在这个被速度、概念和渲染所充斥的时代里,毛焰精湛的创作总是呈现出遗世而独立之态。他的艺术是属于绘画本身的一种纯粹而严格的过程,并在这般强度中触及超常的境界。在过去的三年中他不断进行反复的实验与修正,经验、心绪、思考和情感层层累积、融为一体,最终结晶为今天在这里呈现的这批作品,其中包括了艺术家迄今为止尺幅最大的部分创作。简单地说,毛焰是一位人像画家,但他可谓是所有当代艺术家中最少而又最多问题的一位。在一个已然被后现代性、多元性和关系美学所占据的时代,对传统艺术的诚挚探索似乎已无落脚 In this era full of speed, concept and rendering, Mao Yan’s exquisite creation always shows its own legacy and independence. His art is a purely rigorous process that belongs to the painting itself, and in such intensity touches the extraordinary realm. Over the past three years, he has been constantly experimenting and modifying experiments, emotions, thoughts and emotions accumulated, integrated, eventually crystallized for the work presented here today, including the artist so far scale The largest part of creation. In short, Mao Yan is a portrait painter, but he is one of the fewest and most problematic of all contemporary artists. In an era already dominated by postmodernity, pluralism and relational aesthetics, the sincere exploration of traditional art seems to be dead