ArtDepot 艺术仓库欣然宣布亚洲区域独家代理荷兰艺术家Super A（原名：Stefan Thelen），并时隔三年后再度携手合作，于2026年3月14日在北京空间呈现艺术家的亚洲首次个展“B Side”。本次展览将展出艺术家十余件架上作品及雕塑新作，在东方语境下展开一场跨文化的视觉对话。 |
展览信息｜Exhibition Information
展览时间｜Duration
2026年3月14日 - 2026年4月12日
2026年3月14日（周六）16:00
策展人｜Curator
主办｜Organizer
北京市朝阳区798艺术区七星东街
Qixing East Rd., 798 Art Zone, Chaoyang, Beijing
前言｜Preface
Super A是Stefan Thelen为自己创造的“反超级英雄”化身，一个用来处理内心困惑的另一个自我。他借此游走于超现实的边界，将人们熟悉的卡通形象进行拆解，编织成一个个等待破解的视觉谜题。矛盾，是贯穿Super A创作的重要线索。他痴迷于探索那些曾启迪他的角色，试图在重新演绎中发掘新的意义。与此同时，他也拒绝被文化强加的表面身份——那种将“成熟”界定为告别童真、远离幻想的规训。在他眼中，一旦抹去神话与隐喻，便切断了人与想象的本源联系。
“Super A”is the artist's self-created "anti-superhero" persona—an alter ego navigating inner turmoil. Through this lens, he traverses the surreal, deconstructing familiar cartoon icons into visual puzzles waiting to be solved.Contradiction runs through Super A's work. Fascinated by the characters who once inspired him, he attempts to discover new significance through reinterpretation.For him, the identities imposed by culture—the kind that defines "growing up" as leaving childhood behind and letting go of imagination—are simply not his to accept.
This fascination with what lies beneath the surface finds a natural echo in "B Side"—a concept borrowed from the music industry. In the broader cultural context, the B-side has come to signify the secondary, the lesser half next to the A-side. But there's something about those overlooked surprises—they wait patiently in the shadows, biding their time. Sometimes, what hides beneath the surface is just as captivating as what commands the spotlight.
Within Super A's works, forces constantly contend: essence and non-essence, center and periphery, fiction and reality, hero and anti-hero. He sees all forms as layered accumulations of gestures, emotions, impulses, impressions, and associations—stacked and intertwined. The artist's task, then, is to cut through the disguises reality has piled on, allowing the dormant B-side to finally emerge into light, visible at last.
精选作品｜Selected works
招财猫 Lucky Cat, 布⾯丙烯 Arylic on Canvas, 60 × 50 cm, 2025
九色鹿 Nine Colored Deer, 布⾯丙烯 Arylic on Canvas, 188 × 132 cm, 2025
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