On March 23, the “Transformation of Life” artwork exhibition commenced in Shanghai.
On the opening ceremony, Ms. Nancy Lee, the producer of this exhibition and the director of Nancy’s Gallery, gave a gap comment, stating that this exhibition was extra than simply an artwork exhibition; it additionally depicted the transformation of artists’ lives throughout durations. She anticipated the viewers would discover interior serenity, pleasure, and luxury within the present.
The time period of this four-artist collective exhibition (Jia Jing, Liu Jin, Shi Gaoqing, and Wang Rui) spans from March 23 to Could 5.
Subsequently, Dr. Zha Changping, the curator of the present, a well known artwork critic and a biblical scholar presently serving as a professor on the Christian Analysis Middle within the Institutes for Research of Taoism & Non secular Tradition of Sichuan College in Chengdu Metropolis, expressed that, basically, artwork embodied the transformation of particular person human life. He commented that the works of the 4 artists on this exhibition, in a single facet, mirrored the efforts of latest Chinese language artists to pursue this transformation of life.
Professor Zha talked about that an essential attribute of people was fixed self-renewal, and religious artwork might enhance the openness of individuals’s consciousness. In different phrases, viewers might sense the renewal of the artist’s self of their work, even when spiritual symbols and expressions weren’t used or emphasised straight. In his opinion, the works on show had been witnesses to the artist’s lives remodeling into the final word actuality. The importance of such a metamorphosis was similar to what was revealed in Jesus’s Transfiguration on the mountain.
He stated, “Essentially, artwork embodied the transformation of particular person human life. In modern artwork, this transformation takes the types of defamiliarization and figurative language, which distinguishes artwork’s function in shaping individuals’s cultural psychological construction in contrast with the operate of philosophy within the symbolic language and the operate of religions within the instructive language. All three are of irreplaceable worth for people, urging them to transcend themselves and attempt in direction of the perfect existence, the superego, finally resulting in the final word actuality. This journey facilitates the sublimation of particular person humanity, enriching it to a fuller one.”
Zha remarked, “What makes one nice will not be the subject nor the fabric of the portray, whereas the craving for an incredible soul is the important thing. Such an incredible soul is what we want deeply in our lives. My curiosity in artwork stems from its capability to divulge to me one other state of existence in the dark. Simply as I’ve noticed the energy and fragility of life below the brushes of Shi Gaoqing, the chaos and order of life in Jia Jing’s and Liu Jin’s works, in addition to the theme of dying and resurrection in Wang Rui’s work.”
“These themes are a part of our day by day encounters. Thus, we should not solely give attention to earthly issues but additionally on these of heaven, not solely on the heavens above but additionally on the realms past the Milky Means, the divine realms. It’s only within the divine realms that we are able to raise our heads from maintaining our noses to the grindstone every day to gaze upon the celebs and to see behind the haze even additional,” he added.
The 4 artists from Sichuan Province aspire for his or her artworks to generate heat and resonance in every viewer.
– Translated by Poppy Chan
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