“年度问题——华涌的经济波普”个展在北京798艺术区思莱德画廊进行，开幕酒会将在2009年10月17日下午三时举办。此次展览由北京大学教授彭锋先生策划，思莱德画廊主办。此次展览时间10月17日——12月31日。一百多年前，王尔德将犬儒主义者概括为“知道所有事物的价格，不知道任何事物的价值。”在今天这个虚拟经济社会里，人们都变成了王尔德笔下的犬儒主义者。天天炒股，却不见赚钱；天天赚钱，依然是两手空空。价格与价值背离，是当代经济生活的基本现象。生命的基本单位是年，一年一个循环。股市的日k、周k、月k，最终都得积攒成为生命的年轮。在人们都关注日k周k月k的时候，华涌提出了年度问题，旨在让我们从生命的角度看经济，而不是从经济的角度看生命。展览准备和展览期间，很多艺术爱好者对这样一个展览高度认可。

More than 100 years ago, Oscar Wilde defined the cynic as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." The virtual economy, which governs our contemporary social world, has made us into cynics of the Wildean sort. Stocks are traded every day, but there is no real money; money is generated every day, but we are still empty-handed. This disjunction of price from value is the core phenomenon of contemporary economic life. The basic temporal unit of life is the year, and the year is cyclical. But the stock market’s day-k, week-k and the month-k have come to dominate the life-cycle. When other people are concerned about the day-k, the week-k and the month-k, Hua Yong focuses on our perennial problem, examining the economy from the perspective of our lives rather than seeing life from the narrowly economical point of view.

Peng Feng

October 2, 2009 at Weixiu Yuan ,Peking University