重新启动：第三届成都双年展
Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale
主办：成都现代艺术馆
Organized by: Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum
双年展主席：邓 鸿
艺术总监：冯 斌
策展人：沈揆一（美国） Britta Erickson（林似竹 美国） 鲁 虹
Chairman of the Biennale: Deng Hong
Exhibition Director: Feng Bin
Curators: Kuiyi Shen Britta Erickson Lu Hong
展览时间：2007年9月14日—10月12日
Exhibition Dates: September 14-October 12, 2007
展览地点：成都世纪城新国际会展中心1号馆
Exhibition Venue: New International Convention Center of Chengdu
Century City
开幕式：2007年9月13日(星期四)晚19：30
Opening: Sept. 13（Thursday） 19:30 pm
重新启动：第三届成都双年展
国际学术研讨会
时间：2007年9月12日—13日
地点：成都世纪城，娇子国际会议中心5楼 高新厅
The International Symposium
Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale
September 12 - September 13, 2007
Gaoxin Hall, 5th Floor, Pride International Convention Centre
“第三届成都双年展”由61位艺术家参加的“主题展”、2位艺术家参加的“特展”、49位全国艺术院校的本科生、研究生参加的“新人特展”三个部分组成。同时还举办相关主题的国际学术研讨会，和由21位艺术家参加的“特别邀请展：水墨新动向——台湾现代水墨画展”。
“第三届成都双年展”以“重新启动”为展览标题，对“国画”、“水墨”进行新的阐释，试图客观地展示中国当代艺术发展历程中的多元格局，重新定义中国当代艺术。在中国社会经济迅速崛起并受到全世界瞩目的背景下，中国艺术应该探索突破困境和局限的多种可能性，启动中国当代艺术全面发展的新局面，展现中国文化的特殊性和世界性之间的相互融合和置换。
“第三届成都双年展”主题展突破以媒材和表现形式分类的传统展览模式，以社会文化学的视野，将作品归纳在“人，精神”“社会”“自然”三个主题中展开，力图呈现“国画”、“水墨”的当代性。
“第三届成都双年展”秉承“关注新人，就是从发展的角度关注着中国艺术的未来”的宗旨，继第一、二届成都双年展，把关注新人、推出新人的“新人特展”作为一个重要组成部分。“新人特展”成为成都双年展的一大特色和亮点。
The Third Chengdu Biennale, Reboot, has three parts: the “Biennale Exhibition,” with sixty-one artists; the “Special Exhibition,” to salute two senior artists; and the “Special Exhibition of Emerging Artists,” with forty-nine graduate and undergraduate art students. In conjunction with the Third Chengdu Biennale, there will also be an international symposium on September 12 and 13, and a special invitational exhibition, “New Trends of Ink Art——Modern Ink Painting from Taiwan.”
Using “Reboot” as its theme, the Third Chengdu Biennale attempts to redefine Guohua (Chinese Painting) or Shuimohua (ink painting), and to present more objectively the multifaceted process of the development of Chinese contemporary art, and to redefine the contemporaneity of this segment of the arts. Against the background of global attention centered on the rapid rise of the Chinese economy, Chinese art today seeks to explore the potential inherent in breaking boundaries, to reboot Chinese traditional artistic media in this new stage of cultural development, and to display the interaction of China’s unique characteristics and internationalism.
By avoiding the conventional exhibition structure, which usually categorizes the exhibits by medium or format, the Third Chengdu Biennale is organized into three thematic sections, “Humanity and Spirit,” “Society,” and “Nature,” in order to express the contemporaneity of Chinese art.
Since the first Chengdu Biennial we have also turned our eyes to emerging artists, on the understanding that the appearance of new artists will stimulate the continued development of Chinese art. With concern for new artists and for the future of Chinese art, an emerging artists’ exhibition will be held in conjunction with the major thematic exhibition. It has become a special highlight of the Chengdu Biennial.
“国画”国际化来做 当代视野看“国画”
受成都双年展主席邓鸿之邀，四川美术学院美术馆馆长、中国画系主任冯斌出任“第三届成都双年展”艺术总监，并延请了美国加利福尼亚大学(圣地亚哥校区)视觉艺术系教授、美术评论家沈揆一，美国独立学者、美术评论家林似竹（Britta Erickson）和深圳美术馆艺术总监鲁虹，共同组成了成都双年展历史上第一个国际化的策展人团队。
Invited by Deng Hong, the Bienniale Chairman, the curatorial team for the Third Chengdu Biennale is comprised of: Feng Bin, Director of the Art Museum and Director of the Chinese Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute; Dr. Kuiyi Shen, Professor of Art History at University of California, San Diego; Dr. Britta Erickson, California-based Art Critic and Independent Curator; and Lu Hong, Artistic Director of Shenzhen Art Museum. This is the first international curatorial team in the eight-year history of the Chengdu Biennale.