作壁上观

　　Observing from the Sidelines

　　艺术家|刘一墨、孟祥霞、孙亚飞、王一成、于雨田、朱宝元、赵天舜、张汉普

　　Artist: Liu Yimo 、Meng Xiangxia、Sun Yafei、Wang Yicheng、Yu Yutian、Zhu Baoyuan、Zhao Tianshun、Zhang Hanpu

　　出品人 | 姬赟

　　Producer | Ji Yun

　　策划 | 赵倩颖

　　Planner | Zhao Qianying

　　策展人 | 张琦

　　Curator | Zhang Qi

　　展览时间 | 2017.07.08-2017.08.08

　　Exhibition Time |  July08—August08

　　开幕时间 | 2017.07.08下午16:00(六)

　　Opening Time | Saturday, July08，2017, 4:00PM

　　主办机构：闳约当代艺术中心

　　Organizer: Honyo Contemporary Art Center

　　前言

　　本次展览的参展艺术家集中了中央美术学院壁画系应届、往届研究生，他们在当代画坛极具代表性，一方面，他们在学术上代表着国内最权威院校的学术发展轨迹，另一方面，他们生活在同一社会语境下，是一批处于时代交替下的新生代艺术家。同样的学术背景和求学经历，带给了他们专注、严谨和秉承传统的学术理念。

　　“作壁上观”以不同于他们平时创作的呈现方式，阐述着他们在与社会的对话中，或摩擦、或对抗、或妥协、或呐喊的心理活动，是真实自我的生发。在艺术探索之路上，没有所谓的对与错，只有你是否敢于承担结果。

　　“匠人”的纯属技法他们早已具备，而与社会的不断“对话”，才是他们能否真的破壳而出的关键!以一颗微粒之躯与社会发生着化学效应，产生粘连、抵抗或是寄生。这一过程，是他们作品的“血液”。人云亦云不是他们的风格，他们敢于发声，敢于碰撞，敢于提出问题，这是何等的勇气!

　　他们是年轻的，而艺术就应是年轻的，有着时代烙印、时代气息的。在与参展艺术家的接触中，我们逐渐从陌路校友成为朋友，继而成为合作伙伴，才使我今天有信心以一个“布道者”的身份向大家解读他们的作品。

　　与艺术家做朋友犹如“闻香识女人”，作品就是他们自己，每个人都有自己的气味，正如马尔克斯在《霍乱时的爱情》所说的：“爱情在散发着一种“苦杏仁”的味道，也是霍乱的味道”，而艺术家的味道是他们不断突破自己时自然而然生发出来的符号。刘一墨《生》系列作品，源于他的视觉心像，他在寻找的是视觉图像与内在心灵的契合，描述的是真实身体上的一种疼痛感，抑或皮肤受热、受凉的敏感直觉;于雨田《寂寞世界》讲述着唯有信仰可以让我们在这物欲横流的世界保有这最初的童真;赵天舜《梦境》是在用绘画链接未来，寻找一种生活中难以达到的平衡，贫瘠的永远不会是他的精神;张汉普的画在表现真实，反而生活的真实确是最难接近的;孟祥霞的作品里，水墨流动，笔韵通透，有着一种女性所独有的灵动的气质;王一成的作品探求个体与整体的共生关系，是在探求自我与社会的交合方式;朱宝元的作品通过绘画来解读社会与现实给他带来的一种“无力感”，细腻微妙的笔触让我们感受到他在不断地整理着自我;与以上作者略显不同，大飞作品的小品式调侃，展现出“愚”是一种智慧。

　　我们一直在追寻着艺术，而恰恰是艺术帮我们找到了自己。

　　要么现在，要么永远都不……-马尔克斯

　　Observing from the Sidelines

　　The participating artists of this exhibition are current and previous postgraduates of Mural Painting Department of CAFA. They are very representative in contemporary art circle. On the one hand, they represent the academic development track of the most authoritative institutions in China. On the other hand, they live in the same social context as a group of new generation artists under the intergenerational shift. The same academic background and educational experience have brought them the skills of concentration and rigor, and made them follow traditional academic concepts.

　　Observing from the Sidelines with a different way from their usual presentation of works, describes their mental activities in the conversation with society, friction, or confrontation, or compromise, or scream, which is the exploration of the real self. On the road of art exploration, there is no right and wrong, only if you dare to take the result.

　　Artisan’s pure skills they already have, however, the "dialogue" with society, is the key about whether they can really hatch! Think of self as a particle，has a chemical effect with society，to produce adhesion, resistance, or parasitism. This process, it is the “blood” of their work. Parrot what others say, which is not their way, they dare to speak, to collide, to ask questions, what kind of courage this is?

　　They are young, and art should be young, and also with the brand of the times, the breath of the times. In the contact with the artists, we gradually from strange alumni become friends, and then become partners, which only makes me confident today to as a "preacher" to interpret their works.

　　Making friends with artists is like “seek scent of a woman", the work is their own, each of people has their own smell, which as Gabriel Garcia Marquez said in Love in the Time of Cholera: "Love is the smell of a bitter almond that is also the smell of cholera." and the taste of the artist is a sign that they naturally emerge when they break through themselves. Liu Yimo’s work series Birth, from his visual image, he is looking for a fit between the visual image and the inner heart, describing a physical sensation of pain, or the sensitive intuition of heat and cold in the skin; Yu Yutian’s work Lonely World tells about only faith allows us to keep the original innocence in this world of materiality; Zhao Tianshun’s Dreamland is to link the future with painting, to find a balance which is difficult to achieve in our life, the barren will never be his spirit; Zhang Hanpu’s work is the expression of reality, the reality of life is the hardest to approach; In Meng Xiangxia’s work, ink flows, and rhyme is transparent, there is a kind of women's unique spiritual temperament; Wang Yicheng’s work is to explore the symbiotic relationship between the individual and the whole, also is to explore the way of social intercourse between self and society; Zhu Baoyuan's work is through painting to interpret the society and the reality brings him a kind of "powerlessness". His delicate touch of the pen makes us feel that he is constantly organizing himself; Slightly different from the above authors, sketch joke in Da Fei’s work, shows that “fool” is a kind of wisdom.

　　We've been looking for art, and it is the art that has helped us find ourselves.

　　Now or never... - Marquez

　　展览地点 : 北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路2号798艺术区北三街A街闳约当代艺术中心

　　Address | SpaceStation, NO.2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, 798 Art District, Beijing