阎平的作品像一股暖流注入我的心中。因为我正是在美国世界贸易中心倒塌后翌日,在一个人心惶惶的西方世界,收到这来自中国的柔情蜜语。 最近的一趟中国之旅让我深刻体会了中国当代艺术的多元性和活泼热情。而阎平的艺术,尽管不像当代艺术主流那样追求权力斗争,政治、历史的观察或人性的表现,却也是从长久的山水画及书法传统走了出来,进入一种形象的表现。 Yan Ping works like a warmth into my heart. Because I received this tender letter from China just days after the collapse of the United States World Trade Center in a panicky Western world. The recent trip to China made me deeply understand the diversity and lively enthusiasm of Chinese contemporary art. Yan Ping’s art, though not pursuing the power struggle, the observation of politics and history or the manifestation of human nature, like the mainstream of contemporary art, has gone from a long tradition of landscape painting and calligraphy to an image manifestation.