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文/白洪

初识北水是在2008年，那时我初到北京，和朋友酝酿成立德滋画廊。在798的一个画廊里见到了北水的《鱼•非鱼》和《红与黑》油画系列作品，第一时间它就紧紧地抓住了我的心灵。画面厚重，色彩沉稳，充满力量感，让我想到了交响乐，想到了贝多芬，想到了普罗米修斯。于是，我特意在画廊买了一张宣传海报，想日后去找这位艺术家，现在想来颇有点“按图索骥”的味道。

认识北水其人是在2010年的亚洲艺术博览会上，也再次见到了北水的作品，我们真正认识了。并和他做了长时间的深入交谈。北水是一个真诚、严肃、颇富才气的青年艺术家，有思想有社会责任感。早期在北京东村从事过一段行为艺术创作，后主要以架上创作为主，兼有装置作品。近两年在创作油画作品的同时也开始创作原创丝网版画作品。不同的是，他的版画作品不是对自己油画作品的复制，而是在寻找另一种新的创作途径。

继去年北水在德国的版画展“梦寻湿地”展出后，2011年的初夏，北京德滋画廊很荣幸地和德国exhibeo画廊在北京、柏林两地同时推出北水的同一主题版画作品展：“中国花园”。这一系列作品如同他以前的作品一样，是艺术家用绘画对社会、自然的思考；对生命、人性的关怀；对环境恶化、物欲横流的深深忧虑。作品注重内在情感、灵性、力量的深入表达，画面却非常优美，充满诗意，有一种中国水墨式的表现主义意味。他用悖论式的叙述表达着对美好的记忆和神往。

他通过作品所传达的情感，思想、情绪和力量感正如音乐家傅聪在谈贝多芬作品时，特别提到的“力”。傅聪说：“在人间如自然界一样，力足以推动生命，也能促进死亡。两个极端摆在前面：一端是和平、幸福、进步、文明、美；一端是残杀、战争、混乱、野蛮、丑恶。”愿站在北水极尽甜美的画面前的观赏者对自然对生命有所感悟和警觉。

Preface

Bai Hong

I get to know the artist Beishui in 2008 while I just came to Beijing to open a gallery named De Zi with my friends. His art works Fish, Non fish and Red and Black caught my eyes when I saw them in 798 art zone. Those paintings had abundant layers and rich color. They reminded me the symphonies of Beethoven. So I bought a poster of his show so I could get in touch with the artist later. Fate let us meet again.

I met him for the first time at the Asia Art Expo 2011, and saw his works again. We had a long conversation at that time. Bei Shui is a serious, honest and talented artist. He has social responsibility. He had performances in Dong Cun early, then he focused on his oil painting and installation. These two years he began to do Serigraph as a new expression.

After his Serigraph exhibition Dream Search for Everglade. This early summer, Dezi gallery in Beijing and “Exhibeo Gallery” in Berlin both showed his series Serigraph China Garden. These works are just the same as his last series, which express his concern about society and nature, life and humanity, the environment and how material we all have become. His soul is in his artwork, which are beautiful as Chinese ink paintings are. He has beautiful wish about the life and society.

The strength of his artwork reminds me the musician Fu Bo talked about Beethoven’s music. He said: the strength is just like in nature, can be for the living beings, also face death. Two sides: one side is peace,happiness,development,the other is slaughter, war, chaos, violence,darkness.I wish you can feel something when you see Bei Shui’work.