生长于沪杭,定居于纽约,云游于天下的谷文达未曾预料,他的艺术运道竟与古都西安有特殊缘分。其一,移居美国之前,他的首次、也是他在中国本土唯一的一次个人画展是在西安举办的;其二,二十年后,他的大型装置艺术工程《碑林》在西安历时五年镌刻完成。在20世纪80年代,围绕中国画如何向现代转型的问题,展开了一场全国范围的大讨论。1986年6月,由我和刘骁纯 Growing in Shanghai and Hangzhou, settled in New York, wandering in the world Gu Wenda did not expect that his art movement and the ancient capital of Xi’an have a special fate. First, his first solo exhibition in China before his immigration to the United States was held in Xi’an. Two or two decades later, his large-scale installation art project “Beilin” was engraved in Xi’an for five years carry out. In the 1980s, a major nationwide discussion centered on how Chinese painting transformed the modern era. June 1986, by me and Liu Xiao Chun