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Engraving, writing, and framing, who else is there? The famous writer Jia Pingwa commented on Zhong Guokang——
Poetry is right, pen and ink are splashed, flying knives are engraved, and the New Year is welcomed. On December 16th, Zhong Guokang's creation site New Year's Eve Exhibition was held in the exhibition hall of Shuangxi Villa in Baiyun Mountain, Guangzhou. The exhibition will be on view until January 10, 2024. What sets this model apart from ordinary exhibitions?
Framed while carving and writing, showing real kung fu
Exhibitions of calligraphy and painting works of art are usually carefully selected by calligraphers and painters to their satisfaction, framed and then exhibited to the audience in art museums. However, Zhong Guokang went the opposite way, carving, writing and framing three days before the exhibition, showing his 50 years of creative experience and experience in calligraphy and seal carving to calligraphy and seal carving art lovers and audiences in Guangzhou. This kind of zero-distance on-site creation art exhibition has a good communication effect, but it requires the real effort of the artist. This is also the 17th traveling exhibition held by Zhong Guokang this year, but this exhibition is different from other exhibitions in that all the works are created on the spot with poems, calligraphy, paintings, and seal carvings.
On December 16th, 17th and 18th, a total of 45 eight-foot calligraphy and painting works were created, and more than 300 visitors from Zhanjiang, Foshan, Dongguan, Qingyuan, Shenzhen and other places were not only lovers of calligraphy and painting.
He has carved seals for many cultural celebrities
Zhong Guokang, who dared to innovate the style, began to learn Xi calligraphy and seal carving at the age of fifteen, and Xi art for 50 years. From showing movies on the farm, to the county cultural center as a creative counselor, all the way to work in the School of Arts of Shenzhen University, to the Chinese Academy of Arts, the highest art research institute in China, as a tutor, the pursuit and exploration of art has never stopped, the more he writes and the more passionate Zhong Guokang, over the years, he has carved seals for more than 200 cultural celebrities such as Mo Yan, Huang Yongyu, Jin Yong, Jia Pingwa, Wang Shuo, etc., which have been included in the book "Contemporary Chinese Literati Seals" published by Guangxi University Press; The famous comedian Huang Hong once said: "In China, only Zhong Guokang can make the small art of seal carving so big." ”
In the past 20 years, Zhong Guokang has published more than 20 books, including "Zhong Guokang's Seal Carving Collection", "Golden Signboard", "Jin Yong's Martial Arts Novel Famous Seal Carving", "Printing Back to the Tang Dynasty", etc. The China Writers Publishing House has published Zhong Guokang's biography "The Ugliest Man - Zhong Guokang's Personal Art History".
Zhong Guokang "walks erratically, with a ghostly atmosphere"
■ Famous writer Jia Pingwa
Ji Yuzi raised fighting cocks for the king, and it was a success, and its chickens were like wooden chickens, and Gade was complete, and its chickens did not dare to respond.
I didn't first read this story from the Zhuangzi, but Zhong Guokang told me, and he gave me a seal: Wooden chickens are raised.
Zhong Guokang is a very strange person I have met for more than ten years. He had a sunken nose, a sparse beard, long, curly and greasy hair, and always wore black. It seems that the back is a little hunched, the front placket is long, the back placket is short, and a rope is pulled from the neckline and hung around the waist. Walking erratically, there is a ghostly atmosphere.
He was a calligrapher who wrote with a pen on rice paper and a knife on a stone.
The shape is so weak, he should lower his eyebrows and be pleasing to the eyes, he should be silent, but no, he can never be quiet, he walks around, so excited, with a rich expression. Keep talking and laughing, laughing while talking, laughing while talking. I have seen him write on rice paper, the ink is very thin, the long pen pokes through, almost holding the ink, and it is on the paper, and then he makes a lot of force and a lot of action, like martial arts, surprisingly the ink is ink, the water is water, there is the smell of sea breeze and mountain bones. In that scene, you can imagine that Li Bai wrote poems after baijiu, Li Bai may be very tall and chic, but he wrote a few words, covered with ink stains, especially with toilet paper, a lump of dirty paper dropped a layer on the ground. It would be even more crazy to engrave words on the stone, push the glasses on the forehead, and then break a piece of the stone, look, look, see the stone is ashamed, and suddenly take out the knife from his arms, unlike other people's knives, his knife is half a foot long with a finger thick, it is simply a steel chisel! Click, click, click, he pays attention to rhythm. When he engraved the seal, everyone gathered around him, and he didn't dare to make a sound, but he was a good teacher, talking about why this word was so structured, what was the meaning of this knife treatment, and how it could have such an effect, and he was proud of himself.
He has always been conceited, and he has no one in his eyes, but at the same time he has included him. Looking up at the Xuanbiao and looking down at the group, he told me in all seriousness that he was going to live to be over 90, and that he was going to add something to his art every year. I can't read exactly what breakthroughs and limitations he has, but I can read the flavor of gold and stone in his calligraphy, and read the feeling of Maohao, ink and even rice paper in his engravings.
There are many rumors about him in society that he has a strange appearance and often unexpected behavior. said that he had very little food and was insolent. He said that he made his own ink and ink, which made the house stink. said that when he went out for a meeting, he put a basket of seal stones in the carriage, and when he came back in three or five days, the seal stones were all engraved, and then a basket of works was sealed in a special room. It is said that if you want to print, you will print 20,000 yuan, if you bargain, you will have 25,000, and if you bargain again, you will have to ask for 30,000 yuan, and you will have to ask for it, so you will get up and send off the guests. He said that many people now collect his old seals in the society, and it is also rumored that a big boss is planning to build an art museum for him.
I looked at him and always thought: What kind of person is this, maybe he was Zhong Kui in his previous life, and he is only a ghost in this life.
I also gave him a piece of calligraphy: Wooden chickens are raised.
Said Zhong Guokang calligraphy
■ Well-known scholar Luo Tao
Guokang to the area of the mountain and the soft water, and the pen slashes, but there is a generous and sad atmosphere, since it is very different from the Lingnan Yuxiu light wind, often look at the exhibition, must jump out of a chapter, which makes people sigh.
In the past 50 years, the book of Lingnan has been mostly Xiuyi and long-lasting. Wu Zi's return to school ritual can be elegant and can not be ancient, Qin Yusheng is in the posture of Zhao Ti with the pen of the North Tablet, Mai Hua Sanben contains mellow regrets for the late fall and weakness, Li Quzhai ups and downs and slightly hurts. Guokang was born after that, the Cantonese people did not make the book of the Cantonese people, its line of grass line, to the big to the rigid, domineering dripping, the pen has the wind to rise and thunder, the ink has the amount of Songsheng Yue, when it goes down in one breath, the majestic paper, do not avoid the wrong pen, I know that it can not be their own people.
The characteristics of talent are also shocking, and their faults are also amazing. And the theory of ancient painting in our country also has the saying that "painting is expensive and there is a wrong brush". This is an unexpected leakage of heavenly opportunities, a trace of the turbulence of talent, and there is no way to break through the shackles of the fence without fault, and there is no way to express its depression and injustice.
To cover the face of a hero, it is better to have the wounds of the mouth and claws of the beast than to have the ornament of the woman's powder.
Guokang is not born in the sky, and he is also a person who has won the three flavors of the Qing people. Retro to open a new, distant and close attack, this Qing people's old rut, and today's people's new track.
As for the calligraphy, the law of the Jin and Tang dynasties is almost poor. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Duo, Zhang Ruitu, Huang Daozhou, and Ni Yuanlu sought to turn their heads with new theories. However, its state is solid and new, and its sect has not changed, and it is still a partial division and a brigade, and it has not opened a grand array. Only the Qing Dynasty, the golden stone tablet version of the Xuexing, can be described as a poor place of water, the clouds rise from the new sky, Ling Tang Yi Song, the father Qin Seal to get its bones, the mother Han to get its flesh, to the brothers to store the north and south monuments to nourish its blood, so the fish and dragon change, each because of the dye, can enter the ancients, out of me, the song of its feelings, dance its sex; A hundred years in Si, a big scoop to store the moon, a small ladle to divide the river, and unlimited irrigation! This is not only a typical new, but also shows people with infinite ways to save evils.
Guokang considered in the meantime, take the disadvantages of the stubborn uncle's vigorous and light, take the disadvantages of the winter heart's spicy and mature charm, take the disadvantages of the bitter iron's recklessness and overbearing, and take the disadvantages of the innocence of the white stone, so as to trace back to the Qin and Han dynasties and re-peep into the Jin and Tang dynasties.
Today, Guokang collects his works in the world, the grand view, the camp is new, the weather is solemn, such as seeing the famous generals, wanting to coerce the thunderbolt to the corner of the Central Plains, and restore the majestic and upright spirit of Lingnan. Tao felt the same as above in the book, and talked about the drums and copper cymbals and the iron arpeggio to strengthen his line.
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Famous seal carver and calligrapher.
■Collection Weekly reporter Liang Zhiqin