展览现场 | 前田正宪 Masanori MAEDA个展 「観自在」GUAN

日本画（Nihonga）所使用的颜彩与丙烯或油画材料相比，不仅复杂，而且难以有效地用于抽象。正是这种复杂性赋予了日本画流派迷人的魅力，而一批新兴的当代日本画家流派正在将这个具有数百年历史的传统（以往过于注重具象绘画）以大胆的色彩和动人的抽象带入 21 世纪，前田正宪就是其中的领跑者。

久负盛名的东京艺术大学被公认为日本最难被录取的艺术大学，耀眼的校友基本上涵盖了自明治时代以来日本现代艺术史。前田正宪从这所大学毕业并获得安宅奖。艺术家早期的具象作品沉静内敛，纯净的色彩带着微妙的变化，时间的“光泽”被附着在被刻画的静物之上，视线被久久地停留在一个永恒的瞬间。近年来，前田重新开始关注抽象，这是他一直希望表现的形式，其灵感来自于“物派”运动的至纯至简，以及传奇的中世纪日本画家长谷川东白的松树，其笔力在虚空中呈现张力，蕴含着不详、隐匿的未知，仿佛是冬季寒风凛冽中磨砺出的感性，寂静而婉约。前田正宪努力在画面中捕捉“可见与不可见”之间的“叠加”，生与死、苦与乐等对立的二极元素，一旦被搁置被遗忘，便可进入另一种超越的，宁静且有富于力量的境界。

前田正宪曾获得多个奖项，包括东京艺术大学安宅奖、Fuirann最佳作品奖、美国芝加哥国际艺术大赛二等奖。他的作品曾在美国、英国、荷兰、韩国等国际各大艺博会展出，且在香港苏富比成功拍卖。日本东京龙门寺、东京艺术大学等机构收藏了他的作品。

Compared with acrylic or oil painting materials, the Japanese pigments used in Nihonga are not only complex but also difficult to be effectively used in abstraction. It is this complexity that gives the genre called Nihonga its captivating allure, and an emerging school of contemporary Japanese painters is bringing this centuries-old tradition, previously leaning heavily on figurative painting, into the 21st century with bold colors and striking abstractions. Masanori MAEDA is one of the pioneers.

The prestigious Tokyo Art University is recognized as the most difficult art university to be admitted to in Japan, its glittering alumni essentially comprise the modern art history of Japan since the Meiji Period. Maeda graduated from this university and won the Ataka Prize. The artist's early figurative works are quiet and implicit, the simple colors have the slightest changes, the glimmer of time is attached to the depicted still life, and the sight is kept in an eternal moment for a long time. In recent years, Maeda has renewed his focus on abstraction, a style of painting that he had always wished to paint, inspired by the simplicity of the Mono-ha movement and the pine trees of the legendary Medieval Japanese painter Hasegawa Tohaku. His brushstrokes reveal a tension in the void, which contains hidden unknowns, as if it is the sensibility honed in the cold and windy winter, serenity and gracefulness. Maeda tries to capture the superposition between "visible and invisible" in the image. The elements of life and death, pain and happiness are juxtaposed, once forgotten, the audience can enter another realm of transcendence, tranquility, and power.

Maeda has won many awards, including the Ataka Prize of the Tokyo University of the Arts, the Fuirann Award for Best Artwork, and the second prize of the Chicago International Art Competition. His works have been exhibited at major international art fairs and successfully auctioned at Sotheby's in Hong Kong. His works were collected by institutions such as the Ryumon Temple Collection in Tokyo, Tokyo University of the Arts.