Beiqing Community Daily (WeChat ID: tongzhoushequbao) has set up a "holiday plan" for everyone in advance, this "May Day Songzhuang Brush Exhibition Guide" is worth having, 14 exhibitions at a time!
01
Be careful, pay attention, pay attention
——Cai Simin Photography and Documentary Exhibition
Exhibition Venue:
Songzhuang Art Museum
Exhibition Hours:
2024/4/20-6/21
Through the three sections of "Keeping True", "Paying Attention" and "Paying Attention", Cai Simin's artistic experience and artistic achievements are comprehensively presented.
Through a large number of documents, the "Attention" section enriches the artistic experience and pursuit of Cai Simin in the past decades from the sections of "Cai Simin's Growth, Family and Career", "Intervention in the Contemporary", "Chinese Contemporary Art in Singapore", "Cai Simin and Southwest China", "Cai Simin and Southeast Asia", "Pictures and Words in the Eyes of Friends (Family)", "Portraits of Artists Painting for Cai Simin", and "Singapore Art (Voice of Xinjiapo Art)".
As Cai Simin's masterpiece, the "Leave a Truth" series is widely regarded as the pinnacle of all of Chaismin's artworks, embodying his core photographic principles, philosophies and aesthetics. A total of 84 photographs by 14 famous Chinese painters are exhibited in the "Leaving Truth" section, including Zhu Qizhan, Liu Haisu, Huang Junbi, Zhao Shaoang, Chen Wenxi, Wang Czyqian, Li Keran, Ye Qianyu, Wu Zuoren, Lu Yanshao, Xie Zhiliu, Li Xiongcai, Tang Yun, and Guan Shanyue.
The "Attention" section exhibits a collection of 60 images of Wu Guanzhong taken by Cai Simin in the 80s and 90s of the last century. These precious images are a vivid portrayal of Go's work and travels in Singapore, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, and France. Cai Lao himself once called these photos "a precious record of our friendship".
02
What art is
- Five solo exhibitions
Exhibition Venue:
Guidian Art Space
Exhibition Hours:
2024/4/18-2024/6/18 (10:00-18:00 every Tuesday to Sunday)
In this era of creativity and imagination, the boundaries of art are constantly being broken down, and artists interpret the profound meaning of "what art is" in their own unique ways. Recently, an art feast entitled "What is Art - Five Solo Exhibitions" opened at Guidian Art Space in Songzhuang, Beijing, attracting the attention of many art lovers and industry insiders.
It is reported that the exhibition brings together the works of five artists, Chen Qingqing, Jiang Huan, Liu Guoyi, Wu Yiqiang and Zhang Chunlin, who respectively show their unique understanding and pursuit of art with the themes of "Secret Valley - Chen Qingqing's Wonderful Cabin", "Flowers and Swallows-Jiang Huan's Watery Tenderness", "Elven Empire - Liu Guoyi's Spiritual World", "Mixed Eyes - Wu Yiqiang's Database", and "Iron Tenderness - Zhang Chunlin's Quiet Years".
03
Our yard
——Qi Qi Photography Solo Exhibition
Exhibition Venue:
Beiyitang Art Museum
Exhibition Hours:
2024/4/20-2024/5/4
Qi Qi, this beautiful artist from Jiyi, Beiying and Yang Opera, is dedicated to photography but not single-minded.
Single-mindedly, as always, he combines his lifestyle and work, and of course, he is even more busy with other things, which helps the work a lot.
What is different is that when she takes portrait photography, she uses the realm of selflessness and entry, and completely integrates the technical means such as methods and modes with the photographed object, and melts them into her unique image art. Each content has its own merits, and each has its own unique charm of the subject being photographed. The characters in the world are all kinds of expressions, and their unique clues are expressed.
This is the temper of the artist, using his own free means, in order to create beauty, forgetting things and self, meeting with the relatively eternal aura in a higher dimension, and sending the expression of beauty to this exhibition hall, this is the true meaning of art!
This is the Qi Qi I saw after seeing Qi Qi's works!
Pang Shaoxian
On the eve of Qi Qi's solo exhibition 2024
04
迁徙
- The first Nomadic Art Salon
Exhibition Venue:
Songzhuang M Art Space
Exhibition Hours:
2024/4/27-2024/05/20
05
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——Sun Moyuan's solo exhibition
Exhibition Venue:
Songke Space
Exhibition Hours:
2024/5/1-2024/7/1
06
Mountains on the river
——River on the River Gao Huijun's Works Exhibition
Exhibition Venue:
Li Keran Painting Institute (Songzhuang Temple)
Exhibition Hours:
2024/4/20-2024/5/5
Mr. Gao Huijun's pen name is on the river, and the original intention of never turning back from the river is also the embodiment of the Taoist concept of casual life.
Gao Huijun Kawagami is a young man with a certain reputation in the field of contemporary art, but he rarely appears in the exhibition and exchange of landscape paintings, which is quite regrettable. From the perspective of Kawashang's own narrative, as a painter, he is also looking forward to exchanging ideas with his peers and seeing the efforts and achievements of other outstanding landscape painters, so as to facilitate learning and promoting artistic creation. His landscape paintings are divided into two parts, one is a purely personal landscape painting with a strong style, which belongs to the direction of inheriting and recreating the classics, and the other is the landscape fugue part of the landscape fugue part of the landscape painting with a wandering stone and a bird flying on the river, which also implies the lack of cultural sense of direction and the uncontrollable thinking of personal powerlessness, which belongs to the category of contemporary art.
07
Image enzymes
——Zhao Zhenyan solo exhibition
Exhibition Venue:
2nd Floor, Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive
Exhibition Hours:
2024/4/27-2024/5/11
As a visual artist, how Zhao Zhenyan grasps the characteristics of information reception in this era, especially the characteristics of image information reception, and the collective unconscious embodied behind this characteristic, which is related to our thinking about the social value care and aesthetics of an era.
He began his painting practice in a kind of "visual image diary". The most striking feature of this new way of practice is that it no longer selects those image symbols with clear "meaning" with its own subjective presuppositions, but looks for the information "anchor" of the image itself spreading and growing on the picture according to the collective unconscious behind the image information that one receives through the Internet every day.
And this anchor point is the word "image enzyme" that I coined for the characteristics of Zhao Zhenyan's work.
Written in Beijing on April 12, 2024
(Wu Hong: Critic and Curator, Executive Director of Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archives and Shangshang International Art Museum, Visiting Professor and Graduate Tutor of Jilin University of Arts)
08
What art is
- Five solo exhibitions
Exhibition Venue:
Tree Art Museum
Exhibition Hours:
2024/3/16-2024/6/9
This is an exhibition project generated by a group of people who have intersected infinitely in the same time and space, including the initiator Maryland Institute of Art, the curatorial team members, and each individual artist. The interaction of group memory with individual evolution constitutes a reunion of the exhibition - the souvenir window.
Since the beginning of modern and contemporary Chinese art, the wave of studying abroad has always been an important phenomenon. This trend is even more pronounced in today's Gen Z art community. After returning to China, international students devote themselves to the field of art and design, and continue to introduce new cultural perspectives and forms with the help of multicultural concepts and exchange experiences from overseas studies. In the context of the current art and design field gradually moving away from niche labels, this group is gradually playing a more direct and important role in academia and market activities, creating new values and concepts. The curator's focus focuses on the commonalities and differences between individuals and collectives in this group, tracing back to their growth and exploration.
The curators try to create a class reunion in which "artistic expression" replaces the participation of "people", looking back at the evolution of memory and growth after the passage of time, forming a kind of group memory retrospective in which beauty and uncertainty coexist. It also invites the viewer's brain to participate in a fill-in-the-blank game—piecing together the works, stories, and emotions that are intertwined, looking at the diversity of individual memories, and opening the souvenir window belonging to the exhibition producer and the exhibition viewer.
09
This is my co-pilot
——Group exhibition of well-known artists
Exhibition Venue:
Shanhai Art Museum 1F
Exhibition Hours:
2024/3/20-2024/12/31
As a post-00s generation, this is the first exhibition that I curated alone, and it was also an exhibition that I wanted to do from the bottom of my heart, so I decided to be a little willful and make an exhibition about "what I liked".
When I calmed down and thought carefully about the curatorial content, I realized that this was not a simple topic. How do you define liking because I like it because I like it or because I think I like it, or do I think I should like it?
So what do I like? In this information-rich society, I received information from family, friends, and the Internet in the process of growing up, what is the impact of these on me? Or what do I like after being simply influenced by my hearing, vision, and perception?
I like to drink coffee because I like the aroma of coffee, the sweetness after bitterness, or because my dad took me to drink a cup of coffee mixed with spirits at the Vienna Coffee Museum when I was a child, or because I like to drink coffee because I want to be gregarious with my friends? Do I love art because I live in the art district, or maybe I've seen more works than the average person has seen in a lifetime?
Curator
10
"Inch inkstone"
——Hu Yong & [Han Zexi] Double Exhibition
Exhibition Venue:
【Han Zexi】Jade Study/Dazhou Jade Cultural and Creative Park 1005
Exhibition Hours:
2024/4/28-2024/5/12
With the development of the times, inkstone carving art slowly turned from stationery to collections, a good inkstone from the use of more collection and enjoyment, the development of industrial ink after the large-scale replacement of grinding, inkstone art in the process of urgent development gradually gave birth to two attitudes: one is higher art - the nature of artwork, one is the popularization of public goods - cultural and museum industry.
The art of inkstone carving and the art of jade carving have their similarities, but they each occupy different development trajectories. Over the years, [Han Zexi] has launched various art exhibitions around the spirit of jade from the brand culture, mostly focusing on the artist's thinking, the promotion of art forms, and the attitude of artistic life. 【Han Zexi】Jade and inkstone carving have been cooperating at the spiritual level for five years, which is mainly because I have many years of creative cooperation with Brother Hu Yong, we unanimously agree with and advocate the jade and inkstone works with the style of "Zhongzheng and Jane", and continue to explore and try to integrate these two carving arts with humanistic spiritual materials in the new era. At this time, we will focus on launching a unique study exhibition, mainly hoping that starting from artistic creation, we can see that artists who really have the heart of craftsmen are actually similar people in terms of ideological depth and cultural heritage, and everyone's pursuit of works, no matter what material is used, is expressing an attitude. In fact, this is the most beautiful language of art, and we can resonate with moving forward in touching things silently.
——The preface to the exhibition of "Inch Yan" in the jade study room of Dazhou [Han Zexi].
11
The moon is full
——Wang Shenglu Oil Painting Exhibition
Exhibition Venue:
That's it, the gallery
Exhibition Hours:
2024/4/20-2024/5/21
12
"Color is not different from emptiness"
——Xing'an Ink Art Exhibition
Exhibition Venue:
Myoya Art Center
Exhibition Hours:
2024/4/18-2024/5/12
Xing'an Haoxi Weng, Mongolian, literary and art critic, writer, ink artist, editor. He is a director of the Beijing Writers Association, a director of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association, an editor of the Writers Publishing House, and an executive editorial board member of the Prairie magazine.
He has published a collection of essays, "A Life with Wine", "Searching in Fragments", "Nature Is Like This" and nearly one million words of commentary. He is the editor-in-chief of dozens of books, such as "Masterpieces of Chinese Novels in the 90s", "Women's Carnival: Selected Contemporary Chinese Feminist Novels", "Gold Under the Blue Sky: A Exhibition of Representative Works of Chinese Writers Born in the Sixties", and "Intellectual Women's Anthology". He has won the 2022 Outstanding Criticism Award of Beijing Literature and Art Review. His ink art works have been collected by collectors at home and abroad, such as the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, the Benetton Academic Foundation in Italy, the House of French Writers, the Paris Art Center, and the School of Art of the University of Havana, Cuba. In 2018, he held a solo exhibition of ink and wash art at the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature. In 2020, he held the "Searching in the Fragments: Ink Art Solo Exhibition" at the International Cultural Exchange Art Museum. In March 2024, he will hold a solo exhibition of ink art "Color is not different from emptiness" at Galerie Galix in Paris. He has participated in and curated "Dream Brush Blossoms: Literati Art Exhibition in a Contemporary Context" (Today Art Museum, Beijing) and "Scholars and Art: Writers and Scholars Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition (Shanghai Duoyunxuan)".
Miaowu Art Center focuses on experimental artists, supports the exploration of new directions for artists, builds a platform for artists to display and promote, and joins hands with senior art critics and media professionals in the industry to explore the boundaries of art.
13
What does it matter
——Sophia and Wang Yiqiong's double solo exhibitions
Exhibition Venue:
Wu You's Yinian "Four Meters Gallery" art museum
Exhibition Hours:
2024/4/27 Opening at 5:30 p.m
The double solo exhibition of artists Sophia and Wang Yiqiong, entitled "What is the Relationship", has a special meaning, that is, this is not a regular exhibition in the ordinary sense, but a new exhibition mode with "relationship" as the artistic goal.
Under the guidance of "relational aesthetics", the "scene" of the exhibition "What Does It Matter" is actually a "relational space", and the works of the two artists are only used as a "form" to "create a relationship" and "present a relationship", and this "relationship" generated by the "form" in the time and space of the scene is the real direction of this exhibition.
The exhibition "What Does It Matter" is a special "art appointment", which arranges the audience's position in the "art scene". The visual and experiential engagement of the audience is part of the completion of the "relationship generation" of the artwork.
14
Dance of Freedom
——Chen Haifeng's personal ink painting exhibition
Exhibition Venue:
Fuhui Jixiang (Beijing) Tibetan Culture Experience Center
Exhibition Hours:
2024/5/1-2024/5/30
Haifeng originally graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a major in oil painting, but after graduation, he has been using ink painting as the main artistic language of his creation, and every day he takes every grass, tree, object and thing around him as the object of depiction. The so-called pen and ink kung fu was also tempered by him.
Behind the language of the picture, the accurate expression of feelings. He is never foolish, but in a simple picture, even the simplest leaf can make people feel the richness of the whole world. Each of his works is never intended to express his skillful language skills, but the real feelings with warmth extracted from the objects, which are directly and simply expressed in Chen Haifeng's emotional way. As a result, his works are overflowing with one of the most valuable qualities -- sincerity and simplicity! The ancients said that "the creation of foreign teachers" is actually the path, and "the source of the heart" is the goal.
This May Day, you don't have to go far, don't miss the wonderful exhibition in Songzhuang!
Beiqing Community Newspaper Sub-Center Edition
Text/ Han Fenglan
Editor-in-charge/Zhang Xin