On March 25, the art exhibition "Huang A-Zhong: Every Paint is Full of Emotion" opened at the China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum). As an important exhibition for the revitalization of the collection of the China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum), this exhibition originated from the 194 representative works donated by artist Huang A-Zhong to the China Art Museum, covering his oil paintings, ink paintings, watercolors and other multi-media creations from 1970 to the present, and fully recorded the artist's exploration process from breaking the conventions of the "Twelve People's Exhibition" to integrating Chinese and Western cultures.
"Huang A-Zhong: Every Paint Has Emotion" exhibition hall
"Huang A-Zhong: Every Paint Has Emotion" exhibition hall
"As a Shanghai painter, I have reason to leave my works in the best place in Shanghai, which is the China Art Museum. This is a place to promote beauty, and I am an artist who has been creating beauty all my life. I want to use my works to leave an aesthetic memory for the era." Huang A Zhong said.
Huang A Zhong was born in Shanghai in 1952 and graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy. From breaking the old rules with the "Twelve People's Painting Exhibition" in 1979 to complementing the East and the West, Huang A Zhong's creations have always been steeped in the Shanghai spirit.
"Huang A-Zhong: Every Paint Has Emotion" exhibition hall
"Huang A-Zhong: Every Paint Has Emotion" exhibition hall
From studying at the Shanghai Theatre Academy to absorbing artistic nourishment from famous artists such as Chen Junde and Kong Boji; from the mottled brick walls of Shikumen to the neon reflections of the Bund, as a representative of Shanghai's local artists, Huang A Zhong's creations have always been connected with the blood of this city, and his brush is also a slice of time that records the changes in the city.
Sweet Love Road
"Yantou Old House"
The exhibition is based on the two major themes of "Proud and Tangible" and "Free and Unlimited", and systematically displays 199 oil paintings, Chinese paintings and watercolors by Huang A-Zhong from the museum collection, using art as a link to connect urban memory, humanistic spirit and contemporary aesthetics. Among them, the "Proud and Tangible" section is mainly composed of Huang A-Zhong's early block-based oil paintings and relatively traditional flower and bird paintings, especially presenting representative works such as "The Lost City", "Sweet Love Road" and "Yantou Old House", building a three-dimensional city memory museum.
The Lost City
For example, in "The Lost City", geometric blocks of color and mottled lines are interwoven into an abstract urban texture. Warm brown and orange tones are like old photos with the patina of time, deconstructing the outline of the Bund's international building complex into a visual symphony, allowing the viewer to glimpse the evolution of Shanghai from the fireworks of the alleys to the neon lights of the city through the gaps between the blocks of color and the brushstrokes.
"Huang A-Zhong: Every Paint Has Emotion" exhibition hall
The "Unlimited Spirit" section focuses on exhibiting Huang A-Zhong's oil paintings, ink paintings, watercolors, and solid oil paintings in recent years, in which he used brushwork and colors more freely.
Three-dimensional composition
It is worth mentioning that his artistic experiments "Three-dimensional Composition" and "House by the Sea" are both exhibited in this section. The former disassembles bottles and fruits in a Cubist way, and the geometric sections collide on the canvas to create a new visual order; the latter depicts the seaside cottage with rough brushstrokes of oil pastels, and the highly saturated blue waves and gray-white buildings form a surreal contrast. This aesthetic pursuit of "similar in dissimilarity" is transformed into a visual philosophy of silent snowfall in "Snow in the Distance" - the heavy texture of oil paint and the ethereal artistic conception of ink and wash white space achieve a delicate balance on the canvas.
House by the Sea
The creation of prose and poetry is also an important part of his artistic thinking. The curatorial team of the China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum) also intends to incorporate the mutual learning between his poetry and painting into the curatorial exhibition.
"Huang A-Zhong: Every Paint Has Emotion" exhibition hall
During the exhibition, the China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum) will also invite artists and professional painters to the site to launch a series of educational activities and academic lectures to reveal the inheritance code of Shanghai culture, bring the audience an aesthetic education experience of "all people, all ages, all regions, all time", and continuously revitalize and empower art. The exhibition will last until June 20, 2025.
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