cusp.talk : Yang yang
Corridor 走廊, 2021
cusp. :
Please introduce yourself first ～ (For example, where do you live, your educational background, when did you become interested in art, or any content)
可以先简单介绍一下自己吗：）你现在居住在哪里，你的教育背景，从什么时间点开始对图像产生了兴趣，同时也可以是任何想说的。
Yang yang ：
I'm Yang Yang, I dropped out of college in 2013 for family reasons and went to Beijing the next year to be an assistant to a brush painting teacher in SongZhuang, and also drew for a period of time in the assembly line. The following year I read and did farm work in Guangzhou mirror garden. At the end of these two years, I returned to my hometown to do painting and calligraphy framing during the day while selling cold noodles with at night in the night market. Then I went to Tibet to help friends to do vocational skills training school and stayed for a year. Altitude sickness made me go back to Guangzhou. I used to run around everywhere before the pandemic and recently I’m often in Guangzhou. Thinking back of my interest in art, I think I may have started when I was a child scribbling blindly on the wall.
hi，我是杨洋，13年大学念了一年家庭原因就退学了，14年去了北京在宋庄给一位工笔彩老 师做助理，也画了一段时间流水线行画。15年在广州镜花园读书种地。两年结束回到老家白天做字画装裱晚上夜市摆摊卖酸梅汤冷面。后来又去了⻄藏给朋友帮忙做职业技能培训学校待了一年高反严就有回广州了。疫情前各地乱跑，最近也常在广州活动。想想对艺术感兴趣可能是在小时候在墙上瞎涂乱画的时候。
Yangyang & Grassland
cusp. :
How would you describe your creation? (For example, commonly used media and techniques, focus on themes, visual style, etc.)
你会怎样讲述自己的创作：）
Yang yang：
The medium that I often use when I create works are not limited. I choose from different materials according to the varying concepts. Many people say that this methodology requires loose understandings of different mediums. I am open to this choice. I also like to go to museums to see antiquities.
我创作时常用的媒介会随着不同的问题选择不同的材料，很多人也说这种方式样样通、样样松。 我不拒绝，平时也喜欢去博物馆看古物。
A statue in the grotto, only half of the body is left, the right-side knee is leaning forward, the pleats of the joints are simple and clear, the heart leans to one side, the waist is slightly decorated with pieces, what a beautiful piece of ornaments
石窟的一尊造像
只剩半身到小腿的部分
右腿膝盖前倾
关节的衣褶简洁明了
重心倾向一侧
束腰的地方
肚子微微挺起了饰品
多么舒服的一块
关于残缺的臆想
cusp. : 只剩半身到小腿的部分
右腿膝盖前倾
关节的衣褶简洁明了
重心倾向一侧
束腰的地方
肚子微微挺起了饰品
多么舒服的一块
关于残缺的臆想
What cultural/factors have influenced your creation? (e.g. literature, movies, music, games, architecture, etc.)
可以告诉大家你创作受到哪些文化和因素的影响吗？
Yang yang：
I still find myself mostly influenced by the changes in life, as well as observations and thinkings of things at different stages of life. Our encounter corresponding to different things in fragmented information is likewise crucial. I have recently been reading Su Tong's "Tale of the Birds", and watching "Torino" and "Four Times"... There are also some doomsday-themed and nature-based documentaries on TikTok .
受到那些影响更多还是来自生活的变化，生活中不同的阶段对应那个阶段对事物观察和思考，在碎片的信息中遇到相对应的事物。读书最近在看苏童《⻩雀记》电影喜欢看些闷片《都灵之⻢》《四次》...还有些末日题材和自然类纪录片, 抖音小视频没事也刷。
The moon behind the house/a tree 屋后的月亮/一棵树, 2019
cusp. :
Can you introduce one or two of your own works/projects in detail?
能否详细介绍自己的 1、2 件作品/项目?
Yang yang：
I can start with the piece "Cleanness" in this exhibition. Back in 2019, I didn't have a stable income, so I was thinking to find a career that has nothing to do with art. Then I went to work for a restaurant to cover my daily expenses. I am very interested in the process of cooking， each dish has its own rules but can also have subtle changes in the hands of different people. In the restaurant's kitchen, besides cooking, there is also a lot of daily maintenance of materials, preparation, and equipment. Those rags are left when the restaurant is kept hygienic and regularly replaced every week. The rags that have been used are hung together in large numbers, and the dirt on some rags cannot be cleaned no matter how one tries to clean the traces. If I put these rags that I encountered in my life and work together in a shaped way, it should be romantic, I thought.
可以从这次展览中的《干净》介绍，19年的时候没什么稳定收入就想着找个跟艺术无关的职业， 体验一下也解决温饱，想了想去餐厅厨房吧，我是很感兴趣做饭的过程，每一道菜都有自己的规则但也可以在不同的人手中有微妙的变化。去到餐厅的厨房除了烹饪还有很多日常⻝材备料设备维护 的工作，那些抹布就是在餐厅保持卫生定期一个星期更换时留下的，对它们的留意也是每天收档时 都要清洗一天餐厅用过的抹布，大批的悬挂在一起，有些抹布上的脏污不管怎样清洗都清理不下来就留下了痕迹，如果我把这些生活工作遇到的抹布以塑造的方式集合到一起想想也应该很浪漫吧。
a red and green pepper
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flying fish
Cleanness 干净, 2019
cusp. :
Can you introduce your life and creative state? What are your special work habits? (It can include inspiration collection, daily work habits, the process from inspiration to realization, etc.)
可以讲述一下你的生活和创作状态?
Yang yang：
The state of living and creating just goes with the flow. For mr, day and night are always reversed. I got my inspirations from museums, walkings, and sometimes it pops out from sitting on random roads smoking or dazing at a bus stop. Normally, there are many experiments are needed throughout the whole process of creation. From inspiration drafts to make things happen physically. This process has no rules to follow. It entails the consumption of a lot of materials, time, energy, and imagination.
生活和创作的状态就随遇而安。工作习惯黑白颠倒，灵感采集去逛博物馆，走路，晚上带着酒拿着烟在随便的⻢路上或者公交站坐着发呆。创作从灵感到实现的过程往往要做很多测试，没有规律的实验，需要浪费材料，浪费时间，消耗精力然后对着那一堆东⻄展开想象。
Plastic snowman
cusp. :
What are your daily hobbies?
你每天的习惯是什么？
Yang yang ：
Smoking and drinking.
抽烟喝酒。
Balcony 阳台, 2021
cusp. :
What is the current concern and thinking?
最近每天思考和关心的问题是什么?
Yang yang：
If I want to commit suicide, how I can do so without affecting the people around me. And under which starry sky will be ideal? When I was in junior high school, I suffered from a car accident and stayed in the hospital for a year. There was nothing serious about my body afterward, but since then I suffered from neurasthenia and headaches in cloudy and rainy days due to sleep issues. I tried to use pills to get to sleep when it is hard for me to do so which makes me depressed as well.
如果我要自杀的话怎样可以悄无声息的不影响到身边的人选择怎样的方式，选择哪里的夜晚星空最明亮。
初中时出过⻋祸在医院待了一年，身体没啥大事但之后的睡眠就是问题神经衰弱阴雨天头疼，处方安眠药开不出来了就开始靠褪黑素、酒精、⻩色影像维持睡眠。有时工作身体也很累还睡不着那时真的有点丧了。
Farewell Moonlight 夜光送你离开, 2021
cusp. : Can you talk about favorite artists and favorite books?
可以讲讲你喜欢的艺术家和喜欢的读物吗？
Yang yang ：
Michelangelo,Mi Fu, Xu Wei, Paul Gauguin , Giuseppe Penone, Danh Võ, Béla Tarr.
米开朗基罗、米芾、徐渭、高更、朱塞佩·佩诺内、傅丹、⻉拉·塔尔。
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We ...， Paul Gauguin，1897
What do you think is the happiest thing you have ever encountered?
觉得遇到过最开心的事情？
Yang yang：
Recently, I received two small gifts: a Tubo period King Gesar's armor and a Gaddafi period dinar coin. It's nice upon seeing these objects, I seem to have opened a time-space tunnel in my mind. I am so excited!
最近收到了两件小东⻄一个吐蕃时期格萨尔王的托甲和一枚卡扎菲时期的第纳尔硬币。开心的是看到这些物件大脑好像打开了时空隧道。很兴奋的!
Talk about future plans?
你未来的规划是什么？
Yang yang：
"Plans" are not as fast as "changes".
计划没有变化快。
Storage box and Buddhist niche 置物盒(佛龛), 2021
cusp. :
How do you view the relationship between life and work?
如何看待生活和作品之间的关系?
Yang yang：
They are together.
它们是在一起的。
Thank you Yang yang! ©️ Yang yang