Archie Franks 英国，生于1986年
Archie Franks 的绘画鲜明而富有笔势，将对颜料与质感的抽象处理、强烈的色彩运用与戏剧性、充满动感的线条结合在一起。通过这种方式，Franks 将自己的创作与想象和梦境的领域相连：“记忆、颓废和一种梦幻般的不真实感是作品中反复出现的核心主题，此外还有一丝幽默和一丝哥特气息。”
在紧凑而充满能量的作品中，颜料的堆叠带着一种奢华的厚重感，艺术家的笔触清晰可见。风景与静物题材被赋予了一种神奇的万物有灵之感。Franks 的这种感受力与巴黎画派画家柴姆·苏丁（Chaim Soutine）的作品相通，尤其体现在以强烈的情感与表现力为平凡题材营造空间的天赋上。
与苏丁一样，Franks 的作品虽然坚定地属于当下，却与对古典大师的研究有着重要联系。艺术家提到卡拉瓦乔的作品，尤其是 Still Life with Baskets of Fruit, 并谈到自己着迷于画中果篮仿佛要从画面跌落到观者空间中的方式。
除了这种大师级的物质感，Franks 还提到另一件风格出人意料地迥异的、对他影响深远的历史作品 ⎯ 弗拉戈纳尔的 Le Petite Parc 。在这件作品中，影响 Franks 的是那种近乎神秘的氛围，这也是他希望在自己作品中唤起的感受：“我的艺术愿景是创作既能瞬间打动人、又能持续吸引注意力的作品，比其最初的图像来源更有深度。我希望让观者沉浸于某种英国消费与休闲文化之中，同时也暗指绘画史以及一脉特定的画家传统。”
纵观艺术史，风景画与静物画一直是艺术实验的核心领域。Franks 的作品延续了这一传统，他以富有远见且娴熟的方式融合当代细节、流行文化母题、历史经典、日常与绘画性，形成了一组极具力量的作品，兼具迷人的物质感与超然的异世之感。
Rosa JH Berland
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个人简介
部分 展览
‘Wells art contemporary’ Wells 2022
‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on’ The cello factory (with Aleph contemporary), London 2021
‘The stifled cry’ Aleph contemporary (online) 2021
‘The End’ Charlton gallery, London 2020
‘Picture palace’ Transition gallery London 2020
‘MK Calling’ MK gallery Milton Keynes 2020
‘Wells art contemporary’ Wells 2019
‘Creekside open 2019-selected by Sacha Craddock’ APT Gallery London 2019
‘Creekside open 2019-selected by Brian Griffiths’ APT Gallery London 2019
‘Night Plinths’ Narrative Projects London 2018
‘Lynn Painter stainers prize’ Mall Galleries London 2018
‘Disintegration’ (solo) Salon London 2017
‘Dumb’ Mercer Chance London 2017
‘Spazi Aperti’ Edicola Radetzky Milan 2017
‘Jerwood Painting Fellowship show’ Jerwood Space, London (touring to Arts University Bournemouth, Cardiff Bay Arts 2016 and Norwich University 2017) 2016
‘Europa’ Transition gallery, London 2016
‘Carnival Glass’ Block 336, London 2015
’P’ Horatio Junior, London 2015
‘The Names’ Transition gallery at Sluice art fair, London 2015
’Creekside open’ selected by Richard Deacon, A.P.T Gallery, London 2015
‘Nightmares and dreamscapes’ (solo show) Welcome Screen, London 2015
‘Roman Remains’ Transition Gallery, London 2015
‘A union of voices’ Horatio Junior, London 2014
‘Mr & Mrs Andrews’ Transition Gallery, London 2014
‘Elsewhere’ Riss(E) Varese, Italy 2014
‘June Mostra’ The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
‘Spazi Aperti’ The Romanian Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy 2014
‘March Mostra’ The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy 2014
‘Crash Open Salon’ Charlie Dutton Gallery 2013-14
‘Friday 13th’ The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy 2013
‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ ICA London 2013-14
‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ Spike Island, Bristol 2013
‘Hold the Fort!’ Fort Gallery, London 2013
‘Original/Copy 3’ Peles Empire, Cluj, Romania 2012
‘Original/Copy 2’ Peles Empire, London 2012
‘Artworks Open’ Barbican Arts Group, London 2012
Royal Academy Schools Show 2012, Royal Academy of Arts London
Premiums Royal Academy of Arts London 2011
Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts London 2011
资助与奖项
Jerwood Painting Fellowship 2016
Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting, The British School at Rome 2013
Tooth Award 2012
Gordon Luton Award 2012
Richard Ford Award 2011
Philip T Ribbon Award 2011
Painter stainers award 2009
Philip Connard travel prize 2008
策展
‘Carnival Glass’ Block 336 London 2015/16
https://www.instagram.com/archie.franks
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