关于《China》(2000- )

　　About《China》(2000- )

　　艺术手记Note Excerpts about Art

　　俸正杰Feng Zhengjie

　　《China》系列作品的创作开始于2000年8月，是过去几年一直进行的《浪漫旅程》系列的推进和深化。作品的内在本质的东西并没有什么变化，但视觉语言上有一些新的尝试，画面少了前一阶段的那种满幅刺激的色彩，热闹的氛围，叙事性的服饰与形象，多了微妙的内心状态的琢磨。如果说前一阶段的作品是以表面的浮华艳丽来反衬人物内心的空洞与虚荣，那么现在的作品则是以简单的形象，浓缩的色彩来直逼人物的内心世界，他们不是某个特定的人的肖像，而是经历了二十世纪中国社会，政治频繁动荡，传统文化和人格精神遭遇西方文明和全球化商业文化强势冲击，经济的迅速发展与破碎的精神状态剧烈拉锯，缺乏有效的价值支撑的世纪末前后表面浮华光鲜，心理状态复杂微妙甚至空洞而茫然的中国人“肖像”!

　　2001年9月于北京

　　东张西望的人们

　　俸正杰

　　人总是生活在一个具体的时代和社会中的，人们的言行举止，喜怒哀乐，内心状态，价值观念等无不深深打上这个时代和社会的烙印。经历了二十世纪中国社会政治频繁动荡，具有五千年悠久文明的中国传统文化和人格精神遭到了严重的断裂和消解.最近二十多年的改革开放，一方面经济上得到迅猛的发展，另一方面却是中国社会在遭遇西方文明和全球商业文化强势冲击后，人们物质上的丰富和精神上的破碎的鸿沟进一步加剧。人们在几乎可能同步享受全球时尚生活的同时，却缺乏有效的价值观念和精神信念来支撑我们的内心世界，丰富的物质世界和无尽的消费欲望让我们沉醉与满足，却也使我们更加无所适从，我们总是在不安地东张西望. 我们似乎正在得到整个世界，可是我们似乎也正在失去自己。《China》系列不是某个具体的人的肖像，而正是生活在二十世纪末二十一世纪初的人们表面浮华晶亮艳丽光鲜，内心状态却复杂微妙甚至空洞而茫然，左顾右盼东张西望的社会肖像!

　　People Looking Around

　　Everyone is inevitably living in a specific society at a specific time. Their behaviors, emotions and value concept are all branded with the characteristics of their times and society. Chinese traditional culture and value concept with a long history of five thousand years were utterly interrupted and collapsed for years of social and political turbulence in the 20th century. Since the adopted Opening-Up policy twenty years ago, China’s economy has been boosted rapidly while on the other hand, the gap between the well-off material life of the Chinese people and the collapse of their spiritual world is getting even wider as a result of the impact of the western civilizations and global commercialization. Now Chinese people nearly enjoy the same fashionable life as others do in the rest of the world. But the intoxication and satisfaction of their well-off material life and endless consuming desires even deepen their confusions. They are always looking around restlessly. It is as if they had regained the whole world but on the other hand they seem to have lost themselves. “China Series” is not about a specific person, but a social image in China at the converge of the 20th and 21st century, when people are just looking around restlessly with apparent beautiful and trendy outside but empty and lost inside.

　　Feng Zhengjie