逆生长——赵荣个展
Inverse Growth- Solo Exhibition of ZHAO Rong
策展人：成 蹊
Curator：CHENG Xi
参展艺术家：赵荣
Solo Exhibition of ZHAO Rong
开幕酒会：2016年3月12日 下午三点
Opening Reception：2pm, March 12, 2016
展览时间：2016年3月8日—22日
Exhibition Time：March 8-22, 2016
展览地点：成蹊当代艺术中心二号馆
Exhibition Venue：2nd Exhibition Hall, CHENG XI CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Beijing
逆生长——赵荣个展
前言
文/成蹊
走进赵荣工作室的那一刻，我相信他的工作室是利用率最高的工作室，也相信“生活就是艺术，艺术就是生活”。
他以做艺术的方式生活，以生活的方式做艺术。
他不工作，却无时无刻不在工作，他有自己的工作方式。他不刻意的生活，也不刻意的做艺术，一切随性，所以其作品呈现出超然的自在状态。他迷恋各种材料，并且都去尝试，中央美院版画出身的他，不仅尝试各版种，也尝试油画，水墨，装置等，他的作品用纸，布，铝板，亚克利，陶瓷，毛发等各种材料。不仅如此，他还研究考古，并且亲自去考察那些被人们遗忘的古建筑和文物，进行拍摄，采访，记录，写文章，希望引起更多的人关注那些即将逝去的记忆。
在这个如此物质的时代，这样的生活方式，无疑是另类的，在旁人看来是越来越“不靠谱”。其实是每个人对生命意义的认识不同，有人追求物质丰富，而他追求灵魂自由。
他是散点的思维方式，其作品无论什么材料，都呈现出自由自在的状态，这恰恰是艺术创作的佳境！ “玩艺术”的心态让他怎么也“成熟”不起来，如今他有了孩子做了父亲，孩子已经两岁了，画画非常好，还参加了西班牙的艺术家群展。于是他每天自己创作也陪着孩子一起“玩艺术”，并从孩子身上发现了艺术和人生更本质的东西，他努力把这些感悟传达到作品中，期待共鸣。
也许他会一直保持这个状态，永远是个长不大的孩子，或许这就是逆生长吧！
成蹊
2016，2，29于望京
Inverse Growth-Solo Exhibition of ZHAO Rong
Preface by CHENG Xi
The very moment I stepped into ZHAO Rong’s studio, I was convinced that his studio is one with the greatest utilization and was also convinced of the saying “art is life, and life is art”.
He lives a daily life in an artistic way, and works as an artist in a living way.
He does not work, yet he is at work at every moment, for he has a working manner of his own. He neither leads a life deliberately, nor works as an artist deliberately; everything follows his temperament, and thus his works present a state of freedom and ease. He is enamored with media of various kinds and has attempted employing much of them in works. Graduated from the Printmaking Department of CAFA, not only does he master printmaking by all kinds of means, but also he devotes himself to oil painting, ink painting, installation, etc., and the media used by him vary from paper, cloth, acryl to aluminum, copper, steel, ceramic, hair and so on. Beyond all these, he also has an enormous interest in archeology, more particularly, visiting ancient architectures and historic and cultural relics all around the nation that have been forgotten long behind, making video recordings thereof, interviewing, writing, in hope of arousing more attention to those precious memories about to be lost otherwise.
In current times so much into materialism, such a way of living is without any doubt alternative and even “unreliable” in the eyes of many others. Actually, each one has a different understanding of the meaning of life, some seek after a materially abundant life, while he pursues the freedom of soul.
ZHAO Rong adopts a divergent thinking, and the works of his, no matter in any kind of media, all demonstrate a state of full freedom and ease, which is exactly the most desired condition of art-making. The mood of “playing with art” renders him “immature” in any way. Now he is a father of a two-year-and-a-half boy who also exhibits a great talent and interest in painting, and both the father and the son have participated in an international art exhibition held in Spain. So, quite naturally, he makes art every day while accompanying his son to “play with art”. In his son, he comes into a discovery of something closer to the essence of art and life, and he has been trying to convey his understandings to his works, expecting resonances.
Perhaps, he will always remain in this state, a child never growing up, and maybe this is an inverse growth.
Feb. 29, 2016, Wangjing
（编辑：杨晶）
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