Video: "Transforming China". Art project by Chinese sculptor Ma Jun
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
No matter how hard the Chinese try to protect their ancient culture from the invasion of the culture of modern, Western and European trends, they are still powerless. This process - the fusion of cultures - is the subject of the sculptural art project “ Transforming China ”By a Chinese author named Ma Jun … In Chinese porcelain, the young sculptor is trying to reflect what is happening in China today, more precisely, with its culture and traditions. So, from thin, high-quality porcelain, for which China has long been famous, the master made such strange things as TVs and tape recorders decorated with Chinese patterns, bottles and cans of cola and other drinks, cars, bottles of perfume, tubes with lipstick … Even porcelain a computer with a keyboard, mouse and system unit, made of painted porcelain, is in the Ma Jun collection. All of this symbolizes the fusion of new technologies and traditional Chinese culture.
By the way, despite the new technologies of the 21st century, the sculptor had to work hard on his work: porcelain is a very fragile, capricious and naughty material, unlike plastic, from which all these things are made "in real life". But patience and work will grind everything, and in our case, they will create and color mini-models from modern society.
It is known that the collection of porcelain gizmos is constantly growing. You can see the Transforming China exhibition in L. A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht and Krampf Gallery, as well as contemporary art museums and exhibition halls in China, USA, France, Germany …
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