“顺义没有比弗利 ”康好贤个展

比弗利山庄（Beverly Hills）位于太平洋沿岸的美国洛杉矶，被称为“全世界名流聚集的住宅区”，2018年冬和2019年夏，康好贤曾短暂地居住于此。“在洛杉矶，不论什么阶层都热衷于开派对，2020年，我原本计划再去住一段时间，但疫情导致我不能离开北京，这却令我萌发了一种热情，去描绘记忆中的那些夜行动物——他们有着阳光般的肤色，打扮时髦，追求各种最新鲜的派对游戏并乐在其中。无论现实生活如何，派对中他们总是或胡闹、或放纵、或感伤，而唯一的法则就是遵循本能。”在新作中，康好贤的绘画也更加回归本能，放弃了他此前惯用的绘画媒材和研究考据式的构思方式，转而使用喷笔作画，带有陌生感的工具迫使他在最短的时间里抓住稍纵即逝的瞬时情感，如同一个派对归来者。“如热浪般汹涌的、不顾一切的洒脱；以及这种状态之后的一种无聊升级，颓废的，激情后的空虚感”。

康好贤的工作室位于北京市顺义区，这里既有与比弗利相似的高端住宅区，也有供艺术家栖息的廉价厂房和新兴住宅区。“顺义没有比弗利，没有奔放有趣的派对，我无法感受到那种自由的精神，只能戴着口罩想象。”

Star Gallery is going to present Kang Haoxian’s solo exhibition There’s No Beverly in Shunyi on 9 January 2021 with a brand-new series that the artist has created during the outbreak of the Covid-19 in 2020.

Beverly Hills, a city of the costal Los Angeles County in California, USA, is one of the world’s most celebrated communities. Kang Haoxian has stayed there shortly from the winter of 2018 to the summer of 2019.

“Los Angeles is a place to party for everyone of any hierarchy. In 2020, I had a plan to go back and stay for some time again, but the pandemic has kept me here in Beijing. It became the spur to my passion that I should paint the nocturnal animals still vivid in my memory. They are all tanned, chic, crazily in love with all kinds of novel pleasures in a party. No matter what their real life may be, they are always fooling around, overindulging themselves, or just being moody wherever there is a party. For them, there are no rules but to follow the instincts.” In his latest works, Kang Haoxian has turned back to his instincts too. Giving up all the media he was used to and a researcher’s mindset, Kang picked up the airbrushes, an unfamiliar tool that would force him to seize the transient feelings as fast as possible like someone just returned from a party. “The state of being carefree and unstrained as desperate as heatwaves, and its aftermath – escalated boredom, decadence, and the emptiness following feverish excitement.”

Located in Shunyi, Beijing, where there are both high-end neighborhoods similar to those of Beverly Hills and affordable lofts and emerging residences for artists to dwell in. “There’s no Beverly Hills in Shunyi, let alone its bold and fun parties. The spirit of freedom is not in the air, but it’s in my imagination behind the mask.”