DAVID BARBOZA “Schooling the Artists’ Republic of China” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/arts/design/30barb.html
既に３月末の記事だが、NYTが中国北京の「中央美術学院」を採り上げている。「中央美院」の新キャンパスが磯崎新の設計によるものだということは知らなかった。
また、
In the old days, Mr. Zhu said, students had a passion for art. “They viewed art as a way of life,” he said, “and Central Academy was a talent pool. Now, as society has changed, more and more students view art as a job. Students are more practical.”
ところで、この記事ではディーラーによる学生の青田刈りの言及があり、同じことは紐育や羅府でも行なわれていると述べられているが、当然東京でも行なわれているのであろう。
Most of the faculty agrees on one major shift: The students seem less interested in politics and more concerned about their personal struggles and issues of identity, not unlike artists in the United States and Europe.For example Wang Haiyang, who will graduate this year, paints canvases depicting someone who looks very much like himself: short, with large, expressive eyes and what might be described as a troubled soul. He depicts his character with a physical double, in sexual poses, in violent acts and in women’s clothing. “They tell my own story, my mentality,” he said of his works. “The whole process of art is like a process to cure myself.”
Raw expression is on ample display at the academy. Students, once required to paint the same figurative portrait again and again, are now encouraged to look deep within themselves and to be creative. Given that the school is no longer purely about painting and sculpture, they can find outlets in areas like photography or new-media art. Majors can eventually lead to career choices like designing video-game characters for big corporations.
