An art exhibition titled "Side Striker" is on display at Dahu United Art Space (No. 1 Maoming South Road). The maritime painter Shao Qijiong has changed the delicate style of fine brushwork in the past with a new freehand landscape, while Xu Mingsong's photography "co-branded" the representative image of many artists in Shanghai. Translator Professor Zhou Kexi inscribed the title of the exhibition.
The main characters of the exhibition are Xu Mingsong, a veteran publisher and art critic, and Shao Qianjiong, an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai Normal University. The two of them brought Chinese painting and photography to a spark, and worked together to create this double solo exhibition of "Pictures and Images".
Artist Shao Qijiong named the exhibition "Side Forward". He explained that the flank is the "center" corresponding to Chinese painting, and the "center" is the fundamental ** in Chinese painting, but on the basis of **, the flank takes the momentum and makes the picture smart, which is also a little different from the mainstream. "Side" is also a homonym for "looking horizontally at the side of the ridge into a peak", "I think art needs everyone to observe, criticize, and examine from different angles and perspectives, so that art can develop vigorously." Shao Qijiong said. Xu Mingsong lamented that photography was originally regarded as the "enemy" of painting, and photography even made the brush "useless". But now two different kinds are close because of AI.
Shao Qijiong has been deeply involved in the context of Chinese landscapes for many years, and has not forgotten to inherit in the new ideas. As for the new attempt, Shao said: "I grew up, lived and studied Xi Shanghai, and the nourishment given by this land is the most important motivation and source of my creation. As an artist, we should step out of our comfort zone and out of our own cognitive traditions, in fact, in order to better observe traditions. ”
Both of them present art from a unique perspective, revealing the artistic enlightenment brought by the "flank", so that a work of art not only expresses what its image expresses, but must also poetically narrate what is hidden from us far from them and their material forms. The two artists hope that the audience can find the "side" of life and exude the beauty of different perspectives.
The exhibition will run until December 31 and is open to the public free of charge. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Le Mengrong).