“活墨生香”—當代水墨聯展
開幕式時間：2009年8月8日18點(開幕儀式及茶道表演)
策展人：李穎
參展藝術家：李津，劉慶和，呂鵬，彭薇，何建國，邵戈，王勁松，武藝，于繼東，朱偉
展覽時間：2009年8月8日- 9月4日
展覽地點：對畫空間
我們可能難以辨識一張油畫是出自法國藝術家還是西班牙藝術家之手，然而，當我們進入有數千張繪畫作品的博物館時，任何人都可以輕鬆指出哪些作品是中國畫。特殊的材質和表現形式使得水墨畫成為了中國藝術的獨特代表。
二十世紀以降，全球化的步伐已經變得不可抵擋。隨著油畫，丙烯等繪畫材料的普及，水墨畫受到了前所未有的衝擊。新的藝術形式層出不窮，一大批水墨藝術家們不斷地做出嘗試，在傳統材料與當代技法之間探索，最終超越了國畫的限制，將水墨獨立出來，進而演變成一種充滿時代精神的全新的藝術表現形式—新水墨。
這幾年，在大家熱衷於探討傳統藝術生存狀態的時候，我開始意識到做一個新水墨展的必要性。本次展覽，我很榮幸地邀請到李津、劉慶和、呂鵬、彭薇、何建國、邵戈、王勁松、武藝、于繼東，朱偉十位新水墨藝術家共同舉辦“活墨生香”這樣一個展覽。他們當中既有學院的教師，也有自由藝術家，都是當代中國水墨界最為活躍的人物。觀看他們十人的作品基本可以窺見整個中國當代新水墨的完整生態。
這些藝術家的作品重現了水墨的魅力，也為傳統藝術在新時代背景下的發展提供了許多新的可能性。
“Scent of Ink”— Group Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ink
Opening: 6m, August 8, 2009（openning ceremony and tea performance)
Curator：Amy Y.Li
Participating artists： Li Jin, Liu Qinghe, Lü Peng, Peng Wei, He Jianguo, Shao Ge, Wang Jinsong, Wu Yi, Yu Jidong, Zhu Wei
Duration : August 8 – September 4,2009
It could be difficult for us to tell if a painting is a work of a French or a Spanish artist, yet when we come to a museum with thousands of paintings, we all can easily point out the Chinese ones. The particularity of the materials used and of the way of expression in ink and wash painting makes it a unique representative of Chinese art.
Since the 20th century, the globalization has become irresistible. With the popularity of oil painting, acrylic and other materials, the ink and wash painting has been under attack as never before. New types of art emerge in an endless stream, many ink painters attempt constantly to search between traditional and modern materials and skills, and they finally got to overpass the limits of the traditional Chinese painting and made ink and wash evolve independently into a brand new art type which is full of the spirits of our time—New Ink and Wash.
In recent years, while everybody is enthusiast about the living state of traditional art, I started to realize the necessity of organizing an exhibition of new ink and wash. This time I’m honored to have Li Jin, Liu Qinghe, Lü Peng, Peng Wei, He Jianguo, Shao Ge, Wang Jinsong, Wu Yi, Yu Jidong and Zhu Wei to join our group exhibition “Scent of Ink”. Among them there are art professors and independent artists, they all play a most active role in the world of Chinese contemporary ink and wash. With their works, we get to basically see a complete picture of the present conditions of this new art world in China.
The work of these artists bring to us once again the charm of ink and wash, and they also provide many new possibilities for the development of traditional art in a contemporary context.