The annual graduation exhibition of The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts is here! Every year, it can attract many viewers and can trigger the topic of the city. On May 23, the 2019 undergraduate graduation creation exhibition of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts was officially launched at the University City Campus.
Brain-opening, fresh and vivid, there are always many works that impress you in the more than 1600 works of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. We can't tell you the story behind each work, but Nandu reporters also interviewed some of the interesting or "Internet celebrity" works to listen to the author tell the story behind the work. Take this little guide to Nandu, let you see the exhibition better, no longer Montchacha, and discover different beauty.
"Their Hands"
19 hands, small things can most impress people's hearts
"I myself am very interested in any organization of the human body, and in our fiber workshop specializing in dyeing and weaving, mainly based on handicrafts, the role of the hand is becoming more and more important; secondly, each 'hand' comes from some people I have been in contact with, they have their own characteristics, from their hands I seem to be able to feel their experiences and stories, only to find that the original small and delicate things are often the most impressive." 」 Xu Shiyuan of the School of Industrial Design talked about the original intention of her work.
Xu Shiyuan's work "Their Hands" combines different character characteristics with the hands to form a fiber soft sculpture.
Xu Shiyuan said that the biggest gain in the creation of Bishi's works is friendship, "Everyone knows that Bishi has a huge workload, time is very urgent, I and two comrades in the studio go to breakfast regularly every day, and then work until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, supervise each other, can not lie in bed, can not be lazy, do what is together, what is bad can be said directly, very really like." I also gained a lot of professional knowledge, such as patchwork process, plant dyeing, crocheting process, machine embroidery, etc., and it is also good to master several crafts. ”
The work "Their Hands" has a total of 19 "hands" and took 3 months to complete.
"You Don't Understand Ta"
Awaken attention to the spiritual world
How many souls do you have? How many positions are hidden in the body? Do you know the crying of multiple personality patients?
In the work "You Don't Know Ta" designed by Chen Limin of the School of Technology and Design, two white plaster statues were designed using the crochet process.
"There is a plaster cast that represents a male,i.e., a relatively violent personality; another—a feminine personality—a more gentle personality in comparison. When creating this side of the female personality, some elements with feminine characteristics are mainly selected, such as: cosmetics, dolls, cameras, etc., the choice of color is also more vivid, and the performance of the material is also as far as possible to pursue a fluffy feeling. On the side of the violent personality, the sharp and hard material of rivets is used, and some more terrifying things are also selected to present. For example, a large area of red is used to suggest blood, but also a clown shape. I think the eyes are the windows of the mind, so the eyes of the two main plaster figures are covered with silver eye masks, which represents the deep sleep of the master personality and the awakening of other personalities that lie dormant in the body. ”
Chen Limin said that the graduation exhibition is not only an exhibition for her, but also a testimony to her four years at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and thanks guangmei for her cultivation in the past four years. "Guangmei is really inclusive, allowing us to have imaginative imagination and creativity can finally help us to take root and sprout creative points, and the biggest harvest is everyone's encouragement and recognition of my works, hoping to bring better works to everyone in the future."
Here comes the fun pork stall
Enough poke is fashionable enough
In people's daily life, in chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, meat is an essential ingredient on everyone's table. Is there anything else that meat can be used for in addition to eating?
Cen Xiaohua of the School of Technology and Design uses fiber materials to make interesting fiber bionic bags with the help of pork patterns.
"My inspiration came from passing by in 2017 and a string of dried fish tied with fiber ropes on the handlebars of a bicycle at the entrance of Nanting Village reminded me of the old-fashioned pork stalls of the 1980s and 1990s that I had seen on TV, where vendors would tie pork pieces with straw ropes for buyers to carry away. It just so happens that this year is the Year of the Pig again, and I am even more certain to do the subject of pigs. ”
When talking about the difference between his packaging products and the general color spray printing pattern, Cen Xiaohua said that he will design a different way of meat presentation according to the different parts of the pork, taking into account the proportion of the matching area of the cloth and the color of the same color.
Cen Xiaohua will use quilted cotton as a backing for each work in the production process, "The product looks very heavy, but it is also too soft, and the problem is that it lacks support surfaces." Later, listening to the teacher's suggestion, choose a noodle and add the chaff paper as the bottom, and support the other positions to make the whole bag look fuller."
"Is a melon is not a melon, a non-melon is a melon"
Bought a lot of meat and watermelon to compare
"Is this really a watermelon?"
"It's too much like a watermelon!" ......
In the sculpture branch, we saw at a glance the graduation work of "Is a Melon, Non-Melon is a Melon" designed by Zhu Xueli from the School of Sculpture and Public Art, one side is a meat and the other is a melon, the work is realistic and interesting, attracting many visitors to stop and watch.
Zhu Xueli said when talking about the original intention of the design of the work, "Mainly because I pay more attention to the problem of food safety, choose watermelon and meat, which are two commonly eaten phases, like food recombination, so as to obtain a new variety of watermelon non-watermelon, like meat non-meat, so as to advocate following natural ethics under the development of this technology, to ensure that ecology and food safety are actually hoping to resonate and think about everyone."
When talking about the difficulties in the creation process of the work, Zhu Xueli said that she bought a lot of watermelons and meat to come back to look at their surface details and characteristics. "When the late coloring and the moisture effect of the watermelon are done, as long as the time is very tight, because the resin takes 12 hours to dry, the daily effect can only be done a little, and after the coloring is done, the effect is not the previous effect, and it has been repeated to experiment, and then it is barely able to achieve the effect that is closer to what you want."
"Seeking"
Three busts of figurative figures are sculpted to express a desire to find hope
"I had a lot of ideas during my creative work, good, bad, positive and negative, but these thoughts actually made me feel very confused and confused, and I didn't find what I wanted for a long time. When I calm down, I think back to the whole process of finding myself, in fact, I still enjoyed it."
Xiong Jingwen of the Academy of Arts and Crafts presents a semi-figurative figure sculpture as the mainstay, through local exaggeration above the shoulders and different degrees of distortion, in order to express the author's helplessness when he is in difficulty and confusion, and is eager to find a ray of hope to get out of difficulties. The three works are also one of the "net red" models on the scene.
Xiong Jingwen said that during the production of the work, the degree of the twisted neck stretching forward has always plagued her. In order to keep the whole sculpture in balance, Xiong Jingwen made external supports during the production and firing process. "When making the neck area, not only his center of gravity, but also its dryness and wetness. Because kneading is shaped from the bottom. The bottom will start to dry first, but the moisture of the mud is flowing downwards, so when the clay is just bonded, the moisture is still heavy. The drier parts of the bottom are lighter. ”
"I'm a relatively small girl, and all three of my works are more than half as tall as mine. During the set-up, everyone was actually very busy, but in such a busy gap, they still helped me and completed the layout of my works with me, and I was really grateful to them. Xiong Jingwen said that what she gained the most in this graduation exhibition was moving.
"Percussion"
Celebrity collision with reinforced concrete
"I myself admire celebrities, and when I was in middle school, I loved to read the inspirational stories of celebrities, and I felt that they had also made contributions to humanity, large and small, and they influenced us, so we are also continuing to develop and sublimate among them." 」 Based on the combination of traditional Chinese door buckle art and cement and steel reinforcement materials, Guo Zhiquan of the School of Sculpture and Public Art created the work "Percussion".
"I think that cement and steel are two materials have their special meaning of life, I use cement and steel as a carrier of time and space, the head of the celebrity is placed on the pillar, in the form of a door knocker to ring, the traces left behind will also remain on the column, the door knocker on the work can be used by the viewer to buckle with his hand, this theme is mainly in the form of door buckle to express respect for the celebrity." In addition, from a formal point of view, at a certain angle, the shape of the cement column and the concave square on the base form a question mark.
Talking about the problems in the creative process, Guo Zhiquan said that the cement structure that is partially suspended on the work uses steel bars as support. "At that time, the formwork I used was also very thin, from the cement filling to the solidification stage, I was afraid that it would collapse, and finally the thin formwork was reinforced into shape. I think to finish this work, you have to think like a math problem, after all, it is still a relatively heavy guy. It is understood that the finished product of "percussion" currently displayed in the sculpture branch hall weighs about two tons.
"At that time, I wanted to give celebrities their names, but then I felt that there was no need for such a thing, there are many celebrities, not limited to my works, I just want to use this language form to show the audience, we ask celebrities, and constantly draw cultural nutrition from them." 」
"Zhang Xinyuan in 2075"
"Internet celebrity" grandmother's future self
"I sat alone in the not-so-distant future, looking back on that extremely long life, and the short, clear moments were still smooth and flat, like the cheeks that had not been vicissitudes in the first place. Look at that guy! And her whole life. This passage is an introduction to Zhang Xinyuan's "Zhang Xinyuan in 2075" from the School of Sculpture and Art.
"Aging", a word that is very sensitive for most women, is fully demonstrated in Zhang Xinyuan's works. Zhang Xinyuan said that as China's aging phenomenon continues to increase, he will also pay special attention to the elderly around him, and sometimes imagine what he looks like in his eighties, "The hyper-realistic expression method itself is a feeling that transcends reality, giving people a strange and even frightening feeling, I made a person who does not exist but will exist in the future, and also wants to express my fear and uneasiness about the future." ”
Blazing
My inspiration comes from the sun
Huang Zixian of the Academy of Arts and Crafts mixed the paper pieces with the white porcelain mud to form a recycled mud piece of paper, which was regenerated or continued in another state after firing, and under the background of the light, sublimated into a ceramic that never withered, forming the work "Blazing".
Huang Zixian said, "My inspiration comes from the sun, and the sunlight I see every day in my life is the main source of the earth's energy. Although the sun seems to people to be very calm, in fact, there is vigorous movement all the time. As you can imagine, without the sun, our lives would be dark. ”
Ceramic lamps are not stuck to the original single mud, but added other materials, resulting in a lot of unexpected texture effects, Huang Zixian believes that paper has good breathability, uniform dispersion, strong flexibility and other characteristics, can be transformed into ceramic works, the possibility of application in ceramic art creation.
In the process of experimentation, Huang Zixian encountered many problems and tried many new solutions to solve problems. "In the production process, the combination of paper pieces and mud makes the mud more likely to appear dry and cracked, and only by mastering the degree of dryness and wetness and grasping the speed of bonding can the work remain intact before firing."
"Don't Say"
Don't live in other people's judgments
Zhang Ziyun's graduation work "Unspeakable" of the Academy of Arts and Crafts takes personal experience as the main line of creation, and uses wool, wire and other comprehensive materials to make ceramic sculptures of human faces, which expresses not caring about the language harm of others to you, not living in the evaluation of others, and facing the core of your own defects.
"I used to feel inferior, but now I feel that not everyone is malicious. The wire represents the psychological period of inferiority and entanglement before, and the wool represents the period when it is now facing itself calmly. ”
When talking about the difficulties in creation, Zhang Ziyun said, "The cracks caused by the high-temperature firing process of the ceramic part during the creation period have a lot of influence on the final presentation effect of the work, and the impact of these cracks is reduced by glaze coloring and polishing."
Zhang Ziyun also said that this graduation exhibition is her first time to participate in the largest exhibition, and many people will see your works and feel very honored.
The Realm of Time
Net red cave to punch the clock
"Time passes, there is no trace, but it quietly changes everything. Whether it is a majestic mountain or an ordinary person, it will be polished by the years, and the wrinkled and withered body is a rugged mountain stone. This is a monument that belongs to them and carries their whole life. All life is great, and I would like to pay tribute to life and nature in time with this work." This is an introduction to the work of "The Realm of Time".
Since the opening of the exhibition of guangmei undergraduate graduates' works, "The Realm of Time" has quickly become the Internet celebrity punch card of the sculpture branch. It is understood that the spatial arrangement of "The Realm of Time" uses mirror paper, mirror acrylic and led light strips, and the sculpture theme uses rice paper, gauze, hot sol and paste.
Shen Bowei, the author of "The Realm of Time", said that the process of turning the mold alone is also time-consuming, you need to cut the paper into a small piece of a small piece of paste on the clay sculpture, the entire sculpture to complete this action needs to repeat about 30,000 times, "the paper is very fragile, it is also very soft, like my large volume of work, its support and preservation is a big problem, during the creation of the mentor also suggested that I add some bamboo brackets in it, so that after the paper is turned out, you can ensure that the sculpture will not be too deformed, nor will it collapse. However, this work is an inner light, and if there is a bracket inside, it will inevitably leave a black mark on the sculpture as soon as the light is turned on. So in the end I stuck with my idea. ”
It is understood that the final decision to create such a work, inspired by Shen Bowei's grandfather, "Once when I went home, I saw some Chinese paintings painted by my grandfather, and suddenly felt that these mountain stones were not Grandpa himself? Those towering bone spots and wrinkles on Grandpa's body are like mountains and ravines in Chinese paintings. Since then, I have thought of a person's life, a person's body form will continue to change with age and living environment, so the human body is like a monument, recording everyone's life, I want to use this work to express my reverence for all life. ”
Written by: Nandu reporter He Bei Intern Tao Yi Correspondent Liu Yingqian Tan Guozhu
Photo: Nandu reporter He Yushuai He Bei