中国艺术项目（中国）和尼亚加拉画廊（澳大利亚）将一起合作呈现两位艺术家的独特展览 － Angelina Pwerle 和胡勤武 。

这两位艺术家从表面上看起来属于完全不同的古代文化，但它们之间存在着跨越时空的紧密文化联系。现时与过去之间的精神和祖传的连接关系， 以及在所有事物中包含的物质性和精神性，是他们双方的共同点。

胡勤武 和Angelina Pwerle 的工作方式其实并不相异，两位艺术家在创建，纪录，标记制造，和表达过程中， 各自超越自己的智能控制 —— 他们汇聚了一种超凡力量，而不是作为自觉创造艺术家的倡导者。

对于每一个艺术家，他们的工作过程对作品的最终结果至关重要 —— 让潜意识的状态容许做梦（Pwerle）或空（佛教中空虚空间的观念）去浮现与透露无限的（空间，时间），宇宙中的秩序与混乱，生命的延续性和过去、现在与未来之间的连同性。

Angelina Pwerle 出生于1946年，她工作和住在Ngkawenyerre，澳大利亚北领地乌托邦地区。

像许多乌托邦的女艺术家，Angelina从1986年开始使用印度尼西亚的蜡染技术。

不久后，帆布和丙烯酸涂料被介绍给她的社区，在很大程度上Angelina是通过这种媒介在国内外成名。

Angelina 的作品主要是关注丛生梅梦的申述。 此主题已被赋予不同的形式表达， 但丛生梅梦的特征往往是由清晰和精致的调色板用精细的点点组成强烈的画面。

Angelina Pwerle 和 胡勤武 的作品都具有丰富的质感和层次感。强烈的或微妙的色彩层次揭示表面之下的阴影。

一堆看似有组织的点，线，和单色彩色遍历每个作品的表面。 它们没有影像，没有重点或中心，这些作品有一个暗示无限性，连续性与和谐的整体素质。

胡勤武 揭示的世界源于他对自己经验的释义—— 他摩西的比喻暗示，我们对现实的知觉是由采取个别线路和部门并把它们放在一起去形成一个整体。分层标志的过程是他创制作品的一个关键因素。

他承认，他的画作不落入传统的中国美学，但他抗拒被看成中国的或现代的，抽象的或其他分类。 拒绝定义是他的特权，他言论 “我有我自己的语言“ 。

这次由牛睿智策划的展览将于6月25日星期六，在空间站画廊798艺术区开展。这项展览是澳大利亚在中国文化年的一部分—— “想象澳大利亚”的文化节目 ——将于6月25日在空间站画廊开幕。

地点：
北京空间站画廊798艺术区 6月25日 —— 7月10日2011年
澳大利亚墨尔本尼亚加拉画廊 2月7日 —— 3月3日2012年

China Art Projects (China/Australia) Niagara Galleries (Australia) Space Station Gallery (China)

As part of the year of Australia in China festival Imagine Australia  present a unique exhibition of two artists - Angelina Pwerle (Australian) and Hu Qinwu (Chinese).

These two artists are from two ancient cultures which ostensibly appear to be radically different, but there is a strong cultural connection which cuts across time and place. The spiritual and ancestral connection between the now and then and the relationship of the physicality and spirituality contained within all things is a commonality shared by both .
Hu Qinwu and Angelina Pwerle work in not dis-similar ways with each transcending their intellectual control over the process of creating, recording, mark-making and expressing – they are agents of a greater force, rather than protagonists who create self-consciously as artists.

For each artist, the process of working is critical to the end result – the subconscious state of allowing the Dreaming (Pwerle) or the Kong (the Buddhist idea of empty space) to emerge and reveal the infinite (space, time), the order and chaos of the universe, the continuity of life and the connectedness between past, present and future.

Angelina Pwerle was born in 1946 and she lives and works in Ngkawenyerre, Utopia, Northern Territory, Australia. Like many of the Utopia women artists, Angelina began producing work with the Indonesian technique of batik in 1986. Not long after, canvas and acrylic paint was introduced to her community and it has largely been in this medium that Angelina has come to national and international prominence.

Angelina's work is predominantly concerned with representations of the bush plum dreaming. This subject matter has been given varied forms of expression, but is most often characterised by intense areas of fine dotting using a clear and refined colour palette.

Both Angelina Pwerle and Hu Qinwu’s works are richly textured and layered. Intense or subtle colour reveals dark shadows beneath surface layering.

A myriad of seemingly organised dots, lines and monochromatic colour traverse the surface of each work. There are no images, there are no focal points or centre, the works have an over-all quality suggesting infinity, continuity and harmony.

Hu Qinwu reveals the world as he interprets his experiences – his mosaic metaphor suggests that our perceptions of reality are made up of taking individual lines and divisions and putting them together to form a whole. The process of layering marks is a critical element of his work.

For him, the harmony he creates is an open and unlimited feeling – like the Buddhist idea of ‘kong’, or empty space.

He accepts that his paintings do not fall into a traditional Chinese aesthetic, but he is resistant to be categorised as either Chinese or modern, abstract or other. To refuse definition is his prerogative. “I have my own language”, he remarks.

The exhibition, curated by Reg Newitt, will be opened on Saturday 25 June at the Space Station Gallery in 798 Art District. It is part of the Year of Australian Culture in China - Imagine Australia cultural program - and will be opened on 25 June by the Australian Embassy

VENUES:
Space Station Art Space, 798 Art District, Beijing. 25 June – 10 July 2011
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia. 7 February – 3 March 2012