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In January 2021, Chen Yingjie (Hua Tunan) was invited by the Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum MOCA to work away from the usual creative space and go to Shanghai to create “Gravity XLI” landscape series.
The mural 自然重力 41 | GRAVITY XLI was painted on Nanchang Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai / （中国）上海市黄浦区南昌路292号. The road is lined with old sycamore trees.
The mural was painted at No.292 and the building hosted an impressive 90m wide by 100m high facade! The wall gracefully displays the shadows from the opposite sycamore tree in all its glory!
Hua used Acrylic and spray paint / 亚克力、喷漆 within his mural.
The creation of GRAVITY XLI combines Chinese landscape with Western street art. The artwork is integrated with the bare sycamore trees facing the street, conforming to the growth of the trees and perfectly showing the natural light and shadow changes they create as they dance across the building facade.
The natural greens and beige back drop compliment the sycamore tree, whilst the powerfully applied black, with intense blue and violet colours creates movement and vitality as it grows upwards to boundless heights.
Using an experimental method to explore the spanning language between tradition and the street spirit, Hua hopes that Chinese landscape painting will no longer be traditional, but another natural time and space with layers of penetration.
“I have always thought of a sentence in my creation, Think big, do small. If there is no accumulation of small streams, there is no way to become a river East and West/ 我创作一直想的一句话, Think big, do small. #街头水墨 #不积小流无以成江海 #东方西方” Hua Tunan
The work took five days to complete, and the “Natural Gravity” series also spans from easel painting to urban art. The “Natural Gravity” series draws inspiration from the immense beauty of nature.
Conveying the concept of inclusiveness of all things in Chinese culture, starting from the historic street of Nanchang Road, the mural reinterprets the contemporary humanities of the metropolis with the poetic touch of the landscape.
The before and after images capture how the artist, Hua Tunan, has embraced the tree and its ever-changing contours within his vision. The final picture welcomes new energy that celebrates the tree and nature, the tree and the artist’s vision are brought together, united perfectly.
The work can only be completed when the sycamore leaves are flourishing in spring.
2021年1月，陈英杰受上海当代美术馆MOCA邀请，走出惯常的创作空间，前往上海创作《自然重力 41》山水系列。面对充满不可控因素的户外环境，创作将中国山水与西方街头艺术结合，画面与临街的梧桐树融为一体，顺应梧桐树生长且完美展现自然的光影变化。
澄明而深邃的色彩带来强烈的视觉冲击，饱含力量的泼墨为画面赋予了生命力，向无垠的高空蔓延。用实验性的方式探索传统与街头精神之间的跨越语言，希望中国的山水画，不再传统，而是具有层层穿透力的另一个自然时空。待春天来临梧桐树叶茂盛之时，作品才能称为真正完成。
作品耗时五天完成，《自然重力》系列也从架上绘画跨越到城市艺术。意图传达中国文化包容万物的理念，由历史名街南昌路出发，用山水诗意重新诠释大都会的当代人文。
Photo Credit Hua Tunan
