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“伟大的张江！”，我一直在电话里这样称呼这位令我敬佩的艺术家，每次接到张江的电话，我的心头都会掠过一片亮色，那是一种来之藏地所独有的宗教色彩。
时光回到18年前，我和张江去西部采风，一同搭车去色达佛学院，半路上我们滞留在塔公，3天里我们伫立在荒凉的公路边竟找不到一辆可以搭乘的过路汽车。可是，在这三天三夜里，我们畅谈了生死、信仰和共同热爱的艺术。从此我们成了艺术上的挚友，同时也让我有机会近距离观赏他画作的诞生并充分地分享他近廿年的艺术成就。在罗浮宫、大皇宫办展览是多少艺术家梦寐以求的愿望，但对张江来说，这只是家常便饭。我已经记不清张江在日本和法国得过多少次奖，办过多少次个展。前不久，一位美国的大收藏家攥着我手激动地说：“30年前曾在纽约收藏了陈逸飞的画作，从此开始关注中国大陆的艺术家，当我在欧洲看到张江的作品时，那份欣喜无法用语言表达……”
张江就是这样一位在世界舞台上广受关注的艺术家，但是不管他的艺术有多成功，他依然像一个苦修的信徒，廿年来，虔诚地在雪域西藏的神山圣湖间匍匐前行，坚定执著地走在漫长的转经路上，他是这个时代为数不多的用生命来书写信仰的伟大艺术家。每一年的秋天他会带给我们一份惊喜，让我们沐浴在西藏灿烂的阳光里，沉醉在高原辽远的牧歌声中，在张江描绘的那一片精神画布上，我们看到了一个杰出艺术家的深情、高旷和真诚。
这个秋天，我们将在台北揭晓这份惊喜。
尔冬强
2012年4月5日
于斯里兰卡阿努拉德普拉
PREFACE
The great Zhang Jiang is what I always call that artist I admire. Every time he phones me, a stroke of brightness flashes across my heart, which brings something unique from Tibetan religion.
Eighteen years ago, Zhang Jiang and I went to the west part to gather source material for our works. While we were on our way to Serthar Buddhist Institute, we were held up in Tagong. For three days, we stranded along the wild road and could not get a lift. But it was in these three days and nights that we talked freely our views of life, death, faith and art, which we both love. From then on we became bosom friends on arts, which also avails me to appreciate how he created his paintings close and share his artistic achievement of almost twenty years. Too numerous for me to count down how many prizes has he got or how many exhibitions has he held in Japan and France. For many artists, to exhibit in the Louvre Museum or Grand Palace is a long cherished goal; but for Zhang Jiang, it was quite common. I clearly remember what an exited big American collector told me griping my hands: “since I collected works by Chen Yifei 30 years ago in New York, I have attended to artists from China mainland. When I happened to see Zhang Jiang’s works in Europe, I could hardly tell how excited I was…”
That is Zhang Jiang, a spotlighted artist in the global stage. But however successful he is in art, he remains an ascetic, crawling forward among the sacred mountains and along the holy lakes in the Tibetan snowfield piously on his route of pilgrimage. He is one of few great artists currently who express faith with life. Every autumn he would bring us with a surprise, basking us in the brilliant sunshine of Tibet and indulging us in the distant pastoral songs on plateaus. From the spiritual painting drawn by Zhang Jiang, we perceive the passion, the high mind and the sincerity of a prominent artist.
We will be looking forward to that surprise again in Taipei this autumn.
Deke Erh(Er Dongqiang)
April 5, 2012
Anuradhapura Ancient City, Sri Lanka
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