◉ 2019 Asia Illustration Fair : Open Call Countdown 15 days! Everyday Illustrator: Billie Jean 2019 亚洲插画艺术节 征件倒数15天!一天一插画家介绍:Billie Jean

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Billie Jean ,born in the ’80s, is an italian artist and architect. His artistic field is deeply linked to pop culture, which inspired his pseudonym (quoting a famous song of 1983 by Michael Jackson).  There seems to be very little written that I can find out about Billie Jean, but his artwork is everywhere. Books, music CDs, and fashion are just some of the markets his work is used to promote. Bold colours, hand-drawn fonts, collage and an intelligent use of words. With links to street and graffiti art his work seems to be very current.

Billie Jean出生于80年代,是一位意大利艺术家和建筑师。他的创作领域与流行文化有着密切的相关,这也使他想到了笔名「Billie Jean」(引用Michael Jackson 1983年的一首著名歌曲)。似乎很少看到关于Billie Jean的文章,但他的作品其实无处不在。书籍,音乐CD和时尚只是他的工作市场中的一环。大胆的色彩,手绘字体,拼贴和单词的使用是他的特色。通过与街头和涂鸦艺术的结合,让他新潮的作品脱颖而出。

His work tries to be a personal synthesis between pop art and street art, since several works are expressly designed to be painted on urban walls. The main characteristic of the works of Billie Jean is the clean and bare style, usually just in black and white. Often lacking in details, his artworks reflect tragedies and discomforts of society through the simple sketch of the eyes. The expressive drama of his works is sometimes underlined by using absurd and twisted perspectives that drag the viewer into an “impossible” and sometimes “dreamlike” world.

Billie Jean的作品试图结合流行艺术和街头艺术,有些作品被刻意的设计为在城墙上绘画。他的作品主要特点是干净而不多加修饰的风格,通常只有黑白两色。他的作品不常刻画细节,通过简单的草图勾勒出社会的悲剧和不适。有时利用荒谬扭曲的视角来展现非常具有表现力的戏剧性画面,这些视角将观众拖入「不可能」,有时甚至是「梦境般的」的世界。

 To get his stroke so essential, he uses the computer drawing, main technical characteristic of his paintings. His artistic influences lie in 80s Pop Art (J.M. Basquiat, Keith Haring) and in contemporary street art (especially with the British artist Banksy), but there also are many similarities with the Dutch graphic artist MC Escher,the works deal with various issues, which are inspired by political and social events, but also from the description of very personal moods.

为了表现他的笔触,他主要使用电脑绘图。他的影响力跟80年代流行艺术(JM Basquiat,Keith Haring)和当代街头艺术(特别是英国艺术家Banksy),但与荷兰图形艺术家MC Escher有许多相似之处,作品涉及各种不同的议题,创作理念受到政治和社会事件的启发,也是她个人情感的抒发。

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公众展期|2019年8月30日(五) – 9月1日(日)
媒体嘉宾|2019年8月29日(四)
展览时间|10:00 – 18:00
展览地点|上海宝龙美术馆
主办單位|上海宝龙美术馆、集人文化艺术(上海)有限公司
协办單位|自由人艺术公寓
策展人|颜宁志

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