5月6日，浙江美术馆将迎来题为“苍莽气象”的大型洪凌个展，“苍莽”一词，意源自“东临碣石，以观沧海”，描述艺术家洪凌在探索独特艺术语言时的心境和表达艺术的气势。

洪凌，这位出生于上世纪50年代中期传统书香门第的艺术家，在艺术探索的道路上先后经历了几次不同语境的转换。幼年时期受到黄宾虹传统山水画中的伟大山水精神的熏陶；少年艺术求学时期对于西方艺术语言的深入洞察与探讨；之后便是在东方和西方艺术语言之间的徘徊与踌躇。洪凌无法从任何当代油画家中获得教益，一切都是从头做起，于是在苦闷的寻求之中，艺术家又经历了从北方到南方的迁徙，退隐独居于皖南，以天地为师，与山林为伴，这是一次对于东方文化感受的深刻回归，洪凌的心境终于变得踏实而敏捷，越发能领悟到山水精神的真谛。在皖南的十几年创作中，洪凌的艺术修为也上升到了另一个高度，他的作品不简单的表现客观物象，而是将客观存在升华为脑中的理解之后的图像，艺术家常常带着梦的呓语用微醉的笔肆意挥洒，将山水解构重组于画布上。

此次在浙江美术馆展出的“苍莽气象——洪凌个展”，由中国美术家协会油画艺术委员会和中央美术学院造型学院共同主办，知名策展人殷双喜策展，将展出洪凌近几年来的重要作品。艺术创作是艺术家心境的体现， 在当下文化如此浮躁的社会，我们也可将精神暂时抽离这个时空，静静地体会苍莽大地带给艺术家那撷取不尽的能量源泉。

Boundless Land -- Hong Ling Solo Exhibition

On the 6th day of May, “Boundless Land -Large-scale Hong Ling Personal Art Exhibition” will be held in Zhejiang Museum of Fine Arts. The word “Boundless” originated from “Come to Jieshi in the east to see boundless sea” is to describe the artistic concept of the work and the mindset of the artist when he was exploring for his unique art language.

Hong Ling, an artist born in the middle period of 1950s in the last century in a traditional scholar family, has gone through some turns of context. He has been edified by the great spirit of landscape in Huang Binhong’s traditional landscape paintings when he was a kid; he has made in-depth research and discussion on western art language as a student major in fine arts; later he was hesitating between oriental and western art languages. Hong Ling could not benefit from any modern oil painter and felt he had to start from nothing. During depressing journey to art, the artist moved from North China to South China and settled in South of Anhui alone. In company with nature and landscape, he deeply felt oriental culture once again and became steady, sensitive, so he further understood the real meanings of the spirit of landscape. During creation in South of Anhui for over 10 years, the art accomplishment of the artist has come to a new height. Now his works are not simple representation of the objects and phenomena. They are the images of the objects after sublimation in the brain. With “crazy talk”, the artist deconstructs and reorganizes the landscapes on the canvas with a “drunk” brush.

The “Boundless Land- Hong Ling Personal Art Exhibition” which is jointly sponsored by China Artists Association and School of Fine Arts, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, planned by Yin Shuangxi, a famous exhibition planner, and to be held in Zhejiang Museum of Fine Arts will present some important works of Hong Ling in recent years. Art creation is the reflection of the mindset of the artist, so in this busy society, we may get away from this space time temporarily mentally and feel endless energy source brought by the boundless land to the artist.