2021 Hangzhou Mode - City of Shanshui Comprehensive Painting Exhibition
Release time：2021-04-18
Hangzhou Mode - City of Shanshui Comprehensive Painting Exhibition
Zhejiang Foundation of Cultural and Art Development
Visitors’ Guide
Hangzhou Mode - City of Shanshui Comprehensive Painting Exhibition, organized by China Academy of Art and The Roof Art Space, organized by CAA’s School of Painting and Research Development & Innovative Office, co-organized by Research Center of Comprehensive Painting, was a comprehensive painting exhibition carefully curated by Chen Yan, dean of the Department of Comprehensive Painting, CAA. A cooperation between CAA and The Roof Art Space, 24 artists were invited to showcase their Hangzhou stories in the museum display.
Preface
Almost all artists were somehow, academically or geographically, connected to China Academy of Art and the city of Hangzhou. Their works were answers to their artistic obligations. With systematic knowledge and languages of art, embodied by unconventional utilization of media and materials, artists took audiences on a special journey to Hangzhou. It was a journey with attitudes and perspectives, demonstrating the past, present and future of the city.
Shanshui is a unique topic and spiritual sanctuary of the Chinese culture. Qiantang, the predecessor of Hangzhou, was a prosper town built upon the waters and mountains. Rich in cultural heritages, the West Lake is truly a paradise on earth. One could state that Hangzhou is the paragon of Shanshui cities. The city demonstrates a modern metropolitan mode in which natural ecosystem and economic environment develop together. This mode is a development trend for humane cities.
Curator Chan Yan stated that such endowed environmental advantage was also the reason that Mr. Cai Yuanpei chose to establish the National Academy of Art in this city. First university president Lin Fengmian proceeded to promote “eclectic” and “innovation derives from tradition” as the school’s teaching goals. With these concepts in mind, Department of Comprehensive Painting celebrated its 25th birthday.
Comprehensive painting is a congregation of trials on different media. It was not simply assemblies of materials, but rather an expression fueled by the exchange between media and the property of substances. In Hamlet’s style one could claim that rather than giving us what is already known, it is in fact a tool for us to understand ourselves. In other perspectives, it could be a Ludwig Wittgenstein-styled proposition from the Tractatus: in the words of art, to respond to the paradox of us only being allowed to talk about the world, yet deprived of the right to speak as the world itself.
The exhibition involved 24 artists who were connected to China Academy of Art and Hangzhou academically or geographically in profound and long-lasting fashions. Their work echoes with their artistic responsibilities. Using systematic artistic cognition and aesthetical language, they guided viewers through an observation of Hangzhou presented by the unconventional utilization of media. Between imagery of the past and future, destiny and connotation are born.
To the upcoming year of 2021
Chen Yan
December, 2020
Artwork Display (partial)
Pinduoduo, Cai Feng
Mixed media, 195 x 280cm, 2020
Seven Days, Chen Yan
Mixed Media, 300 x 83cm x 7
(seven stiped-screens), 2020, gallery display scene
Ode to Feilai, Chen Yan
Mixed Media, 66 x 50.8cm, 2019
Swinging Faith No. 190106, Chen Yujun
Wood plank collage, 260 x 165cm, 2019
Ode to Shanshui, Sixteen, Gu Liming
Pastel, watercolor, pencil etc. on cardboard, wax paper collage, 46.5 x 75cm, 2015
Ode to Shanshui, Seventeen, Gu Liming
Pastel, watercolor, pencil etc. on cardboard and wax paper collage, 46.5 x 75cm, 2015
Rain Strikes on Nanshan, He Li
Acrylic on Canvas, 150 x 200cm, 2019
Endless – Vast Silence, He Liang
Resin, tea stain, ink and acrylic, 100 x 100cm, 2019
Fragments, Huang Qing
Mix media on canvas, 40 x 30cm, 2020
Fragments, Huang Qing
Mix media on canvas, 80 x 60cm, 2020
Another Posture, Jing ShiJian
Hand-painted on canvas, 150 x 125cm, 2020
Glow of Dust A16 No.1, Lang Shuilong
Canvas and dust, 218 x 395cm, 2016
Tidal Quartette, Li Qing
Old wooden window, greasepaint, PMMA, Linen, puzzle pieces, markers
148.5 x 110.5 x 8cm, 2020
Scenery Folded-1 Series, Li Zhenpeng
Mixed media, 32 x 88cm, 2020
Scenery Folded-2 Series, Li Zhenpeng
Mixed media, 32 x 88cm, 2020
Scenery Folded-2 Series, Li Zhenpeng
Mixed media, 32 x 88cm, 2020
The Wise Man Adoring Mountains, Lin Gang
Stainless steel, 150 x 30 x 58cm, 2020
The Wise Man Adoring Mountains, Lin Gang
Gallery display scene
The Dawn of Korea, Sun Xun
Gold powder, toner, acrylic, gum Arabic and tapa cloth, 255 x 720cm, 2015
Mapping-1, Wang Yi
Mixed media, 25 x 25 x 25cm, 2015
Mapping-2, Wang Yi
Mixed media, 50 x 50 x 50cm, 2015
Mapping-3, Wang Yi
Mixed media, 25 x 25 x 25cm, 2015
Mapping, Wang Yi
Gallery display scene
Marathon Park, Wu Junyong
56 x 76cm, 2019
Potted Jungle, Wu Junyong
56 x 76cm, 2019
Wu Junyong Artworks,
Gallery display scene
Lian Hua Luo, Wu Shan
Lacquer, flax, wood planks, 90 x 70cm, 2016
Trip Home in Night City, Xu Zhongbo
Mixed media on canvas, 150 x 150cm, 2020
Tourists, Xue Feng
Wood plank installation and acrylic, 240cm in height (with and length adjustable), 2020
Gallery display scene
Stir into a Lump, The Second, Yanng Jingsong
Mixed material on canvas, 200 x 165cm, 2011
The Beginning of Lot, Ye Guofeng
Mixed material, 150 x 140cm, 2020
Clouds and Mountains in and Ancient Field, Xu Xuhong,
Oil on canvas, 78.5 x 320cm, 2018
Imitating Hong Guzi 3-4, Zhang Le
Ink on Chinese calligraphy paper, acrylic, 133 x 66cm x 2, 2019
Rainbow Seen One Day in 2020!, Zhang Xiaofeng
Paper-based mixed media, 230 x 145cm, 2020
The Wind Rises, Zhao Yang
Acrylic and greasepaint on Canvas, 30 x 40cm, 2020
Si Ling Reservoir, Zhao Yang
Acrylic and greasepaint on Canvas, 40 x 30cm, 2020
So Like the Lakes and Mountains (partial), Cai Feng & Zhang Le
Ink printing on wooden planks, 45 x 640cm, 2016
So Like the Lakes and Mountains, Cai Feng & Zhang Le
Gallery display scene
2021/01/06——2021/01/20
Closes on Mondays
Address: Liangzhu Cultural and Art Center, The Roof Art Space, Hangzhou
Hangzhou Mode - City of Shanshui Comprehensive Painting Exhibition
