此次展览的作品除榴莲系列的几件新作，其它都是艺术家在近10年的时间内积攒下来的作品。

张勇会尝试创作不同的造型而且找到最适合来呈现这个造型的材料，从最开始的传统泥塑翻制，到后来大量运用“发泡胶”直接塑造，再到后来用到泡沫，木头，石头等各种材料。

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通过纸黏土的拼接，用刀削切割等手段把想法呈现出来，“不可控性”泡沫的本身并不像泥巴那样听话，恰恰这个属性可以让艺术家有效避免陷入过早沉溺细节表达的陷阱，把更多的精力放在“大”的形体关系塑造上。

近几年随着创作数量的增多，对材料运用的越来越成熟，一甩逐步开始把一些相对独立且艺术语言很成立的“内模”保留下来，舍弃把他们当做榴莲系列“内模”的概念，反而更多的去挖掘“泡沫”“纸黏土”这两个材料本身的“材料性”和“我所求”的关系上。

因为有了这个转变，就像是给自己开启了一扇门，开启了另外一个可以挖掘和讨论的空间。于是泡沫和纸黏土结合的“临时性”这种属性成了艺术家要去挖掘和讨论的部分。

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“生命之本”是张勇一直关心和热衷的艺术表达，不同时期都有对生命不同的感悟，在张勇看来能够用作品把这种不可名状的状态真诚的表达出来，是一个艺术家值得庆幸的事情。

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在年末的特殊时刻推出这个展览，希望大家能够感受到生命的伟大，生命的力量，和生命的美。

Founded in 2015, Common Art Center is the first contemporary art gallery with a crowdfunding membership system in China. The Common Art Center is jointly initiated by experienced curators, art dealers, collectors and other professionals in the field. It is committed to providing professional collection solutions for contemporary art collectors with a new business model. The gallery takes "paper" as the medium and works of media as its main research and management direction, because of the importance of such works in the Chinese art system and the broad development prospect in the future. Using paper and folk art as the medium, the excellent artists make paper as a tool to resist its fate, allowing it to get rid of the veil of function and reveal its own artistic value.

In the era when Chinese contemporary art is gradually returning to rationality, the simple gallery business model can no longer meet the public's simple purchase of artworks, and more collectors are willing to spend more energy and financial resources to consider and ponder contemporary art. That is to say, they are willing to participate more substantively in the development and promotion of contemporary art. The crowdfunding model of the Common Art Center provides a very good soil for such a high-end crowd, where collectors can store some of their favorite works at below-market prices, and can participate in the growth of artists and art centers. The professional lectures and salons of the Collector Service Center are tailored for all types of collectors, serving collectors wholeheartedly, and understanding the ultimate needs of collectors is the original intention and ultimate goal of the Common Art Center. From the artist's point of view, the rational decline in price has a very large psychological gap in the previous era of "works can be sold", excellent artists are good at dealing with this falling situation, but more mindless to create, and no longer worry about the price, return to the original value, the current situation of the artist's existence is also a major reason why the Common Art Center chose to operate crowdfunding projects during this period.
 
Since 2009, the Common Art Center's mobile art program has been curating academic exhibitions, publishing themed books, international cultural and artistic exchanges, and organizing several European art tours. Hosted by Mr. Fan Di'an and edited by Peng Feng, Deputy Dean of Peking University School of Arts, Mobile Art has published 18 academic books and more than 30 large and small academic exhibitions so far.