Wide Angle ° Youth Experimental Project Space
Organizer:
CAFA Art Museum
The "Wide Angle ° Youth Experimental Project Space" was launched in early 2022. Adhering to the concept of promoting multi-dimensional exploration in curating and creation by young teachers of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, our museum has turned the independent space on the second and a half floors of the art museum into an experimental field for the creation, research and exhibition planning of young teachers. At present, the collection and selection of the three-phase plans have been completed (eighteen exhibition plans have been selected).
On September 14th, the opening ceremony of the sixth exhibition of the second phase of the Wide Angle ° Youth Experimental Project Space: "Jade · See Wide Angle - Qian Liang's Art Research Exhibition of Jade Media Materials" was held as scheduled in Exhibition Hall C on the second floor of the art museum. Through the artist's polishing and construction of jade materials, the exhibition uses works to connect the spatial logical relationship of encountering jade, respecting jade, carving jade and even finally emptying and healing. And through this, it launches exploration and thinking in different dimensions such as history, culture, social life, science and technology.
Guests attending the opening ceremony included: Wang Shaojun, former deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Central Academy of Fine Arts; Qin Pu and Sun Wei, old professors of the Sculpture Department; Yu Yang, director of the Scientific Research Department; Ge Yujun, secretary of the Party Branch directly under the Graduate School; Yu Runsheng, secretary of the Party General Branch of the School of Humanities; Lu Zhengyuan, deputy director of the Basic Department of Plastic Arts Disciplines; Zheng Taokai, director of the Creative City Department of the School of Urban Design; Zhang Yibo, professor of the Oil Painting Department; Zhang Junming, professor of the School of Urban Design; Chen Mingqiang, deputy secretary of the Party Branch directly under the School of Experimental Art and Technological Art; Li Feng, deputy director of the Scientific Research Department. There were also teachers such as Zhang Fan, Zhao Yan, Zhang Chen, Xiao Jin, Ji Yujie, Liu Xiyan, Wang Hongzhou, Zhang Xiaoxue, Huang Shan, Yi Yue, Li Jie, Wu Jingying, Du Yingqi, Liu Shiying, Liu Lu, and He Pengqi from the Oil Painting Department, Sculpture Department, Mural Painting Department, School of Chinese Painting, School of Design, School of Humanities, High School Affiliated to CAFA, Art Museum, Scientific Research Department and the National Thematic Art Creation and Research Center; Qian Buhui, professor of Hebei Academy of Fine Arts; Cao Zhiyong, a national first-class artist; and doctoral students in reading such as Zhao Qin, Song Furi, and Shi Ziyuan. Representatives of the organizing committee members of the Wide Angle ° Youth Project Space: Jin Jun, director of the art museum, and Han Wenchao, secretary of the Party branch directly under it; Song Weiguang, academic chair of the exhibition, artist Qian Liang and curator Zeng Xiaofeng. Gao Gao, deputy director of the art museum, served as the host.
Han Wenchao, secretary of the Party branch directly under the art museum, delivered a speech.
Han Wenchao, secretary of the Party branch directly under the art museum, briefly introduced the main purpose and original intention of setting up the "Wide Angle ° Youth Experimental Project Space", and said that the opening of Qian Liang's exhibition drew a perfect full stop to the second phase of the wide-angle project space. Teacher Qian Liang himself is gentle and simple in character, and has a deep understanding of the exploration of sculpture theory and art. Using jade as a medium language to make sculptures, his exhibition is the first thematic exhibition on jade in the art museum, adding a new dimension to the exhibition structure of the art museum.
Speech by Wang Shaojun, former deputy secretary of the Party Committee and professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Wang Shaojun, former deputy secretary of the Party Committee and professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, said that Qian Liang, as a young person, is wholeheartedly engaged in the study of jade carving art. Whether at the theoretical level or in creative practice, it has aroused his great interest. Jade is different from ordinary sculpture materials and media. It is permeated with thousands of years of Chinese jade culture. In contemporary sculpture, taking jade as the medium and injecting contemporary people's new aesthetic cognition, emotional imagination and value concepts into it promotes the establishment of new symbols and cultures at the spiritual level of jade carving art. Through the exhibition, we can see Qian Liang's promotion of this. His deconstruction and reuse of contemporary art concepts, including the ontological language of materials, have set a good example for jade media creation.
Speech by Yu Yang, director and professor of the Scientific Research Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Yu Yang, director and professor of the Scientific Research Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, mentioned that this exhibition enters the research of jade media art from the perspective of the "wide angle" of the project space of the art museum. The works continuously transform between "hard" and "soft", "virtual" and "real", and "whole" and "broken", forming an internal tension. On the one hand, it enlarges the category of contemporary jade culture. On the other hand, jade is used as a sculpture medium and applied to a broader concept, forming a new medium branch of contemporary art and academic art.
Speech by Zheng Taokai, director and associate professor of the Creative City Department of the School of Urban Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Zheng Taokai, director and associate professor of the Creative City Department of the School of Urban Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, on behalf of the School of Urban Design, congratulated the opening of Qian Liang's exhibition and introduced that Teacher Qian Liang's works actually made a very good demonstration and presentation of the spiritual outlook of the Department of Arts and Crafts starting from materials, focusing on aesthetics, craftsmanship and the present, and then realizing the combination of art with contemporary technology and new-quality productive forces.
Speech by Professor Song Weiguang, academic chair of the exhibition and executive editor-in-chief of "Chinese Sculpture".
Professor Song Weiguang, the academic chair of the exhibition and executive editor-in-chief of "Chinese Sculpture", introduced his perception of Qian Liang's new works from the relationship between the exhibition works and the space. Although the project space is small, seeing the "wide angle" through "jade" shows us the rich changing dimensions of jade from material to culture and concept. It is not only a re-recognition of contemporary culture, but also a regeneration, application and promotion of Chinese traditional culture.
Speech by curator Zeng Xiaofeng.
Curator Zeng Xiaofeng first thanked the art museum for providing a platform for planning and exhibitions. She said that Teacher Qian Liang's creations gave her great inspiration for writing. The exhibition discusses Qian Liang's creative method of exploring contemporary sculpture concepts and languages using jade as a medium. The three sets of keywords "reduction and creation", "jade realm and self-object", and "jade encounter and superposition" constitute the academic context and theoretical dimension of Qian Liang's jade sculpture creation in nearly ten years.
