黄恺：童年忧郁的缩影

黄恺连环画风格的套色木刻描绘着幼时伙伴间的嬉戏。在消失了的一条条老胡同里（卧龙巷﹑童家巷﹑红星巷这些亲切的名字仍依稀记起），孩子们神气活现地腰插小木枪，学着老黑白电影里的打仗站岗；另一个顽童试图撑起一把垃圾箱里捡出来的破伞…在木刻中，黄恺把失散多年的朋友们的电话号码﹑呼机号刻在胡同的墙壁上，而把自己描绘成小小的个子，腼腆地躲在墙根角落。没有漂亮的玩具，没有钢琴课，游离于少先队组织之外，八十年代的童年充满自由散漫而无聊的乐趣，孤独地放逐于市井陋巷之间，最终被石灰涂抹的"拆"字瓦解了童年的回忆。无所事事却又各自忙碌的孩子们和凌乱的街景好像即将在一场沙尘暴中被卷走。
黄恺作品中流露出朴素的真诚，厚厚的手工纸上木刻的肌理斑驳，散发出独特的油墨味道，令童年显得亲近却无比遥远。艺术家的赤子之心，感受大地发出的由衷的寻根之情，暗暗渴望时空逆转，再次回到孤独自语的童年。

Sentimental Childhood by Artist Huang Kai

Huang Kai’s comic-panel color woodcut prints depict playing with his friends as a child. In these now-disappeared alleyways (he still remembers all the names, Wolong Xiang, Tongjia Xiang, Hongxing Xiang), the children brandish their wooden guns with gusto, imitating the soldiers and sentries of old black and white movies; another child tries to use a tattered umbrella he has pulled from the garbage bin… In these woodcut prints, Huang Kai has carved the phone numbers of his long lost friends on the alley walls, and placed himself hiding bashfully in the corner. There are no pretty toys, no piano classes, and they are far from the organizing influence of the young pioneers. This eighties childhood was full of unstructured and meaningless joys, exiled in the alleys, a childhood whose memories were eventually wiped out by the chalk markings that designated the walls for demolition. These aimless, hectic youth and the chaotic street scenes seem like they are about to be swept away in the dust.

Huang Kai’s works emit a simple air of sincerity. The prints on thick handmade paper are covered with thick texture lines that send out a special ink flavor, making childhood seem so close yet so far. The artist’s innocent heart picks up on the land’s quest for its roots, feeling a buried desire to turn back the clock and return to that lonely childhood.

艺术家：黄恺
毕业于西安美术学院版画系；

展览活动：
西安美院与荷兰安锡尔视觉艺术学院Here & Now交流展。
陕西省第六届版画展；
2006年：
第四届"孔子、我问"作品展，中央美术学院；
“传统与个人才能·燃烧的叫嚣”新锐学院精英版画展，
龙艺榜画廊；
国际巡展三步曲“时间·空间·我”，英国-德国-中国，
汉字基地，北京；
2007年：
聚沙塔－2007中国新锐绘画奖，炎黄艺术馆；
2008年：
[藏娇]新春版画艺术节；
意幻忆真当代艺术展,龙艺榜画廊；
2009年：
No Fun without You当代艺术家的定格游戏，龙艺榜画廊；
洗心革面-穿越当代精神迷宫的中国版画，深圳华美术馆；
"讲·述-2009海峡两岸当代艺术展", 5月-7月, 中国美术馆、国立台湾美术馆。

黄恺作品曾发表于《江苏画刊》、《中国典藏》等艺术刊物。

Artist: Huang Kai
Graduated from XiAn Academy of Fine Arts.

Exhibitions:
2006:
Here & Now, Exchange Exhibition, Netherlands;
The 6th Print Exhibition, ShanXi Province;
Scream before Burned-Contemporary Printmakers Group Show, Amelie Gallery;
Triptych Art Exhibition "Time, Space & I" .UK-Germany-China, Chinese Base, Beijing;
2007:
Gathering Sandcastles, Chinese New Generation Artists Award Exhibition,YanHuang Art Museum;
2008:
New Year China Print Art Festival,Beijing;
Memory or Reality Exhibitions, Amelie Gallery;
2009:
No Fun without You Exhibitions, Amelie Gallery;
A New Mark in Chinese Print Art-Traversing the Labyrinth of the Contemporary Spirit, Hua Museum, ShenZhen;
Narration-2009 Contemporary Art from Mainland China & Taiwan Exhibition, May- July, China National Museum & Taiwan National Art Museum..

HuangKai's Works are Published on JiangSu Painters Journal & China Collection Magazine etc.