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周长江是上海现代艺术界的重要代表人物。1980年代中期，他开创了著名的“互补系列”，20多年来，这个充满思辨色彩和人文关怀的作品系列次第展开。尽管每一幅作品都有着特别的标题，但绝大多数仍可归类到这个漫长而精彩的系列之中。在周长江的创作里，“互补”是对东方哲学，尤其是道家哲学思想的高度概括，天与地、阴与阳、昼与夜、黑与白、男与女……都存在于对立统一的矛盾关系之中，并在此消彼长、周而复始的循环中相互依存。
从具体的视觉形式来看，“互补”的观念体现于造型、色彩、笔触、肌理、媒介和文化符号等载体之上。周长江建立了一套独特的符码化视觉语言，借助这样的语言，他在作品中展开了传统与现代、东方与西方之间寓意深远的对话。对中国古代文化艺术成就的潜心研究，使得他对民族审美价值充满信心，在绘画作品中，那些张弛有度的布局和遒劲有力的笔触，都体现着他对中国书法传统虔诚的敬意。身为艺术家和教育家，周长江的艺术追求充分体现着当代人文知识分子的责任心和使命感。
本次展览是周长江迄今为止最重要的学术个展，展览的主题“天•人之问”，体现着艺术家对人生、对世界的终极关怀。周长江为这次个展特别创作了巨幅作品《天·人之问》，绘画脱离单一平面，走向三度空间的尝试，更预示着“互补系列”的全新发展方向。1989年，《互补系列N0.120》曾在第七届全国美展上荣获银奖，创造了非具象类艺术作品在中国大陆最高官方奖项上的空前纪录，20年后的今天，谨以此展览纪念这个有着历史意义的文化事件。
张江当代艺术馆 馆长
李旭
2009年6月24日
Zhou Changjiang is an important representative figure in Shanghai modern art circles. In the middle of the 1980s, he started the famous series of Complementation. For more than two decades, this series full of speculative hues and humanistic care has gradually unfolded one after another. Though each piece has its own special title, most of them could still be classified into this extensive and magnificent series. Among Zhou's creation, "complementation" is the highest-degree summarization of oriental philosophies, especially Taoism's philosophic ideology - heaven and earth, the negative and the positive, day and night, black and white, man and woman, and etc, all exist in the contradictory relations of unity of opposites, and depend on each other during the unceasing cycles.
From the perspective of specific visual form, the concept of “complementation” is presented through various carriers including molding, color, brushstroke, texture, media, cultural symbol, and etc. Having established a set of unique symbolized visual language, Zhou began the meaningful and profound conversations between the traditional and the modern, the eastern and the western, with assistance of such a language. His accomplished researches on ancient Chinese art achievements bestowed him with great confidence about national aesthetic values. In his paintings, those appropriate compositions and forceful brushstrokes embody his devout respect for Chinese calligraphic traditions. As an artist and educator, Zhou pursues art goals fully reflecting contemporary humanistic intellectual's senses of responsibility and mission.
This exhibition is Zhou's most important academic solo exhibition up till now. The exhibition's theme "Between Nature and Mankind" reflects the artist's ultimate concerns about life and the world. For this exhibition, Zhou Changjiang especially created a huge piece of work "Between Nature and Mankind", which broke away from two-dimensional painting and made an attempt towards the three-dimensional space, further predicting the completely new developing direction of the series of "Complementation". In 1989, Complementation No. 120 was awarded the silver prize in the 7th National Art Exhibition, and created the unprecedented record of a non-representational artwork winning the highest official prize in mainland China. Today after two decades, we'd like to hold this exhibition to commemorate this cultural event of historic significance.
Li Xu
Director of the Z-art Center
June 24, 2009
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