Art Space 丨 "Father of Rhubarb Ducks" came to Beijing with giant animals!

Florentijn Hofman, a Dutch artist, is a world -renowned art ghost. His most prestigious art works are the "Rubber Duck" who is stunned and traveling around the world.

Florentijn Hofman, a Dutch artist.

In 2007, a giant yellow rubber duck drove into the port of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Overnight, the "big yellow duck" swept the Internet. For more than ten years at that time, "Big Yellow Duck" traveled around the world and was in the same frame as the world's most famous landscape. In September 2013, the "Big Yellow Duck" appeared on the Kunming Lake in Beijing Summer Palace for 4 consecutive days. More than 100,000 people poured into the Summer Palace, and created a historical record for tourists in the Summer Palace. Now, "Big Yellow Duck" has become an art symbol that is unknown in the world, and has also set off people's thinking about public art.

On August 6, 2022, "Father of Rhubarb Duck" Floren Tyin Hoffman brought "Rhubarb Ducks", Fat Panda, Birthday Tiger and other "Animal Trouins" to Beijing today Art Museum, showing him in China The first large -scale exhibition "Gathering!" (Celebrate!). In this 3 -month exhibition, Hoffman created more than 25 new works for Chinese audiences, which can be described as a new art feast.

People who just met Hofman always regarded his art works as large toys. It is no wonder that when you first look at his work, it is difficult to regard them as a magnifying version of toys. The lively and lovely animal image, bright and bright colors, beautiful shapes, and lifelike forms, all bring people with joy and joy. This is also one of his works. Toys are not just children's exclusive products, and adults also need joy, especially in the era of miserable epidemic situation. The inner joy can regain people's spirit.

In the "Gathering!" In the exhibition, many works expressed this subject. Entering the exhibition hall, the first artwork I saw was a huge "birthday tiger". It is combined with a balloon, a yellow body, wearing a birthday party hat, lying on the exhibition hall sideways. It is lively and outgoing, playing like a child. This big birthday tiger allows people to realize that art can be happy, and it can even be said to be a grand celebration of life.

Birthday tiger baby.

From the "Birthday Tiger" exhibition hall, he entered the exhibition hall of "Colorful Paper Man". A "villain" made of "colorful paper crumbs" stretched his arms and stood in the center of the exhibition hall. This colorful paper scraps often appear at the celebration activities. The "villain" looks high and cheered. However, this is also a question that artists want people to think: Why is a cheerful and friendly villain hiding under the thick paper scraps? Why is this villain cheering so much? What will happen when the celebration is beyond the limit?

Colorful paper people.

But Hofman's work is not just as simple as "large animals". Although they did feel cheerful in the first contact, they actually had more deep connotations. In Hofman's words, these animals are a metaphor and have nothing to do with the animal itself. Just like the fable stories of thousands of years have always borrowed the image of animals, he also likes to use cute animals to tell stories.

For example, the "Fat Man" series in the exhibition this time is three lying animals -fat pandas, fat cats and fat mice. They lay lazily on the ground, lethargic. The three works are covered with a thick layer of wool carpet, giving people a home -like feeling. They are very warm, as if they can wrap the audience in. But if you think deeply, you will find that these three bloated, fell asleep, animals lying on the ground are not the incarnation of humans in the digital screen era? This attitude is getting more and more obese. These three works cleverly projected a social status quo, metaphorically laziness, and in existing life and consumerism. Those warm wool carpets, if they are not careful, they will always be trapped and never come out.

Fat animal series.

There are 3 animals in the "Shopping" series, a monkey, a snake, and a squirrel. There are many shopping bags in the monkey's hand, and there are still a few on the tail. The snake holds the Gucci bag in one hand and calls (with hands) in one hand. Hoffman used these three animal images to express desire and material attraction to people. He also warned people to be alert to excessive consumption and production, because these behaviors are quickly consumed Earth resources.

3 animals in the shopping series.

"Birthday Mouse" is a black squirrel. It wore a birthday party hat and sat on the ground. It seems to be a metaphor for everyone who participates in the party. Kosakov syndrome is a disease caused by excessive drinking, manifested as patients do not remember anything. Hoffman wants to express this meaning.

Birthday mouse.

This is the first time that Hofman has held personal exhibitions in China, so he also specially created art works combined with Chinese culture. On the third floor of the exhibition hall, the "Zodiac Zodiac" series is placed. They are white sculptures of the Zodiac, only the image of animals, without any color and decoration. Participants, both men and women and children can use rubber, clay, and colors to create on the sculpture. In this way, the audience also became an artist. Hofman hopes that the audience will feel free in the exhibition, stimulate their creativity and gain a sense of accomplishment. Twelve zodiac series.

Hofman's artistic works brought joy in appearance and brought people to think in the inside. He observed, thought, irony, and expressed the world and the world where people survived by the image of the animal. In this "Gathering!" In the exhibition, he made a lot of new attempts to integrate his thoughts into new works. In future creation, he hopes to learn more and see his possibility of further effort and development. He said he regarded every day as a new day, hoping that his eyes would keep clear and curious like a child.

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Source 丨 "There is a artistic realm" comprehensively organizes self -network

Author 丨 School Division 丨 Li Han

Picture 丨 Jia Qiong

Beauty Couple 丨 月 丨 丨

Review 丨 Haruko

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