展覽名稱：怔 – 張林海作品展

　　Exhibition Title: Stunned Speechless - Zhang Lin Hai Solo Exhibition

　　展覽地址：北京今日美術(shù)館，二、三、四層

　　Exhibition Location: 2nd, 3rd & 4th Floor, Beijing Today Art Museum

　　展覽時(shí)間：2008年11月19 – 29日

　　Exhibition Period: 16th – 29th November, 2008

　　展覽簡介：

　　張林海，1963年初秋生于上海， 1964年被養(yǎng)父抱回太行山脈里的一個(gè)小山村—河北涉縣。自幼體弱多病，因四歲時(shí)的一場大病導(dǎo)致腿部終身殘疾。1980年開始學(xué)畫，1990年畢業(yè)于天津美術(shù)學(xué)院版畫系。

　　此次展覽將完整呈現(xiàn)張林海由2002年至2008年創(chuàng)作風(fēng)格及技巧發(fā)展。07年之前的早期作品將會(huì)從遍布全球的藏家處借回，藝術(shù)家全新風(fēng)格的最新創(chuàng)作將會(huì)是展覽重點(diǎn)。

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　　林海的畫，象中國許多畫家那樣，吸收超現(xiàn)實(shí)主義的因素，從寫實(shí)主義出發(fā)，走上一種類似中國古典詩詞的意象寫實(shí)主義。林海學(xué)版畫出身，油畫象版畫的處理方式，大面積的色調(diào)單純和強(qiáng)烈，也適合表現(xiàn)雷同的光頭和沉悶的情緒。

　　----摘自栗憲庭《苦悶的高粱——張林海作品展覽序》，2002

　　Exhibition Introduction

　　Born in Shanghai in 1963, Zhang Lin Hai graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1990, with a degree in engraving. Zhang was adopted from a Shanghai orphanage by his foster parents and at a tender age he witnessed the devastation of the Cultural Revolution. He suffered from various illnesses, including polio, and at the age of four he survived his sickness, only to be left with a crippled leg and hand. By the age of 17, Zhang ventured out from his small village into the city. He settled in Handan and began to develop his interest in painting.

　　The exhibition will feature both a body of new works previously unseen by Zhang Lin Hai, as well as a collection of his older works brought back from private collections worldwide. These artworks span from 2002 to 2008 - demonstrating the artist’s mastery in development of both his style and technique.

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　　Like many Chinese artists, Zhang Lin Hai is influenced by Surrealism. He began painting in the realist style and then moved away and into the poetic sensibility of Classical Chinese painting. Zhang Lin Hai studied engraving, so his work contains blocks of simple but bold colours, suitable to the themes of his paintings and the moods he wishes to convey.

　　----- The Dejected Sorghum by Li Xian Ting, 2002