“神仙日子——段正渠个展”将于3月23日在深圳开展

段正渠：神仙日子

Duan Zhengqu：A Heavenly Life

主办：湾厦艺术中心

Host：Nature Art Centre

鸣谢：魔金石空间

Aknowledgement：Magician Space

展览日期：2025.3.23-2025.6.29

Date：2025.3.23-2025.6.29

地点：深圳市南山区蛇口湾厦中心C栋20楼

Address：20th Floor，Building C，Wanxia Centre，Shekou，Nanshan District， Shenzhen

关于展览

About the Exhibiton

湾厦艺术中心荣幸宣布艺术家段正渠个展「神仙日子」将于2025年3月23日开幕。展览从3月23日持续至6月29日，这也是湾厦艺术中心升级调整后迎来的第一个重要展览，将呈现艺术家2007年至2022年之间包括油画、纸本、综合材料等多种媒介作品。

Nature Art Centre is pleased to announce that artist Duan Zhengqu's solo exhibition "A Heavenly Life" will open on March 23, 2025. The exhibition will last from March 23 to June 29. This is also the first significant exhibition held by Nature Art Centre after its upgrade and adjustment. This exhibition will present the artist's works in various media including oil paintings, paper, and mixed materials from 2007 to 2022.

“村里一待，浑身上下马上就妥妥贴贴的清净澄明，每日如是。于是，在安静的乡间，凡人过上了神仙的日子。”

——段正渠《西行列车》

在段正渠的短篇文集《西行列车》里，有一段行记〈神仙日子〉写乡间的写生生活：艺术家每天上午转山，下午画画，晚上和村里友人喝酒唱曲儿。这样的生活朴实沉静，对成长于河南农村的段正渠来说格外亲切。

自20世纪90年代以来，北方一直是人们对段正渠最深的印象。从最初陕北的居民、山川和故事民谣，到后来内蒙古、甘肃、新疆和山西的人文风土，段正渠对北方高原始终有天然的情感；然而，作为艺术家他也明确地与现实保持距离，让自己保有自由感受的空间。特别是从2015年开始，段正渠意识到陕北吸引他的实际上是一种神秘感，这让他早期为人所知的英雄主义、现实主义开始褪去，逐渐成为一个人在大地上所见所感的真切表达。

因为有农村的成长经历，段正渠了解大地如何孕育万物：他知道四季如何形成生命，土地如何沉淀出文化。这种感受超过了片段的日常景观，进入大地更深层的精神面貌里。也许因此，段正渠的画里不仅有人与动物，也有地下的历史遗迹和游荡天上的神灵，他从纷杂的现实里出走，让自己的绘画变得悠远。在他的画中，人物经常以平直的方式出现在黑夜或雪地里，去除了具体的情节叙事之后，万物更像是在其中获得了存在的位置。这是段正渠十年来不断探索、琢磨绘画语言的结果，他的画里有土地的气息，这让他所表达的精神性变得更加广阔。

Staying in the village, my whole being settles into a clear, calm purity, day after day. Thus, in the tranquil countryside, ordinary people live heavenly lives.

—— Duan Zhengqu, Westbound Train

In Duan Zhengqu’s collection of short essays, Westbound Train, there is a travel sketch titled A Heavenly Life, describing the life in the countryside. Every day, the artist hikes in the morning, paints in the afternoon, and spends the evenings drinking and singing with locals. This simple, tranquil lifestyle feels particularly familiar to Duan, who grew up in rural Henan.

Since the 1990s, Northern China has profoundly shaped people's impressions of Duan Zhengqu. Beginning with his early paintings of residents, landscapes, and folk ballads from Shanbei and later expanding to the cultural landscapes of Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Xinjiang, and Shanxi, Duan has always held a deep, instinctive affection for the northern plateau. However, as an artist, he deliberately maintains a certain distance from reality, preserving space for personal and independent reflection. Particularly since 2015, Duan has recognized that what truly draws him to Shanbei is its inherent sense of mystery. This realization allowed the heroic and realist elements prominent in his early work to fade gradually, evolving instead into sincere and personal expressions of his individual experiences and observations of the land.

Because of his rural upbringing, Duan Zhengqu possesses an intimate understanding of how the land nurtures all things. He knows how life takes shape through the changing seasons and how the earth silently bears the weight of history. This awareness deepens the emotional connection in his paintings. Thus, Duan’s works not only portray humans and animals but also incorporate historical ruins hidden beneath the earth and spirits wandering in the sky. By stepping away from the complexity of reality, his paintings become distant, reflective, and timeless. His figures frequently appear in straightforward poses set against nighttime or snowy landscapes, stripped of any specific narrative context. After removing explicit storytelling, each depicted element acquires a more profound, existential significance. Over the past decade, Duan has increasingly moved away from direct realism, instead capturing the subtle atmosphere and spiritual essence of the land itself, thus lending greater depth and mystery to his work.

作品欣赏

翅膀，2018，纸本水彩、色粉，100×180cm，©图片由艺术家和魔金石空间提供。

Wings, 2018, watercolor on paper, toner, 100 x 180cm, courtesy of the artist and Magician Space.