What should the sculpture industry upgrade?

Mr. Sun Zhenhua published in the last issue of the “Arts News” the article “When it came to comprehensive promotion” that reflected the mainstream will of the sculpture world. There are many annual reflections on the original source, and the text is short and worth reading. I have been making friends with Zhenhua for many years, and I enjoyed drinking at the meeting of the West Lake for a sculpture meeting. However, after that meeting, the sculpture industry conference basically excluded me because I sent out the argument of “eliminating urban sculpture” proposed in response to the proliferation of urban sculptures and overturned people’s rice bowls. Therefore, sculpture related The meeting did not invite me to participate, which also avoided a lot of unhappiness, and at least achieved one aspect of harmony. Fortunately, I participated in many conferences in the sculpture industry because of this, and I was less angry. However, many people in the sculpture community are still friends.

In this year, many academic issues involved the rice bowl. Because of the problems with rice bowls, it is sometimes necessary to circumvent some academic issues. There are also some good-hearted people who have reminded me that today cannot be too true - but everything is not true. What do these people want us to do? Sun Zhenhua said: “The sculpture industry has been a 'complaining family' for a long time. There are too many things that can be complained about together: the sculpture is relatively unimportant, the will of the chief in the urban sculpture construction and the will of the boss, lack of sufficient Participation opportunities and transparent and fair review mechanisms, the sculpture market lags far behind the painting and calligraphy market, and lacks sufficient theoretical positions and atmosphere of artistic criticism.... It can be said that the sculpture community is a family of vested interests since the reform and opening up. Without reform and opening up, how can you enjoy sweet and spicy food? Also complained, "the will of the chief executive and the will of the boss", "the lack of adequate participation opportunities and a transparent and fair review mechanism", which is not the case in the art industry. As for the "sculpture market is far behind the painting and calligraphy market," this matter needs to be talked about. In the past 20 years, there have been large and small sculpture projects belonging to all levels of government, down to the villages and towns, to the provinces and cities, and the central government. City sculptures in various places have cost a lot of taxpayers’ money and have also occupied many important public spaces. Are all "projects"! ! What does "engineering" mean? However, those artists who pitifully rely on one square foot to sell their own paintings and use national resources, that is, national creation projects, benefit from more than 100 painters and have not seen them for decades. Only a handful of corrupt officials (or many, if not found) are able to use the national resources. They spend national money and are bribed by some paintings and paintings. In general, the sculptors should not make any "complaint". Therefore, Sun Zhenhua is right - "With the rapid development of China's economy and the acceleration of urbanization, there are more opportunities for public sculpture. At this time, it is clearly inappropriate to say that sculpture is not valued."

Sun Zhenhua said: "China's sculpture has reached a time of comprehensive improvement." "The sculpture community should be more committed to the promotion of everyone: the improvement of concepts and horizons, ability and level of improvement." Of course, there are many things that need to be improved. However, I think that the sculpting industry needs to improve is the improvement of "capacity" in many projects that Sun Zhenhua said. There are also different opinions on the word "capability". I think that the issue of "capacity" in the sculpture world is not to ascend but to recover. It should be restored to the era of the Monument to the People’s Heroes. This is the most glorious era of Chinese sculpture in the past 100 years, and many of them are examples of interpreting classics of the 20th century.

It cannot be said that the contemporary Chinese sculpture industry is close to the edge of amateurs. The decline of the overall level of sculpture naturally has the influence of the international environment. However, the brilliance of western sculpture since the Renaissance to Rodin is indeed the peak of the development of world civilization, and the decline of the West in the present is an indisputable fact. However, the course of westernization of Chinese sculpture in the past century has not yet reached the point of view of conceptionization when it comes to learning. On the other hand, the concept has fallen behind a lot, and it is really “accumulated hard to return”. Objectively speaking, the current sculpture community can only say that it is using national resources to solve the problems of employment and jobs. It is difficult to say that the development of sculpture art. It should be clear to see that the unique advantages of sculpture in contemporary society are really difficult to compare with other aspects of art in the era of fragile sculptures that are now developing indiscriminately. Therefore, the sculptors who look around should be Contentment.