Display evokes childhood memories
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USUALLY it is difficult to find an impressive joint exhibition featuring the artworks of students and their teachers, but this one does not disappoint.
Curated by Shi Shaoping, the exhibition featuring nearly 30 pieces of art by 23 students at the College of Creative Studies of Shanghai Theatre Academy and their teachers is part of a series called Artist Studio, a project exploring the interaction between established artists and college students.
“The theme of this exhibition is childhood memories,” Shi said. “It is so interesting to find that these students think of some inspirational work to relate to it.”
The installation titled “Specimen” created by Zheng Hongqian is an example. The work features a glass container in which the viewers see images of a cluster of flies.
“When I was a little kid, I remember that there were many bugs flying into my room during the summer,” Zheng explained, “I would put Scotch tape on the table, and several days later, I had Scotch-tape specimens. ... All human behaviors are motivated by biological instincts, and reproduction is the core. My works reveal the reproductive instinct of the creatures.”
For student Song Kai, his childhood memories always are related to the railway, since his father used to be a railway worker.
“As a kid, I liked to put some nails on the railway track and wait for trains to run over them. The nails then were smashed flat in various shapes,” Song explained. “Ancient Chinese philosophers saw everything in the moving world through the contradiction of yin and yang. The original nails and the flat nails became such a contradiction.”
Song arranged some flat black nails run over by a train on milky acrylic. When viewed from a distance, the shapes of these nails appear somewhat similar to the curve made by a Chinese brush.
“This is the amazing part in this piece,” Shi said. “It evokes the profundity of coincidence, yin and yang, variation in the work.”
Another spotlight of the exhibition goes to Xu Guofeng, a 40-year-old teacher at the academy. His work, a series entitled “Plastic,” is made of linen and plastic bags.
The artist makes a collage of discarded plastic bags on the linen and paints them into a work of Impressionism.
“My apartment is on the ground floor. One of my daily tasks is to pick up plastic bags thrown in my yard, which is so annoying,” he said. “One day, after cleaning up, I suddenly was fascinated by the vivid colors of the bags. I started to collect the abandoned bags and stick them onto canvas to make big or small paintings. I see this as my own way of recycling used plastic bags.”
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