前言

策展人  王将

“发烫的冰：冷形式的表现欲”作为一种反经验的修辞策略，意在比拟当下艺术的一种表达方式。其往往具有某种形式上的冷峻表征，而隐匿内在激烈的精神脉动，深富理性与表现的二重性。

此次展览对于艺术中冷形式的定义跨越了诸多风格与媒介 。绘画上理性自律的抽象归纳与冷淡默观的具体描绘；雕塑与装置中对于极简形式、工业材料和机械运动的执著迷恋；摄影与影像中淡漠疏离的情绪表达；三维动画对于繁复物像的精密构建等等，都成为了冷形式的广泛意指。就社会学角度考虑，是工具理性、机械理性、数据理性成就了艺术中冷形式的生成。越来越多的艺术家崇尚极简、机动、数性的美学表达。而理性的过度泛化也导致人类精神的深层危机——人性存在的消弭。艺术作品在理性冷峻的形式表征之下如何表达人性存在，已成为了一个吊诡而有意义的命题。它试图探讨艺术中理性与表现的兼容性和同一性。而在这样艺术表达中，矛盾特质互相依存互相渗透所合成的螺旋之力也造就了艺术作品复杂而奇特的精神结构。基于此，展览选择的这些艺术家都在这一方面拥有具体而独特的实践。

Foreword

Curator  Wang jiang

The hot ice： A desire to express in cold form is an anti-experiential rhetoric strategy to make an analogy to a contemporary artistic expression method which conceals intensive emotion changes under cold appearance. It’s featured with both rationality and expressiveness.

The exhibition defines cold form from a broad range of styles and medias. Such as the rational abstract induction and contemplative portray in painting； The obsession with Minimalism， industrial material and mechanical movement in sculpture and installation art； The indifferent emotion in photography and cinematography； The exquisite composition of complex objective image in 3D animation. This phenomenon of cold form in art is understood， in sociology， to be resulted in instrumental rationality， mechanical rationality and data rationality. A growing number of artists advocate minimalist， mechanical and digital aesthetic expression. However， the over-generalization of rationality has caused a deep crisis in human spirit， that is， the elimination of human nature. Therefore， it becomes a paradoxical yet meaningful question to explore how to express human nature under the cold and rational appearance of art works， discussing the unity and coexistence of rationality and expression in art. We also see that， in this form of art expression， the interdependence and interaction of the two sides of contradiction form the complex yet peculiar spiritual structure of art work. Based on this， the exhibition selects artists who have conducted specific and unique practice.