Human Face Animal Sculpture
Entering the artist Xu Zigui's AKUI Art Museum, you will be amazed by all kinds of human face animal sculptures in the room: bird people, elves, 12 zodiac signs. Pay attention, you will find that the faces of many characters are exactly the same as those of the painters in front of them, and some are similar to the political and economic topics on television. Among them, there are many presidential candidates, which will make the audience smile.
Xu Zigui is famous for his sculptures of human faces and animals, with realistic expressions combined with fantasy outlines, bright colors coupled with the fine texture of pulp sculptures, and full of style recognition. The AKUI Art Museum has gathered his works over the years. In the studio on the second floor, I saw piles of newspapers, pulp machines, and workbenches, fully illustrating the artist's labor process.
Xu Zigui in his early years was actually famous for his flat paintings. Xu Zigui said that when he was in the Fine Arts Department of Taiwan Normal University, he had been studying traditional painting such as realism. He started a retrospective at the age of 30. However, when he went to the Pratt Institute in the United States to study in the same year, he found that he had not established a personal style and was determined to destroy retraining Start by changing the creative materials.
He said that New York implemented garbage sorting at that time. The garbage was not placed at the door of the garbage truck. He saw that there was a lot of waste paper, and considering the meaning of human civilization in the paper, he tried to tear the paper to make it texture. The paper was turned into pulp, put into the relief coloring, and finally made a three-dimensional shape.
After 30 years of pulp sculptures mined from garbage, Xu Zigui's theme has evolved from social criticism in the early days to modern life. The key to change is to see a chameleon illustrated book in 2004. He said that he only discovered the chameleon species and rich colors at that time, showing the "pure beauty" of form and color. "Everyone likes to use the text to express the way, and it is insinuating, but the expression is not pure or good?"
Nowadays, Xu Zigui's various sculptures have their own unique magic among the quirky and lovely, and they are very popular, and many of their works have rich family memories. For example, he used his mother's face to make sculptures, and added family zodiac signs to his back. He also playfully used his wife's zodiac signs. "These works can be seen at the AKUI Museum of Art, and he can drink at the cafe run by his son at the door. Tiger." The combination of the body with his wife's appearance, coupled with his and his son's face combined with the mouse's body, means "tigress power". Cup of coffee.