·展览城市：上海-上海
·展览时间：2007-05-20～2007-06-04
·开幕酒会：2007-05-20 15：00
·展览地点：证大现代艺术馆 
·主办单位：上海证大现代艺术馆 艺术银行
 
展览前言: 

　　表现真实，实际上是一种很朴素的愿望。刘勇过去的历史画中的真实，是如实地反映历史的真实状况，而现在他的这批新历史画则更注重一种真实的体验，他主要利用了现成的文革历史照片，并进行了反相和涂沫的方式处理。他正是通过这种模糊化的画面来表现这些文革时期的历史人物，从而传达出这些人物虽然逐渐淡出我们的视野，但有些东西是永远消失不掉的。他原来的作品到现在的这批新历史画，中间经历了一段很长的过程，但追求人与人平等的历史观始终没有改变。他过去的作品表现得更像一个真实的故事，力图展现的是一个真实的历史场面。而他现在的作品是把故事隐藏在作品后面，更多地是通过作品图像的暗示，表现隐藏在历史背后的人性的真实。这种真实，能让我们对历史有更深入的理解；这种真实，是一种隐喻化的真实，需要读者通过作品提供的图像线索，去体会和解读隐藏在历史后面的真实。

　　It is actually a simple wish to present reality. The reality in Liu Yong’s early historical paintings reflects actual historical conditions. His new works, however, pay more attention to experiences of reality. He primarily uses existing pictures of the Culture Revolution and transforms them by image reversal and smudging. These blurred images remind us that even though these historical figures are out of sight, some things are never quite out of mind. It has been a long process of change from his earlier works to current ones, but what has remained unchanged is his pursuit of equality among men. His earlier pictures seem more like depictions of actual historical events, where as his new works conceal the story behind the pictures and insinuates the truth of humanity behind history. Such hints of reality enable us to understand history more deeply and demand the audience to read the images in order to find the truth hidden in history.