雕塑艺术家彭小佳采访录

（National Arts interview with sculpture artist Peng Xiaojia）

国家美术：导致你从事雕塑艺术创作的主要因素是什么？
彭小佳：是热爱, 我如有一段时间不做雕塑就有丢了魂的感觉。

国家美术：你从小的兴趣爱好是什么？它对你的艺术生涯在多大程度上产生关联？
彭小佳：从小喜欢画画，父母十分支持，又有小舅正在美院学习，成为我的启蒙老师。

国家美术：你的父母及师长对你的艺术道路是否产生过影响？
彭小佳：我的父母具有积极乐观的人生观，鼓励支持孩子做自己喜欢做的事， 也不给压力，让我学会了享受人生。
好的老师就要解放学生的思想，教授学生正确观察事物的方法，像王临乙先生、曾竹韶先生那样。

国家美术：你到美国读了两个艺术类研究生，这段经历，对你的艺术创作是否产生重大影响？
彭小佳：当然，当时中国学生总有意识形态的束缚，美国学校相对自由的多，鼓励学生的个性，这也是中国学校缺少的。

国家美术：彭老师，你能介绍一下这次展览的你的新作品，你的构思是什么？
彭小佳：最近的几件带有抽象概念作品，是从老相机的皮老虎和手风琴的风箱得到启发，雏形是蚯蚓、蚂蟥等环节动物， 起名为“腔肠虫”。没有眼，鼻，耳，脑子，也没有四肢，只有空洞无物的消化系统。自我膨胀，龇牙咧嘴，不可一世。

国家美术：你的雕塑锺情木雕，请问是什么缘故让你对木刻雕塑情有独锺？
彭小佳：或许木头这种材料和我的天性相吻合。

国家美术：你对你既有的创作作品，自己感到满意还是不够满意？
彭小佳：我往往对自己的作品有很大跨度的评价-从刚刚完工的兴奋转到不满意甚至到颓丧的不堪入目，不需要太长时间。不满意才会有长进。

国家美术：您的作品中常常出现一些宗教的题材，其中的寓意是什么？
彭小佳：宗教题材可有可无，我只是对人有兴趣， 对人的七情六欲有兴趣。

国家美术：在美国时，你的作品中曾出现美神维纳斯的影像，从艺术角度来讲，你当时的出发点是什么？
彭小佳：在“轮胎”那件作品里， 我是想说在物质主义的时代，美神与信仰是模糊遥远的幻影，被汽车轮胎无情地压过。

国家美术：你的雕塑作品最大的艺术特点是什么？
彭小佳：我的作品可以说是东一锒头西一棒没有一个固定的形式，有感而发，想到哪作到哪，有待进一步展开自己，总的来说我的东西比较安静。

国家美术：你对当代艺术的现状、尤其是当代雕塑艺术有什么看法呢？
彭小佳：每个时代一流大师总是罕见的、稀有的，我们今天也不列外。尽管我们的艺术市场显得空前的繁荣，参与者众多。
当然某个时代比另外一些时代出人才多，出杰作多。

国家美术：你是怎样看待艺术创作本土化和国际视野这两者关系的呢？
彭小佳：我不考虑本土化和国际视野这个问题。我认为重要的是艺术家要学习培养自己诚实和自由表达的能力。

国家美术：对于艺术与艺术品拍卖市场的关系，能谈谈你的见解吗？  
彭小佳：拍卖是艺术走进市场的一种渠道， 拍卖价的高低，并不一定代表艺术本身的价值。

国家美术：谈谈美术教育话题，你能不能谈谈你的教学理念呢？
彭小佳：我认为美术教育的范围：1）美术史的教育， 2）提倡人的个性，解放思想。3) 各种工艺制作的训练。

国家美术：除了美术创作，你还有其他的兴趣爱好？比如哲学或是文学、电影、戏剧、音乐？
彭小佳：我对一切和艺术有关的东西都感兴趣。音乐、舞蹈、建筑、电影、戏剧、哲学、文学。

National Art: What are the factors to cause you major in sculpture art?
Peng Xiaojia: That is my love in art, once I felt that I lost my soul because I did not do sulpture art for some time.   

National Art: What is your interest hobby in childhood? How much did it associate with your art career?
Peng Xiaojia: I have been enjoying painting from childhood, my parents were very supportive.    

National Art: Your parents and teachers whether influenced your road of arts?
Peng Xiaojia: My parents have a positive and optimistic outlook on life. They encouraged and supported their children to do their favorite things, gave no presure on their children, let me to have Learned to enjoy life. A good teacher should emancipate students' mind, teach students the correct way of looking at things, someone like Mr. Wang Linyi、Mr. Zeng Zhushao.

National Art: You had two postgraduates of arts, whether the experience of this period deeply influenced your art creation?
Peng Xiaojia: Of course, Chinese students were always shackled by ideology at that time, but American school were much more free relatively, they encouraged students' personality, this is what Chinese students lack too.

National Art: Can you introduce your new works at this exhibition, and your idea?
Peng Xiaojia: The inspiration of several recent works with the abstract concept, is from the skin of tiger of old camera and the bellows of accordion, the shape is the earthworm, leech and other sectors animals, named "cavity intestinal worms." No eyes, nose, ears, brain, no limbs, only empty digestive system. Self-expansion, show its teeth, insufferably arrogant.

National Art: You love in wood with your sculpture, what brought you to love wood sculpture?
Peng Xiaojia: Perhaps this material of wood is consistent with my nature.

National Art: Do you feel satisfied or not satisfied for your own creative works?
Peng Xiaojia: I often have evaluation of large span on my own creative works- from exciting turn to be not satisfied, even to the depressed disgusting, no need too long time. Being not satisfied will push me to grow.

National Art: There are some religious subjects in your works, what are their meaning? 
Peng Xiaojia: Religious subjects are not essential, I'm just interested in people, interested in human emotions.

National Art: Venus God's image appeared in your works when you were in the United States, from an artistic point of view, what were your starting point of that?
Peng Xiaojia: In the works "tire", I want to say that in the materialism times, Venus God's spirit and faith is the vague distant mirage, it is pressured by a car tire ruthlessly.
National Art: What is the most important art characteristics in your sculpture works?
Peng Xiaojia: My works can be said that there are no fixed forms, any things according to the feeling, where to be thought, where to be done, and to be further spread my self out, in general, my works is quiet.

National Art: What is your view on the current situation of contemporary art, especially contemporary sculpture art?
Peng Xiaojia: Class one art masters of every age is always unusual, rare, and we are today no exception. Although our art market appears to unprecedented prosperity, the participants are numerous. Of course, there are more talented persons, masterpieces in this age then before.

National Art: How is you view on the relationship between the localization of art creation and international perspective?
Peng Xiaojia: I do not consider the issue on localization and international perspective. I think what is important is that artists should learn the ability to develop their own honest and free expression.

National Art: How about The relationship between art and art auction market, can you talk about your ideas?
Peng Xiaojia: Auctions is one of channels which art go into the market, high or low of auction price might not represent the value of art itself.

National Art: Talk about the topic of fine art education, can you tell us your conviction of teaching?
Peng Xiaojia: I think the category of fine art is: 1）education of fine art history, 2）promoting personality, 3) training of all kind arts and crafts making.  

National Art: except art creation, do you have any other interest hobby? for example, philosophy, movie, drama, music.
Peng Xiaojia: I am interested in all things about art, music, dance, architecture, movie, drama, philosophy, literature.