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安静的艺术  理性的解读

 

乔延军

 

 

　　在一个喧嚣的世界上，安静显得那么珍贵。身心的松弛，都成了一种奢侈，这对于当代人，真是莫大的尴尬。

 

　　谢艾格的艺术，就是通过陶艺中土的厚重，和火的锤青，让欣赏者得到心灵的安静。可惜对于她的作品，我欣赏得不算多，只是就印象深刻的一些作品，提些外行人的想法。

 

　　10年前，当她开始和陶艺结缘的时候，她开始发掘泥土的价值，在她的作品《无题》中，就展现了大地的永久性的宁静。而另一幅作品《痕》，宛如塑造了岁月的年轮，或者水的波纹，风的痕迹。

 

　　她是带着大山的宁静走进城市的，大自然的记忆影响了她的艺术。尽管都市生活匆匆忙忙、争争吵吵甚至物欲横流，却改变不了她积淀在内心的对自然的向往。她来上海第一批比较成熟的作品，是“上海情系列”，偏于写实，从绅士到淑女，从警察到民工，虽然是老上海的妆容，但一律带着惊诧后呆呆的表情，不动声色，是她面对都市的好奇心。很快，她的作品就“简单”起来，2003年，创作了宁静而闲适的女人系列。作品中都是很简洁的南方女子造型，小巧，冷冷的没有表情，眼睛总是迷成一条缝，嘴巴总是抿成一条缝，优雅清闲。有时女人身边有一只猫，眼睛瞪着，神秘兮兮，是主人的伙伴，添加一种安居的宁静气氛。

 

　　2006年，她作品中性别的特征也消失了，甚至作为人的主要器官也不明显了，嘴巴没了，原来一条缝的眼睛成小点了，鼻子成突起了，作品成了“天外来客”。“FOLLOW ME系列”，在她那里，浓缩成了一种理念：安静。她希望她的良苦用心能稍微影响一下忙碌的人们，希望创造一片空间或者一个时刻，让人们能暂时离开疲倦的城市生活。她的艺术“静”界，是对生命本质的纯粹思考，而且也逐渐突出地显示，她作为一个中国人的独特气质和哲学精神。

 

　　我们期待更多安静的艺术，来疗救现代人过度物质的追逐而变得脆弱的心灵。

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiet Art/ by Qiao Yanjun

 

 

It is not an easy thing  for us to find some quietness in a terribly noisy world. Frequently we feel embarrassed to cost much only for a mental break.

 

 

Xie Aige, her pottery art, with the heaviness of soil and elite through fire training, opens a window for us toward a deep and quiet spirit world.

 

 

She fell in love with pottery art ten years ago. In a piece of work called No Idea, she showed us the sacred peace of mother land. Another piece called Trace, some abstract, is the image like old tree’s growth ring, water’s wave or wind’s mark.

 

 

She was the daughter of mountains before she moved to the big city of Shanghai and mother nature is the most important theme of her works. Modern city’s busy life, cruel competition and material seeking never changed her, though she was seriously shocked by this NEW world, which we can find through her series of works named Shanghai Society Series. With different Shanghainese from gentlemen to ladies, police to farmer workers, the faces are all-in-one surprised faces from those immigrant people.

 

 

She changed soon and found that her art should be simple, then we see her successful works of Women Series. Portraits of typical south girls, tender and relaxed, with cool-looking faces, half-closed eyes and naturally closed mouths, lead us into a quiet and free life. Some are followed with a cat opening big and secret eyes，giving us some kind of homely phenomenon.

 

 

2006 witnessed her surprising changes in her works of FOLLOW ME Series, with portraits without sexual characters and even short of most human organs ------no mouth, a little rise as nose, just like someone beyond this world. These special guests have a common name of Quietness. XIE Aige is trying to create some space or time, which can really free and relax the tired modern people, shortly separating from dull city life. Her artistic quality has shown her special thought on life, mixed with Chinese traditional philosophy at the same time.

 

 

We do welcome more Quiet Art so we can cure some injured hearts from madly material benefits seeking.