The theme of the first 21 year plan is "College and Inheritance", and the curatorial team has imagined the future direction of this plan. In the ten-year time frame, should the discussion scope of China Watermark Wood Carving Youth Plan be limited to the traditional media and existing features of contemporary Watermark Wood Carving? What is the ontological value of the emerging woodcut movement for the nearly 100 year old Chinese modern watermark woodcut? How effective is such value in the historical dimension of watermark woodcut and the future pattern of plural art? More importantly, should the academic existence of Chinese watermark woodcut be more open to cross media and social publicity< p/>
China Watermark Wood Carving Youth Plan • 2022 Annual Exhibition must be based on Watermark Wood Carving Art, with Chinese visual characteristics, but unique youth spirit; It is no longer limited to print types or even painting types. Generality has become the basic pursuit of this exhibition; It should not only enable young artists with watermark techniques to reflect on the infinite possibilities of their own creation, but also enable art practitioners with cross-border vision to re recognize the spiritual reproduction path from traditional printing to digital screen, which has lasted for thousands of years, as well as the physical memory engraved in every Chinese cultural gene. There is no doubt that the 2022 China Watermark Wood Carving Youth Plan and the ensuing discussions, centering on public exhibitions, hope to respond to the above questions and link the relationship between traditional skills and contemporary expression, water-based printing and cross media art, and more importantly, historical memory and public cognition through the visual presentation of typical cases. All these attempts are based on the life consciousness that art practice (or curatorial practice) should have - its fundamental needs act on living people and get some spiritual feedback, no matt