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展评 | 美国波士顿美术博物馆中国艺术部主任白铃安Nancy Berliner评何曦作品

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展评 | 美国波士顿美术博物馆中国艺术部主任白铃安Nancy Berliner评何曦作品何曦作品中国艺术部主任白铃安Nancy 美国波士顿美术博物馆展评作品展宝龙美术馆崇真艺客

直到永远——何曦作品展自7月4日在宝龙美术馆开展至今人气十足，受到了包括美国波士顿美术馆在内的多家专业机构及各方专业人士的广泛关注。何曦在展现其鲜明的作品风格的同时，引发人们对于生与死的深思。其中美国波士顿美术博物馆中国艺术部主任白铃安女士看完何曦的作品，不禁发出了“只有终结与回归的本身，才能解救我们对于无法摆脱的死亡而产生的焦虑情绪”的感慨。以下是来自美国波士顿美术博物馆中国艺术部主任白铃安Nancy Berliner的评论文章。

Impression

The whale is diving downward; a trail of bubbles rises behind him. The whale’s movement is down, the bubbles’ direction is upward. The bubbles are air, breath, life. The curve and focus of the whale’s body loudly convey that of an aquatic creature intently pursuing a target. But upon closer observation, the viewer immediately notices this “whale” is only bones. Its flesh and organs, any material sense of life, are long gone. All that is left is the determined spirit to guide the bones.

城市生活纸本水墨 175×93cm 2014

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When I queried He Xi about the focus of his artwork in general, he responded, “Life and death, mostly death.” Death, I thought to myself, death only exists as a result of life. So, thinking or talking about death is, inescapably, talking about life. And talking about life, inevitably, is realizing a tension-filled tango with its ultimate partner, death.

展评 | 美国波士顿美术博物馆中国艺术部主任白铃安Nancy Berliner评何曦作品何曦作品中国艺术部主任白铃安Nancy 美国波士顿美术博物馆展评作品展宝龙美术馆崇真艺客

《城市牧羊》纸本水墨 120x93cm 2015

水族馆纸本水墨 240×120cm 2015

The beings that emerge from He Xi’s brush reflect life and the intense determination to live. In his giant fowl series, the birds, through their eyes and their postures silently, cry out with their aspirations to live. A pelican, his legs encaged by a wicker basket, stares intently at the viewer. Another, a flamingo chick, his beak in a silent yelp, is trying to disentangle himself from a thick rope wound around his leg. Dolphins and schools of fish swim and dive, entrapped within manmade tiled pools. Bats, birds, butterflies all trying to fly among transparent sheets of glass. A thick rope also winds around a tree’s roots, trunk and sawed-off branches. Lives imprisoned. Even the whale, though he is only bones, dives with the same purpose that drove him when flesh and skin enveloped those bones, perhaps trying to escape death.

谁在那里歌唱（一）纸本水墨 93×125cm 2014

The brushstrokes of “An Independent Boar” break away from the controlled fine lines that limned the other entrapped creatures. A dark cloud hangs over the animal, but, suddenly, the strokes are free,fast, fun. The pig rushes forward, rushes because it can.

和谐家园 120×120cm 2010

On the ceramic tiles He Xi has recently produced, more expressive brushstrokes comprise the earth in which sit delicate, fragile bones of creatures. He Xi calls these works “The Dead are Indifferent to the Living”. Here the dead, the bones, seems relaxed, comfortable resting in the earth that is re-absorbing them, no longer fighting the constraints of life.

越过山丘水墨绢本 90x180cm 2020

I do not assume to be articulating He Xi’s thoughts. My words are only a reflection of what comes to mind as I, a casual viewer, ponder these unexpected images during this strange new era when death is shaking our planet. Are we all learning that only death will release us from the anxiety of its inevitability?

Nancy Berliner

Wu Tung Senior Curator of Chinese Art

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

印象

鲸鱼正在下潜，身后一串气泡上升。泡沫里蕴含空气、呼吸和生命。鱼身的曲线和方向，响亮地传递着一只水生生物专注追踪目标时的情态。谛视之下才发现，这条“鲸鱼”仅为一副骨骸。其血肉与内脏早已消失殆尽，仅剩下精魂引领着枯骸。

《鲸落》水墨绢本 300x150cm 2021

我曾问何曦其作品关注的是什么，答曰：“关乎生死，向死而生。”其时我就想到，死与生互为因果。如此，思及死必谈及生。任何关乎生命的对话，皆与其终极舞伴——死亡，来一场充满张力的探戈。

海洋世界之年年有余 200×120cm 2010

何曦笔下的生物不单反映着生命，还展现了强烈的求生欲念。《灯下养鸟》系列中的大型鸟类，它们的眼神与形态无声地呐喊着对活着的渴望：一只鹈鹕双脚被困在藤篮中，它默默凝视观看者；一只火烈鸟幼鸟，昂头吞声呼叫，尝试摆脱腿上的束缚。海豚和鱼群被困在贴有瓷砖的人工泳池中潜泳。蝙蝠、蝴蝶、鸟在层列的透明玻璃之间飞行。粗绳缠绕着树根、树干和被大量修剪的树枝。生命，被囚禁。那条只剩下白骨的鲸鱼，仍然坚定下潜，犹如肌肉与皮层尚包裹着骨骼，置于死地而后生。

《灯下养鸟之1》纸本水墨 150×80cm 1999

《灯下养鸟之2》纸本水墨 150×80cm 1999

《一只特立独行的猪》的用笔摆脱了描绘被困动物时的克制与细腻。虽然乌云压顶，笔触却突然变得欢快洒脱，而猪也在不遗余力地尽情奔驰。

《一只特立独行的猪》绢本水墨 150x80cm 2019

近期何曦于瓷片上的创作，用更有表现力的笔触勾勒刻绘大地，大地之上，是一副副精微脆弱的生物残骸，何曦称之为《死者对生者无动于衷》。这些死者与骨骸，形态张弛、舒缓地躺在土地里，回归于天地自然，不再对抗生命的约束。

《死者对⽣者⽆动于衷》瓷 2021

我无法全然阐明何曦所思之奥义。此文仅反映我作为一名旁观者，在一个被死亡冲击的新纪元里，遇到这些意想不到的图像时的所思所悟。不知我们能否领略到，只有终结与回归的本身，才能解救我们对于无法摆脱的死亡而产生的焦虑情绪？

美国波士顿美术博物馆

中国艺术部主任

白铃安Nancy Berliner

2021年6月

直到永远——何曦作品展

策展人：梁文道胡建君

学术主持：卢辅圣徐明松

时间：2021.7.4-7.25

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