時下正是農歷小滿節氣，自然萬物，別春入夏，朝氣蓬勃，風華正茂。我忽然想起一句農諺，“小滿小滿，麥粒漸滿”。非常印象――2008中國后生代油畫作品展的十位參展藝術家就猶如顆粒漸滿的小麥，他們不斷的生長，蓄積強勁的實力，正成就著中國當代藝術一股不可小覷的力量。

他們大多出生于文革時期。在他們的成長過程中，曾經歷了70年代文化革命后期的革命文化時尚；到80年代的理想主義、85新潮；90年代商業極度膨脹的消費時代；可以說他們經歷了和正在經歷整個后文革時代，正是這些獨特的夾縫中成長經歷，使得這一代藝術家的作品中從來不缺少內涵與思想。對于八十年代出生的人，“文革情結”也許已逐漸成為歷史，可是對于文革時期出生的“后生代”卻有著千絲萬縷的聯系。他們的作品往往透露出對社會的人文關懷，對生活的感悟，對心靈深處那塊靜謐的敲琢，對純粹藝術的禮拜，對繪畫對生活的終極探尋……

“非常印象――中國后生代油畫展”，是我這幾年持續策劃的一個主題展。我所選擇的“后生代”油畫家是出生或出道晚于“新生代”，但其追求又截然不同于七零后、八零后及卡通一代，是一批講究藝術原創性、繪畫技術性和作品社會性并且有著學院背景的創作欲望和實力極強的油畫家。看著這一批畫家作品畫面中表現出來的種種歷程及印跡，每每都能觸動我。畫布上的每一點亮色都能照亮我，每一個形象都能感染我，帶給我一些驚喜與感悟。“小滿”過后，經過進而呵護與醞釀，必將迎來金燦燦的收獲。

 

2008年5月26日改于上海多倫國際

It is among the Lunar Solar Terms Grain Fills. I suddenly remember a farming proverb, saying that “Grain Fills, Grain Fills, kernel will full gradually.” The 10 participating artists like the growing up wheat, who are keeping growth and cumulating their strength. They will become one of un-ignored power in Chinese contemporary art in future.

Most of them are born in Cultural Revolution. In their growth process, they have experienced from the revolutionary cultural fashion of Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s, the idealism and 85 trendy in the 1980s, to the consumer era of the 1990s. It can be said that they experienced and are experiencing the post-Cultural Revolution era. Because of this unique growth experience, their works are never lack of meaning and ideology. For the people born in the 1980s, the "Cultural Revolution complex" may have gradually become history, but for the people born in Culture Revolution, there are countless ties between them. Their works are often revealed the humanistic concern for the society, the sentiment for the lives, pursuing the quiet of the depth of the soul, worship for the arts, searching of the life and drawing and so on.

Unusual Impression-Chinese Post-generation oil painting exhibition is a theme exhibition that I continued to plan these years. The Post-generation I chosen are born later than New-generation, whose pursuits are totally different from 70’s, 80’s or Cartoon generation. They are a group of oil painter with academic background, which has a strong creative desire and strengths and pays more attention on originality, painting techniques and sociality. The variety experiences and traces on their canvas often move me. Every bright brushwork always can illuminate me and every image can move me and bring me some surprises and gnosis. I believe after Grain Fills and having further care and cumulating, the gold harvest will come soon.

May 26, 2008 in Duolun, Shanghai