Spring Outing to the Fortress (Part Four): Guizhou Provincial Museum ('In the Light'—Yin Guangzhong Art Documentary Exhibition)

A temporary exhibition at a museum is often seen by insiders as the 'boundary and pattern' of the museum. A good temporary exhibition can usually attract a large number of cultural relic enthusiasts and art lovers to make a special trip. From January 26 to April 7, the 'In the Light'—Yin Guangzhong Art Documentary Exhibition landed in the No. 6 temporary exhibition hall of the Guizhou Provincial Museum. This is the first art documentary exhibition held by the Guizhou Provincial Museum in its 71 years, and it has sparked a viewing craze since its opening. Yin Guangzhong, who passed away in 2020, was a native artist from Guizhou. In the late 1970s, the 'Guiyang Five Youths Painting Exhibition' held in Xidan, Beijing, caused a sensation, and Yin Guangzhong was one of the exhibiting artists. Yin Guangzhong was a native artist from Guizhou who emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. During that time, the Guizhou art circle saw many nationally renowned figures who left their mark on contemporary art history, known as the 'Guizhou Phenomenon,' with Yin Guangzhong being one of the representative figures. This person, referred to as a 'genius' by insiders, possessed extremely high accomplishments in painting, novels, sand pottery, performance art, stage design, musical instrument making, scientific invention, and other fields. The art documentary exhibition, themed 'In the Light,' consists of four major sections: 'Mountain Dim Light·A Wildly Growing Guizhou Naughty Boy,' 'Flame Light Emergence·Becoming a Talented and Famous Eccentric,' 'Chasing Light Reflecting Objects·Illuminating the Restless and Rich Soul,' and 'Flowing Light into Dusk·Painting the Last Attachment and Calmness of Life,' composed of more than 200 pieces of works and documents. The exhibition presents the historical process of Guizhou artists stepping onto the world stage through a multi-angle and multi-faceted display of Yin Guangzhong's artistic career, reproduces the development of contemporary art in Guizhou, China, and highlights Guizhou's cultural confidence from the contemporary art group portrait of Guizhou. After the exhibition ends, Mr. Yin Guangzhong's family will donate some of his works to the Guizhou Provincial Museum for permanent collection.