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 to carry out artistic practice of rural cultural revitalization, and planned the “Writing the Earth.KomiksPoetry and Distant” work report exhibition, exploring 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 pass on the 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 the countryside, perceive the countryside, 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 has been done in the past, our activities adhere to the concept of symbiosis between people and Komiks, 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 is silent, and all our artistic conceptions and energy storage are put into this practice to the greatest extent.
WeAll works are 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 the contemporary era find the representative “Seven SagesCinema“? Even if it is found, what does it mean? Is it necessary? What inspirational significance does “BabylanBabylanBabylanSeven Sages” 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” has emerged: 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”
“Food is the most important thing in the people” series, which uses the spiritual power given by the daily life scenes and objects in rural areas as cultural background, and uses local idle resources as the basic media for creation. As an urbanized person, we are here to make our daily life in rural areas. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaStore 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. Land gods, door gods, etc. in rural customs and habits have almost disappeared in modern urban life…… Rural life established the “familiar strangers of modern peopleBabaylan“!
After the inspiration of teachers and the background of the daily necessities and local customs and folk customs, the creations 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 “Tiger and Tigers”
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-won good days today, which triggers happiness. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanBlessing life and praise.
“Good Days”
“Water Dragon Sound” is a set of ancient and modern regulated verses that chant the water wheels with a set of ancient and modern disciplines. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema uses the expression of traditional calligraphy to confirm the waterwheels of old objects, which can be considered, readable, appreciated, and can also be imagined. Especially the calligraphy works written in Dong Qichang’s style on the wall complement the waterwheels on the ground. The leisurely and leisurely life of people in the farming era seems to be right in front of them.
“Water Dragon Sound”
“Certification of the World” is another series of ours.The display of 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 the person. 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 play a role in visual display, echoing the size and seeing each other’s heights, presenting it in a “verified current” way. We hope that people’s round trips between different groups can produce another 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 worked hard to explore.
“Red Brick Introduction”
“Green Mountains and Green Waters” series presents our understanding and appeals for green mountains and green waters.
“Maybe it’s a bunch of “bad words”Komiks“, trying to use the Internet buzzwords to href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanDialectical unity of humor and ridicule, deep thought and joke, funny and “solemnity”, from the must-have words for online communication to becoming the current catchphrase, “alternative” enriches 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, such as word use, game language, errors in language and vulgarity, it determines the possibility of long-term life cycle, and even a flash in the pan, but it is also a very common life in today’s society.The reproduction of everyone’s life is a reflection of certain phenomena, and some words are even rebellious, innovative, and bold in 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 now popular or once popular is constantly obscured as time and space passes and changes, or appears and overlaps; the second is “open”. All the “popular” memories in the external compilation of “Modern Chinese Dacihai” are a big event, or 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 integrate wisdom into the light of ideals through daily things in the countryside, and transform them into works to infect and inspire people. We express our passion to the traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting. 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 just an exploration.
Through this practice, we believe that if the traditional calligraphy and painting form is 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?”, and it may also affect the appreciation of the artistic nature of the works. How to expand the development site is a topic worthy of research in the art rural construction. Through this practice, we also believe in the display of artworks.In addition to interior layout, it is also feasible to expand the expansion 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, JiguangCinema‘s feathers also promote 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 memories and let people remember their homesickness.” Through art building, we move writing to the wilderness, to the countryside, to the fields, which means we want to awaken people’s memories and contribute to rural revitalization together.
Source |Cinema Editor-in-chief of Jinyang.com | Wang Qitong