展览预告 | 旅行者——王绍强西行游记

旅行者

——王绍强西行游记

美国作家、艺评家桑塔格在《对旅行的反思》里写到：“旅行本身曾经是一种反常的活动。浪漫主义者认为从根本上说自我就是一个旅行者——一个不断追寻、无家可归的自我，他归属于一个根本就不存在、或已经不复存在的地方；那是一个理想化的世界，因此目的地是不确定的。旅行从此成为现代意识和现代世界观的先决条件——是对心中的渴望和绝望的宣泄。从这个意义上说，每个人都是潜在意义上的旅行者。”对此，诗仙李白的表达更彻底：“夫天地者万物之逆旅也；光阴者百代之过客也。而浮生若梦 , 为欢几何？”旅行是一种逸出日常生活轨道的反常活动，做梦也是一种反常的活动，在梦里我们可以上天入地、出将入相，其实返观人生，何尝不也是一场春秋大梦？同样，生命亦是一场旅行，是一个个肉身向死而生的一次次旅行，我们每个人都是心怀渴望和绝望的旅行者，且永远在路上。

近些年，王绍强到西南、西北一带等地进行了一次人文地理考察之旅，结合对地质史、游记、古代画论、考古等文献资料的阅读梳理，开展了对当地自然景观、地质特征、矿物材料、人文历史等方面的考察研究，借以开拓画学研究的方法和思路，探索传统水墨媒介在当下的创新可能。本次个展的作品主要是这次西行考察的成果。

在王绍强的这批作品中，可以感受到作为旅行者的人类——对未知的好奇，对自由的渴望，对永恒的追索。在这些画作中，类似九宫格或古代地图经纬线的格子纵横贯穿于画面背景，肆意生长的山水交叠其上，既穿透了格子，又始终被笼罩其间。它们像是遗失在时光中的古老的佚名地图，也是 google 卫星地图下的自然景观，既具有某种技术理性特征，也带着神秘色彩。格子横平竖直纵横交织，具有无可置疑的确定性和不可抗拒的扩张性，它们凑成了一个个关于人类认知自然的小拼图，人类不断繁衍生息，探索的格子也会持续扩张和拼接下去。画面多是局部视角，有江山无尽延展之意，不局限于可见的画幅空间。如果说画面里这些格子所框定的范围是人类已知和已掌握的，那么其外不可思量的虚空就是我们的未知领域。人类坐井观天，但壮心不已，注定要永远在探索和开拓的道路上。王绍强格山水以致知，通过探究西域地质的演化历史和实地考察，从中获得生命感悟和创作启发。

项苙苹

艺术学博士、策展人

The Traveler:
Wang Shaoqiang's Journey to the West

In Reflections on Travel , the American writer and art critic Sontag wrote: "Travel itself was once a perverse activity. The Romantics believed that fundamentally the self was a traveler - a constantly seeking, homeless self who belonged to a place that simply did not exist, or had ceased to exist, an idealized world that made the destination indeterminate. Travel has since become a prerequisite for a modern consciousness and worldview - a catharsis for the longings and despairs of the heart. In this sense, everyone is a traveler in the potential sense of the word." The poet Li Bai expressed this concept more thoroughly: "Heaven and earth are the inverse travelers of all things; time is the passerby of a hundred generations. And life floats by like a dream, in geometric exuberance." Travel is a perverse activity, according to Sontag, in that it is an escape from the track of daily life. Thus dreaming is also a perverse activity, in which we alight in heaven and plunge back to earth, mundane and sublime all at once. In fact, does life not also resemble a dream of spring and autumn? Likewise, life is also a journey, a physical body living, expiring, and reborn, again and again. Indeed, each of us is a traveler, filled with longing and despair, and always on the road.

In recent years, Wang Shaoqiang and his entourage journeyed to the Southwest and Northwest China for a human geography survey trip. Having combed through geological histories, travel notes, ancient painting theory, archaeology, and other documents, Wang and his group explored the local natural landscape, its geological features, minerals,and cultural history. These studies served as a unique method of painting research, one designed to explore the current innovative possibilities of traditional ink and wash media. The works displayed in this solo exhibition are chiefly the results of this westerly expedition.

In this collection of Wang Shaoqiang's works, one acknowledges human beings as travelers - curious about the unknown, eager for freedom, and in search of eternity. In these paintings, a grid resembling an ancient map's longitude and latitude lines crisscrosses the background of the picture. Landscapes wildly overlap the grid, penetrating while enveloped by it. They are at once like ancient anonymous maps lost in time, as well as natural landscapes rendered in the style of google satellite maps, featuring technical and rational characteristics, but also with mysterious colors. The grids are interwoven horizontally and vertically, with unquestionable certainty and irresistible expansiveness, presenting the puzzle of our human cognition of nature. The picture is mostly a partial view, intended as an endless extension of the river and the mountain, not limited to the visible space of the painting. If the scope framed by these grids in the picture is known and mastered by human beings, then the unimaginable void outside is uncharted territory. Human beings are sitting on the well, watching the sky, yet their ambition is never ending, and thus destined to be on the road, exploring and pioneering, forever. Wang Shaoqiang's landscape is a source of knowledge. Through exploring the evolutionary history of China's West, and immersive geological fieldwork in the region, he has gained insight and creative inspiration.

Xiang Liping
PhD in Art Theory
Curator

艺术家

Artist

王绍强/Wang Shaoqiang

号后山，现为广东美术馆馆长，教授、文物博物馆二级研究员，博士生导师，享受国务院特殊津贴专家，中国美术家协会理事、广东省人民政府文史研究馆艺术创作中心副主任，广东省美术家协会副主席，中国国家画院特聘研究员，教育部高等学校指导委员会委员，中国美术家协会策展委员会委员、学术委员会委员，全国美术馆专业委员会委员，中国艺术研究院研究员、博士生导师，曾任广州美术学院视觉艺术设计学院院长。参与策划广东百年美术大展，2017广州影像三年展，2021广州影像三年展等大型展览，担任第六届广州三年展的总策划人与文献展策展人，第七届广州三年展总策展人，2023成都双年展总策展人。2008年入选广东省高校“千百十工程”培养对象，2009年入选广东省“十百千”工程培养对象，2013年被评为广州美术学院教学名师，2017入选“广东特支计划”宣传思想文化领军人才，连续两次被评为“中国艺术权力榜”上榜人物，被评为《国家美术》风云人物，2022年荣获第22届那不勒斯文化经典奖艺术家奖，2023年分别荣获第14届全球华人金星奖-年度焦点人物奖，意大利第四届“艺术生涯奖”。现生活工作于广州。

王绍强专注于东方哲学思想与自然观的深入研究，关注中华传统文脉的当代转换，不断在观念与方法论层面寻找突破。基于对中西方艺术发展的理解，对当下艺术生态的观察，致力于古今中西共通的他将当代思维方式与创作视野介入传统文化情境的重构中。对中国水墨、纸本材料的尊重与谙熟让他将个体情怀投入艺术创作，从而形成独到的视觉逻辑、当代视野及艺术纬度。王绍强的作品主要被以下机构收藏：中国美术馆（北京），广东美术馆（广州），湖北美术馆（湖北），浙江美术馆（杭州），山东美术馆（济南），关山月美术馆（深圳），广州美术学院美术馆（广州），亚洲艺术中心（北京 ，上海 ，台北），何香凝美术馆（深圳），内蒙古美术馆（内蒙古），33当代艺术中心（广州），及重要私人藏家。

Wang Shaoqiang is the current director of Guangdong Museum of Art. He is also Relics-and museology Research Fellow of the Scecond Grade,professor, doctoral tutor, and is honored as an expert by the State Council. He is concurrently a director of the Chinese Artists Association Vice President of Painting and Calligraphy Academy (Southern Branch) of China Central Institute for Cultural and History, and Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Artists Association，and Distinguished Researcher of the Chinese National Academy of Painting. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Higher Education Ministry of Education, the Curatorial Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, the Academic Committee, the National Art Museum Professional Committee. He is also the Director of the Curatorial Committee and Executive Vice President of the Guangdong Museum of Art Association. His honors as an educator include being a researcher and doctoral advisor at the Chinese Academy of Art, a professor and master's student advisor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Wang simultaneously holds a professorship at the Macau University of Science and Technology of Arts College where he is also a doctoral tutor, and he is the former Dean of the School of Visual Art and Design of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. As a curator, Wang helped planning the Guangdong Centennial Art Exhibition and is the chief planner and documentary curator of the Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017, the Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021, and the 6th Guangzhou Triennial. Other honors include being selected in 2008 as a development model, part of provincial tertiary education｡"Thousand, Hundred, Ten Project" in Guangdong, and, in 2009, Wang was again selected as a cultivation inspiration for the same event. In 2013, he was named as an outstanding teacher of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He is considered a leading cultural talent and was listed as a notable figure in the "Chinese Art Power List" twice in a row as well as within the "National Art" list. Wang won the Artist Award at the 22nd Naples Cultural Classic Awards in 2022 ，the Face in Focus of the Year Award at the 14th Session Golden Star Award for Chinese Artists in 2023，and Premio Artis Suavitas 2023.Wang Shaoqiang currently lives and works in Guangzhou.

His works are mainly in museum collection as: National Art Museum of China，Beijing｜Guangdong Museum of Art，Guangzhou｜Hubei Museum of Art，Hubei｜Zhejiang Art Museum，Hangzhou｜Shandong Art Museum，Jinan｜Guan Shanyue Art Museum，Shenzhen｜Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art，Guangzhou｜Asia Art Center，Beijing，Shanghai，Taipei｜He Xiangning Art Museum，Shenzhen｜Inner Mongolia Art Museum, Inner Mongolia｜33Art Center，Guangzhou｜and major private collectors.

▲天工Ⅰ Work of NatureⅠ｜230cm×129.8cm×25cm｜白铜 Bronze｜2023

▲天光 Heavenly Light丨250cm×123cm×6丨紙本水墨 Ink on Paper丨2021

▲海潮随月Ⅰ Tides after the MoonⅠ｜125cmx125cm ｜纸本水墨 Ink on Paper｜2023

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旅行者

——王绍强西行游记

展览地址：广州ICC环贸天地6楼樾+space
展览时间：2023.11.04-2024.01.04
开放时间：周二至周日 10:00-20:00

策 展 人：项苙苹
策展助理：梁海盈
主办单位：越秀地产
展览组织：爱越聚乐部
视觉设计：三度设计

摄 影：植凯鹏

展览场地：樾+space

Traveler:

Wang Shaoqiang’s Journey to the West

Venue: YUE+space, 6/F, Guangzhou ICC Mall

Duration: 2023.11.04-2024.01.04

Opening Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-20:00

Curator:Xiang Liping

Curatorial Assistant: Liang Haiying

Organizer:Yuexiu Property

Exhibition Administration: Ye Club

Visual Design: SANDU Design

Photographer: Zhi Kaipeng

Venue: YUE+space

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