蔡小华的艺术是物与心的幻化，易真易幻，一梦不醒。

　　蔡小华早在圆明园画家村时期已经形成了独特的艺术风格，并默默地耕耘着，在经历艺术的幻梦与蜕变的阵痛后，别开生面。

　　蔡小华的近期作品有一种“感时花溅泪，恨别鸟惊心”的伤感，并进入发现当下的生命状态。于是他是创作情绪与现实的生活状态便见于画布上，我们从他的作品中聆听着他的淡淡忧伤。他把世界万物融化在自己的灵魂中，使作品趋向与直觉性、叙述性或象征性。把自己的情怀彻底地还给这个世界，创作了更属于这个世界的艺术，这也是画家另一种现实生活的原因。

　　蔡小华的抽象性的艺术语言，无论是符号、线条、设色、结构，都在现代观念中浮现出东方文化色彩与人文精神，是有与大众审美共同阅读的可能。作品表现了画家内心世界的那份关怀，并以独特的审美直觉诠译了当代艺术创作的主题，表达了艺术家对社会人文意识形态的关注。

　　当代艺术的空间意识，是以其纯粹的视知觉创作出的能量场，也是抽象艺术创作的主要元素，以传统艺术表现来理解当代艺术空间意识是很困难的一件事，在艺术家不同的艺术个性和不同的情感世界里，在无意识的生命状态中必然有着不同的空间意识感受。来自蔡小华的“星空间与量的关系”是纯粹个人的心理情绪的催化，画家的画面空间的诞生，是蔡小华在美学空间里体现出来由物象转为心灵的世界。

　　作为抽象艺术表现形式已不是牵强、晦涩或被评为西方移植，“85”新潮以来，人们发现抽象艺术的表达更具有复古和怀旧的情怀，其审美情趣与古老的东方艺术也是一脉相承。

　　我们从蔡小华的作品中，看到了一种沉积在东方文化里的意识形态里，并不可避免地让我们坦然面对，也是艺术家个人的极端意识的问题。有这种意识上的“精神分裂”画家更相信这种灵性的存在，是一个非常有趣的状态，“梦"怎能醒！

胡戎  2008年6月29日星期日

北京迪克空间

A Never-awaken Dream

　　The art of Chai Xiaohua is the miraculous transformation between objects and mind…appears so real,but fanciful too,like a never-awaken dream.

　　Chai Xiaohua's distinctive style in painting was formed as early as the period when he was a diligent painter pursuiting perfection in the Winter Palace Paiter's Village. The painstaking efforts,in the same way a caterpillar metamorphosed into a butterfly,turned him from an unknown one into a famous fine painter.

　　Chai Xiaohua’s recent works are sentimental,which remind us of a line of verse ‘Troubled by the times--flowers bring tears,and dreading parting--birds startle the soul’. He spreaded creative expressions on canvases,together with the hints of his emotions and realistic life. We can feel a slight touch of desolation in his works. Profit from merging everything on earth into his soul,he makes his works tend to instinctive,expressive and indicative. And in return,he dedicates his passion to this world inside out,creates for the world the works that are not lacking in flesh and blood.

　　Chai Xiaohua, abstract language of art is spoken by symbols,lines,color and composition. Whichsoever,it not only incarnates the modern concepts but the oriental culture trait and the spirit of humanity as well. They are likely to be perceived by the masses. The works are actually his interior monologue full of solicitudes. By interpreting the theme of the modern artistic creations with his own instinct and taste he shows an artist’s attention to the humanistic ideology of our society.

　　The consciousness of space in the contemporary era is an energy field created by pure vision and perceptivity. It is also a key element in the making of abstract works of art.. As viewed from the traditional art approach it is quite hard to apprehend the consciousness of space of the time. With the individuality and having various emotional attachments,consequentially artists‘ consciousness of space are not the same. One of the Chai Xiaohua’s work Space vs Quantum was catalyzed purely by his own mood. By transforming objects into a souled world with his aesthetic consciousness of space,the artist brought about the naissance of the spaces in his work.

　　The abstract expressionism is no longer farfetched,obscure or being appraised as a western-born exotic thing. It has been coming into people‘s notice ever since the new wave of 1985 that the abstract expressionism has a stronger disposition to restore ancient ways,and has more nostalgic affectionateness. As far as the aesthetic is concerned,the abstract expressionism and the age-old  oriental art come down in one continuous line.

　　For Chai Xiaohua’s works,we must calmly accept the inevitable,that is,the extreme personal consciousness arising from the eastern culture sedimentation. A painter who seemly predisposes to schizophrenia believes that Muse is out there favoring him. In this very interesting situation,how can his dream be wakened?

Original in Chinese by Hu Rong  29/6/08

Translated into English by Alan Lam 13/5/10