展览时间：2008年11月15日－12月10日 11：00AM-18：00PM
展览地点：XYZ画廊 北京798艺术区798中二街D05
电话：010 8459 9299 / 13701104223
策展人：温凯伦博士 成国琴
<谁带走了我的天空>自序
二00七年的一天上午许以祺和高信疆两位先生来到我的画廊，高先生很认真地对我说：“学宜，你应该画画，你的诗就是画，相信你一定画得好”。那天傍晚我就开始了。在昏暗的房间里光影透视明暗都不重要，只有顔色和画笔牵着我的心灵在画布上行走。我的幻想在眼前呈现，我找到了另一种表达情感的方式，用语言无话表达的方式，这让我感到快乐和幸福，我给第一幅油画作品取名为《另一次旅行》，望着这幅画我泪如雨下，不是因为我自恋，而是我发现我对自身的了解太有限了，借助绘画我找到了一个躲在世俗之外的我。借助绘画我看见消失在故乡的马莲花，借助绘画我看见洪水之上的向日葵，体会到了原野的意志，重新与自我交往，也更懂得经历的可贵。
中国水墨状态最接近诗歌的状态，因此我尝试着画水墨，当我正准备禅猫东子的《穿越时空的诗集》青花装置作品展的时候，母亲溘然而逝，我失去了生命中最大的财富，陷入从未有过的失落和悲伤，就好像从此失去了天空日月星辰，花草树木，都已消亡，每天临睡前和起床后我都从心底喊一声：“妈妈”。大部分时间我都含着泪水坐在画案前，用水墨体会母亲的至真至善，回忆她带我走过的世界，我深深的理解了中国人的借物抒情方式，水墨让我的心能沉静下来，失去母亲的悲痛也在浓淡中变得幽远超然，悲情转化成某一种安慰。
无论是写诗还是画画都在影响着我的命运，想想一个生在偏远山区穷苦人家的孩子能在北京开自已的画廊还能办自已的展览，真是上天的奖励，妈妈在天也是高兴的，因为她总希望自已的孩子有出息。在这里我要感谢两个人，一个是我的搭档成国琴，她一直在为我的梦想做最大的努力，一个是艺术家冯钟云，他真的是一位很会教水墨的老师，他让我在水墨的境界里获得人生的益处
最后我要说：谁带走了我的天空，我要找回她。
二00八于黑桥 学宜
“学宜的作品深深地打动了我；尤其是她用色细腻，自如地将色彩转换成表达内心美好的一种形式。我对她那种表达广泛、一气呵成的作品种类与数量感到惊讶，它扑捉并渗透着记忆深处。我把她的作品图片收藏起来并在未来的时光中去欣赏它们。
她对人类的情感有着难能可贵的本能认知，这在她的诗歌里已经显而易见。借助她的绘画，她的直觉感受表达得更加敏锐而有力度。我几乎觉得欣赏她的作品就如同读她的日记一样。”
麦约翰，耶鲁大学博士66屆
“华莱士•史帝文曾说：他写诗是帮助人们生活得好，艺术大都具有类似的目地，即帮助那些对艺术感知的人去触摸艺术家的生活，并用一种深层的方式来反观自已的生活，当然这里指的是伟大的艺术。当今，多数艺术家似乎都被商业利益及匪益所思之流所诱惑；诚然，艺术家需要文明社会的支持，但如果艺术是为了取悦收藏家而创作，这样的艺术没有灵魂，只能做装饰之用；它就像餐桌上的食物不能去激发或启迪人们，更不能帮助人们生活得好。
感受学宜的作品就如同呼吸一缕新鲜空气。当今的艺术市场充斥着轻浮和抄袭之风，而诗人学宜的作品却为观者开启了一扇通向纯洁、伤感、解放和希望的大门作为一名视觉艺术的新手，她的画宛如她诗意般的禅释。她那简约、童稚般的水墨作品散发着能量与寓意，正如她诗歌中描绘她的童年和她寻找妈妈的经历，揭示了一名诗人成长、发展、奋斗的故事。学宜最近的绘画作品是她试图表达母亲的突然离世带来的痛苦与绝望，母亲是她生命和想象力的动力。她的油画作品渗透着她内心丰富的情感、诗人苦难的经历；在失去了生命中最有价值的——母亲，学宜陷入无限的伤痛，难以入眠。泪水让她拿起笔和墨，表达内心的绝望、对母亲的怀念，对童年美好无忧生活的回忆、、、、、、、通过绘画的过程，也让她感受到中国水墨借物抒情的力量与魅力，绘画将她内心的痛苦转化成一种宁静。对于学宜，绘画如同诗歌都是心灵的陪伴——帮她从生命的困难与痛苦中解脱。观者会被这些展出的作品带到一种对童年生活回忆的意境，去感受痛苦因时空的穿梭而变得美好而有意义。
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纵观学宜作品的展览就像思绪的舞动——从一幅作品转向另一幅作品，从人生命运的矛盾的敏感性到最终去接受苦难与美好；没有苦难，一个人也就不能去感受和欣赏美好。”
温凯伦博士，艺术批评家
学宜艺术简历：
出生于黑龙江
1997年 来北京工作、生活
2001年 出版诗集《童年河》
2006年 制作并担当歌曲音乐专辑《风里唱》10首歌词的创作
2007年 出版诗画集《云中花》（与画家冯钟云合作）
2006年为电影《夜宴》主题歌：《我用所有报答爱》作词
电视剧《梦回清河》主题歌作词
电视剧《片警》、《永不低头的向日葵》、《家事》等 歌词创作
2007年 出版诗画集《秘密花园的来信》（与韦尔乔合作）开始绘画创作
2008年 第一个绘画作品个展《谁带走了我的天空》在北京XYZ画廊
现居北京，著名诗人、词作家、画家、
798艺术区XYZ画廊艺术总监
《WHO TOOK MY BLUE SKY AWAY？》FAN XUEYI PAINTING
SOLO EXHIBITION
——Dedicated to My Mother
Exhibition dates: Nov. 15, 2008 to Dec. 10, 1100hrs to 1800hrs
Venue: XYZ Gallery, D 05 of 798 Middle Second Street of 798 art center
Curator: Dr. Caryn Voscuil & Catherine Cheng
Contact Information: 010 8459 9299/13701104223
<Who Took My Blue Sky Away?> Xueyi Painting Solo Exhibition
One morning in 2007, my two good friends Dr. Ichi Hsu and Mr. Gao Xinjiang came to our gallery to see a new exhibition. Mr. Gao looked at me with a serious face and said ”Xueyi, you should paint! Your poems are just paintings made with words, and I believe that you could paint well.” I made my first attempt at painting that very night, though it seemed unimportant that the light in my room was dark and dim. The colors and the brush guided my heart about the canvas. The image in my heart appeared in front of my eyes, and I felt passionately that I had found another method to express the secrets of my soul. I was delighted to find that some things I could not describe with words could be expressed through painting. Hence, I entitled my first painting Another Journey; and tears filled my eyes when I looked at it, aware now that I had thus far been complacent and had limited myself. Through painting, I found my other ‘Self’ hiding beyond the conventionality. Through painting I was able to see again my favorite flowers that have now disappeared in my hometown, the sunflowers above the flooding water, and I could contemplate the will of the wilderness. I could communicate with myself again and learn from my past experiences one more time, viewing them with new eyes.
Chinese ink painting is the visual artistic expression that most closely corresponds to the emotional expression of poetry, so I tried painting with ink wash. During the preparation of Zencat’s porcelain exhibition entitled Poetry Transcends Time and Space, my mother passed away unexpectedly, and I lost the most valuable thing in my life. I fell into a desperate sadness, as if I had lost the sky, the stars, the sun, and the moon; it seemed to me that even the flowers and the grass had disappeared. My heart was calling out for my mother whenever I went to sleep or woke up, and I spent most of my time painting at my desk with tears running down my face. I also had the feeling that my mother’s sense of truthfulness and beauty were visible in the ink wash, reminding me that it was she who brought me into the world. I now have a deep understanding of how Chinese artists express their emotions through this particular media; ink wash. To paint with ink wash calms down my heart so that I am able to transcend the sorrow caused by the loss of my mother. Desperation is transformed into peace.
Both poetry and painting make marks upon my destiny. Can anyone imagine that a girl who came from a poor remote mountain area is today able to operate her own gallery and have her own exhibition? With the grace of God, my mother will look down from heaven with delight on my exhibition. I would like to express my gratitude to two people in particular: Catherine Cheng, who has put forth great effort in realizing my dream; and Feng Zhongyun, who as a fine teacher has guided my learning in the art of ink painting, and continues to help me to reap the spiritual benefits of practicing this art.
Finally I wanted to say: “Who took my blue sky away? I wanted to get it back.”
Xueyi at Blackbridge Art Village, 2008
Translated by Catherine Cheng
Edited by Caryn Voscuil
“Her art is deeply inspiring. I am especially inspired by her subtle use of color and turning color into forms that convey an inner life of great beauty. I am also amazed at the broad range and breathtaking quantity of her work. It grabs attention and penetrates deep into the memory. I carry her images away from the page and keep seeing them throughout the hours into an enduring future.
【编辑：霍春常】
She has rare instincts about human feelings. This has always been clear in her poetry. Now with the amazing paintings her sensitivity is even more clear and powerful.I almost feel like she is writing a diary when I see her paintings.”
by John McAlister, PHD 66', Yale University, USA
“Wallace Stevens once said that he wrote poetry to help people live their lives. It can also be said more generally of all art that it is directed towards the same purpose – that is, to help those who engage with it to touch the life of the artist and, in doing so, see their own lives in new or more profound ways. Certainly, this is the object of great art; yet today it seems that many artists are obsessed with commercialism and pecuniary ambition. Certainly the arts must be patronized in a civilized society, but when art is created solely for the purpose of pandering to the collector, then the resultant art is soulless and serves as mere decoration. Such art may put food on the table, but it does not inspire or enlighten – that is – it does not help people to live their lives.
What a breath of fresh air it is, then, to experience the works of Xueyi. In an industry hastening towards frivolity and cliché, the poet Xueyi’s engaging works open a world of innocence, pain, emancipation and hope to an audience otherwise surrounded by imitation and triviality……To move through this exhibition of Xueyi’s paintings is to dance emotionally through the conflicting sensations of human life, and to come out in the end with a more profound acceptance of its agony and of its beauty – realizing that without the former, one could not fully experience nor appreciate the latter.”
by Dr. Caryn Voscuil’s <Poetry On Canvas>
BIO of Xueyi Fan
Xueyi was born in Heilongjiang Province, China
1997 started to live and work in Beijing from hometown
2001 published poetry book《Childhood River》
2006 art director and lyric writer for the music album <Singing in the wind>
2006 wrote the song for the TV opera <Dream River>\<Local Police>\<Never Surrendered Sunflower>\<Family Affairs>
2007 lyric writer of the theme song of movie <Banquet>, director by Feng Xiaogang, <Use everything to reward to your love>
2007 published the poetry book 《Letter from Secret Garden》with illustration by Dr. Erqiao Wei
2007 Started painting career
2008 First Solo Exhibition <Who Took Away My Blue Sky> Painting Exhibition at XYZ Gallery Beijing
Now resides in Beijing as a poet, painter and the art director of XYZ Gallery Beijing
