PAM预告｜梁铨：故岭｜深圳当代艺术家系列之八

梁铨：故岭

坪山美术馆｜深圳当代艺术家系列之八

开幕时间：2023年5月14日（周日）

地点：坪山美术馆6层

出品人：刘晓都

指导单位：坪山区文化广电旅游体育局

主办单位：坪山美术馆

展览团队：坪山美术馆团队

平面设计：梁庆

展务执行：布瑞克

特别鸣谢：红树林画廊

前言‍

渐渐垂老，时常想起年轻走的一条绵绵山路，九小时八十里。通向家人通向幸福。

半山腰的红土羊肠小径，两岸青山夹着清澈的溪流。顺水飘泊的木筏草蓬飘出炊烟，竹篙敲击河床的鹅卵石清脆的响声在山谷中回荡。人迹稀少，偶尔碰上行人会很亲切的点个头，樵夫，农人，水文站工作人员……最无奈的是面对无人的渡口，只能坐等会撑船的农人。时间凝固着，唯有山野里的花开花落。并行的外面世界对这一切一无所知。

此次展览的近作组画企图表现当年翻山越岭，天地寂静的感受。

另外一些零星作品则希望观众感受到作者历年创作过程中的悲喜自度一路风尘……

谢谢坪山美术馆，谢谢所有助我一臂之力的朋友。

梁铨

关于艺术家‍

梁铨

1948年出生于上海，祖籍广东中山，1980年赴美国留学，1984年任教于浙江美术学院(现中国美术学院)版画系，现工作和生活于深圳。

梁铨是中国最早将传统水墨结合抽象表达的艺术家之一，构建了东西方美学语言贯通却相互区别的个人表达。写实和写意的思考用细碎的言语辩白，在形与无形之间重建秩序，细节的极致调和以至“空”的境界。水墨轻重有序的晕染，形的消融，真实被层层措置与堆叠的细节阐释，以一种近乎消失的方式置于现实中再次显现，空白意味着无限。表达上的让步和不明确指向，用不对抗不强加的态度应对瞬息万变，梁铨以其最具代表性的水墨拼贴，铺开淡然悠远的禅意。

关于坪山美术馆‍

坪山美术馆位于坪山文化聚落北区，是深圳重要的公共文化设施。坪山美术馆以创新的体制机制，推动传统公立美术馆与民间美术馆的资源融通，汇聚各方能量，办一个专业化、品质化、国际化的“正而酷”的美术馆，成为集活力、包容、创意、互动为一体的新时代新都市美术馆新标杆，为市民群众带来新鲜、多元的文化享受和体验。

坪山美术馆｜深圳当代艺术家系列总序 

历史的进入与深耕

深圳当代艺术的发展最早可以溯源至85新潮时期，当时深圳作为一个新兴的、充满想象张力的城市，催生和兴起了一些零星的艺术行动和个体实践，但其时，深圳的使命还是在于经济和政治领域的试验与奇迹创造，文化艺术的发展处于“萌而未发”的状态。

直至1997年，深圳同一年建设和开放了何香凝美术馆和关山月美术馆，深圳的当代艺术由此呈现出了日渐明朗的学术定位和版块性的崛起和活力。而2005年，由黄专先生参与发起的OCAT在深圳正式成立，标志着深圳当代艺术的主体意识的觉醒，可以说中国当代艺术的深圳立场和独立工作，助推了中国当代艺术的学术梳理和价值建构。深圳的当代艺术在这个阶段，也经历了空降式和事件型艺术的兴奋期，涌现出了数目惊人的双年展。客观而言，这一系列实践松动和培育了深圳当代艺术的土壤，也推动和塑造了今天的深圳当代艺术发展的基本面貌。

坪山美术馆的成立，便是在此背景下的应时而生和顺势而为。在过去两年多的工作中，我们始终强调以历史的眼光、当代的支点和审慎的判断来介入当代艺术的现场和地方艺术的建设，此次推出的深圳艺术家个案系列，也是基于深圳当代艺术的现实情境和发展阶段，期望以激发、助力和沉淀的行动推动深圳当代艺术的主体建构。我们希望通过个案的梳理来呈现深圳当代艺术的结构与肌理，肌理越饱满，城市也会更有精神的厚度和潜能。

深圳当代艺术呈现出个体迁徙、频繁流动的状态，我们对“深圳当代艺术家”的界定也因应这种特质。他们中既有深耕二三十年的艺术家梁铨、周力，也有在深圳开启其艺术的重要岁月后又北上的蒋志，还有新生代的80后艺术家李燎；既有近几年离开学院迁徙到深圳的薛峰，也有处于候鸟状态、将深圳作为“落脚城市”的沈少民。我们都将他们纳入到深圳当代艺术家的范畴进行考察、梳理和展览呈现。我们当然深知其判断本身一方面会推动地方艺术生态的基础建设，同时也意味着这个工作会充满挑战和艰辛。但我们坚信，发展到今天的深圳当代艺术，亟需对自己过去短暂而丰富的历史进行回顾、梳理和审视，并对此时此地的现场形成观察和判断。深圳当代艺术要继续靠前走，就需要有一些自我的审视和冒险。

记得已故的深圳当代艺术的重要推动者、艺术评论家黄专说过一句话：“不是什么时代都能进入历史，只有那些真正改变了我们的生活价值的时代才能进入历史；不是任何人都能进入历史，只有那些真正具有创造能力的人才能进入历史。” 坪山美术馆就是在寻找那些“改变”和“创造”，并将其编织到当代艺术的深圳叙事之中，我们希望以此为深圳、为中国南方当代艺术生态搭建出一些牢固和有时间重量感的“基础设施”。

坪山美术馆馆长 刘晓都
深圳当代艺术家系列读本策划 钟刚

 Preface 

As I grow old, I often think of a winding mountain road I took when I was young, which takes nine hours to cover eighty miles. It took me to my family and happiness.

I walked along the narrow trail covered in red earth at the waist of the mountain, accompanied by greenery on both banks and a clear stream between them. The rafts and grass canopies floating along the water carried livelihood with drifting smoke, and the crisp sound of the pebbles hitting the riverbed by the bamboo pole echoed in the valley. Occasionally, I bumped into pedestrians who would nod cordially, including woodcutters, farmers, and hydrological station staff... I felt helpless to face the unoccupied ferry crossing but to wait for the farmer at the boat's helm. Time seemed still, where only the flowers in the mountains and fields bloom and wither. The outside world, in parallel, knows nothing about all this.

These recent paintings, presented in this exhibition, attempt to convey my mountain-crossing experiences and a sense of worldly tranquility.  

Works beyond this series aim to offer the audience a sense of joy and hardships throughout my creative journey.  

Hereby, I would like to extend my gratitude to the Pingshan Art Museum and all my friends who supported me.

Liang Quan

 Artist｜Liang Quan 

Liang Quan was born in Shanghai in 1948. In 1980, he went to the United States to study, and started his career of teaching as a professor at the Printmaking Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) in 1984. Liang currently lives and works in Shenzhen.

Liang Quan was one of the earliest artists in China to combine traditional Chinese ink-wash painting with abstract expressions. He framed a personal expression that western and eastern aesthetic languages interacted with each other while either of them could be distinguished. The abstract and realistic thinking is debated by fine fragments, rebuilding the order between form and immateriality, the details are subtly adjusted to ‘Blank’. The fact is re-interpreted by arranged layers and back to reality with an almost faded way. Blank means infinity. The expression of ambiguous point and nonresistant attitude towards reaction to constant changes, the picture renders naturally calm.

 About PAM 

Situated in the north district of Pingshan Culture Quarter, The Pingshan Art Museum (PAM) is an important public cultural institution in Shenzhen. It is a major force for resource fusion from conventional public art museums and private art institutions, fueled by its institutional innovation. Aiming to build an art museum that is “positive and cool”, PAM actively explores professional development with high-quality in an international scope. The Pingshan Art Museum dedicates to be a new landmark in our time by bringing fresh and diverse cultural enjoyment and experiences to its citizens and celebrating vitality, inclusion, creativity, and interaction.

Shenzhen Contemporary Artists Series |
Prelude | Making History and Making Endeavors

The development of contemporary art in Shenzhen can be traced back to as early as 85 New Wave period. At that time, as a burgeoning and imaginative city, Shenzhen gave birth to some sporadic art movements and individual practices. However, Shenzhen then was obligated to undertake the mission of conducting experiments and thereby working miracles in the economic and political fields. As a result, culture and art were emerging, with dramatic growth yet to come. 

Until 1997, Shenzhen witnessed the building and opening of He Xiangning Art Museum and Guan Shanyue Art Museum in the same year. Contemporary art in Shenzhen has shown an increasingly clear academic positioning, while demonstrating the rise and vitality of Pearl River Delta in the contemporary art context. In 2005, OCAT, initiated by Huang Zhuan among others, was formally established in Shenzhen, marking the awakening of the subjective consciousness of contemporary art in Shenzhen. It can be concluded that Shenzhen position and its independent efforts concerning Chinese contemporary art have helped facilitate the academic research and value construction of Chinese contemporary art. At this stage, the contemporary art in Shenzhen has also witnessed the sprouting of non-indigenous and events-based art when a surprising number of biennales came out. Objectively speaking, the series of practices loosened and cultivated the soil for contemporary art in Shenzhen, while promoting and shaping the basic appearance of the development of contemporary art in Shenzhen today.

Against this backdrop, Pingshan Art Museum was established as the times demanded. Over the past two years of work, we have been emphasizing historical perspectives, contemporary pivots and prudent judgment, which should play a role in the construction of contemporary art scenes and local art. Based on the realistic situation and development stage of contemporary art in Shenzhen, the Shenzhen Contemporary Artists Series is expected to promote the major construction of contemporary art in Shenzhen by means of inspiring, assisting and inheriting acts. We hope to present the structure and texture of Shenzhen contemporary art through the analysis of individual cases. The richer the texture, the greater intellectual thickness and potential the city will have.

The contemporary art in Shenzhen presents a state of individual migration and frequent movement, which prompts the definition of "Shenzhen Contemporary Artists". Among them are the artists Liang Quan and Zhou Li who have been involved into the field for 20 or 30 years, Jiang Zhi who went north after the momentous years of starting out a career as an artist in Shenzhen, as well as Li Liao born in 1980s. Besides, the said artists also include Xue Feng who has left school and moved to Shenzhen, and Shen Shaomin, who treats Shenzhen as a temporary place of lodging like a migratory bird. We categorize them as Shenzhen contemporary artists for inspection, sorting and exhibiting. Certainly, we are aware that the judgment itself will promote the infrastructure construction of the local art ecology on the one hand, which also means that this work will be full of challenges and hardships. However, we firmly believe that the shenzhen contemporary art today needs to be reviewed, sorted out and examined concerning its short yet rich history, thus resulting in observations of and judgments on the scene here and now. Should the contemporary art in Shenzhen advance, it needs some self-examination and adventure.

I recall that the late Huang Zhuan, an important promoter of contemporary art in Shenzhen and an art critic, said: "Not all times can go down in history. Only those times that have truly changed the value of our lives can make history; not everyone can go down in history. Only those who are genuinely able to produce creations can pass into history.” Pingshan Art Museum is looking for those “changes” and “creations”, while weaving them into the narrative of Shenzhen contemporary art. We hope to build some solid and time-honored “infrastructure" for Shenzhen and for the contemporary art ecology in southern China.

Liu Xiaodu, Director of Pingshan Art Museum
Zhong Gang, Planner of Readers of Shenzhen Contemporary Artists Series

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编辑｜骆昱彤 李语湉

审校｜刘晓都 卢杨丽