Era of Lacquer Language

Chen Qinqun

As an important center of lacquer art in modern and contemporary times of China,Fuzhou owns rich cultural ecology of lacquer and profound inheritance of lacquer art,and plays a significant role in the process of the contemporaneity of Chinese lacquer art.Meanwhile,profound changes of lacquer art creation in China and around the world have also taken place increasingly in the agitation of contemporary culture.Held in the new historical context,and taking the Era of Lacquer Language as the title,Fuzhou International Lacquer Art Biennale in 2016 intends to review lacquer art of Chinese modern and contemporary times from the perspective of linguistics.

This exhibition is divided into three parts by three forms of lacquer art: shape of ware,lacquer paintings on shelf,and space.