From today (24), the intangible cultural heritage exhibition "Art MaoJin - Skills from the Hometown of Pandas", sponsored by the Sydney Chinese Cultural Center and the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, hosted by the Chengdu Foreign Cultural Exchange Center, and co-organized by the Traditional Craft Workstation of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and the Chengdu Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association, will be officially opened to the public at 151 Kesselet Avenue in the center of Sydney.
Exhibition posters
It is reported that the exhibition is one of the "Happy Spring Festival" series of activities of the Ministry of Culture of China, a series of ministerial and provincial cooperation activities with the Sydney Chinese Cultural Center in 2022, and the first time that Sichuan Intangible Cultural Heritage has been carried out in Australia after the epidemic.
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Through remote video, the reporter saw that the exhibition hall was divided into five sections: "Splendid Weiyang", "Silver Wire for Painting", "Bamboo and Wood for Instrument", "Flare and Shine", and "Flat Shadow", under the background of the water-dividing oil paper umbrella, the gentle hanging partition separated the five areas, the colorful Shu brocade, the ever-changing brocade needle, the exquisite lacquerware, the intricate silver filigree... Chengdu's intangible cultural heritage "five golden flowers" (Shu brocade, Shu embroidery, lacquerware, silver filigree, bamboo weaving) competed to "bloom" at the scene. In addition, Mianzhu New Year paintings and Qiong pottery also give the exhibition more color and connotation, and ethnic minority projects such as Qiang embroidery and Yi silver jewelry bring the diversity of Sichuan's intangible cultural heritage to the audience in foreign countries, which is very shocking.
Exhibition site
In order to fully support the overseas "debut" of the post-epidemic epidemic, a number of national, provincial and municipal non-genetic heirs (institutions) have shown their own "housekeeping skills".
Wang Guofang's colored money pattern apron on a black background is embellished with the most traditional patterns, which is already a family heirloom;
Song Xiping's black background carved silver mercerized phoenix pattern treasure box is the same work has been collected by the National Museum, and it is also the only Chengdu lacquerware in the collection of the National Museum;
Xu Xueming's water-dividing oil paper umbrella, special colored thread craftsmanship to bring peace and blessings to the New Year, Diao Juan's "Light Smoke Water" can be called a pioneer work of modern Shu embroidery, silver wire for the thread outlines the great rivers and seas...
The fine works aroused the admiration of the audience at the scene.
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It is reported that there are a total of 108 exhibits in "Art Mao Jin - Skills from the Hometown of Pandas", all of which are the pinnacle of the inheritors, and the ingenuity from the curators makes the exhibition icing on the cake.
A row of neatly arranged lacquer plates at the scene attracted the attention of reporters, this set of works from the lacquer family heirs, provincial non-hereditary heir Zou Xiaoping, 9 lacquer plates in a gradient form presented the "birth" of a top lacquerware, mounting cloth, brush paint ash, carving paint, polishing and other dozens of processes condensed in the exhibits, presenting one of the oldest techniques of the project - "carving and filling". Curator Zhang Jingming introduced that this form of expression is the common inspiration expression of her and the inheritors, and also allows the exhibition to show more intangible cultural heritage "secrets that cannot be said".
The 9 lacquer plates present the whole process in sequence. However, in the case of not being able to go to the scene, how to ensure that the curators are arranged in an orderly manner and just in place, the young curator Zhang Jingming made his own attempt.
Before the epidemic, the foreign exchanges of intangible cultural heritage projects during the Spring Festival often used the form of "inheritors + inheritance projects" to perform and exchange locally abroad, and since the outbreak of the epidemic, the mainland has also explored new cooperation models, and exhibitions have become a new choice.
Zhang Jingming introduced to reporters that in order to ensure the foolproof of the exhibition, when curating, she and her team not only designed the exhibition's moving line diagram, 3D stereoscopic map, AR display, and even designed the 1:1 "topographic map" of the exhibition, "the length, width and height are accurate to 1 centimeter." Considering the installation problem, they even developed an "installation manual" for each exhibit, detailing the exhibition to the "teeth".
It is reported that in order to make the exhibits safer in long-distance transcontinental ship transportation, starting from the "selection", Zhang Jingming, who has rich experience in intangible cultural heritage curation, chose more exquisite, stable and resistant to transportation exhibits, "Although some large-scale exhibits are also very exquisite, they are not suitable for long-distance transportation, and it is good to have 'high substitution' instead." ”
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As an ancient historical and cultural city with more than 4,500 years of urban civilization history and more than 2,300 years of city building history, the blood of Chengdu civilization stretches for thousands of years and nourishes Shudi. On the road to building a "world cultural city", Chengdu, the "cultural capital of East Asia", is actively opening up a new platform for internationalization. Intangible Cultural Heritage representative artifacts, integrating the humanities, history and culture contained in them in a new form of exposition, under the new "interpretation" of the new young curators, actively going overseas has become a new attempt to deal with the epidemic.
This exhibition starts from "brocade" and "embroidery", allowing foreign audiences to see the Shu brocade embroidery that blooms on the Silk Road, feel the national embroidery that contains rich regional culture, "touch" the beautiful filigree, appreciate the imagination in the Chinese legend, and listen to the thousands of stories in traditional culture.
It is reported that the exhibition is completely free and will last until March 4 from now on.
Red Star News reporter | Zeng Qi
Edited | Duan Xueying
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