Chris Succo ZigZag Paintings

Almine Rech Shanghai is pleased to announce ZigZag Paintings, Chris Succo's fifth exhibition with the gallery, on view from February 2 to March 9, 2024.

In the elegy of perpetual return, where impasto engages in a punk minuet, there exists a sotto voce murmuration of recurrence—a reverie that oscillates between optimism and emptiness. Succo, whose ladder of chaos, encapsulates resonance, each brushstroke is like a musical note, a reverberation of the temporally boundless.

In this exhibition, life unfolds its chromatic vivacity dominated by chiaroscuro—an existential chiaroscuro where hard boundaries delineate forced confusion and agency in music. Shadows are phantoms, while luminescence cleaves through the continuum, creating contours of eternal recurrence—a choreography replete with rhapsodies of jubilation and lamentation, triumph and tribulation, ardor and bereavement.

The eternal recurrence, the lyrical pavane, beckons one to examine the circumferences of temporal recursion, to cradle the repetitions as harmonies within a bridge. It implores contemplation of a profound inquiry: Would one, laden with the weight of both joys and burdens, elect to choreograph this interminable ballet once more?

In the dominion of monochrome, a pantheon of hues materializes—an augury of sanguinity. It is the infusion of vibrant pigments that transcends the dichotomy of black and white, transforming the canvas into a palette of resurgence and metamorphosis. It’s a fucking rebellion.

As the recurrence unfurls, envisage the sudden crucible of affection. These chromatic cascades, akin to petals strewn by temporal zephyrs, become heralds of optimism, rupturing the cyclic cadence with panache.

WIth every iteration, the incorporation of color becomes a hymn of defiance—a canticle voiced by the human ethos. It signifies the cognizance that, in this ballet, one is not a mere spectator but an active alchemist empowered to permeate the vast expanse of existence with their own chromatic imprints.

So let the macabre of eternal recurrence unfold, acknowledging the interplay of penumbra and luminescence. Seize the palette of optimism and illumine existence with the resplendent strokes of meaningfulness, for in the infusion of color Succo argues that we are the architects of our destiny, the artificers of our own diorama.

— Alexis Schwartz,  writer

阿尔敏·莱希-上海荣幸宣布呈现艺术家克里斯·苏科（Chris Succo）的第五次画廊个展。展览将于2024年2月2日开幕，并将展至3月9日。

在悠扬的挽歌中，艺术家通过厚涂技法演奏着朋克小步舞曲，其中透着轻柔细语一般的重复循环——摇摆在乐观与虚无之间的幻想曲。苏科所描绘的混沌阶梯封装了共鸣之声，每一笔都如同一个音符，是时间无边的回响。

在此次展览中，生命的活力色彩借由明暗对照法的主导更加凸显——带有存在主义影子的明暗对比清晰地描绘了音乐中不得已的混沌和积极能动性。阴影是幻象，而光晕穿透着逐渐演变的时空，创造出永恒再现的轮廓——这是一场充满欢乐和哀叹、胜利和磨难、热情和失落之痛的狂想曲之舞。

永恒的循环重复，抒情的帕凡舞步（pavane），召唤着人们审视时间周而复始的周期，将重复形式作为乐曲桥段中的和声。它恳求人们思考一个深刻的问题：当一个人同时承受欢愉和负担时，是否会选择重新编排这场无休止的芭蕾舞剧？

在单色主导下，围绕色彩的殿堂逐渐展露——这是走向积极达观的征兆。缤纷颜料的倾注，超脱了黑白对立的二分法，将画布转变为充满复兴和蜕变的调性。这俨然是不服从的精神。

随着循环的推进，设想一阵突然涌现的炽烈情感。这些倾泻而下的色彩，如同被短暂的西风吹撒的花瓣，成为通往乐观主义的预示，以华丽的姿态打破了循环的节奏。

每一次的迭代转换和色彩的融合都成为一首反抗的赞美诗——一首由人类精神咏叹的圣歌。这意味着人们意识到，在这部芭蕾舞剧中，一个人不仅仅是一名观众，而是一名积极的炼金术士，有能力用自己的彩色印记，渗透到生命存在的浩瀚无垠之中。

因此，就让永恒循环重复中的荒诞尽情铺展开来，承认光影之间的相互作用。把握乐观的色彩调性，并以充满深刻含义的光辉笔触照亮生命的存在，因为苏科在通过增添色彩之中，强调了每个人都是自己命运的建筑师，身为自己立体模型的操刀设计者。

— Alexis Schwartz, 作家