和许多出国多年的艺术家一样,刘永刚,在画界是一个熟悉又陌生的名字。他1986年从中央美院毕业后不久,即连续在全国性大展中获奖,成为大家所熟知的画坛新秀,但随后他出国深造又旅居德国十多年,又渐渐被大家所淡忘。去年,他回到国内实现在艺术上的一个宏大构想——创作以“爱拥”为主题、以中国文字为符号语言、以石头为材料的 Like many artists who have been abroad for many years, Liu Yonggang is a familiar and unfamiliar name in the world of painting. Shortly after graduating from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1986, he won awards in consecutive national exhibitions and became a well-known rookie in painting circles. However, he later went abroad for more than 10 years and was gradually forgotten by everyone. Last year, he returned to China to realize an ambitious idea in art - with the theme of “loving one’s love”, using Chinese characters as symbolic language and using stone as the material