镜像的冥思

——谈新锐艺术家刘昊天的艺术及《假面》系列

 

昊天是从2015年开始渐渐在艺术界崭露头角，也是写实油画画界的新秀，最初熟识源于他超越年龄所诠释出的艺术才情和成熟性格，对于伊维尔绘画技法的熟悉把握与深刻理解，这位山西籍朴素的年轻人秉性内敛、为人谦和、讷于言词，专著于艺术。他是出生于学院传统，又四方求学勤于苦修的蓁蓁学子，曾受教于著名油画家、中国美术学院教授秦大虎先生和吉林艺术学院教授白名洲先生等诸多著名画家，秦老对其赞赏尤佳：“其扎实的素描基础、精湛的造型能力，出众的想象力和不辞疲惫进修与努力堪为希望。”他是在适龄与才情恰好的时间节点上自然融入北京宋庄艺术区的新锐艺术家，艺术语言在敏感和智识之间反复推敲，更迭着自己对于语言境地的重新思考。昊天曾较早只身一人来到北京，杭州，东北等多个地方学习，相比同龄人也较早走出校门步入社会，面对世态万般的变幻，在惊诧与质疑的博弈中黯然思考，对世态情绪作出语言式的、青春视角的批评，秉承着艺术家的理想、担当与冥思，在疑惑之后，朝向内心深处，作出镜像式的坦然表述，其《假面》系列绘画以超现实主义意味的绘画方式，劝解出世态与艺术之间俨然存在的话题释解。

他崇尚观念与写实相结合的艺术，在技术和语言气质上，在清寂、肃然中的艺术理想下，在写实油画心力正劲的时间里，他是写实画风承载下诚恳的探索者和守望者，他的“假面系列”绘画有带有一定的隐喻性，也有一定的诗情，青涩少年的理解与黯然慎重的议题融合，一并成为他艺术气质内在的张力、支撑和意味。这“隐喻的语态”与系列绘画诠释的情态关联，又引人深思，体现出艺术青年对于语言态度的严谨把握。“假面系列”绘画之“浮华若梦”“以爱之名”等，是纯清的思绪在澄澈出世态的纷繁，在心灵深处发出的呼唤，艺术语言的惟美、清寂、凝滞，在人物迟疑、犹豫、内在、焦灼等诸多语汇所流露出青春反思，在别样的视野里守望和倾注着内在的向往。“不以目视，而以神遇”，隔着素色的面具，在心理迷醉、游戏生活、焦灼情绪等诸多画境中思考，在无语的对视、从容的肆意、事件后的悲态，在惶恐、纵然、困顿中悾对着“美的希望”，且不辞疲惫的求索，追往之！

在纷繁呈现的艺术当下，昊天的绘画思考是隐喻的，《假面》系列在自我诠释中陈述：其对于人性关系的反思、批评，对于消逝事宜的惊梦般的追忆与思虑，对于世态万端理会的个人情愫、与青春激越理想参比下的经纬与立场。他是一位纯粹的、甚至容易某些遭遇的年轻人，表述出在纯情与虔诚之间内心独白的诚恳，甚至谈到生死观等终极话题的悖论，参比之余也会想到每位初犊的赤子，这是青春坦荡与豪迈气质之间一线嘹亮的清音，势必清澈、纯粹、珍贵，是青春旗帜下赤子之心融延的光晕，是肝胆正道所深情表述的“爱与恨”，他采用象征艺术的“面具”，又与当代艺术家曾梵志的面具主题、秦秀杰在90年代完成的“城市假面系列”等区分，他是以舞台剧的方式，诠释到青春游戏演绎下的故事，故事又与现实重叠，在现实与虚幻之间，在游戏与事件之间作仲裁式的艺术呈现。

“要画出内在的真实”，勇锐的艺术青年在秀雅沉潜的艺术气质中真切的坦然于艺术，在折叠的故事，觉知的语言，自由的状态下画出美好的憧憬。寂寞中的冥想，常常使人警觉，在艺术表情的情意、理趣中陈述，在独立的思考与闪亮的才智中庄重无畏的艺术审美呈现。“审美是精神境界的人生体验。”（叶朗）希望昊天在以后的作品领域视野更宽、格局更大，且慎独立人、画作丰实。

2017年6月22日

封振国

（河北科技师范学院副教授、北京大学访问学者）

Reflection on Mirror

On the Art of Liu Hao and the Series of Mask

Since 2015, Haotian has been gradually emerging in the art world and is also a rookie in the field of realistic oil painting. His initial acquaintance stems from the artistic talent and mature character he has interpreted beyond his age, and his familiarity with and profound understanding of Evell's painting techniques. This plain young man of Shanxi nationality, who is introverted in nature, modest in manner, slow in words, and exclusive in art, was born in the tradition of the college and studied hard in the four quarters. He was taught by famous oil painters. Mr. Qin Dahu, a professor at the China Academy of Fine Arts, and Mr. Bai Mingzhou, a professor at the Jilin Academy of Art, are among the most famous painters. He is a new artist who naturally melts into Beijing's Songzhuang Art District at the right moment of his age and talent. The artistic language is repeatedly studied between sensitivity and wisdom, changing its own rethinking of the language situation. Haotian came alone to Beijing, Hangzhou, northeast and many other places to study earlier. Compared with their peers, they walked out of school earlier to enter society, faced with the changes of the world, pondered in the game of surprise and doubt, made linguistic criticism of the emotion of the world from the perspective of youth, and carried on the ideal of the artist. And meditation, after doubt, toward the heart, to make a mirror expression, its "facade" series of paintings with surrealist style of painting, exhorted the world and art between the existence of the topic of interpretation.

He advocates the art of combining ideas with realism. In terms of technical and linguistic temperament, under the artistic ideal of silence and desolation, and in the time when realistic oil painting is in full swing, he is a sincere explorer and watchman under the bearing of realistic painting style. His "facade series" painting has a certain metaphorical nature, but also has a certain poetic feelings. The understanding of the young people and the overshadowed and discreet issues have become the inner tension of his artistic temperament at the same time. This "voice of metaphor" is associated with the modality of the interpretation of the series of paintings, and it is also thought-provoking, which reflects the rigorous grasp of the attitude of the art youth towards language. "in the name of love," is the pure thoughts in the clarity of the world, in the deep heart of the call, the beauty of the artistic language, Qing silence, stagnation, in the figures hesitant, hesitant, internal, anxious and many other words revealed youth reflection, In a different field of vision to watch and pour in the inner yearning. "not to see, but to meet God", across the plain mask, in the psychological enchanting, game life, anxious mood and many other painting scenes, in the silent look at, calmly wanton, The tragedy after the event, in fear, even though, in distress against the "hope of beauty", and do not quit the tired search, pursue it!!!

In the numerous artistic moment, painting thinking is Haotian metaphor, "Mask" series in the statement: the interpretation of self reflection, human relations for criticism, for matters like dream away the retrospection and contemplation, for personal feelings and ignore the watery world, youth ideal reference latitude and agitation under stand he is a pure, even some young people easily encounter, expressed in pure and pious inner monologue sincere, even talking about the paradox of life and death and other ultimate reference topics, I will think of the beginning of each newborn baby calf, which is voiceless, loud and clear line between youth magnanimous and heroic temperament it is clear, pure Precious, it is the halo of the heart of children under the banner of youth, and the "love and hate" expressed in the bold and true way. He adopts the "mask" of symbolic art, and the theme of contemporary artist Zeng Fanzhi's mask. Qin Xiujie's "City Mask Series" completed in 90s and so on. He interprets the story under the youth game in the form of a stage play, and the story overlaps with reality, between reality and illusion. An arbitration art presentation between a game and an event.

"to draw the inner truth," the brave art youth, in the artistic temperament of Xiuya and Shen Shen, is truly open to art, drawing a beautiful vision in the folding story, the language of awareness, the state of freedom, and the meditation in loneliness. Often alert, in the artistic expression of feelings, in the interest of the statement, "Aesthetics is the life experience of the spiritual realm." (Ye Lang) hopes that Haotian will have a wider field of vision, a larger pattern, more independent people and abundant paintings in the future.

June 22nd 2017

Vibrating country

(associate Professor, Hebei normal University of Science and Technology, visiting scholar of Peking University)