The countryside in China is a vast and vibrant fertile soil. Although it is not as well-ordered and prosperous as urban planning and construction, the unique natural scenery of the countryside, the unique cultural styles of the village, the unique village residential buildings, rural customs, etc., have been continuously washed away by the years, and are still standing on the vast land of the motherland. “Homesickness” has become the “memory” that people are looking for now. How to intervene in rural cultural construction in a form of popular expressions, reawaken people’s love and attention to the countryside, the place of residence of ancestors, so that the increasingly empty Cinema villages are reinvigorated and revitalized, so that rural development can be sustainable, and realize the activation and value-added rural idle resources, so that the majority of villagers have a real sense of gain in economic benefits and cultural life, thereby empowering rural cultural construction. This is the question we are thinking about.
Recently, we went into the countryside to carry out artistic practice of rural cultural revitalization, planned the “Writing the Earth, Poetry and the Distant” work report exhibition, and explored the creation and display path of rural cultural revitalization Komiks——”Art rural construction”.
In this “art rural construction” practice, we pay special attention to the “roots” of rural culture and the local artistic creative style. We hope to awaken villagers’ confidence in their local culture by expressing traditional rural culture. This is a challenge. For us studio students who use the traditional art of calligraphy, painting and printing, I think this is not only a challenge, but also a kind of nirvana. It is to cultivate our ability to understand, perceive and understand the countryside. Faced with the place where our ancestors lived for generations, how can we use the artistic talents we have mastered to create and realize our vision, and turn this fertile land into a beautiful spiritual home that is suitable for business and living. In order to avoid simple graffiti in local art creations that have been done in the past, our activities adhere to the concept of symbiosis between people and themselves, adapt to local conditions, try to explore the greatest advantages of local natural resources, and let art adapt to them.omiks adapts to the environment, let the environment create an artistic atmosphere, illuminate art, strive to integrate art and the environment, and the nourishment of art silently moisturizes things, putting all our artistic conceptions and energy storage into this practice to the greatest extent.
Our works are all interpreted by traditional calligraphy, painting and printing art.
The performance art of “Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era” was sprouted by the author’s association with the “Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest” from a local bamboo forest. At that time, I thought, who is the “Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest” now? Can contemporary times find the representative “Seven Sages”? Even if it is found, what does it mean? Is it necessary? What inspirational significance does the “Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest” have for the present? “Some things are just so coincidental. At that time, I happened to read an article by Mr. Wu Hongliang studying Chinese painting, titled “Source Bamboo in the 5G era”, which originated from a sentence in a poem “Dream of the Agile Words” in Xichuan. Although the three of us talk about “bamboo forest” and “Seven Sages”, the profiles are different, and the meanings to express are different. Therefore, our work “Source Bamboo in the 5G era” was born: For the 5G era, everyone is the “Seven Sages”, but they are different. Everyone has a side of each person. Although things are connected, connected, and connected, how should everyone’s heart be connected?
“Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era”
<a The "Food is the Most" series is based on the spiritual power given by the scenes and objects of rural daily life as a cultural background, and uses local idle resources as the basic medium for creation. As urbanized, we are almost unfamiliar with these stoves that use wood to make fire, hand-cranked rice trucks, water wheels on foot, and hand-pushed stone mills in the countryside, but decades ago, these objects were necessary tools for our daily lives. The land gods and door gods of the countryside, which are customary and custom, are almost dying in modern urban life….. Rural lifeKomiks land gods and door gods, etc., are almost dying in modern urban life……… Rural lifeKomiks established modern people as “familiar strangers”!
After the inspiration of the teacher and the search for the historical background of those daily necessities, local customs and customs, the creation of works has not yet been released, and our hearts have been baptized first.
《Song of the Rice Cart》
《Gate God》
The Good Days, one of the series “Tiger and Tiger”
The Good Days”, is an installation that uses villagers’ houses as space and uses the Kitchen God culture as the source. It hopes to arouse people’s association with farming civilization for thousands of years, alert people to the issue of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and then perceive the hard-wonderful days today, and trigger praise for a happy life.
“Good Days”
“Water Dragon Sound” is a group of ancient and modern regular poems that chant water wheels in the expression of traditional calligraphy and the old water wheels, so that they can be regarded, read, appreciated, and imagined, especially the calligraphy works written in the style of Dong Qichang on the wall and a bed on the ground. The water wheels complement each other, and the leisurely and leisurely life of people in the farming era seems to be right in front of them.
“Shuilong Yin”
“Certification of the World” is another series of ours. The display of traditional seal carving art is usually presented in the exhibition hall with a seal screen or enlarged prints and physical objects. The display outside the “tea hall” is indeed a testament to people. After inspecting the on-site environment, we followed the trend and flexibly combined, allowing the large square array of multi-person works and the small square array of personal works to give full play to the advantages of different visual display, echoing the size and seeing each other’s heights, presenting it in a “verified current” way. We hope that people can have another touch when going back and forth between different groups.
“Certification of the World”
“Red Brick Introduction”, whether the extension of traditional calligraphy can be connected with contemporary art is one of the topics that the author has worked hard to explore.
The “Red Brick Introduction”
The “Green Mountains and Green Waters Ancient and Modern Times” series presents our understanding of green mountains and green waters and Cinema‘s appeal.
“Maybe it a bunch of “bad words”” tries to dialectically unify Internet buzzwords with humor and ridicule, deep thought and joke, funny and “solemn”. From the must-have words for online communication to becoming the current catchphrase, “alternative” has enriched the lives of people in contemporary society. This is the contradiction between tradition and innovation, restraint and ostentatiousness. Because of the problems of such a trendy online language with word specifications, game-style language, grammatical errors, vulgarity, etc., it determines the possibility of long-term nature of its life cycle, and it is even a flash in the pan. But it is every day in the current society.The reproduction of human life is the observation of certain phenomena, and some words are even characterized by rebellion, innovation, and exaggeration of their personality.
“Maybe a bunch of “bad words””
“Open the folded book”, a dictionary, “Modern Chinese Dacihai”, is compiled externally, and includes Internet buzzwords in the “non-canon” way. The title has two meanings: one is the meaning of “folding”. What is popular now or once popular, and as time and space passes and changes, it is constantly obscured or appears and disappears, or overlaps; the second is “open”. All the “popular” memories in the external compilation of “Modern Chinese Dacihai” are a big event, or a short story or an unforgettable memory. Through the work “Open the Folded Book”, I hope to repair my memories, forget them, and even mourn or pay tribute to me.
“BabaylanFolded Book”
We hope to transform our deep affection for the countryside and the earth into our ideal light through the daily things in the countryside, and transform wisdom into works to infect and inspire people. We express our passion for traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting. Through the display of calligraphy, painting and printing art, we carry ancient oriental culture with a new medium. It is also a unique presentation, either behavior, concept, installation, or just a Cinema exploration.
Through this practice, we believe that if the traditional calligraphy and painting form is reset to the living space without villagers, is it a bit of a doubt that “whether the skin is left without hair will be attached?”, which may appear inconsistent and affect the appreciation of the artistic quality of the works. How to expand the development site is a very worthy topic in the construction of art rural areas. Through this practice, we also believe that in addition to interior layout, it is also feasible to expand the exhibition area outdoors.
There is “Topology” in geometry, which talks about theThe spatial transformation in a fixed space, for our work display space, as the position of the work changes, the new display space has produced the new display space, which I call the “land development topology”. In Yijian Village, using a form of displaying works that touches the rural atmosphere is a good way to get close to the masses.
On-local creation, fully “revitalizing” idle spaces and old objects, can be opened as part of rural museums and become a medium for displaying local farming culture, traditional folk customs, and village appearance. Some of the artworks in the “Expanding Land Topology” series can be displayed for a long time, while others can only be short-term due to environmental relations, and they all have their own characteristics. Even in a moment, the auspicious light will also prompt people’s love and yearning for a better life. If they can be integrated with culture and tourism, they will surely bring popularity and business opportunities.
“Let the city leave Komiks memories, and let people remember their homesickness.” Through art building, we move writing to the wilderness, to the countryside, and to the fields to awaken people’s memories and contribute to rural revitalization together.
Source | Jinyang.com Editor | Wang Qitong