China News Service, Shanghai, March 27 (Reporter Wang Ji) "Printmaking·Silk Road - 2024 Shanghai International Printmaking Exhibition" opened at the China Art Palace (Shanghai Art Museum) on the 26th. For the first time, the communication of printmaking was organized using the Silk Road as a path. , a comprehensive review of the history of world printmaking.
Pablo Picasso's "Jacqueline's Necklace". Photo by China News Network reporter Wang Ji
This exhibition displays more than 170 fine prints by artists at home and abroad, covering woodblock prints, copper prints, lithographs, screen printing, digital prints, etc., with a creative time span of over a hundred years. Among them are not only exquisite Chinese prints represented by Huang Yongyu's "Whaling" and Li Qun's "Portrait of Lu Xun", but also documentary-level works in the history of world printmaking, such as prints by Dürer, Picasso and Balthus.
"Printmaking Silk Road - 2024 Shanghai International Printmaking Exhibition". Photo courtesy of China Art Palace
Ryuta Suzuki (Japan), Sarah Gillespie (UK), Ingrid Ledent (Belgium), Hermann Nordmyer (Netherlands), Zenon Birdie (Canada), The latest creative achievements of famous contemporary printmaking artists such as Alicia Candiani (Argentina) are also on display here, comprehensively showing the audience the new look of today's global printmaking.
"Printmaking Silk Road - 2024 Shanghai International Printmaking Exhibition". Photo by China News Network reporter Wang Ji
It is worth noting that this exhibition innovatively demonstrates how traditional Chinese woodblock prints have widely influenced and promoted the development of printmaking and printing in countries along the ancient Silk Road. It also presents the return flow of modern printmaking technology in modern times, and the relationship between Chinese and Western printmaking. mutual exchanges and achievements.
From the 7th to the 15th century AD, the woodcut culture originating from China opened the way for printmaking to embrace the world, awakening the dawn of printmaking in the West, completing important improvements and innovations, and developing different types of prints such as copper engravings, lithographs, and silk screen prints. , and gave birth to Ukiyo-e in Japan. In 1931, Lu Xun launched the emerging printmaking movement in Shanghai and brought this vital visual art category back to China, completing the double return of its history and skills.
"Coffee Grinder" by Joan Miró. Photo by China News Network reporter Wang Ji
Chief curator Lu Zhiping said that printmaking was born in China and then went to the world. It is a painting type with strong vitality, closely related to life, good at learning and improving oneself, and is a typical product of exchanges and mutual learning between Eastern and Western civilizations. This exhibition is not only an artistic journey, but also a profound reflection on world civilization, witnessing the integration and progress of human civilization.
Wang Yichuan, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Director of the China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum), said that in the context of "starting again" after the 10th anniversary of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, this exhibition highlights the impact of traditional Chinese prints on world prints At the same time, it reflects the great significance and historical value of the Silk Road for the spread of Chinese culture and art, and provides a model case for further establishing Chinese cultural confidence and self-improvement. (over)