品展，中央美术学院美术馆，北京（2012）；山东青年当代艺术双年展，东方现代艺术馆，济南，山东（2008）等。
Poetic License | YANG Shuangqing & CHENG Peng
September 2017 marks Telescope’s five-year anniversary in Beijing and our first exhibition of the fall season with two artists in their Beijing solo gallery debuts: Yang Shuangqing from Xi’an, and Beijing based Cheng Peng.
Yang Shuangqing’s installation is comprised of works on paper, canvas, board and multiple video shorts. Yang states that painting for him is affected by the weather-like emotions of life, local and world events, dreams, technology, religions, memory, etc. Questions of life and death, desire, fluctuating states of emotion, these are the things he is concerned with and pursues as he paints. Like the wind, it is difficult to explain where his work comes from and where it will end, and having a concrete answer or image is not his intent or objective. “I strive to be honest in what I say and how I say it and hope that through that sincerity people will begin to see and to understand.”
YANG Shuangqing, born in Xi’an in 1982, graduated from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, now works and lives in Xi’an. Past solo exhibitions include: Yang Shuangqing & Cheng Peng, Telescope, Beijing(2017); Five Tastes Crossing, OCAT, Xi’an(2016); A Song of An Autumn Midnight, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei(2013). Selected group exhibitions include: Switch, Xi’an Contemporary Art Museum, Xi’an(2014); One Man Theater, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen(2011); Fragmentation, Chen Ling Hui Contemporary Art Space, Beijing(2007) etc.
Cheng Peng’s Mire in the Gravel Road is an installation made up of 80 small black and white works on paper and is inspired from his readings of “Paris Spleen,” a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire. Almost all of these works correspond to specific literary images in the book. Cheng presents the subjects of Baudelaire’s prose, now out of time, as living abstractions thrown into modern life that continue to evolve in new and different directions. Cheng has installed his drawings in groupings from floor to ceiling making his own visual prose that surrounds the viewer in a dynamic dialogue that resonates around the room and off the walls.
CHENG Peng, born in Shandong province, China in 1987, graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, M.A. degree, Beijing, and graduated from Shandong University of Arts, B.A. degree, Shandong, now works and lives in Beijing. Selected exhibitions include: Yang Shuangqing & Cheng Peng, Telescope, Beijing(2017); Ecological Survey “Polyphony” II Chinese Art, AMNUA, Nanjing(2014); the First CAFA Future, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing(2012); 2012 Master Exhibition of Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing(2012); Shandong Youth Biennial, Eastern Modern Art Gallery, Jinan(2008) etc.
