Why would a calligrapher and painter bring an "outdated game"?
On June 1, the exhibition "Outdated Games - Zhuan's Poems, Inscriptions, Calligraphy and Paintings" will be on display at the Duoyun Art Museum on Nanjing East Road Pedestrian Street.
The calligrapher and painter Meng Zhongjiang brought the main works and objects in the new book "Outdated Games-Zhu'an Poems and Inscriptions" for centralized exhibition.
Meng Zhong is a calligrapher, painter, and freelance writer. He graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. In recent years, he has built a "Bamboo Nunnery" in Wanhua Creek, Dali. He is a distinguished professor at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. He is the editor of "Painting of the Western Regions - Dunhuang Scripture Cave Lost Overseas". Excellent Paintings" and other books.
In the consideration and practice of contemporary culture and art, Mongolia and China try to put the traditional elite culture, their personal lives, and artistic practices into today's multicultural context to explore the possibility of some kind of inheritance and dialogue.
"Outdated Games - Zhu'an's Poems, Essays and Inscriptions" collects pictures and texts of his poems, calligraphy, paintings, seals, as well as epigraphy, inscriptions, calligraphy and painting, utensils, literati sketches, appreciation of collections and other works. Most of them are published for the first time. Publishing can not only reveal personal education, interests, and tastes, but also continue many beautiful qualities in traditional culture.
Although the title of the book mocks itself as an "outdated game", it is actually about Meng Zhong re-sowing the seeds of art into the soil of humanistic tradition, tracing back to its origins, caring for and watering it, and expecting it to blossom and bear fruit.
One of the major characteristics of traditional Chinese culture is "using general knowledge to control specialization". This concept not only runs through thousands of years of Chinese classical education, but is also reflected in different aspects of China's "elite culture", such as academics, thought, art, etc. Mengzhong roams up and down in the classical spiritual world, writing in classical Chinese and old-style poetry. The purpose is not to restore ancient times and reproduce the ancients, but to better connect the ancient and modern, nature, and connect the classical spiritual world with the current era. , make some explorations and attempts that are different from the mainstream of the times. Careful readers may be able to read this meaning in these poems, inscriptions, calligraphy and painting creations.
Mengzhong said that through these years of overall thinking and practice, China’s original humanistic tradition has been placed in today’s international and multicultural era. "Putting it in a place like Shanghai that has both an international vision and the traditional context of Shanghai-style art, I want to show you such a lively and current sample that continues the tradition while responding to cultural confidence and the changes of the times. ”
The exhibition is hosted by Shanghai Duoyunxuan Cultural Economic Co., Ltd., co-organized by Shanghai Boguzhai Auction Co., Ltd., and supported by Life, Reading, Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore, and Shanghai Xinhua Media Chain.
