版筑我们的视界——天津美术学院版画系教师作品展感言

邓国源

版筑我们的视界
——天津美术学院版画系教师作品展感言

邓国源

编者按：作为视觉图像的启蒙艺术形式之一，版画艺术在美术史上命运复杂，发展到现在置身于当代环境中，版画艺术的发展面临着机遇与挑战。从古至今，天津都是中国版画艺术发展的重地，随着创作重心与发展方向的转换，天津美院版画系逐渐显现出其在天津版画界的重要性，它不仅成为培育版画人才的中心，更是深度研究版画与多方位进行创作实验的中心。“版上行——天津美术学院版画系教师作品展”展出的作品风格、类型、观念多样，呈现出多元化的跨界创作趋势。本次展览不仅是对天津美院版画系教师近年来成果的展现，更是对天津当代版画的一次总结。

Editor’s note: Printmaking art, as one of the enlightening art forms of visual images, has been involved in multiple complex destinies in the art history up till the present day when it is immersing itself in the contemporary artistic environment in the process of its development, confronted with opportunities and challenges.From ancient times to the present day, as the city of Tianjin has been an important place where Chinese printmaking art fourishes, the Printmaking Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts is gradually showing its importance in Tianjin’s printmaking circles along with the transfer of emphasis of creation and development orientation.It is not only a center where printmaking talents are nurtured but also an artistic center where in-depth exploration of the printmaking art and multidimensional experiments of creation are carried out.The works shown at“On the Way of Printmaking: Works by Teachers of Printmaking Department, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts”, with their varied styles, types and conceptions, present a trend of diversified and transboundary art creation.The exhibition is not only a manifestation of the achievements scored by the teachers of the Printmaking Department, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in their artistic creations but also a summary of contemporary printmaking in Tianjin.

范敏 涅槃08 平版画 68×94cm 2015年Fan Min,Nirvana-8,lithograph,68×94cm,2015

姜陆 如烟如歌之三 漏版画 150×150cm 2015年Jiang Lu,Like Smoke and Song,silkscreen print,150×150cm,2015

事实上，我们很难使用一个庞大的词汇来恰如其分地定义这样一个艺术群体：在他们的创作当中，既包含着那些在技术上最经典的案例，也包含着许多充满探索性和争议性的作品；他们当中有的人用一种与世无争的安宁静对浮华，而另外一些人则荡漾着锐不可当的激情与魄力；他们的视觉感知经验当中包含着长者般悠远的凝视，包含着中年人的睿智和成熟，包含着女性目光的细腻温婉，也包含着更年轻一代的跳跃灵动、不拘一格；更重要的是，他们在以各自不同的角度，以视觉的方式在挑战视觉和反思视觉，他们的手段是如此丰富，各异其趣，但在其艺术灵魂的某个地方，却又是这样地相互吻合，殊途同归。按照现行艺术学院体系下的编制，我们将他们姑且称之为“版画人”“天津美术学院版画系”，但我知道他们今天每个人各自的探索和努力，其价值将远远超越这个体系本身；这样的努力将启发他们自己以及身边更多的朋友，以一种更具有开放性、创造性的方式去建构当下的整个视觉世界。

As a matter of fact, it would be so diffcult for us to appropriately define such an elitist art group with an all-embracing word.Their creations comprise both technically most classical pieces and many exploratory and controversial works.Among the artists, some dispose of the vanity with unambitious tranquility and the others are overwhelmed with formidable passion and courage.Their experience of visual perception is composed of a senior’s distant gaze, a middle-aged person’s wisdom and maturity, a female’s delicate and gentle viewpoint, and the younger generation’s vigor and vitality.More significantly, they question and rethink the nature of vision from different angles and in a visual manner.While their approaches are so colorful and distinct from each other, they are mutually identical somewhere deep in their soul of art.According to the current established administrative system of art institutions, we might as well call them“printmakers”,“Printmaking Department, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts,”nevertheless I am aware of their personal explorations and their exertion of endeavors, which outvalue the established system itself; as their endeavor will enlighten them and more friends around, they would construct the whole existing visual world in an open and creative way.

傅杰 风景系列之六 平版画 56×83cm 2013年Fu Jie,Landscape Series No.6,lithograph,56×83cm,2013

华绍莹 迭 丝网版画 54×77cm 2010年Hua Shaoying,Overlapping,silkscreen print,54×77cm,2010

焦磊 金光万寿山 石版画 57×79cm 2015年Jiao Lei,Longevity Hill in Golden Light,lithograph,57×79cm,2015

杜超 复活节岛的一天 丝网版画 77×54cm 2009年Du Chao,A Day on Easter Island,silkscreen print,77×54cm,2009

陈九如 收获 石版画 52×43cm 1996年Chen Jiuru,Harvesting,lithograph,52×43cm,1996

周路 USA 综合版 60×150cm 2013年Zhou Lu,USA,collagraph,60×150cm,2013

张莞 来自有的无系列之玛丽莲·梦露 油画布木版凹印手绘 90×90cm×6 2015年Zhang Wan,Marilyn Monroe from the Series of Something Not Existing,canvas,wood gravure and freehand sketching,90×90cm×6,2015

在造型艺术的几种主要媒介手段当中，版画的历史命运具有一种特殊的复杂性。它曾经在一个图像稀缺的年代承担视觉启蒙者的使命，它曾经构成了人们眼中最熟悉的一种视觉体验，与无数公众亲密无间；版画也曾在纯艺术的潮流中逐渐转变为“小众”，却一直以其特殊的视觉语言魅力影响着步入艺术殿堂的朝拜者；今天，面对“互联网＋”时代的版画看起来机遇和挑战并存，它有可能做得十分的儒雅却不食人间烟火，也可能做得很具有世俗性但却未必影响得了在数字媒体时代那些日益麻木的感官和灵魂，有太多的探索者至今仍仿佛徘徊在十字路口，心中有所坚信，但道路未明。

然而，在这个群体当中，我们却大约能看到一些鲜明的希望。这个群体有相当雄厚的技术性支持和这个领域最过硬的硬件基础，这让他们的印痕似乎也充满着一种特殊的自信力量。在许多传统的技术门类被新视像手段冲击的时代，版画特殊复杂的成像手段十分珍贵地保有着人心和人手才能左右的那些因素，面对一个机械复制泛滥的时代，版画的“复语”体系却总是成为让一切简化的当代手段无法简化的重要领域。面对这样一个时代，版画的视野具有了一种投向彼岸世界的特殊的文化色彩，而自信的版画人，也比以往的任何时候都更加肩负着某种精神性的使命。

也许比技术上的保障更为重要的是，我们面前的这个群体更是一个充满合作探索精神的优秀的人群。现代主义式的独创精神被挥霍殆尽的时代，今天的艺术总是需要我们有更好的想法，也需要我们有更好的协作精神和更有创造性的讨论氛围——好的想法只能在优秀头脑的相互交流之间产生。好的版画，不但要按照眼睛看到的样子，更是按“版”的生命所理解的样子去重建视觉的世界。在这样的世界重建当中，一个好的文化氛围，有时候与艺术家的个人智慧同等重要，甚至更为重要。当这样一群人走在一起的时候，这个群体的声音，本身就构成了一种超越视觉的力量。

于是我们在这些视觉的作品当中，每每能够看到那些不局限于视觉的动人因素。整个尘世以不同的样子呈现在观察者的视野当中，我们看到的不仅仅是每个创作者不同的生命力量，更看到了他们用自己的生命体验去反省尘世视角的卓越的努力。我希望这个群体当中的每一个探索者都能走得更远，因为，我感到自己亲眼目睹一个新的世界正在形成。

Among the major media of plastic arts, the art of printmaking is destined to have a particularly complicated historical fate, which, in an age of image scarcity, used to assume the mission of the visual enlightenment and provide a visual experience most familiar to the viewers, on very intimate terms with numerous people.In the tide of pure art, prints used to be a“niche market,”which has kept affecting the pilgrims who are entering into the art palace.Today, the art of printmaking seems to be facing both opportunities and challenges in the era of“Internet Plus”.The works of printmakers may be out of touch with reality regardless of their elegant appearance, or may be possibly characteristic of secularity but may not necessarily have an effect on the increasingly numb sensory organs and souls in the era of digital media.Too many artistic explorers are by now still wandering at an intersection with an aimless confdence.

In this group, however, we can see distinct hopes as the group has a strong technical support and a foundation of excellent hardware, which fill them with strength of special confidence on their prints.In an era where many traditional technologies are experiencing a shock from new media means, the extremely complicated imaging methods of printmaking are precious retainers for the elements that only minds and hands can control.In an era of rampancy of mechanical reproduction, the“repetitive language”system of printmaking is always an important field that refuses to be simplified by any contemporary means of simplification.Faced with such an era, printmaking has a vision filled with a special cultural color of seeking the other world, and the confdent printmakers are conferred with a somewhat spiritual mission more urgent than ever.

Perhaps, more importantly than technical support itself, we are facing a group of excellent elites full of the spirit of cooperation and exploration.In an era when the creative spirit of modernist style has been exhausted, we need better ideas, better spirit of cooperation, and an atmosphere for more creative discussions—a good idea only arises from mutual interfow between excellent minds.Good printmaking needs to reconstruct a visual world according to what is comprehended from the angle of“prints”more than what is seen by our eyes.In the process of reconstruction, a good cultural atmosphere, in some cases, is as important as artists’ personal wisdom.When such artists gather together, the voice uttered by them would present a kind of strength that transcends our vision.

So, we are often able to see among the visual works the sensational elements unconstrained by human vision.As the whole world presents itself variously in the vision of observers, we can see the artists are exerting their endeavors to release their personal strength and rethink their earthly perspectives as well.We expect that every explorer in the group can advance farther away, as we just witness a new world arising.

Building Up Our Visual World with Prints: Thoughts on the Exhibition of Works by Teachers of Printmaking Department, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts

Deng Guoyuan