《线中线》黑白主义系列展第一回
线中线Line in Line
黑白主义系列展第一回 Black-Blank Art
艺术家 | Artists：朱一虹 Zhu Yihong / 沈忱 Shen Chen / 老赫 Lao He / 熊薇 Xiong Wei / 武一 Wu Yi / 柯济鹏 Ke Jipeng / 于洋 Yu Yang
策展人 | Curator：夏可君 Xia Kejun
总策划｜General Planner：张涛 Zhang Tao
开幕 | Opening: 2020.8.16 3:00 pm
展期 | Duration: 2020.8.16 - 9.23
主办 | Organizer: 艺术粮仓 Art Granary出品｜Produce ：弘真国际文化发展有限公司 Hongzhen culture development co.LTD
地址｜Adress：北京市东城区东四十条22号南新仓艺术粮仓 No.22, Nanxingcang, International Dongsishitiao, Dongcheng District, Beijing
艺术粮仓荣幸呈现“线中线”黑白主义第一回。展览由夏可君担任策展人，张涛总策划。参展艺术家有：朱一虹，沈忱，老赫，熊薇，武一，柯济鹏，于洋。2020年艺术粮仓新推出带有新开端的标志性学术系列展览“黑白主义”。首展以“线中线”为题，展览将于2020年8月16日下午3点开幕，持续至9月23日。第一回：线中线！不是什么黑与白，也不是什么黑＋白！那是什么呢！
Art Granary is to setup the first group exhibition of Lines in Lines series. The exhibition is curated by Xia Kejun and produced by Zhang Tao, including works from Zhu Yihong, Shen Chen, Old He, Xiong Wei, Wu Yi, Ke Jipeng and Yu Yang. In 2020, Art Granary has started a pioneering academic series of Black-Blank Art, in which the first exhibition, characterized by the theme—Lines in Lines, will start at 3 pm of August 16th and will be on display until September 23rd. The first exhibition: Lines in Lines, is not in black and white, or in black plus white. Then what is it?
“黑白主义”展览理念
在2020年，提出“黑白主义”，这个我们酝酿已久讨论许久的黑白主义艺术，具有非常特别的意义！
没有人会想到，2020年，历史会以如此黑白分明又黑白颠倒的公共卫生危机，带给世界一场来到末世或者回归原点的整体感受。
没有人会想到，人类竟然被简单粗暴地隔离开为传染者与非传染者。甚至在美国，黑人还开始了“黑命贵”的革命，黑与白似乎成为了严峻的政治问题，就如同中国现代性新文化运动中的白话文革命
进入2020年，世界重新回到了文明开端的遭遇，那是人性与自然的相遇，那是对世界和生命的重新认知。
那么，何谓“黑白主义”（Black-Blank Art）？在这里，我们给出一些形式上的指引，仅仅是一些引导性的说明：
1，“黑白”之为“主义”，首先并非是颜色上的黑白两种颜色，因此不是坊间各种版本的“黑与白”，或者“黑+白”，这些简单化的展览名称并没有实质性的内涵！我们所谓的“黑白”乃是一种世界的“元现象”，如同白昼与黑夜，是面对“极限”、却又不采取“单极”回应的思想方式，是重新激活“阴阳”这“二极”，使之同时并存又互动，体现出艺术的哲学化表达。但这并非仅仅是传统中国的阴阳太极图的闭合圆环，而是面对即将来临的新冷战或者热战冲突，如何并存互动的可能性。
2，“黑白主义”，在中国文化传统中，就是哲学上的“知白守黑”，艺术上的“计白当黑”，以空白的活化打开自然化的世界，让人与自然共感，是阴阳二极的融合，但中国传统也可能过于追求混同而会导致张力的丧失，并且缺乏内在转化的能量，因此，进入现代性，恰好需要更为彻底地黑白颠倒，乃至于黑白错杂，在新的混杂现代性处境中，在黑白错杂中形成新的张力。
3，进入现代性，西方文化也有黑白艺术的显现，但走向了“单极思维”，以抽象开始寻求普遍性，走向极少主义，乃至黑色绘画或白色绘画，哪怕东亚现代性的韩国“单色画”，依然还是一种单极思维。这也是为何我们不用“阴阳主义”而用“黑白主义”，乃是有明确艺术史的针对性！但抽象也作为现代性不可或缺的一极，需要与另一极互动，这就需要黑与白二极的同时互动，来消解单向思维的盲点。
4，“黑白艺术”当然也与颜色相关，尤其体现出中国文化可能的优势，水墨精神的潜力。作为艺术的色彩感知，在中国文化，黑乃“玄色”，白乃“素色”，二者的互动转化，可以形成微妙变化的“虚色”。但“黑白主义”并非传统水墨，也非各种中国当前的水墨画，而是以“水墨性”（自然性与空无性的二极结合），在抽象化与概念化的分离之后，所重新生成出来的水墨黑白主义艺术。
5，“黑白主义”，在进入现代性之后，必须接纳西方抽象理性的一极，如同西方可能需要吸纳东方自然性的一极。这就是在看似对立的二极：抽象与自然，技术与自然，概念与身体，虚拟与混沌，现成品与绘画，等等之间，建立不可思议的关联。
6，“黑白主义”就不落入固定的二极，而是寻求冲突与差异双方的间隙与间距，黑白主义乃是“之间”或“间性”（Betweenness/Zwischen）的艺术。
7，黑白主义的艺术将打开当代生活的“三度空间”：从平面二维的个体创作、到虚拟空间的三维调整、直至虚待空间的多维外展，充分体现了混杂现代性的当下处境，而且此转换过程体现了黑白艺术的新原理！
8，黑白主义艺术乃是从中国文化出发而延展到现代性的叙述方式：从中国传统的“黑白阴阳”，到现代性虚无主义的“黑白颠倒”，再到未来的“黑白之间”，可以重构一种新的思维方式与艺术模式。
而当下的我们，就身处一个黑白颠倒的世界，需要艺术回归黑白转化的秘密，通过艺术的创造想象力，打开世界的另一扇门。
夏可君
2019-2020
Black-Blank Art
In 2020, we try to invoke a new contemporary Art movement: Black-Blank Art, which is an art type of profound meaning that we have discussed for a long time.
No one would expect that in 2020 the world would come to the end of the age and come back to the origin because public sanitary conditions have become either black or blank, or be a confused mass of black and blank (just as confusing right and wrong).
No one would expect that human beings are distinguished as infectors and non-infectors. In US, black people even started a Black Lives Matter movement. Black and white seems to be a sharply contrast political options, which are just like colloquial Chinese (Whiteness of Light or future) and classic Chinese (Blackness of night or traditional) in China’s New Cultural Movement.
In 2020, the world returns to the starting point of civilization where humanity and nature meet and in which people come to rethink about the world and life.
What is Black-Blank Art? Here we will give some directional instructions about its form:
1. Black and blank in Black-Blank Art do not refer to the color black or the color white, therefore they do not mean black and white or black plus white which do not embody the actual meaning of this art, as referred by anecdotal view. Black and blank in the art type are Ur-phenomena of the world, just like day and night, and a multi-perspective attitude towards extremism and an inclusive thinking mode in face of unipolarity. The art type embodies two perspectives, yin and yang, which coexist and interact at the same time, and philosophically expresses yin and yang. However, yin and yang in this case surpass the circle of yin and yang in traditional culture, and they further denote possibilities of coexistence and interaction considering the coming new Cold War and Shooting War.
2. In Chinese traditional culture, Black-Blank Art, which in philosophical term is “Know and Observe All but Stay Obscure”, and in artistic term is “plan blanks just as plan black parts”, tries to use blanks to create a natural world in which human beings and nature can interact with each other, and yin and yang melt perfectly. However, because of convergence, Black-Blank Art in the old form lacks tension between people and nature and inner motivation of transition. Modern Black-Blank Art presents the wanted tension of black and blank for it totally transposes or mixed black and blank to create a complicated scenario.
3. As for modern art, Black-Blank Art also presents in western culture, yet it goes to a unipolar state, from abstractism to generalism, and to minimalism, and to monochrome black painting or white painting. Even in eastern modern art, works such as Korean Dansaekhwa are unipolar.. That is why we do not adopt the term “Yin-Yang Art”, but “Black-Blank Art” –it clarifies the art type’s role in art history. However, as a modern art type, abstractness is also vital. Modern Black-Blank Art needs abstractness to interact with the opposite pole to get rid of the drawbacks of being unipolar, which means that blacks need to interact with blanks.
4. Black-Blank Art is surely related to colors, especially characterized by the potential of ink and water, advantages of Chinese culture. In Chinese culture, black is mysterious black, while blank is light color. When black and blank interact with each other and make the infra-transition, there will be discreet infra-color. Yet Black-Blank Art does not mean traditional ink painting or various contemporary ink painting, but is a new art type of ink painting that combines naturalness and emptiness, and reforms itself after the distinction between abstracting and conceptualization.
5. Modern Black-Blank Art has to include the abstractness and rationality from western culture, just like modern western culture has to absorb preference of nature from eastern culture. That is to say, a seemingly incredible connection has to be created between abstractness and naturalness, technology and nature, concept and body, virtuality and chaos, ready-mades and painting.
6. Black-Blank Art is not about settled opposite poles, but to seek balance between the opposite poles and find the interval between them. It is an art of Betweenness/Zwischen.
7. Black-Blank Art will create a three-dimensional space, extending individual creation in two-dimensional space to three-dimensional adjustment in virtual space, even to multi-dimensional stretches in future opening space. The process shows the transition of complex modernity and represents a new rule of Black-Blank Art.
8. The art type stems from Chinese culture, and develops into a modern narrative of a new thinking mode and a new art form, from traditional yin-yang to nihilism in the modern world(transposing of black and blank), and to interactive black and blanks in the future.
We are in a world where black and blank are transposed and which required an artistic transformation enter into the new relationship between them. In this case, we can open the another door of the world by means of artistic creation and imagination.
Xia Kejun
2019-2020
