The countryside of China is a vast and fertile soil full of vitality. Although it is not as orderly and prosperous as urban planning and construction, the unique natural scenery of the countryside, the unique cultural styles of the village, the unique village residential buildings, rural customs, and other unique cultural styles, despite the continuous erosion of years, still stand on the vast land of the motherland. “Homesickness” has become the “memory” that people are looking for now. How to intervene in rural cultural construction in a form of popular expressions, Cinema’s love and attention to the countryside, the place where people live for generations, so that the increasingly empty villages can be revitalized and revitalized. Komiks makes rural development sustainable, realize the activation and value-added rural idle resources, and enables the majority of villagers to 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. We hope to awaken villagers’ confidence in their local culture by expressing traditional rural culture. This is a challenge. For those of us studio students who pass on the art of calligraphy, painting and printing, I think this is not only a challenge, but also a kind of nirvana. We cultivate our ability to understand, perceive and understand the countryside. Facing the place where our ancestors 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 was done in the past, our activities adhere to the concept of symbiosis 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 and the body are silent, putting all our artistic conceptions and energy storage into this practice to the greatest extent.
Our works are all interpreted by traditional books Cinema‘s drawing and printing art.
The performance art of “Bamboo Seeds in 5G” was created by the author’s association with 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 the contemporary generation find the “Seven Sages” that are expressed in the expression of Komiks? Even if it is found, what does it mean? Is it necessary? What inspiring 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 on Chinese painting. The title was “Seed Bamboo in the 5G era”. This title also originated from a sentence in a poem “Dream in the Flying Words” in Xichuan. Although the three of us talk about “bamboo forest” and “Seven Sages”, the profiles are different and the meanings to express differently. Therefore, our work “Seed Bamboo in the 5G era” was born: 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 people” series, which uses the spiritual power given by daily rural life scenes and objects. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema scene, using local idle resources as the basic medium for creation. As urbanized, we are almost unfamiliar with these stoves that use wood to make fire, hand-cranked rice trucks, water trucks, and hand-pushed stone mills in the countryside. However, decades ago, these objects were necessary tools for our daily lives. The land gods, door gods, etc. of rural customs, are in theModern urban life is almost dying… Rural life has established modern people as “familiar strangers”!
After the inspiration of the teacher and the search for the historical background of those daily necessities, local customs and customs, the creation of works has not yet been released, and our hearts have been baptized first.
《Song of the Rice Cart》
《Gate God》
The Good Days, one of the series “Tiger and Tiger”
The Good Days”, is an installation that uses villagers’ houses as space and uses the Kitchen God culture as the source. It 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 Song” confirms a set of ancient and modern regular poems that chant water wheels in the expression form of traditional calligraphy with the old water wheels, so as to be considerable, readable, appreciated, and imaginative. 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.
“Shuilong Yin”
“Certification of the World” is another series of ours. Traditional seal carvingArt display is usually presented in the exhibition hall with a printing screen or with amplified printing and physical objects. The display outside the “tea hall” is a testament to the person. After inspecting the on-site environment, we followed the trend and flexibly combined, allowing the large square arrays of multi-person works and the small square arrays of personal works to give full play to the advantages of different visual display, echoing the size and seeing each other in a “verified the present” way. We hope that people’s back and forth between different groups can produce another touch.
“Certification of the World”
“Red Brick Introduction”, whether the extension of traditional calligraphy can be connected with contemporary art is one of the topics that the author has worked hard to explore.
“Red Brick Introduction”
“Green Mountains and Green Waters” series presents our understanding and appeals for green mountains and green waters.
“The Day of the Mountains and Waters”
“Maybe a bunch of “bad words””, trying to unify the Internet buzzwords with dialectical unity of humor and ridicule, deep thought and joke, funny and “solemn”, from the necessary words for online communication to Komiks to become <a The current catchphrase, "alternative" enriches the lives of people in contemporary society. This is the contradiction between tradition and innovation, restraint and Komiks‘s ostentatiousness. Because of the problems of such trendy online languages with standardized characters, game-style language, grammatical errors, vulgarity, etc., it determines the possibility of 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 exaggerated.
“Maybe it is a bunch of “bad words””
“Open the folded book”, a dictionary – “Modern Chinese Dacihai” is compiled externally, and it is included in the “non-canon” method. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan‘s meaning. The title has two meanings: one is the meaning of “folding”. It is popular now or once popular, and it is constantly obscured or appears and overlaps with the passage and change of time and space; the other is “opening”. All the “popular” memories in the “Modern Chinese Dacihai” are written in “Modern Chinese Dacihai”, each word is a big event or a small story, Cinema or an unforgettable memory. Through the work “Opening the Folded Book”, I hope to repair memories, forget memories, and mourn or pay tribute to memories.
“Opening the Folded Book”
We hope to transform our full affection for the countryside and the earth into works through the daily things in the countryside, and transform our wisdom into works to infect and inspire people. We express our feelings to traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting, and through the display of calligraphy, painting and printing art, we carry ancient oriental culture with a new medium, which is also unique. The presentation of Babaylan is either an act, an idea, an installation, or just an exploration. Through this practice, we believe that if the display form of art works in the rural construction of art, if the traditional calligraphy and painting form is reset to a living space without villagers, is it a bit of a doubt that “whether the skin is left without hair will be attached?”, it may appear inconsistent and affectBabaylan‘s artistic appreciation of the works. How to expand the exhibition area is a topic worth studying in the construction of art villages. 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 the space within a certain spaceBabaylan transformation, for our work display space, as the position of the work changes, a new display space is born again, which I call the “expanding ground topology” method. In Yijian Village, using a form of displaying works that touches the rural atmosphere is 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-term due to environmental relations, and they all have their own characteristics. Even in a moment, the auspicious light will also promote people’s love and yearning for a better life. If they can be integrated with culture and tourism, it will surely bring popularity and business opportunities.
“Let the city leave Komiks memories, and let people remember their homesickness.” Komiks Through the Yijian Village, we move our writing to the wilderness, to the countryside, and to the fields to awaken people’s memories and contribute to rural revitalization together.
Komiks Source | Jinyang.com Editor | Wang Qitong