“心象-面孔——超越時空的精神肖像”展 主題圖片
2009北京798藝術節專題展
Special Exhibition 798 Art Festival Beijing 2009
心象·面孔——超越時空的精神肖像
Spirit Portraits Beyond Space and Time
開幕時間/ Date：9月19日14:00/ 14:00, Sep.19
展覽時間/ Opening Date：9月20日/Sep.20 --10月25日/Oct.25
地點：北京798藝術區798藝術中心（706大廠房）2號廳/798 Art Center Hall II
主題：心象·面孔——超越時空的精神肖像
Spirit Portraits Beyond Space and Time
策展人：于洋
Curator: Yu Yang
項目主持：李繼春
Compere：Li Jichun
展覽支援：楊傑
Assistant：Yang Jie
參展藝術家：劉斌、徐一峰、顧躍、王雷、劉子寧、孫策、李九實
Artists: Liu Bin, Xu Yifeng, Gu Yue, Wang Lei, Liu Zining, Sun Ce, Li Jiushi
心象·面孔——超越時空的精神肖像
主題闡釋
面孔是精神心象最為直接的呈現，個體與群體、精英與生民的面孔作為各個時代的印跡，不僅寄存著個體情感與心緒，更承載著藝術家情感記憶的積澱、文化處境的回應與社會責任的擔當。面孔中浮現當下對於歷史的映射，也挑戰著人們對於過往與現實的態度。
世紀之交的前後十年，個人記憶與私密經驗愈發成為當代藝術關注的焦點，而對於社會生存的嚴肅思考和終極關懷，卻作為六、七十年代意識形態化的集體記憶與言説模式一同被納入反撥的範疇。這種趨向的結果是，越來越多被複製的“生活流”、“近距離”式的觀察與微觀情緒的表現，隨著題材的程式化、時尚化與表現技法的成熟，日趨滑向個人畫室裏自我玩味的個體情緒，或者陷落于顧影自憐的自我迷戀，或者沉湎于玩世不恭的波普浪潮。靜駐隔岸的觀瞻視角，與理性反省的思想鋒芒，日漸缺席于英雄遠去的時代。
在當下功利主義、個人慾望與快餐文化充溢世界的時代語境中，重拾公共知識分子的思考能力與文化使命，以敏銳的個體經驗關注宏大的社會問題與普適的人性關懷，已經顯得尤為及時與可貴。這需要藝術傢具有足夠強大的勇氣、足夠獨立的人格與足夠敏銳的自覺，將微觀的個人情緒放置於更為廣闊的社會現實中，並進行深層的比照與反思。當一個地域的精神群像以個體的、偶在的、鮮活的方式再度呈現，當面孔與面孔跨越時空的面面相對，共振傳統與當下的心靈脈動，被喚起的不僅僅是來自歷史深處的凝視。
此次展覽中的藝術家分別生於上世紀50、60、70、80年代，出身於學院並守持獨立的文化立場，他們在對精神肖像的研究與表述中完成了個體對於時代的不同回應，這些面孔遙遠而又親近，裏面有他們也有我們。所幸還有這些精神的面孔能夠帶給我們觸動與提示，使我們在經驗的碎片中憑吊與撫摸過往的真實，並以此追問當下與未來。
于洋
2009年9月19日
展覽空間
Minds to Faces：Spirit Portraits Beyond Space and Time
Theme Explanation
Potraits show minds. The potraits as print of times and faces of individual and public, elites and civilian, bear the weight of individual emotion, memory of sensibility, responses to culture condition, and responsibility of society. Potraits show history, and challenge people’s attitude between past and present.
Since 1990s, Chinese modern artests focus most of their attention on individual memory and private experience, rather than serious ideology consideration. As a result, there were more and more observation from close quarters, representation to the microcosmic emotion, along with pattern of theme, maturity of technique style, and cynicism spirits. Rationalistic mentality and macroscopical angle of view absents since absence of heroes.
It is necessary to rebuild sensitive individual experience and ability to thought as a public intellectual in contemporary society context, there is full of utilitarianism, individual desire and snack culture. That depends on artests’ courage, unattached personality and consciousness. They have to pay attention to the grand society problem and ultimate humanity, instead of individual emotion. When the spirit from local culture shows itself as individual, occasional and vivid impression, when the spirit portraits beyond space and time, face to face between ancient and present, tradition and modern, there is a forever gazing from depth of history.
The artist of this exhibition were born in 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, with the academic background and specific culture position. They answer the questions of different decades with their art creation. The far and near potraits imaged both themselves and ourselves. It’s lucky that these spirit potraits could affect and inspire us. We could visit and ponder on the past, touch reality of history and question today and future closely.
Yu Yang
Sep.19, 2009
