光阴似箭，日月如梭。逝者如斯，不舍昼夜。
时间，在我们生存的这个时空中是不可逆转的。
时间，是一分一秒的体验，是一笔一划的流程，是一朝一夕的经历。在转瞬的呼吸之间，艺术家们不断获得灵感，在荏苒的岁月之中，成熟的作品持续诞生。那些或快或慢的动作，在纸张、画布、木材、石头、金属、底片和屏幕上渐次显现出才华横溢的形象与观念，进而与人类共通的情感与理性产生共鸣。
时间，无始无终，无影无形，而艺术作品必须以视觉和观念的方式与观看者沟通。抽象艺术，体现了时间不可名状的本质，也是时间留下的痕迹和证据。本次展览是“抽象2020”的最后一集，以“夜与昼”的主题铺陈出艺术家们在迅疾与缓慢、瞬间与永恒、果断与犹疑、肯定与否定、单数与复数等视觉叙事手法上的多元表达。对于创作者来说，无论是一挥而就还是精雕细琢，都需要长年累月的思考和历练。对于观看者来说，看似一目了然的作品在悉心品味之后，常常会生发出无尽的意义。创造与欣赏都需要时间，艺术史就是这个过程的累积。
感谢艺博画廊的盛情邀约，前后历时一年，这个三部曲式的抽象艺术展览终于在2020这个特殊的年份里全部完成了。夜与昼交替轮回着，阳光、月光和星光持续照耀在我们这颗不停旋转的行星上。太阳系只是宇宙中的一粒沙，每个人其实都是渺小的，且无法逃离生生息息的宿命，于是艺术家们开始了创作，他们用灵魂歌唱，与时间对峙，并期冀进入历史。
人生有限，创造无涯。抽象永恒，艺术万岁。
策展人 李旭
2020年12月31日
Time flies like an arrow and passes by like a shuttle. Regardless of day or night, the passing of time flows on like a stream, never ceasing.
We situate in a time and space where time is irreversible.
Time is the experience of every minute and second, the process of every mark and stroke, the undergoing of every day and night. Artists constantly obtain inspiration in the fleeting moment of breathing. As time elapses, their works of art become increasingly mature. Their rapid or slow actions brilliantly reveal image and concept on paper, canvas, wood, stone, metal, film, and screen. The resulting effect echoes with the emotion and rationality shared by human beings.
With no beginning or end, time is shapeless. A work of art must communicate with its viewers by means of visual representation and conceptual ideas. Abstract art reveals the indescribable nature of time, and it is also the traces and manifestations of the passing of time. With the theme of Night & Day, the exhibition is the last episode of “Abstraction 2020”. It elaborates the artists’ visual narrative in diverse terms: rapid and slow, ephemeral and eternal, decisive and hesitating, affirmative and negative, singular and plural, etc. To the artist, it takes years of articulation and experience to create either a single stroke or a finely crafted work. To the viewer, works that seem to be simple can generate multiple layers of complexity and meanings after thoughtful analysis. Therefore, both the process of creation and reception demand the investment of time through which the history of art proceeds.
At the invitation of Yibo Gallery, the trilogy of abstract art over a span of a whole year is coming to an end in this special year of 2020. The night and day still cycle alternately with each other. The light of the sun, moon, and stars is shining on our ever-rotating planet. The solar system is only a grain of sand in the universe. Every one of us is infinitely small, and not able to escape the fate of life. But artists embark on creation anyway. With the hope of being remembered in history, artists sing with their souls and confront time.
Life is limited. Creativity is boundless. Abstraction is eternal. Vive la art.
Curator Li Xu
December 31, 2020
