江上越纽约个展展出作品 Etsu Egami art work  ⓒEtsuEgami

Chambers Fine Art New York is pleased to be participating in the 2021 edition of Asia Week New York. The gallery is excited to present Facebook, a solo exhibition by Egami Etsu. This will be the artist’s first exhibition in the United States. Born in Japan in 1994, Egami spent many of her childhood years in the United States and Europe and has noted that even when she was in high school she was fascinated by Japanese masters of Western style painting (Yoga) such as Ryusei Kishida who looked to Europe for inspiration in contrast to the inward-looking Nihonga artists. In 2012 she moved to Beijing and studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2016. The following year she moved to Germany where she studied media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. She subsequently returned to CAFA, receiving her M.F.A. in 2019.

纽约前波画廊诚挚地宣布将参加2021年度纽约亚洲艺术周，呈现艺术家江上越在美国的首次个展《脸书》。1994年出生于日本的江上越，在美国和欧洲渡过了大部分童年时光。早在高中时期，她就非常喜爱岸田刘生等日本洋画大师的作品。相比于传统的日本画，这些日本洋画作品受到了更多欧洲艺术风格的影响。江上越于2012年起在北京的中央美术学院留学，并于2016年获得艺术学士学位。2017年，她在德国卡尔斯鲁厄国立设计学院的媒体艺术系继续深造，之后又返回中央美术学院，并于2019年获得艺术硕士学位。

江上越纽约个展展出作品 Etsu Egami art work  ⓒEtsuEgami

江上越纽约个展展出作品 Etsu Egami art work  ⓒEtsuEgami

Egami’s experience during her period of study in Beijing and Karlsruhe was highly diverse in character, ranging from the empathetic painterly Realism of Liu Xiaodong to the theoretical approach favored in Karlsruhe where one project in which she participated involved spending time in the art therapy department of a terminal care center of a local hospital. Also required during her peripatetic childhood and adolescence was a familiarity with several languages, notably Japanese, Chinese, English, and German. Not surprisingly communication and lack of communication has become one of her primary concerns, evident in her graduation work, Mis-hearing Game, that was acquired by the CAFA Museum. Painting portraits of multiple sit-ters, some well-known, Egami has noted that she was “trying to approach the essence of communication by the “sound” that I hear, and the “face”of the person that I see.” Elsewhere she has spoken of “going back and forth between acoustic waves and optical waves.”

江上越在北京和卡尔斯鲁厄的学习经历非常多元化。她在中央美术学院师从刘小东教授学习现实主义绘画。在卡尔斯鲁厄，她又在艺术理论方面得到了更多的实践，其中她参与的一个艺术项目就是为当地的临终关怀医院提供艺术治疗。另外，她童年和青少年时期在多个国家生活的经历，也要求她掌握多种语言，包括日语、中文、英文及德语。基于这样的背景，“沟通”和“沟通的丧失“成为了其作品的主题，这也体现在了其被中央美术学院博物馆收藏的毕业作品《误听游戏》中。这一系列肖像画中也描绘了一些坐立的人，其中包括一些名人。江上越说，在这一系列创作中常用“听觉”和“脸孔的视觉”来描绘沟通这个主题。她也曾提出这种方式就像是”往返于声波和光波之间。“

江上越纽约个展展出作品 Etsu Egami art work  ⓒEtsuEgami

Egami has already exhibited widely in Europe and Asia, using video and installation to explore the relationship between her own distinctive vision and the location where the exhibition is taking place. An example is Dialogue beyond 400 Years – Etsu Egami at the Chiba Art Center, Japan. For her first exhibition in New York, however, she has returned to painting and has selected a theme that is of universal significance, the human face. How to approach this sub-ject that has been one of the most consistent themes in the history of art since ancient times? Referring to her portraits while working on Mishearing Game, she noted that “It is not the pur-pose of drawing a portrait but the act itself becomes the material.”

江上越的影像及装置作品曾多次在欧洲及亚洲展览。这些作品多关注艺术家自身视角与展览所在地之间产生的关系，譬如在日本千叶艺术中心举办的《对话4000年——江上越个展》。此次纽约首展，江上越回归到绘画，并选择了“人脸”这样一个无国界的艺术主题。艺术家将如何去面对这样一个自古至今的永恒主题呢？江上越在《误听游戏》中也影射了这个问题，其实”肖像画本身并不是目的，而是绘制肖像这个行为变成了题材。”

This is an even more accurate depiction of the portraits in Facebook than it was of the nu-merous panels comprising Mis-hearing Game. Each painting consists of a limited number of lushly painted horizontal, vertical and curved strokes from which human features emerge. Although they appear to represent individuals, any resemblance is accidental. In the age of Facebook with all its inherent problems, Egami’s Facebook is a subtle commentary both on the art of painting and broader issues of communication and interpretation. In a statement about this group of recent works, she has said:

相比于由多个画面组成的《误听游戏》系列，此次《脸书》展览使用一种更精准的描绘手法。通过运用精炼丰盈的纵横及曲线笔触，人脸从每件画作中渐渐显现出来。这些肖像虽然代表独立的个人，但偶然之中又似乎有一些相似之处。面对脸书开启的这个社交媒体时代及其带来的各种问题，江上越的《脸书》系列不仅暗示了艺术家对绘画这一艺术形式的想法，也隐射了其对于沟通与理解这一更广泛的话题上。关于这一系列作品，江上越谈道：

“The human face is not static, it has emotional and spiritual connotations, it is constant-ly changing, it is the living evidence of energy and information going in and out. In a per-son’s life, the image of the face can be described as “Yi Chi Go I Chi E,” (a Buddhist ex-pression), fleeting, never normal. I like cherry blossoms that bloom for only a short time. I cherish faces that pass by. Although there are many misunderstandings and dislocations, it is an opportunity and a beginning to understand life and exchange information. ……We can use a variety of techniques to describe the face, trying to find the truth. But all our ef-forts are made in dislocation. My portraits are just a moment’s feeling and vague memory, which may be far away from the object described. They are more like cherry blossoms, falling in the spring breeze, silent but fragrant. Each of my portraits may be a misunder-standing. Faces are impermanent. The human face is an endless book, it is eternal, it is the whole of human identity and life.”

”人的脸孔并非是静止的，它体现了我们的情感和心灵。它的形态一直在变化，是能量与信息在人身上来去的体现。在一个人的一生中的脸孔就如佛教中所说的‘一期一会’。脸孔总是转瞬即逝，没有一种固有形态。我喜爱短暂绽放的樱花，同样珍惜在我生活中走过的一张张脸孔。即使生活中有许多的误解和错位，这些也是一种机遇、对生活理解的开始及信息的交换。我们可以用很多方式去描绘脸孔，去探寻脸孔中的真相，但这些其实都是在某种错位中进行的。我画的肖像也只是来自于一些一瞬的感受和朦胧的记忆，这使作品与具象的物体相距甚远。这些画作就像樱花，在春风中飘下，静谧而又暗香浮动。其实每一幅我画的肖像可能都是一种误解，因为脸孔不是永恒的。人脸就像是一本永不完结的书，它是生生不息的，内涵着人类的生命及其特性。

江上越

1994年生于日本，目前生活工作于东京，北京和纽约的艺术家。2021年作为最年少艺术家获得福布斯亚洲30岁以下精英榜，同年选为日本文化厅杰出艺术家派遣纽约。国际成长背景让他从误听，错位，误视，通过可视化误解，去探索交流的可能性。
江上越是代表“后绘画”的新一代画家，如蓬皮杜艺术中心策展人在日本千叶市美术馆的国际论坛中谈到“在江上越的作品中，最美的是，她把所有这些特殊性看作是一个来源，不仅是误解，而且是人类关系中的创造和财富”。作为一位年轻的艺术家，江上越出生于日本，在德国卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与设计学院，中国中央美术学院留学，她海外丰富的经历通过误听，误视等个人体验探索交流的本质。提供了更个人更人性，同时更国际的视点，作为日本战后第三代当代艺术家深受关注。
在千叶市美术馆举办个人项目，与巴黎蓬皮杜中心策展人对谈。她正于中国北京中央美术学院攻读博士学位。江上越先后获得多个奖项，包括日本文化厅杰出艺术家(2020)，入围东京当代艺术基金会奖(2020)及索福林基金会亚洲杰出艺术家奖(Sovereign Asian Art Prize，2019)，获得第十六届千叶市艺术文化新人奖(2018)。她曾于国际上多个城市举办展览，如“彩虹江上越个展”（轻井泽新美术馆，轻井泽），“Entrancegallery Vol.1江上越”（千叶市美术馆，千叶），“Facebook”（前波画廊，纽约），“社交距离”（A2ZPAIS.巴黎）,“彩虹江上越个展”（白石画廊，台北）“VOCA展2020-新绘画”（上野之森美术馆）“CAF展”（日本当代艺术基金会），“UNSCHEDULED”（香港大馆），第二届北京国际媒体艺术双年展（中央美术学院美术馆），第三届 CAFAM双年展（中央美术学院美术馆），“底色展”UCCA，在伦敦、德国、北京、台北及东京举办个展。收藏其作品的机构包括和美术馆，北京中央美术学院美术馆、北京元典美术馆、北京树美术馆、达美艺术中心，首尔衣恋集团等。

江上越纽约个展展出作品 Etsu Egami art work  ⓒEtsuEgami

Etsu Egami
1994 born in Japan, working in Tokyo , Beijing and New York. Shortlisted at Forbes Asia 30 UNDER  20 2021 as the only Japanese artist. 2021,She was chosen as Talented artist program dispatched to New York by Cultural Agency of Japan Government. Her international back-ground let her to explore the essence of communication through visualize the miscommunica-tion.
Curator of Pompidou Art Center Paris said about Etsu Egami’s work “And What is beautiful in Etsu Egami’s works is that she sees all these specifities as a source, not only of misunderstand-ings, but also creation and richness in peoples relationships” , And Etsu Egami is difned as The third generation of post war Japanese artist in Japan.

Latest award of Etsu Egami is CAF AWARD 2020 finalist, Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2019, 16th Chiba City New Artist Prize 2018, Forbes China 30 UNDER 30 2020. She did her exhibi-tion in many countries “RAINBOW-Etsu Egami solo show” Whitestone gallery Taipei, “Rain-bow-Etsu Egami solo show” Karuizawa new art museum, “Entrance gallery Vol.1 Etsu Egami” at Chiba City Museum of Art, “Facebook-Etsu Egami solo show”at Chambers Fine Art, New York, “Social Distaincing-Etsu Egami solo show”at A2Z gallery , Paris, The second Beijing International Art biennale at CAFA MUSEUM, Beijing, “VOCA 2020”Ueno-Royal Musuem, Tokyo, “UNSCHEDULED” Taikwun, Hong Kong, “Grounding” UCCA store, Beijing. “In to the light..-Etsu Egami solo show”Germany, “Dialogue beyond 400 years-Etsu Egami solo show” London.
Public collection include HeArtMuseum, CAFA MUSEUM, Tree Musuem,Yuan Art Museum, Damei Art Center, YiLian Foudnation etc...