水墨演义.中国当代水墨发展中的一次革命

中国水墨艺术已在世界上逐渐为人们所关注，无论人们是否懂得中国水墨从古至今是怎样的一个发展状况，但对于水墨的审美、以及对其精神的领悟都不会存在着隔阂，通过作品本身就足以唤起人们对于自然的向往、对于生命、精神世界或是异度空间的感悟。然而，水墨画在中国的命运随之进入到了时代发展链条中的历史性变革之中，如何从悠久的水墨历史之中走出变革之路，使得水墨艺术的发展成为了一个不断争论的焦点。

本次展览正是基于这一学术的观点，旨在从艺术史的角度梳理当代水墨发展脉络，展示当代水墨演义风云与足迹，呈现当代水墨发展史中的革命性变革。

“水墨演义”所确定的艺术家，是二十世纪六十年代以来对水墨语言与样式的开拓者与实践者，他们不仅仅从现代水墨丰富了水墨样式这个层面。现代社会变革，以及与世界文化的交融，使得水墨艺术不再处于一种封闭的状况下自主发展，同时也强烈地冲击着艺术家的精神世界，他们不断地在主题、题材上使得当代水墨艺术多样化和丰富性，并立足于审视当代水墨的不同表现形态，分析、提取传统语言因素，重新认识水墨画的本质进行研究，形成了一个有别于传统绘画的更为复杂、多样的语言系统，从而使得他们的水墨艺术在传统精神价值的基础上更具有新的文化价值，更重要的是，他们的作品所反映的思想锋芒更为锐利，更加注重了水墨艺术的观念与表现因素这一特点，将其表现得更加淋漓尽致，从而将水墨本身的精神价值推向了一个新的境界。

刘国松、萧勤、仇德树、徐冰、王天德、广曜、蓝正辉 、秦风，他们是正处在水墨演义这一历史性变革中的探险者、革命者，他们代表着中国当代水墨发展的高峰，他们的作品和思想展示了水墨语言的文化特征，更加彰显着水墨语言内在的力量，使得水墨艺术在当代文化语境下更加光彩、辉煌。

而这场水墨的演义也必将会在水墨艺术发展史的链条上，体现它学术、风格上的革命价值及其意义。

 

The contemporary ink art has gradually gained recognition and universal attention that whether people understand the history of contemporary ink art and its development so far, they will have no barrier to appreciate this art form and understand its spirit, because the paintings themselves are able to call out people's aspiration toward nature and their understanding toward life, spiritual world or inner senses. However, when this art form in China has ushered into a historical transition period in the ongoing chains of the time, how to make changes to this traditional art from its long history has become a hot topic for debates on the development of the contemporary ink art.

 

Based on this academic topic, this exhibition is aimed to retell the development of contemporary ink art from the perspective of art history, showcase its footprints, and demonstrate a revolutionary event in the development of contemporary ink art.

 

The artists defined in the "Contemporary ink art evolution" refer to the pioneers and practitioners on the language and forms of contemporary ink art since 1960s, who have enriched this art form from more than the aspect of the contemporary form. The transition of the modern society, and the integrity with the world cultures have not only drawn the art of ink painting out of the status of self-enclosed seclusion, but also have had strong impact on the mental world of the artists, who have constantly exploited the diversity and richness of this art in themes and subjects, analysed and extracted the traditional language elements from surveying the various display forms of contemporary ink art, re-studied the nature of this art, and formulated a more diverse and complicated language system different from tradition. As a result, they have enabled their own works to have new cultural values on the basis of the traditional spiritual values, and more importantly, their works have reflected sharper ideas, paid more attention to and fully express the  characteristics of conception and manifestation, and thus have enhanced the spiritual values of ink art to a new height.

 

Liu Kuo-Sung, Hsiao Chin, Qiu Deshu, Gu Wenda, Xu Bing, Wang Tiande, G.Y.Wu, Lan Zhenghui, and Qin Feng are explorers and revolutionaries in this historical transition in the Contemporary ink art. They represent a new height in the development of Contemporary ink art. Their works and ideas show the cultural characteristics of the language of ink art, demonstrate more of its inner strength, and make the contemporary ink art more brilliant and more colorful in the context of contemporary culture.

 

总策划：平傑

策展人: 李铁军 ( 北京 )Ingrid Raab ( 柏林 )田雯浩( 纽约)         许玉富 ( 台湾 )

策展助理：Sherry Xiao、曾玉兰、于佳婕

主辦：北京當代藝術館 MoCA BJ

协办：柏林RAAB GALERIE

      哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心