“心象-面孔——超越时空的精神肖像”展 主题图片
2009北京798艺术节专题展
Special Exhibition 798 Art Festival Beijing 2009
心象·面孔——超越时空的精神肖像
Spirit Portraits Beyond Space and Time
开幕时间/ Date：9月19日14:00/ 14:00, Sep.19
展览时间/ Opening Date：9月20日/Sep.20 --10月25日/Oct.25
地点：北京798艺术区798艺术中心（706大厂房）2号厅/798 Art Center Hall II
主题：心象·面孔——超越时空的精神肖像
Spirit Portraits Beyond Space and Time
策展人：于洋
Curator: Yu Yang
项目主持：李继春
Compere：Li Jichun
展览支持：杨杰
Assistant：Yang Jie
参展艺术家：刘斌、徐一峰、顾跃、王雷、刘子宁、孙策、李九实
Artists: Liu Bin, Xu Yifeng, Gu Yue, Wang Lei, Liu Zining, Sun Ce, Li Jiushi
心象·面孔——超越时空的精神肖像
主题阐释
面孔是精神心象最为直接的呈现，个体与群体、精英与生民的面孔作为各个时代的印迹，不仅寄存着个体情感与心绪，更承载着艺术家情感记忆的积淀、文化处境的回应与社会责任的担当。面孔中浮现当下对于历史的映射，也挑战着人们对于过往与现实的态度。
世纪之交的前后十年，个人记忆与私密经验愈发成为当代艺术关注的焦点，而对于社会生存的严肃思考和终极关怀，却作为六、七十年代意识形态化的集体记忆与言说模式一同被纳入反拨的范畴。这种趋向的结果是，越来越多被复制的“生活流”、“近距离”式的观察与微观情绪的表现，随着题材的程式化、时尚化与表现技法的成熟，日趋滑向个人画室里自我玩味的个体情绪，或者陷落于顾影自怜的自我迷恋，或者沉湎于玩世不恭的波普浪潮。静驻隔岸的观瞻视角，与理性反省的思想锋芒，日渐缺席于英雄远去的时代。
在当下功利主义、个人欲望与快餐文化充溢世界的时代语境中，重拾公共知识分子的思考能力与文化使命，以敏锐的个体经验关注宏大的社会问题与普适的人性关怀，已经显得尤为及时与可贵。这需要艺术家具有足够强大的勇气、足够独立的人格与足够敏锐的自觉，将微观的个人情绪放置于更为广阔的社会现实中，并进行深层的比照与反思。当一个地域的精神群像以个体的、偶在的、鲜活的方式再度呈现，当面孔与面孔跨越时空的面面相对，共振传统与当下的心灵脉动，被唤起的不仅仅是来自历史深处的凝视。
此次展览中的艺术家分别生于上世纪50、60、70、80年代，出身于学院并守持独立的文化立场，他们在对精神肖像的研究与表述中完成了个体对于时代的不同回应，这些面孔遥远而又亲近，里面有他们也有我们。所幸还有这些精神的面孔能够带给我们触动与提示，使我们在经验的碎片中凭吊与抚摸过往的真实，并以此追问当下与未来。
于洋
2009年9月19日
展览空间
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
