内容提要
冬去春来，海上花开。
“海上花”是李磊的一个作品系列的名字，而这个名字与韩邦庆、张爱玲、侯孝贤、罗大佑等人的线索并无关联，此花非彼花。
十多年来，李磊的作品风格从写实转入抽象，那些抽象作品系列曾先后选择了许多与花有关的题目，诸如《葬花》、《禅花》、《海上花》、《落桃花》乃至《乱花飞》等等，不一而足。这些题目与“拈花微笑”、“一花一世界”有关，与“色”和“空”有关，与禅宗的参悟有关，是心灵与智慧之花。
李磊的抽象世界是充满诗意的，与“冷抽象”用理性分析宇宙秩序的艺术观念不尽相同，他的“热抽象”风格有着浓厚的抒情倾向和文学色彩，以至于大量作品直接以诗句和词牌为题，足见他对古诗词的倾心。1990年代初以来，上海一直是一个以“冷抽象”闻名的城市，但李磊的作品中却放射出罕见的激情和炽热。
形式语言上的更迭嬗变，使得李磊的风格触及到视觉表达的各种限度，他坚信人类视觉与情感存在着普遍的共通性，因而不断尝试着对永恒美感的探索。近年来，他的实验跨越文化樊篱，西方现代的表现主义和东方传统的水墨写意在他的作品中水乳交融。
同时身为艺术家与艺术机构的管理者，双重身份的重叠，并没有成为李磊的困扰，与此相反，他多年以来持续不断地为自己设定更高的目标，在繁忙的行政工作之余，他的创作也迸发出令人惊异的才情与活力。本次展览是李磊在张江的第二次个展，在此，我代表张江当代艺术馆向他表示衷心的祝贺，祝愿展览圆满成功！
张江当代艺术馆 馆长 李旭
2009年5月7日
Shanghai Flower is the tile of one of Li Lei’s series of works. For more than one decade, his style has been turning from realism into abstract, and his abstract series have got various titles related to flowers, such as Burying Flowers, Dhyana Flower, Shanghai Flower, Gone with the Wind, Dancing Flowers, and etc. Concerned with the concepts of “smiling with a flower in hand”, “one flower equaling one world”, “material appearance of things”, “nihility” and comprehension of Zen, these titles are actually flowers of heart and intelligence.
Li Lei’s abstract world is full of poetic flavor. Quite different from the art concepts of geometrical abstract painting to analyze the system of the universe, the style of his lyric abstract painting is fairly expressive and literary, therefore he named most of his works with Chinese ancient verses and names of the tunes to which ci poems are composed, fully reflecting his admiration for ancient poems and verses. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Shanghai has always been known for “geometrical abstract painting”, however, Li Lei’s works radiate with rare passion and heat.
The transformation in formal language enables Li Lei’s style to touch various boundaries of vision expression. He firmly believes, human vision and emotion have something in common, thus, he keeps exploring in eternal aesthetics. Recently, his experimentations has transcended the cultural restriction, and western modern expressionism and eastern traditional freehand ink painting were integrated perfectly among his works.
The double identity of being an artist and a principal of an art institution doesn’t perplex Li Lei. On the contrary, he has incessantly established higher goals for himself for many years. In his spare time, his creation also shows amazing talent and dynamics. This Exhibition is Li Lei’s second solo exhibition in Zhangjiang. Here, on behalf of the Z-art Center, I’d like to sincerely congratulate him, and wish this exhibition would be a perfect success.
Li Xu
Director of the Z-art Center
May 7, 2009
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