展览名称：自我的维度-青年藏家收藏展之席勒版画系列“Dimensions of Self” - The young collectors' art works exhibition

展览时间: 2019.02.17 - 2019.04.28

展览地址: 杭州市拱墅区秋霞街117号 艺术房子国际少儿美育中心杜若云章x艺术房子*杭州

公众参观开放时间：周二-周日 11:00-18:00

联系电话：0571-85161382

生活可以很单调，也可以很丰富；生活可以只是生活，生活也可以有艺术相伴。2019年新年伊始，艺术房子·杭州再次携手杜若云章·上海，开启青年藏家收藏展之席勒系列——自我的维度，精选15件席勒石版画系列。

艺术房子 

埃贡·席勒是奥地利表现主义的代表人物，也是20年代初期的杰出艺术家之一。16岁的席勒便进入了维也纳艺术学院学习，是该学校有史以来招收的最年轻学生。后来师从奥古斯丁·克利姆特，无论艺术修养，还是艺术名气均得到极大帮助，更是青出于蓝而胜于蓝，作为那个时代的前卫派，与其他一些致力于发展德国野兽派和奥地利表现主义的艺术家们一起，为近现代艺术做出了巨大的贡献。

画家之妻

就像席勒认为的那样：所有艺术家都依靠自己的眼睛来观察世界。每一件作品都无法与艺术家的成长、性格以及社会环境所分割，所有的表象下，更多的是其深刻的思考。席勒生活的年代是维也纳的政治，思想，经济与社会面貌发生巨变的年代。席勒的作品开启了一场新的变化，直到今天我们仍能感受其所表达的情感。

端坐的女人

艺术房子不仅为小朋友们带来丰富多彩的艺术课程，同时也致力于营造身处其中的艺术氛围，艺术是寓教于乐，是点滴中熏陶浸染。“家庭美育”是艺术房子一直坚持与实践的理念，在这里，无论大小朋友们都可以获得生活的美好陪伴——艺术的精神享受与创作之乐。

农民的罐子

A wonderful way to bring after the Chinese New Year is with a visit to “Dimensions of Self” - The young collectors' art works exhibition on at The Art House in Hangzhou. This exhibition delivers a stunning collection of Egon Schiele’s works that will inspire all art lovers and collectors – it is open from the 17thFebruaryto 28th April and I highly recommend visiting with your family and friends for an educational and noteworthy experience.

三个女孩

Schiele was an avid drawer, creating over 3000 drawings in his short life and brief career, he produced what is considered to be some of the finest drawings of the 20th century. Schiele regarded drawing as his primary art form and his legacy has influenced generations of artists and intrigued millions of people and no doubt will continue to do so for eternity.

桥

Egon Schiele was born in Austria in 1890 to a modest working-class family, he had three sisters who would often sit for him and are seen in many of his works. He studied art in primary school where his teacher noticed his natural ability and encouraged him to continue his drawing. At the age of 16 and after the death of his father Schiele moved to Vienna to continue his studies in art, Schiele felt frustrated at the ultra-conservative academy he was studying at, dissatisfied he left after 3 years taking some of his fellow students with him and founded the Neukunstgruppe (New Art Group).

When he was a young man still emerging within his field - Egon Schiele was mentored by Gustav Klimt, who regularly invested his time in up and coming young artists, Schiele’s early works are strongly influenced by Klimt’s style between 1907 -1909 and this can be seen in the work he produced during this period - he began to move forward in to his own distinctive style thereafter, where he cemented his place in history as a world renowned and an established leader of the Austrian Expressionist movement. Schiele remained firm friends with Klimt until Klimt’s death in February 1918, sadly Egon was to follow his friend to the grave, passing 8 months later.

Schiele’s work typically explores the human body, its raw sexuality and deep seated psyche in an unconventional sort of defiance – often depicting women, children and even himself via the use of contorted and various accumulation of line and heavy figurative distortions; complex works that are highly expressionistic, loaded with energy, fluidity and unique in perspective - Schiele was a master of manipulating perspective, his technique of foreshortening limbs and working with difficult perspectives enabled distorted images which were technically proportioned - allowing the figures to appear twisted, gaunt and uncomfortable in their pose - adding a certain element of emotion, fragility and vulnerability to the human form. Schiele’s use of line draws the eye in and skilfully moves it around the composition, allowing the eye to settle on particular details, necessary in conveying the message Schiele aimed to deliver. Schiele uses multiple applications of line, shifting stability and energy. His decision to often leave the background bare - allowing large negative spaces - enabling the subject further magnitude in its isolation, this along with the use of a sombre pallet increasing the psychological charge of the work. 

Amongst these works on exhibition you will also find some of Schiele’s non- figurative subjects, many of these works were produced whilst Schiele was conscripted to the Austrian military; being posted to a POW camp where he was tasked office duties, Schiele was permitted to continue his drawing and painting and therefore still prolific during this period of time – producing a large number of works consisting mostly of what he saw around him at the time, landscapes and cityscapes.

Egon Schiele once said, “I believe in the immortality of all creatures”, through his work he has enabled just this; beings that live on forever, existing in time and speaking for the artist beyond the grave. 

Viewing this exhibition, “Dimensions of Self”and witnessing the distinct nature and talent of Egon Schiele (who was merely 28 years old at his death) is a gift, a bequest handed down to the world that continually provides for us all.