Recently, Kunming Rail Transit Line 5 was officially opened for initial operation. A 14.4-meter-long ceramic art mural at Yuhucun Station stunned everyone.
This mural was designed by Mr. Tu Sheng, a local artist in Kunming, and produced by the Marco Polo Cultural Ceramics Craftsmanship Team. It mainly expresses the 26 living ethnic groups in Yunnan and the surrounding scenery - Dianchi Lake and the Western Mountains. It has rich colors and varied textures. It presented the rich and diverse ethnic cultural characteristics of Yunnan Province and expressed the themes of unity, progress, peace and contentment of all ethnic groups, and hospitality, attracting local media and a large number of citizens to take photos and check in.
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Act quickly and be recognized for exquisite craftsmanship
Kunming Metro Line 5 is the backbone line connecting Kunming's northeast to southwest directions. The line fully demonstrates Kunming's ecological livability and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. Its key stations also display corresponding urban regional cultural elements. As the station closest to the ethnic village in the line network, Yuhucun Station is based on the theme of multi-ethnicity and ethnic unity, and uses the multiple colors of ethnic groups to express diverse regional cultures.
In February 2022, Kou Junhua, head of the Marco Polo Ceramics Engineering Department in Kunming, discovered when following up on the Line 5 project that the cultural background wall production needs in the station could be achieved with Marco Polo cultural ceramic murals, using exquisite hand-carved sculptures for the station Public spaces enhance cultural connotation.
The Marco Polo Cultural Ceramics team responded quickly and immediately sent an invitation to the Kunming Metro contractor to visit the headquarters museum, and provided information on how Marco Polo Cultural Ceramics has created ceramic art murals in subway stations in Beijing, Harbin, Foshan, Luoyang and other cities in recent years. High-quality cases and in-depth explanations of the advantages in material craftsmanship, technology, construction, etc. have been highly recognized by the other party.
After learning that the artistic background of Yuhu Village Station confirmed that the work of the artist Mr. Tu Sheng would be used as the original manuscript, the Marco Polo Cultural Ceramics Team quickly organized designers and engravers to produce samples based on the original manuscript. After receiving the sample, Mr. Tu Sheng became very interested in Marco Polo cultural ceramics, and was invited to the headquarters of Marco Polo Holdings to personally inspect the production and production of cultural ceramics.
After years of development and practice, Marco Polo Cultural Ceramics has established a complete talent echelon. Many designers and arts and crafts artists come from professional art colleges such as Guangmei and Sichuan Mei. Mr. Tu Sheng greatly appreciated the hand-carving skills and artistic techniques displayed by the craftsmen, and said that Marco Polo cultural ceramics can better express his creative intentions and bring the artistry of the works to a higher level.floors.
In the end, the Kunming Metro Station decided to use Marco Polo cultural ceramics to create artistic murals for the Yuhucun Station of Kunming Metro Line 5.
Striving for excellence and showing ingenuity in details
To apply cultural ceramics in subway stations, it is necessary to meet both the performance requirements for safety during construction and the artistic expression that can perfectly reproduce the work.
To this end, Marco Polo Cultural Ceramics specially customized a 600×1200mm yellow surface glazed tile as the base color of the work's plane, which not only conforms to the color system of the original work, but also enriches the color levels, allowing the work to have both a flat glaze color and There are also other colors painted after carving.
During the production process of the work, due to the small size of the original manuscript, some details need to be deepened again after enlargement. Craftsmen use pencils to create secondary creations on the bricks to enrich the content, and then engrave to ensure the artistic expression of the work.
This work is rich in color. The original manuscript uses different color blocks to distinguish the various national costumes worn by the characters in the main picture. On the Marco Polo culture ceramics, the craftsman added Different knife techniques are used to display, making the work richer in levels. The seagulls in the background also use the technique of combining yin and yang carvings. If you look at the details of the artistic mural up close, you can feel the delicate and expressive charm of hand carving.
One side has water and soil, one side has culture. There are mountains and rivers on one side and customs on the other. The Marco Polo cultural ceramic art mural at Yuhucun Station of Kunming Metro Line 5, with the theme of national unity and progress, depicts a harmonious and happy life scene in the urban subway public space.
In recent years, Marco Polo cultural ceramic art murals have also appeared in urban hub buildings such as airports and high-speed rails across the country, decorating the charm of urban spaces and contributing to the construction of a beautiful China.
