洞悉传奇人物 

                                威尔福·杜贝

       宣永生是一位用“刀片”作画的大师，他的作品微妙、极其精致。

       这一系列的水彩画（戏剧人物系列）给中国集体无意识注入了一个新鲜、具有创新性视角，它超越了“休闲”这一概念。宣永生花三年（2008~2010年）时间来表达自由和解放，并打破传统对《三国演义》《西游记》和白蛇故事中传奇人物的看法。他们是反对自然力量的象征。一种非常私人的、亲密和旺盛的、用笔墨的表达方式——有时令人震惊。实际上，这些图标都曾经出现在艺术家的心里。

      作为一个旁观者，我对我所看到的事物产生反应，并且我试图找到意义。我所看到的是真实的、有形的图像、印象、感受，艺术家选择它们来征服我的眼睛、身体，甚至灵魂。即便如此，宣永生仍忠于中国的水墨传统。他将具象和抽象艺术结合了起来。他探讨了狂热的诚实和传奇人物背后隐藏的赤裸裸的真理。我想宣永生可以重复艺术家吴冠中先生对沙利文所说的（p.29）：“当我拿起笔来，我就要画一幅中国画。”

                                                                                      （节选自《洞悉传奇人物》）

                                        Insights into Legends

                                             Wilfrid Dube

Xuan Yongsheng is particularly a master of the delicate and extremely refined art of drawing with the blade.

This series of watercolors is a fresh and revolutionary insight into the meaning of the Chinese collective unconscious. It is more than just casual. This selection of Xuan Yongsheng’s work which covers three years ( 2008~2010) expresses a free, liberated, iconoclastic look at the traditional legendary characters taken from Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, The Tale of the White Snake. They are symbols of opposing forces of nature. A very personal, intimate and exuberant ink and brush expression - sometimes shocking and rash - of the icons of the past actually present in the mind of the artist.

As a spectator I respond to what I see and I seek to find meaning. What I see is real, tangible, and the images, impressions, feelings an artist has chosen to reveal to both the eyes of my body and those of my soul. In doing so Xuan Yongsheng remains faithful to the Chinese tradition of brush and ink. He combines figurative and abstract art. He explores with honest abandon and insight the legendary characters along with the naked truths that hide behind them. I think Xuan Yongsheng can repeat what the artist Wu Guanzhong said to Sullivan (p. 29) When I take a brush to paint, I paint a Chinese picture.”

                                                                             (Adapted from Insights intLegends)

                                                 威尔福·杜贝：加拿大里贾纳大学哲学系教授。

 

作者：威尔福·杜贝