On April 12th, the double exhibitions "Little Days Embroidered with Poems: Luwei Art Project" and "I Love Donuts: Jin Zairong’s solo exhibition" opened in Shanghai Baolong Art Museum, and two different and related handcraft art worlds officially settled in Hall 5 of Baolong Art Museum. Both exhibitions advocate an attitude of "aesthetic life" and are committed to letting the audience enter the venue and see more possibilities of art.
"Little Days Embroidered with Poetry" focuses on the artistic works of Luwei Embroidery Studio that combine eastern and western skills, culture and interest, covering dresses, round fans, screens, etc., trying to let people appreciate the inheritance and innovation of embroidery and make "Little Days" live into "Poetry" with art; "I love donuts" brings more than 500 donut ceramic works of different shapes and colors by young Korean artist Kim Jae-jung, including the series "Gottxxxl Collection" tailored for Baolong Art Museum, which brings "sweet power" to the audience and reflects on the fast-disappearing era.
Exhibition site of "Luwei Art Project"
"I love donuts" exhibition site
It is understood that this double exhibition advocates an attitude of "aesthetic life", and is committed to connecting the museum with the artists, so that more visitors can enter the museum and see more possibilities of art and life.
Young Luwei Art Project
In 2017, at the opening night dinner of the San Francisco Ballet, Tan Yuanyuan, the chief ballet artist, appeared in a black-and-white trailing dress. The hand-made French embroidery of the skirt was exquisite and elegant. This dress, which was rated as one of the best dresses in the audience by Forbes, was made by Luwei Embroidery Studio.
This time, the Baolong Art Museum will show the combination of eastern and western skills of Luwei embroidery studio. The exhibits also include "THE QUEEN" in the EMOJI series, Hua Dan series of artworks, screen series and round fan series, all of which show the wonderful fusion of French craftsmanship and Chinese classical interest.
Embroidered "THE QUEEN"
French embroidery spread from the East to France via the Silk Road. Now, two young designers, Zhang Xiaoxing and Song Yaqiao, have brought it back to China to create a new embroidery culture with China characteristics.
At the exhibition site, Zhang Xiaoxing and Song Yaqiao told the The Paper reporter that "French embroidery will be bolder in color, rich in materials, with emphasis on creativity, composition, collage and mixing of colors and materials. Chinese embroidery is mostly made of silk thread, which emphasizes smoothness and exquisite craftsmanship. The material selection of French embroidery is more diverse. "
Designers Song Yaqiao and Zhang Xiaoxing
The "Hua Dan series of artworks" in the exhibition hall echoes this view. The faces of Hua Dan and Tsing Yi characters express the delicate skin with Suzhou embroidery, and are combined with French embroidery.
For the two designers, they can calm down and endure loneliness, sitting for hours, constantly trying the possibility of French embroidery and exploring the boundaries of French embroidery. When talking about the duration of embroidery works, Zhang Xiaoxing and Song Yaqiao said, "It depends on the size and complexity of the works. Fast works can be completed in a few hours, while slow works take a team a year to complete. At the same time, three-dimensional collage needs to conceive and deal with more details, which will take more time than flat embroidery. "
Embroidery, "Little Hua Dan" in Hua Dan series.
In their eyes, embroidery is a form of expressing art, and it is not limited to a carrier. Its carrier can be clothes, decorations, brooches, etc.
The inspiration of embroidery comes from life, from the change of seasons and scenes. "Many of our embroidery works are also around flowers, birds, insects and fish. Some lovely, young and modern works actually come from the current life culture and our understanding of the thinking of young people." The two designers said this.
Embroidered "Schematic Diagram of Jiugongge"
Zhang Xiaoxing and Song Yaqiao told reporters that they tried to integrate Chinese elements with modern Western expressions and make embroidery younger, instead of just a painting that is mounted on the wall and gives people a sense of distance. And this young creative way is exactly the inheritance way of embroidery technology in their eyes. "The theme and form of Chinese Su embroidery have a certain sense of distance for contemporary young people. Therefore, we will do some themes and materials that attract young people and want to make young people interested. "
Kim Jae-young and his "Donuts" Sculpture
On the other side of the exhibition hall of "Luwei Art Project", there is a solo exhibition "I Love Donuts" by Korean artist Kim Jae-jung. Although all nutritionists will teach you to say no to sweets, doughnuts, the bomb in calories, are still a favorite dessert for the public. Kim Jae-young also loves donuts and makes them into sculptures.
Artist Jin Zairong
Like other pop artists, Jin Zairong’s works can quickly arouse the instinctive reaction of the audience. Donuts, as an obvious symbol in our life, are novel in shape and eye-catching. When you enter the exhibition hall and face them, you seem to be instantly taken into a doughnut shop. A delicious dream begins. ……
After a series of solo exhibitions in new york and Hongkong, Jin Zairong brought a room full of donut sculptures to Baolong Art Museum: Donut Reflect Yourself(2019), a small circle made up of mini donuts, and 618 donuts "Look Delicious But Donut Touch! (2013-2018), XL Donut 001 with Mickey Mouse ears, etc.
Jin Zairong told reporters that the origin of his works of art can be said from a snail. "In 2000, I saw a very small American snail when I went out for a walk one day. Although it climbs slowly, I realize that the direction is the most important thing. It doesn’t matter how fast you run. It’s interesting, just like myself. So I started making the Snail series. In this series, I used the specular reflection effect. When the audience saw the snail, they could resonate with themselves in the reflection. "
In 2008, Kim Jae-jung was in self-doubt because of his investment failure in the global financial crisis, reflecting on money, reputation, power and the original motivation to become an artist. Donuts have become one of the few things that can make him happy-its simple shape and taste allow him to immerse himself in childhood happiness, even for a short time. In the subsequent sculpture "Snail", he gradually incorporated the element of "doughnut", which was a metaphor for greedy humanity, and began to explore the relationship between people with doughnuts as the carrier.
Jin Zairong’s Sculpture of Snail
In addition, for Kim Jae-young, doughnuts freed him from the color fear caused by weak color blindness. He said, "I am a little color blind, not serious. It was discovered in high school. Donuts are also part of the color blindness test on campus. I didn’t use colors very much when I made Snail sculpture in the early days, but doughnuts made me gradually get rid of my fear of colors and began to study colors and use them. “
The production process of doughnut sculpture goes through clay firing, glazing, multiple coloring and decorative embellishment. It usually takes six days to make a doughnut. Nowadays, Jin Zairong is doing his own color research, embellishing clay with different crystals and different glaze colors, showing a variety of design feelings on doughnuts.
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