Taiwan's Golden Horse Award director and founder of Liuli Workshop Zhang Yi recently reported that he was critically ill due to blood transfusion infection after heart surgery, and Liuli Workshop Facebook released a major news today, pointing out, "Dear Workshop friends, our beloved parent Zhang Yi has passed away peacefully in the early morning of November 1 in the company of his wife Yang Huishan, daughter Zhang Yuan, and his family at the age of 69. Yang Huishan thanked friends from all over the world for their concern and encouragement in recent days, and the follow-up related matters were arranged to be handled. ”
Zhang Yi
Zhang Yi, 69, was critically ill after a blood transfusion infection after heart surgery. Zhang Yi had a cardiac stent catheter in 1998 and a heart bypass in 2013. Yang Huishan once wrote an article about her anxious and uneasy mood when Zhang Yi was ill.
Zhang Yi and Yang Huishan worked together in the film "I Have Lived My Life Like This", which allowed Zhang Yi to win both the Golden Horse Award for Best Director and the Best Director at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival in 2015, and Yang Huishan won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress.
Zhang Yi has successively created classic works such as "Yuqing Sister-in-law", "I Have Lived My Life Like This", "My Son Hansheng", "My Love" and so on.
After quitting the film industry, in 1987, the two founded Liuli Workshop together with Wang Xiajun, engaged in Liuli art creation, and the focus of their careers was mainly on Chinese mainland.
Zhang Yi and Yang Huishan (left) have a deep affection
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Zhang Yi (1951-2020).</h1>
Founder of Liuli Workshop, founder and pioneer of Modern Chinese Glass Art, Founder of Shanghai Liuli Art Museum, Liuli Workshop Songyan Museum, Famous Short Story Writer and Important Representative of New Wave Film Directors, Best Director of Golden Horse Awards and Asia-Pacific Film Festival, Former Consultant Professor of Liuli Art in the Department of Arts and Crafts of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University in Beijing
At the age of 19, Zhang Yi became a high-profile short story writer in contemporary times. Critics believe that Zhang Yi's writing is "a rare Chinese writing style after Zhang Ailing and Bai Xianyong". Zhang Yi has directed classic film works such as "The Story of Time and Yin", "Yuqing Sister-in-law", "I Have Lived My Life Like This", and "My Love". "I Lived My Life Like This" won the Golden Horse Award and the Best Director of the Asia Pacific Film Festival, and "My Love" was selected as one of the top ten outstanding films of Taiwanese cinema in the 100th Century (1895-1995) by the Yearbook of New York Variety Magazine.
In 1987, Zhang Yi and Yang Huishan joined hands in the creation of modern glass art and founded the first glass art studio in Asia, Liuli Workshop. Zhang Yi and Yang Huishan followed the name of glass since the Han Dynasty, defining "glass" as "glass", in addition to expressing the self-definition and expectation of thoughts and emotions, but also emphasizing the sense of mission of national culture. The New York Times commented on Zhang Yi as "the father of the Asian studio glass movement".
Zhang Yi emphasizes that art grows in the soil of culture, and is well versed in the narrative language of the nation, literature and oriental Zen, which is his distinct creative personality. His works have been collected by the China Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, the National Art Museum of China, and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, France.
For more than 30 years, Zhang Yi and Yang Huishan have always adhered to the creative style of national culture and conveyed the beauty of Chinese culture. They not only ignited the flame of Chinese glass on the land of Shenzhou, but also created a magnificent and brilliant that amazed the world, and let the Chinese glass art that has been lost for thousands of years shine on the international stage.
Liuli Workshop's full text of the major information:
Dear friends,
Our beloved founder, Mr. Zhang Yi, passed away peacefully in the early morning of November 1 at the age of 69, accompanied by his family.
Since founding Liuli Workshop in 1987, Mr. Zhang Yi and Ms. Yang Huishan have always adhered to the creative language of oriental philosophy. Mr. Zhang Yi once said that only culture can have dignity. Liuli Workshop always creates beneficial works, Liuli is our yearning for history and culture, and our sense of mission to national culture.
All the partners of Liuli Workshop are full of infinite remembrance of Mr. Zhang Yi's death. In the future, we will build on everything that Mr. Zhang Yi has built for Liuli Workshop, and continue to move forward under the leadership of Chairman Yang Huishan.
Respectfully.
Glass workshop
November 1, 2020
The Straits Herald reports comprehensively