Chimney (Young Artist)
Chimney, whose real name is Peng Han, was born in Yichang, Hubei Province in 1983. He graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 and is the initiator of the "Green School" joint exhibition. One, now the chief editor and curator of SpecialComix comics.
Chinese name: Peng Han
Nationality: *** and the People's Republic of China
Birthplace: Yichang, Hubei
Date of birth: 1983
Occupation: Young artist, cartoon editor
Graduation school: Central Academy of Fine Arts
Main achievements: One of the initiators of the "Green School" joint exhibition,
Current Editor-in-Chief of SpecialComix Comics
Representative works: "Macho Man" series, "I Can Not Just Lie", "Puppy Travel",
Personal Introduction
Chimney, whose real name is Peng Han, is from Yichang, Hubei Province. He graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 and became a contracted artist of Star Space Gallery while he was in college. One of the initiators of the "Green School" joint exhibition, and now the chief editor and curator of SpecialComix comics.
Interpretation of the artist's works
Chimney's works come from his artistic life, which was excavated from the loneliness and boring time in the dormitory. He overcomes his loneliness by sending his cartoons and vignettes to netizens. The fictional scenery and small town residents are a combination of Chimney's own state of mind and childhood nostalgia, or memories of his hometown farm.
Chimney's works look like children's paintings, but the subtle differences in the characters' eyebrows, eyes, and so on reveal the author's skillful processing techniques. In the mythical world of chimneys, the smiling moon maintains an attitude of overlooking everything, and you can also meet bad guys with horns and good boys with dog heads. In order to move you, these characters can rip out their hearts. Although Chimney's works are small, their content is expanding. Each small picture turns into his private myth, sheltering the audience to stay in a simpler world.
Chimney often uses humble tools as the most basic materials when creating: ballpoint pens, newspaper collages, low-tech digital painting tools, and even needles and threads. These simple materials reflect the author's The desire to try to return to a simpler life. On paper of varying sizes and textures, the adventures of mythical monsters unfold in the lonely world of chimneys. Chimney's narrative ability was cultivated in the process of reading comics since childhood; his educational background in the Chinese Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts also helped in the technical aspect of picture processing. He shares all his works with his friends on his blog "Soda Shop" and is also one of the initiators of the "Green School Annual Exhibition" ("Green School" can be called the most active contemporary youth folk art group). As a core member of Green School, a domestic online amateur comic creation platform, Chimney has been given a rather idealistic tone by netizens for his works. Regarding the "Green School", Chimney said that he cherishes this platform because he has received a lot of encouragement and support here.
Recently, members of the Chimney and "SC" comic team were invited to Paris, France, to participate in the large-scale comic series event "Comics Planet" held at the Center Pompidou. Netizens commented: Through the comic culture loved by the public, the artistic concepts, culture and lifestyle of China's new generation of youth will be understood by a wider regional population.
Interpretation of the Artist
Let’s give a rough outline of “Chimney”. He is a quiet man with glasses who was born in the 1980s. He has a white head and a round face. When he is not talking, he looks steady. Revealed to be frank and picky.
As a professional artist with a professional background, Chimney is involved in amateur art activities on the Internet, seemingly separated but connected by blood. His popularity online belies his role in life. He has a sonorous and powerful birth name, "Peng Regret". Unfortunately, Chimney fell in love with the online name "Chimney" for no reason. Chimney's father could only passively accept his son's transformation from "Peng Chan" to "Chimney". Only when he needed to show his ID card to take a plane, Chimney reluctantly pretended to be "Peng Chan". He likes his identity in the online world and believes that being a "chimney" makes him happier than being a "Peng Xian".
Chimney has his own place on the Internet. His blog "Soda Shop" is often crowded with comics-loving colleagues, and Chimney's new comics published here often receive acclaim. The Internet is particularly important to Chimney, and it is even a watershed in his life.
Chimney started to go online during the special period of SARS in 2003. That year, the Central Academy of Fine Arts had an early holiday, and Chiangliang returned to his hometown in Hubei. He had nothing to do. He heard that there was an online platform for painting, so he went online to look for it, and he became uncontrollably obsessed with online painting. . Through this virtual world, he made a group of friends, and his life changed from then on. Chimney said: "If I didn't have the Internet at that time and those people who encouraged me, I might not be painting now."
Chimney’s life under the net is a bit dull. In 2002, he was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in Chinese painting. Since it was the first batch of expanded enrollment, the college changed the previous teaching model of setting up studios and frequently changed teachers to expose these students to different creative concepts. The result of frequent changes of teachers was that Chimney was not impressed by anyone's teachings. In addition, there were so many masters in the Academy of Fine Arts that Chimney felt even more short of breath. In his first year of college, Chimney was at his most confused. He described that period: "I didn't have many friends. Everyone in the dormitory had girlfriends. I was the only one left in the room painting."
It can be said that the life of Chimney has been different because of the Internet. Drawing brings friends and fresh topics. He was busy publishing books, organizing exhibitions, and organizing parties. Although comics were not the focus on the Academy of Fine Arts campus, he found fun in his circle of friends and found a girlfriend who also liked drawing comics. Regarding drawing comics, Chimney once said: "It makes me feel relaxed and at ease."
Amateur Narrative - Comics about Chimneys
Text/Fu Xiaodong
"Amateur" literally means ordinary people, laymen, and occasional guest stars lovers. "Amateur style" here refers to a creative style that pursues rawness, naivety, simplicity, and original vitality. It seems that they have never received professional training and regulations. Each of them has a different direction, with newbies, unconsciousness, anti-academic tendencies, folk interests, childish interests, low-level interests, bad paintings, etc., with rough, anti-intellectual, or destructive techniques. Using his own works to deny the history of Chinese and Western art, to deny popular and successful artists, and to distance himself from these creative styles, the more he appears to be extraordinarily different and incompatible in the field of contemporary art painting.
Yi Ying said, "On the other side of the wasteland is your true self." Most people who dare to paint in front of their faces have great talents, special qualities, or unique aesthetics. There used to be The past sensory paradigms and painting procedures have been squeezed out to the maximum extent. Although "raw" and "astringent" have always been categories in the aesthetics of traditional Chinese painting criticism, amateur painting has more levels. While it subversively disintegrates the language of painting, it also provides completely destructive content. The expression opens the door. Amateurs not only resist construction, but also resist rationality; they resist reality and responsibility with their unconsciousness and subconsciousness; they resist the consumerist system with imagination and dissociation. Because he is not affected by the outside world and history, he is powerless to change the history of art and the art world. Similarly, all control and dependence are meaningless to ordinary people, thus gaining complete autonomy and freedom. They are either geniuses or lunatics, and their amateur style is almost unarguable.
Chimney is a member of the amateur style. His comics come in various forms. In the past few years, I often found these unexpected updates in Douban followers and blog orders. They might be a greeting card. , or a single page manuscript. My memory of him is also fragmentary and scattered. Even so, I can still recognize a chimney-style T-shirt at a glance from tens of thousands of cartoon images. Chimney is impressive in an autobiographical way as a melancholy young man with a round head and oval eyes. Just like Chimney himself, he is naive, honest, somewhat repressed or cunning, and full of beautiful or scary imaginations about life. All this is reflected more vividly in his serial comics. His stories always revolve around the ordinary encounters of a small person living at the bottom, a student who failed in his dream, a skewer who cheated, The lustful maniac who is constantly being disturbed, the blind key man, the helpless bicycle repairman, and the dedicated migrant worker. They are always coerced by life, and naturally and logically do irreparable evil, or something. Don't do anything and wait for evil to happen. Those little people who obey physiological needs and are forced by life have to make mistakes and live a life without dignity. While they are victims, they are also accomplices of evil. They often take the initiative to cater to their desires and indulge in evil with compassion.
The victims are often the more innocent cats, turtles, octopuses, and of course, themselves. They were deceived by others, deceived others, and deceived themselves in killing each other and betraying each other. It seems that nothing can be changed. This flowing, sharp, and vomit-like world is still running its own way.
Chimney stories are often fragile and desperate, like fantasy, reality, symbol, and statement. He tried to restore the absurdity of the world with a child-like innocence. This clue may have originated from a castration operation on a young female cat. The doctor took out the removed uterus and organs for viewing. The viewing of the innocuous sin struck a chord with the viewer's perception and conscience. Is this right or wrong? Chimney always seems to be looking for a kind of contradiction in the trivial matters of life, the misalignment of one common sense to another, the fallacy of popular sayings. The conflict between different values ????and hovering in the gaps of space make his stories always appear to be a stream of consciousness, incomplete, lacking a coherent plot, and not strong enough. But this is precisely the way Chimney distinguishes himself from other underground comics authors. A little person talks endlessly about the unresolved stories in life, hinting until just right. The story is depressing, desperate, and trivial, but it always involves killings, arson, and system collapse. All the details imply that this is a scheming psychological game.
Chimney’s comics are completely different from Japan’s elaborate comic style. They are more casual, draw whatever you want, and choose the most direct way to express. His focus lies in the control of various shapes and the grasp of the overall composition. "Amateur" is not just a style, but more of an attitude. Face yourself simply and keep all your efforts, just to complete and present ordinary life.
Personal resume
Solo exhibition
2011
Great Summer - Chimney He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Daodao Exhibition, OCT Contemporary Art Center, Shenzhen; CITIC Plaza, Shanghai; Xingfu Village Art Center, Beijing, China
All-in-one card, top space, Beijing, China
Comics
2011
The work "Time" was published in the Italian magazine "Canicola Bambini"
The work "Stone" was published in the 4th issue of the domestic magazine "SC"
2010
The work "Huhuhu" was published in the 18th issue of the Swiss magazine "Bilenoire"
The work "Xiao Sui's Summer" was published in the Swiss magazine "STRAPAZIN"
< p>The work "Separation" was published in the first issue of the special volume "PEN" of "SURFACE"2009
The work "Huhuhuhu" was published in the third issue of the domestic magazine "SC"
p>The work "Huhuhu" was published in the 8th issue of the German magazine "ORANG"
The work "Haritao" was published in the 8th issue of the Italian magazine "Canicola"
2008
The work "Working Rabbit" was published in the 37th issue of the domestic magazine "Esquire"
2007
The work "Taishan Hotel" was published in the domestic magazine "Esquire" SC" Issue 2
2006
The work "A Heart" was published in "Slowly Happy" and the German magazine "ORANG" Issue 6
Works "Little Ant" was published in the 4th issue of the Italian comic magazine "Canicola"
2005
The work "Sloth" was published in the 5th issue of the German comic magazine "ORANG"
< p>2004The work "Lies" was published in the first issue of the domestic magazine "SC"
Published
2011
"Xiao Sui's Summer" ", Star Space, Beijing, China
2010
"The Elephant's Dream", Canicola, Italy
2008
"Chimney ", Star Space, Beijing, China
"Pixel Fart", Star Space, Beijing, China
"Soda Shop", Star Space, Beijing, China
< p>"Finding Myself", Star Space, Beijing, China2006
"Bad Boy's Sky", Star Space, Beijing, China
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"Next Stop, Cartoon", Star Space, Beijing, China
Collection
National Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
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