Huang Wei, the costume stylist of these popular dramas, "Dream of China" and "Sea Animal Crossing", held an art exhibition in Shanghai. China | Huang Wei | Clothing
What kind of artistic world can lines of different colors and materials create?
The "Clues - Huang Wei Art Solo Exhibition" being held in Shanghai has created a "world of lines" that combines tradition and fashion for the audience.
Huang Wei has multiple identities: a well-known designer, artist, fashion design director, fashion magazine consultant... In recent years, her most well-known work is undoubtedly the fashion design of last year's popular TV series "Dream of China".
Recently, in the old buildings of Yangyun Anman in Jiangxi, Huang Wei showcased her more diverse artistic imagination to the audience.
Installation Art "Four Seasons"
The work "Four Seasons" is an installation art composed of colorful silk threads and light, with tassels made using traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship as the basic element. It constructs a time and space tunnel composed of colored silk thread tassels, creating a visual space with varied and colorful scenery.
In the exhibition hall, there are many works based on traditional embroidery, such as "Reed" woven from Su embroidery, one of the four famous embroideries in China. The four layers of patterns cleverly create a three-dimensional visual effect, with meticulous embroidery, lively needlework, and elegant colors. The "Crane and Wisteria Flower" embroidery adopts Beijing embroidery, integrating various excellent embroidery techniques from China. The embroidery thread has bright colors, exquisite materials, and an elegant style.
The meticulously displayed embroidery works in the exhibition hall
In addition to serving as a fashion design guide for over 80 film and television works, Huang Wei's artistic creations are also closely linked to China's intangible cultural heritage. In 2019, she served as the chief designer of the Palace Museum cultural and creative project "Gongxi · Longfeng Chengxiang", and designed and produced 66 sets of wedding auspicious costumes with Palace Museum elements for the project.
This batch of complex and exquisite auspicious costumes combines the traditional intangible cultural heritage with the current aesthetic paradigm. All clothing is hand sewn, requiring a significant amount of labor and utilizing up to 40 intangible cultural heritage techniques. Some of the clothing made an appearance in this "Clue" exhibition, magnificent and elegant, fully expressing Huang Wei's translation and exploration of intangible cultural heritage art resources in the field of visual art.
One of the "Gong Xi · Dragon and Phoenix Bringing Auspiciousness" series
In the view of the curators Liu Chunfeng and Li Jihan of this exhibition, the works with various themes in "Clues" reflect Huang Wei's self exploration, reasoning, and repeatedly spiral thinking views, and also express the artist's concern for reality. In the exhibition, a large number of natural or ready-made materials such as silk, wood, cotton, paper, and thread can be seen being replicated and reassembled by artists through methods such as "drilling wells", and being associated with the real space, showcasing an alienated sensory context that transcends the original materials themselves.
The costume designed by Huang Wei for the film and television series "Cloud Crossing the Sea" has participated in the Brazilian Biennale
On another dimension, "clues" also interpret a personalized process of artistic creation. This process is different from the value expression of Western art. Huang Wei is more of an artistic creation based on the coordinate system of sorting out Eastern traditional culture and tracing local context. This process is slow and rhythmic.