Lola Gil

“Friends and Neighbors”

10 Sep - 8 Oct 2022

AISHONANZUKA is please to announce Lola Gil’s first solo exhibition in Asia, “Friends and Neighbors". The exhibition will be on view from 10 September to 8 October, 2022.

“This body of work began 2 years ago when my husband and I bought a big 120 year old house sight unseen during the first summer of Covid. It was a super strange experience moving from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, not having seen anything. So I began to document and work out the surreal aspect of the unfolding discoveries of new life on the east coast. Meeting strangers behind masks and making friends with people who live in this bustling neighborhood. I have been deeply interested in making works which observe the layers and depths of us as people both singularly as well as together. Our life in “lockdown” magnified my curiosity of what it means to truly feel alone. And how that changes our perception of reality.” - Lola Gil

Lola Gil
Currently base in Philadelphia, USA.
As a self taught artist, Lola Gil was greatly inspired by Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, and Rene Magritte. Her sophisticated painting merges Surrealism and Symbolism, allowing viewers to travel through the dreamlike narratives at play in her works. Gil’s characters are frequently seen through the lens of a translucent object, the distortion a means of exemplifying the complexity of humankind. The deliberate ambiguity present throughout her work permits her audience to sometimes see themselves or simply to escape into the tranquil world of Gil’s imagination.

“Throughout my career I have always been a painter of narrative escapism, with my work evoking personal connections for each individual viewer. Because it is executed in a surreal way, it allows the viewer to create their own story and meaning.” - artist statement

AISHONANZUKA 欣然呈獻 Lola Gil 在亞洲的首個個展《親朋鄰里》，展覽將於 2022年9月10日開放至10月8日。

「這件作品萌芽於 2 年前，當時我和丈夫在經歷新冠肺炎的第一個夏天，我們連看都沒看過就買下了一座有 120 年曆史的老房子。我們就這樣從洛杉磯一無所知地搬到了費城，這是一次非常奇怪的體驗。因此，我開始記錄和研究東海岸對我們漸漸展現的超現實的一面。我與戴著口罩的陌生人見面，並與居住在這個繁華街區的人們交朋友。我一直對創作能夠體現我們作為人類 —— 無論是單獨存在、或是共同活動 —— 的層次和深度的作品非常感興趣。封城中的生活放大了我對考究「真正的孤獨」的意義，以及這如何改變我們對現實的看法的好奇心。」— Lola Gil

Lola Gil
目前在美國費城生活和工作。
作為一名自學成才的藝術家，Lola Gil 深受 Salvador Dali、Yves Tanguy 和 Rene Magritte等藝術大師的啟發。她精緻的繪畫融合了超現實主義和象徵主義，讓觀眾可以穿梭於其作品夢幻般的敘事中。Gil 的角色經常是透過各種半透明物體才被看見，這種扭曲的視角是體現人類複雜性的一種手段。 Gil 作品中的模棱兩可讓觀眾有時能從中反思己身，又或是單純地逃入她所想像的寧靜世界。

「在整個職業生涯中，我一直是一個敘事逃避主義畫家。我的作品可以喚起每個觀眾對自身的聯想，因為它們是以超現實的方式呈現，並允許觀眾創造自己的故事和意義。」― 藝術家自述