| 陈丹青
这次展出的画，件数少，时间跨度长，分三个时期：
几幅素描肖像画于1989年前后。那时我放弃了西藏主题，不知道画什么。为生计，开始一段有趣的生活：到大街上给人画肖像。纽约街头往来各国游客，瞧见伫足观看的漂亮姑娘，显然犹豫要不要花钱画一幅，我就说，你坐下给我画，一幅送你，一幅留给我。日久天长，存十余幅。这些油滑的涂抹不是好素描，却是我纽约生涯的纪念。
1993年到1995年间，画过一套十联并置作品，未完成。现在诸位看见的是其中四联，全是根据著名的装置作品印刷品画成。它们真像是一堆静物，一声不响，我就给这套并置起了题目，叫做《静物》。不久，因为无聊，我开始画书籍画册静物系列，直到现在。
四幅大型画册静物，画于今年，希望它们已经干透了。我在九十年代就想画大尺寸画册静物，回国后既忙且懒，未实行。五月，汶川地震，翌日我就开手画一幅大尺寸画册静物，题曰《中国的山川》，换钱捐献。既是画大了，自然就接着画，便有了另外三件，请诸位批判指教。
2008.11 The works featured in this exhibition are small in number, span a great length of time, and are separated into three periods:
Several portrait sketches were completed before and after 1989. That was that time in which I abandoned Tibetan motifs and was unclear what to paint next. In order to make a living, I embarked up an interesting period in my life: painting street portraits. The streets of New York are bustling with visitors from all around the world, waiting around I would catch sight of pretty young women obviously hesitating whether or not to have a portrait done. I would beckon them to sit for me, promising to gift one portrait to them, and keep another for myself. Over the course of time I accumulated more than ten such portraits. Although these paintings might not be outstanding sketches, they are souvenirs of my livelihood in New York.
From 1993 to 1995 I painted a series of 10 works for an installation that was never completed. What you see here are four of these paintings, they were all done from prints of famous installations. They are truly a pile of still lifes, they are soundless, and that is the name I have given them: “Still lifes.” Soon after, out of boredom, I began to paint still lifes from books, and have continued in that manner until now.
These four large catalogue still lifes were painted this year-I hope the paint is completely dry. I wanted to paint large-scale still lifes since the 90s, but after returning to China I have been busy and lazy, and they were never realized. But in May, and the earthquake in Wen Chuan, I began painting one the very next day, its title was “Mountains and Rivers of China.”I sold this work and donated the money to relief funds. Now that I’ve begun to paint large works, it has become a habit, and there are three other large canvases, which I invite the greater public to critique and comment on.
Chen Danqing November 2008
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