文：朱青生

北京大學歷史學系教授

北京大學圖像學實驗室首席專家

上海外國語大學世界藝術史研究所所長

德國考古學院通訊院士

國際藝術史學會主席(2016-2021年)

竹林七賢之棲鸞、歸田、本真、坐忘、君隱、觀心、虛懷(從左至右)

在數字藝術和科技藝術發展的時代，有兩條道路一直懸置在我們的面前：從計算機(或游戲)藝術出發，是從新媒體的數據性質出發，走向元宇宙的虛擬現實的未來。一個是從古代傳統歷史上借助文化的積淀的記憶形態回溯，反觀新的藝術與人類之間的關聯和呼應的可能。申占君以現代技術之形態來回看竹林七賢，把人工智能對于現在人類的壓抑，轉化成為針對技術的另一種包含。處在世界又一次不確定轉換之際，體現人類再一次試圖完成自我的超越的掙扎。

竹林七賢之棲鸞

竹林七賢系列作品的創作，是對國家文化符號的一種當代表達，能夠引發共情，產生共識，喚醒人類社會對優秀文明的共鳴，這就是文化符號蘊藏在背后的重要力量和穿透力所在。

竹林七賢之歸田

這些創作的推出，與申占君從中央美術學院畢業后進入社會從事過創意設計、影視、雕塑、裝置藝術、數字藝術等多元化的創作經歷，及早期在美院學生時代對繪畫、中國古典文學及詩詞的熱愛與積淀分不開的。博觀而約取，厚積而薄發，整體匯聚下，申占君打開一片廣闊的藝術創作天地。

The Seven Sages of Bamboo Grove: Contemporary Artistic Expressions of a National Cultural Symbol—Shen Zhanjun's Solo Exhibition Will Appear at Design Shanghai 2024

Text: Zhu Qingsheng Professor of History, Peking UniversityChief Expert of the Imageology Laboratory, Peking UniversityDirector of the Institute of World Art History, Shanghai International Studies University

Seven sages in the bamboo forest/Root-bird

In the era of the development of digital art and technology art, there are two paths that have been suspended in front of us: starting from computer (or game) art, starting from the data nature of new media, to the future of virtual reality in the meta-universe. One is the possibility of looking back on the connection and echo between new art and human beings through the memory form of cultural accumulation in ancient traditional history. Shen Zhanjun looked back and forth at the seven sages in the Bamboo forest in the form of modern technology, transforming the repression of artificial intelligence for current human beings into another kind of inclusion for technology. At the time of the uncertain transformation of the world, the embodiment of human beings is once again trying to complete the struggle of self-transcendence.

The creation of the Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest series is a contemporary expression of national cultural symbols, which can trigger empathy, generate consensus, and awaken the resonance of human society to excellent civilization. This is the important power and penetration behind cultural symbols.

Seven sages in the bamboo forest/Empty heart

The launch of these creations is inseparable from Shen Zhanjun's diversified creative experience in creative design, film and television, sculpture, installation art, digital art, etc., as well as his love and accumulation of painting, classical Chinese literature and poetry in his early days as a student in the Academy of Fine Arts. Broad view and about to take, thick and thin, the whole convergence, Shen Zhanjun opened a broad world of artistic creation.

Seven sages in the bamboo forest/True Nature