By OGP Reporters / OGP File Photos
Oh Good Party
"The Wonder of Woods and Stones - The Collections of Chen Shihong’s Artworks" has received some award-winning woodcarving works and collections of viewing stones by Mr. Chen, as much as his design opinions and artistic sentiment on the Haipai wooden pedestal art. As a inheritor of Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Wooden Pedestal Skills of Viewing Stone, you can see the essence of Shanghai culture in his works that he breaks through the tradition Chinese art to express an unique charm on the perfect combination of traditional craftsmanship and modern aesthetics.
Chen Shihong, the curator of Shanghai Shi Shi Hong Culture and Art Museum, Vice President of Shanghai Viewing Stone Collector ’s Association, and inheritor of Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Wooden Pedestal Skills of Viewing Stone. He was born in Panan, Zhejiang. He started learning woodcarving skills since the age of 16 from Zhou Shiyin. In the past 40 years, his artworks of wooden pedestal skills have won more than 90 national awards. His honors are masters of traditional Chinese craftsmanship, Chinese rosewood artist, chief artist of the Chinese viewing stone industry, and Master of Arts and Crafts, in Zhejiang Jinhua etc.
Mr. Chen's works combine the wooden pedestal and the viewing stone well, making them unique, with outstanding and excellent "Tao" style and "Haipai" creativity. He has held an exhibition of non-relic projects in Putuo District of Shanghai, the Shanghai Big World Intangible Cultural Heritage Stones Art Exhibition, and he also has participated the second Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition of “Tiangong Kaiwu”, an “Small Items, Big Pedestal - Wood and Stone”Intangible Cultural Heritage art exhibition in Liu Haisu Art Museum and other exhibitions. His masterpieces include “Asking a Boy under a Pine Tree”, “Falling from Heaven”, “Harmony”, “Wood and Stone Chuan Zun” and so on. His work“Harmony” was collected by Ronald Bew of Deputy Bureau of the United States small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Administration, and Ban Ki-moon of former UN Secretary General, former French Prime Minister of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former German President of Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff and other world leaders. His other work “Qi Shi Min” was collected by Mr. Li Zhaoxing of former Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China, and Gary Faye Locke of former Secretary of Commerce of the United States.
Editor: Chen Jianchong
Seal printed: Liu Zhicheng
Referrer：Oh Good Party