内容提要
前 言
任何一种艺术形态，其精神层面的普遍价值，必然要随着时代的变化而发展，水墨画亦然。当今，我们正置身于一个艺术语言不断创新的时代，一个艺术观念不断寻求新的突破的时代，水墨画也正处于这样的时代转型或转换的过程之中。而要实现转型或转换，关键之处则在于艺术家通过各自的艺术实践，对传统水墨进行建构和重组。这就使当今水墨画的创作语境，处在一个有着多种选择可能性的形态，呈现出一个任随艺术家想像力自由驰骋的多元景观。参加本次展览的仇德树、杨劲松、邓国源、陈心懋、张浩、雷虹、张诠等七位艺术家，在水墨画的现代进程中，不仅在形式语言和个性风格上独树一帜，在形式构架上追求创新，而且更在作品中以当代审美观念和价值取向作为精神支点，实现对传统水墨的精神置换，用当代精神来营构属于自己的语言和图式。
语言和图式是精神的载体，在语言和图式的形式意味中，最能体现艺术家的审美精神和创作观念；围绕艺术家视觉经验所建立的语言和图式的述说，都可视作他们隐匿于内心的精神世界的外化。在参加本次展览的作品中，即可强烈感受到这种同步并进的形式转换和精神重建。他们或是在材料和媒介上进行“做写结合”的“颠覆性革命”，建构具有当代审美精神的个性化符号；或是从传统水墨中脱颖而出，又挪用借鉴西方的艺术观念和形式语言，在“中西调合”的基础上进行水墨画在本体论上的重建。他们的作品或有形变异，或遁形写意，或在有形无形之间穿插行进；有的笔墨并举，对笔墨的固有特性加以开拓和延展，有的舍笔求墨或舍墨求笔，有的甚至以非传统材料和媒介的工具性特征转化为自主性表达，来追求一种“非笔墨”的全新意趣，但都无不在圆融无碍的图像中，溶入了艺术家对水墨画本质属性的深刻感悟，并将这种感悟置换到既定的当代文化语境中，毕现出艺术家人格精神的力量，产生水墨画作为当代艺术的价值和意义。
墨画一直以来都视为中国文化艺术的象征，代表着中国文化的精神指向和审美价值，随着原初文化语境的变化，经过解构和重组的当代水墨画，承载起将这种象征和价值赋予新的意义而得以传承发展的使命。水墨画有着它自身的文化定位和内在的规范体系，在时代转型和转换的过程中，并不会失去自我形态的认定性，而是在对它的解构和重组中，体现出内在的承续性和向当代转型和转换的可能性，演化出水墨画逻辑发展的必然轨迹，以一种新的水墨价值观来取代传统水墨画的价值取向，从而最终确立在当今世界文化多元格局中的地位。本次展览就是一个有力的例证。参展艺术家以自身的方式，即对传统水墨画的价值重新判断和特立独行的原创精神，用各具特色的创作实践，证明了当代水墨画已然成为当代艺术的一种重要的力量。（文章来源：《水墨新境---中国当代水墨展》）
Every artistic format's spiritual values evolve along with the changes of time, the same goes with Ink painting. Today, we live in an era that artistic languages constantly seek for innovation, and artistic concepts thrive on breakthroughs. Ink painting is right in the middle of such an era, a period of alternation or to say exploring the process of change. To realize changes, the key is for the artists to practice their own art, and reconstruct traditional ink painting through practice. That gives today’s ink painting many possibilities, and it represents a world as big as artists' imagination can reach.
The seven artists at this exhibition are Deshu Qiu, Jinsong Yang, Guoyuan Deng, Xinmao Chen, Hao Zhang, Hong Lei, and Quan Zhang. All of them have their own unique styles and are quite innovative in their creation of modern ink paintings.
Languages and images are carriers of spirit. Artists' aesthetic spirit and concept of creation best show through language and image. Languages and images artists build through their visual experiences can be seen as a demonstration of their hidden inner spiritual world. In this exhibition, the artists either make a subversive revolution in materials or media to create personal signature pieces that match with the contemporary aesthetic spirit, or borrow western artistic concepts and languages to combine east and west and reconstruct water & ink on some fundamental level. All these works contain artists' deep understanding of ink painting, furthermore such understanding is based on a contemporary culture, thus the works reveal the artists' spiritual power and generate the value and meaning of ink painting as a contemporary art format.
Ink painting has long been viewed as a symbol of traditional Chinese culture & art. It represents Chinese culture, spiritual tendency, and aesthetic values. Through the reconstruction of contemporary ink painting, this art form now bears the weight of being a symbol of contemporary Chinese culture & art as well. Because Ink painting has its own cultural position and inner standards, even with the change of time, it is not going to lose its reputation. Instead, changes helped ink painting develop its inner continuity & its capability of transformation into contemporary art. This exhibition is an example of this evolvement of Chinese ink painting paintings from traditional to contemporary, and it shows us that contemporary ink painting has become an important form of contemporary art!
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