Why is the Yellow River?An art exhibition kicked off in 2022 China (Zhengzhou) Yellow River Cultural Monthly

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On September 18, the ecological protection and high -quality development of the Yellow River Basin rose to the third anniversary of the major national strategy.

In the afternoon of that day, China (Zhengzhou) Yellow River Cultural Moon was officially launched in 2022, and the prelude to this cultural event was an art exhibition launched at the new museum of Zhengzhou Art Museum- "Wang Gang: Why Yellow River -the theme of the Contemporary Yellow River Theme Art Research Exhibition ".

The Yellow River is the "mother river" of the Chinese nation. The Yellow River culture is an important part of Chinese civilization and the root and soul of the Chinese nation. Why is the Yellow River? Perhaps the answer was found in the art exhibition of China (Zhengzhou) Yellow River Culture in 2022.

What kind of exhibition is this? "Why is the Yellow River -the Yellow River theme Art Research Exhibition" in depth the spirit of contemporary Yellow River and promote the development and inheritance of the Yellow River culture in the new era as the theme of the exhibition. , Adopt a multi -medium comprehensive exhibition, combined with new digital technology to bring a new immersive experience to the audience.

In the exhibition hall, a series of grand scenery that symbolizes colors makes people feel not only the magnificent natural landscape of the Yellow River, but also the historical and cultural imagination of the artist on the Yellow River, and the personal spiritual landscape of betting. The spiritual character of the Yellow River in Wang Gang's endlessness, endlessness, simplicity, and eternal immortality is the common background of people who live on this land for generations.

"This is not a simple painting or art work. For the first time, I felt the infinite vitality of the mother's river." The visitors couldn't help feeling.

The Yellow River is a river and a spiritual totem of the Chinese nation. Its significance has surpassed the inherent geographical category and has become the civilization symbol and spiritual endorsement of the Chinese nation.

"I paint the Yellow River, not to paint the landscape, but the vicissitudes of painting the Yellow River culture, suffering and struggle, thickness and strength." This artist who grows and created in the Central Plains, Wang Gang, deputy chairman of the Henan Oil Painting Society, said deeply. "The magnificent and roaring Yellow River strongly shocked me, constantly stimulating the power of the rising power in my artistic life, and activating the dynamic password in the soul.

For decades, from oil painting, clay, images, installation behaviors, to earth art, his creation has not left the Yellow River and the earth's mother. "Going farther and farther, far to the west of the motherland; the lower the more, the lower the soil;

What is art? What is art? After most of his life, he was like a most devout and clumsy student who wrote the answer into the Yellow River and the earth.

Wang Gang, who is it?

"Mr. Wang Gang is a contemporary artist who grew up in the Central Plains and has an important influence in the national art world. In the early 1980s, Mr. Wang Gang entered the painting world. Since 2000, China has entered the contemporary artistic context. Further, the contemporary transformation was successfully completed. Its artistic methods were painted and sculpted from traditional shelf painting and sculpture to cross -contemporary art forms such as behavior art, land art, installation art, and video art. Tradition and children who live here. He began to care about the reality of life of the Yellow River children in the development of the times in the way of visual art, and launched the contemporary cultural imagination and reshaping of the historical and cultural tradition and humanistic spirit of the Central Plains. " At the ceremony, as Wang Gang's old friend, Ma Guoqiang, Honorary Chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Federations and the honorary chairman of the Provincial Art Association, was recommended.

The Yellow River is the "Mother River" of the Chinese nation. It stretches for thousands of miles with indomitable spirit, and has entered the sea from the top of the mountains. It has affected hundreds of millions of Chinese children for thousands of years. Essence

As a native Henan artist, Wang Gang's bones are immersed in the heavy and vicissitudes of the Central Plains culture. From the beginning of the 1990s to create a series of "Old Wan" series, to hold the "Wang Gang Lao Wan Series Exhibition" at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in 2004, to 2006 and 2007 "The Memory of the Earth Earth" and "Earth Relief" and "Earth Relief 》 Two large -scale behavior art shocked the art world of the country. By 2018, two earth art in Xinjiang, he has always paid attention to the people who survive on this land, draw nutrition from the heavy Yellow River civilization and Central Plains culture, and find the search for nutrition, and look for it. The cultural roots on this land are questioned until the ultimate value of the entire human life.

"Here we can see the depth of the Yellow River culture. The reason why it is shocking is precisely because of deep understanding and deep love." Xi Weiquan, Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts of Henan University, evaluated Wang Gang and his creation.

In this event, Wang Gang also took this opportunity to give back to his hometown and return to the mother of the Yellow River to donate more than 500 hard work to Zhengzhou Art Museum. Pen and ink should be with the times. By organizing the "Yellow River", "People" and "Earth", he responded with contemporary art expression: why is the Yellow River?

The Yellow River comes from ancient times, Pentium is contemporary. It is a real river and a river of art. It not only breds a splendid ancient Chinese civilization, but also witnesses the glory of contemporary China.

In the Zhengzhou Art Museum New Hall No. 1-4, more than 500 Wang Gang's works were exhibited, and the exhibition area was more than 4,000 square meters. The spiritual core of the Yellow River culture is set up a bridge of traditional and contemporary art with new span, and the era of the era of contemporary Yellow River culture theme art creation with multi -dimensions. The first chapter "Yellow River"

This part concentrated on the Yellow River series created by Wang Gang in the past decade.

After more than 30 years of art exploration and life, in the year of the flower armor, Wang Gang turned his eyes again to the Yellow River. Around 2010, he used the sediment of the Yellow River Beach, mixed with oil and acrylic, and created a series of huge Yellow River landscape works on linen cloth.

Why is the Yellow River? Wang Gang's Yellow River series works with its profound spiritual and monumental characteristics, which constitutes the latest part of the theme creation sequence of the Yellow River in the history of art.

Chapter 2 "People"

In 1999, Wang Gang wrote "Brothers in Old Village", which built a "old Wan" art world.

In Wang Gang's artistic narrative, "Old Wan" is a thousand workers. "Old Wan" is a person with a strong philosophical, lofty and idealized person with a strong philosophical meaning, lofty and idealized person.

In the "Old Wan Avatar" and "Group Portrait" series and "Zhengyue" and other works, Wang Gang used a huge type of shaking system to present the "old Wan" of the upright downs; The special texture and background of Lao Wan; use thousands of clay sculptures to sketch the true and lively image of "Old Wan".

"Miners 'Portrait", "Old Wan Wan Series, Hegang Miner" group paintings, Wang Gang expressed concerns about migrant workers' situation and fate through the attention of "survival under the ground".

For more than two decades, "Lao Wan" has become Wang Gang's most representative artistic concept and image creation. The "Lao Wan" series is a manifestation of the Chinese inner spirit and cultural portraits.

Chapter III "Earth"

The discussion of the relationship between people and the earth represents another pole of Wang Gang's artistic practice.

From 2006 to 2010, Wang Gang and Chai Zhongjian planned to implement the behavior of the behavior of "Earth", "Earth relief", "Earth's Monument", "The Wedding of the Earth" and "People on the Earth". From 2015 to 2018, Wang Gang lasted for three years and created a giant landscape art "Growth of the Earth" and "Earth Caber" in Xinjiang's wooden barriers and Shawan.

In the latest large -scale installation "耧 耧 在", Wang Gang followed up from the perspective of social production to the relationship between people and land, as well as the inheritance of traditional farming culture.

Through the "where to come from", try to awaken the memory of the depths of people's blood on the mud; to the depths of the four seasons and the depths of time and space on the ancient flooding land, watch the existence of "people".

This is a cultural journey of discovering the Yellow River again. The exhibition lasts until December 18, and it takes three months to immerse them. People will understand the "Yellow River" here.

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