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年轻艺术家康海涛的首次大型个展"向内，凝视"于2009年3月20日在偏锋新艺术空间开幕，展览展出康海涛1999--2009十年间数十件精品。展览将持续到4月19日，同名画册展览同期发布，本次展览也是偏锋进驻798艺术区的首次展览。
"向内，凝视"是环绕这次展出作品的主题。"向内"是艺术家对艺术、对创作的内省：从内心诉求出发，找寻艺术的本真和创作源头；"凝视"是藏在心底对美的凝视、一种人文关怀。此次展览不仅有着传统美学"天人融洽"之美，同时也试图从更深的层面上引发我们对于自然和人性的凝视与思考。
康海涛毕业于四川美院油画系，是中国70后新艺术家中的佼佼者。他的作品早期尝试多种风格，艺术视野极为广阔，有着激烈而迫切的情感释放。近期康海涛更多关注到风景和夜色，他创造性地把中国画"积墨"的方法借鉴用到纸本丙烯，营造出一种"宁静而悬疑"、"美丽而惊竦"的特殊氛围，在美学追求上同阿尔弗莱德*希区柯克（Alfred Hitchcock）的悬念电影与宫崎骏"美丽中隐藏恐怖"有类而不同，跨越性地拉开同二者的距离，同时反衬出当下都市人异样心理。在此意义而言，康海涛身居小城，心通天下，在审美情趣上同大都市艺术家并无二致，且从容达到了许多艺术家梦寐以求的当代性，虽然"当代"一词对他本人而言太过宏大----绘画无非他的生活方式。
当其他的艺术家纷纷前往的北京、上海等地时，康海涛足少出四川，他漫步于他的所居小城，并满足于此。对康海涛来说，艺术就在他身边，隐在路边平凡之景，旧屋新房，老树竹林，北京、上海等艺术中心城市的热闹纷繁、展事密集、资讯连连同他毫无干系。他沉迷于自己诗一般的世界，希望于世间繁芜中寻求自然的简单与真实：朦胧遥远的山岭、道路旁破旧的老屋、夜色中缥缈的树林、孤寂的池塘是他笔下不断追逐的奇异风景。他对夜色乃至风景进行不断的探索，通过画风景将现实的物象升为心中的自然，精神表达、对心灵感受的描绘超越了外观的内在体验，升腾出一种纯化的精神世界。
康海涛认为，大自然的艺术有时候远远胜于人为。平常人眼里路边的风景，在他的笔下被赋予了宁静而简单的美。树影灵动，黑暗的角落也不再只是一片漆黑。康海涛从不使用艳丽的颜色，只是用丙烯层层营造出灰暗的色调，画面中不时出现偶然的光源带来律动，一切不张不扬，静静地释放着最朴实的震撼力。精灵般融会了夜与景的呼吸感。画中诗意的哲理诉说着人性的安定与美好，这在当今浮躁的人文氛围中显得难能可贵；而康海涛个人对功利的淡定，对艺术的执着使他一直维系着那片创作的心灵净土，以致看康海涛的画时，人会不由得全身心地安静下来，直透心灵。
3月20日"向内，凝视"将以康海涛对艺术的执着和热爱，带领我们走进一片宁静的夜色世界。他如同一位乐者，以浪漫的笔触、单纯的色彩、朴素的情绪、内心的安宁谱成旋律，让人观后，久久萦绕心头......
Press Release
Introversion and Meditation
Wang Yanchu
PIFO New Art Gallery is proud to present “Introversion and Meditation”，Kang Haitao’s first solo exhibition, also PIFO New Art Gallery’s first exhibition in 798 Art Area. This exhibition will be on display from 20th March to 19th April, 2009, and the catalogue with the same name of the exhibition will be published at the opening of the exhibition. Ten fine art works during 1999 and 2009 of Kang Haitao will be shown.
“Introversion and Meditation” shows the theme of this exhibition. “Introversion” is the artist’s introspection to art and creation, following the claim from heart, to seek the essence of art and the source of the creation. “Meditation” is the inner attention for beauty, a kind of human solicitude. Besides the harmony between man and nature from traditional aesthetics, this exhibition also tries to initiate the attention and thinking, in a deeper layer, of human nature.
Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Academy, Kang Haitao is one of the outstanding artists among the generation of 70s. In his early time, he attempted various art forms, which revealed his wide view of art and his passion and eager. Recently, he pays more attention to the beauty of scenery and night. He borrows shills from Chinese traditional paintings to cover his acrylic paintings a mood of peace but suspense, beauty but scariness. It is more than Alfred Hitchcock’s movies or Hayao Miyazaki’s animations, and it just reflects people’s strange states of mind. In this aspect, Kang Haitao, like other artists in big cities, is concerning about the world while living in a small city, and achieves the dreaming contemporary, even though contemporary is abstract to himself, because to him, painting is just a way of living.
When most of the artists filed into Beijing and Shanghai, Kang Haitao rarely leaves Sichuan. He is satisfied with the small city he is living. To Kang Haitao, art is in the ordinary landscapes, like the buildings, the trees and the bamboo forests. He is absorbed into his poetic world, seeking the simple and true way of nature. In his paintings, the far off misty mountains, the old buildings, the ethereal woods at night, or a piece of water are marvelous sceneries. He keeps on exploring the beauty of night and sceneries to make the outside objects sublimate into the inner nature. The express of spirit and soul is more than the outside experiences, to build a pure world of spirit.
Kang Haitao believes that the nature is more artistic than human beings. He endows the landscapes with peaceful and plain beauty. A wavering shadow of the tree brings spirits to the darkness. Kang Haitao never use light colors. But there are always rhythms of lights within his dark-color acrylic paintings. The rhythms are not aggressive, but electrify the audience with the plainest beauty. He is painting the breathy of night and sceneries like an angel. The poetic logic is telling the peace and beauty of human nature, which is a treasure to the impulsive environment. Kang Haitao’s detachment to fame and wealth, and his pursuit to art keep him in the pure land of art creation. You will deeply calm down when you are appreciating his works.
On 20th March, “Introversion and Meditation” will show you a peaceful world of night by Kang Haitao’s passion and pursuit of art. He is like a composer who is writing a melody with romantic brush strokes, pure colors and plain emotions. The melody will vibrate in you memory once you know it.
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