“Watercolor Imagery From the Riverside Region of Southeast China by Lin Shaoling” Is Opened at ZJAM
pubdate: 2018/9/27 author: zjam source: zjam click:
On the afternoon of September 26, “Watercolor Imagery From the Riverside Region of Southeast China by Lin Shaoling” was opened at ZJAM. This exhibition was sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee, the Ningbo Federation of Literary and Art Circles (NFLAC), the Zhejiang Artists Association, and the Ningbo Daily Group. The opening ceremony was hosted by Zhang Ninghui, member of the Standing Committee and minister of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Haishu District Committee. Officials and guests attending the opening ceremony included: Xu Xiao, member of the Party Group and secretary of the Secretariat of Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles; Hu Zhonghua, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of China Academy of Art; Pan Yaochang, professor of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts; Wang Weixin, professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts; Lin Mu, professor of Sichuan University; Zhou Gang, professor of China Academy of Art (CAA); Cai Ruirong, vice chairman of Zhejiang Artists Association; Zhou Chongzhang, professor of the CAA and chairman of Zhejiang Watercolor Painters Association (ZWPA); Li Jianxin, former director of the Ningbo Branch of Zhejiang Daily; Jiang Yue, deputy editor-in-chief of China Arts Weekly, Xu Minghui, vice chairman and secretary general of the ZWPA. Officials from Ningbo City who attended the opening ceremony included: Yu Weinian, vice chairman of the Ningbo Municipal Committee of CPPCC and chairman of the NFLAC; Zhang Wenjie, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee; Wang Yimin, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Ningbo Daily Group; Han Licheng, vice chairman of the NFLAC and curator of Ningbo Museum of Art; Shi Xiaofeng, vice chairman and secretary general of the NFLAC; Bi Donghua, chairman of the CPPCC of Haishu District of Ningbo City; Chen Zaoting, deputy director of the Haishu District People’s Government of Ningbo City; Guo Yu, vice chairman of the CPPCC and chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Haishu District of Ningbo City. At the opening ceremony, Zhang Wenjie, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee, delivered a speech. Professor Wang Weixin of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Professor Pan Yaochang of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, and Professor Lin Mu of Sichuan University, delivered speeches respectively. The exhibition artist Lin Shaoling gave a thank-you speech. Finally, Yu Weinian, vice chairman of the NFLAC, announced the opening of the exhibition! The exhibition is displayed at Hall No. 4 of ZJAM. There will be 75 works on display, and the exhibition will last until October 11.
At the opening ceremony
Lin Shaoling is one of the important watercolor painters in contemporary China. He is a representative of watercolor artists in eastern Zhejiang. He has been focusing on the creation and exploration of watercolor painting for decades. Especially since the 1990s, he has been a frequent winner of highest awards in national watercolor exhibitions. Throughout his creation career, Lin Shaoling experienced rich and fruitful style experiments along a unique development line from the early figurative realism to the recent expressionist imagery. His exploration consciousness of watercolor creation spans Chinese and Western cultures and presents diverse and open visual interest.
The opening ceremony was hosted by Zhang Ninghui, member of the Standing Committee and minister of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Haishu District Committee.
Zhang Wenjie, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee, delivering a speech
Professor Wang Weixin of Central Academy of Fine Arts delivering a speech
Professor Pan Yaochang of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts delivering a speech
Professor Lin Mu of Sichuan University delivering a speech
The exhibition artist Lin Shaoling giving a thank-you speech
Yu Weinian, vice chairman of the NFLAC, announcing the opening of the exhibition
His watercolor works reveal a sense of historical exploration consciousness and bears a common humanistic core, that is, “the Southeast China”, from the root of culture and the depth of individual experience. The audience may find in the exhibition that “From the Riverside Region” is essentially an attitude that conveys the emotions and insights of the author in his creation. Art history theorist Pan Yaochang commented that “bridge” was an important subject of the painter and the theme of this exhibition. The ancient stone bridge, which is faintly visible in the paintings, connects to the other world. It means connection to the poetic dream in the childhood memory. It is not only about the past, but also about the future and the longing for a beautiful ideal world.
The guests visiting the exhibition
At the exhibition hall
The watercolor paintings of Lin Shaoling impress the audience as “drawing materials from Western painting, depicting images in the Southeast China, reflecting the Chinese aesthetics, embracing the Chinese ink skills, expressing the charm of the soul, and inspiring thinking for the present”. In those works, the artist sorts the relationship between individual life and national ideal. In the interweaving and tempering of cultural spirit and artistic techniques, he expresses rich thoughts in a purified language through refined expression methods. This exhibition of watercolor imagery from the Southeast China pools the thinking and practice of Lin Shaoling in recent years. In the serial narratives about the lasting theme of the Southeast China along with its infinite variations, the artist deeply explains his spiritual text, sighing with the changes in this region, pondering about its fate, and melting his life experience in those poetic works. As the painter himself put it, “The Southeast China, where I was born and grew up, always lingers in my memory. Although it is a permanent theme for countless painters, I still feel like saying something else. Somewhere from the riverside region rests my temperament and expression of my heart.”