From August 1st to 30th, the "Returned Woodcut - Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum Collection of Chinese and English Contemporary Prints Exhibition" was co-sponsored by Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum, Heilongjiang Provincial Printmaking Institute, British Mukou Woodcarving Association and British Woodblock Education Trust. The Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum exhibited 60 Chinese woodblock prints from 60 Chinese artists and 43 woodcut woodcuts from 8 artists from the British Mukou Woodcarving Association.
More than 20 years ago, two Europeans, Ms. Bolind and Mr. Feng Debao visited the famous Chinese prints in the north and south of China. In just a few years, they collected thousands of Chinese woodblock prints and created the European Woodblock Foundation in London. For the British Woodblock Education Trust). In 1997, the organization invited 60 Chinese woodblock printmakers to create woodcut works, and in 2003 released the "Set of Woodblock Original Works" to the world. The original collection has been widely distributed in the world's major museums, and all the original woodcuts in the book have been permanently collected by the British Library. The Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum has been doing business with the European Woodblock Foundation since 2008. In 2016, the Foundation collected these 60 contemporary Chinese woodblock prints, making this set of Chinese woodblock prints that were not familiar to the Chinese. The original collection was returned to the homeland from England.
According to He Weimin, a Ph.D. in art at the University of Oster in the United Kingdom and a visiting professor at the Rushkin Academy of Fine Arts in Oxford University, this set of works has a variety of techniques, including watermarking, powder printing, mimeographing, black and white, color, out of print, stencil, collage. Imprinting techniques such as the edition. He said: "In the 1990s, the Chinese art world was active, the Chinese artists' inheritance and development of traditional prints, the eclectic mix of folk art and the bold use of Western art were reflected in this set of works. This set of original works has been It is regarded as a milestone in the modern development of Chinese printmaking and in the broad world."
In 2016, with the entry of 60 Chinese woodcuts in the Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum, there were also 43 original wooden carvings of the members of the British Mukou Woodcarving Association. The United Kingdom is the birthplace of Mukou woodcut. At the end of the 18th century, the British printmaker Thomas Bevik first used the boxwood cross section to make wooden mouth woodcuts to make book illustrations, creating a fine and rich color of the white line method, which is called the history of the letterpress. An epoch-making technological innovation. After more than two centuries, the wooden mouth of the British wooden mouth has been ups and downs. There are still a number of printmakers specializing in woodcut woodcuts who are obsessed with inheriting tradition and pioneering innovation. According to reports, the 43 woodcut woodcuts created by eight British printmakers in this exhibition can be said to represent the overall appearance of the woodcut woodcut in the United Kingdom today.
It is not only woodcuts, but also the common pursuit of beauty beyond national and national boundaries. Both China and Britain have a tradition of woodblock printmaking. The United Kingdom is the birthplace of Mukou woodcut, and China is the birthplace of woodblock carving and the hometown of copying woodcuts. This exhibition aims to showcase the inheritance and development of the traditional Chinese woodblock painting traditions and the woodcut woodcuts through the comparison of some contemporary woodcut woodcuts in the UK with contemporary woodblock prints from the late 20th century to the early 21st century in China. The difference in morphology between woodcuts and woodcuts, while contrasting the cultural differences between China and Britain.
As an important representative of Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum and an important representative of Northeastern culture, printmaking has always played an important role in promoting regional culture and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. The "Returned Woodcut - Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum's Collection of Chinese and English Contemporary Prints" is not only the 2018 National Art Museum's collection of fine exhibitions in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, but also the "One Belt, One Road, Heilongjiang Artists International Art Exchange Project". At the same time, the first exhibition of “Black Souls – China·Heilongjiang Printmaking Europe Tour Exhibition†and related art exchanges and collections organized by Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Confucius Institute and Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum are also being held in the UK. With its unique advantages, it paves a new path for Chinese-English communication.
Recently, at the opening ceremony of the "Black Earth Soul - China Heilongjiang Printmaking Europe Tour Exhibition" held at the Brooks University Art Museum in Oxford, in order to cooperate with the theme of the exhibition and spread the culture of Heilongjiang, the exhibition also broadcasted the English of Heilongjiang Province. The promo film "Longjiangxing" and the distribution of catalogues increased the local audience's perception of the regional culture of Heilongjiang. Zhang Yujie, director of the Art Museum of Heilongjiang Province, said, “It is these artists and their prints, all kinds of artistic roads and artistic styles, which are composed of Heilongjiang prints with distinctive features and black and rustic styles. They are condensed into regional art brands with unique aesthetic values. It symbolizes the cultural symbols of the hard-working and self-improving spirit of Heilongjiang people. Its heroic spiritual connotation and artistic features of gracefulness fully demonstrate the characteristics of northern Xinjiang black soil culture and become a prominent symbol and valuable resource for the development of contemporary art in Heilongjiang.†It is reported that during the art exchange period Liu Decai, deputy dean of the Heilongjiang Provincial Printmaking Institute, also interacted with students at the Oxford Brookes University School of Art to explain and demonstrate the process of woodblock print creation. After August 31, the exhibition will also go to other cities in the UK for a tour.
It is understood that in the second half of this year, the Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum will also collaborate with the British Woodblock Education Trust to edit and publish the "Chinese-English Contrast Practical Printmaking Vocabulary Handbook". The implementation of these international art cooperation exchange projects is a concrete action of the Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum to implement the new development concept. It is a concrete practice of integrating the domestic and international art resources “going out†and “please come in†in the new era. "We will introduce the fine arts works of the countries along the 'Belt and Road' to Heilongjiang in the form of equality and reciprocity through international art exchange activities, and bring the art works representing the regional culture and national culture of Heilongjiang to the international stage, hoping to use art. The exchanges will realize the commonwealth of the people and further deepen the friendship between the Chinese and British peoples." Zhang Yujie said.
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