丁力：在消失的边界下“重建”

丁力在当代艺术领域，是一位独辟蹊径的探索者，也许用非形式主义来定义他也略显主观，他更像是一个摆脱了艺术界定下的探险家。在他的作品中综合材料大胆的、不合常规的被运用，打破了传统形式美的法则以及人们固有的审美经验。

粗糙的布、黏着的工业物、沙粒和石头等等，似乎无形的将观者的眼睛蒙蔽，从而调动其他感官去触碰审美的另一种存在——那些我们命名的真实其实并不真实。当你真的假设失去了双眼时，也就是共情于作品的开始，那些坚固的、原始的、稚拙的痕迹仿佛触及你的皮肤传导至内心，真正意义的存在是视觉形式背后的掩藏——被视觉所消解后的重建，也可以说是另一种精神指向的存在。

另一方面，在他的作品中总是存在不能够被解释的符号，那些符号其实并不陌生，它始终存在于人的潜意识里不被察觉，它们与观念、主题、叙事等因素无关， 更超越了民族、宗教、社会的制衡，而是一种独特的精神标签，在每一个向往通达的灵魂深处闪耀。在他看来，所有关于客观和主观的界定都是片面的，回响的意义在于人们愿意花时间在作品前沉静下来，通过画面，作者完成了与观者的共情并最终折射出自发式的感知与思辨，在消失的边界下重建新的自我，才是作品希望传达的精神指向。丁力的作品里记录了他个人的世界观，经由不同感官的处理和转化，以谜样般的符号、涂鸦式的笔迹、类图形似的构成，都在探寻人性与万物之间的潜密码，艺术形式本身仅仅是人们内心通往谧境的入口，而心流过后触发的思考才是人性真正的彼岸。

Beyond Boundaries

Ding Li, in the contemporary art circle, is an original and independent artist. It would be too objective to define his art as non-formalism. Instead, he is more like the Lone Ranger who has surpassed all the concepts confined by art critic. He boldly applies to comprehensive and non-conventional materials, and breaks off the traditional aesthetic laws and the intrinsic aesthetic values. Rough cloth, sticky industrious materials, grains of sand, stones etc. shock the sight of the audience, so that the other senses of people could be triggered, and a different angle to appreciation are uncovered. ——The truth that we used to define are not true at all. Suppose that you have lost your eye sight, you would learn to appreciate the painting with the inner feelings, with which those solid, primitive, naive traces could permeate through your skin and pierce your heart. The true meaning must lie behind what your eyes see, ——it is to be reconstructed when the vision is destructed, and it is at the place where the soul rests.

Besides, there are always some unexplainable, but not unfamiliar symbols in his works. They are being stocked in one's subconsciousness, not perceived often, but they are independent from elements like concepts, themes, narrations, and surpass the counterbalance of nations, religions and societies. They are unique spiritual tags, shining at the end of the road leading to the depth of soul.

He contends that either being objective or subjective is a one-sided view. He looks forward to the phenomenon that the audience would love to spend time in front of the paintings, contemplating and fulfilling the empathy with the artist, and finally building up their own perception and comprehension. The hidden spiritual target of these works is to put up a space, cleared off with all the boundaries, where one can rebuild his true self. The artist Ding Li expresses his view of the world by enigmatic symbols, scrawling lines, shape-like structures, which have been disposed and transformed through the experiences of other senses though. He strives to explore the hidden codes in between human nature and the nature. The forms that he uses are just the approaches for one to access to the wonderland at his heart bottom. But only when the current of thinking flows, one can sail to the other shore of human nature.