Zeng Weilin, male, member of the Communist Party of China, from Chongqing Municipality. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of Hebei Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 and graduated from the School of Art of Hebei University with a master's degree in 2015. He is currently the secretary, dean and professor of the Sculpture Institute of Hebei Academy of Fine Arts, a researcher of the China Contemporary Sculpture Research Institute, a holder of the Qualification Certificate for the Creation and Design of Urban Sculpture in China, a director of the Public Art Committee of the Chinese Culture Promotion Association, a recommended review expert of the National Arts and Crafts Masters, a calligraphy and painting review expert of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department, a director of the Hebei Provincial Art Theorists Association, and a gold medal winner of the Provincial Top Ten Craftsmen Chinese Press Art Creation Joint Exhibition, and was awarded the 2020 Hebei Great Craftsman of the Year by the Hebei Provincial Federation of Trade Unions in February 2020.
In Xinle, Hebei Province, a building that resembles the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter will make people pass by shine. This is the south courtyard of the Hebei Academy of Fine Arts, known as the "Magic Castle", and the scientific name is "Cinderella's Castle". The person who participated in and designed this "magic castle" was Zeng Weilin, the director of the Sculpture Institute of Hebei Academy of Fine Arts.
The young Zeng Weilin loved sculpture art from childhood, with a reverence for sculpture art, not far from Chongqing to Hebei to study, under the direction of Hebei Academy of Fine Arts Zhen Zhongyi, Professor Zhao Shouyi, Professor Guo Baozhai, Professor Yang Wenhui, Zeng Weilin said: "The atmosphere of Qin han sculpture, affected my life" After graduating from the Hebei Academy of Fine Arts in 2006, Zeng Weilin resolutely chose to stay in school to teach, engage in teaching and artistic creation, so he poured his lifelong dream into sculpture.
City of New Luck Airport
Zeng Weilin, president of the Sculpture Institute of Hebei Academy of Fine Arts, said that "only by pouring his understanding and pursuit of history, life, and dreams into the carving of his works." Whether it is a magnificent large-scale stone statue, a finely carved clay sculpture, or even a silent metal sculpture, it can give them a vitality and a spiritual fragrance with its own artistic enthusiasm, which will make the sculpture more vivid and more infectious."
"Sculpting" the beauty of the city with heart
Talking about the road of artistic creation, Zeng Weilin said that "always uphold the respect for the profession, the dedication to the skill, the strict demand for quality, the design and creation of works with the sincerity of the craftsmen, and the carving of the beauty of the city with the kung fu of embroidery".
In 2006, in the planning and design stage of the southern district of Hebei Academy, Zeng Weilin, who had just graduated and stayed in school, participated in the design of important nodes and parts such as "Film and Television Animation City", "Intangible Cultural Heritage City (Jiming City)", "Oriental Art History Park", "Western Art History Park", "World Totem Art Park", "Cultural Exhibition Park" and 400 acres of lake surface, 12-mile river channel, as well as wharves, waterways, windmills, lighthouses, Wenfeng Pagodas and other important nodes and parts, and designed and created the gate "One Horse First" and a large number of sculptures in the district, canteen, dormitory, and teaching building. More than ten years of meticulous polishing and hard sweat, in exchange for more than 20,000 sculptures (noodles) of various types in Hebei Meiyuan, in exchange for the combination of Chinese and Western in Hebei Meiyuan, beautiful architectural characteristics, Hebei Academy was selected as one of the top ten most beautiful campuses, renowned at home and abroad.
Xinle has been known as "Xihuang Shengli" since ancient times, and Fuxi is not only in the memory of folklore for Xinle people, but also deeply rooted in the cultural inheritance of the city. In order to accurately express the essence of Fuxi culture and better integrate with the urban style, Zeng Weilin checked various materials, visited people from all walks of life, and after several months of concentrated research, determined the creative idea of fuxi culture and creative culture integration and symbiosis. Under the guidance of this idea, Fuxi Park, Fuxi Street, Fuxi South Lane, Fuxi Tourist Resort were designed, and through sculptures, plaques, lights, green spaces and other carriers, the character images and story scenes of the ancient era were reproduced, and a number of theme parks, characteristic blocks, model streets, cultural squares and landmark buildings were built, which further improved the quality of the city, highlighted the characteristics of the city, and continued the historical context. It was widely praised.
"Sowing" culture with affection
Zeng Weilin has always adhered to the earnest teaching of "people with culture", and "sowed" culture in the land of China with one unique design and one sculpture after another with bones, morality, temperature and vividness.
Lingshou County has Fenglaiyi
At the same time, Zeng Weilin participated in and led the design and sculpture creation of key scenic spots of the three counties (districts) of Pingshan County, Lingshou County and Jingxin Mining District. In the process of design and creation, Zeng Weilin insisted on putting the "sowing" culture in an important position, highlighting the different characteristics of different regions, striving to excavate local history and culture, folk culture and modern culture, and expressing it in various effective means, and striving to achieve the organic integration of culture and tourism, and the perfect docking of culture and industry. For example, in Pingshan County, systematic research and integration of red resources such as the old revolutionary areas and natural landscapes such as Qifeng, caves, hot springs, and wetlands, highlighting the creative ideas of red as the mainstay, supplemented by green, and blending red and green, the overall design of the county's important node improvement and transformation project, the overall design of the Wentang plaque transformation project, effectively improving the level of Pingshan's history, art and culture, and sounding the cultural tourism brand of "Pingshan Different Red" and "Jinshan Yinshan, look at Pingshan". In Lingshou County, the unique historical and cultural resources of the "Thousand-Year-Old County" identified by the United Nations Group of Geographical Names Experts were deeply studied and excavated, and two urban coordinate sculptures of "The Country of a Thousand Multipliers" and "Youfeng Laiyi" were designed, which vividly and comprehensively displayed the long history and cultural essence of the "Country of a Thousand Multiplications" through sculptures, and painted the "finishing touch" for the unique charm of "Great Beauty Lingshou and Healthy and Happy Land". In the Jingxing Mining Area, fully excavate and integrate the cultural heritage and ecological resource advantages of the thousand-year-old county and the century-old mine, highlight the combination of "ancient" and "new", the combination of tradition and modernity, and carry out the overall design of the landscape transformation and upgrading project of Jiazhuang Ancient Town, the important traffic town of Qinhuang Ancient Yidao, and restore and sort out the culture of the commercial and trade station that has been passed down for thousands of years and the original dart bureau, money house, medicine shop, pawn shop, tea house and other systems, retain historical precipitation, integrate modern elements, and greatly enhance the existing Yan zhao wind bones in Jiazhuang Ancient Town. It also has the unique temperament of Jinshang style. In the process of participating in the provincial capital tourism development conference, Zeng Weilin devoted great efforts to creating a series of vitality and infectious works with profound thoughts, exquisite art and sophisticated production, which not only provided wonderful for the tourism development conference, but also provided strong support for the creation of "red Shijiazhuang and great beauty Shijiazhuang", and let various excellent cultures take root in the land of Yanzhao.
Hard work" casting
Zeng Weilin believes that sculpture is regarded as the "soul", "eyes", "business card" and "history textbook" of a city, and through excellent works that are organically unified in ideology, artistry and ornamentation, we will raise the spiritual banner, establish spiritual pillars, and build spiritual homes.
Yuanshi County, 泜水紀胜
Over the years, Zeng Weilin has designed and created campus sculptures in Hebei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, martyrs' cemeteries in Juye, Shandong, Haishi Park gates in Penglai, Bee Park in Juxian County, 129 Division History Museum theme sculptures in Henan, Jiuqu Yellow River Museum sculptures in Yonghe, Shanxi, Gaxiu reliefs in Gansu, martyrs' cemetery reliefs in Lanzhou, Horqin sculptures in Inner Mongolia, and so on. Sculpture is a solidified painting, a three-dimensional story, a condensed spirit, recording the vicissitudes of the years, recording the joys and sorrows of the times. In the design and creation process of each project, Zeng Weilin polished it as a "project to cast the soul", searched for historical memory in an all-round and multi-angle manner, highlighted the spirit of the times, and adhered to the position of Chinese culture, inherited the Chinese cultural gene, passed on the values of truth, goodness and beauty, and passed on the values of upward goodness, and built a spiritual highland for the local people and foreign tourists.
The country of a thousand cities in Lingshou County
Zeng Weilin has won the honorary title of 2020 Hebei Great Craftsman of the Year, the Second Provincial Capital Top Ten Craftsmen, and the National Teaching Achievement Award twice; in 2009, he won the Outstanding Guidance Teacher Award of the Fourth National College Students Ice Sculpture Art Design Competition, the Third Prize of the 16th National Snow Sculpture Competition of Sun Island in 2010, the Second Prize of the 6th Hebei Art Joint Exhibition in 2012, and the Outstanding Guidance Teacher Award of the 4th Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts works of Chinese Colleges and Universities in 2013. In 2016, he won the Academic Achievement Award of the Yungang International Buddhist Sculpture Art Exhibition, and in 2021, his work "Chairman Mao of the Communist Party of China" was awarded the first prize in the Hebei Academy of Fine Arts to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China.
"Sculpture is the "soul", "eyes", "business card" and "history textbook" of a city, so sculptors are required to have the insight to discover the beauty of art, continuously improve their self-cultivation, and carefully carve to show the historical style and customs and customs, leading the atmosphere of the times," Zeng Weilin said.
(Su Dongbin)