On June 12, 2013, jointly organized by Zhejiang Art Museum, China Art Museum Shanghai, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Concerned with Love and Romance– He Youzhi’s Art Exhibition opened at Zhejiang Art Museum, initially features the overall works of He Youzhi. “Concerned with Love and Romance” Chinese calligraphy written by He Youzhi is the expression of the long history and deep emotion in comic art over seven decades. He Youzhi continues to work on creation, and his creative process is a vivid microcosm of the history of the developments and changes in Chinese modern comic art, reflecting a rich connotation.
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Based on the development in drawing skills and languages of He Youzhi’s comic strips, there is a combination of the background of the times with artistic experience, this exhibition is divided into three major parts, exhibiting excellent sections of his representative works from 1949 when he first engaged in comic strips and continues to work in this area, including “Shanxiangjubian/ Great Changes in a Mountain Village”, “Chaoyanggou”, “Li Shuangshuang”, “Shiwuguan”, “White Light”, and “Memories of Shenjiang”, and so on, in order to comprehensively and clearly review and demonstrate the excellent He Youzhi’s comic strip art, to create comic strips for the art world, filled with He Youzhi’s personal characteristics and social atmosphere.
He Youzhi: “When I went into the world of comics, it allowed me to express myself with sincerity, I fell in love with it.”
The exhibition remains until June 30.
About He Youzhi
Born in Zhenhai County, Zhejiang Province in 1922, He Youzhi only graduated from elementary school, worked as an apprentice and worker. He began to draw comic strips in September 1949 after the liberation of Shanghai. In 1952, he participated in a Shanghai comic strip workers class, and then served as a full-time comic strip creator in the New Fine Art Publishing House. In 1956, he was appointed to the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, to serve as a comic strip creator. His works include nearly 100 sets of comic strips, and a large number of novels, illustrations, as well as children’s art books. In 2009 he was awarded the first “Lifetime Achievement Award”, founded by the Ministry of Culture of China, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Chinese Artists Association. “360 Jobs of Old Shanghai” and “People in the Old Shanghai Alleys” featured in the “Museum of Urban Footprints”, one of the four thematic pavilions in the Shanghai World Expo, in May 1, 2010. At the same time, tourism and cultural derivative products of the old Shanghai series were available to sell in the stores of Xintiandi, World Financial Center.
About the exhibition
Duration: June 12 - June 30, 2013
Venue: Hall 8, 9, 10 Tian Guang Promenade, Zhejiang Art Museum
Organizers: Zhejiang Art Museum, China Art Museum Shanghai, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House
Translated by Chen Peihua and edited by Sue/CAFA ART INFO
