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作为一个古老的画种,中国水墨能否对当代生活做出有效的回应,一直是中国画难以回避的问题。经过多年的探索与实验,一种被称之为“现代水墨”的新艺术形态走到了中国当代艺术的前沿,并取得了阶段性成果。其中瞩目者,是水墨走出传统趣味,成功转型成为具有反思与批判能力的艺术方式。生于70年代的李周卫是现代水墨群体的年轻一员,2002年研究生毕业于广州美术学院后,便试图以水墨的方式来思考人性、生命存在等问题。在创作实践中,李周卫面临的难题有二:一是如何将传统水墨转化为当代性语言。二是在转化过程中如何保留传统水墨语言的典雅性、抒情性与深邃性。《我们从哪里来?要到哪里去?》在一定程度上解决了这个问题。将传统水墨的留白转化为人群的抽象背景,既强化了存在的茫然与空洞,又为观者留下极大的想象空间。同时,在画面刻意设计的理性秩序中,墨色在每个弱小的个体上呈现出丰富的变化,或渲淡,或勾染,或积墨,或皴擦,为画面增加了一种苦涩而含混的抒情意味。
看到作品的名字,很容易让人联想到法国后印象派画家高更的传世名作《我们从哪里来?我们是谁?我们往哪里去?》,高更这件作品颇具神秘主义色彩,通过描绘人生的三个阶段——出生、成长和死亡,体现对人类存在价值和意义的思考。李周卫的作品或许可以看作高更这幅作品的现代版。可见,对人性、生命及人类存在的思考是中西方艺术的永恒命题。不同的是,李周卫作品中蛇形般蜿蜒的人群更为抽象,更为茫然,迫使人们产生各种联想:这里是他们的起点或者仅仅是人生中转站?他们又将从这里走向何方?画面中的队伍蛇形蜿蜒到了画外,也使画面的情绪得以延伸,喻示这种疑问和思考并不限于画面的人群中,更具有普适性意义。
作品:《我们从哪里来?要到哪里去?》入选“2010年英国约翰.莫尔(上海)当代绘画大奖赛” “约翰.莫尔奖”。(2010年,水墨、宣纸,140X200CM)
The Inspiration Of Life On Canvans
By zhang xiaoling
About Li’s painting: Where are we from ?Where will we go ?
It is easy for us to think of Paul Ganguins’s famous masterpiece“Where Do We Come From?Who Are We?Where Are We Going?”when we first see the name of li Zhouwei’s painting. Paul’s painting is full 0f mysticlsm.. He depicted the three phases of human beings, birth growth and death, so as to present his thoughts about the value and meaning of human existence. And Li ZhouWei’s painting may be regarded as the contemporary version of Paul’s masterpieces. It is obvious that the thinking of human beings, life and existence is the eternal proposition in east and west art histories. While in Li’s painting, the wandering people are more abstract and more absentminded, arose various imaginations: is here the beginning or just the transfer station in their lives? Where are they going from here? The procession in the painting wriggles outside the canvas, extending the feeling of the painting as well. And the doubts and thoughts of the painting are not limited within the artwork but prevalent to all.
作者:张晓凌
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