"Woodcut Living Character" and "Pixel Matrix": Professor Yang Hongwei New Exhibition opened in Chengdu Bai Ye

At 8 pm on August 6, Yang Hongwei, a professor of printmaking at the Department of Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, officially opened at the Bai Night · Art Space on Fanghua Street, Chengdu, exhibited more than 40 prints of Yang Hongwei. Including "Pixel Analysis 8", "Pixel Mountains and Water", "Sea Bath", "Glory Moments", "Fables" series, etc., the latest work created by the color pixel password series "You must see unreal" The first appearance at this exhibition.

Yang Hongwei's pixels created with ancient Chinese paintings as material creation

Before the exhibition officially opened, at 3 to 5 pm today, Yang Hongwei also brought a unique lecture to the audience at the scene "color password: you must see unreal." If you are afraid that you do n’t understand the works of the artist and do n’t understand the creative story behind the work, this lecture is equivalent to a very detailed background introduction.

According to Yang Hongwei, the artistic inspiration of the "Pixel Analysis" series of works is inspired by the traditional Chinese culture printing in traditional Chinese culture. Taking the "pixel matrix" as the core concept, it is created by Western wooden woodcut printing technical language.

Yang Hongwei's more traditional woodkop woodcut print work

What is woodcut woodcut? Yang Hongwei's description is very grounded: "It is similar to the cutting pier in the family -the cross section of the wood, the so -called wooden mouth." Because the wooden cross section is fine and uniform, there is no distinction between the horizontal and vertical texture, so you can engrave more finely refined ones Line and subtle layers of changes. Based on the characteristics of this material, the woodcut woodcut can develop the expression of woodcut prints to the extreme.

At the same time, the woodcuts of wooden mouth are also very high in wood -pearwood or poplar wood with hard texture and delicate patterns. Yang Hongwei's works are based on pear wood, and the wooden boards must be cooked one by one, so that it is not easy to deform.

Yang Hongwei cut these pearwood into small wooden blocks, and carved more than 30,000 "pixel modules" manually. Each module has different dense lines, thereby forming a gray degree in high and low. The modules with different shades of color can present a ever -changing text and images like Yang Hongwei's arrangement and combination.

Yang Hongwei showed the audience a work with the famous "Mona Lisa" as the material. From this group of works, we can clearly see this famous art image step by step "abstract" -s from the first first -from the first first It can clearly identify the appearance of Mona Lisa, and only two large colors (pixels) left in the last one.

"Pixel Analysis 8" with Mona Lisa's image as the material

"I try to use these most basic pixels to interpret the changes in art history images." Yang Hongwei said, "From the delicate classical oil paintings in the early days to the slightly vague Impressionist, to the three -dimensionalism, abstract painting, and even minimalist style (two two (two two Pixels), let the audience feel through such a set of artistic images. "

He also shared his experience and thinking about his award -winning experience with the audience. The form of prints is generally more traditional, and the form of expression is also more limited by the carrier. It is almost not included in the exhibition scope by contemporary art. "The more traditional prints I created before, the awards that I can get in the circle have basically been won." Later, after starting to create a "pixel analysis" series, he tried to take the new style of works to participate in the exhibition. I was not selected. "I feel both lost and happy -I don't feel lost with the times as the criteria of the judges, and I also believe that my work has a more vivid contemporary nature." Yang Hongwei said.

Yang Hongwei participated in the work of the first Jinan International Biennale "Anyway,"

He participated in the work of "Harbin -the first Jinan International Biennale", "Anyway", is to spell a lot of small metal pieces that can manually adjust the angle. By adjusting the angle of the metal piece, the light around the scene is reflected. The distinction between the light and dark effects finally showed the image he wanted to express. This work was later permanently collected by the Shandong Art Museum.

Xu Bing, the mentor and famous artist of Yang Hongwei, evaluated Yang Hongwei's "Pixel Analysis" series: "The idea of ​​this project has touched the core part of the unmanned touches in the field of plural art. sex".

It is reported that this exhibition will last for two months and will continue until October 7th (the art space is open from 13:00 to 17:00 per day, and closed the museum on Monday).

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