他们都生活在成都，有的土生土长，有的来自全国各地，有的来自法国和德国。通过这个展览，以艺术的名义进行一次近距离的对话，并且也通过艺术距离的精神性器官，因为有距离才能审美。据说零距离也可以审美，但毕竟所得有限。其测量一下自己与他人，自己与公众，自己与社会、与时代、与历史，甚至是与艺术本身的距离。这很有意思，也很有意义。
艺术之于人，按老黑格尔的理解，有赖于视听两种有实，零距离也好，近距离也好，人与人、人与物之间始终存在着距离，因为彼此之间的尺度不仅是物理的、生理的，而且是心理的和精神的。有诗为证：
你/一会看我/一会看云// 我觉得/你看我时很远/你看云时很近
——可见孤独之至的顾城，也需要在你我、物我之间测距。因为有心测距，他成了诗人；因为无心测距，他成了杀人狂。
艺术作为人类社会最重要的交际工具，在本质上是拒绝极端个人主义的。它总是构成一个场——现场、场地、场所等等，而在场是十分重要的。只有在场，你才有可能排除一己与异己的局限，在否定中保持住自己。在场是一种测定，显示距离以达到交流，凭藉交流以达到沟通，相互沟通以共享各自不同的特点，从而让人更加亲近。
你不妨参与这种测定，艺术作品是一个平等世界，它向每一个人发出邀请。
2007年2月17日
于四川美院桃花山侧
Some of them are local, from Chengdu, some of them are from other parts of China and some of them are from the far-land, Germany, France for example. Through this exhibition, an intimate conversation bearing the name of art, we hope to explore the definition of space, be that as inter-personal or simply the distance between an object of art and the viewer, in order to reflect the relationship between the self and the others, the self and the society, the self and the era, the self and the history, even the self and the Art writ-large. This should be very meaningful.
Art originates in Man, according to Hegel, relies on sense perception, and due to our interpretational differences, distance exists always among different entities regardless whether it’s physical, psychological or spiritual.
To quote one line from a poem:
’you, looking at me for sometime, looking at the cloud for sometime
feeling, when you’re looking at me there’s a great distance between us, and so near it is between you and the cloud when you’re looking at it.’
By having the sense of distance, lonesome poet GU Chen accomplished composing such words, and when the distance was distorted, he became a murderer.
Art as the great vehicle of communication by nature rejects eccentricity. It encompasses always the environment and having the subject to be in the scene interacting with everything around itself at the same time having everything around the subject interacting with each other, everything taking measure of the constantly shifting distance among each other. Through this kind of interaction reaches a kind of recognition, furthermore a kind of appreciation also emerges, thus forms the intimacy among various subjects.
Join this kind of measuring, your opinion is as valuable as the artists’ statements.
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