“归来的木刻——黑龙江省美术馆藏中英当代版画作品展”8月1日在黑龙江省美术馆开展

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归来的木刻

黑龙江省美术馆藏中英当代版画作品展

展览主办:

黑龙江省美术馆

黑龙江省版画院

英国木口木刻家协会

英国木版教育信托

展览时间:

2018.08.01-08.30

09:00-16:00免费参观

展览地点:

黑龙江省美术馆1、2号展厅

归来的木刻－黑龙江省美术馆藏中英当代版画作品展

前言

二十余年前两位欧洲人博林德女士和冯德保先生走遍中国大江南北，拜访中国版画名家，在短短的几年中搜集数千件中国木版画精品，并在伦敦创立欧洲木版基金会（后改为英国木版教育信托）。1997年该机构邀请60位中国木刻版画家创作木刻作品，并于2003年向全世界发行《木版画原作集》。原作集自面世即广为世界各大博物馆收藏，原作集的全部木刻原版也被英国大英图书馆永久收藏。廿年后的2017年，这套国人并不熟知的中国木版画原作集从英伦荣归故土。

这套原作集作品所用技法手段多样，包括水印、粉印、油印、黑白、套色、绝版、饾版、拼贴版等刻印技法。上世纪九十年代中国艺术界思想活跃，中国艺术家对传统版画的继承与发展，对民间艺术的兼收并蓄以及对西方艺术的大胆借鉴都在这套作品集中得到集中体现。这套原作集已被视为中国版画的现代发展及走向广阔世界的一个里程碑。

与原作集同时回归的还有40件英国木口木刻家协会会员的木口木刻原作。英国是木口木刻的发源地, 18世纪末英国版画家托马斯.比维克首先采用黄杨木横剖面刻制木口木刻制作书籍插图，创造了白线法刻制精细丰富的色调，堪称凸版历史上一个划时代技术革新。英国木口木刻历经两个多世纪，历经巅峰与低谷，几经沉浮，至今依然有一批专事木口木刻的版画家虔诚于继承传统和开拓创新。这8位英国版画家创作的40件木口木刻代表了当今英国木口木刻整体面貌。

魂兮归来。归来的不仅仅是木刻，也有超越民族国界的对美的共同追求。与此次展览同时展出的还有在英国牛津举办的"黑土魂——黑龙江版画欧洲巡回展"，版画正以其独有的优势为中英文化交流铺就一条新的"丝绸之路"。

英国奥斯特大学艺术学博士牛津大学拉什金美术学院客座教授何为民

“归来的木刻——黑龙江省美术馆藏中英当代版画作品展”8月1日在黑龙江省美术馆开展

Returning Woodblock Prints

An Exhibition of Chinese and British Relief Prints from the Collection of

The Heilongjiang Museum of Art

Foreword

Some twenty years ago, two Europeans, the late Ms. Verena Bolinder-Müller and Mr. Christer von der Burg travelled across China, visiting many well-known Chinese printmakers and purchasing many thousands of woodblock prints.

Their collection formed the basis of The Muban Foundation they subsequently established in London, the Foundation being renamed the Muban Educational Trust in 2009. In 1997, sixty Chinese printmakers were each commissioned to contribute a woodblock print to a Portfolio, the Portfolio of the sixty works being published in 2003, now held in the collections of Museums around the world. The majority of the original woodblocks, from which the prints were taken, are now in the British Library’s permanent collection. In 2017, two decades after the works were commissioned, examples of the Portfolio, unfamiliar to most Chinese people, made a welcome return to the land of their creation.

The techniques employed in the prints making up the Portfolio include those printed with water-soluble colours, gouache and oil-based inks, the Portfolio includes monochrome woodcuts, multi-block prints in colour and those created with reduction printing, assembled block printing and collage. During the late 1990’s, artistic concepts flourished in the field of Chinese art, some artists employing and developing techniques inherited from the traditions of Chinese woodblock printmaking; others absorbed elements of folk art and some were influenced by Western art. All these different approaches are reflected in the Portfolio, regarded as a milestone in the development of modern Chinese printmaking and its relationship to the wider world.

The Portfolio is now returning to the UK to be shown alongside a group of forty original wood engravings by members of the Society of Wood Engravers. Wood engravings originated in Britain - at the end of the 18th century, naturalist and illustrator Thomas Bewick first used end grain boxwood to create wood engravings as book illustrations. His creative use of the white-line manner of wood engraving produced fine detail and rich textural qualities and his innovative techniques became another landmark in the history of relief printmaking. During more than two centuries of development, wood engraving experienced peaks of interest and troughs of disinterest. There are today, still groups of printmakers who specialize in wood engravings, combining tradition with innovation. The forty wood engravings from eight British wood engravers represent the diversity of contemporary wood engraving in the United Kingdom.

What the return of these prints represents is not only woodcuts and wood engravings, but a common pursuit of the beauty of art which transcends national borders. Concurrently, the exhibition The Soul of the Black Earth – Woodblock Prints from Heilongjiang Province is being shown in Oxford. Printmaking is paving the way for a new Silk Road with unique advantages for the exchange of Chinese and British culture.

中英版画作品欣赏:

“归来的木刻——黑龙江省美术馆藏中英当代版画作品展”8月1日在黑龙江省美术馆开展