No. 1 Maoming South Road, nearly 100 years old building hides an artistic "living room". It is a joint art space in Shanghai that has been shortlisted for the most beautiful public space in Shanghai, and a place where Shanghai's urban culture cannot be missed. In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, the space launched the first exhibition of the opening year with the theme of "One Thought, Three Thousand", leading the audience to feel the beauty of life from the works of artists Yu Qiping and Chai Yiming.
Yu Qiping was a high-caliber student at the Nanjing Academy of Arts in the early 1980s, influenced by the atmosphere of the ancient capital, and his pens, red brick walls, black tiles, mountain-shaped tile ridges, and jagged houses overlapped one after another. There is no sound on the picture, a stone road, from bottom to top, from wide to narrow, from near to far, passing through the middle of the dense houses, a row of unusually thick trees growing on the side of the road, the big trees are illuminated by the moonlight, between the thick trunks and branches, the sky is illuminated by the moonlight, the large and round moon has just risen on the black roof, the path under the moonlight is crystal clear, and the smooth bluestone pavement has become a light orange-brown... His characters gaze intently, looking up at the moon that had just risen.
"Yu Qiping deeply understood the various traditional techniques of Chinese painting, but he transformed them into modernism, and on this basis formed his own unique painting vocabulary, which formed the basis of the vocabulary of the aesthetic tendency of 'New Orientalism'." In the view of the scholar Ge Hongbing, Yu Qiping grafts "modern" and "traditional" seamlessly, he wanders on the "modern" dimension of time, but it seems to exist in the meaning of "ancient", and his paintings have a kind of deep, distant, and ancient beauty. This beauty is worth staring at repeatedly, and it will slowly immerse itself in you, bringing you into some kind of emptiness, some kind of intoxication.
In Shi Jianbang's eyes, the painter Chai Yiming is a maverick freak. He can turn everything at hand into a work of art, cardboard boxes, torn clothes, etc. As long as it reaches his hand, he is reluctant to throw it away. He painted and played on it, and after some "tossing" it became a work of art, but it was cute and loving, and it was good-looking. Similarly, when a good friend feels that he can't paint a painting, when it reaches his hand, he can "save it" without thinking and clean it up. Not only that, but he often paints in a bizarre and eccentric way, leading people into a realm of unimaginable absurdity. His ability to mix reality and illusion is simply wild.
"I was amazed by the high enthusiasm for his creation, the richness of his works, and the variety of his series." Liu Hua sighed that Chai Yiming's studio was on the middle road of Fuxing, and when he entered the room, he was immediately surrounded by an overwhelming array of artworks.
He loves to draw so much that he works every day at sunrise, at sunset, and with his hands waving. He said that tens of thousands of paintings in his head were waiting for him to draw, and the time was too late. He can paint anything, brushwork, freehand, graffiti, and oil painting and ink, land and water, open bows left and right, and also pinch clay sculptures and carved stones in addition to empty space, and curiosity and imagination are boundless. Therefore, his "art front" is very long, mixed with multiple arms, coordinated combat, and fully spread out on the walls and tables. The piles of unfinished, pending works, or completed with a little cleaning up in the rooms of his studio are thousands. But he is always not in a hurry, saying that painting is like old wine, which must be slowly brewed to be fragrant for a long time. Because it is "unfinished," he said, there are always new possibilities, and the results are always unpredictable and always surprising.
Author: Such as smoke
Editor: Guo Chaohao
Editor-in-Charge: Li Ting
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