Traces of Life 2024
88 Art Salon Annual New Works Exhibition
Organizer: Jilin Provincial Arts and Crafts Museum.
Participating Artists
Age in order) Ren Bai, Zhang Fan, Zhang Zhenhong, Gao Feng.
Lv Xinhua, Liu Wen, Wang Dongming, Duan Jimin.
Wei Guoqiang, Chen Lihua, Yu Chen.
Duan Dayong, Lu Yongxin, Jiang Tianyu.
Exhibition location: the first floor of Jilin Provincial Art Museum (Jilin Arts and Crafts Art Museum).
Opening time: December 29, 2023 (Friday) at 2 p.m.
Thematic Seminar: New Art Groups and Public Expression in the New Era.
Time: 15 o'clock on December 29, 2023 (Friday).
Location: Multi-functional hall on the first floor of Jilin Arts and Crafts Art Museum.
Traces of Life 2024
Life and life are an infinite process, although it has been interrupted countless times. Wars, disasters, diseases, let life end, let life stop. Whenever all kinds of unexpected events threaten life and disrupt the inherent rhythm of life, people will be in doubt and anxiety, fear of existence, and ask about the meaning of the steaming life process and the cold and cold fireworks in the world. But all of these can not completely wipe out the life, life is reincarnated in reproduction, life may choose a place to live again, but the lights of thousands of families will always be passed on from generation to generation.
Life and life are all miracles that we are in, and art is the praise and confirmation of these miracles.
It is worth noting in particular that today the miracles of life and living often mean more patience and perseverance. Different from the sharp experience of mourning during the anti-epidemic period, we are experiencing a slow and difficult recovery period after recovering from a serious illness. The daily grind and tear of the process becomes a constant stacking load. Camus said: "There is always this eternal tension between beauty and suffering, between human love and natural love, between unbearable loneliness and unbearable noise, between rejection and acceptance, and at this point we seem to have touched on the greatness of art." "The greatness of art lies in its ability to contain all changes and turbulences, to identify the sudden flash of radiant faces from the silence and exhaustion, and to mark the scale of spiritual growth in colorful and new forms. It is also a miracle, a natural manifestation of the infinite vitality of human life.
Creating such miracles is the glorious mission of those artists who have a sense of history. Anselm Kiefer said that "art always derives its motive and object from the outside", and there is no better motive to provide us with great art than an indomitable life and a boiling life, in which we listen and examine, and participate deeply in it, in order to obtain and amplify the vitality of the vast world, and to create new miracles.
88 Art Salon.
*: Eighty-eight Society.