May 17, 2023
Happy humpday #WednesdayWalk community and to its host @tattoodjay in collaboration with #MakeMeSmile hosted by @elizacheng. Today, I'll give you a not-so-typical walk to Asian Field and be amazed by the 200K clay human miniatures.
This is still part of my virtual tour to M+ Museum, Asia's first global museum. There are a lot of art galleries to visit here with different artworks of different renowned artists from all parts of the world. Some of the galleries have already been posted here. You can check the Vision in Motion, an incredible visual/digital art exhibition of Nalini Malani which illustrates social injustice, women's abuse, trauma, and others projected on the chamber's facades, inspired by her personal experiences. Another one is the Crucified TVs: Not A Prayer In Heaven (and Simulated Suicide Project) of two different artists. Both have different interpretations, you can check them if you want to see the art exhibitions.
These two are just some of the incredible art exhibitions in the M+ Museum. For today's blog, I'll share with you, yet another amazing art exhibition by a renowned artist.
They call it, "Asian Field by Antony Gormley". His projects started in 1989 and the one in M+ is the sixth series of his Field project which is located inside a museum, not in an open space.
A small fact about the artist, Antony Gormley is a British artist who uses the same approach, allowing individuals from a certain community of his choice to engage in his project by helping him mold body figures using the same medium which is locally sourced clay. (just click the link for the reference)
A video about the five intensive days of molding the clay figures was played at the entranceway.
This Asian Field consists of clay figures molded by three hundred villagers in Xiangshan village, China. Those sculptures occupy the whole space of one of the galleries in M+ l which serves as the threshold. All of them are hand-sized and handmade by the local community which took them five days to complete the 200K figures. The result was incredibly amazing and real masterpiece. This field, by the way, is the biggest field among the Field series which reflects a large territory and population of China.
Among all the art galleries, this has the longest queue which shows how ambitious and incredible the artwork is. And by looking at the collective clay body figures, you would feel like thousands of eyes were looking back at you. You would definitely feel admiration toward the artist and local community that collab to make this project one of a kind.
In the adjacent room were the photos of 300 villagers who joined in making the project alongside the images of sculptures they made. They were part of a local community of all ages from different generations. There were kids, teens, adults, and grandparents.
The other side was the interactive room where visitors could draw any figures inspired by the clay sculptures. Kids were mostly those making art inspired by the Asian Field supported by their guardians. Some teens and adults took part as well and drew their own masterpieces that were later displayed on the wall facing the Asian Field.
This project truly is one of a kind combining art and sculpture while engaging with the community. Those figures can be seen from a different angle as different individuals placed on the same ground for the same purpose, such as raising awareness about humans' roles in humanity and responsibilities in protecting the earth for the next generation, or a community raising their unheard voices and wanting to be heard by whom they intended their message to be sent. What'd you think so? Every picture tells a story, and you can make your own interpretation out of the photo of Asian Field with clay figures.
That's all for now. Feel free to read about other art exhibitions in this Museum by tapping the given links in the intro of this post.
You can check the attached links for references
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200k made by 300 people is crazy lot! The art gallery is such a great place to visit, takes one to a journey to the mind of artistic creators!
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Amazing, isn't it? It took them 5 days to finish all. So it's like, each villager made 600+ figurines, 130+ per day.. It must have been fun molding those figures.. !PIZZA
What??! That's a lot haha, it probably take some skills to mold them, you should try do some workshop haha, I really enjoy all your travel post! Hope to see more! Cheers!
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Wow! That’s a lot of figures 😁
Wow this is such a cool exhibit and that there are pictures and the clay figures in the next room that is even more fascinating. Love it!
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. The effort placed in this exhibition is truly commendable.
WOW what an amazing exhibit so unique and huge but small with the individual figurines
Thanks for joining the Wednesday Walk, its my pleasure to host it and see all the posts each week from all around the world, including yours, if you have time visit some of the other walks this week there are so many interesting ones
The figures are small, but the field is too huge..
Wow wow wow
I must commend that this is a beautiful place and you really enjoyed your self
Hope to see this beautiful place someday
Have a nice week ahead
Exhibitions don'r usually last long...so you might gonna see a different one 😅.thanks for stopping by.
To be honest, I have never heard about such kind of place let alone going there. After watching those clay figures It reminded me of my childhood times because, in the time of childhood, I used to make and play with clay figures with other cousins when we were kids. Today's kids don't do such kinds of things and I almost forgot about it.
Same.. We used to make figures using clay too...and we would play them 😊. !PIZZA
Hehe. Now I am planning to write an article after making many figures with clay when I will visit in my village.😅➡️.
Fact: finding clay in city is difficult 🤣.
Haha.. I lived in a village so it was easy for us to find clay..
Ang cute ng figurines. Akala ko may something bad story about it. The good thing is just pure artwork by a living community. :D
Kaya nga..cute nla. Kakabilib yung 5 days hardwork to complete them all !LADY
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Wow, this work is truly one of a kind! It's awesome to see all those clay figures together and to know what's behind the whole project.
True.. People behind this project is commendable.. I admire the artist passion for art while bringing the community to participate and engage.
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So did you feel like a giant amongst all those clay figures? It gives that audience feeling though.
Definitely ..they are tiny creatures staring at you..and you feel like a giant one..
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Amazing Art and statues..
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Que tomas tan impresionantes de verdad esas figuras son hermosas