近日，美国纽约市的Acquavella 画廊正承办画家曾梵志在美国的第一次个展。这次展览展出了曾梵志新近的作品。
曾梵志无疑是中国当代最重量级的画家之一。他的作品已在海内外主要美术机构广泛展出，并越来越受到收藏家和博物馆争相收藏。
前日，Fabien和Lucy Fryns以画家亲友的身份赴纽约出席了这场精美绝伦的画展。
曾梵志美国Acquavella 画廊首次亮相
Acquavella画廊距离卡莱尔酒店仅几步之遥。卡莱尔酒店不但拥有纽约酒店景观之最，也是全世界艺术爱好者的首选之站。这次纽约之旅，我们一行人便在此落脚，虽离家甚远，却深感到一种家的温暖。
4月1日，星期三晚7点，虽然外面下起了绵绵细雨，画展的开幕式却依然热闹非凡。
进入Acquavella画廊，一层的两间展厅展示着这位来自武汉的艺术家近期创作的风景画。
右边的展厅里，一幅画着一位身着深粉色上衣男人的作品格外显著——画中的他似乎在密林的树枝间迷路了。这幅作品已在画展开幕前出售给刚从迈阿密度寒假后，特意赶来的欧洲收藏家。另一幅画家于2008年8月8日，北京奥运会开幕当天完成的自画像也已恰巧被这几位欧洲收藏家预订。
左边的大展厅，展出了5幅作品，其中包括两幅博物馆级品质的巨型绘画。一幅画着狮子的风景画，篇幅280 x 540 厘米，价值160万美金，尚未找到买家。不过，极有可能出售给一家美国博物馆。
另一幅以浅绿为主色调，具有惊人爆发力的风景画挂在同一层的里侧——在开幕式上，它以95万美金的价格，出售给一位专门携妻子和女儿从伦敦的赶来的买家。
由于他们未能购得在楼上展出的画家的最新作品系列，便以39万5千美金的价格购买了一幅年轻男子的肖像画。
画展中的一幅主要作品：一幅身着蓝色燕尾服男人的肖像画，甚至在一位美国和一位西班牙收藏家之间引起了一阵小小的争夺战。最终，这位来自美国的收藏家以39万5千美金的高价成为这幅精美画作的主人。
在全球经济衰竭的情况下，开幕式当晚售出了8幅作品。以如今的经济形势来看，画展已取得了皎然的成绩。
除了展示画作，开幕式上还举行了一场小小的庆功会。
各界名流，如章子怡，Vivo Nevo 和Wendi Murdoch 出席了此活动，还有Christo 和Jeanne Claude 等。
将近80为贵宾出席了在“Philippe”中餐厅举行的晚宴。
在纽约逗留4天后，Fabien 和 Lucy返回北京。
很快，他们又赶往贝聿铭苏州博物馆出席曾梵志的另一场名为“纳西塞斯之声”的个展。活动组织者为Art Mia Foundation，主办方是中国招商银行。
博物馆陈列了作家的22幅风景画。馆内布置与作品上的自然风景融为一体。开幕式后，是由路易威登赞助提供贵宾晚宴。
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F2 Gallery: A Journey to New York
Zeng Fanzhi's new paintings are currently showing at Acquavella Gallery in New York City, USA.
Zeng Fanzhi is undoubtedly one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists to date. His works have been shown around the world, and collectors and museums alike seek to add his paintings to their collections.
Fabien and Lucy Fryns traveled to New York to be a part of the dazzling show opening on April 1st to show their support to their close friend.
Zeng Fanzhi Opening at Acquavella Gallery
Acquavella Gallery is only a short walk from The Carlyle Hotel, the crown jewel of the New York hotel scene, and a favorite of the art world establishment. We arranged for all of us to stay at The Carlyle, truly a home away from home, during our time in New York.
Upon arrival at the opening on Wednesday, April 1st at 7pm, the exhibition was already buzzing with people and excitement, despite the pouring rain outside.
Upon entering Acquavella Gallery, there are two rooms on the ground floor where recent landscape paintings of the Wuhan born artist are on display.
In the room on the right, a work with a man in a dark pink jacket stands out – he seems lost in the branches of a dense forest-like landscape. The work had already been sold before the opening, to European collectors who had flown in from their winter base in Miami. A self-portrait of the artist, painted on August 8th, 2008, the day the Olympics opened in Beijing, was also pre-sold, incidentally to the same collectors from Europe.
In the larger room on the left, there are five works on display, among them two very large museum quality works, one of which shows a landscape with a lion.
At 280 x 540 cm and priced at US$ 1.6M, it has not yet found a buyer, but will most likely be sold to a museum in the USA.
Another electrifying landscape painted in bright greens is found on the far wall on the same floor- it was sold for US$ 950,000 during the opening to a client who had flown in especially from London with his wife and daughter.
As they did not yet own a work from the recent portrait series that is on exhibition upstairs, they bought another portrait of a young boy as well for US$ 395,000.
A key piece of the exhibition, a portrait of a man in a blue tuxedo, even spurred a small fight between an American and a Spanish collector when they both laid eyes on it. In the end, the American collector became the proud owner of this very elegant work, priced at US$ 395,000.
Despite the worsening economic situation, eight paintings were sold during the opening night, which is an astounding success in the current financial situation.
Apart from the art, there was a fair bit of celebrity sighting going on as well.
A-listers such as Zhang Ziyi, Vivo Nevo and Wendi Murdoch attended, as well as Christo and Jeanne Claude to name a few.
A dinner for about 80 VIP guests followed at the trendy Chinese restaurant “Philippe”.
After four days in New York, Fabien and Lucy returned to Beijing.
Soon after, the pair traveled to the I.M. Pei Suzhou Museum for Zeng Fanzhi’s solo exhibition “Narcissus Looks for Echo”, organized by Art Mia Foundation and sponsored by China Merchants Bank.
The stunning museum was graced with 22 paintings of the artist’s Landscape series and the setting could not have been more harmonious in keeping with the nature of this complex body of work. The opening was followed by a VIP dinner, courtesy of Louis Vuitton.
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