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王：你怎么理解油画的概念?怎样看待以软件为技术手段的绘画？
刘：我觉得电脑技术和传统意义上的绘画并没有什么矛盾。如果能够把这些先进的手段和技术善加利用，从而为传统绘画注入一些新鲜的血液，使绘画语言更加丰富，为绘画本身呈现更加多元化发展的趋势，拓展出更大的空间和可能性，这不是一件很好的事情么？
王：你画的这本书分若干个章节，从半人半机械生物突然画到机器人、云、生物、青花瓷，是画到新的章节了么?篇章升级呀！
刘：人的精神要“升级”的嘛, 所以我的作品也要不断的把这种精神“升级”更完整的呈现，算是同步“升级”吧。画面中表现的不同的内容并没有背离我的初衷,只是需要更多时间来呈现。
王：以后有什么打算会不会制作一些玩偶或者电影之类的?
刘：谁知道呢？有可能的话……一切都要看机缘，我很信这个（笑），顺其自然吧。
Life is a Spiritual Journey and Perception——An Interview with Liu Zhiyi
Wang Yanchu
Liu Zhiyi believes slow work yields fine products. Last year we haven’t seen his works, indeed, there is some reason. With the growth of age, his attention has a new change. He puts plain, natural and simple elements into his new works to show a life experience in a new phase.
Wang: This is your first solo exhibition. Is “A Grain of sand” your understanding of life?
Liu: Yes, it’s an abstract concept, so I could not make an explanation in few words. Discarding all the flashy appearance, every one should walk into the real-self in one’s heart.
Wang: Are all your recent works in the exhibition? Why do you choose these works to exhibit?
Liu: Not all works, this exhibition is a summary of recent creations. The robots in 2004 and 2005 are the prototype combined with traditional things, and then I turn these robot images into 3D entities by computer. For example, putting three representative robots into typical symbols again and making them look flat. Generally speaking, this is completely consistent with my original thoughts. In addition with two years life experience, the form becomes soft and restrained. I also hope the artistic conception have upgraded in a higher level compared to the basis. I want to show all my creative experiences these years from this exhibition.
Wang: It seems that there is no relation between your earlier works and individual experiences. So, would you like to tell us why your friends and animals appear in your new works?
Liu: These works were accumulated for a time. This exhibition is a good opportunity for me to exhibit a part of these works. I want to show the plain and natural aspect of them. The things I described in the works are the most important for me. I think they are the most beautiful things.
Wang: I feel your recent works are so relaxed, does that have any relation to your emotions?
Liu: Yeah, it’s a feeling from the heart. And it returns back to the topic “A Grain of Sand”. Because it’s a direct expression of my life at present, so the paintings show a relaxed and calm feeling. Life is a spiritual journey and perception, so I look forward to a peaceful, free and quiet state in my creations.
Wang: This state is similar to the realm of Traditional Chinese Paintings; do you look forward to traditional things?
Liu: Most things in the future are a continuance of tradition. Some ancient things also have a kind of instruction for people in the future to create things. In some degree, they are integrated together.
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