On September 20, the "Magnetic · Gravity - 2024 China (Fengfeng) Cizhou Kiln International Ceramic Art Biennale" sponsored by the China Ceramic Industry Association and the China Collectors Association opened in the Fengfeng mining area. The exhibition will run until January 1, 2025.
The exhibition is divided into three sections: "rheology", "integration" and "reconstruction", bringing together ceramic works from Cizhou kiln, Longquan kiln, Yaozhou kiln, Dingyao, Jingdezhen and Dehua kiln, and exhibiting more than 2,000 ceramic art works by 170 contemporary ceramic artists from more than a dozen countries such as United States, Korea and Norway (including 6 Cizhou kiln masters and 16 Cizhou kiln senior ceramic artists and young ceramic art rookies). The audience can experience the fusion and collision of Cizhou kiln, Shiwan pottery, Dingyao porcelain, Jun kiln glaze and other kiln mouths and ceramic rheology, and can also feel the visual impact and artistic reconstruction of reinterpreting traditional culture with modern aesthetics.
During the exhibition, the Cizhou kiln culture, art and industry development forum, Cizhou kiln and surrounding human geography in-depth research course seminar, Cizhou kiln site research and other activities were also held.
In recent years, based on promoting the protection, inheritance, creative transformation and innovative development of Cizhou kiln culture, Fengfeng mining area has carefully sorted out the cultural context of the core area of Cizhou kiln and strengthened the protection and inheritance of Cizhou kiln culture. Every year, ceramic enterprises and ceramic art masters and intangible cultural heritage inheritors in the region are organized to participate in key exhibitions such as the "Canton Fair" and "Shenzhen Cultural Fair", and continuously expand the influence of Cizhou kiln culture and industry in the industry. At present, there are 82 ceramic enterprises and more than 100 industrial chain related enterprises in Fengfeng mining area, with an annual output value of 523 million yuan.
Handan News and Media Center reporter Li Xuan/text Hao Qunying/photo