Luo Qi’s interview notes
Zhang Haibo
Just after completing the preparations for the provincial exhibition, Luo Qi drove to the mountains and forests of Fogang to participate in the "Big Ten Thousand and One Hundred Thousand Projects" hosted by the Yangcheng Evening News Group and Fogang County's "Hundreds and Thousands of Projects" Headquarters. "Beautiful Fogang—Fogang, a famous Chinese artist, collects and sketches from life" activity. Setting up the easel and picking up the brush, he said: This is my specialty.
From colleges and universities to painting academies and then to art galleries. Roach, who is in his fifties, is undergoing a transformation from an artist to the head of a public art institution. "My biggest advantage is that I have no baggage." He said easily. At this time, the new Guangzhou Art Museum on the new central axis of Guangzhou city and its new director are ushering in their highlight moment. The record-breaking flow of people and the successive industry exhibitions have made this "urban art parlor" unparalleled for a while.
As the director, what will Roach leave for this new museum and the city’s art public space? "I hope it's a clue," Roach said. The two brands of Guangzhou Art Museum and Guangzhou Art Museum give him the rare resource of integrating an art gallery and a museum. How to build a way for dialogue between traditional culture and contemporary art, "I think our era today has given us such confidence and confidence." Opportunities." As an oil painter who has studied traditional Chinese painting, Luo Qi said that in the modern context and the background of the times, contemporary art seeks the locality of art from nature and the countryside and finds real problems. This is what Chinese contemporary art urgently needs to think about. topic of.
In my opinion, Roach’s “approach” has a dual meaning: while establishing a dialogue between traditional and contemporary art, it also explores a new path for Chinese contemporary art. However, such "ambition" is destined to encounter more challenges: the collision of concepts, the game of reality, the integration of the team, the running-in of the mechanism... any of which may make this artist sway freely on the canvas. Facing the "skinny" reality tempering.
Faced with the challenge, Luo Qi said that when he first took office, he told the team a few key words about the concept of opening the library. The first one was: simplicity. "I tell everyone that we should be simple and do things simply, so that we can be innovative and have fun."
Roach once said that every artist cannot escape "self-portrait". This is also my impression of Roach after this brief conversation with him: simple and pure.
"Simple" Roach is doing something not simple.
(Special reporter: Zhang Haibo)
Luo Qi, professor, first-class artist, vice chairman of Guangdong Artists Association, master's tutor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He started working in July 1999 and served as the deputy dean of the School of Painting and Painting of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and the deputy dean of the Guangzhou Academy of Painting. He is currently the dean of the Guangzhou Art Museum (Guangzhou Art Museum).
Editor｜Wang Qitong
