QIMU Space is pleased to announce the opening of a small-scale exhibition "Textual Poetics" on Friday, December 29th at 3:00 PM. The exhibition will run until January 24, 2024.
The exhibition "Textual Poetics" will showcase "radical layout" as a form of textual design in writing, which is a rethinking of the typographical order in space since modernism.
Text and words are woven and reorganized through different forms and relationships between form and content.
They connect scattered meanings; in the process of reading, they form expressions in different contexts. They may become a declaration, a symbol, an attitude, or a phrase that touches him or her.
The exhibition is divided into three main sections: "Textual Poetics", "Teaching Extensions", and "Workshops".
The "Textual Poetics" section focuses on the works of 12 designers/artists and the textual works of 27 young designers, exploring the presentation of typography as literature and typography installation in the Chinese context. The "Teaching Extensions" unit focuses on discussing the process and methods of work creation, reorganizing and presenting the teaching of Chinese typography layout courses. The "Teaching Extensions" unit is divided into two subsets: "Radical Positions" and "Homage and Presence".
The "Workshops" will start from the display of activities, including continuously updated works during the exhibition and dialogues and workshop projects conducted during the exhibition.
Artists:
You Yishan: Hong Kong artist, designer
Guang Yu: Designer, artistic director, co-founder of A Black Cover Design
Wang Yuwen: Designer, teacher at Central Academy of Fine Arts, research direction in social innovation design
Ma Shirui: Designer, founder of typo_d
Xian Ren: Salvager, transformer, actor
Liu Zhizhi: Artist, designer, artistic director of "Entry Forbidden", teacher at Central Academy of Fine Arts
Ji Ziyi: Designer, teacher at Central Academy of Fine Arts, artistic director of "Entry Forbidden"
Li Xibin: Designer, founder of Super Plants and Field Crops
Li Beike: Teacher at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, convener of design curation and spatial narrative
Zhou Renxi: Designer, artistic director of Why Design
Mei Shuzhi: Designer, artistic director of 702design
Jiang Hua: Artist, designer, professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts
From the School of Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts
Young designers/artists: Wang Sidong, Feng Shiyu, He Xinhua, Liu Ziming, He Yihui, Liu Yanyu, Song Haoduo, Liu Yening, Yue Daiyan, Wu Mengqing, Zhang Wenjian, Zhang Yiming, Chen Huanwei, Luo Xiang, Zhou Hexuan, Gao Yihua, Hou Mingcan, Yao Yuxin, Yang Ziqing, Liang Yidan, Yuan Bing, Xi Zilong, Shi Yafang, Pang Bo, Huang Miao, Tan Yan, Xue Tong
Note:
Space is a kind of order
Rhetoric/Form: Metaphor, metonymy, description, inversion, parallelism, irony, contrast, parallelism, rhetorical question, intertextuality, exaggeration, reduplication, progression, etc.
Form/Content: Words, sentences, verses, idioms, paragraphs, articles, declarations, symbols, slogans, love words, dialogues, whispers
Reading: Head rhyme, homophony, onomatopoeia, homonym, pun
Radical layout: Meaningful construction, playful, freely arranged, inherent paradox, spatiotemporal relationship, context and scene
Homage: Ou Waiou (1912～1996), whose original name was Li Zongda. An early Chinese visual poet who worked as a secondary school teacher and printing factory manager in Guangzhou and Hong Kong in his early years. Since the 1930s, he has often used changes in the size and shape of ideographic characters to create visual poetry. "We don't claim any established doctrine - such as futurism." El Lissitzky (1890～1941), early modernist design pioneer, Russian suprematist and constructivist. He shuttled between early modernist movements on the European continent, covering fields such as art, graphic design, architecture, exhibitions, and photography. "Ideographic characters are 'international'. Phonetic characters come from different languages, while ideographic characters come from common ideographic symbols. Their advantage lies precisely in their ideographic and pictographic nature."
