On the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month, Shanghai Changning Culture and Arts Center was very lively, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh "The award ceremony of the 13th International Children's Zodiac Painting Exhibition was held here. Friends of all sizes who have created various "tiger" images gather together to watch the shadow puppet play "Wusong Fighting Tiger" and experience folk activities such as Haipai tearing paper. This event also ended the perfect end for Changning's "Happy Shanghai New Year".
Live shadow puppetry
The exhibition includes three major sections: "Traceability", "Evolution" and "Derivation", and a total of more than 4,000 works were collected, and 374 selected works were finally selected, including flat painting, three-dimensional sculpture, video, installation, intangible cultural heritage, etc. A total of 57 works were awarded. In addition, 50 works of the Internet Popularity Award were selected through online voting.
Some of the winners
The authors who participated in the call for papers spread all over the country, including foreign children living in Shanghai, students in primary and secondary schools, and students of social art training institutions.
Zodiac tiger works created by children
At the award ceremony, Jiang Chenxing, who won the Excellence Award in the Middle School Group, spoke on the stage as the representative of the award. Since the first zodiac painting exhibition in 2010, Jiang Chenxing has participated in 11 drafts, "The first time I participated, I was still in kindergarten, I didn't understand, and now it is the second year of junior high school." ”
Jiang Chenxing, who won the Excellence Award in the Middle School Group, spoke on stage as the winning representative
After so many years of participation, Jiang Chenxing was most impressed by the Year of the Rooster, he and his friends worked together to make a sculpture of a chicken, the two divided their work and cooperated, one person made wings, one person made tails, and finally combined, the effect was very good, and won the grand prize of that year. This year, Jiang Chenxing created the "Little Nian Hu" of the chromatic prints, "I think this way is very novel, has the feeling of traditional woodcut, and I also learned about the ancient Chinese printing method." ”
Zhao Tianle from Xianxia Senior High School participated in the Zodiac Exhibition for the first time, and he won the Excellence Award for his work "Flying Tiger Strange Shoes". The tiger pattern in the work "Flying Tiger Strange Shoes" has strong folk elements, but it is drawn on the skateboard, "the pattern of the tiger drawn on the skateboard, sliding up like a tiger flying over, very vivid." Talking about the reasons for choosing skateboarding as a performance medium, Zhao Tianle laughed.
From the first year of planning the children's zodiac painting exhibition in 2010 to last year's 2021, the zodiac painting exhibition has gone through the first twelve years. "This year is the beginning of a new round. We do not just stop at letting children draw "tigers in the year of the tiger", but hope that their creation is a spontaneous process after accumulating a certain amount of zodiac cultural knowledge and polishing their own cognition. The head of the curatorial team of Hongqiao Museum of Contemporary Art said that he hopes that children can increase the awareness and sense of identity of national culture in the process of creation.
Therefore, in the early draft process, the curatorial team guided and prompted the children to understand how the Chinese ancestors described the "tiger" through book reading, querying materials, exploring practice, etc., analyzing the process of combining the image of the "tiger" with people's lives and habits, and summarizing how the "tiger" gradually integrated with the national culture, and finally became an important symbol of the spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation. Let the children accumulate relevant knowledge and then use artistic means to express the "tiger" they understand.
At the award ceremony, the "2010-2021 Shanghai Children's Zodiac Painting Exhibition Collection" was also officially unveiled. This album compiles a total of 442 outstanding works from the zodiac exhibition in the past 12 years. Through these works, we can see the world of contemporary children and teenagers and perceive their lives.