"Chen Qi Gezhi" is an experimental art exhibition of display and understanding|Deji Art MuseumIssuing time:2019-01-10 17:47 The electronic screen at the entrance of 8F of Deji art museum will be updated every new exhibition. Usually, the exhibition creator is making some interpretation of the whole exhibition or a work. The large-scale solo exhibition "Chen Qi Gezhi: an experiment of display and understanding" by printmaking artist Chen Qi has neither characters nor any language explanation on the screen. At first, there are lines extending, then they become black-and-white squares, and then the dark matter with the same texture is surging slightly, finally forming a rippling water surface, deep to darkness, Then diffuse to shallow and even blank... There are often some viewers staring in front of the screen. He or she may not be watching from the beginning, but he or she is attracted by the seamless change from abstract to concrete, and countless whys seem to rise in the back of his head.
When you enter the exhibition hall, walk through the long history section of "expressing ambition with things" with exquisite skills and through the heart print section symbolizing the spiritual world of Chinese literati, thousands of waves suddenly stand in front of you, and the 42 meter long generation and dispersion of 2012 is presented in the form of folded packaging. The middle part of the picture is dark to black, and the two sides are gradually dispersed from thick to light. The water is bright, but the waves are turbulent but particularly quiet. What you see now may be space, time, or the inner world you haven't set foot in for a long time. Many audiences stood quietly for a long time. As Mr. Feng Jianqin, former president of Nanjing Academy of Arts, said at the opening ceremony, "Chen Qi gave his audience waves of surprises". At this time, you suddenly realize, but there are new questions. The name of the door animation video is also called 2012 generation and diffusion. The author is signed by Chen Qi and Xue Feng. What is the relationship between printmaking with the same name and animation? How did such a huge print move? Origin of creation: Why should 2012 generation and diffusion move? Chen Qi attaches great importance to the creation and diffusion of 2012. Such an exciting work should be interpreted and interpreted by different media. How to present? In what way? Chen Qi, executive vice president and doctoral supervisor of the Graduate School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts "Generation and diffusion itself is the process of life change. Whether from left to right or from right to left, this work tells the process of things growing and dying. Water is flowing. Moving the works by animation can strengthen the interactive performance with the audience. " So he thought of a man, Xue Feng, an artist very active in the field of animation. Xue Feng, vice president and master supervisor of School of media, Nanjing Academy of Arts "I knew Mr. Chen Qi when I was a student. At that time, I studied design in Nanyi design college, and Mr. Chen taught printmaking in the Academy of fine arts. Later, I worked in the school of media. Mr. Chen is our dean. Mr. Chen should say that he is also my teacher. " Xue Feng felt pressured to accept the entrustment of Mr. Chen Qi to produce the animation of generation and diffusion in 2012“ Painting into video, which is a very important task, will produce new subjectivity due to the intervention of different people. I am thinking about how to find a balance, so that this image work can not only conform to the temperament of the original work, but also have the value of dialogue with the original work, but also ensure that it can be accepted by the artist himself. " Interpretation of works: Creative expression of water Before launching a new creation, it is necessary to sort out the original ideas. Many viewers are very curious about how this huge work was created. Chen Qi said: "this work consists of three units, each of which is 14 meters. The units in the middle are water lines with the same depth. The units on the left and right are from nothing to something and from something to nothing respectively from left to right. First of all, this work should be sketched in digital way. After drawing, it should be divided into plates. The work has a total of 240 printing plates, which are overprinted in seven colors. The technology is very complex. This may be the largest watermark printing work in the world. And the works are completed by digital technology from early sketch drawing, to sub plate design, and then to carving. After the engraving of the printing plate is completed, the overprint printing is carried out by pure manual method, which can be said to be the combination of typical traditional handicrafts and modern digital technology. The creation took a total of two years, and the preliminary sketch alone took 14 months《 2012 generation and diffusion has completed many innovations in watermark printmaking creation technology. " 2012 generation and dispersion Watermark print 380cm×4200cm 2018 《2012 generation and dispersion》Sketch Xue Feng has his own understanding of Chen Qi's water“ I like water, because water itself is a mirror that can reflect the objective world. The significance of water is due to the people around. What Mr. Chen shows is water, leaving a lot of thinking space for the audience. Kant has a concept: all impermanence has something in itself. It's always there, but you can't master it. I think the impression that water gives me can also jump off the surface and find something free. " "Every point in the whole picture of generation and diffusion in 2012 seems to be the central point, presenting a scattered and imaged mental state." When it comes to generation and dispersion in 2012, it breaks through the original display length of the exhibition hall in the way of folding ancient Chinese classics, shows the rhythm of ripples and enriches the changes of the picture. Xue Feng said with sincere admiration: "I think this exhibition is first-class in terms of curation and works, and I really rarely see such wonderful ideas." Creative process: How do huge water waves form animation Chen Qi gave Xue Feng the wonderful and detailed line drawing draft of the original work, fully communicated with Xue Feng, and expressed his idea of animation movement logic and rhythm. Xue Feng made a second creation on this basis, and finally realized the arrangement of picture rhythm and the production of animation by using the language system of animation. The whole creation took nearly four months. The painting of generation and diffusion in 2012 provides a prerequisite for the production of animation. But when Xue Feng got these paintings, there was no communication between them for the first three months“ This is teacher Chen's respect for me. He gave me creative space. I usually have an overall plan for animation, but this time I use the computer in my spare time. I may not think about what to do in advance, because inspiration sometimes happens occasionally and I try every step. After making the first edition in about three months, I formally communicated with Mr. Chen. Mr. Chen gave some modification suggestions. In order to highlight the main body, some parts were reduced. " "I think this is the best state. First of all, I have a kind of trust, which also gives me enough time to form my own system. Without my own system, I can't finally form a complete dialogue with Mr. Chen." Xue Feng is very grateful for not contacting for three months. During the whole creative process, Xue Feng made phone calls and met with Chen Qi. After fully communicating with Chen Qi, he revised it twice before and after, running in very smoothly. Xue Feng said, "Mr. Chen is my teacher generation. I know him very well. This cooperation is both coincidence and luck, so that each other can do it happily." Printmaking and animation, different presentation media and different presentation methods also make the audience have a strong interest in some expressions. The color in the middle of the printmaking is the deepest, and it is exaggerated into absolute black in the animation. For such a difference, Chen Qi's interpretation is: "the pure black in the middle represents an illusory space, which can provide infinite reverie for the audience. It is the so-called silent wins the sound at this time." At the end of the animation, there are two vortices and a black sphere slowly overlapping with the vortex, which seems to be separated from the category of water and presents the visual effect of the universe. For this, Chen Qi said: "this is the evolution from the concept of water to space and time. In fact, time and space are never separable." The abstract elements such as lines and squares in the animation are Xue Feng's expression“ Image is a comprehensive text. It has sound, text and motion. Various elements can be integrated. My expression should be more inclined to make use of the advantages of image and more rational. There are squares and wavy tremors, and you can see the ripples of the whole water. If the water surface is reduced to a line, the effect of rippling on the water surface is also very wonderful. Some elements like flora in the picture. The texture is actually the original appearance of Mr. Chen's work. I digitized it. " Approaching the opening ceremony of "Chen Qi Gezhi" exhibition, Xue Feng was having a meeting in other places. He suddenly received a call from Mr. Chen. He was still a little nervous. However, Mr. Chen Qi said, "I like this animation very much!" Xue Feng immediately felt very happy. He said, "I am honored. In this way, this dialogue and cooperation will be successful." Rendering effect: Deductive generation and extinction with dynamic images For more than a month, the animation video of "generation and diffusion in 2012" has been playing bad at the gate of Deji Art Museum. There are still curious viewers who ask questions about the presentation. The authors Chen Qi and Xue Feng explained their answers respectively. Chen Qi: "the straight line extending at the beginning of animation changes into black-and-white color blocks, which is very much like the introduction in music. It slowly evolves from abstract graphics to concrete water, realistic water or water in people's concept. It should be said that water itself is a very abstract substance. To be exact, this animated work does not want to express the water in reality, but uses dynamic images to deduce the theme of generation and extinction. This is also the theme that mankind will always care about. " Xue Feng: "the image of the art museum does not require you to sit in front of the work and see the end from the beginning. For the audience, it is piecemeal and moves slowly when you don't know it. Secondly, this requires more initiative and co construction of the audience. For example, a person happens to be in a bad mood today. When he stands in front of this image, he may think of his own things. In other words, a person with a particularly sluggish mood may find a flow movement and find that everything will change when passing through this constantly generated and dispersed image. We can even imagine that in the environment of the shopping center, some people will feel very fashionable and aesthetic when they see a lot of squares. Their understanding of it actually depends on the audience's own mentality. This co construction can get multiple answers. " For this attempt, the two artists still have more meaning. Chen Qi said: "animation works and printmaking works can explain and complement each other. In the future, I will use animation to make my artistic creation. " In Xue Feng's mind, teacher Chen Qi is an artist with philosophical thinking. He also revealed that Mr. Chen Qi has invited him to cooperate in the next animation work, which is worth looking forward to. |