《宇宙山水 Inner-Verse》｜程曦个人作品展 ---（2025.07.05 - 07.26)
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宋代青原惟信禅师曾对门人说：
“老僧三十年前未参禅时候，见山是山，见水是水。及至后来，亲见知识，有个入处，见山不是山，见水不是水。而今得个休歇处，依前见山只是山，见水只是水。”
“老僧三十年前未参禅时候，见山是山，见水是水。及至后来，亲见知识，有个入处，见山不是山，见水不是水。而今得个休歇处，依前见山只是山，见水只是水。”
语出《指月录》卷二十八
世界的本质、宇宙的面貌，自古以来，哲学家们试图给出自己的答案，而艺术家们也为此贡献自己不同的“视角”——从一个艺术家的视角去观看宇宙、去理解世界，从客观到主观，从理性到感性，从具象再到抽象。一切看似互斥的关系，它们通过互补，从而形成一个完整的对于世界的理解。
艺术家程曦的创作，围绕着万物本质的真相而展开。宇宙、黑洞与星辰在淡淡的绿色调下晕散。人、时间和宇宙都在流动，一切都在流动（flow）。线条与色块在画面上，试探彼此的关系，同时也寻着画布的边界。
程曦擅于用一种有着东方性、介于抽象与具象之间的绘画语言来表述自己对于世界的观察。她的一幅幅作品，邀请观众一起进入，完成一次或者几次的“穿行”。我们如何去看，该注视哪里，她在线条与笔触之间小心翼翼地藏着线索。不喧哗、不强迫的视觉表达，特别符合当代女性艺术家的特征。
东方性或者说东方主义绘画又是什么？
它应该是被文化传承下来的，是东方文化里，东方人骨子里的东西。不见得是老师或者贤者有意识的教诲与传播，更多是历历代代的人，有意无意间所建立与维护的精神向往，或者我们上述的精神空间或者宇宙。从出生以来，就浸泡在这样的“宇宙”里的我们，这些韵味、质感和思维，它们已经烙印在你我的身心。
传统也好，哲学也罢，这份东西是艺术创作中重要的养分。它在我们认识世界的轮廓里，在我们审美的内核之中。它左右着我们的思想与判断，也影响着我们的“流动”。然而如何去运用和提炼它却是艺术家们一生的功课。
此次在散步时刻Gallery所展出的《宇宙山水》艺术家程曦的个人作品展，为我们从这样的一个角度去打开艺术，展出的作品呈现在多种不同的媒介上，同时分路成不同的系列。像做实验一样，各个有自己的主张、实验过程与初步结论。 艺术家的心性一览无余：一位好奇心强，却又克制的创作者。
程曦的笔触与思绪，试图打破空间与纸张的束缚，同时在理性与感性之间纠缠。作品中，理性如爱因斯坦的广义相对论公式，感性如一缕不知去往何处的绿彩笔画。淡淡的色彩、浓浓的表现性，程曦在中国水墨的散点透视与西方单点透视之间来回跳舞，耐心地堆砌属于自己的创作语言与绘画系统。她的作品像是地图，也像解剖图，将外在与内在的宇宙进行一次次解构又重组。透过一张张不同的作品，艺术家试图引用抽象的视觉，建立起与每一个观者独一无二的对白。
此次个展，画廊空间的一隅以文人书房的形式呈现，这是我们与艺术家共同讨论的设计。希望能通过这样的一个呈现形式，去重现中国古代文人将自己的创作打开成一个空间的精神追求。
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《Inner-Verse》Cheng Xi Solo Exhibition
A Zen master of the Song Dynasty once said to his disciples:
"Thirty years ago, before I began practising Zen Buddhism, I saw mountains as mountains and waters as waters. Later, as I reached more insight and truth, mountains were no longer just mountains, and waters no longer just waters. Now as my life comes to a resting pace and peace, in front of me, mountains are once more mountains and waters are waters."
(Volume 28 of "指月录")
Since ancient times, philosophers have tried to give their own answers to the essence of the world and the appearance of the universe, artists likewise have contributed their own perspective. Viewing the universe from the artist perspective, shifting from the objective to subjective, from rationality to sensibility, from figurative to abstraction. These seemingly mutually exclusive relationships, combine and complement each other to form our complete understanding of the world.
Artist Cheng Xi’s work revolves around the seeking of truth about the essence of all things. The universe, black holes and stars dissipate under a faint green tone. The universe, time and people are flowing, everything is flowing. Her lines and colours, entangle among themselves, forming relationships, and together they venture to the outer borders of the canvas.
Cheng Xi expresses her observation of the world through a painting language embedded with East Asian roots. Somewhere between the abstract and figurative brush, she invites the audience to enter together and complete one or several "dives" into her work. She carefully hides clues in between the lines and brushstrokes. Quiet and unforced, her artistic expressions are particularly in line with the characteristics of contemporary female artists.
Passing down through culture, en-grained in a specific cultural mindset of a particular group of people. Not necessarily through the conscious teaching and dissemination of teachers or sages, but more of a spiritual yearning established and maintained by people from generation to generation. It is the immersion of this space and “universe”, contemporary East Asian painters are somewhat guided by certain inner concepts, yearning and ideas, reflected in the texture and flow of their work.
Whether it is traditional rituals or philosophical thoughts, this “thing” holds a significant role in artist’s creative process. The contours of artist’s understanding of the world and the core of her aesthetics, they influence her choices and her “flow”. Nevertheless, how such a cultural endowment is applied and refined, this is a lifelong learning curve for the artist.
On this occasion, Champochic Gallery will show the 《Inner-Verse》Cheng Xi Solo Exhibition, seeking to open dialogue within this spectrum. The artist’s work is presented through differing mediums, and divided into several distinctive series. Methodologically, she seeks to test her hypotheses, reaching preliminary conclusions and artistic results. Cheng Xi is an artist with strong curiosity yet self-restraining at the same time.
Her thought and brushstroke challenges the constraints that holds together space and paper, while she entangles between reason and sensibility. In her work, reason is like a line of Einstein's general theory of relativity jotted along coloured shapes, while sensibility is a wisp of green brush strokes that is perhaps heading to nowhere. Fainted colours and strong expressiveness, Cheng Xi dances back and forth between the scattered perspective of Chinese ink and single-point perspective of Western painting schools, patiently building her own creative language and painting system. These works of abstract are like maps and anatomical diagrams, deconstructing and reorganizing the outer and inner universes again and again, seeking to establish an unique dialogue with the viewer.
In this solo exhibition, a corner of the gallery space is presented in the form of a literati study, which is a design we discussed with the artist. We hope that through such a presentation form, the spiritual pursuit of ancient Chinese literati to open up their artistic findings and creations into a “space” can be reproduced.
The《Inner-Verse》Cheng Xi Solo Exhibition will open on July 5, 2025 at the Champochic Gallery. We sincerely welcome everyone to come along, and dive in.
Artist Cheng Xi’s work revolves around the seeking of truth about the essence of all things. The universe, black holes and stars dissipate under a faint green tone. The universe, time and people are flowing, everything is flowing. Her lines and colours, entangle among themselves, forming relationships, and together they venture to the outer borders of the canvas.
Cheng Xi expresses her observation of the world through a painting language embedded with East Asian roots. Somewhere between the abstract and figurative brush, she invites the audience to enter together and complete one or several "dives" into her work. She carefully hides clues in between the lines and brushstrokes. Quiet and unforced, her artistic expressions are particularly in line with the characteristics of contemporary female artists.
Passing down through culture, en-grained in a specific cultural mindset of a particular group of people. Not necessarily through the conscious teaching and dissemination of teachers or sages, but more of a spiritual yearning established and maintained by people from generation to generation. It is the immersion of this space and “universe”, contemporary East Asian painters are somewhat guided by certain inner concepts, yearning and ideas, reflected in the texture and flow of their work.
Whether it is traditional rituals or philosophical thoughts, this “thing” holds a significant role in artist’s creative process. The contours of artist’s understanding of the world and the core of her aesthetics, they influence her choices and her “flow”. Nevertheless, how such a cultural endowment is applied and refined, this is a lifelong learning curve for the artist.
On this occasion, Champochic Gallery will show the 《Inner-Verse》Cheng Xi Solo Exhibition, seeking to open dialogue within this spectrum. The artist’s work is presented through differing mediums, and divided into several distinctive series. Methodologically, she seeks to test her hypotheses, reaching preliminary conclusions and artistic results. Cheng Xi is an artist with strong curiosity yet self-restraining at the same time.
Her thought and brushstroke challenges the constraints that holds together space and paper, while she entangles between reason and sensibility. In her work, reason is like a line of Einstein's general theory of relativity jotted along coloured shapes, while sensibility is a wisp of green brush strokes that is perhaps heading to nowhere. Fainted colours and strong expressiveness, Cheng Xi dances back and forth between the scattered perspective of Chinese ink and single-point perspective of Western painting schools, patiently building her own creative language and painting system. These works of abstract are like maps and anatomical diagrams, deconstructing and reorganizing the outer and inner universes again and again, seeking to establish an unique dialogue with the viewer.
In this solo exhibition, a corner of the gallery space is presented in the form of a literati study, which is a design we discussed with the artist. We hope that through such a presentation form, the spiritual pursuit of ancient Chinese literati to open up their artistic findings and creations into a “space” can be reproduced.
The《Inner-Verse》Cheng Xi Solo Exhibition will open on July 5, 2025 at the Champochic Gallery. We sincerely welcome everyone to come along, and dive in.
厦门市思明区民族路37号之1海祥大厦7楼
Level 7, Hai Xiang Building, 37-1 Min Zu Road, Siming District, Xiamen
Level 7, Hai Xiang Building, 37-1 Min Zu Road, Siming District, Xiamen
