Everything can be "Suzhou embroidery", and needles and threads can be "reached"
During the National Day holiday, I met Suzhou embroidery at the China Sports Expo
"This exhibition hall is so pink and beautiful" "Wow, these embroideries are amazing" "Mom, this cat is so realistic"...... During the National Day, many tourists came to the Grand Canal Museum of China and were attracted by the newly launched "Far-Reaching-Yao Jianping Suzhou Embroidery Art Exhibition". In the pink-toned aesthetic exhibition hall, all kinds of exquisite Suzhou embroidery and rich Suzhou embroidery cultural creativity are displayed creatively, which makes visitors marvel again and again, and they have raised their mobile phones to record the beauty of Suzhou embroidery.
Exhibition view
Suzhou embroidery is one of the representative symbols of intangible cultural heritage skills along the Grand Canal. According to Sun Siyuan, head of the exhibition department of the Grand Canal Museum of China, the "Far-reaching - Yao Jianping Suzhou Embroidery Art Exhibition" was launched at the end of September, which is a new chapter in the "Canal Intangible Cultural Heritage" series of exhibitions jointly opened by the museum and Yao Jianping, a master of Chinese arts and crafts and a representative inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage Suzhou embroidery skills. The exhibition took more than a year to prepare, showcasing a total of 62 sets of embroidery artworks from Yao Jianping Embroidery Art Museum and Suzhou Museum, covering Suzhou embroidery tradition, innovation and cross-border artworks.
Exhibition view
"Far and wide" comes from "the trend of ambition, no distance, poor mountains and seas, no limit", which means "no matter how far you can reach". Curator Ren Ziying told reporters that with "Boundless" as the theme of the exhibition, on the one hand, it shows the inheritance, innovation and exploration of traditional embroidery skills, everything can be "Suzhou embroidery", and needles and threads can be "reached"; On the other hand, "the trend of ambition is far-reaching" is also a contemporary portrayal of the spirit of intangible cultural heritage inheritors who firmly pursue and strive for perfection.
In the exhibition hall, Yao Jianping's work "Bright Eyes" became the focus of onlookers, and the clear cat's eyes embroidered by Queen Suzhou embroidery are a must. At a glance, he paused, approached to admire, pondered and wondered...... The unbelievable scenes of the visitors are constantly staged, becoming another scenery of the scene, "the cat's eye looks like it will shine", "the feeling of the cat's eye vitreous is embroidered", "this is the real luxury......
Suzhou embroidery work "Bright Eyes" (detail)
How do you embroider such a realistic cat's eye? With doubts, the reporter interviewed Yao Jianping's daughter, Yao Lan, the young inheritor of Suzhou embroidery, and the manager of the Yao embroidery brand. She introduced that the animal embroidery "Bright Eyes" looks very realistic, because the direction of the embroidery needle is completely based on the form and structure of the animal. Especially for the depiction of cat's eye halo, the direction of the needle and thread is based on the structure of the cat's eye vitreous, embroidered in circles, and the color is very rich, the embroidery thread is added layer by layer, and the details such as light and shade are processed solidly, so as to embroider the luster of the vitreous body. "A closer look can find that the direction of the cat's nose line and the face line is not the same, the needlework idea follows the structure, in order to depict a vivid feeling, the cat's nose is three-dimensional, the eyes are glowing, this vivid effect is also the result of Su embroidery's creation under the concept of great art." The cloth silk moves the needle, changing the light and shadow, and it is almost chaotic.
Suzhou embroidery work "Tibetan antelope"
Flat needle embroidery, messy needle embroidery...... Each unique Suzhou embroidery stitch method is presented in this exhibit. Ren Ziying introduced, flat needle embroidery from more than 2,000 years ago, is one of the most classical and quintessential Suzhou embroidery techniques in the mainland, the needle method is simple and delicate, such as the exhibition of double-sided embroidery representative works "Praying Mantis Cat", the white cat's hair in the picture is soft and silky, the eyes are translucent and expressive, and the demeanor is smart, and it is about to come out. Random needlework is a new stitch method founded in the late 20s of the 20th century, the founder Yang Shouyu was influenced by Western painting, using the technique of different lengths of lines, cross into stacks, and layered and colored. For example, "Tibetan Antelope" makes full use of the contrast of light and shadow, projecting a touch of light in the darkness on the Tibetan antelope, focusing on silk and color changes, highlighting the light and dark, light and shadow of the picture.
Suzhou embroidery double-sided embroidery work "Praying Mantis Cat"
Su embroidery work "Lotus Dew Jiao Language"
The second part of the exhibition hall focuses on Yao Jianping's self-created needlework "melting needle embroidery". "Fusion" refers not only to the fusion of the two techniques of flat needle embroidery and random needle embroidery, but also to the fusion of the two aesthetic concepts of the East and the West. For example, the work "Lotus Lust Language" uses the visual beauty of "Jiao" and the auditory beauty of "language", forming a wonderful artistic effect of synaesthesia.
Young visitors experience the interactive digital exhibit - "Traces of the Needle"
The reporter noticed that the interactive digital exhibition item - "Traces of Needles" adopts the form of Suzhou embroidery "embroidery", which attracts many audiences eager to try. The audience can choose different digital embroidery drafts and embroidery threads of various color levels, click on the simulated embroidery surface on the screen, and manually "thread the needle" to generate the "finished product" of Suzhou embroidery, and feel the subtlety of Suzhou embroidery techniques in an immersive experience.
Suzhou embroidery work "When the embroidered cloth is cut"
Suzhou embroidered clothing
The beauty of Suzhou embroidery is far-reaching, and it cannot be limited. Sofa screens, fan costumes...... As far as the eye can see, there is an exploration and expression of Suzhou embroidery, which narrates a new story of life in the traditional embroidery language. Ren Ziying said that in addition to presenting the beauty of Suzhou embroidery with "fine, fine, elegant and clean" to the audience, this exhibition also hopes to open up the traditional intangible cultural heritage in another way and show the cross-border integration in the new era of "embroidery with the times". The exhibition will run until November 3.
Suzhou embroidery and the exploration and expression of life
Jiangnan Times reporter Mao Yan