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2023.2.12—2023.3.26
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美成空间荣幸地宣布将于2023年2月12日推出艺术家何迟个展“繁华”，展览由策展人王澈策划呈现，将持续展出至3月26日。
书法是何迟自由丰富的艺术创作中一个重要的类型。2004年起，何迟开始用独特的方式临摹书法史上的经典作品。他意图以这种述而不作的方式，度过其他创造性工作之外的时间。
“繁华”展出的主要是何迟2019至2020两年间研究和临习唐楷的作品。中国书法到了唐代，艺术法则趋于完备和极致，出现了垂范后世的楷模。这是华夏文明史上的繁华时代。欧阳询、颜真卿、柳公权，加上元代赵孟頫的作品，作为书法启蒙教育的首选范本，千百年来被人们反复临摹学习。其中体现的“书写性”代表了传统书法和绘画艺术最为核心的精神，是人性的顺遂和抒发。
何迟用五笔、五色循环轮换的方式临摹前代经典作品，表面上看，这一动作带有鲜明的反书写性，而反书写性，就是“反人性”，类似于宗教徒戒律森严的生命修习。艺术家通过这种方式，试图对个人身体里时潜时显的族群文化基因序列，进行清点和整顿；对民族共同体历史叙述中的惯性套路和固定想象，进行身体性的考察和缅怀。
繁华，既是何迟书法星光灿烂的外在视觉气象，也是汉字文明生生不息的内存骄傲记忆，更是当代华人朝朝暮暮的幻灭脆弱梦想。
It’s an honor for Gallery MC to announce the upcoming launch of artist He Chi’s solo exhibition “Flourish” on February 12, 2023. Curated by Wang Che, the exhibition will last until March 26.
Calligraphy is an important genre of He Chi’s free and rich art. Since 2004, he has been copying classics in the history of calligraphy in a unique fashion, a fashion that doesn’t require creation but can help pass on the classics in question. He attempts to kill his time after work through the practice.
“Flourish” mainly presents He Chi’s study-based copies of regular-script calligraphy from the Tang dynasty during the two years from 2019 to 2020. The dynasty saw the final steps of completion and perfection of the law of Chinese calligraphic art, hence the flourishing models for later calligraphy learners. That is an age of prosperity in the history of Chinese civilization. The pieces by Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan, plus those by Zhao Mengfu from the Yuan dynasty, have become the first choices of models for beginners in calligraphy learning, and been copied and studied over and over for a thousand years, more or less. The “particularity of handwriting” it embodies reflects that the core spirit of traditional calligraphy and painting is the wellbeing and expression of humanity.
He Chi copies calligraphic classics using five brushes of five different colors for different strokes in rotation. On the surface, this approach clearly goes against the particularity of handwriting, which also means it’s “against humanity”, reminding us of the religious practice of life based on rigorous discipline. In this way, the artist attempts to sort out and reorganize the gene sequence of ethnic culture that alternates between latency and dominance in an individual’s body; and to revisit and reminisce about, with the help of his body, the conventional patterns and imaginations in the historical narrative of a national community.
Flourishing, is not only the visual manifestation of He Chi’s colorful calligraphy, but also the proud memory of the everlasting civilization built with Chinese characters, and even a disillusive fragile dream that haunts contemporary Chinese day and night.
