呼吸的空间
马楠

2015·Inter-Youth国际青年绘画展以“出谜入迷”，“此时虚造”，“丛林生长”勾勒出青年艺术家创作的整体状态。从挑选作品的多样性到主题设立、问题聚焦再到布展塑造的蔓延态和生物薄膜般的“半透明”，2015·Inter-Youth勇于尝试，以学院为基地，开放平台资源，广泛探索工作框架和合作模式。2016·Inter-Youth将延续上一届的工作方法，并优化架构逻辑，希望通过整合展览主题、作品和形式，形成真实有机的平台集成模式。

这个模式有三个特点：设立主题、广泛征集、平台有机。如何在全世界范围内广泛征集，同时又能形成主题展，这就要求组委会在筹办展览的初期就做好充分论证准备，在发出征集公告时即准确传达征稿要求。同大多数评选类展览无主题或主题过于宽泛不同，Inter-Youth希望通过主题设定深入挖掘绘画语言及其语境的准确问题，并通过有持续性的年度艺术项目搅动讨论。Inter-Youth坚持征集评选，是为了将策展的过程公开化、透明化。即，用专家评选机制替换策展人名单，用平台架构逻辑拢合个人喜好，用主题带动艺术家广泛参与，从而不断将绘画问题公开化、主题化、话题化。并最终通过展览和系列艺术项目邀请公众参与，借由与主题密切相关且精心设计的展示现场，共同见证一批代表性作品对于主题设定的证实和证伪。同期，每届Inter-Youth都会举办研讨会并出版系列丛书，使得相关讨论可以在其它媒介中持续发酵。艺术家的创作从来不局限于一人一事，希望Inter-Youth项目在提出问题的同时带动深度思考和大胆实验，促使艺术家在“我自有我法”和“众人之法皆我法”之间完成个体实验和整体变革的革命性转变。
2016·Inter-Youth的主题设定为“试验绘画：艺术家工作室报告”。我们将打开艺术家工作室，从个人工作室、集体工作室和学院工作室三个维度上将工作室还原为书斋、炼金室、实验间，并将其定义扩充为为动态空间、好奇箱、信息终端。从征集来的样貌丰富的作品、素材和工作室实景中，我们看到了新的气象，也明显感觉到集体性的微妙变化。新媒介环境下，青年艺术家工作室的墙壁更有穿透力，变成与社会公共空间共呼吸的半透明空间，也因此，艺术家和素材的实验关系也发生了根本的变化。最终，通过入选作品及其生产环境的整体展现，我们希望展览能让观众最直观地体验到这些变化。

The Breathing Space
Ma Nan

The 2015 Inter-Youth International Painting Exhibition sets subtopics of “In and Out of Mysteries”, “The fictitious Present” and “Jungle Growth” to outline the overall status of young artists. From the diversity of selected works, it focused on the theme and tried to realize it through mounting the exhibit and create a “translucent” atmosphere. The 2015 Inter-Youth tried to open the platform resources, and to extensively explore the work frame as well as modes of cooperation. 2016 Inter-Youth will continue the previous work methods, and optimize the architecture logic, hope that through the integration of exhibition themes, works and forms, the formation of a true organic platform integration model.

This model has three characteristics: the establishment of topics, a wide range of solicitation, an organic platform. How can an extensive call for works can also form a theme exhibition? It requires the organizing committee to fully demonstrate ready early in the solicitation announcement that accurately convey the requirements. Most of the selection exhibitions have no theme or too broad a theme. Yet the Inter-Youth hopes to dig through the theme of painting, the language of painting and its context, and through the persistent annual art project to stir discussion. Inter-Youth adhere to the solicitation selection, in order to make the process of the exhibition public. That is, the use of evaluation mechanism is to replace the curator’s list, so as to continue to open the issue of painting. And finally through exhibitions and art projects to invite the public to participate in, and to witness a number of representative works as the verification and falsification of the theme. Over the same period, each Inter-Youth will also host seminars and publish catalogues, so that the discussion can continue fermenting in other media. The Inter-Youth hopes to inspire bold experiments while putting forward the question and driven thinkings of depth, and finally form the overall reform of the revolutionary transformation.

The 2016 Inter-Youth’s theme is “Experimental Painting: Reports from the Artist’s Studio”. We will present different dimensions of personal studios, academic studios and collective studios in order to examine the connotation of studio as Chinese “Shu Zhai”, a space of zeal and study. And further extend its definition to a “dynamic space in motion”, a “curiosity box”, and finally a “information terminal”. From the assembly to the appearance of abundant materials and works, we can see that in the new media environment artists’ studios is undergoing with subtle changes. The walls of the young artist’s studio are more penetrating into the respiratory and social public space and becoming a semi-translucent space, therefore, the relationship between the artist and his/her materials also changed fundamentally. Finally, through the selected works and their overall production environment, we hope that the exhibition allows the audience to experience the most intuitive changes.