People's Daily Tokyo, April 21 (Wu Ying) On the 20th, Wang Chuanfeng, a well-known painter in Japan, and Kengo Kuma, a famous Japanese architectural designer, jointly held an exhibition of calligraphy and paintings entitled "Pen Song and Ink Dance" at the Ueno Noburi Art Museum in Tokyo.
The picture shows Chinese Ambassador to Japan Kong Xuanyou (second from right), famous Japanese architect Kengo Kuma (second from left), and Wang Chuanfeng, a well-known painter in Japan (first from left), cutting the ribbon for the opening ceremony. People's Daily Wu Ying
The picture shows Chinese Ambassador to Japan Kong Xuanyou (first from left) visiting the art exhibition accompanied by Kengo Kuma (second from right) and Wang Chuanfeng (first from right). People's Daily Wu Ying
In his speech, Kong Xuanyou said that on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, this kind of cultural exchange across borders and fields has far-reaching significance. It is expected that the works in this exhibition will bloom in the long river of Sino-Japanese culture and witness the history of Sino-Japanese friendship.
The picture shows tourists visiting the art exhibition. People's Daily Wu Ying
The picture shows a huge painting and calligraphy work painted by Wang Chuanfeng and with the inscription of Kuma Kengo. Courtesy of Wang Chuanfeng
Wang Chuanfeng has been in Japan for more than 30 years, and has been active in the front line of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges for a long time, and was awarded the title of "Sino-Japanese Friendship Messenger". Kengo Kuma is a world-renowned master builder and the designer of the main venue for the Tokyo Olympics. Talking about his knowledge of calligraphy, Kengo Kuma said that writing with a brush is indeed different from the feeling of drawing architectural sketches. The brush is soft and elastic, and through calligraphy, he seems to have realized the long meaning of oriental traditions. In an interview, Wang Chuanfeng spoke highly of Kengo Kuma's architectural design background, which made the words from his hand particularly have an empty inspiration and are very ethereal. Wang Chuanfeng said that he and Kuma Kengo have been friends with pen and ink for more than 20 years, and at the same time he has also been inspired by it, jumping out of the tradition that ink paintings of flowers and birds are often small paintings, and trying to create huge works with a height of 4 meters.
It is understood that this exhibition for the first time exhibited more than 100 collaborative works written by Wang Chuanfeng and Kengo Kuma, and the cooperation between the two artists across national borders and fields witnessed the exchange of culture, art and architecture between China and Japan.