On March 18, the second exhibition of the fourth session of the Wide Angle ° Youth Experimental Project Space, Echoes of a Voyage – Lyu Zhiqiang, opened at the CAFA Art Museum. Guests attending the opening ceremony included Yu Yang, Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts; Han Wenchao, Secretary of the directly affiliated Party Branch of the CAFA Art Museum; Yang Jie, Director of the Faculty Affairs Department and Human Resources Office; and Feng Mengbo, Dean of the School of Experimental Art and Technology Art. Gao Gao, Deputy Director of the CAFA Art Museum, presided over the ceremony.
Echoes of a Voyage integrates various media and environmental elements, presenting reverberations that transcend vision and hearing. The exhibition will run until April 20.
Speech by Yu Yang, Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Yu Yang, Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, stated that "Wide Angle °" is an experimental field for curation and creation established by the academy for young teachers. It is also a crucial platform for the academy to attach importance to the cultivation of young talents and stimulate their artistic innovation potential. Moreover, it is a project positioned around youth and experimentation, encouraging young teachers to break disciplinary boundaries and confront contemporary issues. The theme of the exhibition "Echoes of a Voyage" is highly appropriate for this space. As a young teacher from the School of Experimental Art and Technology Art at the academy, Teacher Lyu Zhiqiang takes travel and sound as his creative clues, constructing a unique artistic bridge through the integration of immersive fieldwork experiences and the artistic technique of sound collage, combining documentary and imagination, collection and reconstruction. Teacher Wang Wenting from the School of Art Management and Education has, in her curation, presented this artistic thinking with a fascinating appeal. It is particularly anticipated that this exhibition will enable teachers, students, and all audiences of the academy to perceive the profound connection between art and reality through the circulation and reverberation of sound.
Speech by Han Wenchao, Secretary of the Directly Affiliated Party Branch of the CAFA Art Museum
Han Wenchao, Secretary of the Party Branch directly under the CAFA Art Museum, first reviewed the development history and achievements of the "Wide Angle °" project in his speech, and thanked the university leaders, expert teams, participating artists, departments and the art museum team for their support of the "Wide Angle °" project, enabling this small space to present a rich outlook. Regarding future development, he talked about two plans: first, to continue to give play to the educational role of exhibitions, hold review salons, summarize creative experience, and provide learning references for young students; second, to further expand the platform, link social resources, promote the project to go beyond the campus and move to other professional exhibition spaces, so as to achieve an in-depth connection between academic research and social communication. Meanwhile, this exhibition is the third sound-themed exhibition of the project. Teachers Lü Zhiqiang and Wang Wenting took embodied experiments as the carrier, using sound as the creative theme and means of expression to convey their perception and thinking about society.
Yang Jie, Minister of the Party Committee Teachers' Work Department and Director of the Personnel Department, delivered a speech
Yang Jie, Minister of the Faculty Work Department of the Party Committee and Director of the Human Resources Department, stated that the future development of the Central Academy of Fine Arts urgently requires the growth, success, and responsible support of young and middle-aged teachers and artists. The "Wide Angle °" project was established precisely for this purpose. Despite its compact space and only four projects launched each year, it shoulders the important mission of nurturing young artists. In the future, the academy will further integrate resources, expand platforms, and promote the project to step out of the campus and into society. He emphasized that the academy will fully build a larger stage to support teachers engaged in theoretical curation and practical creation, centrally showcasing the elegance of the new generation of middle-aged and young artists and scholars from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He expressed the hope that all parties will pool their strengths to jointly make the "Wide Angle °" project broader, more in-depth, and more effective, fully demonstrating the spiritual outlook and academic style of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in the new era.
Speech by Feng Mengbo, Dean of the School of Experimental Art and Technology Art
Dean Feng Mengbo of the School of Experimental Art and Technology Art spoke highly of the exhibition. He noted that the School of Experimental Art and Technology Art is full of vitality and innovative spirit, and Teacher Lü Zhiqiang is a valuable asset to the school, deeply loved by both faculty and students. He has long been engaged in sound art education, actively introduced high-quality resources, and persisted in field practice and site-specific creation. He possesses both experimental courage and a profound love for nature and life, and this exhibition fully embodies his comprehensive artistic qualities. It is hoped that his works will move onto broader platforms and achieve greater social influence.
Professor Zhang GuolongSchool of Experimental Art and Technology Art
As a senior figure in the School of Experimental Art, Professor Zhang Guolong stated that he has been following Lü Zhiqiang’s growth—from his undergraduate and postgraduate studies to becoming a teacher and participating in national exhibitions. He believes that this exhibition serves as a comprehensive creative report, systematically reviewing Lü Zhiqiang’s artistic practice and fully presenting his early works as well as those from recent years.
Curator of the exhibition Wang Wenting (right)
and participating artist Lyu Zhiqiang (left)addressed the audience respectively
Wang Wenting, curator of the exhibition, noted that as Lyu Zhiqiang’s solo project in the Wide Angle ° space, Echoes of a Voyage integrates sound, painting, found objects, installation and environmental elements, spanning both visual and auditory dimensions. It reveals to the audience how the multiple identity landscapes of the individual in contemporary life, while escaping from the fragmented conditions of existence in the post-historical era, reshape personal experience and realize individualized historical writing through the looping and revolving structure of the loop in electronic music. On the one hand, the artist’s multiple identity landscapes are clearly presented in the exhibition; on the other hand, the presentation of these multiple identities adopts a low-key, restrained, and de-dramatized theatrical strategy. You, the audience present, are invited to embark on a journey. All the fragments of experience and memory shared by the artist with you here will merge into your own experience and memory, and may, at a moment that feels like an “eternal return” to you—a moment when the “instant” and the “eternal” suddenly coincide—unlock the possibility of reshaping your own values and historical narrative.
In his speech, artist Lyu Zhiqiang first expressed his gratitude to the university and the exhibition team for their support, which enabled his creative concepts to be fully realized.He noted that the exhibition title Echoes of a Voyage was proposed by the curator, and is the result of long-term communication and systematic review of his artistic practice between the two parties.The exhibition brings together works from different periods, centered around sound, travel, time, growth and memory, presenting artistic expressions based on personal experience.
Gao Gao, Deputy Curator of the CAFA Art Museum, served as the host
Group photo of the guests
As the curator pointed out, Lyu Zhiqiang is not only the owner and driver of an old Jetta, a DJ, and a sound collector, but also a teacher who imparts "principles" within the academic system. He integrates ancient perspective techniques with the craftsman's tools such as rulers, compasses, lines and ink squares to conduct hands-on spatial surveying and mapping time and again. Through exquisite musical composition, he constructs a temporary space open to the public, where the audience is invited to become the "I" within this space—the subject of experience.
Guided Tour Scene
Mirage Eerawai —— On-site Photos of the "Acoustic Circuitry" Opening Ambience Concert
Selected Previous Works
"Mohemann's Living Room", Personal Project, 2020
"Long Road" sound installation, stereo, 1 hour 11 minutes, 2019
"Admonition", sound installation, 3 channels, 29:39, 2017
"Gaze/Suppression", watercolor paper, Chinese ink, aluminum composite panel, steel, alkyd paint, 180*120cm，70*70*100cm (installation part), 2015
"Scavenger", installation and performance, urban waste, 2012
"Modern Tate Art Gallery", Waste from Art District, 350cm×410cm×360cm, 2011
The Hut, branches，350cm× 200cm× 260cm，2010
Crawler, installation, research documentation, found objects, steel，900cm×1200cm×350cm，2009
Exhibition Information
“Echoes of a Voyage -- Lyv Zhiqiang”
Exhibition Dates: March 13 – April 20, 2026
Venue: Gallery C, 3rd Floor, CAFA Art Museum
Chief Editor / He Yisha
Editor / Du Yinzhu
On-site Photos / He Yifei
