甘图雅·巴达姆伽拉芙，2019年威尼斯艺术双年展蒙古馆馆长，策展人、蒙古当代艺术支持协会创始人，会长。初次看到童雁汝南的肖像画系列，我在想，他为名人作画是出于什么样的目的呢？虽然好奇，但我从来没当面问过他，而是试图通过他的作品去理解。首先我想到的是他的作品大小，其规格很小。其次，令我很惊讶的是这些小型作品竟具有如此鲜明的特色。当我看着这些面孔，我觉得它们像是黏土或石头，而非活物。但无需多加注意，就能够感受到人物脸上的情感，感觉到他们正在和我说话。另外，我还试图去了解，童雁汝南精湛的描绘所赋予的鲜明特征与人物名气之间的关系。再次看这些面孔，我在这些人的脸上读懂了保护性的姿态以及未说出口的勇敢之语。突然间，我意识到我正站在自我和自我陈述的雕像面前。严格来说，日益增长的名气与自我之间，是否存在关联呢？在我看来，童雁汝南研究多样性角色的能力十分突出。他认真探索植根于各种角色中的身心之间的联系。他的画笔带着厚厚的颜料，描绘了各种各样的角色个性，宛如不同的山脉，历经岁月中风，雨，水和雪的洗礼。童雁汝南的作品与卢西恩·弗洛伊德的造型肖像画有一些相似之处，但他自由浮动的笔触创造的作品具有更加抽象的本质。
​Portrait series of Tong YanrunanGantuya Badamgarav, Curator of Mongolia Pavilion in Venice Art Biennale 2019; Founding Director of Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association.When I heard about portrait series of Tong Yanrunan, I wondered what could be the reason for portraying well known people. Nevertheless, I never asked him about it, but tried to understand through his works.The first thing I realized was the size of his work, which is pretty small. And the second thing which made me wonder was how these small sized works can have such monumental character. Furthermore when I looked at the faces, they seemed to me like clay or stone, non-living. But with little more attention, I was able to sense the motion on their faces and got a feeling that they were speaking to me. And I tried to understand the relationship between monumental characteristic depicted through Tong Yanrunan mastery and popularity of these people. I looked at the faces again and was able to read protective gestures and unspoken bold statements written on the faces of these people. Suddenly I realized that I was standing in front of sculptures of ego and self-statements. Is there strict correlation between growing popularity and ego?In my opinion, Tong Yanrunan possesses outstanding ability to study diverse characters and carefully explores mental and physical associations rooted in various personalities. And his brush strokes with thick-paints depict various personalities as if they were different mountains, shaped through the ages by winds, storms, waters and snows.His works share some similarities with Lucian Freud figurative portraits, but Tong Yanrunan brushes float freely and works possess more abstract nature.