龙林下

Under The Dragon Forest   

策展人：张宏伟

Curator：Zhang Hongwei

艺术家：耶苏

Artist：Ye Su

开幕：2017/05/11/10:00 AM

Opening：2017/05/11/10:00 AM

展期：2017. 05. 11-05. 31

Exhibition Period: 2017/05/11-05/31

地址：实验艺术工作室 

( 甘肃省合作市知合玛路233号甘民院美术系 )

Address: Experiment Art Studio

(Zhima Street 233#, Hezuo, Gannan, Gansu Province.

展览现场 Exhibition Site

项目简介

      甘南碌曲县郎木寺山顶，有片葱郁的树林，林子下便是讲经与辩经的场所。艺术家耶苏将在甘肃民族师范学院里，邀请学生与教师们参与一场壁画创作项目，一起将这个实验艺术展厅，变成一片可以长期互动留言与交谈的“树林”。

   

Program  Introduction

      The mountaintop of Langmusi temple in Luqu county of Gannan is full of woods , which is the place of preaching .The artist Ye Su invite students and teachers to participate in a mural project in Gansu Normal University for Nationalities , using this experiment of art exhibition hall to become “the woods” which people talk and leave message each other  .

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龙林下

      2017年，我到达甘肃南部的合作市，进驻的是合作艺术空间，合作艺术空间也是甘南民族学院美术系的实验空间。张宏伟是本站策展人，同时是民院教师。合作市介于藏区夏河市与回区临夏市之间，牧地广阔，牛羊无数。

      百公里左右，有两座著名黄教大寺：郎木寺与拉卜楞寺。十多年前我也造访过两寺，这次再来，缘分深厚。郎木寺规模适中，僧侣和家人就在寺庙附近居住。除了通常可见的藏式格局，有一片喇嘛们用来讲经辩经的树林，位于寺庙之中，郁郁葱葱。照此，我发动美术系的学生与老师，与我一起将实验艺术空间画成一片“树林”。

Under The Dragon Forest    

      In 2017, I went to Hezuo, a city in southern Gan Su province. My residency is in Hezuo Art Space, which is an experimental space under Arts Department of Gansu South Nationalities College. Zhang Hongwei is the curator as well as a lecturer in the college. Hezuo locates between Xiahe, Tibetan-inhabited area, and Linxia, Hui-inhabited area. The pastoral land is vast, with countless cows and sheep. 

      Around 100 kilometers outside the city, there are two famous Gelug temples, Langmu Temple and Labuleng Temple. I think fate put me here again as I have visited these two temples more than ten years ago. Langmu Temple is of moderate size, with monks and their family living nearby. Besides the normal Tibetan setup in the temple, there is a lush forest where the monks debate Buddhist doctrines.          

      Thus, together with lecturers and students in Arts Department, we turned the space into a ”forest”.

      古代印度高僧龙树，传说是在树下出生，后潜入龙宫获得真经，开大乘佛教新局面，从此深远影响汉藏两脉佛国。艺术教学，教学相长，本身不可灌输，美术系也是需要自由交流和辩论的领域。艺术创作通往灵魂自由之境，如同佛教所言的 “不一亦不异”，慈智双修。

      在甘南藏区合作市，我希望以“合作” 的方式将龙树菩萨的贡献与郎木寺的辩经场所结合起来，使得实验艺术空间可以更加自然地生发出艺术项目，启蒙学生们的构思和内在冲动。与我合作创作绘制“树林”的包括美术系的各位领导、教师、行政职员与学生。大家一起在墙壁上画树，每人按照自己的经验和理解画上几颗，一共干了四五天，上百株“树” 渐渐成林。之后我们在 “树”上挂起了很多笔，这样，平时观众走进来即可参与。

      开幕当天，观众和学生们热情加入，学校领导也纷纷留言涂鸦，墙面上逐渐出现涂鸦、漫画、汉语、藏语、韩语的留言。而展览期间，这片壁画上的树林之间将留下无数密密麻麻地文字和图形。

       In ancient India, there is a monk called Nagarjuna. Legend says he was born under a tree, and later entered the Dragon Palace where he got the Sutra. Since then he has opened new chapters in Mahayana and influenced deeply both Han Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. Arts teaching, similarly, needs free communication and debate, as it benefits both lecturers and students. Arts creation is like the path to the free soul, which benefits both mentally and intellectually, just as the saying goes in Buddhism, “not the same nor the different”.

      In Hezuo, I hope to  collaborate( the name of the city”Hezuo”  means “collaboration” in Chinese) between contributions of monk Nagarjuna and debate area in Langmu Temple, and make the experimental space to produce arts projects more naturally and enlighten concepts and impulses of the students. Collaborators for drawing the “forest” include leaders, lecturers and students in Arts Department. We all drew trees on the wall, everyone created according to their own experience and understanding. After four to five days, hundreds of “trees” made it a forest. Then we hung lots of pens on the “trees”, so that audience could participate.

      On the opening day, we saw a warmly jointed group, the leaders in the college also left messages. We have graffiti, comics, messages in Mandarin, Tibetan and Korean gradually grow on the wall. During the whole exhibition period, countless texts and images would left on the mural forest.

 

      In ancient India, there is a monk called Nagarjuna. Legend says he was born under a tree, and later entered the Dragon Palace where he got the Sutra. Since then he has opened new chapters in Mahayana and influenced deeply both Han Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. Arts teaching, similarly, needs free communication and debate, as it benefits both lecturers and students. Arts creation is like the path to the free soul, which benefits both mentally and intellectually, just as the saying goes in Buddhism, “not the same nor the different”.

      In Hezuo, I hope to  collaborate( the name of the city”Hezuo”means “collaboration”in Chinese) between contributions of monk Nagarjuna and debate area in Langmu Temple, and make the experimental space to produce arts projects more naturally and enlighten concepts and impulses of the students. Collaborators for drawing the “forest” include leaders, lecturers and students in Arts Department. We all drew trees on the wall, everyone created according to their own experience and understanding. After four to five days, hundreds of “trees” made it a forest. Then we hung lots of pens on the “trees”, so that audience could participate.

      On the opening day, we saw a warmly jointed group, the leaders in the college also left messages. We have graffiti, comics, messages in Mandarin, Tibetan and Korean gradually grow on the wall. During the whole exhibition period, countless texts and images would left on the mural forest.

展览现场 Exhibition Site