Red Cliff

Artist: Han Zechao (School of Crafts)

Instructor: Xu Chaoqi

Time leaves its mark on walls like how it does in life. Artifacts are the repositories of #history, #human emotions and memories. We feel for these artifacts. Maybe it is because of our unquenchable desire to discover the past. Maybe it is because of our fascination with the unique marks left on them by time itself. By creating the effect of layered peeling caused by rainwater and the growth of microorganisms, the artist constructs a metaphor for the phenomenon of time simply passing.

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Artist: Xu Tianai (School of Crafts)

Instructor: Han Xi

Amidst the eternal waves of time, where all things come to life and cease to be, what is the meaning of existence? "If space is infinite, we exist at any point in space. If time is infinite, we exist at any point in time." The process of self-generation presents opposing contradictions in the relationship between the ego and the other, yet it also manifests a sense of unity.

Exploration of Binding: Floating World

Artist: Xu Xinhua (School of Crafts)

Instructors: Liu Zheng, Zhou Wu

The artwork employs porcelain as its medium and folds and bones as visual elements. Through the challenge of materials and craftsmanship, it seeks to explore both the artistic context of ceramics and the existential conditions of individuals, embodying a sense of "bodily self-awareness".

About BRAIN GARDEN

Brain Garden – The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & CAA Graduation Season kicked off online and offline concurrently on June 1. This edition of Youth Art Festival is co-hosted by Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Publicity Department of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, China Academy of Art (CAA), and Zhejiang Conservatory of Music under the guidance of the Publicity Department of CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. The festival features a wide variety of online and offline artistic shows and activities centered on the future and the youth. It is a grand city-wide artistic feast in Hangzhou.

The Youth Art Festival is presented online on CAACOSMOS and West Lake Sky Screen and offline at six venues, namely Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, West Lake Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, World Tourism Museum (1368 Xiangxi Road), Quan Shanshi Art Center, and Yichuang Town, with a total exhibition area of nearly 70,000 square meters. Over 3,000 works from more than 2,500 Class of 2023 graduates (including 1,766 undergraduates, 688 masters, and 97 doctors) are showcased. Over 2,000 young artists, designers, writers, and scholars have gathered online for this youthful art event.

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