如遭遇了一场电击的感觉，它来自巨燕的油画，那些巨幅电杆电线之作。

　　几近无色的天空，仅冷蓝铁灰，一杆杆，一树树，仿佛驻着，又仿佛飞去;或东或西，或北或南，紧绷着，不知是去是来，抑生抑寂，在秩序里缠绕纠结，于纠结中呼啸奔涌。未审与我何干?与我何涉?然它分明在我头顶，矗立着，伟岸着，令我无从躲闪，无从退让——至少，巨燕呕心沥血所作，唤回我对绘画，对悲剧式的英雄主义违之久久的期盼。

　　近年来，听说巨燕一直把自己关在她那上海西隅的画室，没日没夜地作业着，这样的久战，未知欢乐抑是苦痛。及至近日一见，很是诧异!那里有太多与时下之作的不一样。我不明白一个小女人竟然专意这样的题材，如此冷峻的笔意，单一复沉重的交响，于常见常在而又寻常不见之中，开出一番迫人面对的新视野新境界。她之异质异象，证明了她在太多甜熟软腻太多狂怪颓废油画场中的独立，她走出了自己的艺术之路，亦开伐出了非同凡响的精神走向。

　　诗，保持着干净和高贵。这是我在巨燕的电线杆之作中首先读到的。

　　西人有云，诗是精神性的，小说则或近物质。以此说为是，我认为巨燕之作更近乎诗也。固然世界亦物质亦精神，于文化于文艺于绘画，在物质的依托下本该以精神领先而取胜;然不妨缩小观之，在拜物拜金，一切皆追求沉迷经济量化的当下，乱花渐欲迷人眼，过多的绘画惜乎坠入物欲的层面难以自拔。祭着“当代”旗帜而不知所云欺世盗名者还少吗?以几近动物性的乱怪浑扰精神诉求的把戏频频上演，打文化艺术牌而行倒文化艺术实的招数亦总未鲜见，凡此种种，皆是阻碍有精神理想绘者的魔障。所幸者，巨燕决然远离这泥淖和染缸，择近诗者而从之，诚难能可贵也。

　　于现实的形而下中，电杆电线之高之峻之无声，吾辈举头方视之，而通过巨燕之独特描绘，彼更晋入形而上的境界。所谓仰之弥高也，于抽象并与今稀有的理想主义，英雄主义情怀则近乎焉，就中的大冷之色也渲染出一种高贵的悲剧气氛和力量。画家所写必其所好，巨燕之择此之作，定有她心中的理想、英雄悲剧式的大寓言在。两相激荡，境界则愈阔大雄浑。无首无尾的电线向四边无极限地发散扩展，无上无下的电杆亦生长而不见止处，寂静到了极端，大音由之生发，冰冷凝至极点，无穷之火与力则于之运转。何可谓之?其乃当今世界最为稀缺最为一日一时一刻不可或缺的“能量”者也。而制造这番“能量”的巨燕却自命为“负能量”，亦令观者深思。有睹巨燕电线、电杆之作者，言她发掘了此中之美，固然。然仅以此论，则皮相也。巨燕尝云，其好阔大好雄浑好深沉好坚硬，就形体、形象、形式而言，她恐怕只是藉之而挥发心中的“能量”吧!故她那些粗大而又细致描之绘之表面实写的令人联想起心脏、血管生命形象的巨制，或许是对于琐碎小气低下庸俗的一种抗拒，对崇高之切切期望追索，是心象和内心的别样深掘了。

　　巨燕于画布上的经营，其朴素和体积感有很强烈的雕塑意味，于肃穆之中产生纪念碑式伟岸之象。她的最新巨制四联画尤其如此，四块相连的碑版雄浑地交奏出冰与火的大寓言之响，殊不可多见也，殊不可多闻也。

　　然而，我们亦可以在此冷峻强大之中发现别一番的婉约情致，细心的人会在线与杆的纠集繁复里寻得晾晒的鱼干、裤子、T恤这些带有女性意味的影子或是对于生命、生活的亲切及些许黑色幽默的感动。

　　巨燕的作和业，而今就矗立在我们眼前，冷也好，热也罢，“能量”之正也好，负也罢，人生和艺术也就皆在其中矣。作为读者和朋友，我会记住这个诞生在龙年夏天的巨燕式的冰与火的寓言。

　　于沪上浅草斋画室

　　Ju Yan’s new works，oil paintings of electric poles and wires，give me an electric shock.

　　The sky is nearly colorless.Only the poles are of cold，blue or grey colors.The jungle of poles in her paintings is cold and still.However，at some point，it feels like flying，to the east，to the west，to the north and to the south.The air is intense and leaves you lost and confused.Wires are winding and tangled in an eerier order and somehow are howling and struggling.It has nothing to do with me.However，they are there，above my head，standing tall.I feel that I can’t avoid it or escape from it.Those works that Ju Yan has put her heart and mind into finally satisfied my dream of tragic heroism for painting that I have been longing for a long time.

　　I heard that Ju Yan has been working hard，day and night，in her studio in the west of Shanghai.I didn’t know if she was enjoying the hard work or not.However，I was so surprised when I saw her paintings recently，which are so different from any other works I have seen.I couldn’t understand that a woman would be interested in a topic like that，with a cold and heavy approach.She interprets such an ordinary objects into a special theme，giving you a new vision of the world.That proves her individuality of world of oil painting.She started her own path of art.

　　From her works of electric poles，I see the purity and royalty like poems.

　　People from the West believe that poems are spiritual and novels are almost materialistic.Based on that，I feel that Ju Yan’s paintings are more like poems.Of course，the world is both materialistic and spiritual.But I believe that culture or arts are good only if they are of higher spiritual standards.However，at a time that the society worships money，everything is valued quantitatively and in terms of economy and most art works are only materialistic.Many artists gained fame they don’t deserve by tricking people with their “modern” works.They play cheap tricks and are doing things that are against art under the name of art.Those are the nightmares for painters that pursue spiritual perfection.Fortunately，Ju Yan has decided to be away from this world and be close to people who insist on poetic art.It is quite rare.

　　In reality，the electric poles stand high and quietly.We have to look up to them.And Ju Yan has given them a metaphysical quality.The more I look at them，the more I admire her works，that are abstract and with the sense of idealism and heroism that are rare in this society.The cold color of her works also plays up a noble and tragic tone that is full of power.Painters choose topics of their interests.Ju Yan must have materialized her dream and pursuit into this topic.The endless wires are expanding everywhere.And electric poles are growing into the sky.It is extremely quiet，where the most beauty is and the coldest it could be.Endless fire and strength are powering it.It is the energy that is most rare but we can’t live one day without it.Ju Yan is capable of creating this powerful energy though she calls herself negative energy，which makes us think. Maybe someone would say that Ju Yan simply found the beauty out of simple things.It is true.But it’s more than that.Ju Yan often says that she likes themes that are of wild，great，deep and hard quality.But I understand that she uses those to show her energy.In that way，her drawings of wildness and delicateness remind people the strength of life.It is her way to protest vulgar and mundane art and to desire nobility.

　　Ju Yan’s simple and bulky style shares something similar with sculpture.It reminds you the massive image of monument.Her latest quadruple painting is especially like this.The four boards play up conflicts of ice and fire，which is seldom seen or heard.

　　However，we can also see a graceful touch out of the coldness and bulkiness.Of all the tangled wires and poles，people can see dried fish，trousers and T-shirts，which have a feminine touch and are more friendly and humorous.

　　Now Ju Yan’s works are right in front of us.Whether they are cold or hot，or whether the energy in them is positive or negative，you can see art and life from them.As her reader as well as her friend，I would remember Ju Yan’s fable of ice and fire in this summer of the Dragon year.

　　Qian Cao Zhai Studio