张小涛曾说:在美术馆上演暴力的好处是,他肯定对你有所触动。某一年.他在广东美术馆的展览名称即为“噩梦”。观众观看他的展览.就如同经历一场与暴力.与丑恶密切相关的噩梦.走出展厅,从噩梦中苏醒.依然心有余悸。如果说在今天的中国.有哪一个艺术家最能阐释人类心灵或生活的噩梦.那这个人无疑就是张小涛。他的创作理念中.一直存有“中国不需要美的东西只需要痛”的想法.因而.贯穿他这些年艺术创作的每一个主题.都直指心灵和丑恶现实. Zhang Xiaotao once said: The advantage of staging violence in art galleries is that he must have touched you. One year, his exhibition name at Guangdong Art Museum is “Nightmare”. The audience watching his exhibition is like going through a nightmare that is closely related to violence, ugliness, walking out of the exhibition hall and awakening from nightmares. If in today’s China, there is an artist who can best explain the nightmare of human mind or life, then this person is undoubtedly Zhang Xiaotao. In his creative concept, there is always the idea that “China does not need beautiful things, but pains.” Therefore, every theme that runs through all his years of artistic creation refers directly to the reality of soul and ugliness.