Comments from Lin Jiawei's experts

Lin Jiawei is a sculpture. I have tried to observe it, and now I can describe the spirit with the form, and capture the appearance of human feelings and all things. Reading his articles closely, sometimes he is excited, sometimes he sighs, sometimes he is gentle, and sometimes he screams. Although he is childish and sweet, he is also full of loyalty. Prosperous by true temperament. The collection of essays is published today, and I am asked to preface it. Since it is a "word from the heart", it must be sincere. If Jiawei can stick to this "innocent heart" and devote himself to studying, he will definitely make progress in the future.

——Wu Yueshi's "Preface to "Jia Wei's Heart"

Jia Wai's personality is Chinese, and his temperament and image are also Chinese, but his artistic creation is It's postmodern through and through. He is a avant-garde sculpture artist. His works are highly challenging, extremely anti-logical and anti-form in form, and can be pieced together at will. At the same time, he can organically integrate artistic elements such as painting, dance, music, text, and photography. It has a strong artistic appeal. In a group of representative "Human Sculpture" works, he used plastic, resin, fiberglass and other materials to create a group of bare-headed, empty-eyed, helpless hands reaching forward, but with plump breasts and waist, round and sexy figures. These sculptures of nude women were copied from the same original, but Jiawei splashed different colors of paint on their heads, creating different impressions.

When Jiawei gave me the pictures of this group of sculptures, I asked him what he wanted to express. He smiled and didn't answer at first. He waited for a long time before telling me that what he created was a set of empty symbols, which I could use freely according to my mood, thoughts or feelings. Having said that, I later learned that these works of his have been selected in the "Art Journal", China's "Sculpture" magazine and other media. Moreover, other works have been selected into domestic and foreign art exhibitions and won awards, winning praise from many experts in the industry. He himself has also become a member of the Chinese Artists Association, and concurrently serves as a member of the Sculpture Committee of the China Arts and Crafts Society and other social positions.

——Su Zhong "My Friend Lin Jiawei"

The scope of Lin Jiawei's sculpture art talent is multi-faceted. The feeling these works of art give me can be roughly divided into There are three types: graceful, bold and melancholy. His works such as "Years", "Willful", and "Exploration" are graceful and elegant. They are silent poems in three-dimensional space. The poetic meaning must be slowly understood from their overall and detailed narration.

The artist's works are the embodiment of ideas and art. Works of different styles reflect different "personal personalities." Those who are delicate and beautiful seem to us to be related to women, and those who are powerful and strong seem to be from men. However, this is often caused by habitual thinking. Watch Mr. Lam Kar-wai's powerful "The Battle of Majiang", the unrestrained and heroic "Bravely Make a New Navigation", the passionate "The Builder", the powerful "Iron Rush", and the super-fast "Six Horses"< /p>

It makes people think that he is a tall, rough and bold man. But after hearing his description, I realized that there was a huge contrast between the impressions of this sculptor and his works - he was thin, fair and elegant, and looked like a "good woman". It reminds me of Sima Qian's evaluation of Zhang Liang. If you think about it carefully, this situation is not uncommon. Like Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty who was chasing deer in the Central Plains, he wrote poems and compositions that were exquisite and skillful, such as "Poetry on Looking at the Snow", "The sky is full of shame as the sunset shines, and the colors are broken." Thank you Chenxia", there is no imperial air at all. Like Napoleon, who swept across Europe. Although he was smaller than ordinary people, his ambition and courage in establishing the First French Empire, crushing the anti-French alliance, and competing for hegemony between Britain and Russia could not be measured by his height. It seems that sometimes this "contrast" is a kind of compensation for one's own situation and is an excellent material to enhance his impression.

——Gu Zhengyao's "Appreciation of Lam Jiawei's Sculptures"

The portraits of Western figures created by the Chinese sculptor Mr. Lin Jiawei are usually areas of interest and experimentation by Eastern artists. Creating portraits of deceased people is difficult. Because in creation, sculptors never have enough information for reference, and it is impossible to observe and study the characteristics of the characters' heads from all angles to create like they do when creating living characters.

The works created by Lin Jiawei using materials have strong expressive power, which shows that he has a well-trained anatomical foundation, so he has a good grasp of the skeletal structure of the portrait. People are very contagious.

I will comment on some characters in the work that I am familiar with. I will not comment on Roentgen, Bernhardt, More and others who I am not familiar with. Some of the little bearded figures, such as Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Darwin, look similar to the originals, but the treatment of the beards is too similar. For example: Manet, according to records, his beard and hair were usually neatly trimmed.

The mouth of Camus's portrait is well sculpted, recalling his notoriously rare natural features of mouth and jaw.

My personal comment: The most successful portrait is that of Dickens, close to the portraits of him I know, and the creation of the characters is very expressive.

——Anthony Stones "I Look at Lam Kar-wai's Portrait Sculptures"

Standing in front of Lam Kar-wai's sculptures, you will gain a sense of passion and power. You have to be amazed by his uncanny creativity. Ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting artists pay attention to Taoism and follow nature. This seems to be seen in Lin Jiawei's works. He experiences and comprehends nature and pursues the Tao of sculpture.

What is "Tao"? Tao is the law, Tao is the law, and Tao is people's understanding and interpretation of the laws of nature. He wandered among nature and life, devoted himself to paying attention to nature and life, and obtained a steady source of inspiration from them. He realized the endless rules of form and modeling from different aspects, and created a large number of sculptural works of art.

As a man of both virtue and art, Lam Kar-Wai is also keen on public welfare while pursuing art. He has gone deep into the Wenchuan earthquake area for disaster relief several times, and has conducted charity auctions of his works many times. His many charitable deeds have earned him many awards: In 2008, Lin Jiawei was awarded the honorary title by 6 public welfare institutions including the China Public Welfare Promotion Association. "China Philanthropy Person of the Year"; in 2009, he was selected as "China's Charity Ambassador", and also won many honorary titles such as "One Hundred Outstanding Figures Who Influenced China's Reform and Opening Up in the Past 30 Years". He was calm and calm in the face of these, saying: "These titles are an encouragement to me, but they are also a 'burden'. They will force me to ask myself to do more public welfare things and to use public welfare resources." The mentality will carry the artistic creation to the end. This is a road of exploration without an end..."

On this road without an end, we hope that Lin Jiawei can go further, and at the same time, in this process. I also hope that he can create more excellent sculptures.

——Wang Yongwei "From Nature, Return to Nature"

The portrait sculptures of Lin Jiawei are both conservative and avant-garde. His works are not completely accurate and realistic. He pays attention to the absolute consistency with the objective facial features of the subject, but reveals the charm of freehand brushwork. This is a step forward in retreat. The purely manual shaping method makes his works more casual, especially the treatment of the characters' hair and beards. The composition is not refined, but it is very close to the characteristics of Westerners' hair and beards.

In addition, there are exaggerated details, such as the blindness in "Homer", which was specially enhanced by Lin Jiawei. This enhancement used Homer's physical disability to contrast his immortal achievements, and to The way of strengthening the features makes up for the distance from the original appearance of the characters. This is also an important means for distinguishing so many portraits of Lin Jiawei from each other. Most of the subjects are Westerners, and Chinese sculptors are still not familiar with the facial features of Westerners. However, such large-scale creations can easily cause conflicts between quantity and artistic quality, and are prone to repetition. Lin Jiawei is trying to avoid this by referring to sculptures, photos, oil paintings, and even text descriptions made by his predecessors to find objects. Personality characteristics, find differences in details, and then exaggerate the differences to get as close to the object as possible.

To create portraits of these celebrities is not only to "write" the spirit of the characters, but also to "write" one's own mood. In Lam Kar-Wai's works, people can see his heartfelt enthusiasm when creating. Perhaps the reason why Lam Kar-wai gave up tools and trusted the creativity of his hands so much is because the movement of his hands can more directly access the ground. Release the pent-up feelings and thoughts in his chest.

——wewen "avant-garde in conservatism - Comment on Lin Jiawei's celebrity portrait sculptures"

Art works are an artist's attitude towards life. Artists are not only the reflectors of personality, but also Should be socially responsible. A few years ago, Lin Jiawei brought his artistic perspective to the problems of survival in reality and the origin of life. He wandered over the garbage at the construction site, looking for materials that could express environmental awareness, labor value, and survival thinking. A different kind of artistic perception expresses understanding of these issues. Now his artistic tentacles are consciously paying attention to the tragedy before him, constructing his rational thinking on trauma and disaster among the ruins.

“Tragedy is the destruction of valuable things in life for people to see” (Lu Xun’s words). This is about the tragic ending caused by the irreconcilable conflict between man and reality, and the tragedy caused by the earthquake is caused by natural forces. Ecology reflects the interaction between organisms and the environment, and ecology after a disaster is first of all an "ecological relationship" that provides psychological comfort and restores confidence in life. Lin Jiawei put a lot of thought into appeasing and re-establishing the tree. His unique feature is the use of "ready-made products" from the ruins. In the reconstruction and integration, he shows a kind of humanistic care and creates a piece of art. A sculpture with event characteristics. Each piece of work constitutes a commemorative symbol, retelling and bearing witness to this moment.

Lin Jiawei’s works reveal the awakening after grief, express the great love and unyielding humanity in the world, and make people feel that although the disaster left deep pain, it also left behind Unyielding mental strength. Therefore, on this level, tragedy is the revelation of value after the trauma of life, which makes us unconsciously ask ourselves - what does grief leave behind? This is the meaning of Lam Kar-wai's "Shape of Life".

——Song Weiguang "What Grief Left Behind"

Public welfare is not an individual matter. From the overall perspective, it is a major matter related to society and personal value orientation. If caring people from all walks of life take action to form a positive, kind, compassionate and responsible social fashion, and use all the money spent on eating, drinking, extravagant and debauched to help disadvantaged groups, Our society will be one full of warmth and friendliness, and the existing social problems will be greatly reduced, and the so-called harmonious society will surely emerge.

When it comes to art, from an essential point of view, public welfare practices create valuable spiritual wealth for society. Real artists are also creating spiritual wealth. What is the difference between doing art and doing public welfare? People in the art circle often emphasize the reconstruction of Eastern cultural values ??because they are worried about the value confusion that exists in China during the period of social transformation. This kind of thinking, discussion and practice is a kind of public welfare undertaking. If our artists all create art with a public welfare mentality, then there will be a lot less of those crude city sculptures and vulgar works that fit the scene! If our rich and successful artists can devote themselves to public welfare undertakings and use their undoubted appeal and influence to create another kind of value, then many people facing difficulties will be full of hope. Now, Lin Jiawei is working on a cultural industrial park project mainly focusing on sculpture. He said with a smile: "To a certain extent, this can be regarded as a small public welfare undertaking for the sculpture industry. I hope to use this as a Artists are provided with a freer creative platform."

Rodin said that there is no lack of beauty in life, but a lack of vision to discover beauty.

Lin Jiawei has such a vision, a state of mind that has settled down from the hustle and bustle of business, and a positive and sunny attitude. Then, let us wish him the best in his future exploration of his own artistic creation. Make a more profound analysis and seek greater breakthroughs in the exploration of the ontology of art!

——Wang Mengjia "Let Love and Art Go Together: Remembering Lam Kar-wai and His Charity Sculptures"