"Ink Tide New Elephant - 2022 Spring Strait Youth Art Exchange Exhibition" was held in Taipei. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter He Zili
Taipei, 16 Apr (Xinhua) -- Nearly 100 paintings, calligraphy and seal engravings by 40 artists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait were unveiled in Taipei on 16 April. At the opening ceremony, the participating artists and well-known social figures expressed the need to inject a new atmosphere into cross-strait exchanges with the power of culture and art.
The exhibition, titled "New Image of Ink Tide - 2022 Spring Straits Youth Art Exchange Exhibition", interprets the understanding of ink art creators in time and space with contemporary thinking and changes in trends, reflects the current situation of ink creation of young artists on both sides of the strait, and attracts many art lovers to come to watch.
Professor Chen Binghong of National Taiwan University of the Arts served as the curator of the exhibition, and Professor Weng Zhenxin, honorary chairman of the Fujian Provincial Artists Association, served as the academic host. On the mainland side, the works of 16 artists, including Wang Laiwen, director of the China Artists Association and vice chairman of the Fujian Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhao Shengli, director of the China Artists Association and secretary general of the Fujian Artists Association, and Zhang Yonghai, president of the Fujian Academy of Painting, participated in the exhibition. Professors Chen Binghong, Lin Jintao and He Yaozhi of the National Taiwan University of the Arts led young Painters from Taiwan to participate in the grand event.
Since 2019, the "Cross-Strait Image Art Cultural and Creative Association" has initiated the holding of cross-strait youth art joint exhibitions, holding an average of more than two calligraphy and painting exhibitions in Taiwan every year, and has held more than ten art exchange exhibitions of different specifications so far. The number of participating artists this year is higher, and the breadth and level of works are higher.
"Ink Tide New Elephant - 2022 Spring Strait Youth Art Exchange Exhibition" was held in Taipei. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter He Zili
Guo Qingzhang, chairman of the "Cross-Strait Image Art Cultural and Creative Association," said in his speech that over the past three years, in addition to promoting the normalization of exchanges between middle-aged and young people on both sides of the strait with calligraphy and painting art as the medium, it has expanded to other artistic fields such as photography and drama, opening up a greater space for cross-strait youth art exchanges.
He said that at present, through the exchange of calligraphy and painting art circles on both sides of the strait, it is what we should let go of to promote academic exchanges between middle-aged and young artists on both sides of the strait and achieve the unity and common development of compatriots on both sides of the strait.
Zhang Yonghai, president of the Fujian Academy of Painting, and Lai Xiaobing, vice president of the Fujian Pictorial Newspaper of the Straits Publishing and Distribution Group, sent congratulatory videos respectively. They unanimously hoped that the cultural exchanges and visits of artists on both sides of the strait would go further.