Artist Showcase: The Pioneer of China’s 3D Ground Painting with Four Times Guinness Record, Painter Qi Xinghua Joins Revival
The first 3D ground painting artist in China, also well-known as the largest and longest 3D stereo painting with four times Guinness Record, painter Qi Xinghua has officially joined the Revival NFT Marketplace.
As the pioneer of 3D painting in China, it’s hard to conclude Qi’s achievements by those honor or reputation. He has created over 400 street paintings and won the “Guinness World Records” four times. In the meantime, his works have been demonstrated publicly in more than 200 exhibitions in Asia, Europe, America, and other places, main cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Miami, Munich, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Amsterdam, Kuala Lumpur, etc.
One of Qi’s landscape painting works was exhibited in the Grand Palais in Paris during his participation in the top international street art festival. Besides, he was the only Chinese artist the Prince of Dubai personally invited to create at the Dubai International Art Exhibition. At the domestic level, he held more than ten large-scale street art festivals in China and has cooperated with internationally renowned top brands in collections more than a hundred times.
However, such a dazzling achievement did not happen overnight; people could not appreciate his artwork in the past few years. When he painted on the street, he was expelled by the police; people splashed water to his work. Qi also received some unceremonious remarks on social platforms. His stories of unpopular even were reported in the famous Chinese magazine “Nan Feng Chuang.”
At present, Qi is a well-known artist with more than one million fans. Some people go to the place where he paints to take pictures, some make a second copy of his street paintings, and some people even make his paintings into mobile phone wallpapers. It is because of his perseverance and efforts that he changed his past situation.
With the reverence and yearning to “Qi Baishi,” the master of Chinese painting, Qi Xinghua’s families also love calligraphy and painting, and Qi Baishi’s paintings hang in his home. Under the thick art atmosphere, which cultivated Qi Xinghua’s interest in painting since he was a child and wanted to enter the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). At that time, the age limitation for college entrance examinations was 25; in this case, he told his father that he would take the exam until he was not eligible to participate in it. Fortunately, with this colossal determination and continuous efforts, he was qualified to enter the Mural Painting Department of CAFA at his first college entrance examination when he was 17.
The Mural Painting Department allows Qi Xinghua to learn various painting forms, but the characteristic is that the murals focus on specific design content, such as airport and subway murals. In Qi’s point of view, he didn’t want to just “design” a standard mural or imitate modern works. In other words, what he wanted was to create it in the form of painting with imagination. Occasionally, Qi Xinghua was fascinated when he saw a 3D three-dimensional painting on the internet.
Since then, Qi has been focusing on this area, pondering its principles, exercising its painting techniques and skills. However, most people did not understand his choice. Some teachers thought it was “too niche” and just a sketch; they even doubted how people could draw a painting on the ground?
After more than a year of hard training and efforts, China’s first 3D painting, “Vortex” was created by Qi in June 2005 and exhibited in many Beijing landmarks, such as Gulou, Peking University Tsinghua Garden, Yuanmingyuan, and other places. The people in the painting desperately wanted to climb out of the cracked abyss of the earth. With the three-dimensional visual effect and bold innovation, Qi won the bronze prize in the graduation exhibition and got the opportunity to teach at CAFA.
Being a teacher of CAFA, which enables him to live a decent life with the enviable title, but Qi made another decision. In 2010, he resigned from CAFA and started his career as a professional 3D painting artist.
Unlike other artists who may have creation environment limitations, Qi’s creation always creates the works from the inspiration of “following heart” and “doing with nature.” For example, he would paint on a dilapidated wall and then turn the original mottled and old wall into a fun and artistic piece, the real “Making Ordinary into Dazzling.”
With street art becoming more popular, many people can accept and favor it. For Qi, it’s more than motivation.
For the emergence of modern culture and art forms, Qi Xinghua is also advancing with the times. Electronic screens have become another expression space beyond the canvas now; Qi is also trying to create electronic products to align arts with the new era. “Each period has its aesthetics, and it is constantly changing. “ He accepts the changes of the times and follows the trend of the times to create some more great works. In the past, he viewed 3D as a goal, but now he uses 3D as a means, splashing ink as a form, and expressing the emotions of creation is the final goal.
Profile of Qi Xinghua
In 1982, born in Heilongjiang Province, China;
In 2005, graduated and stayed in school as a teacher at the Central; Academy of Fine Arts(CAFA). The graduation creation “Vortex” opened a new era for China’s 3D ground painting; In 2010, resigned from CAFA and started the career as a professional 3D painting artist. As of December 2011, four times of Guinness 3D painting world record: On May 16, 2010, 535.3 square meters 3D painting “Don Quixote”; On December 17, 2010, 892 square meters 3D painting “Lion Gate Canyon”; On June 10, 2011, 60 meters 3D geography painting “Longteng Xiangjiang”; On December 6, 2011, 128.7 meters 3D geography painting “One Impression of Macau”;
In 2008, the work “Ancient Dragon and Modern Rhyme” was exhibited at the Beijing Olympics to represent China’s 3D paintings;
In 2010, China’s first corner 3D painting, “Yangpu Memorabilia” was completed at the Shanghai World Expo Wharf;
“The Return of the War Horse” has been long displayed in the Xi’an Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum as China’s first 3D wall and floor painting;”Ivory Tower-Dragon Slaying-The Emperor’s New Clothes” was exhibited at CAFA China’s as China’s first four-dimensional 3D painting;
“Dragon Warrior” was exhibited in Causeway Bay Plaza as China’s first oblique 3D wall-to-ground painting;
“Underground Legion” is displayed at the Hong Kong Museum of History as
China’s first diamond-shaped 3D geography.
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