前言：

在众多的作品中，都在虚空之下叹息劳苦；在苦难中复制苦难；在幽暗中繁殖阴霾；即使少有人也在真诚的创作，但源头也在自我的限制中断流。似乎后面有一个无形的力量在支配着问题的一切。人处在一个严重的问题中，来袒露、掩饰自己的一切。个个都装扮着自己的坟墓！在有限，有罪，有死的限制之下，在自己的囚笼中，在寻找与迷惑中，爱与恨的交织中，在自我的觉醒中，人都在不断的在复制着巴别塔与偶像。在黑暗中寻求光明，私欲中自救，在自义中寻求公义。 生命在哪里？方向在哪里？道路到底在哪里？你我又在哪里？

这次的展览主要是我这几年在上苑艺术馆驻馆期间及路途的摄影图像为主，也有部分装置及绘画作品。内容丰富，它包容了多多地域、多文化、领域的状态及情感价值的交融与变化。起初的展示是想作为上苑驻管艺术家的文本呈现，最后完全改变了原有的想法。就顺从了里面的感动。进行再组合，再创作。完全展示了与起初不同的生命形态。其目的不是在于再现现象。在现象背后对人生命问题根源的思索...在迷雾与混乱后的启示下，在生命中呈现出生命的信息...

不要太过在意作品的的外在，作品对整个人来说，太过平面与迷惑，也太过掺杂。真正的作品应该是我生活生命的全部，那生命流淌出来的是什么源泉，谁才是那位创造者呢？在真实无形中建造与拆毁。作为基督徒的我，作品不是见证自己的某些认知感受与虚荣。而是见证那位重生了我和万有的创造者。只有在生命的源泉里，才能流淌出真正的活水来。在我行走的每个脚踪，都充满满他自己的爱与荣光。在生命自由与爱中，他在我里面成就了他自己，也用那鲜活的生命来呼召凡属他自己的羔羊...他就是那真光，是生命的源头，要照亮一切生在世上的人...我也当以这样的身份成为他荣耀所发的光辉...从今时直到永远...成为他生命的明证。因为万有都本于他、依靠他、归于他......

古洪强 2018.10.15于上苑

Preface:

In the multitude of works there is groaning and toiling under nothingness. Copy suffering in suffering; To multiply haze in the gloom; Even if few people are sincere in the creation, but the source is also in the limitations of the self. There seems to be an invisible force behind the problem. Man is in the midst of a serious problem to bare and conceal all he has. Each one dressed his own grave! In the limitations of limited, guilty and death, in their own cage, in search and confusion, in love and hate, in self-awakening, people are constantly replicating the tower of Babel and idols. Seek light in darkness, salvation in lusts, and righteousness in self-righteousness. Where is life? Where is the direction? Where the hell are the roads? Where are you and I?

This exhibition mainly focuses on the photographic images of my stay and journey in the museum of art of Shangyuan in recent years, as well as some installations and paintings. Rich in content, it contains the integration and change of regional, multi-cultural, regional state and emotional value. The original presentation was intended to be a textual representation of the artist as an upland resident, and eventually completely changed the original idea. I obeyed the moves inside. Remix and recreate. It’s a completely different life form from the original. The aim is not to reproduce the phenomenon. In the phenomenon behind the root of the problem of human life... In the fog and confusion after the revelation, in life presents the information of life...

Do not care too much about the external works, works to the whole person, too flat and confusing, also too mixed. The real work should be the whole of my life. What source of life flows out, and who is the creator? Build and tear down in reality. As a Christian, my works are not witness to my own cognitive feelings and vanity. But to witness the creator who reborn me and all. Only in the source of life, can flow out of the real live water. Every step I walked was filled with his own love and glory. In the freedom and love of life, he made himself in me and called every lamb that belonged to him with the living life... He is the true light, the source of life, to give light to all who are born... And that I should be the light of his glory... From now until forever... To be the proof of his life. For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.

Gu Hongqiang 2018.10.15 in Shangyuan