看了文广的个展，不得不说，这是灰墙艺术一个比较有水准的展览，策展人汤浩先生撰写的策展寄语也很有水准，表现出很高的学术造诣，这令我这个学术主持倍感压力。After looking around Wen Guang‘s solo exhibi-tion， I have to say that this is a relatively standard exhibition of Graywalls Art. The cura-tor’s message written by Mr. Jeff Tang is also of high standard and shows high academic attain-ments， which makes me feel pressure as an aca-demic host.

　　文广的艺术创作确实有很多可圈可点的地方，如策展人描写的那样，这个年轻艺术家一直在油画流派的突破和融合方面，进行着各种实验性的尝试，并已经取得了一些显著的成绩，所以他这两年的作品，会给大家带来新奇和独特的视觉感受。这是一场令人赏心悦目的展览。

　　Wen Guang‘s artistic creation does have many re-markable places. As described by the curator， this young artist has been making various exper-imental attempts in the breakthrough and inte-gration of oil painting schools， and has made some remarkable achievements. Therefore， his works in the past two years will bring you novel and unique visual feelings. This is a pleasing exhibition.

　　对于这位极具开拓精神的年轻艺术家，这篇学术评论，我绝对不想采用通常的格式，进行一番创作风格的解读，我更希望把它写成一篇学术建议，用我的一些忠告，来帮助这位我很看好的年轻人尽早成为广受藏家喜爱的艺术大家。For this pioneering young artist， I absolutely do not want to use the usual format to interpret his creative style. I prefer to write it as an academic suggestion and use some of my advice to help this young man become a popular and be-loved master as soon as possible.

　　文广毕业于中央美术学院的壁画系，正是这一专业的系统学习，给了他很多普通油画系学生所没有的学术特质，比如创作大尺幅作品时对画面空间、结构的有效使用和把握；比如在作品中叙述故事和表达观点的能力；再比如对哲学、宗教、艺术史更深入的理解和实践；等等。Wen Guang graduated from the Mural Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. It is the system-atic study of this major that gives him many ac-ademic characteristics that ordinary oil paint-ing students do not have， such as the effective use and grasp of picture space and structure when creating large-scale works； the ability to tell stories and express opinions in works； and a deeper understanding and practice of philoso-phy， religion and art history； etc.

　　但在给与艺术家很高评价之余，我也想谈谈文广目前艺术探索中不足的地方，当然这也是我的一家之言，希望对这位年轻的艺术家的未来发展有所帮助。如果大家往细处观察，文广的写实功底其实是相当不错的，但我却认为这种能力被他选择的虚幻表现方式所掩盖，无法发挥出应有的优势。艺术史上，把表达认知、哲理和思想的不同时空的形象、符号，放进一个简单的二维空间，可以有很多种方式，比如达利的图形扭曲、毕加索的立体解析、米罗的符号和夏加尔的象征。所以，我非常期待文广可以找到一种更清晰的表达方式，把传递自己观念所需的元素合理且美感地叠加在一起，而不用再进行梦幻般的雾化处理。雾化处理，或者叫梦幻处理，虽然解决了透视和空间安排方面可能存在的视觉突兀问题，但也让欣赏者很容易忽略作品中的细节，从而弱化他们读取作品背后故事的能力。

　　However， in addition to giving high praise to the artist， I also want to talk about the defi-ciencies in the current art exploration of Wen Guang. This is a viewpoint from my personal an-gle. I hope it will be helpful to the future de-velopment of this young artist. If you look closely， Wen Guang’s realistic painting skills are actually quite good， but I think this abil-ity is covered up by his illusory way of expres-sion and could not give full play to its due ad-vantages. In the history of art， there are many ways to put the images and symbols of different time and space expressing cognition， philosophy and thought into a simple two-dimensional space， such as Dali‘s graphic distortion， Picasso’s stereoscopic interpretation， Milo‘s and Cha-gall’s symbols. Therefore， I very much hope that Wen Guang can find a clearer way of expression to reasonably and aesthetically stack the ele-ments needed to convey his ideas without dreamy atomization. Atomization processing， or dream processing， although it solves the visual prob-lems that may exist in perspective and spatial arrangement， it also makes it easy for viewers to ignore the details in the works， thus weaken-ing their abilit to read the stories behind the works.

　　不过，文广这次出展作品中以毛玻璃透视效果呈现的抽象作品，倒可以算作是他的独门创意，这种既体现画功又张扬时尚配色的作品，可以象加热的餐刀去切奶酪一般轻易地杀进市场。而这种类型的作品，如果直接采用数码创作的方式，则不仅可以进行多种配色的转换，把单一作品开发成波普系列，而且还可以进行声光电的二次创作，从而帮助艺术家轻松地迈进电子版权的更大发展空间。

　　Nevertheless， the abstract works presented by the perspective effect of ground glass in Wen Guang‘s works in this exhibition can be regard-ed as his unique creativity. This kind of works that not only embody painting skills but also publicize fashion color matching can easily en-ter the market like a heated knife to cut cheese. If this type of work directly adopts the way of digital creation， it can not only convert a variety of color matching and develop a single work into Pop Art series， but also carry out the secondary creation of sound， light and elec-tricity works， so as to help artists easily move forward into a greater development space of electronic copyright.

　　综上所述，文广身上具备了太多的可能性，他任何阶段实验性的创作，都会在他成名后成为里程碑式的代表作品，我个人认为，当前是对他建立密切关注并逐步进行系统收藏的最好时机。To sum up， Wen Guang has too many possibilities. His experimental creation at any stage will become a landmark representative work after he becomes famous. Personally， I think it is the best time to pay close attention to him and gradually carry out systematic collection of his works.

--李不白

--Bubai li

2021年10月9日于上海

​Shanghai， Oct. 9， 2021