The quality of materiality forms the theme of this exhibition of experimental ink painting, and it is hoped that this exhibition will highlight the importance of the quality of materiality for both creativity and appreciation in experimental ink painting over recent years. The discovery of "materiality" has significance for all modern artistic creation and critique, but it has been especially significant in the development and advance of experimental ink painting.

　　I believe the role of materiality in the theory and critique of experimental ink painting is of crucial importance, and will play a major role in promoting the development and expansion of creative work in this genre.

　　Although materiality remains a broad and relatively non-specific concept in contemporary arts generally, experimental ink painting encourages us to investigate this theme more closely and examine its implications for the following:

　　1.The original nature of the media materials: The use of particular media materials is capable of conveying particular concepts of materiality.

　　2.The materiality of media materials and techniques of application: We can excavate the limitations of the most composite media materials, and through technical application reflect the principles of materiality.

　　3.The materiality of the relationship between media materials and illustrative forms: On the original familiar surfaces of media materials images and iconographic hermeneutics can serve to explain the materiality of these structures.

　　4.The materiality of material traces of technology applied to media materials: Through potential technical application to media materials, the original form of a material can be altered and exemplify a new quality of materiality.

　　By presenting these questions raised by creation and study in experimental ink painting, we hope that not only is the special significance of this theme for the expansion of the realm of experimental ink painting, but that it can also have a definite function and value for all modern artistic creation.

2005.3.28 Tianjin

作者：张羽