This article is reproduced from the public account "21 Space Art Museum"
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The Borderless Workshop：
Exhibition of Lei Zhenhua and His Students
Workshop Without Boundaries: Lei Zhenhua and his students
2022 . Inaugural exhibition
2022 . First Exhibition
place
21 Space Art Museum
Exhibition time
April 29 - July 11, 2022
Supporting units
Guangdong Hongda Industry and Trade Group, Heroine (International) Beauty And Wellness Chain Group
Workshop without Boundaries: Lei Zhenhua and his students are curators by Yang Xiaoyan, artistic director of 21 Space Art Museum, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Art of Sun Yat-sen University, and Hu Bin, dean and professor of the School of Arts and Humanities of The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, as the academic host, and the exhibition will be launched on April 29, 2022, and will exhibit more than 80 oil paintings, ink paintings, comprehensive materials, installations and video works.
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Preface
Exhibition Preface I
Borderless workshop
Yang Xiaoyan
Artistic Director of Twenty-One Space Art Museum
Professor, School of Arts, Sun Yat-sen University
It is not so much that Lei Zhenhua is an artist as that he is an engineer; rather than an engineer, it is better to say that he is a master of dismantling machines; rather than a master of dismantling machines, it is better to say that he is a player who reorganizes various dynamics; rather than a player who reorganizes various dynamics, he is an artist who shines with warm light or some light from the inside out. He loves all kinds of moving machines. For example, he has been passionate about model aircraft for many years; not only is he enthusiastic, he plays model aircraft at a level that is almost professional. But in fact, he is a love, such as a flying machine that rises in the air and can be skillfully controlled. Because of his love, his studio became a real workshop, with all kinds of tools, all kinds of large and small engines, cars, motorcycles, model airplanes, and so on. The reason is simple: if you have played with something enough, you will disassemble it, and the parts will be piled on the flat ground and become a device that is not a device. This requires the engineer's common sense, but throws away the engineer's construction function and turns to "destruction" - in fact, it is a game of play!
Lei Zhenhua has been painting abstraction. Still, abstraction seems too conceptual. He has been piling up pigments and various materials that can be put together. Suddenly he painted abstract ink. Of course, a little understanding, it is found that his abstract ink is not drawn, but a kind of manipulation: using an unmanned aerial vehicle to drag a long brush, point the ink, and then fly to the top of the huge rice paper, constantly shaking, using ink with dots or lines, leaving a record of "flight" on the paper.
His studio is a workshop, complete with tools, and all kinds of disassembly things, such as various large and small engines, and so on. I think he has to face such a workshop, he has to be in it, he has to forget himself, and then he can find some kind of ineffable stimulus in it. Then, disassembled, or reassembled, or manipulated, or tapped, or assembled, and the result, he said, was "art." Therefore, Lei Zhenhua's true identity is an artist, an "nameless" artist who is always playing and enjoying endless fun in the process of playing. He doesn't care about fame at all, he only cares about how to play to really enjoy himself. As you can imagine, the scene of the exhibition is also a workshop. This proves that Lei Zhenhua's art workshop is inherently boundless, inherently boundless, inherently undefinable, like his art.
This feature of Lei Zhenhua obviously also affected his students, who were equally keen on experimentation and having fun in experiments, did not focus on so-called themes, did not easily identify with recognized shapes, and imposed a sociality that was considered important to creation, but more in the depths of their personal hearts to find a workshop, a workshop of thinking and creation.
Since it is a workshop of thinking and creation, how can we set boundaries for it? Therefore, Lei Zhenhua's workshop is boundless. His students' workshops are probably boundless.
is the preamble.
April 18, 2022
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Preface
Preface II to the exhibition
It is a workshop and a testing ground
Hu Bin
Dean and Professor of the School of Arts and Humanities of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Lei Zhenhua is an artist who has received professional training from the Academy of Fine Arts and is in the academy system, but it is difficult to be positioned. His early abstract paintings emphasized the power of color and brushstroke movement, and later gradually incorporated elements of numerous mechanical parts, which stemmed from his obsession with machinery, especially off-road motorcycles and aero models. The picture became a testing ground for his interpretation of other "amateur pursuits"; it was accompanied by his strong interest in celestial movement, cosmic space, and multidimensional worlds. His art is increasingly moving towards a certain industrial sense, like a workshop full of various machines and tools; his cross-border is not a movement between gentle and elegant "light media", but a "battlefield" with a heavy breathing body. He carried out expeditions of body and machinery, philosophy and action in the vast workshops he had opened up without borders.
This attitude of seeing art as an action closely related to one's own life experience and a borderless experiment also influenced his students. Several of the students exhibiting this time are already the best among young artists, and their works are diverse in orientation and appearance, which is due to open experimentation; but if you want to summarize some commonalities, the manifestation of physical experience and the perception of life, the study of multiple materials and the observation of the experimental process are undoubtedly clues that can be traced. This is an invisible "production structure" connected by rustic work and a spirit full of heat, and it can also silently affect more people.
21 Space Art Museum has launched such a teacher-student exhibition for the sixth time, which is not a teacher-student friendship in the general sense, but a concern for the artist's creative state and the growth mechanism behind it. Through this series of exhibitions "××× and His Students", we hope to present the new phenomenon of the changing academy and the artistic ecology under the influence of this new phenomenon.
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Works of art
Some of the works on display
Lei Zhenhua "Neurons.20220303" Rice Paper Ink Acrylic 40x40cm 2022
Lei Zhenhua "Interstellar Ecology" Integrated Material Device Size Variable 2022
Chen Liyu "Mountains and Rivers Outside the Clouds" Cloth Comprehensive Material 140x120cm 2020
He Xiaochun "Floating Life" Comprehensive Material 120x130cm 2019
Liao Dajie, "Dark Night Ii", oil on canvas, 50x60cm, 2012
Zheng Qi, "Donating Names in Kind", oil on canvas, 180x320cm, 2013
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THE PROFILE OF MOUSHAN
Artist Introduction
Lei Zhenhua
Lei ZhenHua
Originally from Taishan, Guangdong Province, he was born in 1951
From 1984 to 1987, he studied oil painting mural painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Received a master's degree and is tutored by Professor Feng Yuqi
In the same year, he stayed in the oil painting department and has been teaching since then
He has successively served as the director of the mural studio of the Oil Painting Department and the director of the Fifth Experimental Art Studio of the Oil Painting Department
Master tutor
Chen Liyu
Chen LiYu
Born in Guangzhou in 1980
In 2006, he graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree in oil painting art creation
He is currently a teacher in the Fine Arts Department of the School of Art and Design of Guangdong University of Technology
He Xiaochun
He XiaoChun
Born in Hunan
In 2007, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree
He is currently a lecturer at the College of Design and Arts and Crafts of Guangdong Vocational College of Literature and Art
Deputy Secretary-General of Guangdong Academy of Calligraphy and Painting of Jiusan Society
In 2016, the art resided in France
Liao Dajie
Liao DaJie
Born in 1976 in Yueyang, Hunan
In 2000, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree
In 2005, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree
He is currently teaching at the Affiliated High School of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Zheng Qi
Zheng Qi
He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2008
In 2011, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree in contemporary experimental art
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About us
About us
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