展覽名稱：《6.5維》——史晶個展
Exhibition: 6.5 Dimensions – Shi Jing Solo Exhibition
策展人：江銘
Curator: Jiang Ming
開幕酒會：2007年 11月15日下午三點
Opening Reception: at 3:00 p.m. on November 15, 2007
展覽時間：2007年 11月 15日-2007年 12月 15日
Exhibition Run: November 15, 2007 -2007, December 15
展覽地點： 印尼華藝莎藝術中心
Location: Vanessa Art Center Jakarta
評論：
6.5維
6.5 Dimensions——史晶解剖性作品的研究
shijinganatomical study of the works
江銘/文
史晶的作品明顯地與當代藝術的所謂觀念性有一定的距離！他的作品是自我體驗性實驗的典範！我們從什麼樣的角度解讀史晶的作品關係到我們如何重新思考藝術與人類的關係的本質屬性問題！在史晶的世界裏，藝術是藝術家的個體體驗的産物，而經驗是第二位。他認為人的直覺是最寶貴的東西，直覺往往很準確，而人的經驗卻可能出錯，所以他不相信經驗的東西。於是他的藝術也從直覺出發了。在那些單純的畫面上他將色彩完全抽空，來嘗試體驗單純的筆觸與感覺的通暢度，他所要體驗的正是繪畫與人的關係，他所注重的是個體在現實中真切的精神體驗。
Shi Jing’s works obviously stand apart from the so-called conceptuality of contemporary art! His works are the standard-bearers for self-practiced experimentation! The perspective we choose for decoding Shi Jing’s works is related to how we begin anew in pondering the quintessential issues of the relationship between man and art! In Shi Jing’s works, art is the product of the individual practice, with experience coming in second. He believes that a person’s intuition is a valuable thing. Intuition is often correct, but experience can be wrong, so he doesn’t believe in the stuff of experience. This is why his art begins with intuition. In those innocent pictures, he completely empties the colors and gets a feel for the connection between simple strokes and feeling. What he wants to get a feel for is the relationship between painting and person. What he emphasizes is the true spiritual feeling in reality.
普通的觀眾面對史晶的作品也許根本無從閱讀，因為他作品的多重維度被隱藏在表像中，視覺的誤讀對産生於質感的東西無法用語言來形容！所以解讀他的作品含義是第二位的，而我們如何準確地，盡可能接近性地描述他的作品反而顯得更加重要。他的作品在描述之中意義就完全地顯現出來了！
When the common audience encounters Shi Jing’s works, it may have no idea where to begin in reading them, because many dimensions are hidden within the images. The sensual perceptions created by visual misreading are impossible to put into words! Therefore decoding the meaning of his works is secondary, while the most proper, closest way for us to describe his works becomes more important. In the course of describing his works, the significance becomes fully apparent!
史晶的作品我們可以用維度的關係來分析，其作品的幾個部分呈現出幾種不同的效果和感受。如果我們將具像繪畫的三維空間進行解剖，將正面、左側面、右側面運用成像度來確定，那麼當我們正面面對那組灰、白系列作品的畫面時，我們感到那些圖像顯現出一種模糊的、脆弱的、冷靜的印象，這種印象在很多人的經驗裏是不滿意的狀態，因為我們無法準確而又確切地捕捉到那個我們似乎已經朦朧看到卻不能夠被顯影的圖像！這種感覺就像我們身處的世界，我們所面對的現實，我們所看到的那些事件、狀況、現象、我們似乎能夠捕捉到一些什麼，但是我們又無法確切地知道那些真實的東西。在這個正面視覺印象中我們所能夠見到的就只有0.5個維度，連1個維度都沒有，它是不完整的，另外那半個維度被隱藏起來，我們不知道它在什麼地方。但是當我們的觀察視角發生變化的時候，隨著腳步的移動，我們發現整個畫面出現了不同的虛實變化與形體起伏凹凸的改變，原來平面化的畫面開始出現具像的圖形以及光影的微妙改變。甚至在某些時候我們還仿佛感受到他所描繪的那些圖像在流動。在那組白色畫面的作品中，我們體驗到這樣的感受，即當我們從畫面的正面移動腳步向左或者向右的時候，畫面上開始顯現出某種特殊效果的、泛起銀白色光澤的具象的某些形象。於是我們感到一種喜悅，這種喜悅就好象我們突然發現了某種被隱藏起來的東西，那種感受很特別，讓人驚喜。那些圖像是清晰的但又是傾斜的，我們內心的滿意度被稍稍削弱了，我們如果用準確的數字來表述，這個視角應該有1.5個維度，因為傾斜之後的維度應該減少0.5，透視關係再減去1個維度，剩下的部分就只有1.5維了。左右兩邊的視覺維度都是這個數值1.5，而視覺效果卻是相反的關係。於是當我們看完作品之後,我們的內心裏面將會合成一個圖像,這個圖像呈現具像的東西但是仍然不是完整的，這個心裏合成的圖像仍然不是3維的，它至多只能夠達到2個維度的關係。
We can use dimensional relationships to analyze Shi Jing’s works, as various parts of his works present different effects and understandings. If we dissect the three-dimensional space of a concrete painting, defining the front, left and right sides by how they create the image, then when we face the images of those gray and white series, we will feel that those images present murky, weak and cold impressions, and this is unsatisfactory in the many people’s experience, because we cannot properly and fully capture an image that we had blurrily seen but couldn’t put our finger on! This feeling is reminiscent of the world in which we live. With the reality we face, the things we see, the situations and phenomena, we can almost grasp something, but we can never really know its truth. In this head-on visual image, we can only see half a dimension, not even a single full one. It is incomplete; the other half-dimension is hidden, whereabouts unknown. But when our observational perspective is changed, as when we take a step, we notice that the entire image has undergone a virtual change and the form attains depth. An image that was once flat starts to appear as a concrete image with minute changes in lighting and shading. Sometimes it is almost as if we can perceive movement in those images he sketched. In those white works, we can feel this sort of perception, and if we step to the left or the right, special effects appear in the image, emerging as silver-white forms of some sort. This brings us a bit of joy, like when we suddenly discover something that was hidden. That’s a special kind of feeling, a happy one. Those images are clear yet skewed, and our satisfaction level is dropped a notch. To use the correct numbers, this perspective has 1.5 dimensions, because the skew subtracts 0.5 and the transparency subtracts another full dimension, leaving us with 1.5 dimensions. The left and right perspectives are each at the value of 1.5, and the images are opposite. So after we see the work, our minds put them together as a single image. This image appears concrete, but is still incomplete; this mental composite still falls short of 3 dimensions, only adding up to two.
我們將作品的整個維度數值相加在一起也就是我們面對他一件作品所獲得的整體感受，這種感受遠遠超出了我們面對其他繪畫作品直接呈現給我們的心理視覺，那些作品從畫面感受上只有3個維度的空間關係，而史晶的作品卻達到了0.5+1.5+1.5+2=5.5的維度。這也就是很多的人面對著史晶作品所感受到的那種特殊性，我們感受到他的作品與我們所習慣看到的事物關係的不同，但是我們無法確定那些不同究竟來源於什麼方面。他從藝術自身的語言研究出發，找到一種特殊的方法，為我們打開了一扇能夠通向精神領域的多個端口，這扇門很窄，找到他的人並不是很多。
If we add all of the dimensional values in a work together, which is the overall perception of one of his works, this perception far surpasses the psychological vision that we get directly from other works. Those other works only have a three-dimensional spatial relationship, but Shi Jing’s works have reached 0.5+1.5+1.5+2=5.5 dimensions. That is the peculiarity that many people perceive when faced with one of Shi Jing’s works. We get the feeling that his works are different from the things we’re used to seeing, but we can’t decide from exactly where that difference arises. He set out from the research of artistic language, found a special method, and opened for us a door that leads to many windows into the spirit. This is a very narrow door, and few people succeed in finding it.
在他的黑色系列的那些作品中我們會感受到另外的不同，他的黑色畫面的作品，譬如倫勃朗的那組作品，都是在燈光下作業的，他嘗試著用顏料表面的油質反光來成像。在這組作品中我們能夠體驗到打開燈光與不打開燈光時截然不同的外在視觸覺與內在心理觸覺的複雜變化。在不打開燈光的情況下，我們正面面對畫面時，圖像呈現出殘缺的狀況，這種殘像只有0.5的維度，而打開燈光的時候則是3維立體的完整效果，不過這個效果只能在左右30°的夾角範圍內才能夠看到，超出這個範圍則沒有了。而隨著這個視角的繼續加大之後我們會發現圖像重新變得殘缺不全，在左右兩邊的成像度都只有0.5維。在觀賞這組作品之後，我們的內心仍然會合成一個心裏的視覺形象，這個形象也不是完全3維的，我們也應該將它確定為2個維度。
In his black series we find a different kind of difference. His black paintings, like the Rembrandt series, were done under light. He was dabbling with the use of an oily finish to reflect the image. With these works, we can get a feel for the complex visual and psychological changes between when the light is on and when it is off. When the light is off, and we face it head-on, the image appears in an incomplete state, and this state is only 0.5 dimensions. When we turn on the light it is in full 3 dimensional effect, though it can only be seen within thirty degrees to the right or left. Once we leave this radius, the effect is gone. Past this field the image is once again incomplete, and we only get 0.5 dimensions. After viewing these works, we can once again synthesize a mental visual form. This form isn’t fully 3 dimensional, and we should define it as 2 dimensional.
那麼我們最終在這組作品中所獲得的外在與內在的總體的體驗將能夠達到6.5個維度，即0.5+3+0.5+0.5+2=6.5維。
Then, in this series of works, the overall dimensionality from internal to external comes out to 6.5 degrees, as such: 0.5+3+0.5+0.5+2=6.5.
這組黑色的作品給我們一種潛入心靈的神秘的東西，當燈光亮起來的時候，我們看到很明確的圖像，但是我們感受不到這個圖像的真實性，它是一種假像。而燈光熄滅的時候，那種殘缺的畫面又折磨我們的視覺，我們總是想移動視線，想從某個角度找到那個被隱藏起來的東西。可是那個被隱藏起來的究竟是什麼呢？在這組作品中燈光成為繪畫的一個合理的組成部分。
This series of black works gives us something mysterious that reaches the soul. When the light is turned on, we see a definite image, but we cannot perceive the reality of this image, as it is a façade. When the light is extinguished, that incomplete image comes to mess with our vision; we always want to move the line of sight, hoping to find that hidden thing through a certain perspective. But what, after all, is that which was hidden? In this series of works, light has become a reasonable component of the painting.
史晶的第三個實驗體現在《黑森林》、《廢園》這樣的作品中，這些作品是在一個或者多個顏色的燈光下進行的，他仍然使用單一的顏色，但是對這些作品的描繪可以不注意任何的形象與素描關係，而是可以胡亂的涂點，他企圖使圖像的感光度達到普通數位相機的模式，而與人的肉眼的感光拉開距離。他發現人眼與數位相機之間有一個夾層，這個夾層可能是被我們曾經忽略的灰色地帶。他想探求這個灰色的地帶究竟有著怎樣的可能性和多大的領域。從而我們發現在這個灰色的地帶中，抽象表現主義、神秘主義以及現實主義其實都共生在一個時空中，相互之間可以任意轉換與置換。
Shi Jing’s third experiment is embodied in works such as Black Forest and Waste Field. These works were made under a light or number of lights, and though they are also monochrome, this sketching could be done with no attention to the relationships of forms, instead they can be chaotically scribbled. He attempted to use the image’s light sensitivity to reach the level of a common digital camera, and create a distance from the light sensitivity of the human eye. He realized that there is a level between the human eye and the digital camera, which might be a gray zone that we previously ignored. He wanted to explore the potentials and scope of this gray zone. In this gray zone we discover that abstract expressionism, mysticism and realism all live within the same time and space, and that they are all mutually interchangeable.
在這組作品中對於它的維度應該這樣描述，即所有角度，我們視覺的成像都是0.5維，無論在左、中、右哪個角度。而數位相機所呈現的圖像則是3維的效果，再加上我們內心所描述的2個維度，這組作品仍然給我們造成0.5+0.5+0.5+3+2=6.5維的總體感受。
The dimensionality of these works should be explained in this way – from any perspective, the visual image is 0.5 degrees, whether the perspective is left, center or right. The digital image is a 3 dimensional effect, and our internal depiction is 2 dimensions, so this series still gives us 0.5+0.5+0.5+3+2=6.5 dimensions overall.
從這組作品中我們會發現原作可以是不完整的。畫冊與傳媒可以是不真實的。真實的畫面與傳播的圖像可以完全是兩回事。面對這樣一種情狀，我們該相信誰？真實與假像之間究竟有著怎樣的距離？看來面對這些作品我們所感受到的已經不僅僅是視觸覺的不同與奇特。它所帶給我們的東西已經遠遠超出了繪畫本身。
From this series, we can see that the original work doesn’t have to be complete. Catalogues and media can be unreal. The real image and the broadcasted picture can be completely different things. When faced with such a situation, which do we believe? What is the true distance between the real and the false? It would seem that in these works what we perceive is not merely limited to visual differences and oddities. What it brings us has vastly transcended painting.
在我們全部的生命與生活中，是什麼東西使我們滿意或者不滿意？在全部的生命中，我們見到的一切，有多少是真實的、可以把握的、能夠持久的？又有多少東西是短暫的、殘缺的、破碎的？究竟什麼是我們全部生命感知中的意義與價值？我們精神的世界究竟有著怎樣廣闊的可能性和神秘地帶？
In the entirety of our lives, what is it that makes us satisfied or unsatisfied? Among all the things we see throughout our lives, how much of it is real, graspable and lasting? How much of it is temporary, incomplete and fragmented? What, in the end, is the significance and value of our lifelong perceptions? What breadths of potential and mysterious realms are to be found in our spiritual world?
面對史晶的作品，我們被另外的一種審美所捕獲。這些東西區別於我們普遍所見到的很多的強權性作品，那些作品被賦予了明確的“觀念性”與“意義性”，他們往往使我們感受到某種來自於藝術家所賦予的説教性特徵，他們在給我們這些欣賞者進行某種政治的、文化的、藝術的説教。但是在很多的時候，我們不能夠懂得作品直接所呈現出來的東西，於是藝術家只好借助於理論闡釋，編織出許多的象徵性、引申性的意義來試圖説服我們。閱讀這樣的作品我們需要借助文字或者語言，而視覺的直接性的感受往往變的無關緊要。史晶的作品其實是對於這樣一種藝術傾向的批判性的實驗，在這個層面上有著重要的價值。他使我們重新思考架上繪畫的本質性問題以及視覺藝術與哲學、政治學、文學等相關學科到底應該有著怎樣的差異。
When facing Shi Jing’s works, we are captured by an entirely different aesthetic. This stuff is different from so many powerful works that are commonly seen, works that have been correctly dubbed “conceptual”. They often give us a perception of the artist’s preaching, like the artist is preaching some kind of politics, culture or art. But we are often unable to understand what the work is directly presenting to us, so the artist must resort to the use of reasoning and explanation, to weave symbolic and extended meaning to convince us. When reading into these works, we must make use of text and language, and the visual directness often loses importance. Shi Jing’s works are actually an experiment in critique of this artistic trend, and on this level it is very valuable. He makes us once again consider the essential issues of the painting on the frame, and what contrast the visual art should have with such sciences as philosophy, political science and literature.
中國的當代藝術是西方價值系統的延續性産物，但是今天的中國現實卻使西方人驚訝地發現，中國人把這個由西方人所殖民的歷史演變成為中國人自我重新把玩的新遊戲！很多被套用在中國本土的西方的體系與模式越來越顯得生硬而不合身！於是中國人開始為自己打造歷史與遊戲規則，而且不講道理，只講實用與適用！在史晶的價值觀中這種本土的自我把玩的心態很是明顯，這種東西有著強大的中國本土經驗，這种經驗是由中國傳統文人士大夫的玩物的傳統延續下來的基因。譬如中國人能夠把一支毛筆和一張宣紙把玩出無數的微妙變化，而且樂此不彼，這絕不是西方人所能夠理解的。今日中國的藝術家在他們內在基因裏面仍然流淌著我們祖先的傳統，無論我們如何標榜西方與現代，我們仍有著很多無法被殖民的東西。我們能夠從史晶的作品中窺見到那些無法更改的東西，當然這種東西並不是外在的表面的，而是本質的，精神層面的，也是前衛的。
Chinese contemporary art is a product of the western values system, but China’s current reality would lead westerners to the startling discovery that the Chinese have taken the originally transplanted history and turned it into a game of their own! Many western systems that have been adopted by China seem rigid and ill-fitted! So the Chinese began to create their own rules for history and the game. They ignore reason, only paying heed to utility and suitability! This kind of personal play attitude is quite apparent in Shi Jing’s works. This stuff has a strong native Chinese experience, and this experience holds genes from the playthings of traditional Chinese scholars. It is like how the Chinese can make endless variations with a brush and a piece of paper, and take so much joy from it; this is something that westerners just can’t understand. Today’s Chinese artists still have the genes of their ancestors’ traditions flowing inside them, no matter how much we look up to the west. Of course, this isn’t on the surface. It is essential, on the spiritual level, and it is avant-garde.
史晶的作品在中國當代藝術的系統中成為比較特殊的一類，他不是從作品的外在觀念出發，而是從繪畫的語言結構出發達到一種他稱之為“視觸覺”的新領域。他所創造的方法論在中國當代藝術的系統中應該有著怎樣的位置，我們還應該進一步深入研究。
In the Chinese contemporary art system, Shi Jing’s works stand in a particularly special category. They don’t set out from an external concept, but set off from the language of painting to enter into what he calls a realm of “visual contact”. As for where in the Chinese contemporary art system his original methodology should be placed, we should continue to explore.
2007年7月22
寫于北京大山子環鐵將府藝術區
July 22, 2007
Written in the Huan Tie Jiang Art District, Da Shanzi, Beijing
策展人簡歷：江銘，又名王寶明，中國大陸當代藝術批評家、獨立策展人、藝術家，著有《中國後現代藝術》一書。
About the Curator: Jiang Ming, also known as Wang Baoming, is a Chinese contemporary art critic, independent curator, artist and author of Chinese Post-Modern Art.
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