The countryside of 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 residential buildings of each village with its own characteristics, rural customs and other unique cultural styles, despite the continuous erosion of years, still stand 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 expression, reawaken people’s love and attention to the countryside, the place where the ancestors lived for generations, so that the increasingly empty villages can be revitalized 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, 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 the village culture in Babaylan and the local artistic creation style. We hope to awaken villagers’ confidence in the local culture in the village 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 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, 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.
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? “BambooBabaylanLin Qixian” has what inspiring significance for the present? “Some things are just 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 “Dreams of agile and flying texts” in Xichuan. Although the three of us talk about “Bamboo forest” and “Seven Sages”, the profile is 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 it is different. Everyone has their own <a On the one hand, although things are connected, connected, and everyone is connected, how should everyone's heart be connected?
“Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era”
“Food is the most important thing for people” series, which uses the spiritual power given by daily rural life scenes and objects as cultural background, and uses local idle resources as the basic media to create. As urbanized, we have used these stoves that use wood to make fire, hand-cranked rice trucks, pedaled water trucks, and hand-pushed stone mills. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanBecause of being close to strangers, these objects were necessary tools for our daily lives decades ago. The land gods, door gods, etc. of rural customs and habits were almost dying in modern urban life…… Rural life established a “familiar stranger” for modern people!
After the inspiration of teachers and the search for the era background of those daily necessities and local customs and folk customs, the creation works were not yet released, and our hearts were baptized first.
《Song of the Rice Cart》
《Gate God》
The Good Days, one of the series “The Tiger and Tiger”
Good Days”, is an installation that uses villagers’ houses as space and uses the culture of the Kitchen God 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 that chant water wheels in the expression of traditional calligraphy and the old water wheels, so that they can be regarded, readable, appreciated, and imagined. Especially the calligraphy works written in Dong Qichang’s style on the wall complement the water wheels on the ground. The leisurely and leisurely life of people in the farming era seems to be right in front of them.
“Shuilong Yin”
“Cinema” is another series of ours. The display of traditional seal carving art is usually made by using a seal screen or enlarging the print and physical objects in the exhibition hall. The display outside the “tea hall” is a test of people. After examining the field environment, we follow the trend and flexibly combine it, allowing a large square array of multi-person works and a small square array of personal worksGive full play to the advantages of different visual displays, echoing the size and seeing each other in a way that is “verified to the present”. I hope that people’s back and forth between different groups can create another touch.
“Certification of the World”
“Red Brick Introduction”, rumored whether the extension of Cinema’s calligraphy can be connected with contemporary art is one of the topics that the author has worked hard to explore.
“Red Brick Introduction”
“Green MountainsCinemaGreen Waters in the Ancient and Current” series presents our understanding and appeals for green mountains and green waters.
“Maybe it a bunch of “bad words””, trying to unify the Internet buzzwords with humor and ridicule, deep thought and joke, funny and “solemn”. From the must-have words for online communication to becoming the catchphrase of the present, “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 trendy online languages that use word standards, game-style language, grammatical errors, vulgarity, etc., determine the possibility of long-term nature of its life cycle, and even a flash in the pan. However, it is a replica of every day in the current society, and a reflection of certain phenomena, and some words are even rebellious, innovative, and exaggerated.
“Maybe a bunch of “bad words””
“Open the folded book” is a dictionary, which is compiled by the external compilation of “Modern Chinese Dacihai”, which includes Internet buzzwords in “non-canon” way. The meaning of this title is two: one is the meaning of “folding”. It is popular now or once popular, and with the passage and change of time and space, it is constantly obscured or appears and overlaps from time to time, or overlaps; the other is “open”. All the “popular” memories in the external compilation of “Modern Chinese Dacihai”, each Komiks‘s words are a big event, a small story, or an unforgettable memory. Through the work “Open the Folded Book”, I hope to repair memories, forget them, and mourn or pay tribute to them.
“Open the Folded Book”
We hope to transform our deep affection for the countryside and the earth into works through the daily things in the countryside, and transform our wisdom into works to infect and inspire people. We express our feelings to traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting, and through the display of calligraphy, painting and printing, and carry ancient oriental culture with a new medium. It is also a unique presentation, either behavior, concept, installation, or just an exploration.
Through this practice, we believe that the art works of art in the rural construction process 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 gone, will the hair be attached?” or Babaylan will appear inconsistent and affect the appreciation of the artistic quality of the works. How to expand the exhibition site is a topic worth studying in the construction of art rural areas. Through this practice, we also believe that the display of art works, in addition to interior layout, will Babaylan besides the interior layout, href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksExpand to the outdoors is also feasible.
There is Topology in Geometry, which talks about the fact that it is in a certain space.The spatial transformation of our work display space, as the position of the work changes, a new display space has emerged, which I call the “land topology” method. 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 Babaylan “revitalizes” idle spaces and old objects, and can be opened as part of a rural museum 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 light of the good light will 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 homesicknessBabaylan“. 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