2007年，湖北美术馆建成开馆，在与美术文献艺术中心的首度合作与共同努力下，第二届美术文献展作为湖北美术馆的第一个展览向公众展示。其后，它以自身对学术原创精神的追求和展览品牌的建构，陆续推出了一系列在国内、国际有影响的展览项目。

2017年，是湖北美术馆面向公众开放的第十年。十年时间，见证一座地域美术馆从无到有的成长历程，亦见证它与美术文献艺术中心在共有的文化理想与责任担当下为武汉这座城市所留下的当代文化印迹。

第四届美术文献展如期而至。本届展览借助“应力场”这一物理学的专有名词和概念作为主题，以此比附予作为艺术家的另类人生，如何利用多媒介方式，以视觉艺术语言转化其中的态度与立场，接受、适应和应力于这种不同变异、扭曲的程度，并在抽象意义上显示艺术家个人创作的能量，从而提示出在世界局势的处境中，这种压力、角力和张力所形成的多重制衡关系，从而构成第四届美术文献展的一种“视觉应力场”。

“应力场”在呈现外力作用下，艺术家个体感应力的多样化表达及其涉及的种种社会问题的讨论之外，抑或还为美术馆作为社会公共空间的现实存在属性带来诸多方面的触动式思考，例如，“展场与公众”“空间与作品”“传播与接受”“历史记忆与未来建构”等等。

本届美术文献展共邀请来自14个国家的艺术家参展，相较往届而言，展览的格局与视野愈来愈前瞻与开阔。无疑，这将是一次多维思想碰撞与交流的开放式对话。我们亦希望，越来越多的公众能通过湖北美术馆的艺术平台，走近艺术、参与对话、关注现实、反思生活。

主策展人冯博一及其高效团队的智慧性付出，湖北美术馆与美术文献艺术中心所有工作人员的通力合作，还有每一位参展艺术家的信任与支持，使得展览能够如期举行。在此，对各位的辛勤付出表示感谢。

湖北美术馆与美术文献艺术中心的战略合作滋养在武汉这座城市独特的文化魅力和向心力之下，美术文献展还将继续前行，并走向更高、更远。

湖北美术馆馆长 冀少峰

2017年8月

The Hubei Museum of Art was built in 2007. In the same year, with the first cooperation and joint efforts with the Fine Arts Literature Art Center, the 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts opened to the public as the premier exhibition of the museum. Since then, with its pursuit of original academic spirit and construction of exhibition brands, the Hubei Museum of Art has launched a series of domestically and internationally influential exhibition projects.

2017 marks the 10th year since the Hubei Museum of Art opened to the public. This 10 years has witnessed the birth and growth of a regional art museum, as well as the contemporary cultural imprint it has left on the city of Wuhan, together with the Fine Arts Literature Art Center, which has shared common cultural ideals and responsibilities.

The 4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts is on schedule. It borrows its theme of "stress field" from the physical term and concept to show the alternative lives of artists, how they transform their attitudes and positions through multimedia and artistic language, and to what extent they accept and adapt to different changes and distortions. It also shows the energy of artists' individual creations in an abstract sense, so as to hint at the multiple checks and balances formed between the pressure, struggles and tensions, in global situation, thus forming a "visual stress field" within the exhibition.

By presenting exogenic actions, as well as the discussions about the diversified expressions of artists' individual induction forces and the various social issues involved, "stress field" perhaps also elicits various prompted reflections on the experienced attributes of the museum as a social public space, for example, "venue and the public", "space and works", "communication and acceptance", "historical memory and future construction" and so on.

Artists from 15 countries feature in the 4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts. Compared with previous ones, this year's exhibition has a more forward-looking, broader arrangement and vision. No doubt, this will be an open dialogue for the collision and communication of multi-dimensional thoughts. We also hope that more and more public can approach the arts, participate in the dialogue, pay attention to the reality, and reflect on life through the art platform of the Hubei Museum of Art.

With the wise devotion of general curator Feng Boyi and his highly effective team, the cooperation of all the staff from the Hubei Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Literature Art Center, as well as the trust and support of every exhibited artist, the exhibition is held at the appointed time. Here, I'd like to extend my thanks for everyone's hard work.

The strategic cooperation between the Hubei Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Literature Art Center has been nourished by Wuhan's unique cultural charm and intergrable force. The Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts will continue to move forward for a better future.

Director of Hubei Museum of Art, Ji Shaofeng

August 2017


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