In the hit drama "Flowers" at the end of last year
Zhizhen Garden on the Yellow River Road
It is a feng shui treasure for Shanghai businessmen
Guests who came here
It's not a simple meal
It's about business
Shenzhen in the real world at that time
It also has its own true garden
——The "Eight Immortal Building" on Dongyuan Road
merely
People who came here
It's about art
Unlike Zhizhenyuan, which has made a lot of money, Zhang Zhixian, the owner of the "Eight Immortal Building", has to post a little upside down. As long as someone introduces the artist who came from, the order is free, and the local one is 7% off.
Interestingly, the boss set up a simple studio in the store, and all the literary and artistic workers who came to eat had to "leave their heads" - take portraits.
It was also from then on that Zhang Zhixian began to use his lens to record a large number of talented cultural people and artists. Among them, there are amateurs, art practitioners, and even pioneers of Shenzhen's culture and art......
Literary and artistic creators under the lens
Hu Hongxia is one of them. Speaking of this senior media person, I have to mention the story of him and Shenzhen's "Shendu".
Applying for the world's fourth "City of Design"?
In 2008, Shenzhen was recognized as a "City of Design" by UNESCO's Global Creative Cities Network. This is of great significance to the development and growth of Shenzhen's cultural and creative industries and to the world.
During the two-year application journey, Hu Hongxia, who was then a member of the editorial board of Shenzhen Business Daily, first discovered the possibility of Shenzhen's "Shendu" by chance, and was later entrusted with an important task as a member of the Shenzhen delegation to participate in the preliminary research and investigation and complete the writing of the "Shendu" report. It can be said that he is a promoter, a witness and a witness.
In May 2008, the Shenzhen delegation submitted the "Shendu" report, and the second from the left was Hu Hongxia. (Source: Crystal News)
In March this year, a "beautiful photo of youth" taken 30 years ago evoked many memories of his acquaintance with Zhang Zhixian.
"When we ran the column of "Cultural Square", we often went to the Eight Immortals Building to go to Lao Zhang (Zhang Zhixian)'s dinner, and met many art celebrities during the banquet. I remember that the painter Tian Yuan was introduced to us by him, and the interview with Mr. Ji Xianlin was also an opportunity he helped to win. ”
Hu Hongxia in 1995 and 2024
"In Shenzhen?" Zhang Zhixian contacted Hu Hongxia and said that he wanted to make up the "old age photos", so he had this set of comparison photos.
It turned out that Zhang Zhixian was busy organizing a portrait exhibition.
Talking about the origin of curation, he mentioned, "At first, after taking pictures of an old painter, I compared the old photos from many years ago, and I deeply felt that the years were unforgiving, and I couldn't forget their young and vivid appearance. I decided to retake the portraits of my friends again and make a comparison exhibition. ”
It is not so much that Zhang Zhixian took portraits of cultural figures, but rather vivid and inspirational stories of Shenzhen culture.
For example, Chen Xiangbo, who designed the mascot for CCTV for two consecutive years and brought "Shenzhen elements" to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, the director of Guan Shanyue Art Museum, was also captured by Zhang Zhixian.
Then
"The central area of Futian is still a wasteland"
In the early 90s of the last century, Shenzhen was preparing to build the Guan Shanyue Art Museum, and Guan Shanyue, a master of contemporary Chinese painting, thought of Chen Xiangbo, who had just graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and sent him an invitation.
In this way, Chen Xiangbo came to Shenzhen with a pure heart for art, participated in the preparation of the art museum, and witnessed the vigorous development of Shenzhen's art industry.
Chen Xiangbo still remembers when he first arrived in Shenzhen, when the Guan Shanyue Art Museum was under construction, in a temporary resettlement area. At that time, "the central area of Futian was still a wasteland. Nowadays, Futian is full of high-rise buildings and flowers. ”
He sighed, "As a witness of the times, I am watching Shenzhen move forward step by step, and watching Shenzhen's cultural construction and economic construction get better and better." ”
Chen Xiangbo in 1999 and 2024
As Chen Xiangbo said, Shenzhen in that era was full of piling sounds. The booming urban construction ecology has attracted people with entrepreneurial enthusiasm to step into this hot land, including the young director Li Yawei.
"I think I should go to a very hot place"
Li Yawei began to learn music at the age of 7 or 8, playing the violin, and receiving the influence of music.
After graduating from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, she was assigned to the Changchun Film Studio Orchestra, and later worked as a screenwriter and director. She said, "I have worked in a film studio for 16 years, and my love for film and television is engraved in my bones. ”
"Some seniors said, 'If you want to create and start a business, you must go to Shenzhen. I was tempted, and I felt that I should go to a very hot place and stimulate a lot of my desire to create. By chance, she entered the Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles at the age of 36.
In 1999, the stills of "Shenzhen Story - Rise" were filmed, with the starring Xi Meijuan on the right and Li Yawei on the left.
Li Yawei has filmed and created a large number of art masterpieces set in Shenzhen: "Shenzhen Story" series, "A Hundred Years of Zhongying Street", "There is an Indigenous Folk in Xiasha Village", ...... Use the camera to record a group of people who came to Shenzhen from all over the world, as well as their struggles and emotional struggles.
Li Yawei in 1998 and 2024
Thirty years of artistic perseverance
Thousands of portraits
Zhang Zhixian, who pressed the shutter countless times, was also a member of the southern Shenzhen in the 90s of the last century. What few people know is that at that time, he was nearly half a hundred years old and began to get involved in the art of photography, all on his own.
Aiming the lens at friends in the cultural and artistic circles also has a unique "advantage". At that time, the "Eight Immortal Tower" operated by him was used as a stronghold of Shenzhen cultural people, gathering "pioneer cattle" from all over the world.
In this regard, Zhang Zhixian felt deeply, "They came when Shenzhen set off the tide of reform, they are young people in their prime, and they are middle-aged people in the prime of life. At the forefront of leading the trend, the hard work of youth is exchanged for the splendor of this city. ”
On the map of Shenzhen's cultural construction, it is generation after generation of artists who are rooted in the hot land of reform and innovation culture, telling the stories of Futian, Shenzhen and China in a broad world vision.
Through a large number of excellent works that have been popular and passed down for a long time, they have endowed this city of innovation with spiritual motivation and humanistic care.
Lu Muxun in 2007 and 2023 (calligrapher and painter)
Peng Mingyan in 1998 and 2024 (writer)
Tian Kesheng in 2005 and 2024 (oil painter)
Pei Jianhua in 1997 and 2024 (oil painter)
Zou Jiongwen in 1997 and 2024 (calligrapher)
Although the Eight Immortals Tower closed its doors in 2002, Zhang Zhixian's obsession with photography never stopped, and he also held exhibitions all over the country.
Before the closure of the "Eight Immortals Building", some members of the literary and artistic dinner took a group photo
Unexpectedly, the accumulation behind this perseverance led to the preparation of this portrait exhibition. Zhang Zhixian admits that this period is the peak moment of his portrait shooting, and the intensity of "shooting dozens of times a month" has brought a lot of challenges to the 78-year-old photographer.
Under the promotion of various forces, the "Years Like a Song" Shenzhen Culture and Art Pioneer Portrait Exhibition was successfully opened at the Shenzhen Youth Art Museum.
Tribute to the artist and praise to the laborer
Through the lens, curator Zhang Zhixian captured the self-comparison of 188 Shenzhen cultural and art workers from youth to old age, frost-dyed temples, in the same frame of the present and the past, attracting people to stop.
Coupled with a brief introduction to the creative resume, the artistic splendor of a group of people, a city and an era is fully displayed.
The exhibition is guided by the Propaganda Department of the Futian District Party Committee and co-sponsored by the Futian District Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Futian District Federation of Trade Unions, and the Shenzhen Elderly Photography Society.
On the occasion of May Day, Zhang Hairong, member of the Standing Committee of the Futian District Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, said:
This portrait is a wonderful compilation of Shenzhen's cultural stories, and it is also the epitome of the times when Shenzhen's literary and artistic circles have built Shenzhen, developed culture well, and strived to realize the Chinese dream.
In the view of Wang Jingsheng, winner of the UNESCO "Confucius Medal", a distinguished expert of the National Art Think Tank, and the general adviser of the Futian District Cultural Council:
The city should have temperature, and the temperature contains people's feelings, and this feeling hides respect for the past.
In this way, we will carefully sort out the contributions of the past generations, and each of them will never forget, respect for famous artists and talents from all walks of life.
In the imagination of the planner Zhang Zhixian, on the day of the closing ceremony, old friends from the literary and artistic circles will gather together. After the exhibition ended, "the objects were returned to their original owners" and they were asked to take the photos away for keeping.
Maybe the youth is gone, but the art is evergreen, and the creative passion in this land will continue to burst out......
Exhibition Information:
丨 Opening Hours 丨
April 28 – May 8, 2024 (Closed on Mondays)
9:00-17:00 (Last entry 16:30)
丨 Address 丨
Shenzhen Youth Art Museum (East Hall, Youth Square, Shenzhen Youth Activity Center)
Shenzhen Youth Art Museum
East Hall, Youth Square, No. 1001 Hongli Road, Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province
丨 Access 丨
Hongling subway station Exit B is a 10m walk
Special thanks to:
The public friend of literary and artistic workers - teacher Zhang Zhixian.
Zhang Zhixian in 1994 and 2024
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Edit | Text: Lao Ziyin, Gu Danni, some photography: Wu Shukai, photo courtesy: Zhang Zhixian
Proofreading | Zheng Fang, Wei Ding, and Wang established diplomatic relations
Proofreading | Yang Sha
Executive Producer | Weekly
Source of information | Futian Financial Media, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, Shenzhen Art and Culture Hui, Jing Daily