Shu Yong: Seeing the future in the forest

"Guangming Daily" (Edition 09, August 28, 2022)

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As an art creator, Shu Yong has always focused on research and practice of installation art. In recent years, he has presented a series of magnificent and inspirational thinking, high -end and gentle heart installation art to the viewer, providing a new idea for the art creation of modern Chinese installation art, and increasing people's awareness and identity of the artistic art. Essence Works such as "Silk Road Golden Bridge" and "Boat of Destiny" witnessed the memory of the development of the times. Not long ago, his installation "Jiangshan Duojiao" appeared in Nanmu Village, Zhaoshan Town, Yuetang District, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, showing him to him The latest creation and research results.

Jiangshan Dujiao (device) Shu Yong

"Jiangshan Duojiao" is 3.8 meters high and 18 meters wide. It is built by materials such as weather -resistant steel, stainless steel, acrylic and other materials. It does not use any materials to paint the surface layer. It is extremely close, making people feel that the work seems to grow naturally from the soil. The five peaks on the front are closely linked, and the five -way iron wall on the side is step by step. Each tree above the mountain has a humanoid that stretchs the limbs. There are also people working on both sides of the trees. There are people in the trees, and the trees are here. The work is simple, elegant and easy, simple, and vivid, and it reflects the philosophical thoughts of the unity of heaven and man.

In view of the close -up work, the surface layer of each tree is inlaid with a mirror, which not only maps the surrounding environment in the device, allows the device to integrate it with it, but also allows the audience to see themselves in the mirror. It is magical that in a complete tree, the audience's mirror is true and natural, and in a incomplete tree, the audience's face will become exaggerated and absurd. Shu Yong said: "From the perspective of conceptual understanding, the reflection of mirror surface is also a real portrait. Our care or destruction of nature will be mapped out by the mirror." Seeing ourselves in the forest, thinking about the human situation in the review of the environment and ourselves; we can see the future of human beings, we depend on the natural lips and teeth, the sky is blue, the mountains are greener, and the water is clearer, and human beings have a real future.

Jiangshan Dujiao (device) Shu Yong

"Jiangshan Duojiao" shows a completely different look during the day and night: under the sun, the works are magnificent and smooth, showing the magnificence of "three mountains and five months"; in the night, the works are rich in layers, changing the angle or lighting to the crown, and then the crown, so It becomes a water surface painted by the Chinese painting "net scarf method". On the surface of the water, the blue curve is like a leaf of life. Li Yan, vice chairman of the Chinese Federation and chairman of the Chinese Photographers Association, said: "To present these two different states in the same work, it is extremely difficult to perform in art. The physical attributes and cultural attributes of various materials. "

Shu Yong has been committed to the study of the series of propositions of "to express the tolerance and sharing of Chinese culture with the easy -to -understand cultural symbols" and the "installation art positive creation". The core elements such as ideology and modeling aesthetics have carried out research on installation art. Advocating green plants and greening, "Jiangshan Duojiao" conducted the guidance of the artistic creation of installation.

How to use modern artistic expression and international language forging to create the iconic symbol of the new era? "Jiangshan Duojiao" uses the manufacturing process without welding connection in the shape. The streamlined shape has both the function of expressing expressions, but also plays a role in dividing space and converting space. The audience activated the senses in the continuous refinement, transformation, and change space, transformed from passive feelings to active perception, and obtained a unique personal experience. The breadth, depth, and strength of the artistic performance of the works also achieved comprehensive improvement.

When Shu Yong originally designed "Jiangshan Duojiao", he left enough space for the work to upgrade the work. A large number of white -leaving information can be installed with real -time data platforms such as environmental temperature and humidity, wind direction wind speed, number of people entering the park, and animal and plant types. According to the data analysis, the weathering steel above the work can also be changed to green, rust, orange, and red, as a distinctive identification of fire prevention level. Big data can be formed through data networking, and data support can also be provided for ecological civilization construction.

"Human beings use symbols to solve the value pursuit of the survival environment. Using this symbolic installation work to express the concept of environmental protection and help the construction of beautiful China, it will definitely stimulate the audience's deep resonance and persistent public welfare effects." Wang Lisheng, dean of the School of Philosophy of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

"Jiangshan Duojiao" presented the concept of ecological environmental protection in modern devices, not only exploring the Chinese paradigm of installation art, but also evoked people's thinking about ecological environmental protection and the re -understanding of the human living environment. After the transformation and upgrading, "Jiangshan Dujiao" is also even more exciting.

(Author: Jiang Puying, the director of the Hunan Provincial Literary Federation Network Literature and Art Development Center)

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