In Shanghai, there are several "Wei Hua" ceramic sculptures to be released. Which places are better? Auction house? Online? forum?

Go to the auction house.

Wei Hua is from Liuzhou, Guangxi, and his father is a carpenter. He has been very fond of sculpture art since he was a child. When people dug wells and dug out the very sticky white soil, they would shape it into things like kittens and puppies. Hearing from the adults that eating bowls and porcelain Buddha statues were all made with fire, he and his companions went to the fields to dig a hole in the dam, put in firewood, and placed clay toys on it to burn. When he grew up, he could put special paintings on his father's finished furniture to increase the price of the furniture.

Wei Hua has a relative who is a cadre in Foshan. After entering the society, he did not want to work in his father's small factory, but wanted to find a good job in Foshan. Since he had never been to Foshan, when he arrived at Nanzhuang, he thought he had arrived at his destination and got off the car early. Getting off the bus by mistake this time changed the trajectory of Wei Hua's life. The doll porcelain factories all over the street made him feel like he had entered the Grand View Garden. His childhood hobby found a home, and instead of continuing to find relatives, he stayed and became a sculpture apprentice.

In the past few years, Wei Hua's skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and he has been favored by a group of famous sculptors such as local Ma Hai. His fame should be said to be just around the corner, but he suddenly chose to come to the holy land of Jingdezhen. To improve your sculpture skills.

A special opportunity to move into Deyu Villa

After Wei Hua came to Jingdezhen, he first entered a processing factory specializing in carving products, but he soon realized that this was not suitable for him. So I went to the old factory and learned skills while working there.

Once, CCTV came to Zhushan Pottery Bar to film the "Five Colors of Soil" program and needed sculptors to make props. At that time, Wei Hua happened to be passing by, so he volunteered to work for the crew for free for a day. This performance made Taoba very optimistic, and after the show, they kept Wei Hua.

After working at a pottery bar, Wei Hua came into contact with the ceramic business, so he rented a store in Jinchangli and sold his works in the store. One day in 2004, when Wei Hua was making a sculpture for a friend in Beijing, a group of people came to the store. After carefully watching Wei Hua's live performance, they left Wei Hua's phone number and talked for a while. Will find him.

Two months later, Wei Hua received a call from Liu Haoyuan, asking him to go to Deyu Villa to make a statue for someone else. It turned out that the person who saw Wei Hua's statue and left his number was Liu Haoyuan. That day he took a classmate from his hometown to visit the ceramic market. After seeing Wei Hua's superb sculpture skills, the classmate wanted Wei Hua to make a statue for him. Due to the rush of the schedule, Liu Haoyuan could only leave his contact information, and he took the time to express his wish this time.

Wei Hua quickly made a statue of Liu Haoyuan’s classmate and made him quite satisfied. For this reason, Liu Haoyuan wrapped a red paper bag as a reward, but Wei Hua refused. Liu Haoyuan was very impressed by Wei Hua's non-greedy behavior. He cooked a few dishes himself, and then they drank together. The few people got along very well, so Liu Haoyuan decided to free up a few rooms in Deyu Villa and let Wei Hua move his workshop in.

To create a group of sculptures of various aspects of life

“He has made a long-distance ‘grafting’ of ceramic sculptures from Foshan and porcelain sculptures from Jingdezhen.” Master Liu Yuanchang spoke highly of Wei Hua. Many people in the industry are also very optimistic about his skills. When applying for the Senior Arts and Crafts Examination in 2002, Wei Hua used geometric blocks to make a body sculpture of a domineering Liu Bang. Due to his rapid expressiveness, his skills were unanimously recognized by the examiner and he passed the examination in one go. Professional title recognition.

Wei Hua rated the porcelain sculpture "Domination of the World" as a senior arts and crafts artist and was sent to the province to participate in the competition. After winning the gold medal, his sculpture "Friends" and other sculptures successively won the Sixth China Folk Award. Silver Award for Folk Crafts at the Literary Mountain Flower Awards. Now, with the sales of his works being very promising, he has started a new project of his own: preparing to make a group of sculptures depicting various aspects of life. At present, a small part of this sculpture group called "One Hundred Flavors of Life" has been completed. The various expressions of the miner leaning on the hammer handle and falling asleep soundly, sitting on the stone and swatting mosquitoes and flies can not only reveal the source of Wei Hua's creation In life, we can also see the perfection of his skills.