词·语·心

                ——曾喆个展

展期：2014/ 05/ 10-2014/ 07/ 03

曾喆的绘画在真真正正地审视日常生活中的平凡物体，并从它们当中找出某些独立的文化分量。她在人们千篇一律对待艺术的面前提出了谦卑的东西，把注意力集中在没有社会意义的小物体上，毫无约束地仔细检视物体的内在本质 - 只关心所遭遇物体的真实本质，不计较其它。但由于曾喆的绘画技术功底深厚，我们发现价值观遭受颠覆：角色颠倒，物体掌控了自己的小世界。仔细观察之下，这种变化与其说美化了画家笔下的静物，不如说赋予了静物一种重要性。画家笔下的蘑菇作为一个观赏物，忽然显得比现实中其貌不扬的蘑菇更有价值。

虽然曾喆在某种意义上是形而上学的，但她的内容也允许她专注在作为她生活一部分的事物上，这意味着她所采取的绘画方式既是一个实用的决定，也是一个富有哲学意义的决定，她的绘画是在平凡里体现了崇高。

Moment of Being

                             ----Zeng Zhe Solo Exhibition

Duration: 10 May - 3 July, 2014

Zeng Zhe’s art looks at the mundaneobjects of life and finds in them the cultural weight of somethingself-sufficient, bona fide; her accomplishment proposes what amounts tohumility in the face of people’s indifference toward art.

By concentrating on small objects oflittle social consequence, she is free to look closely at its inherentnature—without becoming involved in anything but the stark quiddity she isencountering. But, given the skill of Zeng Zhe’s hand, we find that values areturned upside down: the tables are reversed, and the object commands a smallworld of its own. This change does not glorify the artist’s still lifes so muchas invest them with an importance based on close observation. Suddenly thepainted mushrooms in one work appear more valuable, as objects of sight, thanthe lowly funghi they are.

While it is true that Zeng Zhe isoffering a metaphysics of sorts, her content also allows her to concentrate onthose things that are part of her life, which means her decision to paint theway she does amounts to a practical decision as well as a philosophical one..Zeng Zhe’s job is to link the ordinary to the sublime.