Thirteen Art Festival special issues ｜ Gan Dang a grain of salt seasoned a city

The artistic creation of the young sculptor Xia Yidong, an impressive aspect is his love for the red theme. In particular, many sculptures of the New Fourth Army he created in his creation showed the "iron army spirit" of the New Fourth Army from the perspective of youth in the new era.

In fact, the choice of Xia Yidong is not accidental. The red marks on the homeland and the red gene flowed by the ancestors and the red spirit inherited in the family have a profound impact on Xia Yidong's future sculpture creation. In 1979, Xia Yitong was born in the old district of Yanfu Revolution in Jiangsu Province. In addition, it was influenced by the grandfather of the "Captain of the militia" since childhood, so that Xia Yidong had a deep complex of the red revolutionary culture.

Xia Yitong believes that creating red themes, creators must enter history, explore the fate from the image, shape the image of flesh, life, and emotion. temperature.

Xia Yidong's works often incorporate the "freehand" language in the image of "figuration" to static brakes to write gods in shape. Whether it is a great leader, a revolutionary hero or an ancient sage, he always puts the characters on the "scene" of history, the audience is on the "scene" of the viewing, determining the sculpture's posture, and portraying the image, personality, and fate of the characters.

▲ Sculpture "The Second Saint of the Book" Bronze 73 × 70 × 40 cm 2015

▲ Sculpture "Fan Zhongyan" Bronze 60 × 30 × 20 cm 2021

▲ Sculpture "Yanzong Yisha" Bronze 70 × 40 × 30 cm 2016

▲ Sculpture "The Penal Crane Deer of the Earth" Bronze 60 × 35 × 23 cm 2020

In his representative work sculpture "The Second Saints of the Book", the allusion of "The Love Goose" and "Zhang Xu off the hat" expresses the desire for freedom, and it is a pursuit of the origin of life. When creating these two sculptures, he fully respects the inherent nature of freehand sculptures, closely linked to the existence of the king and Zhang, and repaid freehand in freehand. Essence This work is his classic work. He has been selected as the 13th National Art Exhibition and the Fifth National Youth Aesthetic Exhibition. In 2022, "The Second Saint of the Book" was invited to enter the Jiangsu Binhai People's Park as an IP image of "Chinese Calligraphy County" and talk to the people.

Promoting literary and art innovation is the mission of artists. Sculpture is a combination of art and technology. It is a dynamic instantaneous solidification, and it is also the crystallization of the sweat of the artist and the craftsman. As the artist of the new era, with the development of technology and the use of new materials, how to enter innovative sculpture language with the times, and the application of new materials and new technologies is a topic that Xiayi has focused on thinking in recent years. During the practice, Xia Yi found that the use of 3D technology to assist sculpture creation, so that the material of the sculpture can more properly reflect the historical sense and vitality of the work, which can form "the permanent beauty, eternal feelings, and mighty qi." As a result, the integration of 3D technology and sculpture art opened a wider space for his creative practice. To this end, he summarized the practical theory of 3D printing technology and sculpture use, and published the paper "The Influence of 3D Printing Technology on Sculpture Art", explaining how 3D technology promotes the diversified form of sculpture art in form, content and materials in materials and materials. expand. From the perspective of Xia Yitong, today, in the rapid development of science and technology, sculptors should introduce this new technology with a free and open attitude, use it for me, and explore and innovate in a wider field. It is necessary to further broaden the horizons, continuously understand and explore other disciplines and unknown areas, and realize the development of 3D printing technology and the interaction of realistic sculpture art.

Based on Jiangsu, Xia Yitong has also invented the "Chinese salt carving" in recent years and applied for a national patent. The ancients boiled the sea for salt, and today people plastic salt. Xia Yitong is based on his hometown, combined with his own sculpture expertise, and he has developed inspiration from salt to develop salt crystal patented technology, allowing salt to get out of the dining table and enter the aesthetic art world. Re -examine the salt with the eyes of the sculptor, use salt as mud, as the ink, the image of the heart, and painting the meaning of "salt". After his processing, the crystal texture, high -strength hardness, and insoluble characteristics make salt glow with bright art. This patented technology solves the difficulty of the easy -to -dissolve and unpopularity of salt carvings. Through unique formula and external processing process, Chinese salt carving crafts can resist high temperature, insoluble water, and unsatisfactory solution. , Spread, crystal clear and white, round like jade.

Salt carving works use the ultimate technique of exclusive innovation. After dozens of procedures such as prototype design, melting, crystallization, sculpture, casting grinding, grinding, painting, roasting glaze, etc., not only crystal, round, jade, and fresh, but also contain oriental aesthetics. The elegant artistic conception, inherit the deep cultural heritage, and show the humanistic feelings of Chinese treasures.

In addition, "Viewing ancient and modern in Xuxu, Four Seas for a moment", borrowing ancient and present, Xia Yitong's style characteristics of Chinese art and sculpture in Xia Yitong published "Chinese Freehand Art" and "Chinese Buddhist Sculpture". The development of art and ancient sculptures in China, summarizes the importance of cognitive history, historical knowledge, historical talents, and history, firmly self -confidence in freehand art and ancient sculpture creation, gentle mind and inspiration.

▲ The relief "On the Road" wood and resin 70 × 70 × 25 cm 2015 ▲ Sculpture "Iron Army Spirit" Bronze 60 × 60 × 45 cm 2015

▲ The major theme of "Hundred Years of Jiangsu" created "New Fourth Army Reconstruction Military" resin 120 × 80 × 45 cm 2021

▲ Sculpture "A Real Story" resin 200 × 115 × 75 cm 2020

▲ Sculpture "Three Bull Spirit" stainless steel 60 × 45 × 40 cm 2021

▲ Sculpture "Departure! Volunteer "Han Baiyu 60 × 32 × 17 cm 2020

In recent years, a large number of themes such as "A True Story", "Three Niu Spirit" and "Iron Army" created by Xia Yidong have tightly followed the theme of the times and obtained a positive response. While obtaining creative results, Xia Yitong did not forget his professionalism. He was selected as a visiting scholar of the Chinese Academy of Painting and thoroughly went into the creation and research of "freehand sculpture and freehand paintings". During the visit, he benefited a lot, not only to traditional Chinese painting, but also to Chinese traditional paintings. , Calligraphy, Sculpture, etc. have a comprehensive understanding, and accept the moisturizing of literature, history, and philosophy.

▲ Sculpture "Lei Feng" resin 70 × 60 × 45 cm 2021

While learning and creation and theory, Xia Yitong has been keen on public welfare. He has participated in public welfare activities more than 50 times in five years- "Plastic Deduzi" sculpture culture enters primary schools. In the labor model, "Red Art Performance -Top 100 Painters Entering the Red Land Series Activities" donated the "Iron Army" sculpture to the first workers' book club in the country, as a "national moral model" portrait, the statue of "good Chinese", for the anti -epidemic medical affairs Painted paintings, he can see him in many artistic public welfare activities such as the China Youth Foundation, Hope Project and Donation of Books in Library National Library every year. Become a dazzling scenery in the city.

Shaping people's hearts is also shaping themselves. Adhering to virtue and art, keeping up and innovation, is Xia Yidong's conscious choice. He said that, as a young generation of artists cultivated in the old red district, he uses sculpture art to show cultural self -confidence, serve the development of his hometown urban development and the people's beautiful life as his own responsibility, and use the pursuit of people, doing things, and from art. Leave it, the work that is liked by the masses ".

(The pictures of this article are all Xia Yitong, and the pictures are provided by Xia Yizong, Jiangsu Art Museum.)

"China Culture News" on September 15, 2022

9th edition -D8 version publishing the 13th China Art Festival Special

Among them, the D05 version published

"Gan Dang a grain of salt and a city"

↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ according to

Editor -in -chief: Chen Xiaoyue

- END -