胡南开给我一种“怪”的印象,这要从他的画册的序说起。初得几本胡南开的画册,对第一页的序并未太在意,心想像胡南开这样并非无名又非大名的画家,出一本画册,无非是请名家洋洋洒洒,千篇一律地对作者及其作品一通地捧场、赞美。可是翻了两遍后,发现胡南开的画册的序均出自他自己的手笔,于是便想看看这位画家是如何“吹捧”自己的。翻开《胡南开作品选》,以“巴蜀一隅,寻根小记”为题的序,第一句是这样写的:“我是广州白天鹅宾馆的一个普通员工……” Hu Nankai gave me a “strange” impression, starting from the sequence of his catalog. The first few had Hu Nankai’s album, the first page of the sequence did not care too much, I imagine Hu Nankai not such anonymous but not the name of the artist, out of an album, is nothing more than famous, eloquent, monotonous on the author and its Works a pass to join, praise. However, after turning it twice, I found out that Hu Nan opened the book sequence from his own handwriting, so he wanted to see how the artist “touted” his own. Open the “Hu Nan open works selected” to “Bashu corner, find a small note,” the title of the order, the first sentence is written: “I am a staff member of the Guangzhou White Swan Hotel ... ...”