Jimu news reporter Xu Ying
Correspondent Li Xia
On February 28, the reporter learned that as the highlight exhibition of Wuhan Art Museum in 2022, the work of "Quiet Gaze: Italian Contemporary Sculpture Art Exhibition" has arrived in Wuhan, and the exhibition will be launched at The Wuhan Art Museum on March 8. Some professional audiences have long been looking forward to this exhibition, and high-level artists and high-quality art works are bound to bring a profound artistic experience to the audience in Jiangcheng, and the works have been inspected in Hangzhou and will be sent to Wuhan.
The reporter learned that the Wuhan Art Museum in this exhibition took out three important exhibition halls of 1, 2 and 3 to present these important sculptures. The exhibition is jointly organized by zhejiang art museum, Wuhan art museum and Guangdong Museum of Art. The Cultural Department of the Italian Consulate General in Shanghai is the supporting unit, and Beijing Erya Culture and Art Co., Ltd. is the co-organizer, and the exhibition will continue to be exhibited from March 8 to May 8. This exhibition will be carried out in the form of "advance reservation, staggered peak viewing".
The work comes from Val Gardena, the capital of Italian wood carving
The Jimu News reporter learned that the Wuhan Art Museum's "Quiet Gaze: Italian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition" will exhibit 33 wood and stone sculpture works by 8 Italian contemporary sculptors with great international influence. Bruno Walpoth, Walter Moroder, Massimiliano Pelletti, AronDemetz, Herman Josef Runggaldier, Peter Demetz, Willie Demetz, and Willy Berger were exhibited. The sculptures of Willy Verginer, Gehard Demetz and others present the most unique and important forms of expression of Italian contemporary art.
The works are from Val Gardena, italy's Upper Adige region, the capital of wood carving in Italy and the birthplace of the world's art of handicraft sculpture. Most of these sculptures are made of trees and rock sculptures, most of which are carved by human bodies, as if the prototypes contained in the works exist in them, rather than deliberately; the process of refining humanity, visuality and generativeness highlights the "craftsman temperament" prevalent in the 8 sculptors, which can be reflected in what we Chinese call "craftsman spirit".
The Wuhan Museum of Art is the second stop of the "Quiet Gaze" art exhibition, which will be transferred to the Guangdong Museum of Art.
Presents the contemporary posture of sculpture art that has gone through glory, withering and recovery
When you think of Italy, everyone thinks of the Renaissance. Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance. During the Renaissance, in addition to the birth of many world famous paintings, many classic sculptures were also born, such as Michelangelo, who was an important sculpture artist in the Renaissance.
"Sculpture is an art that reduces the shape of the human body designed according to the artist's idea by removing the superfluous parts of a given material. And it must be taken into account that all figures, whether carved in marble, cast in bronze, made of stucco or wood, must be plump and embossed, allowing the surrounding audience to be able to appreciate them from all directions, so a perfect figure sculpture needs to meet many requirements. In the mid-16th century, giorgio Vasari, the founder of Italian art history, defined sculpture in this way. Michelangelo Bonaroti was still active at the time, about to sculpt the first work in his Mercy series. However, in the first half of the 20th century, one of the greatest Italian sculptors of the time, Arturo Martini, wrote a famous pamphlet, Sculpture Is Dead. Italian art critic Gabriel Lorenzoni commented on this phenomenon: Sculpture as an artistic field has been walking on the edge of the abyss for hundreds of years, and it was not until the 1980s and 1990s that there was a slow and steady recovery in sculpture. This also injects more expectations into the holding of this exhibition.
The eight artists continue the tradition and are experimental
Chen Yongjin, director of the Wuhan Art Museum, said that most of these realistic works in this exhibition take ordinary people as creative objects, and walking through these sculptures of wood, stone or metal, they will be moved by the emotional and spiritual forces that have gone beyond materials and technologies. Marked by wood carvings in the Grårdon Valley (or Val Gardena) in northern Italy, nearly three hundred years of carpentry history has produced many family workshops, relying on tourism and the processing of daily necessities, as well as orders from churches, they have survived and multiplied with exquisite traditional craftsmanship. As young people emerge from the workshops with the ideal of changing the status quo, they take the initiative to receive a college education, form their own artistic styles, and complete the identity transition from craftsman to artist. They are obsessed with traditional craftsmanship in their hearts, but also look forward to integrating into the context of contemporary art, deliberately looking for the contemporary face of sculpture. Following the guidance of their hearts, the eight artists, with the imprint of Gröden, tenaciously combine this inheritance of what is called affection with seemingly contemporary, stylistic, experimental creations, and win respect and success.
The reporter also paid attention to the fact that the Wuhan Art Museum, as a national key art museum, has introduced a series of excellent international exhibitions in recent years, attracting the attention of the audience. For example, the previously launched "Intuition Moments - Mark Lü bu photography retrospective exhibition", "Innocent Thoughts - Oita City Art Museum Collection takayama Tatsuo printmaking exhibition", "From Monet to Surage: The Road to Western Modern Painting (1800-1980)", Margaret, Harumi Maruyama, Norman Rockwell, etc.
In order to deepen the audience's understanding of the exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum will also start from the keywords of "tranquility", "nature", "humanities" and "emotions" to plan a number of public education activities that are both academic and entertaining, and the audience can make an appointment to participate in advance on the public account of "Wuhan Art Museum".