11月16日下午，“田旭桐禅意水墨画亚洲巡回展”在新加坡客艺廊隆重开幕。中国驻新加坡大使馆文化参赞肖江华先生、新加坡著名理论家、画家蔡荣恩先生、本次展览的策展人客艺廊艺术总监谢克先生、近百名艺术家、收藏家和各界人士出席了开幕式。肖江华参赞首先代表中国大使馆和大使本人对田旭桐到新加坡办展表示欢迎并祝展览举办成功。蔡荣恩先生对田旭桐的禅意水墨作品进行了“少即是多”的精彩讲演。本次展览展出田旭桐近年创作的禅意水墨画38幅。

    田旭桐禅意水墨画在一墨一点，笔线飞白间利用简洁而图式化的符号语言使繁复的技巧隐藏在了画面背后，在看似不经意间营造出了一个介于现实与超现实之间“心悟”的空间。此等一线穿珠看似不着力的学问可谓是墨味三巡别具诗家三味，承载着传统的笔墨绘技。面对多元的当代艺术状态田旭桐一直将自己的绘画语言融入与思想的对话之中。用时间的积淀洗滤潮流冲涮下带来的躁动与功利的追随，呈现一种久违而珍贵的纯净、宽容。画面呈现诗一般的意境的同时，又不失对当下思维的审视实属难得。

    田旭桐1985年毕业于中央工艺美术学院，毕业后留校任教至今，现任清华大学美术学院副教授。曾在中国美术馆、佛光祖庭大觉寺美术馆、台湾千活艺术中心等地举办大型个展10余次；参与联展20余次；出版个人画集和著作40余册。

In the afternoon on November 16^th, Tian Xutong’s Zen Ink Painting Asia Tour was opened in Singapore HaKaren Art Gallery grandly, with Mr. Xiao Jianghua, cultural counselor of China's embassy in Singapore, Mr. Cai Enrong, a famous theorist and painter in Singapore, Mr. Xie Ke, curator of this exhibition and director of HaKaren Art Gallery along with nearly one hundred of artist, collectors and all walks of life present at the opening ceremony. First of all, Counselor Xiao Jianghua, on behalf of China’s embassy in Singapore and himself, expressed the warm welcome of Tian Xutong to hold his art exhibition in Singapore and wished the exhibition a complete success. Then, Mr. Cai Rongen gave an excellent speech on the Zen wash paintings of Mr. Tian Xutong, themed “less is more”. There were 38 pieces of Zen wash paintings created by Mr. Tian Xutong in the recent years on show in this exhibition. 

In his Zen Ink paintings, Mr. Tian Xutong utilizes the concise lines and points and the schematized symbolic language to conceal the complicated technologies behind the paintings, creating the “soul-realize” space between reality and surrealism inadvertently. This seemingly easy skill is actually integrating the skills of multiple schools of painting and carrying forward the traditional skills of Ink painting. Facing with the diversified modern arts, Tian Xutong has been trying to blend his own painting language into the ideological dialog. By using the restlessness and the pursuit of utility brought about by the accumulation, washing and scour of the tide of time, he has demonstrated the long-lost and precious purification and tolerance. It is so rare that the paintings have presented the poem-like artistic conception, without losing the study on modern thinking. 

Mr. Tian Xutong, graduated from Central Academy of Art and Design in 1985, has been teaching in the Central Academy of Art and Design since graduation. Today, he is the associate professor of School of Academy of Arts & Design , Tsinghua University. Mr. Tian Xutong has held over 10 large-scale solo exhibitions in National Art Museum of China, Gallery of DaJue Ancestral Buddha Temple, Art & Julia's Gallery, etc; over 20 joint exhibitions; and published over 40 volumes of personal art albums and works.