On March 1, in the exhibition hall of Tianze Jun Kiln in Yuzhou City, Henan Province, Art Director Gao Xi was introducing new jun porcelain products to customers
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For more than 20 years, Gao Xi, artistic director of Yuzhou Tianze Jun Kiln, has continuously innovated and designed a variety of unique styles of Jun porcelain works. While the jun porcelain firing process has gradually introduced a new type of technology, Gao Xi has also been inheriting the firing process of jun porcelain old clay and old glaze color for firing, and his works emit the original ancient charm of jun porcelain from the inside out, regardless of shape and shape.
Gao Xi's father, Gao Genchang, who worked in the state-owned porcelain factory in YuXian County, grew up in the art atmosphere of Jun porcelain, and has an indissoluble love affair with Jun porcelain, and since childhood, she has been deeply attracted by the magical kiln transformation of Jun porcelain "into the kiln of one color, out of the kiln of all colors", thus germinating the desire to grow up to be a jun porcelain person. In 1998, after graduating from high school, she entered the Huayi Jun kiln to work, initially as a jun porcelain interpreter, and later took on the heavy responsibility of selling jun porcelain. Due to her sincere love and dedication to Jun porcelain, in her spare time, she flipped through the materials, asked the teacher for advice, and explored the firing technique of Jun porcelain. As a Master of Chinese ceramics craftsmanship, Gao Genchang's father, Gao Genchang, looked in his eyes, was happy in his heart, and was deeply excited about having the heirs of Jun porcelain, so he took out the skills of the housekeeper, devoted his life to what he had learned, orally taught by heart, handed down the inheritance, Gao Xi was more diligent in studying, immersed in research, painstakingly practicing Jun porcelain pulling, glazing, firing and other Jun porcelain techniques, proficient in the technical points of each process of Jun porcelain firing, and the understanding of jun porcelain art became clearer. At the same time, on the basis of inheriting the skills of his father, Gao Xi has formed his own unique technical characteristics after years of exploration and practice.
How many beats can you have in life? Without a cold bone, how can you get plum blossoms?
In order to realize his dreams, Gao Xi constantly pursues excellence, surpasses himself, and strives hard!
In order to pursue the art of Jun porcelain, in 2005, Gao Xi founded the Junyuange Ceramic Art Studio, specializing in the research of jun porcelain art design, and opened his own jun porcelain life.
In May 2016, Yuzhou Tianze Industrial Co., Ltd. was established, and the following year, Tianze Jun Kiln was created. This is a wholly-owned enterprise affiliated to Yuzhou Tianze Industrial Co., Ltd., covering an area of more than 8,000 square meters, with a coal kiln, three gas kilns, a modern production line, mainly to fire traditional jun porcelain artworks, including traditional vessels and special-shaped art ornaments.
With the gradual expansion of the scale of Tianze Jun kiln, the transformation of products from single type to diversified type, and the product design is more refined, these are inseparable from the unremitting efforts of Gao Xi and Tianze team. "We always adhere to the tradition and inheritance of jun porcelain firing technology, draw essence from it, highlight the unique characteristics of jun porcelain art, and constantly mix glaze colors, so that the kiln becomes more rich and natural, thick and exquisite, not only retaining the traditional Song Jun charm but also realizing the innovation of jun porcelain products." Gao Xi said frankly. As a worker who has been engaged in business sales for many years, Gao Xi understands that career development needs a big pattern, and she recruits talents to the society through the talent market, and hires senior technicians at high salaries, which injects new vitality into improving production technology and extensive business.
How difficult the road to research and development is! She is well aware that the adjustment of the type of instrument, the matching of glaze, the collocation of accessories, etc. must be through continuous trial and study, and the glaze composition, shape style and firing process have been adjusted many times, and finally a breakthrough has been made, so that the various components of the work can be coordinated and unified, in order to form a perfect work. The shape of her works inherits the simple and majestic style of Qin and Han bronzes, and the glaze color is gorgeous and elegant, which is in line with the aesthetic taste of contemporary society.
In the production of jun porcelain, Tianze jun kiln is mainly hand-pulled blank, the shape is simple and elegant, thick and solemn, the decoration is concise, beautiful and generous, and the glaze color is simple and dignified. At the same time, Gao Xi placed great emphasis on "change". In her view, the reason why Jun porcelain ranks among the five famous porcelain is because of its unique "kiln change" effect, change is the lifeblood of Jun porcelain, and innovation is the only way for the development of Jun porcelain. As a porcelain person, we must conform to the will of Heaven, go with the changes, and go with nature. At present, Gao Xi is one of the very few women in the jun porcelain industry who can do both modeling, glaze, and kiln, and the fine works in his charcoal oven jun works are called comparable to similar works of the previous generation of masters, known as "charcoal burning a sister", and the works of charcoal oven jun have won many important domestic awards. She has also become one of the representative figures of the new generation of jun porcelain masters of the "post-70s".
Gao Xi believes that jun porcelain should give people a simple and elegant, simple decoration, condensed atmosphere of beauty, glaze color should have a simple style, kiln change should be natural. Good jun porcelain, the glaze pattern should be strange, the image should be wonderful, and it should naturally present a picture with Chinese style. Gradually form a unique artistic style and the expression language of jun porcelain, so that the works have a strong display, decoration and practicality, as a symbol of taste, favored by the collection community, especially young people. Only in this way will jun porcelain have a long-lasting vitality.
Gao Xi's works are dignified and elegant in shape, the glaze jade is transparent, and the kiln becomes natural and natural, which has both the beauty of modern glaze color and the charm of Song Jun. His works have a far-reaching influence in the jun porcelain industry.
The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway. Gao Xi's jun porcelain works are unique in shape and colorful, and the beauty is like the sunset of the morning sun, which is dazzling.
Recently, we first appreciated the artistic charm of Gao Xijun's porcelain works of "god, wonder, wonder and perfection".
"God" manifests itself in the kiln transformation. "Into the kiln one color, out of the kiln of all colors" transformed into a colorful, colorful color, just like "the moon night looking at the starry sky, the halo naturally becomes". This magical color formed by pure nature is uncontrollable by manpower, so there is a saying that "jun porcelain is not right, and the kiln is unmatched".
"Odd", expressed in the opening sound of the piano like a bell. Its sound is elegant and vulgar, and it is alluded to stillness. The ice cracks formed by the opening of the film often form artistic images such as crisscrossing pearl dots, crab claw marks, and earthworm mud patterns on the smooth colored glaze, so that the enamel looks more lustrous and wonderful.
"Wonderful" is expressed in the artistic spirit of jun porcelain. Under different angles and different lights, jun porcelain can present different patterns that are flexible and vivid and have unique charm, which will make people have endless reverie.
"Absolute", expressed in the porcelain painting formed by the fusion of the kiln. Those multicolored porcelain paintings that are infiltration due to glaze color often conjure up thousands of scenes such as twilight and sun flying, purple green smoke, jackdaw returning to the forest, and immortal mountain Qiongge, which can be called a ghostly workmanship and a wonderful god.
"The development of jun porcelain art must not forget the original, we must maintain the characteristics of jun porcelain kiln change, and draw nutrients from tradition." On this basis, contemporary jun porcelain creators can continue to innovate in terms of process flow and design, so that the type of jun porcelain is richer, the glaze color is more varied, and it is more in line with the aesthetics of contemporary people. In addition, in the new historical period, Jun Porcelain has new topics worth studying and exploring in terms of product packaging, promotion and publicity. Gao Xi said.
For more than 20 years, Gao Xi has been committed to the research of the organic integration of traditional technology and contemporary aesthetic concepts, through these research experiments, she has made a great breakthrough in the artistic level of jun porcelain works, enhanced the cultural value and economic value of jun porcelain kiln art, opened up a new direction for the integration of traditional jun porcelain and modern art, made jun porcelain art better fit modern life, and opened up a road for creating a new peak of jun porcelain art. While inheriting the "solemnity" of Tang Dynasty Jun porcelain, the "plain elegance" of Song Jun, the "ruggedness" of Yuan Jun, the "gorgeousness" of Ming Jun, the "elegance" of Qing Jun, and other excellent styles, Gao Xi has made great contributions to the cause of Jun porcelain by absorbing thousands of years of traditional skills, gathering hundreds of essence secret recipes, and integrating modern aesthetic tastes. At the same time, Gao Xi immersed himself in academic research in the process of pursuing exquisite jun porcelain skills, constantly summarized the firing process of jun porcelain, enriched artistic aesthetic knowledge, and practiced the cultural and artistic inheritance of jun porcelain.
It is precisely in this way that Gao Xi has stood out in the ceramic industry by relying on unremitting efforts and achieved extraordinary results.
In 2013, his works "Consummation Pot", "Festival Gaosheng Kettle", "Knife Handle Xishi Kettle", "Four Seasons Peace Kettle", "Appreciation Plate" and so on were awarded gold medals by the Henan Arts and Crafts Industry Association:
In September 2015, in the 4th Henan Jun Porcelain Kiln Transformation Art Innovation Competition, his works "Plum Bottle", "Taibai Zun", "Four Seas Shengping", "Peach Wash", "Heavenly Ball Bottle", "Xuan pattern small mouth bottle" and "Lotus Leaf Wash" were awarded gold medals by the Henan Arts and Crafts Industry Association.
In 2015, his work "Rifle Stone" won the China Ceramic Art Competition and the 10th National Ceramic Art Design Innovation Gold Award.
In June 2017, Gao Xi donated jun porcelain works "Everything is As Expected" and "Pingbu Qingyun" were permanently collected by the China Private Education Museum. In October of the same year, he was awarded the title of "Master of Arts and Crafts of Henan Province".
In November 2017, his works "Rifle Stone", "Double Dragon Pan Bottle" and "Tiger Head Bottle" won the gold medal of the 5th Henan Jun Porcelain Kiln Transformation Art Innovation Competition.
In 2020, his works "Rifle Stone", "Heavenly Ball Bottle", "Jade Net Bottle", "Appreciation Plate", "Double Dragon Living Ring Zun", "Tiger Head Bottle" and "Small Mouth Bottle" won the Gold Award of Henan Provincial Arts and Crafts "Zhenbaihua Cup Handmade Original Boutique Exhibition":
In June 2021, Gao Xi's red works "Party Flag" and "Rifle Stone" were brilliantly unveiled at the "Danqing Han Ink Ode to the Party's Grace, And Work Together to Write Huazhang - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China" jointly organized by the Henan Socialist College, the Henan Provincial Institute of Chinese Culture and the Henan Provincial Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, and were collected by many museums; her donated Jun porcelain work "Pilot" was collected by the Kaifeng Museum. In the same year, Gao Xi was awarded the honorary title of "Artist of Virtue and Art Shuangxin" by the Organizing Committee of the "Centenary of the Founding of the Party - Artist Gift Theme Exhibition".
"The sun and the moon are not late, and the four hours are urgent." In this new era that belongs to the strivers, everyone has the right to pursue their dreams, and everyone is also the builder of dreams.
Gao Xi is exactly that!
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