Chinese Folk Artist Opens An Exhibition in Reminiscence
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Famous Chinese folk artist Lv Shengzhong (吕胜中left) and the curator of the Beijing Today Art Museum Gao Peng (right) pose for a picture together in front of Lv's massive "A Big Rooster" at the opening ceremony of the artist’s 11-piece solo exhibition "Last Century" on November 8, 2015. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

Chinese folk-art specialist LV Shengzhong, who first grabbed public attention for his large paper-cut art show in 1988, has recently unveiled a solo exhibition in the Beijing Today Art Museum.

The 11-piece exhibition, titled "Last Century," is filled with a sense of reminiscence.

A center piece of the exhibition is an oil painting titled "A Big Rooster" which Lv Shengzhong re-created this year on the basis of an historical New Year painting drawn by another artist.

Lv Shengzhong explains the initiatives behind this recreated oil painting:

"Today, people who live in villages wake up every morning not relying on the rooster's crow any more. And the picture in which this sound of nature has been waking up farmers who began to prepare the soil for planting in spring is gradually disappearing. In cities, a rooster crowing is rather a phenomenon that didn't exist quite a long time ago. A pondering of this fact engulfed me in reminiscence."

The "Last Century" exhibition, which represents his melancholy for the lively countryside scenes that were lost during the fast-paced industrialization process, also includes other new pieces such as "A Full House," that houses one-thousand ceramic sculptures.

It will run until New Year's Day, 2016.

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