许江的绘画和文论中,总有一种迫切的使命感,一份浓烈而沉甸甸的责任心,它涉及到对当今文化现状充满痛感的思考,对中西文化碰撞带来的种种端倪的反思,面对这些问题的时候,他的姿态不同于一个普通的画者。他的绘画和文论,对“逝去和将要逝去”、“发生和将要发生”的种种可能,总带有一种充满忧患意识的追问和对远方的眺望,当这一切凝聚于笔端的时候,他这个人充满了凝重的深情。范迪安曾说,“思想者”和“画家”两个身份,是许江的“一种生活的两种体现”。十多年前在巴黎街边的咖啡馆里,我与他相对而坐,听他痛陈画界和学界的时弊。兴起之时,他会激动地指着自己说:老许的志愿是成为一个既会画画,也能做学问的人。那是我第一次听 There is always an urgent sense of mission and a strong and heavy sense of responsibility in Xu Jiang’s painting and literary theory. It involves reflections on the current cultural situation with pain, reflection on the various clues brought by the collision between Chinese and Western cultures, His attitude differs from that of an ordinary painter for these questions. His paintings and essay on the “death and will be gone,” “what is happening and is about to happen,” always brings with it a sense of urgency and insight into the distance, when it all comes to the fore When he was full of solemn affection. Fan Di’an once said: “Thinker” and “painter” are two identities of Xu Jiang and “one embodiment of life.” More than a decade ago, in the cafe in the Parisian street, I sat opposite him and listened to the harms of his paintings and academics. When he was about to rise, he would be excited to point to himself and say that his ambition is to become a man who can draw and learn as well as knowledge. That is the first time I listen