The countryside in China is a vast and vibrant fertile soil. Although it is not as orderly 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 expression that people like, reawaken people’s love and attention to the countryside, the place of residence of ancestors, so that the increasingly empty villages will be revitalized and revitalized, so that rural development will 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, carried out artistic practice of rural cultural revitalization, planned the report exhibition of works “Writing the Earth, Poetry and the Distant”, and explored the creation and display path of rural cultural revitalization – “art rural construction”.
In this “art rural construction” practice, we pay special attention to the “roots” of rural culture and the local artistic creation style, and hope to awaken villagers’ confidence in their local culture through expressing traditional rural culture. This is a challenge. For us studio students who use traditional calligraphy, painting and printing art, 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. Facing the places where our ancestors have 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 the simple graffiti phenomenon in local art creation that was 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, let art adapt to the environment, let the environment create an artistic atmosphere, light up art, and strive to integrate art and the environment. At the same time, the nourishment of art moisturizes things silently, and put 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 current “Babaylan Qixian”? 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 on Chinese painting, titled “Source Bamboo in the 5G era”, and the title is also derived from KomiksSentences from a poem called “Dream of the Flying Words” in Nishikawa. Although the three of us talk about “bamboo forest” and “Seven Sages”, the profiles are different and the meanings to express differently. Therefore, our work “Bamboo Planting in the 5G Era” has emerged: For the 5G Era, everyone is the “Seven Sages”, but they are different. Everyone has a side of each other. Although things are connected, connected and connected, how should everyone’s heart be connected?
“Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era”
“Food is the most important thing in the people” series, which is based on the spiritual power given by daily life scenes and objects in rural areas as the cultural background, and uses local idle resources as the basis for creation. We are urbanized, and we are about KomiksThe stoves that use wood to make fire, hand-cranked rice trucks, water wheels, and hand-pushed stone mills are almost unfamiliar, but decades ago, these objects were necessary tools for our daily lives. The land gods, door gods, etc. of rural customs and habits are almost dying in modern urban life……… Rural life established a “familiar stranger” for modern people!
After the inspiration of the teacher and the search for the historical background of those daily necessities, as well as local customs and folk customs, the creation works have 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 “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 set of ancient and modern regular poems chanting Komiks water wheels in the expression of traditional calligraphy and old water wheels, which can be regarded, readable, and appreciated, and can also imagine. Especially on the wall, the calligraphy works written in Dong Qichang’s style running regular script and a bed of water across the ground. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaThe car complements each other, and the leisurely and leisurely life of people in the farming era seems to be right in front of us.
“Shuilong Yin”
“Certification of the World” is another series of ours. Traditional seal carving<a The display of Cinema art is usually presented in the exhibition hall with a screen or enlargement of the print and physical objects. The Komiks outside the "Temple" is a test of the test. After examining the field environment, we follow the trend and flexibly combine it, allowing the large square array of multi-person works and the small square array of personal works to play the advantages of different visual displays, echoing the size and seeing each other, and presenting them in a "verified current" way. We hope that people can be between different groups.The round trip can produce another kind of touch.
“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 been exploring hard.
“Red Brick Introduction”
“Green Mountains and Green Waters AncientKomiksToday’s Same” series presents our understanding and appeals for green mountains and green waters.
“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. The existence of word use standards, game-style language, grammatical errors, vulgarity and other problems in such a trendy online language determines the possibility and long-term nature of its life cycle. Babaylan is even a flash in the pan, but it is a replica of every day in the current society, and a reflection of certain phenomena. Some words even rebellious, innovative, and exaggerated personality.
Komiks
“BabaylanMaybe 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”, each word is a big event, a small 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.
“Open the Folded Book”
We hope to transform our full affection for the countryside and the earth into our ideal light through the daily things in the countryside, and transform our wisdom into works one by one to infect and inspire people. We express our feelings to traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting, and through the display of calligraphy, painting and printing art, we carry ancient oriental culture with a new medium, which is also a unique presentation, either behavior, concept, installation, or Cinema is just an exploration.
Through this practice, we believe that if the display form of art works in the rural construction of art, if the traditional calligraphy and painting forms are reset to a living space without villagers, is it a bit of a doubt that “whether the skin is left without hair will be attached?”, it may appear inconsistent, and it will also affect the appreciation of the artistic nature of the works. How to expand the landExhibition 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 the spatial transformation in a certain space. For the space of our work display, as the position of the work changes, a new display space is born again. The author calls it the “topology of the ground”. 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 promote people’s love and yearning for a better life. If they can be integrated with culture and tourism, it will surely bring popularity and business opportunities.
“Let the city leave 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 the revitalization of the village.
Source | Jinyang.com Editor | Wang Qitong