展览上线(Exhibition online date)：
2022年5月10日(May 10, 2022)
策展人(Curators)：
黄华Huang Hua(Greece)
郭桢Zhen Guo(USA)
学术主持(Academic Chair)：
刘骐鸣Liu Qiming(USA)
支持单位support organization：
艺术百人会(Artist Committee of 100)
华人女性艺术家联盟(Chinese Feminist Artists Alliance)
纽约当代艺术研究所(New York Institute of Contemporary Art) 艺术东方有限公司(Art Orient Co,Limited)
媒体支持Exhibition platforms：
艺术百人会公众号(Wechat) 雅昌艺术网(Artron.net) 新浪(Sina) 搜狐(Sohu) 网易(NetEase) 腾讯(Tencent) 今日头条(Toutiao) 百家号(Baidu) 一点资讯(Yidian) 脸谱(Facebook) Instagram等
参展艺术家Artists：
杜伟Du Wei (China) 郭桢Zhen Guo (USA) 李心沫Li Xinmo (China) 吴味Wu Wei (China) 徐冰Xu Bing (China) 蒋贞蕾Zelene Jiang (USA) 黑峰Hei Feng (USA) 凌星ling Xing (China) 刘金Liu Jin (China) 王聪Wang Cong (China) 黄玉琳&魏海Huang Yulin & Wei Hai (USA) 严隐鸿YanYinhong (China) 彭爱莲AILIAN PRICE (USA) 老羊Lao Yang (China) 张爽Stella Zhang (USA) 周平Zhou Ping (Japan) 黄华Huang Hua (Greece) Audrey Keenan奥黛丽·基南 (UK) Benedito Ferreira贝内迪托·费雷拉 (Brazil) CIPRIAN CHIRILEANU西普里安·奇里利亚努 (Romania) JANA CHARL贾娜·查尔 (USA) Sergey Bunkov谢尔盖·邦科夫 (Israel)
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【前言】
“生存还是毁灭”，这不仅仅是莎士比亚笔下哈姆雷特王子才会有的遭遇，也是普罗大众会真实面对的问题。人生因太多的机缘巧合，最终塑造成了现在的“我”。在2500多年前的佛陀看来，“我”本并不存在，均为因缘和合而成。但每个人的“因缘”却如此的不同，以至于作为灵长类动物的人类，越来越自信于人世间小概率事件的他者性，即发生于他人身上的“偶然意外”与“我”无缘。
当然，这只是一厢情愿的自信，在这自信亲历或耳闻“偶然意外”慢慢被瓦解掉之后，人性深处的悲悯心最终在被生活裹挟的严严实实的围墙后面开出莲花来。这时“偶然意外”不再被解读为“偶然”，而是“必然”的一部分，甚至是最关键的部分。
艺术家的任何一次创作，其实均源自“偶然”：偶然的心境，偶然的环境变化，偶然的社会事件，……诸如此类。但之所以能变成一次创作结果的“偶然”，均因早已存在的内在“必然”。但这种非常容易被他者误解的“偶然”，反馈到艺术家内心时很容易使它们切断与内心中“必然”的联系。就像一个硬币的两面，它们本是一体的，但由于人们的认知局限与傲慢，往往陷入到对词汇刻板的认知从而排斥事物本身的两面性。
“偶然”的必然性及“必然”的偶然性，从哲学层面来说只是辩证唯物论的一种思辨，但在生活中却是实践的必然路径，即便主观意识排斥这样的两面性也无法摆脱。我们在下意识里把“偶然”理解为“非正常”甚至“意外”时，往往忽略了“人生不如意事常八九”这一哲学中预示的“必然”性。尽管我们似乎已经慢慢开始适应这种“偶然”，但认识其中的“必然”性并从中发现“趋利避害”的路径并非投机取巧，恰恰是人类为改善自身进入良性循环的必然。
此次展览以“偶然与必然”为题，不为探究深层次的哲学话题，但究竟起来从艺术创作到人生起伏，无不在这两个看似对立却无法割裂的话题下面来回探究，其努力的意义往往比结果来得更真实。参加本次展览的二十多位国际艺术家们，正是透过以自画像为主要形式的艺术作品来展示他们对此主题的思考。
黄华
2022年5月
"To be, or not to be" is not only what Shakespeare wrote about Prince Hamlet, but also a real problem for humankind. Due to too many coincidences in life, it has finally been shaped into the "me" that I am now. As the Buddha said more than 2,500 years ago, "I" did not exist at all, but was formed by karma. But each person's "karma" is so different that humans are more and more confident in the otherness of small-probability events in the world, that is, "accidents" always been happened to others not myself,but it's not ture.
Of course, this is just wishful self-confidence. After this self-confidence is slowly disintegrated after experiencing or hearing about "accidental accidents", the compassion in the depths of human nature finally blooms behind the solid wall wrapped in life. At this moment, "accidental accident" is no longer interpreted as "accidental", but a part of "inevitability", even the most critical part.
Any creation of the artist is actually derived from "accidental": accidental condition of mind, accidental environmental changes, accidental social events, etc. But the "accidental" that can become a creative result is all due to the inherent "inevitability" that already exists. But this kind of "accident" which is very easy to be misunderstood by others, when it feeds back to the artists, it is easy for them to cut off the connection with the "inevitable" in their heart. Just like two sides of a coin, they are originally one, but due to people's cognitive limitations and arrogance, they often fall into the stereotyped cognition of vocabulary and reject the two sides of things themselves.
The inevitability of "contingency" and the contingency of "inevitability" are only a kind of speculation of dialectical materialism from a philosophical level, but they are the inevitable path of practice in the reality of life. When we subconsciously understand "accidental" as "abnormal" or even "accidental", we often ignore the "inevitability" predicted in the philosophy of "unhappy things in life are often eighty-nine". Although we seem to have gradually begun to adapt to this kind of "accidental", it is not opportunistic to recognize the "inevitability" in it and discover the path of "seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages".
The exhibition is titled "Accidental and Inevitable". Although it is not intended to explore deep-seated philosophical topics, in the end, from artistic creation to the ups and downs of life, there is a back and forth between these two seemingly opposite but inseparable ways. The meaning of the effort is more real than the result. More than 20 artists's reflections on the subject are shown through their artworks, mainly self-portraits.
Huang Hua
May 2022
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