Tao Hua Gu Xian Meng

小时候，刘传宏是一名数学0分，作文满分的学生。后来，他迷上了画画，并受到严格的油画训练，这让他最终没有成为一名作家，却展现了用绘画编造故事的天赋。2003年，他前往河南林县的桃花洞村，变成了当地的一位山民，每天砍柴耕作，闲时画画，一住就是九年。这次展览的作品和日记，就来自他在那里的创作和生活。

“当代艺术”教会了艺术家如何使用理论，也给了艺术家无限的创作自由，但只剥夺了他们一样权利，就是创作那些难以引发理论的作品的权利。幸好，刘传宏还算保住了这个权利。关于理论，他的作品大概会引出如下关键词：山野生活，自然，人文，乡愁，桃花源，隐居，存在……虽然它们常常是空洞的，但仍然很“正确”，很有说服力。而且，如果稍微注意语调，悠扬的学术之音，就会彻底淹没那象征着强大的物质崇拜和异化的宗教信仰的圣诞夜的铃声，让那位具有国际主义精神的老人在好不容易到达中国之后，都根本没勇气降落在今夜千高原的屋顶。但刘传宏不担心这些，他不在乎那些词汇，他只在乎自己的故事，坏故事。他大概会请圣诞老人也过来听听，再带着忧郁和坏笑，指给他看西游记里的名媛和知识份子都是什么人，长什么样。说不定，许文强也混在展览的人群里，刘传宏能一眼就认出哪一个是他。

When Liu Chuanhong was young, he was a student with a zero in math, and a full mark in composition. Later, he was hooked on painting, and was trained strictly in oil painting, which displayed his talent in spinning yarns with painting, instead of making him an author. In 2003, he went to the Taohuadong Village of Lin County, He Nan, and became a local hill people there. Everyday, he chopped wood and farmed, and painted at leisure. He lived there for nine years. The works to be presented in this exhibition are from his creation and life there.

“Contemporary Art” teaches the artist how to make use of theory, and gives the artist unlimited freedom in creating, however, it has deprived one right, which is the right of creating the works which are hard for initiating theory. Fortunately, Liu Chuanhong has retained this right. Concerning theory, maybe his works will lead to the key words below: mountains and plains, nature, humanity, nostalgia, the Peach Garden, seclusion, existence…Although they are always vacuous, they are still “correct” and convincing. Moreover, if we pay attention to the tone, the melodious academic voice will completely submerge the Jingle Bells, which represents the powerful substance worship and the catabolic faith, and make the old man with the spirit of internationalism spineless to land on the roof of A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, although he has gone a long way to China. But Liu Chuanhong is not worried about this, he doesn’t care about the words, he only cares about his own stories, the bad stories. Probably he will invite the Santa Claus to come over, and point out the socialites and intellectuals for him, with gloom and snicker. Probably, Xu Wenqiang will blend in with the crowd; Liu Chuanhong can immediately recognize him.