时下正是农历小满节气，自然万物，别春入夏，朝气蓬勃，风华正茂。我忽然想起一句农谚，“小满小满，麦粒渐满”。非常印象――2008中国后生代油画作品展的十位参展艺术家就犹如颗粒渐满的小麦，他们不断的生长，蓄积强劲的实力，正成就着中国当代艺术一股不可小觑的力量。

他们大多出生于文革时期。在他们的成长过程中，曾经历了70年代文化革命后期的革命文化时尚；到80年代的理想主义、85新潮；90年代商业极度膨胀的消费时代；可以说他们经历了和正在经历整个后文革时代，正是这些独特的夹缝中成长经历，使得这一代艺术家的作品中从来不缺少内涵与思想。对于八十年代出生的人，“文革情结”也许已逐渐成为历史，可是对于文革时期出生的“后生代”却有着千丝万缕的联系。他们的作品往往透露出对社会的人文关怀，对生活的感悟，对心灵深处那块静谧的敲琢，对纯粹艺术的礼拜，对绘画对生活的终极探寻……

“非常印象――中国后生代油画展”，是我这几年持续策划的一个主题展。我所选择的“后生代”油画家是出生或出道晚于“新生代”，但其追求又截然不同于七零后、八零后及卡通一代，是一批讲究艺术原创性、绘画技术性和作品社会性并且有着学院背景的创作欲望和实力极强的油画家。看着这一批画家作品画面中表现出来的种种历程及印迹，每每都能触动我。画布上的每一点亮色都能照亮我，每一个形象都能感染我，带给我一些惊喜与感悟。“小满”过后，经过进而呵护与酝酿，必将迎来金灿灿的收获。

 

2008年5月26日改于上海多伦国际

It is among the Lunar Solar Terms Grain Fills. I suddenly remember a farming proverb, saying that “Grain Fills, Grain Fills, kernel will full gradually.” The 10 participating artists like the growing up wheat, who are keeping growth and cumulating their strength. They will become one of un-ignored power in Chinese contemporary art in future.

Most of them are born in Cultural Revolution. In their growth process, they have experienced from the revolutionary cultural fashion of Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s, the idealism and 85 trendy in the 1980s, to the consumer era of the 1990s. It can be said that they experienced and are experiencing the post-Cultural Revolution era. Because of this unique growth experience, their works are never lack of meaning and ideology. For the people born in the 1980s, the "Cultural Revolution complex" may have gradually become history, but for the people born in Culture Revolution, there are countless ties between them. Their works are often revealed the humanistic concern for the society, the sentiment for the lives, pursuing the quiet of the depth of the soul, worship for the arts, searching of the life and drawing and so on.

Unusual Impression-Chinese Post-generation oil painting exhibition is a theme exhibition that I continued to plan these years. The Post-generation I chosen are born later than New-generation, whose pursuits are totally different from 70’s, 80’s or Cartoon generation. They are a group of oil painter with academic background, which has a strong creative desire and strengths and pays more attention on originality, painting techniques and sociality. The variety experiences and traces on their canvas often move me. Every bright brushwork always can illuminate me and every image can move me and bring me some surprises and gnosis. I believe after Grain Fills and having further care and cumulating, the gold harvest will come soon.

May 26, 2008 in Duolun, Shanghai