展期 Period：
2023.11.4—2024.1.7
艺术家 Artist：
张健君 Zhang Jianjun、芭芭拉·爱德斯坦 Barbara Edelstein
策展人 Curator：
地点 Venue：
狮語画廊 Leo Gallery（上海）
新闻稿 Press Release：
时间做了一个梦，梦中的时间是一棵永恒的树，树梢上挂满了各种各样的时间——刚发芽的，茂密的，泛黄的，变红的，在风中沙沙作响。
我想邀请您一同进入这场时间的梦境——展览《梦与叶》。
大多数人都无法理解真正属于他们的可能性，他们身上蕴藏的自由和时间。艺术家的职责是为世界提供新的可能性。张健君和芭芭拉·爱德斯坦（Barbara Edelstein）的创作让我们重新感受和发现时间。他们独特的经历与对世界的理解，让他们具有一种隐士的气质。他们的作品拥有不为外界干扰的内核，一种超脱于此世的时间感，这一点在这个喧嚣的时代中尤为可贵。
张健君在 1982 年创作了《永恒的对话》，预示着他将孜孜以求“存在”与“痕迹”之间的永恒对话。这四十年来，他在时间中一次次捕捉虚空。比如《拓太阳》，以水和时间，留住火的痕迹。比如《拓星座》，以星空之无限打开人心中的无限。他甚至《拓雨》，在画布和棉布上去寻求一次次的转瞬即逝。与其说他拓下了无形之物，不如说他想揭示生命和时间的本质。拓取的这个动作，是充满意义的徒劳，只属于人类。
在这沙滩上，我徜徉到永远，
徜徉在沙与沫之间。
涨潮时，海水会抹去我的脚印，
风会把水沫吹得很远很远，
然而海和海滩会存在到永远。
——纪伯伦 《沙与沫》
芭芭拉·爱德斯坦深受东方哲学的影响，她对自然有着深刻的理解和挚爱。她创作的叶子中，蕴藏着整个森林——生机勃勃，同时隽永深邃。这不是一片普通的叶子，而是包含了过去、现在和未来的时间的叶子，清晰深刻的纹路，犹如人的掌纹。人用手掌在岩洞上拓下自己的痕迹，留下的正是这样的纹路。我们用手，在时间中拓出生命的痕迹。
芭芭拉为叶子提供了充盈的生命力和丰富的新感受。人生的希望如叶之生长与凋零，在自然和时间中循环与重生。
张健君和芭芭拉以各自的方式，在时间中开辟了新的路径，他们在作品中以某种方式超越了寻常的时间和感受。梦是时间的叶子，叶是时间内部的时间。他们的作品拥有一种超拔于这个世界的内在特质，《梦与叶》是一场摆脱时间重力的展览。
人有梦，正如树有叶，在时间中默默成形。
梦与叶即相似又矛盾。叶子总会发芽和生长，梦总会醒来。于是，这些在梦境之中重新发现的自由，将在我们的生命中继续生长。
文/沈奇岚
Time dreamed a dream, where time was an eternal tree, with all kinds of time hanging from its branches—sprouting, flourishing, yellowing, reddening, rustling in the wind.
I'd like to invite you to enter this dream of time – the exhibition Leaves of Dreams.
It is hard for most people to find out their true potential, the freedom and time inherent within them. It is the artist’s responsibility to provide the world with new possibilities. The works of Zhang Jian-Jun and Barbara Edelstein allow us to rediscover and re-experience time. Their unique experiences and understanding of the world give them a reclusive aura. Their works possess an undisturbed core, a transcendental sense of time, which is especially precious in this noisy era.
The occurrence of dreams, like the growth of leaves, is irresistible as a law of nature.
In 1982, Zhang Jian-Jun created Eternal Dialogue, foreshadowing his lifelong pursuit of the eternal dialogue between ‘existence’ and ‘trace’. Over the past forty years, he has repeatedly captured emptiness in time. Works like Rubbing Sun retain the trace of fire with water and time. Works like Rubbing Planets use the infinite celestial sky to unlock the infinite in the human heart. He even Rubs the Rain, seeking ephemerality over and over on canvas and paper. Rather than saying he has rubbed intangible things, it is more accurate to say he wants to reveal the essence of life and time. The act of rubbing is a meaningful futility that only belongs to humankind.
Zhang Jian-Jun’s relentless rubbing in time is not a Sisyphean ordeal, but a series of awakenings and intersections of sorrow and joy. Rubbing the planets and rain is also rubbing the traces of the heart, dreams, and time. Forty years later, Zhang Jian-Jun brings these moments of awakening together in Leaves of Dreams, like the tree canopy hung with all kinds of time – sprouting, flourishing, yellowing, reddening.
Barbara infuses the leaves with abundant vitality and rich new sensations. The hopes of human life, like the growth and withering of leaves, cycle and regenerate in nature and time.
Zhang Jian-Jun and Barbara have blazed new trails through time in their own ways. Their works transcend ordinary time and sensation. Dreams are the leaves of time, leaves are the time within time. Their works possess an inherent quality that transcends this title – Leaves of Dreams is an exhibition that breaks free of the gravity of time.
Just as trees have leaves, people have dreams, silently taking shape in time.
Dreams and leaves are alike yet contradictory. Leaves will always sprout and grow, dreams will always awaken. Thus, the freedoms rediscovered in these dreams will continue to grow in our lives.
