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一位画家眼中的自在精神...

►画家刘刚是位从生活到绘画创作都主张简单轻松的人，他的乐观豁达非常人所及，一切在常人意识中的难事，他都会轻描淡写地交给时间去处理，决不会在琐碎的地方浪费自己的注意力。



►刘刚的绘画语言也是同样简捷单纯，主题明确不拖泥带水，画面干净但不苍白，表达简淡却意味不浅。扎实的写实功底，让他游刃有余地用精准的线条将臆造的山水世界用铅笔将其心中真实的虚拟世界描绘得如真似幻。铅笔不同的素色色度层次分明地把单纯的情感置换成具有丰富内涵的心灵历程，画家通过主观的观察将具有精神指向的山水铺陈在我们面前，观者透过观念的范畴认识艺术家视觉空间中的心向世界。他把这方山水雅称为《洛迦赋》：------极目处，涛声约若，云何为界，不应人间，可否更有空外？



►艺术家可以用艺术的想象空间微妙地修正实际的物理空间，这一过程是艺术家纯化个人语汇的关键，这种有意识的纯化本身是非常艰难的，它实际上是精神的纯化过程，需要艺术家具有极强的专注力和享受孤寂的能力，以此生成具有鲜明个人特征的艺术语汇。刘刚经历了近些年的专注探索，让“固执的沉静”成为自己创作的心理背景。静，俨然是刘刚绘画语言的基本要素，从自然到内心、从朦胧到明晰，从铅笔画《万物》系列中的山与水到布面《自在图》系列作品中的花鸟鱼虫和俊朗健硕的马，画面中所有的物都是以西方写实方式进行立体的呈现，在东方语境下加以阐述。画面中疏离感产生的距离是含蓄的，那份沉静的固执帮画家极其肯定地确立了个人的艺术表达方式，以主观的静态思维去触碰文人画中的孤寂感，但却不带一丝伤感情绪。画家有意识地提取各种静态元素干干净净地放置在画面中，外观上的若无所思恰到好处地将人轻松地带入艺术家预设的心境范畴，视觉上的空灵坦荡和心理的清澈澄明，通过作品中物的安详找到其自在舒服的状态，透过蒙德里安的理性块面分割和鸟笼的解构，梳理出实实在在的精神厚度。

►自在的世界没有藩篱，它是一个种归真，物在自在的世界里才可以称之为物本身。

►As an artist, Mr.Liu Gang is always of the opinion to be simple and easy both in daily routineand in painting creation.

►His optimistic andopen-minded personality enables himself to mention lightly those trivialaffairs which are so annoying for normal people. In one word, he will nevercast any attention to senseless stuffs.

►His drawinglanguage is equally simple and pure, definite themes with no vague concepts,clean images with no pale strokes and simple expression with endlessaftertastes. Making full use of his solid essentials of basic sketching, Mr.Liu Gang creates a scenery of great landscape out of his imagination, with hispencil, with lines of precision, and most important of all, with skill andease. In the painting, distinct gradation of plain colors makes it possible toreplace mere emotion with abounded connotation of spiritual journeys. Throughhis subjective observation, Mr. Liu Gang unfolds for viewers a scroll oflandscape which has implications of spiritual direction. In turn, viewers mayrecognize the core of the artist’s visual space through the scope concepts.This painting is elegantly named < Luo Jia Poem> by Mr. Liu Gang.

►“From fardistance, waves murmur. Is it infinite or does it not belong to the earth? Or MayI find another space?”

►Artists may useartistic imagination of space to subtly rectify actual physical space which isthe key and the process of purifying the personal vocabulary for artists. Theconscious purification itself is very hard and actually the process ofspiritual purification which needs the very strong power of focus and enjoyinglonesomeness thereupon producing distinguishing artistic vocabulary personally.Mr. Liu Gang has experienced concentrated exploration in order to let “stubbornnessin quietness” be the backdrop of his creative mentality. Quietness is just likebasic elements of his painting language from nature to heart, from obscurity toclearness, from mountains and waters in pencil painting “ALL NATURE” series toflowers, birds and beautiful and strong horses in the canvas scroll “EASE”series.

►All of the thingsin the creations are painted three dimensionally by the way of Westernrealistic presentation and expounded in Eastern language environment. Thedistance produced by the sense of alienation in the painting is implicit. Thatquiet stubbornness helps the painter absolutely be sure of establishing hismanner to express arts and with his subjective and static mind to touch thelonesomeness in literati painting without any wistful sentiment. The painterconsciously takes various kinds of static element and cleanly put them onto thescroll. Without thinking outlook on the outside, the viewers may be more easilyled to the mental category premeditated by the painter. The intangibles andmagnanimous of the vision with clear conscience through the serenity of thefigures in the works find the easy state. By Piet Mondrian’s segmentation ofthe rational block surface and deconstruction of birdcages, the painter givesout the real spiritual thickness.

►The free world has no barriers. It is a return to true life. So things in such a world can call themselvesback.



刘刚祖籍河北，毕业于华东师大艺术系，职业艺术家。

1992年——上海首届油画艺术展。（中国 上海美术家画廊）

1993年—— 93’上海油画艺术展。（中国 上海美术家画廊）

2000年——油画、雕塑六人展。（中国 中国美术学院展厅）

2004年——首届美术文献提名展。（中国 湖北美术学院美术馆）

2006年——上海中青年艺术家推荐展。（中国 上海明圆艺术中心）

2006年——宋庄.油画（中国 北京东区艺术中心）

2007年——上海风艺术展（荷兰）

2007年——面向未来的挑战—中国现代美术邀请展（韩国  汉城）

2008年——佛罗伦萨2008中国当代艺术展（意大利佛罗伦萨）

2009年——上海当代艺术展（中国上海）

2010年——面对面——刘刚个展（中国上海）

2010年——电影与艺术缠绵（中国上海）

2011年——上海工作室   （德国）

2011年——真实语境《面对面》——刘刚个展（中国上海）

2012年——德国当代艺术展 (德国)

2013年——上海国际艺术博会（中国上海）

2014年——香港亚洲当代艺术展（中国香港）

2014年——漂移 海上艺术家邀请展（中国 中华宫）

2014年——“各就其位”当代艺术中的自我建构 （上海多伦现代美术馆）

2014年——“性·趣”当代艺术实验展 （中国 上海）

2015年——“醒春”中国当代艺术展 （阿布扎比，阿联酋）

2015年——香港亚洲当代艺术展（中国 香港）

2015年——“上海发现斯托伯格” 邀请展（德国 ARTIN）

2016年——香港亚洲当代艺术展 （中国 香港）

2016年——大美无言 当代艺术台湾展（中国台湾

台北台开艺术中心、

台中顺天艺术中心、

新竹文化艺术中心）

Born in Hebei Province, graduated from Arts Department ofEast China Normal University.

Exhibitions:

1991   ShanghaiUniversity Art Exhibition (Shanghai Museum)

1992   First ShanghaiOil Painting Art Exhibition (Shanghai Artist’s Gallery)

1993   The SecondShanghai Oil Painting Art Exhibition (Shanghai Artist’s Gallery)

2000   Oil Painting and Sculpture Six PeopleShow (China Academy of Art)

2004   Fine ArtsLiterature 32nd volume

The First Nominative Exhibition of Fine ArtsLiterature (Hubei Fine Arts Institute Gallery)

2006   Shanghai Youth and Midlife ArtistsRecommendation Exhibition (Shanghai Mingyuan Art Center)

Songzhuang • Oil Painting (Beijing EastRegion Art Center)

2007   Shanghai WindModern Art Exhibition (Holland)

Facingthe Challenge of Future • Chain Modern Art Invitation Exhibition

(Seoul, Korea)

2008   Chinese Contemporary ArtExhibition in Florence

Fable Shanghai -2008 first back (Shanghai,China)

2009   Shanghai Contemporary ArtExhibition (Shanghai, China)

2010   FACE TO FACE——Liugang SoloExhibition (Shanghai, China)

Art& Film intertwined (FEILINI GALLERY,Germany)

2011   Shanghai Studio (Germany)

2012   KölnContemporary Art Fair (Köln, Germany)

2013   ShanghaiInternational Art Fair (Shanghai, China)

2014   AsiaContemporary Art Show HONG KANG 2014 (Hong Kang, China)

‘Drift on the sea’ Artists invitation Exhibition (ThePalace of Fine Arts)

‘IN THEIR PLACES’   The Self Construction in Contemporary Art(Shanghai Doland Museum)

2015  " EarlySpring Rhythm" China Contemporary Art Artists invitation Exhibition

（Abu Dhabi, UEA）

2015   AsiaContemporary Art Show HONG KANG 2015 (Hong Kang, China)

2015   ShanghaiDiscovers Stolbery Artist Invitation Exhibition (ARTIN, Germany)

2016   AsiaContemporary Art Show HONG KANG 2016 (Hong Kang, China)

2016   More than Beauty Contemporary Art Exhibition(Tai Wan, China)

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