Since 1978, with the continuous emergence of concepts such as "empty talk misleading the country, hard work and rejuvenation", "dare to be the first in the world", Shenzhen, a land full of innovative vitality, has attracted a group of young people, achieved one entrepreneurial miracle after another, and planted the seeds of modern entrepreneurship. Today, culture and art will become an important driving force for Shenzhen to set sail again.
Recently, a super sample art exhibition hosted by Shenzhen Vanke will be held in the City Exhibition Hall of Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base. Works by Anish Kapoor, Daniel Buren and Su Xinping's internationally renowned masters will gather to unveil the grand international art. Shenzhen Vanke's collection of Masterpiece Anish Kapoor will also meet with the audience.
City view of Shenzhen
Curated by Sun Dongdong, the exhibition includes a number of British Turner Prize winners, presenting a number of artists representing China at the Venice Biennale, as well as a number of in-service teachers with academic influence. As the assistant curator of the Chinese Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale, Sun Dongdong took "sample" and "super" as the keywords of the exhibition curation, transformed the limited exhibition space into a spatial practice of seeing the small and seeing the small, and explored, experimented and looked forward to the future cultural and artistic ecology of the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base through an international high-level art dialogue, as well as the possibilities for Shenzhen's urban cultural innovation and urban quality improvement.
In particular, it is worth mentioning that the Chinese artists participating in this exhibition are mainly artists at the Chinese National Pavilion at the 59th Venice International Art Biennale this year, which is equivalent to a display of the Chinese national team at the Venice Biennale in China.
Su Xinping's "Walking Man" at the exhibition site FRP, 455*130*405cm, 2021
At the entrance to the exhibition, a large sculpture stands gently but firmly, and his creator, the artist Su Xinping, vice president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, is such an alert or anti-tide person. His simple and sincere personality, the feeling of "compassion for heaven and man", the thinking about the essence of things, the exploration of self... Throughout his work and throughout. This artist has never stopped the pursuit and thinking of metaphysical spiritual expression, and at the same time, he has practiced his artistic ideals down-to-earth, and constantly explores social reality issues such as desire, spiritual or ideological crisis.
The early experience of life in the grasslands and the experience of serving in the army made Su Xinping deeply experience the lonely state of the earth, the sky and the soul. In the 1980s and 1990s, Su Xinping created a large number of prints reflecting such themes, showing the strength of his artistic spirit and the strength of his will to life; later, due to his sensitive recognition of the pain of China's social transformation, Su Xinping began to use direct painting methods such as oil painting and drawing to explore social reality issues such as desire, spirit, and ideological crisis; and with the gradual deepening of his understanding of his own way of work, Su Xinping also incorporated self-reflection and traditional cultural inquiry into the scope of practice. This leads to reflections on conceptual issues such as the intertextual relationship between art and everyday life, and the effective synchronization of time and thinking.
Su Xinping's "Walking Man" at the exhibition site FRP, 455*130*405cm, 2021
The exhibit "Walking Man" is one of Su Xinping's latest series in recent years, and it is also the first time in decades that he has tried to express a given theme in the language of sculpture. The work follows the realistic perspective of the artist's social care since the 1990s, and this running image is from the large-scale oil painting "The Running Man" in 2010: the artist takes himself as the prototype, and in the fiery background, a person strides from the left side of the picture to the right, and his feet are extended to the edge of the picture. Where did he come from? Where to go? Why rush? ...... The artist uses ritualized formal language to abstract this body movement and facial expression about "walking" in the logic of reality, condensing a certain visual symbol with stable meaning. In the process of transforming the plane into space, this work is like a prism that reflects different levels of intention. "The Walking Man" not only has a more realistic scale relationship and physical feelings, but also gives a new visual imagination (Yu Ke) by materials, textures and expression techniques.
The prominent single image and the emptied material space, with a realistic appearance for ultra-realistic imagination, is one of the typical styles of Su Xinping's artistic creation. On the other hand, this work is also related to "people", which has been one of the themes of Su Xinping's creation since the 1990s. After thirty years of development, Su Xinping is now more concerned about the "value of life".
Su Xinping's "Walking Man" at the exhibition site FRP, 455*130*405cm, 2021
Although the sculpture is still, the sharp silhouette, strong steps and resolute expression of the work always make people feel as if he is going to walk into the distance without squinting and striding forward in the next second. This is undoubtedly the embodiment of the Shenzhen spirit and the abstraction of countless Shenzhen people, presenting the living state and mental state of every enterprising person behind the rapid development of Chinese society, the value embodiment of each individual's life, the allegorical image of the rapid development trend of modern and contemporary China, and the artistic reflection of the spirit of the special zone.
For "The Walking Man", a "capitalized person" is undoubtedly a monument to shaping the times for individuals who continue to move forward and struggle under the nourishment of the long history of art.
"I am grasping the relationship between people and people, people and society, people and the universe will not change, but the world is changing, in the face of the changing world will have different psychological reactions, I hope to capture this psychological change and conceptual change, of course, the basic things are always unchanged." 」 Su Xinping said.
Su Xinping's "Walking Man" at the exhibition site FRP, 455*130*405cm, 2021
Michael Porter, the father of world competitive strategy, once said that advantages based on culture are the most fundamental, irreplaceable and imitative, the most lasting and core competitiveness, and culture is the largest real estate of the city. The focus of world economic development is shifting to cities with heavy cultural accumulation, if cities do not attach importance to cultural accumulation, the future economic development of cities will also decline and be unsustainable. But culture is still the core competitiveness, but also the engine of urban development and renewal.
In fact, Su Xinping is not only an outstanding artist, but also an excellent art educator. His self-breakthrough artistic exploration since the beginning of the "85 Art Movement" has demonstrated the vitality of contemporary art, and this is exactly what this exhibition wants to bring to Shenzhen - through the most vivid vitality of contemporary art, activate the urban vitality of Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base, Shenzhen and even the whole country.
It is reported that this exhibition has received special support from the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base Development and Construction Headquarters Office, the Propaganda Department of the Nanshan District Party Committee and the Institute of Science and Technology and Art of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and is currently being set up.
Nandu reporter Huang Qian