“乱码的游戏”·向国华个人作品展

“乱码的游戏”·向国华个人作品展
出格·2011凤凰生活新锐艺术家系列展

出品人：张值
策展人：傅榆翔
学术主持：王林
艺术总监：傅文俊
执行策展：冯纪婷
展览统筹：康璨 刘洁 杨洁
英文翻译：蒋翠
展览时间：2011-4-16至2011-4-26
开幕酒会：2011-4-16下午15：00分
展览地点：重庆江北星光68广场
主办单位：《凤凰周刊-生活》杂志
协办单位：重庆江北星光68广场  重庆尚博英菲尼迪

艺术是乱码的游戏
                                                        傅榆翔/文
   在我眼里，向国华理性、平和、略羞涩。但他却用玩火（香火烫画），玩电（电钻钻亚克力板），再玩油（油画）从事他的艺术创作。他早期用香火烙出“四王”的以点带线镂空的山水，后又用油画再次消解“八大”山水的水墨图式，从油画的介质中幻化出水的弥漫性和更多不确定的心理视觉元素。
   马塞尔·杜尚曾说“艺术是所有时代每个人的游戏”。我认为这是对向国华系列艺术样式最明确的界定。在重庆黄桷坪艺术社区的糖酒库里，向国华的工作室偏安一偶，对自己思考与执行的艺术取舍始终独立不移，甘于沉寂，几年下来各种实验性艺术作品已有近七十件之多。尤其稍后以油画降中国水墨图像经典进行错位、挪移、形成乱码的视幻游戏感，使画面涌动、漂移、弦晕，仿佛进入晃动的时间和空间，让我们重新去审视思考并观察我们人类那些经过沉淀与过滤后的“绝对精典”。
   一个艺术家异于另外艺术的是作品的整体信息，图像的转换借助那些经典图式被他消解在跨界语言的重构上。其中《视而不见》系列选取透明亚克力板抛弃了更早皮纸的烫痕，透明的隐现使得观看的不确定性再次依赖不同视觉环境和条件的偶合。生成新的意义和更多观赏的可能。在破坏掉旧有传统欣赏习惯，拓展新视觉触及新领域的实验之路上，向国华已初显他不群的坚守与捍卫。在这个时代，我们更应关注留意那些始终真诚地面对艺术发展，始终坚守自身艺术价值取向，默默无闻地执着于艺术实验探索的艺术家，那些力图在形式表现，意义生存方面超越古典绘画及文人画范式的自慰，溶入变革，修正与指正这个时代起伏的脉跳中来。
   一个时代的公共图式或者艺术史留下的经典作品其意义不仅在于给我们提供了欣赏的对象，更重要的是，这种图式与形式的背后浓缩了那个时代的艺术趣味、文化取向和美学追求。智慧是与众不同的体验，是豁然开朗的见地，是突如其来的启发，是力透表象的反省。向国华的艺术正是恰如其分的阐释。
      重庆501艺术基地
                                                     2011年3月

Art is a game of messy code
Xiang Guohua is a little bit rational, calm and shy in my eyes. But he used to play with fire (pyrograph on the canvas), play with electric (drill acrylic board), and play the oil (oil painting) in his art. He once pyrographed Chinese painting of the "four kings”, after that he digested the ink pattern of Ba Da Shan, and releases the diffuse from the media and more uncertainty elements of psychological .

Marcel Duchamp once said "Art is the game for everyone every time. " I think this is a most clearly definition to Xiang Guohua’s art styles. He settle his studio in the nook and corner in Huang Jueping art base., in there he thinking of his own choice and implementation of art and has always been independent unwavering, willing to silence. A few years letter he has been done more then seventy experimental works of art. In particular, his digests classical images of Chinese ink which have been misplaced, removed as a sense of fantasy games of messy codes, so that the screen is surging, drifting as if broken into the rocked time and space. let us re-think and observe the absolute classic which are settled, examined and filtered by human.

What an artist’s difference from others is the overall information of art works and he digests images with those classic language .The series of " turn a blind eye " selected transparent acrylic panels abandoned parchment earlier, making a transparent view of uncertainty looming once again rely on the visual environment and conditions of the different coupling. So he generates new meanings and more imagines. Xiang Guohua shows his persistence and defend on the way to destroyed the old traditions and built the new appreciation of habits, develop new visual experiment in new areas. In this age, we should focus attention to those artists who face the arts has always been sincere, and always adhere to their own artistic values. and cling to explore the new art experimental .those who sought in the form of meaningful survival beyond the paradigm of classical paintings and amendment and correction this era .whose significance of common schema of an era or classical art is not only provided us with the object of appreciation, more importantly, this schema behind the style and form concentrated artistic taste of that time, cultural orientation and aesthetic pursuit. Wisdom is the unique experience, opened judgment, the unexpected insight and profound self-examination. Xiang Guohua’s arts is a appropriately interpretation.

Fu Yuxiang
Chongqing 501 art base
March,2011