The Tree of Emperor Huizong of Song Iv Silk Silk
"Zeng Han is using an absolute craftsman's attitude to engrave a grass and a tree, and this grass and wood was handed down by Emperor Huizong of Song. This attitude is not a kind of love-like love, it is like a kind of initial or final face at the moment of birth, or the moment of death. This is the critic Yan Changjiang's in-depth interpretation of the artist Zeng Han's work "The Tree of Emperor Huizong of Song".
On October 30th, "When the Wind Moved – Zeng Han's Solo Works Exhibition" was held at Shangheyuan, Shangheyuan, 4th Floor, New Town, Ningbo East, featuring more than a dozen photographic works by artist Zeng Han with the theme of "The Tree of Emperor Huizong of Song". These pine trees, or standing in the wind and snow, present a kind of ancient cold, the world's quietness; or they become a symbol independently, with thousands of years of vicissitudes, becoming an abstract painting, a wordless word...
These works are presented in meticulous detail through silk, and the images that are too real become a reconstruction of the real. Jing Hao, a master of landscape painting of the fifth generation, said in the "Book of Brushwork": "Painters, painters also." Take the object as it is. This means to examine the appearance of the objective object, so as to explore and grasp its memory reality. It is not limited to the truth of objective and true philosophy and life experience, but also the truth of knowledge. This is also what the artist Zeng Han pursued.
One of the "Trees of Emperor Huizong of Song" Silk Silk Book
This group of works, which Zeng Han calls one of the "True Landscape" series, follows the "genealogy" model of imitations unique to the history of Chinese painting, and he uses photography to examine important works in the history of landscape painting on the basis of real scenes, and deconstructs and reconstructs across time and space with imitation images.
"The Tree of Emperor Huizong of Song" No. 2 Silk Silk Book
The Tree of Emperor Huizong of Song No. 6 Silk Silk
Like all viewers, I was curious about their links to Emperor Huizong of Song. Zeng Han said that the filming of "The Tree of Song Huizong" was also a coincidence. Because I visited the friends of the tea village, I learned that the place where the tea mountain is located is the Song Liu Mausoleum in the Shaoxing Huiji Mountain, where Song Huizong and his descendants are buried, thousands of years of vicissitudes, the mausoleum has long been empty and razed to the ground, leaving only a few centuries-old pines as hanging objects. "The first time I saw this lone pine was at night, and I didn't know these histories at the time, but after seeing it, I suddenly felt excited, as if there was some kind of psychological induction."
The Northern Song Dynasty Song Huizong's "Listening to the QinTu" is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing
The Tree of Emperor Huizong of Song No. 7 Silk Silk
When Zeng Han studied and confirmed that in the deserted valley, Gu Song's companionship was the tomb of Emperor Huizong of Song. "At that time, I felt that this lone pine with a posthumous and independent posture was like the pine in Huizong's famous work "Listening to the Qintu", and more like the exclusive signature of his 'One Man under heaven'. Huizong, who lost his life in the northern wilderness, actually never returned to his homeland, and after a thousand years, perhaps the pine tree of Song Huizong was the place where his soul and spirit were sent. ”
As a result, this lone pine has become an important cultural symbol created by Zeng Han. Thus, there was the heart-warming "The Tree of Emperor Huizong of Song" series. For a whole year, Zeng Han lived in the tea village, constantly "dialogued" with pine trees, "dialogued" with landscapes, and "dialogued" with himself, completing this set of works that explored "true landscapes" through history.
The Tree of Emperor Huizong of Song, The Twelve Silk Silk Books
Looking at such a lonely picture, I was so moved. Perhaps it is precisely because of the holographic care for humanities that runs through the Song Dynasty. Even for a dead tree, a piece of snow, a journey... Even in a small landscape of mountains and rivers, characters, flowers and birds, always tap the value of life, always have both grace and calmness.
The Harvard History of China said: The Chinese "Renaissance" era in which the Song Dynasty opened the dawn of modernity was one of the most humanistic, educated, and thoughtful dynasties in Chinese history, and perhaps even in the history of the world.
The Tree of Emperor Huizong of Song, The Thirteenth Silk Silk Book
When Song Yun culture has re-emerged as today's cultural follower, it also leaves us with too much to think about. It must be more than the elegant cultural forms of the Song Dynasty, such as playing chess, feasting and gathering, enjoying flowers in spring, brewing tea at springs, and burning incense in ancient dings, but also the spirit and culture that are endless, so that generations of people can follow.
Thanks to Zeng Han, let us see that the "tree of Song Huizong" is still alive...
Like a beam of light, from the peak of history through the thousand years of wind and rain and haze barriers, illuminating the present, and even more to the future...
Exhibition site
Born in Guangdong in 1974
He graduated from Jinan University in 1997, majoring in international journalism and communication
Graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2009 on the "Global Photography" program
From 1997 to 2008, he served as a photojournalist and editor of newspapers and periodicals such as New Express and 21st Century Business Herald, and photo director of City Pictorial. He has held exhibitions in art museums, art biennales, photography festivals, galleries, etc. in more than a dozen countries such as China, the United States, France, Germany, And Australia; Many of his works have been collected by the Shanghai Art Museum, the Art Museum of Ontario in Canada, the M+ Art Museum in Hong Kong and other institutions and collectors from various countries. He has won the Top 20•2011 China Contemporary Photography Cutting-edge Award of the China Photographers Association and other awards. As a curator, he was the curator of the 2017 Guangzhou Image Triennial, the curator of the 2012 Singapore International Photography Festival, the curator of the 3rd Dali International Film Festival in 2011, who won the Best Curator Award of the Goldenfinch; and the Curator of the First Lianzhou International Photography Annual Exhibition in 2005 and won the Outstanding Curator of the Year Award.