Zhongmei Collection: Talking about "Feeling Life" 2021 Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum Artist Works Exhibition
Text | Ding Yare
Recently, the "Feeling Life" 2021 Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum Artists' Works Exhibition was held in the new museum of Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, which is a theme exhibition that has lasted for 16 years, which is not only the annual collective tour of the creative power of Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, but also reflects the overall situation of the art creation ecology in Jiangsu Province at the current stage.
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Since 2006, under the auspices of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum has integrated the creative forces in the museum and planned and launched a creative exhibition with the theme of "Feeling Life". Since its inception, it has been held for 16 consecutive years and has become an important independently curated exhibition brand with wide influence in the national art museum industry. The works exhibited in "Feeling Life" are mainly excellent works created by artists from Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, and the theme of the exhibition is clear and the types of works are rich and diverse. On the one hand, the exhibition provides an artistic interpretation of the geography and humanities of socialist China, especially the core values of socialism, and at the same time, it is also an all-round concentrated display of the artistic panorama and artistic creation ability of artists at Jiangsu Art Museum. Through the continuous launch of the exhibition, it also meets the aesthetic needs of all sectors of society for excellent art works in terms of spiritual life.
Song Yulin The former site of the New Fourth Army Headquarters in Yunling is 40cm × 65cm
The 2021 "Feeling Life" exhibition is planned at the time of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. "Articles are written for the times, songs and poems are written for the sake of things", the special historical time node has stimulated a more abundant and full creative passion of the artists of the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, giving everyone a more correct and rigorous creative attitude. In order to plan and prepare the 2021 annual exhibition of "Feeling Life", but also to pay tribute to the centenary of the founding of the Party, the artists retook the Long March Road, and repeatedly went to the heroic holy land and the old revolutionary areas to collect style sketches, perceive the blue wisps of the revolutionary pioneers in the march, and more intimately contact the ever-changing mass life and the more beautiful and fresh new appearance of mountains and rivers in the exchange.
The glorious century-old course, the happy people's life and the beautiful new appearance of mountains and rivers have deepened the artists' artistic understanding, expanded their artistic horizons, and enriched the source of their creation. Through the intelligent processing and artistic language transformation of the artists of the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, the 2021 annual "Feeling Life" exhibition, which brings together the painstaking efforts of all artists, is finally presented to the audience.
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On the map of Chinese art, Jiangsu has its peculiarities. This is the hometown of the King of Han, the hometown of the Overlord, and the former county of the King of Wu, where the context of the Six Dynasties has not been broken, and the demeanor of Wei and Jin still exists. At the same time, today's Jiangsu is the pioneer of reform in the world, and its economic development ranks among the best in the country. Compared with many other places, Jiangsu's historical culture and social development not only have profound heritage and excellent traditions, but also have a vigorous social life and a rapidly changing landscape.
For artists, the tradition and modernity of Jiangsu Province nourish the cultural self-confidence that Jiangsu artists are proud of, and at the same time, they also support a huge space of ideas and wisdom for artists to display their talents. For a long time, Jiangsu has been regarded as a big province of fine arts and a strong province of fine arts. Such a recognition is not only formed by history and culture, but also benefits from the blessing of the construction of a modern strong province.
Since 1949, Jiangsu's profound excellent art tradition and the party's literary and artistic thinking and policy theory in the new period have refined a new spiritual cornerstone of Jiangsu art represented by the "New Jinling School", on the basis of which, on the one hand, it firmly inherits the excellent tradition, on the other hand, it warmly embraces life and directly faces the new strength of Jiangsu art that directly faces the times.
Artists of Jiangsu Art Museum have always been an important part of Jiangsu Art Creation Phalanx, and the diversity and integrity of the creative power of the Art Museum can almost become a mirror reflecting the ecology of Jiangsu art creation. Through the participating artists and their works in the "Feeling Life" exhibition, it is not difficult to see that the creative force echelon of the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum is reasonably built, and the professional types of artists are diverse and complete. The artists in the exhibition include highly respected and elderly artists who are still working hard in the art world, as well as young rising stars who are close to being born in the 1990s, and more importantly, they are in the backbone of artistic creation in the prime of their lives.
Sun Xiaoyun Mother 27cm × 17cm
The works presented in this exhibition are diverse in types and rich in subject matter, covering almost all categories under the discipline of fine arts, including Chinese painting, calligraphy, oil painting, printmaking, sculpture, etc. Moreover, even in the same genre, these works present a variety of artistic concept forms and language styles. This also shows that although the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum is not a single art creation institution, it still adheres to the principle of inclusive and diverse concepts of artistic creation.
The above characteristics of the artist group of jiangsu art museums basically represent the general situation of the current art creation team in Jiangsu Province. The 2021 Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum Artists' Works Exhibition is not only a collective display of artists at the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, but also can be seen as an observation slice, through which you can basically observe the development shape and current ecology of Jiangsu art as a whole.
Zhang Xinglai Spring warm flowers like brocade 136cm×68cm
Overall, the works launched by the "Feeling Life" 2021 Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum Artist Works Exhibition are basically the meticulous works recently completed by the artists, reflecting the author's staged thinking and artistic expression in artistic concepts. The paintings on display include both huge structures and desk sketches, the language types of the works involve realism, freehand, expression and abstraction, and the conceptual form of the works covers in-depth thinking about tradition and active exploration of artistic contemporaneity. Diversity and diversity are a distinctive feature of the "Feeling Life" exhibition. In addition to the good artistic ecology, which supports this feature, it also reflects the maturity and self-confidence of artists in artistic creation.
Author/Ding Yalei
Associate Professor of Nanjing University of the Arts, Ph.D. of Central Academy of Fine Arts