静置：中国当代艺术

In Silence - China Contemporary Art

　　艺术家：丁观加、尚扬、王璜生、帕拉、谭平、李宏、李磊、娄正纲、季大纯、曾健勇、徐华翎、徐加存、郝世明、李威、刘琦、孙浩、彭剑、许宏翔

　　Curator: Zhao Li

　　Artists: Ding Guanjia, Shang Yang, Wang Huangsheng, Palla Jeroff, Tan Ping, Li Hong, Li lei, Lou

Zhenggang, Ji Dachun, Zeng Jianyong, Xu Hualing, Xu Jiacun, Hao Shiming, Li Wei, Liu Qi, Sun Hao,

Peng Jian, Xu Hongxiang

　　展览前言

　　作为中国文化思想领域最为活跃的中国当代艺术，近五年来更致力于将传统和现实相结合的思考方式以体现当下多元、丰富的社会结构，以敏锐而深入的文化内容去呈现在全球化与现代化大潮下一个具有独特历史传统的东方国家正在发生着的巨变。在具体的创作中，中国当代艺术家在提倡融入全球当代艺术创作同时，也以差异性的文化观念和表达方式，反映出当代艺术的中国可能性和独特方法论。本次展览的策划，就是立足于中国当代艺术家的创作现状，并且试图通过有代表性艺术家的作品来概括与展现新的变化和新的趋势。

　　本次展览的主题是“静置”，即是一方面以“联展”的方式去呈现各个艺术家的所思所想和最新成果，并得出相对客观而概括的结论；一方面也以“旁观者”的角度去审读艺术家的作品，也在冷静中思考中国当代艺术的创作现状。本次展览在选择艺术家的时候也考虑到了参展艺术家的年龄跨度，从70多岁到30多岁的年龄组合，在注重臻于成熟的当代艺术家的同时，更将注意力倾注于青年一代的身上，力图“以点带面”地形成观察角度和观看方式。展览也强化了当代艺术的“中国观点”，选取了一些当代水墨艺术家的作品，力图探讨当代水墨在中国当代艺术中的文化意义，而非纯为媒介或者语言的水墨定义。

　　本次展览除了展示容量上的制约外，客观上也受到展览场地、布展陈列以及跨洲际的文化阐释、文化语境等方面的影响，譬如说参展作品主要还是以架上作品为主，没有更多地呈现装置、影像等方面的创作，等等。当然，我们也认为本次展览的举办只是中澳当代艺术交流的开始，我们期待着更多交流性展览的举办，并衷心感谢所有帮助本次展览举办的朋友们！

策展人：赵力

Preface

In the recent five years, Chinese contemporary art, which is the most active in Chinese culture field, is

more committed to reflecting current diversified and rich social structure through combining traditional

and realistic ways of thinking. With its sharp and in-depth cultural content, it presents huge changes of

the oriental country with unique historical tradition in globalization and modernization tide. In their

specific creations, Chinese contemporary artists advocate merging into global contemporary art and

meanwhile also reflecting Chinese possibilities and unique methodologies of contemporary art through

different culture concepts and expression ways. This exhibition is based on the current status of

 Chinese contemporary artists' creation, and attempts to generalize and demonstrate new changes and

new trend through works of representative artists.

The theme of the exhibition is "In Silence", which is, on one hand, presenting artists' ideas and latest

achievements through the way of "joint exhibition" and making relatively objective and general

conclusions; On the other hand, examining artists' works in a "bystander's" perspective and calmly

pondering gains and losses of these artistic practices. As curators of this exhibition, we also took into

account the age span of participating artists when we selected artists. The ages of artists range from 70

year-old to 30 year-old. We not only focus on mature contemporary artists, but also pay more attention to

young artists, trying to form a comprehensive observation angle. The exhibition also reinforces "Chinese

view" of contemporary arts. For example, we select works of some contemporary ink painting artists,

and try to discuss the cultural significance of contemporary ink painting in Chinese contemporary art,

rather than ink definition of purely media or language.

There is a limit for display capacity of this exhibition; in addition, it is also objectively restricted by

exhibition venues, exhibition displays, intercontinental cultural interpretation and cultural context. For

example, the exhibited works are mainly in the form of frame works, and there are limited creations of

devices, images and other aspects, etc.. However, we believe that the "In Silence - China Contemporary

Art" is just the beginning of China - Australia contemporary art exchange. We also look forward to more

exhibitions for exchanges, and we extend our heartfelt thanks to all friends who support this exhibition!

Zhao Li 趙力

Curator, Professor of China Central Academy of Fine Arts