The slightly youthful brushstrokes, the bold and bold colors, and the unbridled imagination unique to all kinds of young people...... All of them are condensed into oil paintings and installations.
On the afternoon of April 19th, the final report exhibition of the 2023~2024 Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Young Artist Residency Program was officially opened at the Art Museum of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. At the scene, the artists (curators) selected for this year's residency appeared neatly with their respective creations and presented a special report "answer sheet" for everyone.
The Sichuan Fine Arts Institute's Young Artist Residency Program has been recruiting for the first time since 2013. Its original intention is to help outstanding young artists in the form of public welfare, and to explore a talent training model suitable for the growth of mainland art talents with a free, open and inclusive attitude, so as to achieve the purpose of "helping and giving young artists a ride".
Most of the selected individuals have graduated from major art colleges and universities, and they have dreams of pursuing art, but they are still a certain distance from becoming artists. Their professional backgrounds cover most of the majors in the current higher art education, and a considerable number of them are still exploring in their respective directions, becoming more and more well-known art creators and disseminators of new art concepts. The Young Artist Residency Program of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute has also become a well-known "brand" with a wide influence in the art world.
The 2023~2024 Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Young Artist Residency Program received a total of 118 applications during the recruitment stage, and finally 28 artists-in-residence and 2 curators-in-residence were successfully shortlisted.
On the afternoon of the 19th, upstream news reporters saw at the exhibition site that the organizers set the theme of the final report exhibition of this year's young artist-in-residence as "2 kilometers away from the city". "This emphasizes the concept of a physical space. Originally, it referred to the location of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute: two kilometers from the Chongqing Ring Expressway, on the edge of the central city. "On multiple levels such as space, time, and psychology, this indicates a subtle position, maintaining a certain sense of distance from the center, the edge, the past, and the future. This is also a metaphor for the overall state of the young artists resident at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
Walking into the exhibition hall, a variety of works that are both youthful and sharp are dizzying. For example, the oil painting "Kite" brought by the young artist Cao Dandan seems to be a screenshot of the scene of a kite hanging by a tree branch outside the school teaching building, which everyone is very familiar with. But in Cao Dandan's view, this is a direct and pure portrayal of his childhood that he has always envied. "I have always been painting with the theme of 'childhood and memory', and when I paint scenes such as childhood past and games, I always try to go back to my childhood and talk to myself through time and space. ”
Li Yichen, who graduated from the Royal College of Art with a master's degree in sculpture, brought a series of wood carvings called "Dream in the Garden" to the scene. Among them, the Taihu Lake stone screen and the Trojan horse of the Mountains and Seas are very oriental aesthetic charm. It is particularly worth mentioning that in the process of creation, Li Yichen specially collected fragments of old wood carvings with a hundred years of history and cultural precipitation from old Chinese buildings, and re-restored, polished, polished, and colored them into the sculptures.
The exhibition will last until May 19, and interested citizens can visit the exhibition for free at the Art Museum of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.
Upstream news reporter Qiu Jinyi