在《溃夜》系列中,空旷的街头、孤寂的路灯、深夜未归的路人,以及弥散在画面边缘的无尽黑夜,共同将都市人熟悉的夜晚陌生化了——这是人们既熟悉又陌生的都市生活场域。在刘芯涛笔下,都市的夜晚是片断化和异化的,其间有着一种莫名的焦躁情绪,《溃夜》系列正是艺术家对当代都市化生存所展开的批判性反思。在大部分《溃夜》的作品中,艺术家笔下的都市场景都是破 In the “Nightmare” series, open streets, lonely street lights, late-night passers-by, and endless nightwaters scattered on the edge of the picture all defamiliarize the familiar night of the city - people familiar and unfamiliar Urban living area. In Liu’s writings, the night of the city is fragmented and alienated, with an inexplicable anxiety during it. The series of “Nightmare” is a critical reflection on artist’s survival of contemporary urbanization. In most of the works of “Nightmare”, the urban scenes of the artist’s paintings are all broken