The countryside in China is a vast and vibrant fertile soil. Although it is not as orderly and prosperous as urban planning and construction, the unique natural scenery and unique cultural styles of the village, including residential buildings, rural customs and other unique cultural styles, have been continuously washed away by the years, and are still standing on the vast land of the motherland. “Homesickness” has become the “remembers” that people are looking for today. How to intervene in rural cultural construction in a form of expression that people like, reawaken people’s love and attention to the countryside, the place of residence of ancestors, so that the increasingly empty villages will be revitalized and revitalized, so that rural development will be sustainable, and realize the activation and value-added rural idle resources, so that the majority of villagers have a real sense of gain in economic benefits and cultural life, thereby empowering rural cultural construction. This is the question we are thinking about.
Recently, we went into the countryside, carried out artistic practice of rural cultural revitalization, planned the report exhibition of works “Writing the Earth, Poetry and the Distant”, and explored the creation and display path of rural cultural revitalization – “art rural construction”.
In this “art rural construction” practice, we pay special attention to the “roots” of rural culture and the local artistic creation style, and hope to awaken villagers’ confidence in their local culture through expressing rural traditions. This is a challenge. For us studio students who use traditional calligraphy, painting and printing art, I think this is not only a challenge, but also a kind of nirvana. It is to cultivate our ability to understand, perceive and understand the countryside. Facing the places where our ancestors have lived for generations, how can we use the artistic talents we have mastered to create and realize our vision, and turn this fertile land into a beautiful spiritual home that is suitable for business and living. In order to avoid the simple graffiti phenomenon in local art creation that has been done in the past, our activities adhere to the concept of coexistence between people and themselves, adapt to local conditions, try to explore the greatest advantages of local natural resources, let art adapt to the environment, let the environment create an artistic atmosphere, light up art, and strive to integrate art and the environment. At the same time, the nourishment of art is silent, and all our artistic conceptions and energy storage are put into this practice to the greatest extent.
Our works are all interpreted by traditional calligraphy, painting and printing art.
Performance art of “Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era”, BabaylanIt was the author who thought of the “Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest” from a local bamboo forest. At that time, I thought, who is the “Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest” now? Can contemporary times find the representative “Seven Sages”? Even if it is found, what does it mean? Is it necessary? What inspirational significance does the “Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest” have for the present? “Some things are just so coincidental. At that time, I happened to read an article by Mr. Wu Hongliang studying Chinese painting, titled “Source Bamboo in the 5G era”, which originated from the sentences in the poem “Dreams of Flying Words” in Nishichuan. Although the three of us talk about “Bamboo Forest” and “Seven Sages”, the profiles are different and the meanings to express are different. Therefore, our work “Source Bamboo in the 5G era” has emerged: For the 5G era, everyone is the “Seven Sages”, but they are not the same. Everyone has a side of each person. Although things are connected, connected, and connected, how should everyone’s heart be connected?
“Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era”
“Food is the most important thing for the people” series, which uses the spiritual power given by the daily life scenes and objects in rural areas as the cultural background, and uses local idle resources as the basic media to create. As urbanized, we use wood to make fire in the daily life of rural areas. The stoves of Komiks, hand-cranked rice trucks, pedaled water trucks, and hand-pushed stone mills are almost unfamiliar, but decades ago, these objects were necessary tools for our daily lives. The land gods, door gods, etc. of rural customs and habits have almost disappeared in modern urban life….. Rural life has established a “familiar stranger” for modern people!
After the inspiration of teachers and the background of the daily necessities and local customs and folk customs, the creations have not yet been released, and our hearts have been baptized first.
《Song of the Rice Cart》
“Gate God”
“Horse Life” in one of the series “Tiger Tigers and Tigers”“Cinema“
“Babaylan‘s “Good Days” uses villagers’ houses as space to href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema The device with the origin of the Kitchen God culture hopes to arouse people’s association with farming civilization for thousands of years, alert people to the issue of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and then perceive the hard-wonderful days today, and trigger praise for a happy life.
“Good Days”
“Water Dragon Sound” confirms a set of ancient and modern regular poems that chant water wheels in the expression of traditional calligraphy with the old water wheels, so that the Babaylan can be seen, readable, appreciated, and can also be imagined. Especially the calligraphy works written in Dong Qichang’s style on the wall complement the water wheels on the ground. The leisurely and leisurely life of people in the farming era seems to be right in front of them.
“Shuilongyin”
“Certification of the World” is another series of ours. The display of traditional seal carving art is usually made by using a seal screen or enlarging the print and physical objects in the exhibition hall. The display outside the “tea hall” is a test of people. After examining the field environment, we follow the trend and flexibly combine it, allowing the generous combination of multiple works and small square arrays of personal works to play the different visual display advantages, and the small and small arrays of small and small ones of them can play the advantages of different visual displays. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinemacorrespondence and mutual understanding, presenting it in a way that “proves the current Komiks‘s current Cinema” hope that people can have another touch when traveling between different groups.
“Certification of the World”
“Red Brick Introduction”, whether the extension of traditional calligraphy can be connected with contemporary artBabaylan is one of the topics that the author has been striving to explore.
“Red Brick Introduction”
“Green Mountains and Green Waters Ancient and Modern Times” series presents our understanding and appeals for green mountains and green waters.
“Maybe it KomiksWater”
“Maybe it <a KomiksWater”
“Maybe it <a "A bunch of bad words"" attempts to unify popular Internet buzzwords with humor and ridicule, deep thought and joke, funny and "solemn". From the must-have words for online communication to becoming the current catchphrase, "alternative" enriches the lives of people in contemporary society. This is the contradiction between tradition and innovation, introvert and ostentatiousness. Because of the problems of such trendy online languages, there are problems such as word use, grammatical errors, vulgarity, etc., which determines the long-term nature of its life cycle, and it is even a flash in the pan. However, it is a replica of every day in the current society, and it is a reflection of certain phenomena, and some words are even rebellious, innovative, and ostentatious.
“CinemaMaybe a bunch of “bad words””
“Open the folded book”, a dictionary, “Modern Chinese Dacihai”, was compiled externally, using the “non-canon” method, and was included in the Internet buzzwords. The title Komiks has two meanings: one is the meaning of “folding”. What is popular now or once popular, and as time and space passes and changes, it is constantly obscured or appears and disappears, or overlaps; the second is “open”. All the “popular” memories in the external compilation of “Modern Chinese Dacihai” are a big event, or a small story, or an unforgettable memory. Through the work “Open the Folded Book”, I hope to repair my memories, forget them, and even mourn or pay tribute to me.
“Open the Folded Book”
We hope to transform our full affection for the countryside and the earth into our ideal light through the daily things in the countryside, and transform our wisdom into works one by one to infect and inspire people. We express our feelings to traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting. Through the display of calligraphy, painting and printing art, we carry ancient oriental culture with a new medium. It is also a unique presentation, either behavior, concept, installation, or just an exploration.
Through this practice, we believe that if the traditional calligraphy and painting form is reset to the living space without villagers, is it a bit of a doubt that “whether the skin is left without hair will be attached?”, which may appear inconsistent and affect the appreciation of the artistic quality of the works. How to expand the development of the countryside is a very worthy topic in the construction of art and rural areas. Through this practice, we also believe that in addition to interior layout, it is also feasible to expand the exhibition area outdoors.
There is “Topology” in geometry, which talks about theThe Babaylan space transformation in a fixed space, for our work display space, a new display space has emerged as the position of the work changes, which the author calls it the “expanding ground topology” method. In Yijian Village, in a form of displaying works that touches the atmosphere of the countryside, it is not a good way to get close to the masses.
On-local creation, fully “revitalizing” idle spaces and old objects, can be opened as part of rural museums and become a medium for displaying local farming culture, traditional folk customs, and village appearance. Some of the artworks in the “Expanding Land Topology” series can be displayed for a long time, while others can only be short-lived due to environmental reasons, and they all have their own characteristics. Even if Cinema is a moment, and it also promotes people’s love and yearning for a better life. If it can be integrated with culture and tourism, it will surely bring popularity and business opportunities.
“Let the city leave memories and let people remember their homesickness.” Through art building, we move writing to the wilderness, to the countryside, to the fields to awaken people’s memories and contribute to rural revitalization together.
Source | Jinyang.com Editor | Wang Qitong