前言
空间意识 | 行走的线索
钟鼐的材料艺术
童振刚
今天的艺术表现是多元的，而审视艺术的方式更是多种体现，不妨去审美、审丑、审暴力、审性等等。值得庆幸，这整套体系下没有什么太多标准化的框架和约束。这给材料艺术留下了太多空间去想象；不妨在钟鼐的作品前多停留一会，审视艺术品的同时也是审视自己，看看你直觉里被唤起的冲动是什么。
世界的发展速度是过去200年的千倍万倍不止，从科学、人文各方面看都是。当下艺术家或许很难回答，从事材料创作是工匠，是装饰，还是商业？艺术是自我宣泄还是哲学意义的思考？抑或是科学与数学逻辑后的理性解构？超越这些用边界搭起的围栏，艺术的创作过程是在长久混沌状态中酝酿的准静态里等待自我意识的爆发：艺术家放空思想解衣磅礴，像沉溺性爱似投入、像诸神造世般无我。理性与感性交织、转化后用作品呈现，材料更多以次元空间和矛盾对冲感为主体，跳脱了人文化的叙事论调。
上述表述都是看了钟鼐近期材料作品、和他聊天后的一些碎片化的冲动和想法；作为参考，我想告诉你在接近这些创作时，可以怀揣哪些期待：是一个艺术家探索材料可能性时，行走的线索；像是在空间中回荡的脚步声，或是轻快中夹带期冀、激励人心的，抑或是汗毛直立、毛骨悚然的。不同的感受和直觉，都是强烈感官反馈下的直接印射。这一切热烈而真实。
而激烈冲动过后人会有一个温和的后效期，缓缓的退回另一个极端。就像书读多了，一个人呆时间长了，难免仰望星空，辗转向死而生，反复中自己也会从剧烈的色彩中走回来，从而更豁然些。但同时，恐慌感严重萌生：我们并不是造物者，凡尘间蝼蚁而已。浩瀚宇宙里渺小如你我，连尘埃都算不上。这种没有预警的低潮随时随地发生，也没办法真的轻生，那不如倔强起来好好面对，做好自己的事儿，自爱，向死而生，爱人和仁爱吧。
回到艺术，等待下一个冲动。
< Spatial Awareness | Walking clues >
Art of Zhongnai
Tong Zhengang
Today's artistic expression is diverse, and the way of examining art is even more diverse, such as aesthetics, ugliness, sexuality, violence, and so on. Thankfully, there are not too many standardized frameworks and constraints under this whole system, which leaves too much room for material art to imagine; Stay in front of Zhongnai's work for a while, and look at inner self , and see what impulses you are intuition aroused.
The speed of development of the world is more than 1,000 times that of the past 200 years, and it is the same in terms of science and humanities. It may be difficult for artists to answer the question of whether they are craftsmen, decorators, or businesses engaged in the creation of materials. Is art self-catharsis or philosophical reflection? Or is it the rational deconstruction of scientific and mathematical logic? Beyond these fences erected by boundaries, the creative process of art is to wait for the explosion of self-consciousness in a quasi-static brewing state of long-term chaos: the artist undresses himself like an indulgent sex, and has no self like the gods created the world. Rationality and sensibility are intertwined and transformed into works, and the materials are more based on dimensional space and the sense of contradiction and hedging, breaking away from the narrative tone of human culture.
After reading Zhongnai's recent material works and chatting with him, I have the above-mentioned fragmented impulses and thoughts, as a reference, I would like to tell you what to expect when approaching these works: a clue for an artist to walk when exploring the possibilities of materials; Like the sound of footsteps echoing in the space, it is either light and inspiring, or the hairs stand on end and are creepy. Different feelings and intuitions are direct reflections of strong sensory feedback. It's all warm and real.
After the intense impulse, people will have a mild after-effect period, and slowly retreat to the other extreme. Just like reading too many books, if you stay alone for a long time, you will inevitably look up at the starry sky, tossing and turning to death and life, and you will come back from the intense colors in repetition, so as to be more sudden. But at the same time, another sense of panic then sprouted, we are not the creator, mortal dust like ants, the vast universe is as small as dust...... this kind of low tide without warning occurs anytime and anywhere, and we, neither powerless to take a chance, it is better to be stubborn and face it well, do our own thing, self-love, live to death, love people and benevolence.
Back to art and waiting for the next impulse.
《冥想.风景》160cmx60cm 丙烯亚麻布
《冥想.风景》360cmx60cm 丙烯亚麻布
2024年5月至9月旅欧艺术家钟鼐于沈阳伊顺美术馆进行了为期4个月的驻地创作，此期间钟鼐笔耕不辍，通过对不同材料的尝试运用，针对抽象及材料语言展开了深度探索， 完成了数十件创作作品， 对于钟鼐来说，这个阶段在伊顺美术馆的驻地创作充分的结合和延续了他在荷兰工作室前阶段的创作方向和线索，并且有了新的感悟和突破。
钟鼐出生于中国北方少数民族锡伯族家庭，早年毕业于沈阳鲁迅美术学院版画系， 是土生土长的东北籍艺术家， 钟鼐此次在伊顺美术馆驻地创作是继2023年荷兰皇家美协美术馆个展后的再一次创作高峰，《碎片. 交织》是他近年来转型后于国内公开举办的首场个展，作品从构思到制作再到反反复复的推敲都发生在这里，一个艺术家在创作中的纠结、怀疑、动摇以及欣喜与狂热都发生在这里、我们不仅仅看到艺术家钟鼐数月来用辛勤汗水汇聚成的作品， 更能感受到他所赋予这个艺术空间的生命律动。
《碎片 . 交织》钟鼐作品展作为第八届我的家在东北 — 国际艺术节的启动项目将于2024年9月21日于伊顺文化艺术产业园隆重开幕。
策展人：童振刚
艺术总监：程勇
艺术家：钟鼐
展期：2024年9 月21日 - 2024年10月21日
开幕时间：2024年09月21 日 下午三点
主办单位:中国致公党沈阳市委员会 / 沈阳市文化创意促进会
承办单位:伊顺美术馆 / 伊顺文化艺术产业园
协办单位:沈阳致公画院 / 广东另空间 / 美术大观杂志社 / 北京艺连科技 / 沈阳吴空间
展览地址:沈阳伊顺文化艺术产业园（沈阳市和平区中华路98号）
《碎片.交织-31》150cmx100cm 综合材料
《碎片.交织-1》100cmx100cm 综合材料
《碎片.交织-3》100cmx100cm 综合材料
《碎片.交织-6》200cmx100cm 综合材料
《碎片.交织-21》200cmx300cm 综合材料
《碎片.交织-10》200cmx300cm 综合材料
《碎片.交织-9》300cmx200cm 综合材料
质疑、惊喜和不确定性
“每天，当我进入工作室，我就如同步入了一个探索和冒险的世界，面前的颜料、画布、纸张或各种材料就成了一张张一件件通往神秘之旅的门票和信物，在那里，惊喜、迟疑还有那些不确定的因素在等着我……”
《碎片.交织-19》60cmx60cm 综合材料
《碎片.交织-20》60cmx60cm 综合材料
我们知道艺术家致力于创作有思想的作品，这反过来又完成了艺术家的艺术生命，艺术创作中真正重要的是艺术家与艺术创作之间的关系，展出的艺术品远非艺术家眼中的成品。所谓的“艺术品”只是这个过程的产物或载体，艺术家可以以自然的方式选择材料并在创作过程中应用它们，但这不是艺术家想要最终实现的。艺术创作的过程是艺术家修心的旅程，这是艺术家通过艺术作品呈现出的最鼓舞人心的部分，艺术家的工作就像一个沉浸在冥想世界中的萨满，在探索和发现的过程中，总是把自己从起点推向起点，持久而颠覆，形成一个无限的过程。艺术创作是对一切经验的消解，是对创作零起点观念的追寻。
《碎片.交织-22》100cmx300cm 综合材料
《碎片.交织-23》200cmx600cm 综合材料
《碎片.交织-25》120cmx240cm 综合材料
艺术创作中，我习惯从作品的构思到制作的过程中追求一种“原发性”与“无目的性”，淡化所谓明确的方向感，随之而来的不确定性让所有的东西都变得模糊，但也正是这种模糊和不确定性，不断引导我去发现那到底是什么。通过反复与重复，使创作中冥想状态进入一种连续的循环模式，在这个状态中不断地自我否定、自我清晰与自我认同。
Hengwei Han
<Surprise, Fear and Uncertainty in Meditation>
"When I paint, I step into a world of exploration and adventure. When I wear my work clothes, the canvas or paper becomes a ticket to a mysterious journey, where surprises, fear or uncertainty await me ...... “
A few years ago I made some changes in my artistic way of working and changed my research direction to explore a different path and follow the voice within me. This exhibition will be an opportunity to show, for the first time, the new artworks that I have created with my new creative thinking and artistic expression. The highlight of an exhibition does not lie in the exhibits. What really matters, in my opinion, is the relationship between the creator and the creation in the artist's own world, as expressed in those works. Artists dedicate themselves to creating thoughtful works, which in turn complete the life of the creator - they are, as it were, inseparable. Therefore, the artworks on display on the wall are far from what the artist sees as a finished object. This process, in which artists embark on a lifelong journey to cultivate the mind, is the most inspiring part of an art exhibition, which resembles a shaman immersed in meditation.
Everything that happens in the process of creating and precentrating is about the artists themselves. Because so-called "works of art" are only products or carriers of the process. As such, the choice of materials, shapes, and colors is not as essential and can sometimes be neglected. We, the artists, can choose and apply all of them in a natural way, and apply techniques that we know or understand during creation; But they are not what we are trying to achieve.
Artists always push themselves from the starting point to the origin during the exploration of art creation. Inheriting and undermining, forming an infinite process. Art creation is the digestion of all experiences and the search for the point-zero of creative ideas. The artistic images, repeated and reinterpreted, are also thrown into this process to achieve diversity and integration, so that an opportunity for transformation becomes visible when conventions are dethroned.
If I had to summarize in a short sentence what I focus on when making art and why it has become more abstract, it would be "returning to the context of art itself". Making art in this way, I try to get rid of all distracting thoughts. It is my hope to move away from complicated expression techniques so that I can focus on my art in an easier way.
Zhongnai
▲《碎片.交织-32》100cmx150cm 综合材料
▲《碎片.交织-33》100cmx150cm 综合材料
关于艺术家
About The Artist
艺术家简介：
钟鼐 (原名韩恒威)，锡伯族，毕业于鲁迅美术学院版画系，师从全显光，李福来等美术教育家，获文学士学位。1999年移居欧洲，现居荷兰与中国，职业艺术家。荷兰皇家PULCHRI美术家协会会员。
多年前转向抽象艺术创作，探索至今，作品常年展出于荷兰、比利时、德国、葡萄牙、捷克、法国、中国等地画廊、美术馆、博物馆及相关艺术机构。
代表作品有《春》《心·境》、《冥想.风景》等系列作品。
Zhongnai was born into a family of Xibo nationality in Northeast China. Was studied and receiving his bachelor of Arts degree from LUXUN academy of Fine arts, Having worked on painting, exhibiting, art teaching and the research into the folk-custom of the Ethnic Minorities in North China for many years. Artist member of Pulchri Studio The Hague and Artist member of Hong Kong Artists Association.
In the end of 1999, Zhongnai settled in Europe and began his creative life as a professional artist， Works in both The Netherlands and China. He held his exhibitions in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, France, Czech and China . Has been joined the international art fairs in Gent , Rotterdam, Utrecht, Groningen and Beijing many times.His representative artworks include “Spring”, “Soul & Conception”, “Meditation Scenery” and other series of works.
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