施展
简介Biography
施展（1988年出生于江苏南京），2010年本科毕业于南京艺术学院，2016年研究生毕业于罗马美术学院，2017年至2019年生活创作于杜塞尔多夫，现工作生活于上海（另一画册称现生活创作于南京）。其创作观念常通过个展与群展呈现，近期个展包括2021年上海陶谷公园三十ART的「HUMBLE GOD」和2020年南京Jinspace的「S/Z：施展个展」；近期群展涵盖2022年上海赛麟空间的「拟形态」双人展、2021年深圳SILENX艺术空间的「不要把月亮买走」、2021年南京FFA艺术中心的「观察·角度」、2021年南京市美术馆的「试问西东」、2021年上海M艺术空间的「离岸 IV」、2021年南京南视觉美术馆的「多巴胺」、2019年杜塞尔多夫Postpost中心的Postpost艺术家联展，以及2017年佩鲁贾PER艺术中心的「现」国际青年艺术家展。
Born in Nanjing, Jiangsu in 1988
Graduated from Nanjing Academy of Arts in 2010
Obtained a master's degree from Rome Academy of Fine Arts in 2016
Lived in Dusseldorf from 2017 to 2019
Lived in Nanjing from 2019 to 2023
Has been living in Shanghai now
代表作Selected Works
展览履历Exhibitions
- 2026无边光景玉兰堂（上海） · 玉兰堂
- 2024常物非常-个人项目2024宁波国际画廊周C2展位 · 赛麟空间
- 2024幻象压缩机唤醒画廊
- 2023大卫王的歌利亚-个人项目南京国际会展中心 · 赛麟空间
- 2023故障发电站上海市黄浦区汉口路309号申报馆402-403室 · 赛麟空间
- 2022Overcoming Illusion 群展Cooling Gallery
- 2022Pseudo Form 群展Sailing Space
- 2021HUBLE GOD 群展30 ART in Taogu Park
- 2020S/Z: Displaying Solo Exhibition 个展Jinspace
艺见洞察ArtMatters Insights
代表作与创作Selected Works & Style
施展（Shi Zhan，1988年生于江苏南京）的代表作与创作特点如下：
**代表作：**
《渗出绿洲》（2023）、《东南风的末端》（2023）、《三十一秒》（2023）、《吞咽旅途》（2022）、《扉页的风》（2023）、《日夜交替时》（2024）、《给十一种雷电录音》（2024）、《凝视的不充分性》（2023）、《有人台的房间》（2024）、《理智的修补术》（2024）、《拳击手》（2021）、《夏令时的最后傍晚》（2023）。
**创作特点：**
1. **媒介与手法**：常用布面油画、喷漆、油画棒等多种材料组合创作。油画的延展性、喷漆的随机性（契合他所关注的青年文化）、油画棒的层次感，共同构成其典型的技术语言。
2. **表现内容**：他的绘画往往带有“奇幻”感，描绘现实的“不在场”，画中常出现断裂的树干、翻卷的海浪、荧光面条、黑森林、俯冲、镜面等意象，涉及梦境、死亡、记忆、身份认同等主题。
3. **创作状态**：他追求“混沌”与“秩序”之间的张力，认为混沌是另一种更近于真理的秩序。创作时，他像导演一样只判断起始与终止，任由绘画本身借由他的手生长和塑造，保持一种“可控”与“不可控”之间的惯性，这种工作方式给予他持续的创作激情。
**Representative Works**
Shi Zhan’s recent representative works include:
- *Oasis Seeping Out* (2023, oil, spray paint, and oil pastel on canvas)
- *The Tail of the Southeast Wind* (2023, oil, spray paint, and oil pastel on canvas)
- *Thirty-One Seconds* (2023, oil, spray paint, and oil pastel on canvas)
- *Swallowing the Journey* (2022, oil, spray paint, and oil pastel on canvas)
- *The Wind of the Title Page* (2023, oil, spray paint, and oil pastel on canvas)
- *When Day and Night Alternate* (2024, oil and spray paint on canvas)
- *Recording Eleven Kinds of Thunder* (2024, oil and spray paint on canvas)
- *The Insufficiency of the Gaze* (2023, oil and oil pastel on canvas)
- *Room with a Mannequin* (2024, oil on canvas)
- *The Prosthetics of Reason* (2024, oil on canvas)
- *Boxer* (2021, oil, spray paint, and oil pastel on canvas)
**Creative Style**
Shi Zhan (b. 1988, Nanjing) is a contemporary Chinese artist whose practice is rooted in a tension between chaos and order, destruction and generation. Working primarily with mixed media on canvas—combining oil paint, spray paint, and oil pastels—he builds layered, unpredictable surfaces that foreground the material’s own agency. His creative process is often described as “directorial”: he determines only the beginning and end of a work, allowing the painting itself to “grow, manipulate, and shape itself.” This reciprocal relationship between artist and medium produces a distinctive inertia that becomes a reliable identifier of his form.
Thematically, his paintings conjure a world of fantasy and absence—submerged consciousness, fragmented objects, floating symbols, and non-logical sequences that evoke heat-sensing bands, collapsing weightlessness, sewn ribs, and malfunctioning buttons. Shi does not organize his output into neat series; instead, he relies on a subconscious, non-rational, and multi-dimensional approach that resists categorization. Destruction here is both dissolution and expansion of meaning: the unexpected, the uncontrolled, and the improvised become central, while the too-controllable is deliberately sidestepped. Through the plasticity of oil paint, the immediacy of spray paint, and the textured layering of oil pastels, he dispels the obsolescence of classic painting and infuses his work with a youth-culture undercurrent that matches his concerns. In his own formulation, the process is akin to extracting a pure liquid from a submerged net of trivia, then letting it drip onto eaves and green fields—a movement from top to bottom, chaos to order, where chaos is recognized as another, perhaps truer, order.
展览与收藏Exhibitions & Collections
根据现有资料，艺术家施展的展览经历如下：
**① 展出机构**
施展曾在以下机构展出，主要来源于其个人展览项目：
* **宁波国际画廊周**（2024，个人项目“常物非常”）
* **唤醒画廊**（2024，展览“幻象压缩机”）
* **南京国际会展中心**（2023，个人项目“大卫王的歌利亚”，由赛麟空间呈现）
* **赛麟空间（上海）**（2023，展览“故障发电站”）
* 此外，其简介中提及的近期群展还包括在上海赛麟空间、深圳SILENX艺术空间、南京FFA艺术中心、南京市美术馆、上海M艺术空间、南京南视觉美术馆、杜塞尔多夫Postpost中心、佩鲁贾PER艺术中心等机构参与的项目。
**② 收藏机构**
目前平台提供的艺术家档案中，暂无关于其作品被哪些机构收藏的信息。
Shi Zhan’s exhibition history is recorded both in the structured archive and his biographical notes. According to the archive, recent solo presentations include:
- **2024**: *Often Objects, Extraordinary* – a solo project at Ningbo International Gallery Week, Booth C2 (presented by Sailing Space)
- **2024**: *Phantom Compressor* – Huanxing Gallery (Wake Up Gallery)
- **2023**: *Goliath of King David* – a solo project at Nanjing International Exhibition Center (presented by Sailing Space)
- **2023**: *Fault Power Station* – Sailing Space, Shanghai (Room 402–403, 309 Hankou Road)
- **2021**: *HUMBLE GOD* – Taogu Park Thirty ART, Shanghai
- **2020**: *S/Z: Shi Zhan Solo Exhibition* – Jinspace, Nanjing
Selected group exhibitions mentioned in the biography include:
- **2022**: *Paramorphology* (two-person exhibition) – Sailing Space, Shanghai
- **2021**: *Don’t Buy the Moon Away* – SILENX Art Space, Shenzhen
- **2021**: *Observe·Angle* – FFA Art Center, Nanjing
- **2021**: *Experimenting with East and West* – Nanjing Art Museum
- **2021**: *Offshore IV* – M Art Space, Shanghai
- **2021**: *Dopamine* – Nanjing South Visual Art Museum
- **2019**: Postpost Artists Group Exhibition – Postpost Center, Düsseldorf
- **2017**: *Present* International Young Artists Exhibition – PER Art Center, Perugia
As for collecting institutions, the artist’s archive does not contain any public information on collections. There is no record of works being held by museums or other institutional collections at this time.
