实验·绘画

Inter-Youth国际高等艺术学院青年绘画展是集世界一流艺术学院背景的优秀青年艺术家作品的展示与交流平台，它包含了青年作品的历史、现在、未来三种展示形态，具有高端、前沿、实验性的人文关怀精神以及追问绘画的本源传承、融合、创新的时代使命。

工作室（工作坊）是青年艺术家思想与创造的空间，在当代艺术创作的世界范围，青年艺术家一直具有探索与实践性、叛逆与质疑的特点，而青年艺术家们的工作室也充满了激情与想象力，形成未来艺术与发展的闪烁亮点和高度。
这个时代青年的绘画艺术具有丰富的想象力与创造力的实践性。本届画展以“实验·绘画——艺术家工作室报告”，强调工作室的社会责任与时代精神的含义。以工作室为“技艺与方法”之策源地，注重当代绘画的实践精神与传统的拓展与融合，充分地反映大绘画时代青年绘画艺术所具有的丰富的创造方式与艺术多元表现的手法，作品展览与征集强调为视觉艺术打开不同的视角，融合多元的绘画世界与绘画表现的方法。

艺术家工作室的创作历史激荡在波澜起伏辉煌艺术长河之中。从中西古老的传统作坊到文艺复兴艺术家的独立作坊，从传统工作室到走向大自然的工作方式。在中西艺术创作历史中的不同时期，无数青年艺术家从其独特的工作室理念出发，成为具有国际影响力的艺术家。纵览当代东西方艺术家形形色色的工作室（工作坊）空间，工作室是艺术家创作的策源地与作品的诞生场所，它是艺术革命的方式和先导，它是作品最初始的见证，是艺术家和作品的证人，它有界无疆。唐人苏鄂在《苏氏演义》中指出，“坊者，方也。言人所在里为方，方者，正也。”揭示出工作室（工作坊）的本然。绘者探究世界的本源，饱含了学习的热情和炼金术士般的执着，当代艺术家的工作室充满魅力与想象力，以隐秘和开放性并存。当代艺术学院的青年工作室，以历史的传承与当代学术的研究作为前沿的学术方向，是新绘画丰富多元的实验场，活跃在全球当代绘画领域，焕发出绚丽多彩的艺术创作风景线。

以全球学院学术工作室与当代青年个人工作室、青年艺术家组合工作室等工作室形式为背景所创造的作品，注重“画外之画”的展示方式。对艺术创作、社会思想背景和绘画进行解析与建构，呈现作品创作不为人知而又至关重要的思想背景与创作场景，还原形成艺术发生与创作在工作室与工作坊的情景境遇。展览分为三个板块：主题展、阐述展和特别邀请展。

基于这样的一个命题，本届Inter-Youth国际高等艺术学院青年绘画展致力于推出具有时代特色的当代青年艺术家作品及其工作室，呈现出作品创作背后的场景，诠释出“实验·绘画”的主题，揭示全球境遇下的青年艺术家的艺术作品以及艺术思想与创作形态，激发当代青年艺术的哲匠精神使命，迎接当代艺术的东方曙光。同时，为青年艺术创作提供一个高度的学术平台，连接社会生活与艺术创作，强化个性与创造，开拓国际视野，追求艺术本源。
本次展览还将设置“Inter-Youth工作室奖”，旨在弘扬绘画精神、倡导人文精神，鼓励青年艺术家以绘画的方式来关怀社会生活，创作出具有国际视野的时代艺术。通过“世纪之星Inter-Youth国际青年绘画展”，试图构造出一个可持续发展的战略品牌，成为时代青年绘画的推动力和新风向。

井士剑
2016年9月

Experiment·Painting
Youth Art Exhibition of Inter-Youth International Higher Education Art Institutes is intended to showcase the works by outstanding young artists with backgrounds at world-class art institutes and serves a platform for communication, including the works by the youth in three display forms of the past, present, and future. It demonstrates the top-notch, cutting-edge, experimental spirit of humanistic concern, and assumes the mission of the times of the continuation, fusion and innovation of the painting source.

The studio (workshop) affords space for sparking off thoughts and making creation for young artists. On the global arena of contemporary art creation, young artists are characterized by traits for exploration and practicality, rebellion and doubt. Young artists’ studios abound with passion and imagination, producing scintillating highlights and progress for future art and development.
This exhibition, themed on “Experiment • Painting – Report of Artist Studio”, underscores the social responsibility of the studios and the meaning of the spirit of the times. Painting art by the youth in this era is characterized by their fertile imagination and creativity. Taking the studio as the source of “skills and methods”, it sets store by the spirit of practice of contemporary painting and the traditional expansion and integration, and fully reflects the rich creation methods and diversified techniques of expression exhibited by the painting art of young artists. The exhibition and collection of works highlights a different perspective for the visual arts, integrating the pluralistic world of painting and the painting expression.

Based on the academic studio of the world’s art institutes, personal studios of contemporary artists, and joint studios of young artists, etc. The works produced underlie the demonstration form of “painting outside painting”. It realizes the reemergence and construction of the artistic representation of the social thought background and painting experiments by the art creation. Through the exhibition, the little-known yet vital ideological background and creation scenes of the works are presented. It reproduces the scenario of art formation and creation at the studios and workshops.

The history of creation by artists’ studios is one of glorious and brilliant achievements – ranging from the ancient Chinese and Western workshops to separate workshops of Renaissance artists, from traditional studios to the great nature for production of works. During different periods in the Chinese and Western art creation history, countless young artists, starting with unique ideas at the studios, have evolved into globally influential artists. The studios (workshops) of all descriptions used by contemporary Eastern and Western artists are the source of creation by artists and the birthplace of works of art. The studio, as the guide to the art revolution, is the first to bear testimony to the works of art, and is a witness of the artists and their works. It is both bounded and limitless. According to the “Historical Novel of Su” by Su E of the Tang Dynasty, “Workshop refers to square, meaning the place of work is the square. Square refers to the square room.” It reveals the nature of studios (workshops). Lying behind the exploration for the origin of the world by artists is the boundless enthusiasm for learning and unwavering dedication. Contemporary artists’ studios exude charm and imagination, with both privacy and openness coexisting. For the youth studios of contemporary art institutes, the continuation of history and contemporary academic study are the cutting-edge academic orientation; studios of contemporary young artists are the testing ground of the richness and diversity of new painting. They are active in the global field of contemporary painting and are the colorful landscape of art creation.

Based on such a proposition, this “Inter-Youth” Youth Art Exhibition, through the form of creation at studio (workshop), uncovers the scenarios behind the creation of works, and elaborates the theme of “Experiment • Painting”. The exhibition is committed to launching the works of young contemporary artists with the characteristics of the times and their studios. This is geared toward presenting the works of art, artistic thought and creation forms by young artists under the global situation, inspiring the mission of becoming “virtuoso craftsmen” in young contemporary artists and ushering in the dawn of contemporary art in the East. It is aimed at providing young artists with a high-level academic platform for creation, in a bid to connect the social life and art creation, reinforce individuality and creativity, develop an international perspective, and seek the origins of art.
This exhibition will also set up “Inter-Youth Studio Award”, with the aim of promoting the spirit of painting, advocating human spirit, and encouraging young artists to care for the social life through painting and to create the works of the era with a global vision. “Century Star Inter-Youth International Youth Art Exhibition” aims to build a strategic brand with sustainable development, becoming a new impetus and bellwether for the painting by youth in the modern era.
Jing Shi jian
9/2016