III.Space（Nature of things/Nature of mind）

Lacquer art is the media material with biggest ability to create space.Fromthe Warring States Period to Qin and Han Dynasties in China,the ancientphilosophers,Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of Han all lived in the prosperousperiod of lacquer wares which lasted for nearly five hundred years.Tens ofthousands of lacquer wares can be named and described.It is imaginablethat people,living in the living space with lacquer furniture,cultivatedthe most creative thoughts of hundreds of schools in ancient China.Willthe engaged people in modern times still have the interests to look back on China in ancient times：a splendid era of lacquer wares？From foodcontainer painted with flow ink and lacquer mentioned in Ten Faults by HanFeizi to Tao Yuanming's no-stringed lyre,from the idiom"keep the glitteringcasket and give back the pearls to the seller"and"a wife lifts the tray toa level with her eyebrows to show great respect for her husband"to"flowwinding and wineglasses drifting"in Preface of Lanting and etc.，lacquerwares bear the national etiquette,stories,thoughts and feelings.With thedisappearance of classical lacquer wares in daily life,the accompanyingclassical situations have crashed into cultural fragments that cannot berestored completely.It is the special shapes,colors and texture createdby traditional materials that cultivate unique feelings,emotions and realmof Chinese people.Therefore,we should stick to the traditional materialtechniques and relive the rich and delicate feelings of lacquer art that hasbeen lost by the present Chinese.Through handcraft,we connect andintegrate the soul and media material of lacquer,and pay attention tothe presentation and recreation of oriental culture.Besides,we should bedevoted to using uniqueness of lacquer to create spiritual space and makeit a direction of contemporary molding of lacquer art.The space created bylacquer is multidimensional,and it can be an area for ceremony,a deductionof concept and a space for spiritual production.

This exhibition pays more attention to the cross-material and cross-borderattempts,and it focuses on the spiritual space of works and the breadthand depth of topics.There are few ready-made lacquer wares in thisexhibition.The biggest confusion of lacquer in the old wares is to erase thewrapped slurry of time,while the beautiful new wares usually become apart of landscape or props.Therefore,even from the perspective of design,the lacquer space should also transcend design or be a paradox.It shouldbe able to provide space for thinking and imagination；otherwise it will bedegraded to an exhibition of lacquer furniture.

Space is an experimental display.It may contain extremely intelligentdevices with visual tension,or maybe a self-talking exploration,and evena brave attempt like wearing the Emperor's new clothes.The form,in itsinitial stage of exploration,will definitely get great achievement in time.