Interview about Turning Sculpture, winner of the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award 2024
The wind gliding on the water is dense, discrete and aggregated in the light and air current. The invisible energy in the atmosphere drifts along with the light rhythm, sometimes thick and full; sometimes smooth and unrestrained. Like a graceful dancer, whirling and jumping in a serendipitous time and space, like a streamlined and elegant wind.
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View Design DetailsThe issue that sculpture and ballet face together is "gravity", which is the matter of "support". Due to the different dynamic and static supporting conditions, a unique composition method and shape interest are created. Inspired by modern ballet, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) allowed modern sculpture to step out of the established framework of the pedestal and gave the shape the freedom to stretch its own will. The subsequent development approaches such as Futurism (1909-1915), Constructivism (1917-1921), and Kinetic Art (1920-) have become one of the spiritual guides for sculpture to explore modern spatial phenomena. Abstract sculpture not only develops the grammar of visual aesthetics in which people use shapes to interpret psychology and emotions, but also gets rid of the passive purpose of replicating nature and reproducing reality, thereby touching the hearts of modern people with more concise and direct appeals. After being baptized by non-traditional raw materials and welding industrial technology, sculpture materials have stronger applicability and freer choices in application. The composition of sculpture no longer needs to rely on visual psychological support or other cognitive aesthetics. Formation becomes a material form of ideas, a spiritual and aesthetic sharing.
"Movement and light drive away the concreteness of objects." - Futurist Manifesto, 1910."Kinetic Rhythms, which will be the basic form by which we experience actual time." - 1920 Realist Manifesto. The energy of the sculpture creator comes from willpower. The more energetic something is, the less it can be formed, produced or understood in terms of form. Only imagination and sensitivity derived from the ontology of life can be permanent, magnificent and infinite.
I appreciate the worldview described by quantum mechanics, and I like to start from a humble belief and explore the original aesthetic interest of things around me. This belief is the energy basis for the creator to shape himself and the world. This is why he is able to realize the possibility of "flowers blooming for me and all things living for me". The ancients said, "The external teacher creates good fortune, and the inner source is the source of the heart." Through the accumulation of aesthetic experience, I believe that people can absorb this universal resonance, either intellectually or perceptually, in a personal way of interpretation under the triggering perception of aesthetic situations. As for the creator's motivation: shape is the material form of an idea. Once an energy or experience with aesthetic value is confirmed, it must be readily shared with others in a concise and refined form.
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Sculpture uses visual techniques of color, shape, and texture to interpret the beauty of light, shadow, rhythm, and volume. Sculpture creators strive for qualities that can touch people's hearts. In fact, they are as abstract as temperature and smell, but full of profound penetrating power. This aura directly points to the human heart, an aesthetic sense that allows people to enter the drama in resonance, or it may be like nostalgia, embodied in the concern for seeing things and the timid expectation of being close to home. The sea breeze, mountain mist, morning sun, and glow, in addition to shape and color, there is also the memory of temperature. The smells of cooking smoke, hot soup, wooden tables, and pottery cups echo the gradual tones of nostalgia. In people's daily aesthetic experience, the temperature and smell memories accompanied by touch often become a trigger for reliving old dreams. The work involved in sculpture creation is to "condensate" the presence of various beautiful things in this dazzling beautiful time and space in an appropriate way and with true emotions. As a sculpture creator, I likes to experience life through perceptual observation in subtle moments, and he also likes to play with ever-changing shapes in a poetic imaginative space. For me, artistic creation itself is a kind of emotion, allowing me to share various moods and stories in life.
There are so many beautiful things and times in life. I am fortunate enough to be able to wander in the poetry that suddenly strikes me. Whether it is the association of precious memories or the inspiration of the unknown world, these poetic abstract sculptures can be interpreted with the purest, simplest and most inclusive imagery. of scenic beauty. Simplicity is the ultimate in complexity. My abstract sculptures are based on a simplified aesthetic that uses simplicity to control complexity. It is like gold mining, smelting and sifting out the unique spiritual aesthetic essence, or the auspicious light that can shake people's hearts. Coming from an academic background, I have been engaged in abstract sculpture creation for more than thirty years. I am good at translating the aesthetic insights in daily life into profound and meaningful elements, condensing pure energy in concise and concise words. The characteristics of my works are simplicity yet grandeur, full of dramatic tension and attention to detail. I use a lively and creative modern style to illustrate contemporary humanistic features. My abstract sculpture creations start from the delicate humanistic thinking of Eastern sentiments and invoke the bright expression techniques of contemporary visual art in form and color. I hope to lead the audience to experience an aesthetic feast of the world in their rich poetic imagination.
I am very happy that my work can be recognized on the international stage. In the future, I will still focus on the delicate humanistic thinking of Eastern sentiments in my own creations, and continue to delve into the vivid expression techniques of contemporary visual art in form and color.
Artistic creators are often able to create empathy and creative poetic thoughts about the people, events and scenery around them through the ingenious transformation of poetic scenery. As for my creation, through such poetic transformation, the sculptor can drive aesthetic consciousness and use skilled creative techniques to refine the accuracy of materials, shapes and rhythms, thereby creating a beautiful poetic work. My creations range from imagination, poetry, to sculptural presentation. Just like those beautiful imaginative journeys, they all become pure, bright and cheerful landscapes as the artist's artistic practice evolves and settles.
Simplicity is the ultimate in complexity. My abstract sculptures are based on a simplified aesthetic that uses simplicity to control complexity. It is like gold mining, smelting and sifting out the unique spiritual aesthetic essence, or the auspicious light that can shake people's hearts. Coming from an academic background, I have been engaged in abstract sculpture creation for more than thirty years. I am good at translating the aesthetic insights in daily life into profound and meaningful elements, condensing pure energy in concise and concise words. The characteristics of my works are simplicity yet grandeur, full of dramatic tension and attention to detail. I use a lively and creative modern style to illustrate contemporary humanistic features.
If architecture is condensed music, then sculpture is the dancer in space. With the dynamic viewing of the viewer, the sculpture's rich postures naturally transform with time, light and shadow. And in this huge space-time environmental theater, the wind on the lake, the fish swimming in the water, the herons standing by the water, or the rough waves, use color, shape and texture to interweave the interpretation of gravity and light and shadow. Dance beautifully. In the dynamic beauty of the abstract works, the audience will appreciate the simple beauty of lightness and streamlines that are gently evoked by the dancer's posture, as well as the light and shadow creation full of trend tension.
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