台北索卡展期：2011/1/8~2011/1/30
媒體記者會：2011/1/8(六)  14:00開幕酒會:  2011/1/8(六)  16:00    藝術家將出席開幕茶會
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Cosmic Spirit – Sang Huoyao Solo Exhibition
 
SOKA ART CENTER, TAIPEI
Duration：2011/1/8~2011/1/30
Media Interview：2011/1/8(Sat.) 14:00Reception：2011/1/8(Sat.) 16:00   The artist will attend the reception.
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“Cosmic Spirit - Sang Huoyao Solo Exhibition”

Press Release

Cosmic Spirit – Sang Huoyao Solo Exhibition    

Zhejiang is a place with glorious tradition of Chinese painting in China, yet, we can always expect to see innovative creative art energy explodes in a place with profound artistic tradition history. The Deputy Director of Zhejiang Art Museum, Sang Huoyao, not only plays a role in culture preservation, but also the creator of art at the same time; using traditional ink and water paint-brush as the medium to express a new language in the art of ink and wash painting. In the beginning of the year of 2011, Sang Huoyao brings his very own Zhejiang scenery to Soka Art Center – Taipei, and astonish the sensory of the fellow audience on Chinese ink and wash painting on Jan. 8, 2011 at 16:00.
 
Sang’s work transported the water from the major rivers of China, such as Changjiang River, Mudanjiang, Yarlung Zangbo River and Qiantang River, then he painted on the cloth silk with hand-made mineral substance. All materials of his work came from different geography spaces, he wants to express the modern generation’s understanding of nature and space in an even more macroscopic vision. Each area of grays on his work seems to overlap like monochromatic membrane. By deploying space across the paintings Sang marked his gestured and lyrical abstractions.
 
The cosmic spirit painting of Sang is the conception image art based on the phenomenon of all the macro and micro deduction. While Chinese traditional landscape painting is still playing the part of nourishing for the Chinese ink and wash paintings nowadays, the cosmic spirit of Sang’s painting deconstructs the Chinese landscape, gradually forming his own painting patterns and artistic conception. The main point of “Jingxiang” is the Jing, Jing is the soul of painting, which focus on the subjective and self, including the mood and state; Xiang is the true state of one’s mind, which is more connotative and profound than “Yixiang” (image). Sang started from the realistic painting, but he has stopped painting concrete expression, and he sees himself different from abstractionism as well; he has his own idea: Jingxiang (Cosmic Spirit) Expression, for he will create his own art. Sang started to comb the contemporary ink and wash painting since 2000, and put forward the Jingxiang (Cosmic Spirit) ink and wash painting; it is a new exploration for art after the concrete and image painting. Sang has insisted on this revolutionary road for a decade, the unique “Jing” and “Xiang” of his work will lead the audience to appreciate and admire contemporary ink and wash painting from a different macro and micro fashion.

“There are only eternal feelings, no eternal pattern. To change is the only task for artists,” said Sang. Breaking the artistic conception of traditional Chinese ink and wash painting, the art of Sang is not restricted by color and stroke, and reflected the adage that “Less is more,” which creates the cosmic spirit art of Sang’s own.

　　中國浙江，一個中國畫傳統深厚的境土，然而往往在藝術傳統越是深厚的地方，越是有創新的爆發力藝術能量產生。浙江美術館副館長桑火堯在這片土地上不僅扮演著文化保存者的角色，同時也是藝術的創作者；用傳統的水墨筆觸做媒介，闡述新的水墨畫語言。在2011年新年之初，桑火堯將帶著屬於他的浙江境象繪畫風貌至台北索卡藝術中心，於2011年1月8日下午四時撼動各位觀者觀看中國水墨藝術的感官。
 
　　桑火堯的作品運用了中國各大江流的水：長江、牡丹江、亞魯藏布江和錢塘江的水，再與親手調製的礦物質一同繪於布面及絹上。作品材料來自於不同的時間與空間，以一個更宏觀的視野表達當代人對自然與空間的理解。每一大塊的灰色區域像單色薄膜相互重疊，在繪畫背景上部署空間，標明了他的表明態度和抒情的抽象內容。

　　桑火堯的境象藝術基於一切宏觀與微觀演繹成的境象。中國傳統山水一直扮演著當下中國水墨藝術養分的角色，而桑火堯的境象繪畫對中國山水進行解構，形成自我的圖式與意境。境象之要義在境，境乃繪畫之魂，注重主觀與自我，包括心境，境界等；象為心跡，比意象更具內蘊，更為深刻，也比抽象更具哲學性，具有理性的因數。桑火堯一路從寫實中走來，但他不再做具象表現，也與抽象表現有別，他有他的主張：「境象表現」；因為他要創造只屬他的藝術。桑火堯在西元2000年初開始對當代水墨進行梳理，提出了「境象水墨」一說，是具象、意象繪畫後的一個新的藝術探索之路。如今已堅持在這條路上十餘年，桑火堯作品中所呈現的獨特「境」與「象」也將帶領觀者從不同的宏觀與微觀方式欣賞當代水墨。

　　桑火堯說：「只有永恆的情感，沒有永恆的程式，改變才是藝術家的唯一使命。」打破傳統水墨意境，桑火堯的藝術不受色彩和筆觸的限制，將 「少即是多 (Less is More)」的格言徹底體現，顛覆並創造只屬於他的境象藝術。