At the exhibition site, the picture shows the head of Xiong Bingming, the director of the National Art Museum of China, Wu Weishan, and Shi Chunyang
Beijing, April 21 (China News Network) On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Mr. Xiong Bingming's birth, the "Return of the PlasticIst - Xiong Bingming's Art Retrospective Exhibition" sponsored by the National Art Museum of China is underway. This exhibition is one of the series of exhibitions of the National Art Museum of China", which exhibits more than 150 works of Xiong Bingming's sculptures, paintings, calligraphy and many other art disciplines, showing his artistic life and philosophical thinking through three parts: "self", "people" and "things".
The exhibition scene is photographed by Shi Chunyang
Xiong Bingming (1922-2002) was a French-Chinese artist, philosopher, and son of the famous mathematician Xiong Qinglai. In 1947, he was admitted as a publicly funded international student and studied for a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Paris for one year, and then transferred to the École Supérieure des Arts in Paris to study sculpture. Since 1962, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Oriental Languages and Cultures of the University of Paris III, teaching Chinese culture and philosophy, and at the same time opening calligraphy classes, engaging in calligraphy practice and teaching research. In 2001, he was awarded the Honorary Professor of Nanjing University. Xiong Bingming has lived in France for more than 50 years, and is a cultural self-conscious person who integrated Chinese and Western cultures in the 20th century and practiced enlightenment with philosophy, literature and art.
The exhibition takes Mr. Xiong Bingming's sculptures as the main line, and the philosophy of his creation is the internal logic. "Self" symbolizes an inspiration that fills us with enthusiasm and hope for life. Through the chapter of "Shaping 'Self'", the viewer can feel the overall responsibility and belief inspiration of the artist's "heart" plastic process and its spiritual orientation; the "Plastic 'Person'" chapter presents the artist's love for the image of life and the imagination of the life itself; the "Plastic 'Thing'" chapter, through the shaping of a "thing" and the transformation of many kinds, seemingly ordinary things, but contains rich spiritual connotations and philosophical ideas in concise shapes, lines and blocks.
The exhibition scene is photographed by Shi Chunyang
To shape people is to shape oneself. As his close friend Yang Zhenning wrote in the inscription of "The Cow of The Baby": "Bingming shaped the self-knowledge of generations of Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century." Mr. Wu Guanzhong also said: "Its tao is also infiltrating from the East into the West, and then from the West and back to the East." This is not so much an interpretation of Xiong Bingming's work as it is an endorsement of his "self" spirit.
At the exhibition site, the picture shows Shi Chunyang, the "flat-bellied cow" sculptured by Xiong Bingming
Wu Weishan, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, director of the National Art Museum of China, and vice chairman of the China Artists Association, commented: "Mr. Xiong Bingming is a seed of Chinese culture. For half a century, with the nourishing soil of the mother culture, in the West, it has received sunshine, rain and dew and grown into a towering tree. He thought of himself as 'an experiment of life.' ’”
This exhibition is following the 2019 "Self-Knowledge – Xiong Bingming Art Exhibition", and the National Art Museum of China once again reviews Mr. Xiong Bingming's art through the "Collection Revitalization" series of exhibitions. The works and documents in the exhibition are donated by Xiong Bingming's family and Yang Zhenning and his wife.
It is reported that the exhibition will last until May 11. (End)