Events
Shun Hing Lecture In Arts and Humanities by Professor Wu Weishan on ‘A Cultural Perspective on My Sculpture’
2 Oct 2013
4:30 pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Yasumoto International Academic Park
A native of Dongtai in Jiangsu province, Professor Wu Weishan was born in January 1962. Professor Wu is an eminent sculptor and Member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Committee of the China Democratic League and Chair of its Cultural Board, Member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Director of the Institute of National Contemporary Art, Director of the Institute of Fine Arts of the Chinese National Academy of Arts, President of the China Academy of Sculpture, Vice Director of the National Guiding Committee for Public Sculpture and Director of its Academic Board, and Director, Professor and a PhD student advisor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Nanjing University.
Professor Wu’s sculptures have been recognized through numerous awards in different important exhibitions and competitions, including the Pangolin Award, the Recognition Award of the Third Exhibition of City Sculpture in China, and the Recognition Award of City Sculpture in China. He was awarded as Honorary Doctor of Philosophy of Korea Inje University in 2007 and Honorary Fellow of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010. Professor Wu is also a Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, and a Member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors, UK. He was also invited to be a judge of the final round of The 11th National Exhibition of Art, PRC in 2009.
For Professor Wu, the past 20 years have been dedicated to promoting Chinese culture via the art of sculpture. His works have spread through more than 20 countries and regions. He is also a pioneer and advocate of a new style of “freehand sculpture”, a technique which seeks to integrate the concept of traditional Chinese philosophy with aesthetics, blazing a new trail for expressive sculpture in China.
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One of the ideas in traditional Chinese culture embraces ‘literature as a vehicle for moral messages’, which has a concept in common with Martin Heidegger’s ‘what are poets for…?’ Professor Wu has been engaged in sculpture for more than 20 years, creating more than 400 pieces on subjects including historical and cultural notables as well as ordinary people. His works have been exhibited in more than 20 countries around the world. The lecture will discuss Professor Wu’s cultural view through his four sculptures: ‘The Sleeping Child’, ‘Lao Tsu’ ‘Confucius’ and ‘The Fleeing from Calamity Group’.
