【展讯】活山THE LIVING MOUNTAIN|李有杰

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活山
林语堂在自传体小说《赖柏英》中借主角之口说:“你若生在山里,山就会改变你的看法,山就好像进入你的血液一样……山的力量巨大得不可抵抗。”
家乡的自然环境对一个人世界观所起的影响是终身的。李有杰自2019年从北京回归到云南定居后,对山有了不同的感知。他说“之后对山地景观也更敏感,遇见有些山仿佛能看见山的灵魂。再进山里去,更确证了山是有生命的。仿佛印证了老辈山地人群间说的哪个山今年长高了多少,哪座山什么时间在哭,哪座山哼哼了多久……”
李有杰画山经历了三个阶段,第一阶段是在云南艺术学院读本科时期对山的写生作品,第二阶段是在北京参加驻留时期创作的山洞系列,本次展览呈现的是李有杰回到云南定居后创作的“山境”系列。李有杰的成长环境和他特殊的纪录片导演身份,让他一直行走在大山之中,面对大山、大山中的人和习俗,对他来说,终于由客体的“山形”,经过神秘而不可知的思维空间,转换成与自我融为一体的“山境”。幸好当代艺术给了艺术家更多的自由度和多种选择的可能,艺术家能够根据自己的天性去创造,没有任何枷锁。他画他心中的山,也是画山中的自己。在山中的他是自由的,是与天、地、山合一的,在那里他能够进入一种无限的自由状态。而画山这一过程,正是他通过艺术的手段,把内在于心中的无限性表现出来,从而找到感性与理性之间的那个变幻莫测的临界点。
2021至2023年期间由于不宜外出,他便每天坐在昆明家里的阳台上凝视天空。似乎天空中自由变幻的云成了他心中另一形式的山。云从虚空中生出来,又幻灭于虚空,天空每天有不同的颜色,云每时都有不同的形状,就像山也有不同的情绪一样。与其说李有杰想通过绘画捕捉无形之象,不如说他其实是通过一种凝视,来击穿他与观者之间的屏障,然后他拉起你的手一起遨游在无限之“山境”。      
海德格尔认为存在先于存在者存在,李有杰在经历了与山合而为一的同时完成了从“存在者”倒回到“存在”的体验。拉图尔综合“人类纪”和“盖亚假说”理论提出的反现代二分法的探索人与自然之间新型关系的问题与李有杰的艺术创作所探讨的问题不谋而合,就像爱德华多·科恩所写的《森林如何思考》的副标题所说,李有杰的艺术是一种“超越人类的人类学”。
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The Living Mountain  
In Lin Yutang’s autobiographical novel "Lai Boying", the main character says: "If you were born in the mountains, they would shape your perspectives. It seems that the mountains infuse your blood... The power of the mountains is so immense that it’s irresistible.”
The natural environment of one’s hometown has a lifelong impact on their worldview. Ever since he returned to Yunnan from Beijing and settled down there in 2020, Mr. Li Youjie has developed a different perception of mountains. According to Li, "I have since become more sensitive to the mountainous landscape. When I see some mountains, I feel like I could almost see their souls. Then after trekking through them, I am convinced that mountains are alive. It seems to echo common expressions used by elderly locals of those areas such as this mountain has grown taller this year, that one is crying at a certain time, and another one has been humming for months..."
Li's painting of mountains has gone through three periods. The first period is characterized by his sketches during his undergraduate years at Yunnan Art Academy. The second period focuses on his “cave series” created during his years in Beijing. This exhibition presents works of the third period - "The Living Mountain" series created after his return to Yunnan. The environment in which Li was raised and his  capacity as an independent documentary film director enables him walking in the mountains all the time and facing the mountains, people and customs of them. For him,“mountain” was finally transformed from "mountain shape", through a mysterious and unknowable mental space, into “mountain realm” which integrated with himself as one. Fortunately, contemporary art gives artists more freedom and a variety of choices . Artists can create following their own nature without any shackles. When he paints the mountains in his heart, he also paints himself in the mountains. He is free in the mountains, integrated himself with Heaven, earth and mountains, in which he is able to enter an infinite state of freedom. Whereas the process of painting mountains, by artistic means, expresses the infinity of his mind, thereby finding the unpredictable critical point between sensibility and rationality.
Not being able to go outdoors during the year 2020 to 2023,he sat on the balcony of his home in Kunming and stared at the sky every day. The freely changing clouds seemed to become another form of the mountain in his heart. Clouds emerge from the emptiness and then vanish into it. The sky has different colors every day, and the clouds have different shapes every time, just like mountains have different emotions. Rather than saying that Li Youjie captures the intangible images through painting, it is better to say he actually breaks down the barrier between the viewer and himself through a certain gaze, then he holds your hand roaming together in the infinite "mountain realm" .     
Heidegger believes that existence precedes beings. Li Youjie completed the experience of regressing from "beings" to "existence" while undergoing integration with the mountain. The exploration of the new relationship between human and nature proposed by Latour, who combines the theories of "Anthropocene" and "Gaia Hypothesis", coincides with the issues explored by Li Youjie's artistic creation. Just like the subtitle of Eduardo Kohn’s ‘How Forest Think’ states, Li Youjie’s art is ‘toward an anthropology beyond the human’. Diana Jin
----Diana Jin


艺术家/李有杰 Li Youjie
李有杰,1982年出生于中国云南。艺术家、独立纪录片导演、大山爱好者。先后就读于云南艺术学院、澳大利亚堪培拉大学、中央美术学院实验艺术学院。
作品创作包括油画、录像、纪录片等媒介。油画创作源自多年的云南群山、喜马拉雅地区的山地经验,注重山地精神性感受和自我觉知。纪录片作品关注乡村不同代际的个人命运和乡村现实,曾入选多个国内外电影节和艺术展。作品被美国纽约大学、香港中文大学等学术、艺术机构收藏。
Li Youjie, artist, documentary film director, mountain enthusiasts.Born in 1982 in Yunnan province, China and graduated from Yunnan Art Academy, University of Canberra, Australia and School of Experimental Art of China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Li Youjie’s work includes oil painting, video and documentary film etc. His oil painting originates from years of experience in the mountains of Yunnan and the Himalayas, emphasizing the spiritual perception and self-awareness. Whereas his documentary films focus on individual destiny of different generations and the rural reality of China. His films have been awarded and selected in many national and international film festivals and art exhibitions, and also being collected by New York University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and other art institutions.


策展人/靳阳Diana Jin

致力于通过策展探索生命内在深层次的智慧和灵性,通过艺术的媒介呈现心性的本质,以跨学科的方式,唤起观众对崇高之美的敏感,揭示人类精神的抽象层面,引导人们思考存在的深邃意义。

Commits to exploring the deep-seated wisdom and spirituality of life by curation and presenting the essence of mind through art. She tries to arous the audience's sensitivity to sublime beauty in an interdisciplinary way, and reveal the abstract level of the human spirit, and guide people to think about the deeper meaning of existence.






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