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当水墨洇染之时，流动的墨痕在宣纸上凝固成刹那的永恒——这或许正是东方艺术对[态]最禅意的诠释：在形与质的临界处探寻万物生灭的踪迹，于虚白与浓淡间叩问存在的本相，从北京到雅典，这是东西方哲思在墨色中悄然共鸣，犹如赫拉克利特的河流与庄子的秋水相逢于纸面。

来自中国北京的三位艺术家毕业于清华大学美术学院，血液中同样流淌着中央工艺美术学院形式美学，此次展览并非简单的视觉并置，而是借由水墨这一流动的介质，完成对「态」的哲学解构：从可见的物质形态到不可见的精神轨迹，艺术家以不同的视觉语言和情绪表达隐喻了存在本质的三种维度——凝固与消逝、具象与虚无、瞬间与永恒。

当东方的[墨分五色]遇见西方的[逻各斯精神]，当水墨的氤氲渗透进雅典卫城的月光，我们冀望这场跨越文明的对话，能在观者心中激荡起关于[态]的终极思考：在变动不居的世界里，艺术或许正是那枚锚定永恒的楔子。

姚建伟于清华园

2025.5.28

Preface

When ink begins to bloom, its flowing traces on xuan paper crystallize into a fleeting eternity—perhaps the most Zen interpretation of [state] in Eastern art: to seek the rhythms of creation and dissolution at the threshold between form and essence; to question the very nature of existence in the interplay of emptiness and density. From Beijing to Athens, this is where Eastern and Western philosophies resonate in the silence of ink—like Heraclitus’ river meeting Zhuangzi’s autumn waters upon the same sheet of paper.

The three artists, hailing from Beijing, graduated from the Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University, carrying within their veins the formal aesthetics once nurtured by the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. This exhibition is not a mere visual juxtaposition; rather, through the fluid medium of ink, it undertakes a philosophical deconstruction of [state]: from the visible contours of matter to the invisible trajectories of spirit. Through distinct visual languages and emotional cadences, the artists offer metaphors for three dimensions of existence—solidification and dissolution, figuration and void, the transient and the eternal.

When the Eastern doctrine of [Five Shades of Ink] encounters the Western [logos spirit], when the mist of ink seeps into the moonlight of the Acropolis, we hope this dialogue across civilizations stirs within the viewer an ultimate reflection on [state]: in a world where all is in flux, perhaps art itself is the wedge that anchors eternity.

Yao Jianwei,

Tsinghua Garden, May 28, 2025