On June 10th, the Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum and the Natural Creation jointly launched the “Seeing the Tao • Shouyi – Chinese Folk Artists Documentary Image Exhibition”, in this day related to culture and heritage, you are welcome to come to the exhibition hall to listen to the self-description of 37 craftsmen, understand their touching stories, and their unique feelings hidden in the handicrafts.
The “Seeing the Tao and Shouyi – Chinese Folk Artists Documentary Image Exhibition” is the first exhibition of the “OLD@NEW” series of exhibitions of the Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum, which focuses on humanistic documentary short films, showing these 37 different stories from “metal”, “ceramics”, “bamboo and wood”, “cloth art”, “pen, ink, paper and inkstone” and other categories.
The 85-year-old Zhang Xiaoquan scissors intangible inheritor Shi Jinshui, Zhejiang Province arts and crafts master Lu Weisun, 80s Sichuan Luzhou oil paper umbrella maker Yu Wanlun, with bamboo for 40 years Zhang Xinrong, after graduating from university into the bamboo weaving world Guo Yimin, who wants to let the ancestors of the summer cloth weaving from generation to generation young man Song Tao, engaged in the softening of summer cloth half a hundred years old Feng Xilin, just rely on the hands and eyes to accurately grasp the process of the papermaking master Zhou Jihuo…… At the exhibition site, we also leave an area for you to see the exhibition, where you can express your inner ups and downs and emotions through handwritten words.
What’s even more special is that there are not only collections representing the “past life” of handicrafts on display, but also cultural and creative products of “this life” – so, in this exhibition, you can not only see and listen, but also experience “each one is different” handicraft cultural and creative products on the spot, and then directly swipe the code to buy online.
At 10:30 a.m. on June 10, the opening ceremony of the exhibition will be held in the temporary exhibition hall on the second floor of the Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum. At that time, the masters of 11 arts and crafts, including boxwood carving, wheat straw fans, brand paintings, paper-cutting, stone carving, kites, etc., will donate their works to the museum, which will become another way to preserve the humility of the craftsmen and convey the spirit of ingenuity. In addition, a big discussion on the current situation of folk art and the regeneration of folk art will be organized on the spot: should handicrafts with such a long production cycle be eliminated? Most handicrafts are facing the dilemma of no successor, how to break the status quo…… Do you have something to say?
With the opening of the “Seeing the Tao and Guarding the Art – Chinese Folk Artists Documentary Image Exhibition”, the series of activities of the “Hangzhou Memory — Intangible Cultural Heritage Dissemination Season” of the Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum was also officially launched. Following the June 3 national arts and crafts master, Zhejiang Province intangible cultural heritage Hangzhou embroidery inheritor Chen Shuiqin into Wang Xiaobo bookstore, a needle and foot to teach everyone fan embroidery, June 10, the national arts and crafts master Zhao Xixiang will walk into Zhongshuge, hand in hand to demonstrate how to hand-embroider a piece of lace. From June to August, Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum Master Studio.Nearly 20 masters of wood carving, brand painting, purple sand, oil paper umbrella, rock color enamel and so on will not only come to everyone’s side to teach intangible cultural heritage skills to the public, but also hand-made “enthusiasts” can also enter the museum to participate in master teaching. (Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum)