摘要:绘画不过是灵魂记忆的无尽唤醒,如果我们把《洛神赋》的诗意绘画当作中国人物画的开端,其“飘忽若神”与“凌波微步”的曼妙形态,及其“托微波而通辞”的心意感知,激发了中国艺术家一直试图“冀灵体之复形”的隐秘渴望,到了当代中国绘画,难道就不能延续次灵体之梦吗?瓦尔堡所
《爱莲说》——李晓柱教学研究展
PFSPONSE TO ODE TO THE LOTUS:
Walking in Waves of Mnemosyne in Research of Li Xiaozhu
艺术家:李晓柱. 马威. 辜毅. 靳志强.韩晓峰
Artist: Li Xiaozhu, Ma Wei, Gu Yi, Jin Zhiqiang, Han Xiaofeng
策展人:夏可君
Curator: Xia Kejun
主办单位:桥艺术空间
Organizer:Art Bridge Gallery
开幕时间:2025年9月27日下午三点
Opening :Sep.27,2025 3.pm
展览时间:2025年9月27日——2025年10月26日
Exhibition Date:Sep.27,2025 - Oct.26,2025
展览地址:北京798艺术区D09-1 桥艺术空间
Venue: D09-1 Art Bridge Gallery,798 Art Zone,Beijing
媒体支持:艺术中国/Hi艺术/艺厘米/腾讯新闻/今日头条
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记忆女神的凌波微步
文/夏可君
绘画不过是灵魂记忆的无尽唤醒,如果我们把《洛神赋》的诗意绘画当作中国人物画的开端,其“飘忽若神”与“凌波微步”的曼妙形态,及其“托微波而通辞”的心意感知,激发了中国艺术家一直试图“冀灵体之复形”的隐秘渴望,到了当代中国绘画,难道就不能延续次灵体之梦吗?瓦尔堡所思考的记忆女神图谱难道不具有中国式的普遍性吗?
▲《爱莲说系列 》1
布面丙烯
125x125cm
2025年
李晓柱的绘画从1980年代开始,接续人物画的漫长谱系,保留笔墨韵致,而加以大胆的现代性的变形,就是以欲望和寡淡的悖论感知拉长女性形体,如同马蒂斯与常玉,并且置于男女的对峙与时代生命经济的反讽之中。进入21世纪的彩墨系列《桃花渡》则把长型女性形体融入到桃花的纷纭之中,把具有现代单色绘画感的暗淡黄色向着性感的红色转换,让妖艳与鬼魅的色彩融入变形的形体,其琉璃闪亮的质感,把魔性、物性、还有自然的生长性,完美融合。来自于水墨与彩墨的感性融合力量,带来了极端的绚烂与极致的妖娆,彻底激活了来自于生命母体的柔和感知,让艺术家可以接着实施更为彻底地转向,即以水性丙烯颜料来画带有鲜明中国古典文脉主题的荷花与莲花,但却已经面目全非,因为记忆女神需要唤醒个体与文化的深度感应。
▲《归乡系列》2
布面丙烯
60x80cm
2025年
生长于白洋淀的艺术家自幼酷爱荷花,美好记忆的种子早就已经播下了。但不可能按照传统方式去画,在肯定现代性的欲望,甚至是红色喷薄躯体的同时,还要使之融合到荷花的粉色花瓣与荷叶的青绿,还有荷梗的线条之中,甚至整个绘画就是一滴滴荷叶上滑动的水珠,一起都是水,都是水线,都是水珠,都在丝丝牵缠之中,在欲断又欲连之中,交织起来,满福充满,形成波波无尽的微妙振荡。而之前的魔女形象则变得柔婉,宛若女菩萨或女神,经过水珠的洗涤而变得赤裸纯洁,这是绘画的洗涤,这是欲望的消融,这是《爱莲说》的真意:“予独爱莲之出淤泥而不染,濯清涟而不妖。”人性的蜕变已经发生。
让一个高大的女性形体与荷花花瓣融合起来,并且开始生长,如同花瓶而带有瓷器的优雅质感,这是丙烯材质的优雅转化,又仿佛带有巫魅气息的图腾柱,其蓝色与红色的荷叶合成的高大形体,宛若重新降临的天使,抑或就是来超度众生的荷花仙子?这难道不是现代人梦寐以求的女神复灵?
▲《归乡系列》1
布面丙烯
40×40cm
2025年
这些敞开怀抱拥抱世界的女性形体,既充满了野蛮生长的感性活泼,又充分沉浸于莲池的花瓣荡漾,不就是“凌波微步”的当代表达?不就是水融天下的艺术真谛?莲花已非莲花,人性已非人性,经过艺术家很多年对于形体分解与融合的实验,其带入色彩的变形记有着一个中国艺术家独特的万物拟似的感通。而现在,在绘画上,一切都融入水,人步入水中,沉浸期间,花如人,人如花,但花与人都如水,一滴滴水珠,进入微光之波的无尽振荡。在画家独特色彩与质感处理后,在具有明显中国色调与中国玉质感的技艺转化后,都宛若珠玉,透明晶莹,又彼此透映,宛若佛境。
绘画不过是感应记忆女神的召唤,让我们回到《洛神赋》,引用其中最为迷人的语段,来对应画家所带来的旷古华美:
凌波微步,罗袜生尘。转眄流精,光润玉颜。
含辞未吐,气若幽兰。华容婀娜,令我忘餐。
▲《归乡系列》3
布面丙烯
40×40cm
2025年
Walking in Waves of Mnemosyne
—Kejun Xia
Philosopher, Critic, Curator
Painting is nothing more than the endless awakening of the soul's memories. If we consider the poetic paintings of the “Luo Shen Fu” (“The Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River” ) as the beginning of Chinese figure painting, its ethereal forms of “floating like a goddess” and “graceful steps across the water,” or “Walking in Waves”,along with its subtle perception of “psyche communicating through the ripples,” have inspired Chinese artists to pursue the hidden desire to “restore the form of the spirit.” In contemporary Chinese painting, can we not continue this dream of the spirit? Does the Mnemosyne Atlas that Warburg contemplated not possess a Chinese-style universality?
Li Xiaozhu's paintings, beginning in the 1980s, continue the long tradition of figure painting, preserving the elegance of brushwork and ink, while boldly transforming it with modernity. This involves elongating the female form through the paradoxical perception of desire and restraint, akin to the works of Matisse and Chang Yu, and placing it within the ironic contrast between the sexes and the economic realities of the era. In the 21st century, his color ink series “Peach Blossom Crossing” integrates elongated female forms into the vibrant peach blossoms, transforming the subdued yellow reminiscent of modern monochrome painting into sensual red. The vibrant and ethereal colors blend with the distorted forms, while the lustrous, glass-like texture seamlessly merges the supernatural, material, and natural growth elements. The sensuous fusion of ink and color brings extreme brilliance and ultimate allure, completely activating the gentle perception that comes from the mother of life or women, enabling the artist to undertake a more radical shift: using water-based acrylic paint to depict lotus and lotus flowers with distinctively classical Chinese themes, yet utterly transformed, as the goddess of memory seeks to awaken the profound connection between the individual and culture.
This artist, who grew up in Baiyangdian, has always been deeply passionate about lotus flowers. However, he cannot paint them in the traditional manner. While embracing the desire for modernity—even the vibrant red hues of the human form—he seeks to integrate these elements into the pink petals of the lotus and the emerald green of its leaves. as well as the lines of the lotus stems. The entire painting is like droplets of water sliding across lotus leaves—all water, all water lines, all water droplets—intertwined in a delicate balance of separation and connection, creating an endless, subtle oscillation. The previous image of the witch becomes gentle and graceful, resembling a female Bodhisattva or goddess, cleansed by water droplets to become naked and pure. This is the cleansing of the painting, the dissolution of desire, the true meaning of “Ode to the Lotus”:“ I love only the lotus, because it rises from the mud but is not stained. It is bathed by clear waves, but is not seductive. ”The transformation of human nature has already taken place.
Merging a tall female form with lotus petals and allowing it to grow, like a vase with the elegant texture of porcelain, this is the elegant transformation of acrylic material, yet it also resembles a totem pole with a witch-like aura. The tall form created by the blue and red lotus leaves seems like an angel reborn, or perhaps the lotus fairy come to save all beings? Is this not the goddess's reincarnation that modern people long for?
These female figures embracing the world with open arms, filled with the wild vitality of growth yet fully immersed in the rippling petals of the lotus pond, just like Walking in Waves, are they not the contemporary expression of graceful steps, the artistic essence of water harmonizing the world? The lotus is no longer a lotus, and humanity is no longer humanity. After years of experimentation with the decomposition and fusion of forms, the artist's transformation of color carries a unique Chinese artistic sensibility of simulating all things. Now, in painting, everything merges into water, she steps into the water and immerse, flowers like people, people like flowers, but both flowers and people are like water,like the endless oscillation of a faint light wave. Each droplet of water, under the artist's unique treatment of color and texture, and after being transformed through techniques that evoke distinct Chinese tones and the lustrous quality of Chinese jade, appears like pearls, transparent and crystalline, yet mutually reflective, resembling a Buddhist paradise.
Painting is nothing more than responding to the call of Mnemosyne. Let us return to “The Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River” and quote its most enchanting passage to correspond with the ancient splendor brought by the painter:
“She walked in waves, with foams splashed from her stockings like dust. Her eyes sparkle, her face radiant. She holds her words back, her breath like orchids. Her graceful beauty makes me forget to eat.”
关于艺术家
About Artist
李晓柱
Li XiaoZhu
河北任丘人,二级教授,中国国家画院人物画所首任所长,研究员,艺委会委员,博士生导师。
展览
2025年
“爱莲说”李晓柱教学研究展,中国北京,798桥艺术空间举办
2025年
“重生”李晓柱艺术作品展,罗马,安德森博物馆举办
2024年
“地涌金莲”李晓柱绘画作品个展,西班牙,欧洲当代艺术博物馆
2024年
“地涌金莲”系列作品平行展,“威尼斯双年展”
2024年
“地涌金莲”系列作品8幅,佛罗伦萨当代艺术展
2024年
“心涌金莲”李晓柱绘画作品展,中国北京,798
多次参加杭州中国画双年展,济南国际双年展。作品被中国美术馆,山东,河北,湖南,陕西,宁夏,成都等美术馆收藏。
获奖
2024年
威尼斯凤凰国际艺术奖
马威
Ma Wei
中国美术家协会会员,国家一级美术师,中国人民大学画院特聘导师,中国国家画院李晓柱导师高研班助理,“和平之旅”文化交流中心常务理事,乌兹别克斯坦科学艺术学院客座教授。
2014年作品参加外交部,文化部主办的国际艺术家绘画作品展在人民大会堂金色大厅展出,并荣获国际艺术家和平奖,作品多次代表国家参加上合峰会组织的国际艺术家联展,多次在国外展出并作为国礼赠予国外政府及美术馆,多幅作品被国务院办公厅及各大博物馆收藏。
《衍生系列》1
纸本彩墨
34x34cm
2025年
《衍生系列》2
纸本彩墨
34x34cm
2025年
《衍生系列》3
纸本彩墨
34x34cm
2025年
辜毅
Gu Yi
中国美术家协会会员,四川省美术家协会理事。作品曾获中国美协首届中国西部大地情中国画大展铜奖,中国巴蜀国际艺术博览会三等奖,第四届青年中国画年展三等奖,首届全国中国画学术展优秀奖,第五届、第七届中国美协会员精品展优秀奖,“艺术成都”美术作品展一等奖,“画意成都”美术作品展金芙蓉奖,四川省美协美术创作年优秀奖等奖项。
《寄托于鸟》
纸本彩墨
60x60cm
2025年
《不如早还乡》
纸本彩墨
61x61cm
2025年
靳志强
Jin ZhiqIang
1982年生于河北藁
中国国家画院青年中心画家
中国美术家协会会员
李可染画院研究员
《心象系列》
纸本彩墨
2025年
《时光》
纸本彩墨
2025年
韩晓峰
Han XIaofeng
毕业于河北师范大学硕士学位,进修于中央美术学院,中国国家画院,中国艺术研究院访问学者。
中国美术家协会会员、河北省美术家协会青年艺委会副主任、河北省美术家协会连环画艺委会副主任、河北省美术家协会理事、沧州市美术家协会副主席兼秘书长、沧州画院副院长、沧州开明书画院副院长。
《落雨垂帘-午后》
纸本彩墨
2025年
《落雨垂帘-清溪水》
纸本彩墨
2025年
关于策展人
About Curator
XiaKejun
哲学家,评论家与策展人。曾留学于德国弗莱堡大学与法国斯特拉斯堡大学,现为中国人民大学文学院教授。著述十余部,从“无用”出发,撰有《虚薄:杜尚与庄子》《庖丁解牛》《一个等待与无用的民族:庄子与海德格尔的第二次转向》《无用的文学:卡夫卡与中国》《烟影与面纱》《无用的神学》,以及英文著作Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics, Unthought of Empty。以虚薄艺术,余象绘画,虚托邦,以及锦灰堆等艺术概念,策划艺术展览与学术研讨会200多次。
来源:人民艺术