新馆 | 李真：大气神游
广东美术馆新馆（白鹅潭）三楼12、13号厅
2026-03-13——
2026-05-17
展期：2026年3月13日- 5月17日
地点：广东美术馆新馆 三楼12、13号厅
（地址：广州市荔湾区白鹅潭南路19号）
主办单位：广东美术馆
支持单位：亚洲艺术中心
展览总监：王绍强
策展人：吴洪亮
创意总监：唐胜
执行策展人：徐浩洋
Date: March 13, 2026 - May 17, 2026
Venue: Hall 12/13, 3F, Guangdong Museum of Art (BAIETAN)
(Address: No. 19, Bai'etan S. Rd., Liwan District, Guangzhou）
Organizer: Guangdong Museum of Art
Supporter: Asia Art Center
Exhibition Director: Wang Shaoqiang
Curator: Wu Hongliang
Creative Director: Tang Sheng
Executive Curator: Xu Haoyang
展览简介
Introduction
李真是当代华人雕塑领域极具影响力的艺术家之一。他以独特的墨黑雕塑语言，将儒、释、道思想中的“气”“虚”“静”等精神结构转化为当代雕塑的视觉表达，在东方哲思与现代雕塑语汇之间建立起具有极高辨识度的创作路径。在他的作品中，厚重体量与轻盈气韵并存，雕塑不再只是物质形体，而成为承载精神能量的空间场域。
本次展览系统呈现李真自1990年代末以来的创作历程，汇集雕塑与绘画作品六十余件，涵盖“虚空中的能量”“大气神游”“天燧”“凡夫”“青烟”“天文”等多个重要系列，呈现艺术家从早期对“气”的体悟到近年对符号与精神空间的延展，也展现其在二十余年创作中不断深化的东方精神探索。
在李真的雕塑体系中，“大气神游”不仅是一个系列名称，更是一种持续展开的精神方法。自2001年该系列开启以来，艺术家通过墨黑体量与金、银材质的运用，使作品在物质密度与精神轻盈之间形成微妙平衡，并逐渐将创作重心由形体塑造转向精神空间的建构。此后，“青烟”系列以坚硬材质模拟空气流动，将时间与记忆转化为可视结构；近年的“天文”系列则将书写从语意中抽离，使“气”的流动延伸至符号与观看结构层面。
本次展览由吴洪亮策划。继2017年在台北当代艺术馆策划李真大型个展之后，时隔近十年，他在广东美术馆再次以“大气神游”为核心线索，重新聚焦艺术家最具标志性的创作体系，呈现其在东方精神传统与当代雕塑语言之间所构建的独特能量场。
Li Chen is widely regarded as one of the most influential Chinese sculptors today. Through his distinctive ink-black sculptural language, he translates spiritual concepts such as qi (vital energy), xu (emptiness/void), and jing (stillness/quietude) from Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist thought—into contemporary sculptural expression. In doing so, he has established a highly recognizable artistic path that bridges Eastern philosophy and modern sculptural vocabulary. In his works, massive volumes coexist with a sense of lightness, and sculpture is no longer merely a material form but becomes a spatial field that carries spiritual energy.
This exhibition presents a systematic overview of Li Chen’s artistic development since the late 1990s. Bringing together more than sixty sculptures and paintings, it includes works from several major series, including Energy in Emptiness, Spiritual Journey through the Great Ether, The Beacon, Ordinary People, Ethereal Cloud, and Celestial Manuscripts. Together, these works trace the artist’s evolving exploration—from his early contemplation of qi to his more recent extensions into symbolic structures and spiritual space—revealing more than two decades of sustained inquiry into Eastern spirituality.
Within Li Chen’s sculptural practice, Spiritual Journey through the Great Ether is not merely the title of a series but also a continuously unfolding spiritual methodology. Since the series began in 2001, the artist has employed ink-black volumes together with gold and silver materials to create a subtle balance between material density and spiritual lightness, gradually shifting his creative focus from the modeling of form toward the construction of spiritual space. Building on this foundation, the Ethereal Cloud series uses rigid materials to evoke the movement of air, transforming time and memory into visible structures. In recent years, the Celestial Manuscripts series has further detached writing from semantic meaning, extending the flow of qi to the level of symbols and structures of viewing.
Curated by Wu Hongliang, this exhibition revisits Li Chen’s most iconic creative trajectory nearly a decade after the curator organized a major exhibition of the artist at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei in 2017. Taking Spiritual Journey through the Great Ether as its central thread, the exhibition reexamines the artist’s sculptural system and presents the distinctive energetic field he has constructed between Eastern spiritual traditions and contemporary sculptural language.
部分作品欣赏
Selected Works
金身 The Gift
李真 Li Chen
铜雕Bronze
66 × 56 × 191.5cm
2021
图片由亚洲艺术中心和艺术家提供
Courtesy of Asia Art Center and the Artist
十足．乘胜 Pompousness
李真 Li Chen
铜雕Bronze
42 × 46.5 × 80 cm
2021
图片由亚洲艺术中心和艺术家提供
Courtesy of Asia Art Center and the Artist
万丈金乌・千葵之一 Radiance．Chiliadal Blossom (I)
李真 Li Chen
铜雕 Bronze
177 × 139.5 × 254 cm
2018
图片由亚洲艺术中心和艺术家提供
Courtesy of Asia Art Center and the Artist
烟花 Ephemeral Beauty
李真 Li Chen
铜雕Bronze
2013
图片由亚洲艺术中心和艺术家提供
Courtesy of Asia Art Center and the Artist
追烛 The Pursuer
李真 Li Chen
铜雕Bronze
2010
图片由亚洲艺术中心和艺术家提供
Courtesy of Asia Art Center and the Artist
（图片为2013年法国旺多姆广场“既重又轻——李真2013巴黎旺多姆广场大型雕塑个展”展出版本）
Monumental Levity of Li Chen: 2013 Place Vendôme Premiere Solo Exhibition in Paris, Place Vendôme, Paris, France.
天阙轻舟 Floating Heavenly Palace
李真 Li Chen
铜雕 Bronze
2007
图片由亚洲艺术中心和艺术家提供
Courtesy of Asia Art Center and the Artist
（图片为2009年新加坡国家美术馆“李真：精神 ‧身体 ‧灵魂”展出版本）
Li Chen: Mind Body Spirit, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 2009
无忧国土 Pure Land
李真 Li Chen
铜雕Bronze
1998
图片由亚洲艺术中心和艺术家提供
Courtesy of Asia Art Center and the Artist
（图片为2004年意大利威尼斯“威尼斯第七届国际雕塑及装置大展 OPENASIA”展出版本）
OPENASIA, 7th International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Venice, Italy, 2004
关于艺术家
About Artist
李真Li Chen
李真，1963 年出生于中国台湾云林，目前创作与生活于台中。其既重又轻的墨黑雕塑，具有东方气韵及西方美学，是禅宗思想和当代艺术表现的完美结合。 他早期涉猎佛学道家等，在自由创作的精神中融入自我摄心之情感，并吸收东方传统与西方雕塑、及原始非洲大洋洲等艺术养分，更结合当代思惟，作品不受单一传统束缚，呈现既重又轻、浑然天成的效果。李真透过艺术进行个人的“精神疗伤”，在俗世中寻找乐土，在作品中创造灵性空间，用幽默诙谐的方式暗喻世事，希望欣赏者能察觉其中的精神元素。
Li Chen was born in 1963 in Taiwan, China, and currently works in Taichung, China. Li Chen accomplished a style which has fully liberated itself from the confines of tradition by incorporating feelings of self-mindfulness and interpretations of Chinese classics from the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, blended with contemporary thought, evincing a remarkably refreshing and natural effect of appearing both heavy and light. The underlying aesthetic principles in Li’s sculpture are based not only on a ”dual composition” of Eastern traditions and Western sculptural language but also on an ongoing dialogue with the spiritual and material cultures of Africa and Oceania. Furthermore, Li Chen’s art work aspires to a spiritual arts therapy, uncovering a wealth of joy amidst the life's simple pleasures, innovating a spiritual space through humorous metaphors of worldly affairs.
Li Chen was born in 1963 in Taiwan, China, and currently works in Taichung, China. Li Chen accomplished a style which has fully liberated itself from the confines of tradition by incorporating feelings of self-mindfulness and interpretations of Chinese classics from the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, blended with contemporary thought, evincing a remarkably refreshing and natural effect of appearing both heavy and light. The underlying aesthetic principles in Li’s sculpture are based not only on a ”dual composition” of Eastern traditions and Western sculptural language but also on an ongoing dialogue with the spiritual and material cultures of Africa and Oceania. Furthermore, Li Chen’s art work aspires to a spiritual arts therapy, uncovering a wealth of joy amidst the life's simple pleasures, innovating a spiritual space through humorous metaphors of worldly affairs.
审定 / 涂晓庞
审校 / 曾睿洁
资料提供 / 叶舜
编辑 / 刘丹妮
开放时间——每周二至周日9:00至17:00（16:30停止入场，16:45开始清场）
逢周一闭馆（法定节假日和特殊情况除外）。
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