randian | 燃点

马特·穆里肯，图像世代艺术家，以其富有标识和旗帜之作品及先锋的催眠行为艺术而闻名，于去年十一月的西岸艺术设计博览会上他举办了在中国的首次展览，特别展示了他的旗帜作品。

(English) George Condo’s first solo show in Hong Kong, “Expanded Portrait Compositions”, opens at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. Organized by Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt, it comprises major new work by one of the most influential living painters.

(English) Axel Vervoordt is one of the most influential interior designers of his generation but he started his career as a collector and art dealer. In recent years, Axel has returned to this with his son Boris, who leads the gallery in Antwerp and Hong Kong, as well the company’s architecture and design business.

(English) Katharina Grosse is one of the leading artists working in the area of Expanded Painting, a field, in every sense, that encompasses extremely divergent practices, yet which always share an interest in the physical fundamentals of painting and paint – hue, light, material, surface, production – to explore directly the nature of painting itself and the ways people experience it.

1946年创立于伦敦的马乐伯画廊是首个现代国际画廊。它分别于1962年和1963年在罗马和纽约开设分部，随后扩展至世界各地，成为后来所有国际画廊的典范。燃点与Gilbert Lloyd (罗智伯)——画廊创始人及画廊1972年至1991年期间的总经理Frank Lloyd之子——聊了聊画廊悠久的历史，及画廊与中国和中国艺术家的渊源。

(English) FIAC opened this week with 192 galleries exhibiting from 29 countries. Ran Dian spoke with Jennifer Flay, FIAC’s director.

自1996年在上海的一间酒店大厅中开设香格纳画廊以来，劳伦斯成为了许多艺术家的良师益友，他们包括丁乙、曾梵志、余友涵、赵半狄、徐震和鸟头。讽刺而毫不夸张说，虽然何浦林的瑞士血统时常被人提及，但却如周铁海所言，“劳伦斯一直以来都是我们的人”。

身在倍感艺术家已然变得过分民主的年代，比利时艺术家吕克·图伊曼斯（Luc Tuymans）仍紧贴他随着时间修炼得愈发纯熟的方法—如他所言，幸运地从未经历过哪怕一瞬的“创作瓶颈”。