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Wang Deng's ceramic work "Seeking Differences in Existence" has been selected for the Tanghu Art Museum Collection Ceramics Works Exhibition (Wuhan), the "New Journey - Building a Well-off Society in An All-round Way" Hubei 9+1 Art Museum Collection Works Exhibition (Wuhan), and won the Excellence Award of the 6th Hubei Modern Ceramics Exhibition (Wuhan).
How often should I win awards? Wang Deng's creative record not only answers this question, but also gives the essence of the inheritance and innovation of ceramic art, "to survive the same and seek differences".
Seeking Differences in Existence / Wang Deng's works
The multi-dimensional shape of the direction, the shadow reflected under the illumination of the light, is like a dense high-rise building. Or high and low, or standing in each other, these seemingly simple columns, can arouse people's thinking?
The beauty of nature is being eroded by these irrational buildings, and people have accepted this reality unconditionally, even in order to live in such a living space, giving up their egos and giving up their original dreams.
Is the beauty we seek only external beauty in the simple sense of the word? No, what we also need is an inner beauty, a spirit, a cultural connotation. In the modern metropolis, we still need to breathe the breath of nature, and we still need to pay attention to the excavation of connotation, that is, the emotional exchange of the inner world. This is the idea that the work "Seeking Differences in Existence" wants to convey, that is, contemporary ceramics is an artistic creation of personal emotions that can see a deeper inner space through appearances.
Talking about the original intention of the creation of the ceramic art work "Seeking Differences in Existence", that is, to create a multi-dimensional, multi-faceted, multi-combination form of artistic modeling. Simple geometric elements are used to create complex and interesting pure artistic shapes, which attract people to observe the unique space of ceramics - the interior space - while showing the shape of the work. Under the illumination of light, ceramic works combine virtual with reality, with real with virtual, virtual with real, virtual with virtual, virtual with virtual, and virtual with real, and the presented body will have more vitality and deserve people's deeper thinking.
Part of the work
When we see the shadow of the work stretching outward, with the different angles of light illumination, we can think of many stories in our minds. With the rapid development of industrial construction, the completion of buildings often reflects the development of the city. In order to survive in this gorgeous building, how many people bind themselves, imprison their own ideas, just to live, they have to give up their dreams. Whether this is right or wrong, only you know. Perhaps over time, people will be eager to return to nature and release the freedom in their hearts. In this era of individuality, without one's own thoughts, it is easy to be forgotten by the world. The world often only sees the glorious appearance of others, but forgets that their inner strength is tempered by countless setbacks.
The creation of works of art is the same as doing things, not only to pay attention to the appearance, but also to tap the inner potential. The excavation of the internal space of ceramics is an entry point for contemporary ceramics creation. Good at using the contrast between space and reality can better shape the body. In addition, without the injection of human emotions, ceramic works will lose their vitality and will silently fade out of the world's eyeballs.
The creative process of the work
Materials: high white mud, blue and red color agent, metal copper wire;
Molding method: grouting molding, high temperature into porcelain after combining with metal copper wire to shape the shape;
Decorative techniques: a variety of colors, color block splicing, common binding to shape the body;
Firing method: shuttle type high-temperature gas kiln, firing atmosphere: 1320 °c, reducing flame.
Untreated mud at the mouth after grouting
The effect of the prismatic countertop after cutting
Through the refinement and generalization of geometric shapes, subtle treatment is done on the prism section of the geometric cylinder, or exaggerated, or restrained, or left, or right. These treatments are all based on the state of mind, not rigid, arbitrary. Under the influence of constructivism, they are arranged in the same direction, or randomly combined, or placed face to face, which will produce different effects. In the pursuit of art form, vertical, oblique, emission, direction of multi-dimensional changes are the key to affect the shape; color, or solid color combination, or mixed color collocation. Monochrome brings pure beauty, multi-color creates a sense of beating; material, metal copper wire plays an important link between points and points, the transition between faces and the combination of shapes; the use of lighting, scattered light and shadow effects enhance the decorative beauty of ceramic works, broadening the imagination space of the work.
Column prismatic countertop high and low contrast
Accentuate the tension of the ribbed countertop lines
The mud is cut, polished, replenished and then prepared to be fired into porcelain after a series of manual treatments
The work "Seeking Differences in Existence" is a bold attempt at color stitching. The combination of three colors of matte white, crystal powder and jingyi blue presents a situation of mutual integration. How harmonious they were, or standing neatly, or looking at each other, or back to back, or looking at the sky, or looking down at life. Their relationship makes us think of ourselves, life is so difficult, only by facing life calmly can we smile and cherish the earth. Although they are bound, they still have not given up on themselves, and no matter how difficult the conditions are, they will overcome them and show their best side to the world.
Metal copper wire, pointed pliers, nail clippers
Combination of prismatic countertops of different tensions
Ungrouped individuals
Look down on the prism slice
The geometric porcelain that has been fired at high temperatures, when it leaves the kiln, its vitality also begins to be born. Seemingly simple geometric prisms, but like us humans, or laughing, or quietly looking up at the sky, or closing our eyes to recuperate, or looking down at life. Each of them is life, created by oneself with one's own hands, like a reproduction of one's own different mood states. At this moment, they are just individuals, how to connect them? Let them create a different kind of "landscape" together?
Look, the internal space of the body (like architecture, can also be used as a container to capture light), when the metal copper wire is complexly crossed together, reflecting the complexity and changeability of people's inner emotional world.
When tired of monochrome, always want to add more colors. The advent of color clay brought hope, and I was eager to create a unique effect. The thousands of jun porcelains that enter the kiln and come out of the kiln bring a kind of excitement, inspiring me to race through them with the characteristics of Jingdezhen. The kaolin of Jingdezhen, through the blending of color agents, has evolved into many bright colors, of which crystal powder and Jingyi blue are the most attractive to me. Qi Guoyan once said, "Only when the six laws are harmonious can we form music that is pleasant to the ear." "The freshness of life is something we dare to try to enjoy. At this time, I had an impulse, that is, to combine the three colors of crystal powder, jingyi blue and lightless white to create a different color beauty. This is the problem that the work "Seeking Differences" is thinking about, that is, the shape is needed, and the color also needs to dare to try. In the era of pursuing innovation, what we still need is the aesthetic pursuit of "neutral beauty". We need individuality, and what we need more is a whole. Show individuality in the whole, show personality without leaving the whole.
Expert commentary
After thousands of years of cultural baptism, China's ceramic art has formed a unique national characteristic, and embodies outstanding creativity in the form, material and aesthetic aspects of creation. The national traditional culture contained in this should form a new creative style with traditional Chinese characteristics in the new historical creation. Contemporary creation based on traditional Chinese ceramic art has not only stayed in craftsmanship, aesthetics and inheritance, but should be practiced and innovated in terms of creative principles and aesthetic creation ideas. Wang Deng's works inherit the principles of systematization and modularization of traditional Chinese creations, although the production method of mold turning is adopted, but it changes in a contemporary combination of methods, which is the embodiment of China's classic aesthetics of "fine and convenient, simple and tailored". In addition, the work takes a simple square bottom and a cylinder as the basic creative prototype, taking the meaning of the heavenly circle place, and bringing together the ideas of "the unity of heaven and man" in traditional Chinese culture in the creation transformation, that is, the effective law of nature, the meaning of "following fate".
Meng Lei, associate professor and master tutor of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology