白盒子展讯｜溪山：陈坤个展

溪山：陈坤个展

Streams and Mountains：Chen Kun

文/孙永增

“溪山”二字，取自北宋画家范宽的《溪山行旅图》，溪水循理而流，山石依势而峙。字面是山涧与峰峦，但在宋代文人语境中，它已超越自然景观的再现，成为一种“可游可居”的理想之境和“天人合一”的宇宙秩序的象征。溪流暗示着生命的流动与澄明，山体代表永恒与崇高，一动一静，共构为一个完整的精神世界。在感知断裂、意义碎片化的后现代语境中，如何重构我们生存的意义世界，重返原初的统一与诗意沉思？秉持这一朴素追问，我们走进艺术家陈坤近期的创作实践。

The term “Streams and Mountains” draws inspiration from the masterpiece Travelers among Streams and Mountains by Northern Song painter Fan Kuan (c. 950-c. 1032), evoking a world where streams flow according to nature’s law, and mountains stand where their power resides. Literally referring to mountain streams and peaks, within the context of Song dynasty literati culture, it transcends the mere depiction of natural scenery to embody an ideal realm “one can wander through and dwell in” and symbolizes a cosmic order characterized by “the unity of heaven and humanity”. The stream suggests the flow and lucidity of life, while the mountain represents eternity and the sublime. This interplay between movement and stillness collaboratively constructs a complete spiritual world. In the postmodern context characterized by perceptual rupture and semantic fragmentation, how can we reconstruct a world of significance for our existence and return to that primordial unity and poetic contemplation? Guided by this fundamental inquiry, we delve into the recent creative practice of artist Chen Kun.

陈坤 Chen Kun，《溪山2024002》 Streams and Mountains 2024002，亚麻布彩铅 Colored pencil on linen，200×300 cm，2024

作为60后艺术家，陈坤的创作持续回应这一本源性的精神诘问。他回归身体感知，以纯粹线条编织应对现实，实践从形式纯粹性到精神超越性的升华。其作品追溯中国古代山水自然观，从个体感知出发，游走于自然、身体与心灵体验之间，抽象出全新的山水意象，一个可供凝视、漫游与沉思的知觉世界。为观者提供一种结构性的慰藉与感知重塑的可能。

As an artist born in the 1960s, Chen Kun’s practice persistently responds to this fundamental spiritual inquiry. He returns to bodily perception, weaving pure lines to engage with reality, achieving a sublimation from formal purity to spiritual transcendence. His work traces back to the classical Chinese view of nature and mountains-and-water, while setting out from individual perception, it wanders between nature, bodily and spiritual experiences, abstracting entirely new mountains-and-water imagery—a perceptual world for gazing, roaming, and contemplation. It offers viewers both structural solace and the potential for perceptual reconfiguration.

在他的作品中，画面消解了一切可见形式，将自然山水和精神山水融于无限交织的线中，获得极致的平面性与纯粹性。于此消解中，山水的存在深度向感知无限敞开，成为了一个充满结构的无边界世界，身体与意识在其中自由游戈。这种纯粹语言并非空洞的极简，而是高度凝练的精神显现：一条从自然与身体通往不可言说之灵性的道路。

In his works, the pictorial space dissolves all visible forms, merging natural landscapes and spiritual mountains-and-waters into infinitely interwoven lines, achieving ultimate flatness and purity. Through this dissolution, the perceptual depth of the landscape unfolds boundlessly, becoming a structured yet borderless world where body and consciousness roam freely. This pure visual language is not empty minimalism, but a highly distilled spiritual manifestation—a path leading from nature and the body toward the ineffable realm of spirituality.

通过对中国古典山水精神的还原，蕴藏于其中的超越性法则得以显现，重新介入今天的变化与无常，激发我们对当下生命的思考。陈坤近几年的绘画从“画什么”的桎梏中解放出来，转向探索“如何呈现”本身，这使得他笔下的“溪山”获得抽象的普遍性。其画中的线、形、色，不指向任何特定的文化情结，却能与任何文化背景下的观者对话，因它触动的是人类底层的、先于概念的知觉结构与情感模式，从而恢复我们一种被现代生活割裂的整体知觉世界。

In his works, the pictorial space dissolves all visible forms, merging natural landscapes and spiritual mountains-and-waters into infinitely interwoven lines, achieving ultimate flatness and purity. Through this dissolution, the perceptual depth of the landscape unfolds boundlessly, becoming a structured yet borderless world where body and consciousness roam freely. This pure visual language is not empty minimalism, but a highly distilled spiritual manifestation—a path leading from nature and the body toward the ineffable realm of spirituality.

陈坤 

Chen Kun

1961年生于四川雅安，现工作、生活于北京。1987年毕业于四川美术学院；1986年参加《新具象》西南艺术群体展（四川美术学院，重庆），1988-2005年从事动漫绘画设计工作。2005年至今多次在北京及英国伦敦举办展览。

重要个展：2018 陈坤，偏锋新艺术空间，北京；2012 随眠，四面空间，北京；2008线索，喜画廊，北京生命之线，新中国画廊，伦敦。

重要群展：2025 本来之物-白中白系列展，白盒子艺术馆，北京；2024 理念的海，白盒子艺术馆，北京；2015 智象一当代艺术展，悦?美术馆，北京 际一当代艺术展，悦?美术馆，北京；2013弥散，悦?美术馆，北京；2012 曲解，尤伦斯艺术中心，北京；2011 灰度，彤德艺画廊，北京；2009 四川艺术家联展，新中国画廊，伦敦；2008 图画手工第三回展，偏锋新艺术空间；孤寞的人体，驿游云画廊，北京 热土，一号地艺术区，北京；2007 格?式，酱艺术中心，北京；2006 不方便，庄唐空间，北京；1986 新具象—西南艺术群体展，四川美术学院，重庆。