当人们看一个展览，开始考虑艺术家创作的动机和所追求的意义的时候，“意义”这个充满玄机的词语便被阻隔出日常世界了，变得遥不可及。因为绘画带给观者的第一感觉是视觉，从而引发观者进入画家所营造的景物和氛围当中，当观者全身心的走进这个意境，“意义”自然而然就显现了。不论一幅绘画作品尺寸多大或者多小，人们目之所及的就那么几平尺，在这个画面当中，景物、人物孤独的消磨着它们的时光，艺术家把日常生活中某一个场景或活动的瞬间截取在画布上，是经过他无数次的刻意或无意识的筛选而凝固了的片段，给观看者提供一个目之所及之外的一个空间。

展览中这四位来自东北的艺术家，似乎都善于凝视和记住人们并不怎么在意的清冷场景，在他们的画面中，一切运动都停息下来，成了轮廓，在时间中形成一种持久不变的东西，即空间，目之所及的空间，没有任何欲望的日常世界的巨大安歇。

When people see an exhibition, they start to think about the artist’s motivation for creating the work and the meaning behind it. The word “meaning” is so profound that it has been separated from the ordinary world and become impossibly distant. Because the viewer’s first impression of a painting is visual, it evokes an explorer entering into a landscape or environment created by the painter. When the viewer enters into this creative concept with his whole body and mind, “meaning” naturally appears. Whether a painting is large or small, only a few square feet can fit within a person’s field of view. In these paintings, landscape and figures pass their time alone. Artists dissect certain moments of landscape or events and place them on a canvas. They are solidified fragments that have passed through his countless painstaking or unconscious screenings, giving the viewer a space outside what the eye can see.

The four artists from the Northeast participating in this exhibition seem to excel at considering and remembering that people do not pay attention to clear and cool landscapes. In their works, all movement is stopped, and reduced to outlines. They form something enduring in time, that is, a space that the eye can see. This is significant respite from an ordinary world without desire.