学院从来都是集中人类智慧并孕育新的创造力的摇篮,而中国的高等美术教育以及它所培养的人才,在现当代美术中一直担当着举足轻重的角色。随着中国政治、经济和文化的全面开放,国际间文化对话平等格局的逐步达成,当代中国实验艺术逐步迈向国际舞台,被世界瞩目。与此同时,艺术教育也以学院一贯的理性和矜持调整着学术方位的标杆,百余年来西方化过程的理性梳理,本土悠久传统艺术语言的重新关照,世人都在呼唤中国当代艺术出现形与质的改变,而学院应当为文化艺术的未来发展担当起更为全面、宏观的责任。
于是,近十年来,在强调以西方古典写生技法与写实风格作为基调与主流的高等专业艺术教育结构中,“实验艺术”的概念逐渐在各美术院校以及专业普遍性地介入,并开辟出一个个充满活力的专业教学板块。如果说曾经在20世纪80年代的“新潮美术运动”中担当主力的艺术家们是突破当时学院专业教学的界限而成为精英,那么,今天有志于从事实验艺术的学徒在这里获得有关思想方法与工作方法的系统的知识与能力,在学院的、学术的、理性的教学理念中酿造艺术创造的全面素质,必定锤炼成就源源不断走向世界艺术前沿的生力军。
“和而不同——第二届学院实验艺术文献展”将于2011年4月8日至5月2日在中央美术学院美术馆展出,并与4月28日举行开幕仪式。展览将集中展示中国近十年来学院中的实验艺术教学、研究与创作的优秀成果,充分显现出中国当代的高等专业美术教育在坚持传统优势的原有格局中,走向更多元更开放的学术思想。
展览分7个部分:
常态眼睛与异样视觉
物质化生与技术新知
传统语言的现代转换
大众立场与社会延伸
身体体验与自我表达
文化标本的学术采集
学院风尚的实验课堂
前面6个部分为中国高等艺术院校近六年来学生的艺术创作,囊括了绘画、雕塑、装置、影像、行为表演、文本采集等各种艺术形式,全面展现了中国实验艺术通过学院教育所生成的一个崭新的艺术盛况,可谓中国当代艺术进程中具有转折性意义的一次展览。
最后一个部分为“实验课堂”,拟选择全国各学院实验艺术专业中十二个优秀课程与教学项目的案例,但它不是教师的教案和教学笔记,而是展现由单项课程教学或相关艺术项目生成的学生作品的整体面貌,每一个案例都相当于一个主题的群展,所不同的是这个展览是由实验艺术教学的学术主题与理性引导所导致的。
About Harmonious Differences – Second Experimental Art Exhibition
As schools have always been where human intelligence and creativity are developed, China’s fine art education and the talents it has discovered and trained have played an important role in modern and contemporary art. With China’s political, economic and cultural reforms and parallel global cultural dialogues, China’s contemporary experimental art has entered the global arena and receives increasing attention. At the same time, art education has been making adjustments and improvements. To establish a balance between the westernized art theories applied in the last century and Chinese traditional art and culture, China’s contemporary art is expected to undergo a formal and qualitative transformation. Fine art institutes shall take on more comprehensive and macro responsibilities in the future development of culture and the arts.
Mainstream fine art education has long been based on Western painting practices and the realist style. During the past decade, however, the concept of “experimental art” has gradually emerged and increased in popularity among fine art institutes and has became a dynamic academic concentration. If the 1980s avant-garde artists were able to break through institutional boundaries in order to become the elite of today, those interested in engaging in experimental art today shall study the relevant systematic methods and practices showcased at this exhibition, develop comprehensive qualities through institutionalized academic and theoretical education, and become the cutting edge artistic force in the international arena.
Harmonious Differences – Second Experimental Art Exhibition will be held at the Central Academy of Fine Arts from April 8th, 2011 through May 2nd, 2011. An opening ceremony of the China Experimental Art Institutional Education Symposium will be held on April 28th, 2011. The exhibition will showcase China’s fine art institutes’ achievements in experimental art teaching, research and creation. It will demonstrate how China’s fine art education today is now opening to more diverse academic ways of thinking.
The exhibition is divided into seven parts:
1. Normal eyes and abnormal vision
2. Material transformation and technological knowledge
3. Modern transformation of traditional language
4. Public space and social extension
5. Bodily experience and self-expression
6. Academic samplings of cultural specimens
7. Institutionalized experimental classrooms
The first six parts present paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, performances and texts created by students of various Chinese fine art institutes during the past six years. They illustrate how experimental art has blossomed through institutionalized education in China. The exhibition will become a significant milestone in China’s contemporary art history.
The last part, “Institutionalized experimental classrooms,” will select 12 outstanding experimental art curriculum and teaching programs from among various fine art institutes as case studies. It will not only provide teaching agendas and notes for instructors, but also showcase the overall outlook of student works created during a single course or for other art projects. Each case will be equivalent to a themed group show, linked only by the fact that this exhibition is based on the academic theme and theoretical guidance of experimental art education.
【编辑:霍春常】
编辑:霍春常