梅洛庞蒂认为画家的视觉具有一种“被动性的神秘”，神秘隐于峪之沟壑。人类文明出现时，第一笔岩洞壁上划出的线宣告诞生。峪不止于自然物象，更是缝合着自在之物与精神物性的一处沟壑。线峪向线域的延伸，如今借由六位艺术家谱写的线与色域的抽象性，以线为显像，以域为隐象，合奏出线与面的乐章，试图弥平存在之相和知觉灵性之间的二元对立鸿沟关系。

展览从线与域的视觉关系切入，一种重叠的线生成在顾小平的抽象画面上，理性的痕迹无疑是艺术家缜密布局的结果，是东方水墨语言建构的形式主义。与稳定静谧的视觉张力相衬的，李向阳用强烈的色彩对比，凌厉有序的书写，知觉在视觉到达对比色彩和含混内容时被感知。线的秩序、形式、结构之间的互文交纵，是周洋明对于日常局部与经验直觉的吟咏。徐红明的绘画是不需要被定义的，他画面中游离的行走路线，弥散的边缘线，形式感倚立于材料本体的话语权在发力，颜料所及之处显现的色域，在虚空之中生效。徐小国的《花》临界于具象语言和抽象视觉之间，绘画过程中工作方法的抽象化，借物象把归纳的感知结果承载于二维画布上。把视距拉开，投放到马思博营造的镜像场景中，轮廓的真实，光感的抽象性，梦幻与迷失的画面提示着观者正在身体和意识两极场域之间的往返。

白盒子艺术馆于2023年10月21日携六位艺术家呈现群展《线峪》，展览持续至11月26日。

According the Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the vision of a painter possesses a “passivity that lies in the mystery,” a mystery that’s concealed in the depth of the ravines. The first lines drawn on the walls of caves announced the dawn of human civilization. The ravine does not merely represent the partial part of nature but bridges the self-existing and the spirituality. The Ravine of Lines expands itself into the realm of lines. Through the abstraction of lines and color fields of six artists, with lines as the visible image and color fields as the concealed image, the exhibition showcases a harmony between lines and planes, attempting to reconcile the opposing dichotomy between the appearance of existence and the perception of spirituality.

This exhibition begins with probing the intricate visual relationship between the line and the color field. On Gu Xiaoping’s abstract canvases, a superimposition of lines proliferates, as the traces of rationality are undoubtedly the result of the artist’s meticulous planning, revealing a formalist approach that builds upon the language of Eastern ink and wash techniques. Contrasting with that tranquil visual tension, Li Xiangyang employs an overwhelming palette and orderly brushwork, in which the visual is perceived only when the palette is merged with the content. The intertextual interplay between the order, form, and structure of lines reflects Zhou Yangming's praise for everyday experience and empirical intuition. The paintings of Xu Hongming defy categorical definition. The wandering strokes, loose lines, and formal structure work to reveal the materiality of his works, and the color fields his paint engendered, take effect in the void. Xu Xiaoguo’s Flower sits between the visual languages of figuration and abstraction, the instinctive abstraction that originates within his practice returns to figuration by projecting his perception on the two-dimensional canvas. The distance between the viewer and the mirror scene created by Ma Sibo, the realism of the contours, the abstraction of the sense of light, and the dreamy and lost image suggest that the viewer is going back and forth between the polar fields of the body and the consciousness.

WhiteBox Art Center is pleased to present “Ravine of Lines,” a group exhibition that brings together the works of six artists, which opens on October 21, 2023. The exhibition will run through November 26, 2023