北京现在画廊将于2009年9月25日举办“象不象——叶永青个展”，同时又是北京现在画廊五周年年庆以及强力主编李昱坐镇的《NOART》创刊，相信场面将不同反响。

　　如同往常的个展一样，本次展览的新作品都将围绕“象不象”这一主题展开，“象不象”来源于叶永青的一幅新作，画面中大象的似是而非既是反思人们惯常评价作品像不像实物的评价标准，又暗含了对中国传统绘画“心象”的思考。

　　作为中国最具传统文人情怀的当代艺术家，叶永青一直以来都在用油画技法贴近中国传统绘画的用笔和写意。本次展览的新作品在形象上更是一个新的尝试，截取自古代绘画中的人物或静物，以作品与作品之间的对话形式展开，共同构成一个类似于散文的展览结构，呈现出对视觉文化的文学性思考。给观者一个仔细揣摩静心玩赏的世界。

　　Beijing Art Now Gallery will launch on 25 Sept, 2009 “To Be Or Not To Be”—Ye Yongqing Solo Exhibition”

　　Like usual exhibitions, works in this exhibition will be based upon the subject “to be or not to be” which comes from one of Ye Yongqing’s new paintings. The vagueness of “elephant” (a homonym of “looking like” in Chinese) is a reflection upon the criteria adopted in judging art. It also implies the thoughts on the idea of “mental imagery” in traditional Chinese paintings.

　　As a contemporary Chinese artist with the most tradition humanistic care, Ye Yongqing has always been trying to employ oil painting techniques to match the brushstrokes and impressionistic quality of traditional Chinese paintings. The exhibited works were a fresh experiment in their use of imageries, appropriating human figures and still objects in ancient paintings, displaying in dialogues different works, and thus constructing an exhibition framework that looks like an essay, which shows a literary thinking of visual culture and presents to the viewer a world for enjoyment and appreciation in every detail of it.