罗敏

 

In Time

 

在时间里

 

开幕式

 

2025.6.29 (周日) 2-4pm

 

展期

 

2025.6.29 - 2025.7.18

 

开放时间

 

周四，周五，周日：1-5pm

 

地址

 

L.L. Contemporary

 

Unit 2, 95 East Beaver Creek Road

 

Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 1L4

 

      L.L. Contemporary荣幸呈现罗敏个展“在时间里”，这是艺术家在加拿大的首次个展，将展出她过去一年在纽约Painting Space 122驻留期间创作的作品。

 

      展览标题“In Time”源自纽约知名艺术评论家姚强（John Yau）为本次展览作品撰写的评论，他在文中深入探讨了艺术家在记忆、材料与文化传承等方面的细腻表达。该标题也契合了本次展览的策展思路对“时间”这一主题的思考，强调其在个体与集体经验中留下的印记。

 

      本次展出的作品涵盖油画（帆布，纸本和木板）及纸本水墨等媒介，厚重的油画肌理与细腻的墨线相互映衬，体现了罗敏在材料与形式上的敏锐感知。作品画面大多取材于少女时光、家庭生活与母性形象，展现了记忆的静谧与复杂。无面孔的身影、稍纵即逝的瞬间，以及反复出现的书法片段贯穿于她的创作之中。时间不仅作为主题出现，更是一种力量——在不断褪色、侵蚀与重塑中改写着记忆。

 

      正如姚强所写：“观者被带入一个既私密又冷静的世界，其中蕴含着的强烈情感被克制地保持在一臂之遥……我们不断凝视那些看似寻常的事物，却意识到眼前的世界并不简单。”

 

      罗敏的艺术根植于东西方绘画传统之间，却不被任何固定解读束缚。无论是身穿校服的少女形象，还是对弗里达·卡罗、路易丝·布尔乔亚等女性艺术家的再现，抑或是对母亲形象的反复描绘，她都以清晰而细腻的方式探讨着记忆、身份与失落。她的油画与水墨作品体现了文艺复兴的形式美学与中国文人画的双重传承。

 

      通过持续关注记忆的脆弱性与时间的侵蚀，罗敏的创作致敬了女性的无形劳动，以及记忆承载着的情感重量。正如姚总结：“她知道艺术终究无法抵抗时间的冷漠，却依然选择不移开目光。”

 

      L.L. Contemporary is pleased to present In Time, a solo exhibition by Min Luo. This marks the artist’s debut exhibition in Canada and features works created over the past year during her residency at Painting Space 122 in New York.

 

      The exhibition’s title, In Time, is drawn from a review by renowned New York art critic John Yau, who reflected on Luo’s nuanced engagement with memory, material, and cultural inheritance. It also resonates with the curatorial focus on time and its imprint on personal and collective experience.

 

      The works selected for this exhibition span oil on canvas, paper, and wood panel, as well as ink on paper. Thick surfaces are contrasted with delicate ink lines, underscoring Luo’s sensitivity to material and form. Drawing on scenes of girlhood, domestic life, and maternal presence, her compositions reflect the quiet complexity of remembering. Faceless figures, fleeting encounters, and fragments of calligraphy recur throughout. Time emerges not only as a subject, but as a force - fading, eroding, and reshaping memory.

 

      As John Yau writes: “The viewer is engaged by views of a world that is both personal and cool, infused with intense feelings just barely held at arm’s length… We keep looking at the ordinary while recognizing that there is nothing simple about the world we are invited to look into.”

 

      Rooted in both Western and Eastern painterly traditions, Luo’s work resists fixed interpretation. Whether depicting adolescent girls in uniform, iconic artists like Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois, or recurring images of her mother, she explores memory, identity, and loss with clarity and sensitivity. Her oil paintings and ink drawings reflect the dual legacies of Renaissance form and Chinese literati painting.

 

      Through her ongoing engagement with memory’s fragility and the erosion of time, Luo’s practice honors the invisible labor of women and the emotional weight of remembrance. As Yau concludes, “Knowing that art does not withstand time’s indifference, she refuses to look away.”

 

      部分展出作品

 

Tales from the Flowers No.5, Oil on wood panel, 12 x 12 in, 2025

 

Tales from the Flowers: Wild Ducks in Reeds, Oil on canvas, 7.5 x 23.5 in, 2024

 

Mascot, Oil on canvas, 15.5 x 7.5 in × 2, 2024

 

She, They No.4, Oil on wood panel, Diameter: 6 in, 2025

 

She, They No.1, Oil on wood panel, Diameter: 6 in, 2025

 

Tales from the Flowers No.3, Oil on wood panel, Diameter: 9.5 in, 2025

 

Tales from the Flowers No.2, Oil on wood panel, Diameter: 9.5 in, 2025

 

Tales from the Flowers No.1, Oil on wood panel, Diameter: 9.5 in, 2025

 

Min and Li No.6, Watercolor and ink on paper, 17 x 10 in, 2021

 

Homeland Manuscript No.4, Watercolor and ink on paper, 11.5 x 7.5 in, 2025

 

Min and Li No.5, Watercolor and ink on paper, 8 x 8 in, 2020

 

They No.4, Ink and water-based pigment on paper, 15.5 x 16.5 in, 2023

 

They No.3, Ink and water-based pigment on paper, 15.5 x 16.5 in, 2023

 

Resilient Blooms No.6, Oil on paper, 13 x 9 in, 2025

 

Resilient Blooms No.4, Oil on paper, 13 x 9 in, 2025

 

Resilient Blooms No.2, Oil on paper, 13 x 9 in, 2025

 

      关于艺术家

 

 

       罗敏，1968年出生于四川泸州，毕业于西南师范大学，后于解放军艺术学院获艺术硕士学位，现工作于北京。

 

      主要个展和双个展：“故园·别处”——罗敏、邢丹文双个展，2025（成都画院美术馆）；“植物日记”，第九届艺术长沙，2024（长沙市美术馆）；“灯火阑珊处”，2022（上海沪申画廊）；“花间·慢”，2021（北京画院美术馆）；“幸存的诗意”，2018（巴塞罗那米格画廊）；“它界之花”，2017（西班牙马拉加阿拉劳林罗宾松文化中心）；“日常之镜”，2011（北京今日美术馆）。

 

      主要群展：济南国际双年展，2024，2022（山东美术馆）；成都双年展，2023，2021（成都天府美术馆）；“雾之后第一朵花——东方与东方主义 从现代主义到现代主义”，2023（巴塞罗那文森之家高迪现代艺术博物馆）；“新锦灰堆——当代绘画的新感知”，2021（广东省美术馆）；“自·长物志”——第五届苏州金鸡湖双年展主题展，2020（苏州金鸡湖美术馆）。

 

      Min Luo (b. 1968, Luzhou, Sichuan) graduated from Southwest Normal University and later received her MFA from the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts. She currently works in Beijing.

 

      Her featured solo and two-person exhibitions include: "Echoes of Home · Elsewhere" – a two-person show with Danwen Xing, 2025 (Chengdu Art Academy); "Diary of Plants," 9th Art Changsha, 2024 (Changsha Art Museum); "Dreams Beyond the Fences," 2022 (Shanghai Gallery of Art); "Leisure Amid Flowers," 2021 (Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy); "The Surviving Poetry," 2018 (Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona, Spain); "Flowers of Another World," 2017 (Robinson Cultural Center of Alhaurín de la Torre, Malaga, Spain); and "Mirror of Daily Life," 2011 (Today Art Museum, Beijing).

 

      Her major group exhibitions include: Jinan International Biennale, 2024, 2022 (Shandong Art Museum); Chengdu Biennale, 2023, 2021 (Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum); "After the Fog, First Flowers: Oriente and Orientalism, from Modernism to Modernity," 2023 (Casa Vicens by Gaudí, Barcelona, Spain); "New Brocade Ash Pile: A New Perception of Contemporary Painting," 2021 (Guangdong Museum of Art); and "Ego · Superfluous Things" – Theme Exhibition of the 5th Suzhou Jinji Lake Biennale, 2020 (Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum).