明清建筑家居木雕艺术馆简介

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自从有人类历史，大自然的树木便与人类结下不解之缘。在古代中国，由于人们的房屋建筑和家居用品主要以木材为材料，因而亦衍生了服务于建筑家居的木雕艺术。至明清时代，中国工艺技术水平已达到历史上成熟的高峰。在明清五百多年相对的繁荣安定期，中国人已建立了一深深的传统观念，祇要事业上有所成就，都希望在家乡立宗祠，建大宅，光宗耀祖，福泽后代。尤以清代中叶盛世一直延伸到清晚。由于经济繁荣，加上攀比心态，无数官员和富有人家纷纷大兴土木，令中国各地出现许多美仑美奂的宗祠和豪宅，同时亦产生了中国历史上最伟大的建筑木雕艺术。由于民间建筑艺术并不局限于宫廷严谨的规章制约，因而得以高度发挥民间工匠大师们的无限创意和卓越才华。

“千工床、万工房”是当时建筑家居木雕艺术兴盛的生动写照。而重要的是，在这些古代工艺师的作品中，他们巧妙地融入了数千年中国文学、典故、戏曲、风俗、寓意的丰富内容，加上超卓的工艺技巧，使这些建筑家居木雕作品具有高度的文化艺术含金量，成为中国历史上极为珍贵的文化艺术遗产。

然而，由于近百年中国社会经历了战争、动荡和变迁，中国这些珍贵的建筑木雕受到严重的破坏和催残。加上现代人对这些历史上留给我们的珍贵遗产认识保护不足，更令这些古代的建筑木雕艺术面临消亡的境地。

为了挽救这珍贵的历史文化艺术遗产，本苑近年来耗费大量的资源积极投入收集流散各地市场的建筑家居木雕艺术精品，从雕梁画栋以至门窗家具，经过数年不懈努力，我们已成功地收集到数以千计珍稀的作品，尽管我们所收集到历劫残余的作品谨为中国历史上辉煌的建筑木雕艺术中微不足道的极少部分，但已足以令我们对中国古代工艺师们伟大的成就产生无限的尊崇和感激。为了让广大的中外艺术爱好者和我们的下一代能分享这一珍稀的中国文化艺术，同时进一步弘扬伟大的中华文化，我们决定建立 “明清建筑家居木雕艺术馆”与社会人士共享。

在中山市政府及南区政府的关心和大力支持下，在中国各地人士和海外朋友们的热情鼓励下，我们的“明清建筑家居木雕艺术馆”终于在2010年9月24日于中山市南区文化中心正式开馆。第一期展览馆重点展出令人极为震撼的 “千工床”及相关的家居木雕艺术，从中我们可深深感受到中国五千年文化的深厚沉积和中国民间生活中多采多姿的一面; 同时亦可感受到古代中国社会中充满悲喜和血泪交错的历史影像;第二期展馆将于数月后开放，重点展出古代建筑木雕配件中之雕梁画栋、花板门窗及珍贵的雀替( 俗称牛腿 )，相信巧夺天工的古代木雕作品将令观众叹为观止和上了一堂生动的中国历史文化课。

云峰画苑   2010.9.1

 

Museum of Chinese Architectural Woodcarving in Ming-Qing Dynasties

Introduction

Since the history of mankind, trees of the natural environment started a close relationship with humans. In China, ancient housing construction and household products mainly used wood as the material. This ancient practice gives rise to the art of woodcarving in the Chinese architecture and furniture. In Ming-Qing Dynasties, Chinese craftsmanship have already reached the peak level of maturity. In the prosperity of Ming-Qing, the Chinese have established a deep traditional idea. As long as someone achieved the success in his career, he would hope to establish the ancestral shrines and build mansions in his hometown in order to bring honor to his ancestors and give blessing to his posterity. Especially from the mid-Qing to the late Qing Dynasty, due to the economic prosperity coupled with the mentality of comparison, numerous officials and the wealthy people go in for massive constructions. Therefore, many magnificent ancestral shrines and mansions established in all parts of China, at the same time developed the greatest art of architectural woodcarving in Chinese history. The folk art of architecture is not restricted by the strict regulations of the court, thus the civil craftsman could highly bring their creativity and talent into full play.

"Miraculous craftsmanship of the Bed and Room" is a vivid portrayal of the flourishing Chinese art of architectural woodcarving. The most important element of architectural woodcarving is integrated with rich contents of thousands years Chinese literature, stories, drama and customs, together with superior craftsmanship, which make the Chinese architectural woodcarving have a high cultural and artistic value, become precious historical and cultural heritage.

However, China experienced the war, turmoil and changes in the past hundred years, which led this precious Chinese architectural woodcarving to be seriously damaged and destroyed. Also, the modern people have inadequate knowledge in protecting the precious heritage, which further led the ancient architectural woodcarving to be faced with extinction.

In order to preserve this precious cultural and art historical heritage, Wan Fung Art Gallery in recent years consume lots of resources in collecting the artistic fine works of architectural woodcarving, which scattered in different parts of China. After several years of unremitting efforts, we have successfully collected a few thousands rare and fine works, including wood-carved ridgepole and beams, windows, doors and furniture. The fine works that we collected are only serve as an tiny and insignificant portion in the whole glorious history of architectural woodcarving, but it is already good enough for us to show our respect and gratitude to the achievement of those ancient craftsmen. For the sake of numerous Chinese and foreign art lovers as well as our future generation enable to share this rare Chinese culture and art, also further carry forward our great Chinese culture, we decided to establish a "Museum of Chinese Architectural Woodcarving in Ming-Qing Dynasties" to share with the community.

Under the strong support of People's Government of Zhongshan and the government of Southern District, Zhongshan as well as the enthusiasm and encouragement of people from China and overseas, our "Museum of Chinese Architectural Woodcarving in Ming-Qing Dynasties"will officially open on 24th September 2010 in Cultural Centre of Southern District in Zhongshan. The first exhibition focus on the exhibits of "Miraculous craftsmanship of the Bed" and the related artistic woodcarving, from which we could deeply feel the profound culture with five-thousands years Chinese history as well as the colorful Chinese civil life; at the same time feel the ancient Chinese society is interlaced with blood and tears as well as joy and sorrow historical images. The second exhibition hall will be open a few months later. The prominent exhibits are the wood-carved ridgepole and beams, windows, doors and furniture. I believe these amazing ancient woodcarvings will be unforgettable for the audience and it will be a lively Chinese history and culture lesson for all of us.

Wan Fung Art Gallery

1st September 2010

 

中国当代杰出画家精品大展

Fine Works Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Outstanding Artists

 

中华文化源远流长，中国绘画艺术经历了数千年的发展、积累，是由无数中国艺术家以心血和智慧形成的独特而具深度的东方艺术体系。

历代有成就的艺术家都有一个共同点，即他们都有独特的艺术风格和审美观，作品都有极高的难度以及具有无法模仿的艺术灵气，加上各自所拥有的过人天分及后天之学养，使他们的名字得以与艺术成果共存，永垂青史。历史上伟大的艺术家及其所创的珍贵艺术品从来都不是靠年龄、辈份、职位来区分，而是由其艺术的高度和难度来定位。故我们以同一标准去审视现代庞大的画家群时，可以发现中国各地正有着一批实力雄厚、大有希望的表表者。他们大部分正处于艺术创作的黄金期，并已有数十年之艺术创作经历，功力深厚，风格已成，是中国文化艺术之精英，亦是中华民族珍贵的宝藏。

是次画展，我们选出六十多位当代中国精英画家之过百幅作品汇聚一起，希望让各地人士能一睹我们这时代的中国绘画艺术的成果和风貌，并藉此进一步认识和了解当代中国画坛的杰出画家们。

China has a long standing and well established cultural heritage. Chinese painting has developed over a thousand years into a unique system founded on the experience and wisdom of innumerous Chinese artists.

The forerunners of Chinese artists all have one thing in common, that is, they had their own style and ideology in artistic creation and their works have a high degree of difficulty that can hardly be imitated. Together with their talent and cultural learning, has enabled their names to live on together with their achievement.

The great artists and their previous fine works in history have never been measured according to their age, seniority and position but according to the maturity and difficulty of the artworks attained. Therefore, if we use the same yardstick to examine the numerous contemporary artists, it is not difficult to discover that there are quite a number of them are competitive and promising. Most of them are in the golden age of their artistic creation with the scores of years of experience in it, and they were all well-grounded and developed their own style. They are the outstanding artists in China and the treasures of Chinese culture.

In this fine art exhibition included over hundred fine works by 64 contemporary Chinese outstanding artists. We hope to let the audience from different part of China to share the achievements of the Chinese contemporary art and enjoy the contemporary Chinese paintings, and make use of this valuable opportunity to get acquainted with the outstanding artists of our time.

 

 

 

中国当代杰出画家精品大展

参展画家

Fine Works Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Outstanding Artists