Bai Ming
Bai Ming is a long-term professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, the head of the Department of Ceramic Art, and a doctoral supervisor. He is also the director of the Ceramic Art Committee of the China Artists Association and a researcher of the National Academy of Painting. He has won awards such as "Contribution Award for the Promotion of Modern Chinese Ceramics". He has published "Overview of Modern Ceramics in the World", "Classics of Foreign Contemporary Ceramics", "Studio of World Famous Ceramics Artists" (eight volumes) and other works, and has won the "Golden Bull Award" of Chinese art books for many times.
His works have attracted much attention, and his representative works have been collected by important institutions such as the British Museum, the Senucci Museum in France, the National Museum of China, and the National Art Museum of China.
Bai Ming | the British Museum collection
In the ceramic art world, many people are not unfamiliar with Bai Ming, born in Jingdezhen, Bai Ming, from childhood to hear about porcelain, with the natural dedication and preference for ceramics, became a UNESCO International Ceramics IAC member, is a well-known artist in the field of contemporary Chinese ceramics.
The list of judges of the official website design group of the 12th Mino International Ceramics Grand Prix
Bai Ming, who graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, tried to jump out of ceramics from the beginning and devoted himself to cross-border exploration of different art fields such as ceramics, oil painting, ink painting, and sculpture. In 1993, Bai Ming won the Grand Prize of the Boya Oil Painting Art Competition, in 1994, he won the Hirayama Ikuo Art Award in Japan, and in 2002, he won the Excellence Award of the National Art Exhibition. After that, it is the grand prize of the major ceramic competitions.
In 2019, Bai Ming exchanged views with Chen Jie, director of the Asian Museum in Nice, France
In the vast ocean of art, there is only porcelain, and China has been leading the West for more than 1,600 years, and the West has always followed China. The West's enthusiasm for and following traditional Chinese culture has not diminished to this day, just as they have established Asian museums in Europe, just as they collect Chinese cultural relics in museums, from ancient pottery to porcelain from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the collection system of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. The West has objective judgments and choices about China's history. This time, they chose Bai Ming.
The scene of the solo exhibition "Earth and Sound", the Kairamis Ceramic Museum in Belgium
Bai Ming received attention from the Western art world, and this attention was continuous. In recent years, Bai Ming has been invited to hold large-scale solo exhibitions in important western museums many times.
2009 Vallarez Baiming Pottery Exhibition Site "Zen and Form"
In 2010, at the invitation of the UNESCO International Ceramics Association, the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris and the Confucius Institute in Poitier, the "Porcelain Oriental Baiming Ceramic Art Exhibition" was held for Bai Ming, which was the only exhibition project representing China in the "Foreign Culture Week" of the Paris Municipal Government in 2010. This is the first time that Bai Ming's works have been displayed in the Western world, and he has unexpectedly received extreme attention, believing that his works are very oriental and modern, different from Japan and South Korea, and are unique Chinese oriental languages.
2013 France Loire Valley Gibe Castle Civilization Dialogue Baiming Castle Exhibition Exhibition Site
In 2014, "Bai Ming: Painting and Porcelain Exhibition" was held at the Senucci Museum in France, and Bai Ming's works deeply touched the viewer, which is different from the ancient porcelain treasured by European museums and is a Chinese porcelain with contemporary characteristics.
In July 2014, the solo exhibition "Bai Ming" held at the Asian Art Museum in Paris was also included in the key projects of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the French Cultural Center and the Chinese Ministry of Culture
In front of Bai Ming's works, standing and staring, you will feel that these simple colors, simple lines of composition, sometimes decorative effects, will gradually fade away, and an inner tranquility and self-confidence are getting closer and closer to you.
"Daig Ang - The Land of Bai Ming", Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, 2017
Bai Ming never doubted the "oriental atmosphere" displayed in his works. The more he traveled to the Western world, exhibited, lectured, and exchanged, the more he felt the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture. His love of traditional Chinese culture has deeply branded any of his works.