In the mid-spring of the Year of the Tiger, the most refreshing "new atmosphere" in the Shoushan stone carving industry is the "New Seal Button Art Museum" that was just unveiled on January 1 this year.
This art exhibition hall with the theme of seal culture and art is located at the foot of Wushi Mountain, a famous cultural scenic spot in Fuzhou, adjacent to Sanfang And Qixiang, with an area of about 300 square meters, with a rich collection, covering all kinds of button exhibits, and the material of the button is diverse, not only the most familiar Shoushan stone in Fujian, but also the soft printing stone of other materials.
In addition, there are also printing button works under different material systems such as amber, crystal, ivory, and Dehua porcelain.
It is the New Innun art gallery
Showroom scene
Coming to this venue is immediately refreshing: its interior decoration style is completely different from the antique of the private exhibition hall in the Shoushan Stone Field, which is completely different from the past, and is laid out in a large area of gray tones popular in the contemporary art world.
The lighting and display cabinets in the museum are all used in comparison with the most advanced cultural institutions in China.
Immersing yourself in it is like stepping into the art space in a first-tier city, with a touch of maverick temperament.
"For the New Seal Button Art Museum" was founded by Chen Weixin, a master of arts and crafts in Fujian Province, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his career.
As a master of arts and crafts in Fujian Province and the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage in Fujian Province, Chen Weixin has embarked on the road of printing button creation since 1992.
He studied under the Chinese arts and crafts master Pan Jingshi, and was good at engraving buttons and animals, especially ancient animals.
"Qiankun Yiqi" Shoushan Furong Stone Chen Weixin.com
In the past 30 years of artistic career, Chen Weixin has "aspired to the Tao, traveled in art", visited the famous domestic grottoes, cliff carvings and other historical carving art classics, and visited museums and well-known collectors around the world to draw artistic "nutrients".
In the past thirty years, he has immersed himself in thousands of Shoushan stone art treasures and a large number of documents and historical materials, which not only made him deeply feel the importance of the inheritance of button carving culture, but also made him have the idea of popularizing the excellent art of ancient button printing through exhibitions and exhibition halls.
Bathed in such an experience, "allowing more people to appreciate the essence and connotation of Chinese ink button art in the exhibition" has also become the original intention of Chen Weixin to establish the "New Printing Button Art Museum".
Open exhibition area
General exhibition area
Academic guidance
Create an immersive viewing experience
In the field of Shoushan stone carving, where the appreciation of works and materials is the first, there may be many people who are not familiar with the topics of "combing the history of ancient craftsmanship" and "revival of techniques".
Due to his early experiences in Mugu, Ggu and traveling to various places, Chen Weixin strongly felt the importance of academic research in the process of "drawing the ancient for the new".
He believes that after decades of reform and opening up, the classical traditional aesthetics have been snubbed in the Shoushan stone industry, but in the future, its revival will become an inevitable trend, because Shoushan stone carving is based on tradition, and it is itself a branch generated on the roots of Chinese culture.
Chen Weixin's recent works
"Three Lions Drama Ball" Shoushan Nugget Golden Lion Fengshi Chen Weixin
"Looking for Spring and Forgetting to Return" Shoushan Laoling Shi Chen Weixin
If you do not "know" the ancient, you cannot "learn from the ancient", let alone "inherit the ancient rhyme" and "attack the ancient art".
If you do not know the ancients, you have no roots, and if you do not understand the commonality of aesthetic development that is generally recognized in the hearts of the Chinese people and hidden in history, it is even more difficult to talk about making a "new move" that is in line with the contemporary era.
Because of this recognition, since 2013, Chen Weixin, with a passion for blood, left the Shoushan stone market, which was rising at that time, and joined the Fujian Provincial Academy of Arts and Crafts instead, starting to bury his head in academia as a researcher.
On the one hand, academic cognition is used to anchor the direction of creation, and on the other hand, the actual needs in creation are used to confirm academic research results.
Research and creation have formed a synergy with each other, and have also brought his own artistic achievements since then.
"Purple Qi Full of Hall" Shoushan Moon Tail Purple Stone Chen Weixin
Of course, such a process has also affected the display mode in the "For the New Printing Button Art Museum".
Under the premise of carrying forward the traditional Shoushan stone carving industry culture and carrying forward the classical traditional stone carving techniques of Shoushan stone, this unique "Yin niu art museum" gives people an impression oriented to the academic achievements, historical display and artistic exchanges related to classical Shoushan stone carving.
Here, in an orderly manner, with the historical development process as the context, a sequence of 43 Pieces of Shoushan Stone and Seal Button Carved Cultural Relics from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Republic of China period was constructed, which clearly and completely let people feel a complete development trajectory in which a button carving and Shoushan Stone complement each other and develop so far.
Correspondingly, Chen Weixin himself used the research results of different techniques and different eras of modeling to actually create more than 100 Shoushan stone carvings, especially button carvings.
For visitors, there will be a more intuitive sense of "transfiguration" and "survival and change".
What is even more pleasant is the "open exhibition" in addition to history and works.
As we often see in large museums, in the "Art Gallery for the New Seal", the exhibition like a study occupies a large place.
"Yin Eight Immortals Dark Eight Immortals" Shoushan Golden Lion Fengshi Chen Weixin
As we all know, this kind of "real-life display" is a special cultural exhibition method that has been popular in large domestic museums in recent years, and exhibitors choose this kind of display method in order to bring visitors an immersive sense of impact.
In the "For the New Seal Button Art Museum", it is no exception: the Qing play, seal, and seal engraving exhibits are all cleverly and naturally embedded in the desk and height of the space, appearing free, casual, but interesting.
In addition, a round window in the museum, and just borrowed the green mountains and green trees on Wushi Mountain, attracting leisure outside the museum, relieving the cramps of the interior.
In the corner of the exhibition hall sits on Wushi Mountain
Chen Weixin's collection of seal engravings
The imprint presented in the open exhibition hall
The concept of "space" is valued in this venue, and it is indeed emphasized and sublimated.
People can easily throw concrete situations from abstract historical concepts: the elegant fun of literati and inkers, princes and nobles, the aesthetic enjoyment of contemporary people, and the creation of space, all of which can be concretely simulated here - history, space, and works, which are integrated in this "regent".
This is undoubtedly a new way of interacting: visitors can recognize the development of Shoushan stone and yin button carving from three different directions, namely independent historical lines, comprehensive contemporary heritage, and a clear sense of spatial interaction.
For the shoushan stone category with a long history in the local area, in the venue of the special field of printing buttons, this fusion method of "for the new printing button art museum" is "novel" in terms of method, "novel" in form, and "new trend" when discussed by the concept, which indeed lives up to its "new" name.
Multiple perspectives
Unlock new ways to play with your carving skills
For a modern venue, the choice of perspective is second only to the furnishings.
In other words, it is necessary not only to decide "what to see", but also to give visitors and communicators a different path in "how to see".
We also see this effort in the "For the New Seal Button Art Museum", which is reflected in the fusion of a variety of perspectives.
Here, the core idea is to provide "more perspectives, more choices, more feelings".
"The Tiger Wears the Ring" Shoushan Red Yellow Hibiscus Stone Chen Weixin
This can be clearly perceived from the division of the exhibition area:
The most attractive "new perspective" is the "scientific and technological perspective" that is in line with the current era.
Inside this venue, there are projection equipment, electronic touch and audio guides. Scan the QR code in the display cabinet with your mobile phone, and the exhibit information of the relevant area and the voice introduction of the area can be played through the mobile phone.
In academic exchange activities, the projector will broadcast the corresponding courseware, documentaries, etc. on the lowered curtain, and vividly supplement the content involved in the form of audio and video.
The museum has a collection of Ming and Qing Dynasty printing buttons of various materials
In the conspicuous place of the exhibition hall, there are also text materials and high-definition pictures scrolling in the exhibits.
Visitors can zoom and select the information on the touch screen, which can enlarge the carving work from the original to 200 times, for the viewer to slowly taste the taste of the work from the characteristics of the material and the charm of the knife technique.
touch screen
This kind of high-tech facility is rare in Fuzhou's museums and art galleries.
But for young people who want to see the details in detail, or lack some detailed knowledge of the exhibits, and are eager to do so, this is undoubtedly a more intimate and cool way.
It can be said that it is a new perspective, "keeping up with the times".
In these contents provided to people, a lot of academic research information from Chen Weixin in the past decade has also been added.
This is a new flow of the coexistence and progress of scholarship and science and technology, the convergence of two perspectives.
"Tang Feng Rui Beast Button" is a new work by Zhang Shoushan Furong Stone Chen
In addition, the "New Printing Button Art Museum" also has a special area - the exchange and display area of craft techniques.
In the exhibition area of the carving skills on the second floor, which is only open for academic exchanges, there is also a small space with a workbench.
In the museum's plan, this place will be used for the exhibition of the carving process during academic exchanges and discussions, and for more visitors who need to deeply understand, learn and recognize this artistic field, they can obtain direct first-hand experience from practice, and they will no longer be trapped in indirect knowledge, nor will they be confused by the way the technique is applied because of the various deficiencies in imagination.
Sludge drafts
Below this area, on the same position on the first floor, there are 13 clay manuscripts that are imitated and molded on the cultural relics exhibits, and they appear precisely so that everyone can see the design, imitation and learning process of the printing button carving at a glance.
This ingenious construction of the integration of the upper and lower levels and the linkage of each other is also rare or even unique in the private pavilions of this category in the past.
The existence of this perspective is to hope that the idea of "inheriting the ancient rhyme and inheriting the ancient art" is the starting point, attracting more young enthusiasts to approach and enter the traditional Chinese art of printing buttons and the art of Shoushan stone carving.
"Crossing the Sea Guanyin" Shoushan Huangwen Yangshi Chen Weixin
"Sui Making Lying Lion" Shoushan Furong Stone Chen Weixin
Chen Weixin's view on this is that only by contacting academic achievements and knowing how these achievements are applied to realistic creation can academia stimulate everyone's interest in exploration.
Through the demonstration of ingenious craftsmanship, in terms of appreciation and understanding, we can "know what it is, know why it is so".
It is true that in the past thousands of years, ingenious craftsmanship has been the unique perspective of carvers and producers, but it should not only be owned by carvers, but also for the entire art-loving group.
"Puji Sentient Beings" Shoushan Golden Lion Fengshi Chen Weixin
All kinds of novelty seem to show us that this is not just a space centered on the display of individual works, but a platform dedicated to promoting artistic exchange, skill exchange and cultural inheritance.
When we asked about the future planning of this art museum, Chen Weixin said: "I hope that more young artists and collectors will come to me to hold cultural salons and theme exhibitions in the future." He believes that "this museum is opened in my name, but it has its due historical responsibility, academic responsibility, and its ultimate mission is to promote the culture of Shoushan stone carving, the culture of the development of the button, and cultivate a piece of soil that allows young people to return to tradition and understand Chinese culture." ”
Group photo of the leading guests
Library/Collection/Fine/Product
"Mountains and Seas Lark" Shoushan Alpine Stone Chen Weixin
13.2×13.2×13.2cm
This piece is made of alpine stone, the main body of the button is the structural style of Shanzi carving, which integrates a variety of techniques in one, and rongshan hai Xuanqi is in the printing table, so it is called "mountain and sea lark".
"Tianlu" Shoushan Wen Yangshi Chen Weixin
5.3×2.8×8.3cm
This piece is made of red, yellow and white Wenyang stone material, carved Tianlu button, the image is elegant and majestic, which is a typical work that represents the author's style in recent years.
"Six Yin Will Change" Shoushan Crystal Hibiscus Stone Chen Weixin
4.4×3×6.5cm
This work is made of crystalline hibiscus stone as a material, as a "tiger piercing ring" button, its name is taken from the "I Ching", black and white two-color tiger twisted, representing the moment of yin and yang intertwining and transformation.
"Ming-style Beast Button Chapter" Shoushan two-color lychee travertine Stone Chen Weixin
3.1×3.1×8.7cm
This work is carved by lychee travertine, the color is light and elegant, the carved beast button, its posture is vivid and accurate, and the articulation and change are ingenious, which is a classic work of the author in recent years.
"Playing with The Lotus" Shoushan Colorful Hibiscus Stone Chen Weixin
7.5×7.5×8.5cm
This is the multicolored hibiscus stone material produced by the Shoushan Yueyang vein, carved double goose lotus button, double goose circle rebirth potential, such as yin and yang hugging, curved to the fullest.
"Tiger Play beads" Shoushan crystallized hibiscus stone Chen Weixin
2.6×3.8×7.5cm
The material taken in this work is crystalline hibiscus stone, which is red and white and radiant. The mid-Qing dynasty craftsmanship style, carved tiger play bead button, thick breath, the moment is appropriate.
"Taming the Elephant Tune" Shoushan Moon Tail Greenstone Chen Weixin
4.1×4.1×6.2cm
This work is carved from the green stone at the end of the moon as a taming of the elephant, representing the gradual peace of mind after practicing the Dharma. The elephant has a graceful posture, the character portrayal is delicate, and the appearance is serene.
"Yang De Led Dance" Shoushan Kengtou Stone Chen Weixin
15×11×23cm
The pit head stone is carved out of "Yang De", that is, "Yang Huaxia's Rest Wind, Dai Sheng Chao's Wei De". The Hu people lead the lion and beast to lead the dance, which is the meaning of celebrating the prosperity of the world.
Art/Art/Jane/Introduction
Chen Weixin
Fuzhou Luoyuanren, in 1992, learned art from Mr. Pan Qingshi, a master of Chinese arts and crafts, has been engaged in Shoushan stone carving art for 30 years, winner of the National May Day Labor Medal, winner of the Provincial May Day Labor Medal, inheritor of the Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, Provincial Master of Arts and Crafts, Senior Arts and Crafts Artist, published three related books, published a number of sculpture art papers, created works that won more than 30 national and provincial and ministerial awards, and many works were collected by national and provincial art galleries and museums. Provincial skill master studio, cultural master studio, pay attention to social responsibility and participate in public welfare activities, donate to various charities and donate works for free auction.
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