2024凤凰艺术新星奖获奖艺术家徐雅涵：生命能量的蔓延

2024 Phoenix Art Star Award winning artist Xu Yahan: the spread of life energy

2024-05-20 16:07:33 Source: Netease Art

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(Original title: spread of energy, chat with Xu Yahan, the award-winning artist of the 2024 Phoenix Art Star Award)

"Phoenix Art Star Award" was jointly established by Youth Art 100 and Phoenix Painting Materials in 2019 to encourage artists who have grown up with "Youth Art 100" for 13 years. It is hoped that with the help of this award, it will bring a stable and sustainable impetus to the youth art market, so that young artists can walk more steadily and further on their creative path. The art committee members of the fifth "Phoenix Art Star Award" are Feng Boyi, Geng Kun, Jing Yumin, Lin Shuchuan, Pan Wenxun, Qiu Zhijie, Shen Sen, Wu Hongliang, Xiang Jing, Xu Lei and Yin Dan. Through online and offline combination, 2448 young artists from 317 colleges and universities in 19 countries around the world were selected, and three award-winning artists were selected: Hou Yao, Wang Xiangjie and Xu Yahan.

Award ceremony site (from left to right: Zhang Yong, Director of Domestic Marketing Department of Phoenix Painting Materials Group, Wang Xiangjie, award-winning artist, Xu Yahan, award-winning artist, Hou Yao, award-winning artist, Li Lei, Director of Social Liaison Department of Beijing Youth League Municipal Committee, and Peng Wei, co-founder of Youth Art 100)

Each winner will receive the painting materials provided by Phoenix painting materials and the "Phoenix Art Star Painting Material Award"; Phoenix Artists Club provides opportunities such as Phoenix Art Metropolis Art Museum theme exhibition, Phoenix advanced research class, and painting with famous artists; And the 100 year special exhibition of youth art, resident projects, art promotion and other support.

Xu Yahan, one of the winners of the 2024 Phoenix Art Star Award

1. Why do you choose the ubiquitous weeds as your artistic creation elements? What inspiration and feelings does it bring to you? What is the development process of this series of works?

My daily working and living conditions are relatively simple, and I go back and forth from home to the studio every day. I often pay attention to the weeds everywhere on the ground. The image of weeds carries my expression of current experience and projection of individual emotions. Wild herbs are very common, not planted for human, but have strong vitality and energy, and can take root and sprout everywhere. As an element in my picture, I don't want to depict the single form of weeds, but use its energy as a metaphor of the picture. Create a breakthrough in my current state, an energy spread in the picture, state the multiple possibilities from the foot to the unknown, and create a space that can be associated from multiple angles.

Xu Yahan's Untouchable Unknown 100 × 120cm cloth faced propylene 2020

Xu Yahan's Wild Grass Dream 80 × 60cm Oil on canvas 2022

Xu Yahan's Wild Grass · Water 60 × 80cm Oil on canvas 2022

Xu Yahan's "Wild Grass · Bright" 30 × 40cm cloth faced propylene 2022

This series of works is a process of stepping out from a closed state, in which the work "Wild Grass · Light" in the exhibition shows that the light beam enters the interior of a closed space, which is the contradiction between the closeness of the subject and the outlook for the outside, and then an extension process of the work "Wild Grass · Far away" to create a bright, spacious world full of more possibilities.

2. How is your work related to your life?

Personal works are also the most direct feedback to my own attitude towards life. My works start from the issues that are most concerned by me at the moment, and come from the cognition or thinking that life gives me. From the appearance of the content to the expansion of the work, it also advances little by little with the change of consciousness.

3. How did artistic creation heal you?

When I entered the studio, everything here revolved around me. When I enter the working state and start to create, I will be in a state of no distractions. Enjoy the moment, and the rest will be closed outside the studio. Maybe this is also a cure brought by artistic creation.

Wild Grass · Fire 2023 Oil on canvas 100X80cm

Wild Grass - Hidden Line 2021 Oil on canvas 120X150cm

Wild Grass, Far Away 2023 Oil on canvas 120X160cm

4. What is the creation plan?

As far as my own creation habits are concerned, the creation clues are accompanied by the possibility of change at any time, and the content is often difficult to predict. Therefore, it is difficult for me to make specific plans and clearly explain what factors will make an idea develop in depth. But in my recent work, what I can plan is to determine a direction and a grand concept, and refine them in a direct way. When I encounter and lock certain content, it will naturally lead to deep thinking, form the creative idea of the next work, and make repeated adjustments in the work.

5. Talk about the feeling of winning the Phoenix Art Star Award this time!

It's a great honor. Thank you very much for the recognition of teachers and young artists 100 and Phoenix Art Star Award. Participation in this exhibition and award activities also felt the intention of the organizing committee and their support for young artists.