AXHU School of Art showcasing at 2023 CTIFE

AXHU School of Art showcasing at 2023 CTIFE 

International Office, Anhui Xinhua University

Oct 7, 2023

Co-hosted by China Society for World Trade Organization Studies (CWTO), China Council for International Investment Promotion (CCIIP), China Shippers’ Association, etc., the 2023 Cultural Trade Investment and Finance Expo (CTIFE) was recently unveiled at HEFEI BINHU INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTER.

Also, both the Contemporary Arts & Crafts Exhibition and the 2023 Arts & Crafts Innovative Design Competition stage on the event, curated by CHINA NATIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY, ANHUI ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY and ZHONGSHE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION GROUP.

Through examining, grading and attesting by the exclusive judge panel that consists of many country-level famous masters of arts and crafts, the School impacting objects, i.e., Huizhou-minded DRAGON Cushion Cover [bronze medal] (inspired by ZHU Lei and JIN Zhen), Magnet in Silence and Visionary Identity (by WANG Xiaojun and SUN Chun) and Chinese Intangible Culture Presenting in Fuyang Paper Cutting (by SHI Ling and LIU Huanhuan) are highly recognized for this exhibitions.

Bringing together a major recent gift of exquisite artefacts at the highest level (which just pool 575 pieces to surface in preliminary examination across a diverse field of China’s arts and crafts), involving figure sculpture, jade carving, ink slab making, Huizhou-style Carvings (in wood, tile and stone), ceramics, paper cutting, lacquer ware, textiles, dyeing & weaving craftsmanship, artistic glass, and more; featuring innovative concept in a more inclusive way, profoundest conception by and for all, and dramatic icons in a fertile ground of Chinese historical tradition, the event is not just denoting the brilliant creations existing in the realm of arts and crafts by human history, but also markedly tracing out what is meant by the “non-idly” soul of craftspeople craving for extraordinary artistic breakthroughs in a fruitful way—to perfectly set these highly-cultured objects (or non-actual existence) out in the new philosophical propositions behind the life both ethnic and aesthetic.        

Intended as a theme of this competition event, the School’s display deliberately puts the Anhui cultural icons and microcosm into the limelight. Exclusive to daily household necessities of all kinds in modern society, their design and compositions feature in vibrant images and texts to strengthen a link, at a certain time and space, between conventionality and modernity, and to be in service of the local economic growth and the highly-charged cultural transmission.

Not only did these stylized works earn meaningfully professional appraisal and recognition from peer reviews, but also which would likewise be as the sample promoted to other social media platforms. During the exhibition and event, which win a width of “Likes” on venue from the visitors too, and many of the cultural industries sincerely hope to work in partnership with the School, by which to co-develop the creative cultural products of all that is possible and to gear up the Arts & Crafts cause on all fronts.  

In the future, AXHU School of Art administration shall spearhead the innovative educational practices and highlight its own specialized strengths and partnership work, via deepening teaching reforms, to positively serve for local economies, cultural industries and social proprieties and perspectives overt time.