China News Online, December 25th (Reporter Chen Jing) Either display the "Jiangnan Wetland" on a porcelain vase, or depict a "rhythmic landscape" on a porcelain plate, or freehand write "Yunyong Mountains" on a quiver... China Bai Ming, director of the Ceramic Art Committee of the Artists Association and director of the Ceramics Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, and his brother Bai Lei, a ceramic artist and professor of Soochow University, exhibited nearly 60 of his works at the Shanghai Jingtong Art Center on the 25th.
The Bai brothers, who were born in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, have been intrigued since childhood and have a natural preference for ceramics.
They started with traditional ceramics, innovated unremittingly, made breakthroughs, and created the unique aesthetic of contemporary ceramics.
It is reported that they are both members of the UNESCO International Ceramics Association IAC and are leaders in the contemporary ceramic art world.
Bai Lei started from Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, and later went to Japan for training. He used to be the director of the art room and chief craftsman of the Jiangxi Ceramic Research Institute and is now a professor at Soochow University.
In 1990, Bai Lei won the first prize in the National Ceramic Art Competition. In 1996, he won the "President Award" of the Ceramic Society of Japan. In 1997, he won the Tokyo Governor's Award.
The rise of a new generation of ceramic artists such as Bai Lei and Bai Ming represents a real breakthrough in the concept of utensils in Chinese ceramics with a history of thousands of years.
Photo courtesy of Shanghai Jingtong Art Center
It is reported that the professional study of Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute and the two-year training in Japan have given Bai Lei a comprehensive understanding of the traditional craftsmanship of Chinese ceramics and the international language of contemporary ceramics.
Bai Lei’s ceramic art works have made all-round comprehension and inheritance in various links such as ware, glaze, color, firing, etc., while breaking through the delicate, regular and symmetrical aesthetics of traditional ceramics, realizing more freedom and More imaginative artistic expression.
In the exhibition hall of "Magnetic Field-Bai Lei and Bai Ming Double Solo Exhibition", the reporter saw Bai Lei’s carefully created artworks expressing blue and white, red in glaze, and iron oxide in different types of vessels. The difference between drawing and firing The muddy changes are properly handled.
It is precisely because of this comprehensive inheritance and breakthrough that the artist not only continues the tradition, but also promotes his personality, becoming one of the important propelling figures in the process of contemporary ceramics from inheritance to innovation.
Bai Ming and his elder brother Bai Lei began to explore contemporary ceramic art at the same time, but they embarked on another path of artistic development.
Bai Ming, who graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, tried to jump out of ceramics from the beginning, and devoted himself to cross-border exploration in different artistic fields such as ceramics, oil painting, ink painting, sculpture and comprehensive materials.
In 1993, Bai Ming won the Grand Prize of the Boya Oil Painting Art Competition, in 1994 he won the Ikuo Hirayama Art Prize of Japan, and the Excellence Award of the National Art Exhibition in 2002, and then he was the grand prize of the major ceramic competitions.
The artist started with traditional ceramics, made unremitting innovations and made breakthroughs, creating a unique aesthetic of contemporary ceramics.
Photo courtesy of Shanghai Jingtong Art Center
In recent years, Bai Ming has held solo ceramic exhibitions in many museums in Europe, America and Asia, showing his confidence in contemporary Chinese culture. Bai Ming said that his cross-border exploration represents a greater possibility of Chinese contemporary art in terms of artistic vocabulary and thought expression. Sex.
The curator of this exhibition, the founder and artistic director of Shanghai Jingtong Art Center, Xiong Jinglan, introduced that Jingtong and the Bai brothers have jointly explored the inheritance and innovation of ceramics, contemporary ceramic art creation, and contemporary art creation.
The rise of a new generation of ceramic artists such as Bai Lei and Bai Ming represents that Chinese ceramics with a history of thousands of years have truly broken through the concept of utensils, using ceramics as a carrier for artistic exploration and exchanges.
Xiong Jinglan said, "The lives of the Bai brothers have the same root and the same art. I hope this joint exhibition of the Bai brothers can take the viewer into a moving journey of Chinese ceramic art from inheritance to innovation." (End)