Sculpture

-- Preface

The sculpture circle in China in the recent 10 years has appeared unprecedentedly active. The interweaving and interactivity of diversified culture has aroused sculptors' passion to initiate and participate. Their wisdom, talent and vitality are fully focused on the solicitude for the development of national culture and the consideration over world culture in an integral and strategic way.

The historic process of China's modernization has forcibly promoted the development of urbanization. The involvement of sculpture has effectively elevated cultural quality and beautified the environment, giving the vast urban space expressiveness and affinity. The connotation of sculpture itself is also endowed with more awareness of public, environment and society. Thus, responsibilities and care for the society and the people are embodied in sculptors as reflected by the society as a whole.

The research and practice in space, language, material and medium of sculpture itself occupy a dominant position in the trend of the academic development of sculpture in China . The pursuit of individuality and personal style, new artists and new pieces constantly coming to the fore, sense of originality and fluctuation -- all this have become a consensus commonly followed by the Chinese sculptors in their artistic practice. From the ten pieces displayed here, a glimpse of Chinese sculpture of today can be caught.

Zhao Meng, Director of Sculpture Faculty, Academics of Fine Arts, Qinghua University