“行走大地”WALKING ON THE LAND

许海刚

Xu Haigang

展期 Duration: February 26，2025-March 18，2025

周二至周日，Tues-Sun 9:00 AM-17:00 PM

展览地点Address：

湖北美术学院昙华林校区美术馆1-2层展厅

（武汉市武昌区中山路374号）Exhibition hall on the 1st and 2nd floors of the Art Museum of Tanhualin Campus of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts

主办单位 Organizers：湖北美术学院、湖北省美术家协会

承办单位 Undertaker：湖北美术学院绘画学院、湖北美术学院美术馆、湖北美术学院实验艺术学院、湖北美术学院国际水彩画研究创作中心

总顾问 General Counsel：鲍清芬

总策划 General Planner：周峰

展览总监 Director of Exhibitions：曹丹、张杰

艺术总监 Artistic Director：陈勇劲、徐文涛

策展人Curator：刘茂平

学术主持 Academic Host：李宁、白露洋

展览统筹 Exhibition Coordinator：邵昱皓、张昊

展览执行 Exhibition Executor：

王翼菲、林波、梁洁、蔡卜居、许捷欣、朱紫微、敖雪琦、牛璐、郭钰、吴祺芃、孙奥、许星宇、宋紫薇、马青阑、徐梁斌、侯铮、路舒程

天地有大美——许海刚水彩艺术展

中国水彩画艺术家创作了大量的水彩画巨制，成功地在中国把水彩画艺术变成了一门工作室艺术，一门闭门制作的艺术，也使得水彩画艺术在一定程度上丧失了对生活、自然，尤其是艺术家自身对生命的敏锐感受，而这种敏锐的感受性，正是水彩画艺术的重要特性和相对其他画种优势的地方。而要保持这种感受，写生，正是其最重要的创作方式。许海刚作为知名的水彩画艺术家，他深谙水彩艺术的创作之道，因此，多年来，他一直坚持写生。如果说他早期创作阶段的写生，还停留在对自然、人文景观的游观阶段。那么，近些年的写生，他则有计划地进行系统化的写生活动，用手中的画笔，记录下神州大地乃至世界各地不同地域的自然人文风情之美。

近年来，他先后跑遍了我国不同省区的三十多个有特色的地点，感知、记录、描绘了中国丰饶的大地，呈现出大美中国的独特之美。同时，他也多次去往欧洲的意大利、德国、希腊等国，描绘独特的异域风情。他不顾酷暑严冬，在各地的写生过程中，留下了数以千计的作品，这个展览呈现的，就是他这些作品的一小部分。

许海刚常常选取那些地貌、物产、民族、文化具有代表性的地方，超越走马观花、蜻蜓点水似的观光，到达一个地方静静地呆下来，用手中的画笔，以他独特的艺术方式将各地丰富多彩自然人文之美转换成艺术之美、绘画之美。

Chinese watercolor artists have created a large number of large-scale watercolor works, successfully turning watercolor art into a studio art and an art made confined to the studio in China, which also makes watercolor art lose, to a certain extent, the artist's keen sensitiving of life, nature, especially the artist's own inner vitality.This sensitivity is a crucial characteristic of watercolor art and one of its advantages over other painting genres. To maintain this feeling, sketching is the most important way of creation. Xu Haigang as a well-known watercolor artist, he is well versed in the creation of watercolor art, so, for many years, he has been insisting on sketchwork. If he sketched in the early stage of creation, he still stayed in the stage of viewing the natural and human landscape. So, in recent years, he has planned to carry out systematic sketching activities to record the beauty of natural and human customs in different regions of China and even around the world with his brushes.

In recent years, he has traveled to more than 30 distinctive locations in different provinces and regions of China to perceive, record and describe the rich land of China, presenting the unique beauty of the Great American China. At the same time, he also went to Italy, Germany, Greece and other countries in Europe many times to describe the unique exotic style. Despite the heat and winter, he left thousands of works in the process of sketching in various places, and this exhibition presents a small part of his works.

Xu Haigang often selects those places with representative landforms, products, nationalities and cultures, and goes beyond sightseeing, arriving at a place to stay quietly, using his brushes in his hands, and transforming the rich natural and cultural beauty of diverse regions into artistic and painterly beauty.