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 of the countryside, the unique cultural styles of the village, the unique village residential buildings, rural customs, etc., have been continuously washed away by the years, and are still standing 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, reawaken people’s love and attention to the countryside, the place of residence of ancestors, so that the increasingly empty villages can be revitalized and revitalized, so that rural development can be sustainable, and realize the activation and value-added rural idle resources, so that the majority of villagers can 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 traditional rural culture. 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 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, and let the environment create an artistic atmosphere and light up art, striving to integrate art and the environment, while the nourishment of art is silent, and put all our artistic conceptions and energy storage into this practice to the greatest extent.
Our works are all interpreted by traditional calligraphy, painting and printing art.
The performance art of “Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era” was sprouted by the author’s association with the “Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest” from a local bamboo forest. At that time, I thought, who is the “Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest” now? whenCan the representative “Seven Sages” be found in the Generation? 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 on Chinese painting. The title was “Source Bamboo in the 5G Era”. This title also originated from a sentence in a poem “Dream of the Agile 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 “Source 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 in the people” series, which uses the spiritual power given by the daily life scenes and objects in rural areas as cultural background, and uses local idle resources as the basic media for creation. We are urbanized and are here to make stoves that use wood to make fire, rice trucks, and footsteps in rural daily life. The water wheels and hand-pushed stone mills of Komiks 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 were almost dying in modern urban life…… Rural life established a “familiar stranger” for modern people!
Inspired by teacher Cinema and looked at the historical background of those daily necessities and local customs and customs, the creations were not yet released, and our hearts were baptized first.
《Song of the Rice Cart》
“Door God”
“Tiger<a "Good Days", one of the series "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” is a set of ancient and modern regular poems that chant water wheels in the traditional expression form of Babaylan calligraphy and old water wheels, which can be regarded, 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. 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 large square array of multi-person works and the small square array of personal works to play the advantages of different visual display, echoing the size and seeing each other, and to Cinema A “verification of the present” method is presented, hoping that people can feel another touch when they go back and forth between different groups.
“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 been striving to explore.
“Red Brick Introduction”
“Green Mountains and Green Waters in Ancient and Modern Times” series presents our understanding and demands for green mountains and green waters.
“Maybe it a bunch of “bad words””, trying to unify the Internet buzzwords with dialectical humor and ridicule, deep thought and joke, funny and “sovereign” and from the InternetBabaylan communication must-have, and it has become the catchphrase of the present. “Alternative” has enriched 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 language, Babaylan‘s use of word norms, game-style language, grammatical errors, vulgarity and other problems, it 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. Some words are even rebellious, innovative, and ostentatious.
“Maybe it’s a bunch of “bad words””
“Opening the folded book” is an external compilation of a dictionary – “Modern Chinese Dacihai”, which uses the “non-canon” method to include Internet buzzwords. The title has two meanings: one is the meaning of “folding”. It is popular now or has been flowingAs time goes by and changes, it is constantly obscured or appears and overlaps, or overlaps with time and space; 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 land of Komiks through the daily things in the countryside, and transform wisdom into works to infect people. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks motivates 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, which is also a unique presentation. Komiks are either behaviors, concepts, or Babaylan installations, or just an exploration.
Through this practice, we believe that 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?”, which may appear inconsistent and affect the appreciation of the artistic nature of Cinema’s works. How to expand the development site is a very worthy topic in the construction of art 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 the spatial transformation in a certain space. For the space of our work display, as the position of the work changes, a new display space is born again. The author calls it the “topology of the ground”. In Yijian Village, a form of work display that is exposed to the rural atmosphere is not lost as a post.A good way to get close to the masses. Local creation, fully “revitalize” the idle spaces and old objects, and can be opened as part of a rural museum and become a medium for displaying local farming culture, traditional folk customs, and village appearance. Some of the artworks in the “East Topology of the Babaylan” 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 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 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. Komiks
Source | Jinyang.com Editor | Wang QiBabaylanTong