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展覽名稱：十萬火急——邁克爾·聖·阿曼德個展
展覽時間：2018年9月15日-10月14日
開幕酒會：2018年9月15日週六 下午3：00
展覽地址：798藝術區 ICI LABAS藝棧（北京市朝陽區酒仙橋路2號798東街D10號）
tipping point michael st amand 2013
“邁克爾·聖·阿曼德的畫作喚醒了我們對深刻真相的感知，有關我們的世界，有關世界的我們。”
——羅伯特·梅茲格（博士， 奧德里奇當代藝術博物館名譽董事，雷丁博物館名譽董事 ）
自2018年9月15日起至10月14日，邁克爾·聖·阿曼德的多形態畫作和混合媒體藝術作品將會在798藝術區ICI LABAS藝棧展出（地址：北京市朝陽區酒仙橋路2號798東街D10號）。開幕式將於2018年9月15日週六下午3：00舉辦。歡迎您來觀賞藝術作品，與藝術家見面，並參與到這次精彩活動中來。
Only Two Left
Everything or Nothing
來自西南佛羅裏達州的知名視覺藝術家邁克爾·聖·阿曼德將會展出他在北京創作的新作（包括他的E.L.E系列的全球首展）。藝術家邁克爾·聖·阿曼德憑藉他對於源自內心的、充滿力量與活力的色彩的運用以及他的創作主題——影響人性的條件而聞名。他的作品挑戰智力、看似矛盾，在觀看者中激起討論，延續著他從一個充滿問題且神秘的虛幻世界中挖掘真理的探尋。他引領觀眾開啟一段跨越多重視角觀看抽象敘事場景之旅，通過對空間，光，顏色和視角的運作將行動繪畫與客觀題材相結合。
Chateau Mere II
Replicant
Sudan
邁克爾·聖·阿曼德的畫作需要我們以一個新的方式來觀察世界，既要考慮我們的相互依賴性，也要思考我們存在的普遍性。我們被迫認識到我們的冷漠所帶來的影響，叩問自己我們的責任是什麼，我們願意奉獻多少。貫穿邁克爾·聖·阿曼德作品的各個主題涉及範圍廣闊，顯示著阿曼德對於連接這些主題的相互關係的洞察能力，比如科技瓦解社會互動，環境破壞，社會經濟衝擊，社會對青春的癡迷這些主題也僅僅是一小部分。他甘願探索未知，把我們的注意力帶回到我們常常忽視的事物上，並提醒著我們，美好就存在於我們的奮鬥與掙扎之中。可以清楚地看到，他的作品中有著深深紮根的精神力量。
Michael個人照片
邁克爾·聖·阿曼德的才華為他贏得了無數有聲望的獎項。他曾在美國乃至國際範圍內展出過他的作品：其中包括了佛羅裏達州的巴塞爾衛星博覽會/藝術展；達拉斯的德巴斯克畫廊；紐約惠特尼美國藝術博物館；華盛頓D.C.的華盛頓藝術工程；巴黎索邦大學；波爾多的現代藝術博物館；喬治亞共和國第比利斯的喬治亞國家博物館；德國柏林的飛鷹畫廊；紐西蘭的喬治弗雷澤畫廊等，僅在此列舉一二。他的作品在世界上的博物館，公司和私人藏品中均有收藏。目前，邁克爾·聖·阿曼德擔任北京朝陽區赫德雙語學校的駐校藝術家，這所私立雙語學校建於2017年，將最先進的國際教育理念和中國文化相結合，旨在培養國際化的中國人。
Michael St. Amand’s dynamic paintings and mixed-media combines will be on exhibit at Gallery ICI LABAS, 798 Art Space No.2, Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, #D10, Beijing, China from September 15 to October 14, 2018. The Opening Reception is Saturday, September 15, 2018 at 15:00. Come enjoy the artwork, meet the artist, and partake in this dynamic event. This exhibition is one you definitely do not want to miss!
Internationally renowned and Southwest Florida-based visual artist, Michael St. Amand, will showcase his new works created in Beijing including the world premiere of his E.L.E. series.
The artist is known for his use of visceral powerful and vibrant colours as well as his subject matter – conditions that affect humanity. St. Amand’s intellectually provocative and paradoxical work encourages discourse among viewers, continuing his quest to dissect truth from fiction in a world with expanding questions and mystery. The artist leads his audience on a journey across multiple views of abstract narrative scenes, combining action painting with objective subject matter while playing with space, light, colour, and perspective.
St. Amand’s paintings ask us to look at the world in a new way and to consider not only our interdependence, but also the universal nature of our existence. We are forced to recognize the repercussions of our own apathy and then ask ourselves what are our responsibilities and how much are we willing to sacrifice. The themes that run through Michael St. Amand’s work are vast in scope and indicative of his insightful ability to see the correlations that connect them: technology disintegrating social interaction, environmental extinction, socio-economic impact, and societal obsession with youth, are just a few. In his work lies a deeply rooted spirituality that becomes evident by his willingness to explore the unknown, bringing our attention to things we would normally over-look while reminding us that within our struggle resides beauty.
Michael St. Amand has earned numerous prestigious awards for his talents. The artist has exhibited his artwork in the United States and internationally, including SCOPE/Art Basel, Florida; Debusk Galleries, Dallas; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; The Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; La Sorbonne, Paris; Musee' D' Art Moderne, Bordeaux; The Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia; EAGL Gallery, Germany; George Frasier Gallery, New Zealand – just to name a few. His work can be found in museum, corporate, and private collections around the world. Currently, St. Amand is the Artist-in-Residence at HD Beijing School – a private bilingual school founded in 2017, blending the best of International education philosophy with Chinese culture to educate globalised Chinese.
"Michael St. Amand's paintings awaken our senses to profound truths concerning our world and our place in it."
——Robert P. Metzger, Ph.D.（Director Emeritus of the Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art, CT and Director Emeritus of The Reading Museum, PA.）
For more information, visit the artist’s website: http://www.michaelstamand.com
更多資訊請參考藝術家個人網站： http://www.michaelstamand.com
展覽名稱：十萬火急——邁克爾·聖·阿曼德個展
展覽時間：2018年9月15日-10月14日
開幕酒會：2018年9月15日週六 下午3：00
展覽地址：798藝術區 ICI LABAS藝棧（北京市朝陽區酒仙橋路2號798東街D10號）