Xu Bin

Xu Bin

Xu Bin, born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province in 1969, has been engaged in traditional Chinese painting for a long time. In 2004, he met pan he, the master of Lingnan sculpture, and then began to set foot in the field of sculpture. Four years later, he became pan he's disciple.

Xu bingjueyi loved art when he was a child. He has traveled around the world for many years, learning from nature and feeling nature. He created a large number of sculpture, painting and photography works, and formed sculpture works represented by the series of I Ching, Tibet, Buddha, Jue and three hundred and sixty ferry. The integration of Chinese and Western culture, breaking the traditional confinement, reducing the gorgeous affectation, into the spirit of the core, to form their own unique artistic style.

Anecdotes of characters

Xu Bin still remembers the scene when he first met pan he: "master was working in the studio at that time. When I went in, I picked up a piece of mud and pinched it randomly. Ten minutes later, the head portrait of Einstein in my hand attracted master's attention. Shifu thinks that my finger joints are relatively curved, and the contact surface between the joints and the mud is relatively large. I can do something rough. " Xu Bin believes that the greatest benefit of learning from Pan he is not in his skills, but in his morality: "to be an art, one must first learn to be a man."

Xu Bin made Buddha

Different from the solemn, steady and prosperous forms of the Buddha statues of the past dynasties, Xu Bin Jueyi's Buddha statues are completely different from the traditional ones, which can be said to be an addition to the above Thousand Buddhas. In the form of expression, since ancient times, there has been a sneer at "one side of a Thousand Buddhas", which Xu binjue boldly broke. The postures of "Thousand Buddhas" are different from each other. They are all refined from sketching, such as quietly watching and caressing the scroll, reclining and meditating, looking up to the sky, or bowing their heads to seek truth. What's more, there are two Buddhas as a group, all of which can be described as "Thousand Buddhas and ten thousand states". They also seek the same from each other. Although the postures of "Thousand Buddhas" are different, the rules of shaping are very similar. They are cut into pieces to simplify the form, and even the eyebrows are omitted, This is quite different from the ancient law. from the perspective of technique, Xu Bin Jueyi's Buddha statues omit details such as facial features and costumes, and express spiritual connotation and return to thoughts through abstraction and idealization. the elongated Buddha's shape is based on the traditional Chinese Buddha's shape before and after the northern and Southern Dynasties, but because of the elongated, it changes the original meaning and highlights another kind of value, combining the pursuit of natural realm in the East with the worship of metaphysical spirit in the West. While getting rid of the vulgarization and secularization, and pursuing a higher and essential self-consciousness, it meets the transcendental spirit and metaphysical reverence of the west, transcends the differences of different cultural geography and beliefs, and achieves a real integration.

Chinese PinYin : Xu Bin