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福柯(Fucault)在他的褚多著作中一再陈述这样的命题:允诺自由的知识源于权力、权利与理性的结合构成社会化的体制化对个体的文化的以及符号化的控制系统。知识的系统化的方式排斥前知识的探索,历史以体制化为中心的陈述排斥非体制化内容的事件,理性总是以它的逻辑性和必然性的允诺排斥感性的与非理性的存在的合法性。
徐天润的“艺术之思”在我看来,倒有颇多契合于福柯所说的“知识考古”的特征,只不过徐是从“情感”如“个人记忆”入手的。
徐天润的“艺术之思”有着这样几层迷离重叠的文化语境:东西方文化的冲突与融合,个人生存与商业物欲的驱迫与压抑的心灵扭曲,历史烙痕与人格童真的被伤害的记忆史考索。他仿佛是自我拷问,又似乎是察视着自己心灵的乌托邦愿望消退的自我鞭挞。其目的,在于找回他的“艺术之思”的生命取向和艺术信念。
这是一位有着艺术家良知的个体在纷乱迷离的种种灵魂的伤害中的救赎和突围:“艺术之思”的丢失和回到“艺术之思”的生存努力。
我们看到的是一幅幅头像。但头像的喻意是具有符号性和象征性,不同的表情、不同的样式。以及头像面貌的非中非西,亦中亦西恰好喻示了我们所生存的多元文化背景和重叠交错的语境。
这里有着鲜明的社会性的当下性,当然也有着文化的“知识考古”。我们看到的不是某种直接的社会和生活化的的图像挪用和借取。而是被绘画化了的符号减省的“艺术之思”的描绘和演示。它仿佛是我们所惯常见到的艺术史的精典图像的影子,又似乎是某种让人领悟深刻精神旨意的思维活动,是一种情感的巅峰状态,也是某种感受乃至濒临崩溃边缘的生命极限;是渴求、是期盼。是失落,也是追忆和灭亡与新生……
“艺术之思”转呈为徐天润的生存个体的记忆史的拷问:我感受到它们像幽灵一样围绕着徐先生,近在咫尺却又远在天涯,捕之如烟,视之却在身边。
其实,徐天润的那批《异秀》系列,画得很好,色彩、造型、构图和境界,不论是从技术还是趣味层面,既有东方之境,亦会令西方人沉迷,但他把的《异秀》系列中的油画肌理融入他的“艺术之思”,既不是表现主义的情绪宣泄,亦非构成主义的结构性的视觉表达,而是把情绪性的宣泄转化成为“思”的描绘方式。那色彩的流畅,肌理的厚重,笔触的酣畅淋漓的挥洒,那浅唱低吟中的情绪流动,一定给他的“艺术之思”饱享了一顿“思”之圣餐。
根据我的体会,生活在上海的漫长岁月的记忆与在香港这个国际商埠的成年累月的拼搏,形成了除天润情感与思维矛盾的基本层面,它们刚好转化成了凭借的记忆史和情感史的深刻的烙痕。这种记忆史所披露的伤害,非常鲜明地体现在他前此创作的《异秀》系列之中。那基本上都是女人体,青春、健美、圣洁的女人体,是鲜活、自由的表征,但她们总是在中国传统文化象征的大门、椅子、莽袍之类的阴森的、悠冷的背景衬托之中,充盈的生命力:迷人的曲线,呈现的是那种凄冷的被伤害的记忆痕迹。
假如说,徐的《异秀》系列,还是以隐喻的方式呈示他的“艺术之思”,那么,我们所面对的《欲之海》、《对话一沟通者》、《生存者》、《思想者》、《殉道者》便是回到“艺术之思”本身。他试图用艺术史上常见的图像与思想的特定状态的联系,省思和考掘他的“艺术之”。
德国哲学巨擘海德格尔(Heideggerr)说:“但“道”或许就是产生一切道路的道,我们由之而来才能去思理性、精神、意义,罗格斯等根本也即凭他们的本质所要道说的东西。也许在‘道路’(weg)即道(Tao)这个词中隐藏着运思之道说的一切神秘的神秘。 如果我们让这一名称回复到它的未被说出的状态之中而且能够这样做的话。也许方法在今天统治地位的谜一般的力最也还是,并且恰恰是来自这样一个事实,即方法尽管有其效力,但其实只不过是一条巨大的暗河的分流,是为一切开辟道路,为一切绘制轨道的那条道路的分流。一切皆道路(Alles ist Weg)。”(《在通向语言的途中》,商务印书馆,1999年,第165页)。
对徐天润来说,这个“一切皆道路”的“分流”便是绘画。他用图像来“道说”他的生命所要“通过”“达到”的目的地。假如说,《异秀》系列的直接隐喻还召示某种重目的地的话,那么,这批作品便是“艺术之思”本身了。他的头像不是用于叙述,也不是用于指涉什么艺术史的图像演化过程,他的“思”是关于生命之“道”的,是对生命之“道”的“道”说。
《欲之海》是沉睡?是静默?是消亡?是六根皆净,惟有梵澄?《对话一沟通者》、《对话一窃听者》是图像的转移?是文化融合的悖谬?是同体的自我分裂与破碎?这里只有疑问。这里是疑问的疑问图像。《思想者》变成了斑驳的雨痕、沧桑的锈迹。是永远的沉睡,还是沉睡中的省思?《怡心者》、《掩饰者》、《劳动者》彷佛是一幅幅不同的“思”的肖像:悲乐喜优都化作让观看者困惑的质询。是《生存者》生存的质疑还是生存者生存的恐惧和逃避?“思”是“思”本身,思没有结果,正如“一切皆道路”,但没有终点。没有“终点”的“思”的行程。于是便有《殉道者》,那是永恒的沉睡,那是睡着了的永远不会回到尘世的“思”之思,思者永存!阿门!
其实,在徐天润的这头像中,我们读到了个人心灵史中的充满悲剧和苍凉的崇高感的吉光片羽。个体生命永远是渺小的。不论是在他前此的作品,还是目前这批新作,虽然都是人体,头像,前者更多具体的历史语境,后者却抽去了具体的语义提示,置人在十分宽泛的“思”的背景之中,以显示“思”的普适性和的指涉性。但它们都有着心灵的呻吟和反抗,只是前者的抗争比较浅显,往往易被理解成为个性自由和人的自然性与历史性的冲突与对抗,而后者更多是从“艺术之思”的精神层面揭示这种“思”的自由和拥有的期待。
当然,视觉艺术的思想永远不可转译成语言之思的图解,所以,徐天润的“艺术之思”带有浓厚的精英意识,他摆脱不了历史的沉思方式与记忆史的碎片的拼合的创作的追求。面孔是思的一面镜子,它迸溅出火花,闪耀着童贞的心灵的复原的乌托邦梦想。他知道他的作品的“声音”在逐利的浪潮中只是一个飘荡的孤寂的落叶、但他却抑制不住情感虚构和“艺术之思”的萝想的乐趣。
这或许就是艺术创作的永恒魅力之一吧!
Contemplation of Art
Ma Qin Zhong—Art Critic
The recurrent topic Foucault's writing:the philosophy of knowledge.It is the combination of politics and rationality‘that creates the existing social system, individualism,and a signifed control system.The science of knowledge rejects the exploration of the subconscious mind.History has been interpreted in a systematical or rational way. And any non-systematical or irrational method has been avoided.
In Tsui's Contemplation of Art',one shall detect resemblance from the "Archaeology of Knowledge"of Foucault.HoWever,it is more likely that Tsui's has a propensity to depict love,emotions and personal memor.
In the"contemplation of Art",the cultural language is represented in multiple levels and they are.
the conflict and amalgamation of the eastern and western cultures, individual survival,the anxiety of conmmercialization,the distorted mind,the despoiled childhood innocent,historical flashback.These are reflective to his self-condemnation.He rebukes himself as he senses the evanescence of his utopian dream.And he aimed to find his life goals and artistic faith in his"Contemplation of Art".
Tsui is an exceptional artist.His virtuosity subsists,despite being constantly challenged by his confused inner spirits and self inflicted criticisms:the misplacement to the discovery of life in his "Contemplation of Art".
The different pieces of head size portraits are symbolic and metaphoric.The various facial expressions, composition and the hybird features of Asian and Caucasianare the language that iS used to depict Our world of cultural
The"Contemplation of Art"it is not a straight forward representation of our society or our contemporery lifestyle,but rather,to present an unostentatious style of narration and presentation.
The magically digect the readers into their spiritual and intellectual world,like the wery best painting amongst the art history.
His artwork is unequivocally contemporary.It is cultivated with elements found in the"Archeology 0f knowledge”.In the “Contemplation of Art”,one cannot find any images of our subsidiary culture or daily living.However,one could discover a pure form of signal,which creates a lucid presentational style,And this will provide a deep spiritual and intellectual guidance,like many outstanding artworks can do to us.
One could also find in them,a state of consummated spirituality,a peculiar type of feeling,an extend life limit.And slso,suggestions of needs,wishes,losts,flashbacks,deaths andrenewals."Contemplation of Art"is a recod of his memory,of his individual survival:they are like haunting spirits,nearby but distant to,formless like haze,however,substantially existing.
In the "Nude"series,Tsui had made hinself a personal statement evident by his choice of color,style, structure and mood.It is the technique and intricacy of the oriental culture that truly perplexed.And his style shadows on to his new art series.
In his new series,Tsui does not aim to exert his sentiments like any expressionistic artwork.Nor is he designing any visual display like cnstructism.However,he unconsciously narrated his emotions as "thoughts".This is evidengt by the free flow of color,the delicate balance of body texture,the briskness of strokes and the subtlety of expressions.
From my yndenstanding,his living experience in Shanghai and the international city of HongKong,conceived to himself,a unique level of paradoxical thinking.
In turn they became the significant signpost of his memory.And his memory reveals injuries that has also appeared in the “Nude”series.Even with the youthful,healthy female figure which resembles liveliness and freedom.They are then juxtaposed with cold and dark traditional insignias such as doors,throne,robes of funeral.The force of darkness coexists with dazzling beauty.The vitality of life and dazzling curvatures of the canvas obscure,the nostalgic,blemished memory of Tsui Tin Yun.
作者:马钦忠
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