30余位优秀中国当代艺术家独特的纸上作品－《画纸藏龙》将于4月5日星期日下午3：00在F2画廊举行, 展期将至五月十九日.
奥运环境、经济发展以及文化产业的爆发，中国正在飞速前进着。艺术家与观众不仅仅只在奥运的大背景中活跃着，同样，在艺术领域中，观众也被高产的原创艺术冲击着，真的假的都存在着。画纸藏龙给观众提供了一个机会去慢慢品位和接受中国当代艺术中几乎被忽略的艺术表达形式--纸上作品。本次展览将为我们展示出没有反复修饰，没有打印技术，没有摄影技术，并且每件都如那些创作出他们的双手般独树一帜的作品。
F2画廊的本次展览中，不论是知名的还是有着巨大潜力的艺术家，他们都在渐渐回归不同材料的创作艺术形式，包括油彩、丙烯、铅笔和墨水。我们能看到曾梵志那有着明显个人风格的人像素描，刘野那精致鲜明的画作。观众还能欣赏到一些在国际艺术届慢慢形成自己风格和特质的令人惊喜的作品。其中相当引人注目的是曹应斌的水彩系列，他用最为简单的手法表现了他一周当中的每餐食谱。
根本上讲，你会感受到纸张带给你的那种感知。艺术家对于纸张的感觉其实是很纯粹，不需要任何理论来概括的。之所以纯粹，是因为空白的纸张没有快乐也没有悲哀，只是简单的空白。纸张也为我们提供了更多表达隐私而并非强加他人的机会。艺术家的最初灵感爆发也往往被记录在纸张上，因为他们大多采用纸张来记录他们的想法和创意。在中国的传统美学理论中，最初的画面被认为是最为自然最为精彩的，只有纸张那无与伦比的力量才能够将其表达得淋漓尽致。
《画纸藏龙》参展艺术家：艾未未、苍鑫、曹应斌、陈可、陈绍雄、大相、俸正杰、焦兴涛、朱铭、李松松、季大纯、凌健、刘虹、刘野、卢昊、 仇晓飞、申亮、盛齐、石心宁、隋建国、孙逊、唐志冈、屠洪涛、王能涛、徐华翎、徐文涛、杨少斌、尹朝阳、袁顺、张晓刚、曾梵志、郑国谷、钟彪、朱发东
PRESS RELEASE
CROUCHING PAPER, HIDDEN DRAGON
Works on paper
April 6 to May 19, 2008
F2 Gallery is delighted to present Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon, a group show of unique works on paper by over 30 established and emerging Chinese contemporary artists, which will open at 3pm on Sunday April 6th The exhibition ends on May 19th, 2008.
Against the backdrop of the Olympics, continual economic expansion and an explosive cultural industry, China is all about speed. Artists and viewers alike are living in a moment saturated not only by the anticipation of the Summer Games. In the art world, viewers are also pummeled by high-speed reproductions of original works – some genuine, some fake. Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon offers viewers a chance to slow down and take in one of Chinese contemporary art’s most neglected art forms: works on paper. The exhibition provides us with no quick fixes here – no prints, for instance, or photography – but each piece is as individual as the hand that made it.
Here at F2, both established and up-and-coming artists return to form with a variety of materials: including oils, pencil and ink. We visit portrait sketches from Zeng Fangzhi executed in the signature style so familiar to fans of his painterly works. Delicate, bright-colored drawings from Liu Ye are also immediately recognizable as the artist’s own. Viewers might also see a few surprises here from artists who are either just emerging or just establishing their names in international circles. One of the most appealing, yet finely executed series from a newer artist is Cao Yingbin’s watercolor series. With rare simplicity, Cao records through images the content of his daily meals.
Ultimately, it is the tactile that you get with paper. There is nothing theoretical about the naked relationship with paper that an artist often feels – by naked we mean to suggest the blankness of the paper, which is either rapturous or horrifying. Paper also provides a different form of intimacy than the canvass. Since artists often begin with paper when they want to put down an original idea – the first moment of the idea – paper is their medium of choice. It is in this ability to express the spontaneity of the initial image, which in classical Chinese aesthetics serves as the most natural and best image, that lends paper its incomparable potency.
Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon includes work by:
Ai Weiwei, Cang Xin, Cao Yingbin, Chen Ke, Chen Shaoxiong，Da Xiang, Feng Zhengjie， Ji Dachun, Jiao Xingta, Ju Ming, Li songsong, Ling Jian, Liu Hong, Liu Ye, Lu Hao, Qiu Xiaofei, Shen Liang, Sheng Qi, Shi Xinning, Sui Jianguo, Sun Xun, Tang Zhigang, Tu Hongtao, Wang Nengtao, Xu Hualing, Xu Wentao, Yang Shaobin, Yin Zhaoyang, Zhang Xiaogang, Yuan Shun, Zeng Fanzhi, Zheng Guogu, Zhong Biao, Zhu Fadong.
【编辑：刘珍】
