《乡愁次韵：Nostalgia》
邱黯雄个展Qiu Anxiong Solo Exhibition
策展人：金善姬
主办单位：上海十八号创意中心
Curated by Davide Quadrio,
Organizer：Bund18 Creative Center
Date: Mar. 1 – Apr. , 2008
Time: Open daily 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Free Entry
Venue: Bund18 Creative Center
4/F, 18 Zhongshan East Road (E1)
日期：2008年3月1日－4月
时间：上午10：00点－晚上7：00点 入场免费，无休息日
地点：外滩十八号创意中心，中山东一路18号四楼
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艺术家 简介：
邱黯雄1972年出生于中国四川。在四川美术学院学习绘画之后，他远赴德国卡赛尔大学，2003年回到中国。回国后，邱黯雄选择了定居上海，并开始从事影像作品。
在影像这一媒介中，时空得到了扩展和超越，有一种充满想象的深远力量。邱黯雄带给观众的景象穿越了时空。从这一角度来看，艺术家更清楚地看到了我们这一时代的弊端，更好地确立了他艺术家的责任。回想起艺术家绘画中海天一色的图景，显而易见他一直在锻炼其视野，他已把视野拓展到了地平线的高度，在宇宙更大的控制中所有世界上的戏剧只不过是遥远的沧海一粟，所有人类的斗争只不过是毫无结果的争论。
头些年在异国生活的经历，使邱黯雄对自己的文化身份问题进行思考，在他国语境下的生活更促使了他对本土文化的回望。他开始研读南怀瑾的著作以及一系列东方古典文学的书籍，中国文化中内敛深邃的风格和充满禅意的哲理为其在创作上打开了思路，同时也令他领悟到作为艺术家应该怎么从本土文化中去挖掘有价值的东西并使它与当下碰撞出新的火花。2004年回国以后，在华东师范大学任教的他依旧坚持着自己对艺术的执着，其绘画语言也日趋成熟，早年内心的迷茫徘徊如今在其画作中已消隐而去，日见灰色暗沉的调子流露出的心态更接近于中国文人出世后的淡然。
邱黯雄在脚踏东西方文化之后，对东西方尤其是西方和中国两种思维体系进行了自己的反观，试图把西方逻辑置于东方语境和东方思维中进行再造和提炼，在反映当下人类社会所普遍存在的问题的同时，用一种平易近人的方式彰显了中国价值。
About the Artist:
Qiu AnXiong was born in China's Sichuan Province in 1972. After studying painting at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, he went on to the University of Kassel in Germany before returning to China in 2003. Basing himself in Shanghai, he began working in video.
In the medium of film, where both time and space are extended beyond the common experience, it is the power of looking into the distance that stirs the imagination. The perspective Qiu brings to the viewer cuts across historical time, and lifts him to a distant vantage point. From this point the artist sees the ills of our times with greater clarity, and may better identify his artistic responsibilities. Remembering the vast expanse of sky and sea in the artist’s paintings, it becomes evident that Qiu has been training his vision for some time; he has arrived at this perspective by stretching his vision into the horizon, where all the world’s dramas are but distant tremors, and all human strife are inconsequential disputes within the greater order of the university. Day by day the mood reflected by the dark tones of grey employed by the artist started to resemble more and more the stillness of heart of Chinese literati, standing aloof from worldly affairs.
The last years spent abroad have stimulated Qiu Anxiong’s reflection on his own cultural identity, thus spurring his desire for his native culture. He thus started to study the work of Nan Huaijin and a series of Eastern classic writings. The deepness of Chinese culture and its meditative philosophical nature have stimulated the artist’s creative process and at the same time, let him understand how to use his Chinese culture to its best and create explosive new works. In 2004 after returning back to China, the artist started teaching at Shanghai China Eastern Normal University but continued to be moved by the same perseverant attitude towards art. His artistic language became more mature, and the initial perplexities, the up and down cycles the artist underwent at the beginning of his career, disappeared as can be seen from his works.
Qiu Anxiong, after stepping into both Eastern and Western cultures, has carried on his own analysis of the two, especially of their two different systems of thought. This was aimed at using Western logic within a Chinese context and frame of thought, thus re-creating and refining Western logic itself. While reflecting the common societal problems, he used an approachable way to show Chinese values.
