A few days ago, Guangdong young painter Chen Weiming's solo exhibition "Ruler Su - Chen Weiming's Works Exhibition" was exhibited in Zhaoqing Qishan Hall, exhibiting a total of 40 sketches by the artist, including daily sketches of objects on cases, character pictures and apprenticeships of dot scene characters, which will be exhibited until February 28.
Chen Weiming graduated from the School of Chinese Painting of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree in 2009, and was a visiting scholar of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2018-2019, and held a solo exhibition "Standing on the Clouds" in Beijing in 2019.
Facing the sky, it is closer to the essential language of painting
It is reported that the exhibition is named "Ruler Su", in addition to implying that the works on display are mainly sketches, there is another layer of meaning: "Su" is a plain face, not a beautiful face, the picture is the use of traditional Chinese painting lines to express the object, plain face to the sky, no magic tricks, closer to the essential language of painting.
The most eye-catching thing in the exhibition is the sketching of daily objects on the case, such as tape measures, knives, scissors, drying racks, slippers, combs, hair dryers, etc. in the traditional sense, Chen Weiming not only entered the painting with this, but also accompanied by "inner volume", "lying flat", "who fights with the front", "good things into pairs", "Baiyi Baishun" and other Internet buzzwords and colloquialisms, giving people a witty and novel fun. Dr. Lin Xiahan, a young art critic, believes in "On the Contemporary Life Atmosphere of Chinese Painting" that this batch of works allows him to "feel a fresh contemporary life atmosphere", the painter does not shy away from popular sayings, skillfully interprets the commonplace things, and expresses a certain profound and shining insight with concise content, conveying a profound understanding of life and a ridiculous mentality after chewing, "Which can be described as a contemporary interpretation of the traditional painting theory of 'writing the air in the chest', and also the transformation and development of the meaning of Qibaishi painting." ”
Dialogue -
Interpret and interpret the common objects in life from different angles
Nandu: The most eye-catching thing about this exhibition is the writing of a number of daily objects, which are all painted by Xin Ugly Autumn, and I am curious about the circumstances under which you created these paintings at that time? These paintings seem to have the taste of detracting current affairs, is it your temporary work or the direction of your future creation?
Chen Weiming: Personally, painting is a hobby that I have been adhering to since I was a child, after graduating from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, I stayed on as a professional teacher at the Chinese Academy of Painting, from hobby to profession, painting occupies most of my life.
Xin ugly autumn, when I had a few weeks without scheduling classes, you can let me send, just When Brother Wang Yongcai of the Foshan Academy of Painting said that he wanted to organize a group exhibition of "cases", each creative staff handed over two works to show the objects in their studio or living space, I drew scissors "cutting continuously, rationalizing and messing", fruit knives "sharp tools", feeling very interesting, and successively drew twenty or so sheets, all of which were one or two square feet of size strip screens, framed into the form of hanging shafts.
In this batch of works, the "inner volume", "lying flat", "who fights with the front", "good things come in pairs", "baiyi baishun"... Taking the tape measures, combs, paper knives, slippers, and hangers commonly found in daily necessities as the depiction objects, borrowing popular words and life sayings from the Internet on the topic, and thus and the other, metaphorically helpless in reality, ask for a laugh! It can be said that the interpretation and interpretation of commonplace objects in life from different angles is the direction I have always adhered to in my artistic creation.
Nandu: You say you're "a countryman who prefers to be more casual, spontaneous, with playful states and accidents", why?
Chen Weiming: Before coming to Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts to study at the Attached Middle School (High School), I had been living in the countryside of Puning, Guangdong. At that time, the blue sky and white clouds, the clear stream, no cram schools, and a week of agricultural leave every semester, the memory was all kinds of mischievous mischief and play, such as digging bird nests, catching frogs, kiln potatoes, building bamboo rafts, netting fish... Playing small idleness may have also affected my view of art. Since I was a child, I have liked the carelessness and casualness of Chinese freehand painting, and I can't take it step by step and work hard; for painting, the pencil rational deliberation of three drafts and five drafts has never been able to adapt.
I generally don't have a draft when I paint, I pick up a pen, scribble directly, adapt to changes, and generate hair layer by layer. I was fascinated by the way the brush touched the paper and walked straight, the instantaneous divergence of thinking, the affirmation of the moment, and the intuitive image of the wrong, the control and uncontrollability of the ink and the fusion of color and ink.
Nandu: This time, there are also some demonstration texts of point scene characters, you are teaching at the Chinese Painting School of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, how do you think it is more effective to teach Chinese painting?
Chen Weiming: Pan Tianshou, Li Keyan, Li Xiongcai, Guan Shanyue... In the teaching of Chinese painting, the predecessors have accumulated many effective textbooks and methods, which are all models for us to learn today. Teaching is implemented in two aspects: the teacher's "teaching" and the student's "learning". My role is to try to be a guide or guide to the reader, to help students understand the thinking and practice of the previous masters. Simply put, it is - to go deep into history and study the masters. Observe life and feel yourself!
Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen intern Chen Yue