Yan Xiaohua Mu Shi Occupation: Artistic Director of Peach Wood House\Freelance Artist
Experience: Learning painting from a young age, founded the Chinese Anonymous Painting Society in 1983, and held many personal exhibitions in Chongqing in the 1980s. Since 1991, he has been drifting northward. In 2000, he returned to operate Ming and Qing furniture, and is now promoting the promotion of neo-classical art furniture. .
Hobbies: drinking tea, music
Yan Xiaohua's oil paintings.
Once in Beijing for 8 years
In 1991, Yan Xiaohua (Art No. Shepherd), who was about to enter the age of standing, made a bold decision to move his blue belly shop, which was formed in Chongqing with his friend Heiyang (formerly known as Zhao Runfan), to Beijing in the previous year and started his 8 years. North drift career.
At that time, Yan Xiaohua was so arrogant that although he had not received training from professional art colleges and did not have the ability to show off the background, it did not seem to affect his struggle in the rivers of contemporary art. In 1991, they not only held exhibitions at the Beijing Concert Hall Gallery and the Beijing Art Museum, but also participated in the planning of the Beijing West Third Ring Literature Exhibition.
It is the peak period of Yan Xiaohua's painting creation, and it is the period when his personal style is maturing. He showed reporters a batch of oil painting photos created at that time. In the seemingly natural scenery, it is full of human body's aggregation, dispersion, ups and downs, patchwork, or melting in the mountains, or looming in the jungle, as if people and nature The symphony of life highlights the artist's youth and passion, and also records the thinking of life and life in the literary youth of that era.
In the 8 years in Beijing, Yan Xiaohua is an unofficial freelance artist. Apart from participating in some related activities and exhibitions, he is working in the studio. "Although it is by selling paintings for a living, but the sales are not bad." In addition to domestic collectors, many foreigners also buy his works.
Transfer to operate old furniture
When the Asian financial crisis broke out in 1997, the slightly improved Chinese art market was also hit. “The foreigners who bought the paintings have obviously decreased.†In 1999, Yan Xiaohua returned to Chongqing.
In Chongqing at the time, it was almost a fantasy to be a professional painter. In order to make a living, Yan Xiaohua thought of operating old furniture.
When I was in Beijing, Yan Xiaohua had a group of friends who liked antiques. When I went to Panjiayuan on weekends, I often went to the ghost city (the morning market where the sky was not yet bright, and was regarded as the best time for Taobao to be missed by friends). It was this experience that made him like old furniture.
At the beginning, Yan Xiaohua promoted old furniture as a work of art. From 2000 to 2004, he held three large-scale exhibitions of old furniture themes in the art gallery of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. It is this mode of operation that allows those old furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China to be sought after by friends in the art world. "The sales are good." It is also a good market return, which gives him the strength to persevere. In terms of business ideas, he also opened up the gap with some local counterparts: "I focus on the old coffins produced in the north and the old furniture of Su Zuo and Guangzhao style, rather than the common style in the southwest. â€
Since then, Yan Xiaohua has opened a peach and wood workshop in Changbin Road. “At the beginning, it was mainly to repair some old furniture that was damaged in transit, and later began to produce neo-classical art furniture of its own design.â€
When it comes to neoclassical art furniture, Yan Xiaohua said that it is also the result of adapting to the trend and advancing with the times. "Old things, although cultural and historical, can even be collected as cultural relics, but after all, less and less, the price is getting more and more expensive. For young consumers, it has both price barriers and practical To this end, Yan Xiaohua thought of designing and producing neo-classical art furniture, the so-called "new classical", "is designed according to the style of classical furniture, integrated into the practical and furniture needs of modern life." Yan Xiaohua said, in order to Reflecting the design sense and texture of the furniture, the materials of the neo-classical art furniture mostly use the old elm in the north. "The old elm that once made the beam and the door, the surface texture is full of vicissitudes, very heavy."
The brick coffee table sells well
In the Peaches Workshop, the reporter saw that Yan Xiaohua’s neo-classical art furniture is mainly composed of simple and heavy books, bookshelves, benches, tea tables and coffee tables. In particular, an "old beech wood brick coffee table" is a perfect embodiment of his design philosophy.
BRIC is a high-quality paving place tile used in ancient times for important buildings such as palaces. Because of its fine texture, it is named after the sound of metal.
After returning to Chongqing, the bricks and old ash are made into coffee tables, which is also the inspiration of life. “I like to drink Pu'er tea, drink Pu'er tea and pay attention to raising cups and raising cups. I need a space that allows tea to flow freely. One day I was inspired, why can't I design the old elm tea table with gold bricks through clever design? The combination not only shows the charm of the brick, but also meets the needs of raising the cup and raising the cup. It is a three-pronged one. And from the effect of using it, in addition to raising the cup and raising the cup, it also raises bricks." Yan Xiaohua is somewhat proud. Tell the reporter that the BRICS coffee table is the best seller of his new classical art furniture series. But the new problem is, "There is only one piece of the bricks sold, and the purchase price has been turned over several times. It is almost impossible to mass-produce in the future."
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