我们的地球也是一个巨大的蓝色房间。

　　杨少斌特意为尤伦斯当代艺术中心量身定做了一个这样的房间。这就是他的“蓝屋”，一颗危机中的星球，一幅人的面孔组成的风景。这些面孔当中，有参加2009年哥本哈根气候峰会的世界领袖、政策制定者，或者明星;也有环境变化的受害者、贫困儿童，他们都面临着暗淡和不确定的未来。每一张脸都是危机的特写。当这些曾经熟悉的脸变成蓝色时，我们发现了他们脸上的陌生人。

　　杨少斌过去的著名绘画作品系列“红色暴力”，曾用炽烈的颜色表达社会暴力和带血的欲望。在“X—后视盲区”中，他用了令人窒息的黑色、白色、蓝色和灰色，揭示出中国煤矿工人的困境。他使用照片负片的效果作画，让我们直视集体的“盲点”。这一次，在“蓝屋”里，他用特别找到的蓝色色调和抽象的手法绘制特写，试图表现全球范围的问题，并传达出在全球范围内的默契、微妙的暴力。在艺术家的画笔下，地球蓝色的平静和安慰，大海和天空，变成深邃的忧郁，甚至是威胁。

　　我们可以感受到权力与无助，现在与未来，理想与妥协之间的对抗。“蓝屋”迫使我们去怀疑，甚至抓住身边的同谋者。而我们自己是否又是其中之一呢?这个小小的蓝色空间，绝对不是我们在这个地球上可以分享和拥有的蓝色份额。那我们如何拥有我们的权利?自然的，政治的，法律的，哪怕是最渺小的一部分，也不应该被遗忘。

　　杰罗姆·桑斯(尤伦斯当代艺术中心馆长)

　　Blue Room is a new body of work created specifically for the UCCA space by acclaimed painter Yang Shaobin. It is a landscape of faces, a meta-portrait in blue, a close-up of a planet in crisis. Some of the images are familiar world leaders, policy-makers or players at the 2009 Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference, while others are anonymous victims of climate change and environmental disaster, people living in poverty, or children facing a bleak and uncertain future.

　　In his well-known previous series of paintings, Red Violence, Yang Shaobin used red to express societal violence and blood-lust. In X-Blind Spot, he employed gritty hues of black, white, blue and grey to expose the plight of China's coal miners, and photo-negative effects to highlight our collective "blind spots." In Blue Room, he uses shades of blue and techniques of abstraction and close-up to address problems on a planetary scale, and to convey a form of violence that is more tacit, subtle and global. Under the artist's brush, the calm and soothing blue of earth, sea and sky is transformed into something melancholy, or perhaps menacing.

　　By placing the observer in the midst of a confrontation between power and powerlessness, present and future, ideals and expedience, Blue Room forces us to question our own complicity. Do we really believe that there is room enough for all of us in this small blue room we share? If so, how do we order our priorities, politics and policies so that no one, not even the smallest and most vulnerable, gets left behind?

　　Jérôme Sans(Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art )

作者：杰罗姆·桑斯