赵尔东：呼吸，是一条连接时间的锁链

赵建波

艺术

顶上空间将于2019年03月10号（周日）晚上7:30邀请来自现居广州的艺术家赵尔东分享其2015至2018年的漆画实践。试图通过漆，这一古老的自然媒材，结合艺术家本人在印度修习瑜伽的经验，进而思考如何将漆应用在当下的艺术语境中，感知又将如何被传递？

主题，：呼吸，是一条连接时间的锁链
时间：2019年03月10日19:30
艺术家：赵尔东
地址：顶上空间(广州市海珠区宝岗路郊坛顶17号之三)
THEME: Breathing is a chain that connects time.
TIME：2019.03.10 7:30pm
ARTIST：Zhao Erdong
ADD：TOP Art Space (No.3, Building 17, Baogang Rd, Haizhu District, Guangzhou)


古印度的瑜伽士对于呼吸有着深入的研究，极其强调呼吸法的重要，他们有一个比喻：“如果你的呼吸变成每分钟11次，你会听懂身边所有鸟兽的语言；如果你的呼吸变成每分钟9次，你会听懂地球正在说的语言；如果你的呼吸变成每分钟7次，你会知道存在中所有值得知道的一切。”
Ancient India’s yoga gurus had a profound study of breathing. They lay great emphasis on breathing techniques, with a saying that goes: “if your breath 11 times per minute, you shall understand the languages of birds and beasts; if you breath 9 times per minute, you shall understand the language the earth is speaking; if you breath 7 times per minute, you will know everything that is worthy of knowing in all beings.”

漆作为一种古老的自然媒材，有着自己的生命周期：漆液从漆树干中溢出，其结膜与固化的速度，如呼吸一般可快可慢，又依温度、湿度的变化而变化，待彻底固化之后，具备优异的物理性能和丰富的视觉面貌，因此被先民们用于祭祀、墓葬、仪式、绘画、日用等诸多领域，成为一条贯穿中华文明的暗线。
As an ancient natural agent, lacquer has a life cycle to itself: the polymerisation and solidification speeds of the sap excreted from the tree trunks of the lacquer tree vary, just like breathing can be fast or slow. It also changes according to changes of temperature and humidity. After being completely cured, it starts to demonstrate excellent physical properties and rich visual characteristics. Therefore, our ancestors used lacquer in their worships of ancestors, interments, rituals, paintings and everyday utensils. Lacquer became a link that runs through the entire Chinese civilisation.

治漆11年来，我一直思索，漆应当如何在当下的艺术语境中发声，并拥有被重新凝视的可能。多年内观的体悟，以及在印度修习瑜伽的经验，给了我不同的视角，去审视漆与艺术的关系，漆在当下艺术语境中如何生效？感知又将如何被传递？
Having worked with lacquer for 11 years, I have always been thinking: how can lacquer acquire its own voice and a refreshed reception in the context of today’s art? Years of experience from Vipassana and yoga practice in India provide me with a different perspective to examine the relationship between lacquer and art. How to validate lacquer in the context of contemporary art? How are feelings communicated?

这是一场关于漆艺术的分享。
This is a sharing event about the art of lacquer.

——赵尔东 Zhao Erdong

（本文摘自《顶上空间》）