💼 简介 / Introduction

Co-founder of Xairos Studio | June 2018 - Present

开罗工作室（Xairos Studio）联合创始人、湖北省美术家协会会员、湖北省书画研究会研究员、纽约当代艺术中心、武汉设计师沙龙理事，北京国际设计周青年设计100，泰特现代美术馆合作艺术家，英国多所大学客座艺术家。天下和平美术馆副馆长、湖北计研数字科技艺术顾问。
Co-founder of Xairos Studio, member of Hubei Province Artists Association, researcher at Hubei Province Calligraphy and Painting Research Association, director of New York Contemporary Art Center and Wuhan Designers Salon, Top 100 Young Designers at Beijing International Design Week, collaborative artist with Tate Modern, visiting artist at various British universities. Deputy Director of World Peace Art Museum, and Digital Technology Art Advisor for Hubei Jiyan.
代表作“万向蝶变（Colourfly）”系列实验水墨、“太阳（SOL）”系列现代工笔，“异经：爱克特神话（EKTENE）”系列、“汉剧朋克（Operapunk）”原创概念设计。曾获濑户内海国际艺术设计大赛金奖，⼀⼕⻘年艺术奖，⼤艺时代全国原创插画设计⼤赛、湖北省⻘年美术作品展暨当代潮玩艺术展优秀奖。
Notable works include the experimental ink series "Colourfly," the modern gongbi painting series "SOL," the "EKTENE Mythology" series, and the original concept design "Operapunk." Has won the Gold Award at the Setouchi International Art and Design Competition, the Yigong Youth Art Award, and Excellence Awards at both the Dayi Era National Original Illustration Design Competition and the Hubei Youth Art Exhibition and Contemporary Trendy Art Exhibition.
作品曾展出于泰特现代美术馆（英国）、萨奇画廊（英国）、伦敦科宁斯比画廊（英国）、安娜格里弗斯画廊（西班牙）、安特卫普市政厅（比利时）、武汉大学科技大学沁湖美术馆（中国）、武汉公园公园美术馆（中国）、黄鹤楼（中国）、佑品空间（中国）、汉艺美术馆（中国）、武汉国际博览中心（中国）司隆广场（中国）、珞格美术馆（中国）等。设计与策划方面曾服务于：武汉文学艺术联合会、人民日报数字传播集团、长江数字数字互娱产业高峰论坛、浦发银行、伦敦艺术机构Beaconsfield、天工开物影业、英国皇家音乐厅、403国际艺术中心新青年艺术节、扬州华侨城梦幻之城、华中师范大学金融校友联合会、中国人民大学湖北校友会等。作品曾刊登于学习强国、长江头条、党报头条、湖北发布、湖北广电、武汉新闻、雅昌艺术网、新浪网、长江网、中国艺术鉴赏网、中国美术报等媒体。
Works have been exhibited at Tate Modern (UK), Saatchi Gallery (UK), Coningsby Gallery London (UK), Anaglifos Gallery (Spain), Antwerp City Hall (Belgium), Qinhu Art Museum of Wuhan University of Science and Technology (China), Park Park Art Museum in Wuhan (China), Yellow Crane Tower (China), Youpin Space (China), Hanyi Art Museum (China), Wuhan International Exhibition Center (China), Silong Plaza (China), Luoge Art Museum (China), among others. Design and planning services have been provided for: Wuhan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, People's Daily Digital Communication Group, Yangtze River Digital Entertainment Industry Summit Forum, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, London art institution Beaconsfield, Tiangong Kaiwu Film, Royal Festival Hall UK, 403 International Art Center New Youth Art Festival, Yangzhou OCT Dream City, Central China Normal University Financial Alumni Association, Renmin University of China Hubei Alumni Association, and others. Works have been published in media outlets including Xuexi Qiangguo, Yangtze River Headlines, Party Paper Headlines, Hubei Release, Hubei Radio and Television, Wuhan News, Artron Art Network, Sina, Yangtze River Network, China Art Appreciation Network, and China Art News.

🎨 Themes and major works

艾玺的早期作品追求极致写实的古典制图术，受博斯、克利、恩斯特等超现实主义艺术家与比较神话学的影响，作品多描绘由多元文明构成的平行宇宙世界观与神秘学符号组合而成的宏大场景。研究生时期致力于创作反映千禧一代朋克美学与流动性别身份认同的概念设计与动画创作，将时髦与人造感的材质元素运用于宗教礼器与仪式并创作故事以探索“互联网神学”与“赛博人类学”的定义。
后期回归故土学习中国画与工笔技法，重新审视东方文化的核心哲学，以基于《山海经》的创作为契机，深入探索三星堆文化、玉石与丝帛文化与楚巫、萨满文化的内核，提取东、西方文明差异以寻根华夏文脉，在比较语言学的基础上发展出一套具有占卜功能的原创语言系统，并将原创符号运用于架上作品、媒体、表演及陶艺的整体艺术实践；在实践中建立对荣格、弗雷泽理论的共时性、神话心理学的理解，反复追问人类对于“蝴蝶”、“太阳”、“眼睛”等符号与“三位一体”、“天人合一”等思想的原始崇拜的心理学原型及集体无意识范式。以线描为基础，将宣纸、水墨媒介、现成品与抽象表现主义、自动性绘画、联觉的叙事法相结合，以z时代的神话符号与反秩序的东方式热抽象进行架上抒情呈现。
艾玺一直以旅居世界的方式感知多元文明间的差异与共性，及不同语种背后的逻辑原型。在跨文化符号与语言的比照中，试图解码人类史前艺术的心理学原型及跨文化间的思维共性，以及在神话怯魅后真正传达的人类学处境。回归一个自闭症患者的初衷，是在观察世界中疗愈自己。
受影响于： 尼采、黑格尔、巴塔耶、巴特、鲍德里亚、齐泽克波德莱尔、萨德、叶芝、荣格、坎贝尔、弗雷泽、叶舒宪博斯、达芬奇、沃特豪斯、比亚兹莱、克利姆特、托皮、押见修造、李乃蔚
In his early works, Aixi pursued a classical graphic technique of extreme realism, influenced by surrealist artists such as Bosch, Klee, and Ernst, and comparative mythology, and depicting grandiose scenes of parallel universes and occult symbols composed of multiple civilizations. As a graduate student, she worked on conceptual designs and animations reflecting the punk aesthetics and fluid gender identities of the millennial generation, applying funky and man-made materials to religious rituals and ceremonies, and creating stories exploring the definitions of “internet theology” and “cyber anthropology”. He also creates stories to explore the definitions of “Internet Theology” and “Cyber Anthropology”. Later, he returned to his hometown to study Chinese painting and brush techniques, re-examined the core philosophy of Eastern culture, took the opportunity to create a work based on the “Classic of Mountains and Seas”, explored the Samsungdui culture, the jade, silk and silk cultures, and the inner core of the Chu wizard and shaman cultures, extracted the differences between Eastern and Western civilizations in order to search for the roots of the Chinese cultural lineage, and developed a set of original language systems with divinatory functions based on comparative linguistics, and applied original symbols to his on-shelf works, media, and performances. In the process, he has developed an original language system with divinatory functions based on comparative linguistics, and applied the original symbols to the overall artistic practice of on-shelf works, media, performances, and ceramics; he has built up an understanding of Jung's and Fraser's theories of co-temporality and mythological psychology in his practice, and he has repeatedly questioned human beings' understanding of the relationship between symbols such as the butterfly, the sun, and the eye. The artist repeatedly inquires into the psychological archetypes and paradigms of the collective unconscious in relation to the primitive worship of symbols such as “butterfly”, “sun”, “eye”, and the ideas of ‘trinity’ and “unity of heaven and man”. Based on line drawing, he combines Xuan paper, ink medium, and ready-made products with abstract expressionism, automatic painting, and narrative method of association, and uses mythological symbols of the age of z and anti-order Eastern hot abstraction for lyrical presentation on the easel.