Chongqing - The invitational exhibition of contemporary ceramic works, titled "Boundary," opened at Sanhe Art Museum on February 11 in Chongqing's Shapingba District, displaying more than 50 pieces of ceramic works created by 30 artists from all over the country.
The invitational exhibition of contemporary ceramic works, titled "Boundary," opened at Sanhe Art Museum on February 11 in Chongqing's Shapingba District. (Photo/Shapingba District Culture and Tourism Commission)
Under the theme of "Boundary," young and middle-aged artists in Chongqing use ceramics as a medium to reflect the differences between contemporary ceramics and traditional ones in terms of creative identity, subject matter, form, concept, and creative status, showing the new properties of contemporary ceramics.
For example, artist He Qiqing's work "Xinhua Daily" reproduced old newspapers with ceramics. Wang Ting's work "Handwriting of Clay" also reproduced metal seals with ceramics. Huang Yue's work "Morning Glow Reflects Rivers and Mountains" depicts landscape paintings on porcelain vases.
The artist He Qiqing's work "Xinhua Daily" reproduced old newspapers with ceramics. (Photo/Shapingba District Culture and Tourism Commission）
Wang Ting's work "Handwriting of Clay" reproduced metal seals with ceramics. (Photo/Shapingba District Culture and Tourism Commission）
Huang Yue's work "Morning Glow Reflects Rivers and Mountains" depicts landscape paintings on porcelain vases. (Photo/Shapingba District Culture and Tourism Commission）
"The works in the exhibition present the pioneering experiments of the artists, subverting the public's inherent perception of ceramics," said the curator Rong Zhanguo.
Many of the works in the exhibition differ greatly from other ceramic pots and porcelain bottles in our traditional impression. A stack of mottled old newspapers turned out to be made of ceramics, as well as metal-like seals and ink-and-wash landscape paintings. In these works, the boundaries of the ceramic material are blurred, and through the artist's ingenious craftsmanship, which was given new features.
The exhibition is open free to the public until March 11. Rong Zhanguo added that they invited not only many ceramic artists but also many artists in other fields, such as sculpture, oil painting, traditional Chinese painting, and environmental art.
(He Hanyue, as an intern, also contributed to the report.)