Photo: Wu Meisen Art Exhibition unveiled in Tianzifang (official photo)
In the exhibition hall of Tian Zi Fang Art Center, a very special art exhibition is ongoing, showing the creations of Wu Meisen, the founder of Tian Zi Fang, with ink paintings and installation works. There was an endless stream of visitors, and almost all the artists who had settled in Tianzifang had come to "study and study".
Tian Zi Fang is known as Shanghai's "Soho" art district, noisy, lively and at the same time full of life. Wu Meisen's friends are mostly in the art circle, in 2004, his friend Huang Yongyu came to see the old alleys on these Taikang Roads, named "Tian Zi Fang", derived from the ancient painter "Tian Zi Fang" plus the side of the soil, hoping that here can provide more artists with a free world. The late Chen Yifei was one of the first artists to settle in Tian Zifang, and chen Haiwen, Wang Jieyin, Er Dongqiang, Li Shoubai and so on were also stationed before and after. Lao Wu has been walking in the art circle for many years and has a lot of friendship with artists, and their studios are open to him all year round, coming and going at will, and talking about wine. After a long time of immersion, Lao Wu naturally formed his own unique artistic vision.
Pictured: Wu Mason and Huang Yongyu (official photo)
Why not give it a try? Old Wu Mo fisted and personally went into battle. In the past two years, Wu Meisen's paintings have had the arrogance of splashing ink, and the layers have been blended out, like the eye waves transmitted; a ball of color splashes, like a heart of excited contraction; pieces of ink color paving, like darkness struggling on the picture. The real ink freehand performance is to borrow the ink medium, handy ink contained in the oriental concept, temperament, introverted spirit burst out, born of one side of the temperament of the party, with the enthusiasm of contemporary people to reveal these brave, is the true expression of ink in the contemporary era. It can walk the rivers and lakes, but it can't go to the temple, because the temple needs to be stable; it has the temperament of a chivalrous person, far away from the world, and is a lonely hero.
Interestingly, in Wu Mason's installations, most of the basic materials are stools. Such stools are now rare, that is, the old factory building on Taikang Road and the wooden stools used by ordinary people in Shikumen, under the rectangular stool surface, the four feet of the stool are separated in four directions. People sit on it, eat, play cards, work... The feet of the stools were strung together and folded upwards, as if some four-legged animal were stacking arhats on the side of the wall; some stools were staggered, as if a group of people were ready to meet to listen to the speech; some stools were lined up in a circle by the pond, like a group of children sitting idly watching the fish, and the sound of frolicking was heard in the ears. Here and now, the stool has become the image of a person, with words and expressions. Wu Meisen's ink paintings are lined with benches underneath, which makes people think that there is a group of people who are arguing about how the ink paintings of the old Wu Qifeng protruded were formed.
Lao Wu's abstract ink painting could not find a teacher, but asked him if his installation creation had been influenced by the contemporary artist Chen Zhen. He would ask, who is Chen Zhen? Wu Meisen runs the big family of Tian Zi Fang, and on weekdays, he is also busy mediating various conflicts between the landlord and tenant, like a big parent, and the artwork composed of those stools is like the people who listen to him, with mixed tastes. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Xu Yisheng)