pilgrimage—Silk Road Theme Exhibition

 

Exhibition venue:Hongluo Academy (next to Hongluo temple in Huairou, Beijing) 

 

Exhibition time:June 30 - October 31, 2020

 

sponsor：Beijing Hongluo Academy

 

Co sponsor：Yongjia Nanxi Academy

 

          Zhejiang Ruoxi jingshe

 

         London Academy

 

This is an exchange exhibition with the Silk Road and the development of Chinese culture as the clue. It presents the integration of the vast mountains and rivers in the West and the world civilization. It is a dual thinking of art and civilization.

 

There are many forms of exhibition. This is a long salon exchange exhibition, and works will be added or reduced in the middle, in order to give viewers different cultural feelings and expectations.

 

Buddha land in western regions  paper coloring 195x186cm  2012-2014

 

The autumn travel in western regions  paper coloring 265 × 210Cm 2011-2018

 

Impression of bozikrik Grottoes 26.8x190 x6cm paper coloring 2020

 

Pilgrimage to the western regions III 189x199cm paper coloring 2020

 

The tour of Pamir   paper coloring 160x190cm   2018

 

Poetic flavor of Wang Wei's Weicheng Ou 97x102.5cm  Paper green coloring 2020

 

The afterglow of congling  Silk coloring   220×100 cm  2016

 

The tour of Kunlun Mountain  Silk coloring 45x55cm  2019

 

Zhou Jianpeng “The Glorious Qiuci”

 

Chen Hang

 

"The Glorious Qiuci" is one of Jianpeng's series of works that express the theme of the Silk Road. The creation of these works is closely related to his deep affection for Xinjiang. The 6-year teaching experience of the Xinjiang Normal University Academy of Fine Arts has made Jianpeng have completely different humane and geographic understandings about “Silk Road”. At the same time, he has undertaken a number of researches on Xinjiang's local arts and the construction project of the Central Asian Art Research Database, etc., which allowed Jianpeng to reach the broader "Western Region" outside Xinjiang. As a young artist who majors in painting, has not only established the accumulation of theory in the study of fine arts in Xinjiang and other western regions, but also found a fulcrum in his creative thinking and theme choosing.

 

Dunhuang Grottoes 213x269cm  paper coloring 2016-2020

 

Kizilgaha Silk coloring  133x128cm  2020

 

Grazing in Populus euphratica forest paper coloring  215x81cm  2018

 

In recent years, Jianpeng has created a large number of works on the theme of the Silk Road. His personal exhibitions have been held one after another, including huge and small paintings, sketches, ink paintings, and color paintings. Jianpeng's also good at both calligraphy and painting, besides, he knows about seal carving arts well. As a Zhejiang people who has the literati sentiment in his blood, which has also interwoven in his works in recent years, and it has formed Zhou Jianpeng's option and style in painting: on the one hand, he strives to express the historical and realistic situation of the Silk Road in western region, on the other hand, he is not reluctant to give up the qualities of the literati that existed, the desolation and wildness of the western regions, Jianpeng prefers to tell it in an elegant way, and the works are accompanied by a large number of poems or words, so the creation of the Silk Road in Jianpeng's works is a unique way of interpretation.

 

 

Luchena Silk coloring 180x66cm   2020

 

Don't be a traveler in life Silk coloring 205x83cm   2019

 

boundless was the world Silk coloring 205x83cm  2020

 

Recently, Jianpeng showed the author his new work “The Glorious Qiuci”. I feel that this should be the new development of Jianpeng's continuous purification of the region of the work, which has completely changed the consistency of the works mentioned above in many aspects. I can see Jianpeng's efforts in it. If you are familiar with the theme expressed in "The Glorious Qiuci", you can feel the aftertaste of "Kezier" in the painting, which is interestingly presented by Jian Peng. The author has been there several times and entered into Quici (now Kuqa). Every time I can feel the world has experienced the rise and fall, thousands of years has passed like a moment, the ancient Qiuci disappeared in about the 14th century AD. Buddhism has flourished here for thousands of years, but where is it now?

 

The green pool of Tianshan Mountain   paper coloring 142x183cm 2019

 

Maiji Mountain Gold paper green coloring 112x72cm  Paper green coloring 2018-2020

 

The residence in Kunlun Mountain  Paper green coloring 189x158cm  2016-2020

 

Qiuci has been through too much of the past events and changes of the western region. The faint murals on the mud walls of Kezier Buddha Cave interweave with the dust, leaving the ancient atmosphere of Qiuci to the present. When I saw Jianpeng ’s work named “The Glorious Qiuci”, I knew its meaning, and I could share my feelings with him. I noticed that the work was done in freehand style, but it relied on pure mineral heavy color painting. It is not ink painting, and there are not a lot of inscriptions. The picture is simple, and the landscape shows the overall atmosphere of the "Kezier" region. The much use of earth red color implicates the meaning of "Kizil" (Uighur: red), Buddha caves are arranged between the unobtrusive mountains below in the picture. Obviously, the painter’s intention was not to deliberately describe the “dust” of thousand-year-old ruins in detail, but to make the picture more full of the high ramparts in the western region. Everything becomes uncertain and unspecific by the use of freehand brushwork, and the application of the thick paint method of mineral color, which is, just "dust" that extends the meaning of the picture to the visual appearance. The author is very clear that the creativity of Jianpeng's work lies here. The theme of “The Glorious Qiuci” and the choice of the picture expression form a contrast in the content. The author traveled from the Thousand Buddha Caves in Turpan Bezeklik to Thousand Buddha Cliffs of the Guizikizil. I showed my respects every time I looked up at the cave walls, and tried to find the traces of history, and finally it left the memory deep in my heart. It is this past that occasionally awakened from the dust and the dust that wiped out the past.

 

Guge paper coloring 96x355cm   2020

 

Tashilumbu Temple paper coloring 74x48cm   2011-2018

 

The first and fifteenth days of each month  paper coloring 201x143cm  2020

 

《The Glorious Qiuci》 Silk coloring 232×242cm 2011-2018