Hangzhou will hold the city’s first modern origami exhibition on December 10

I believe that many hand-made origami enthusiasts must still be deeply impressed by the "Sighing Paper" modern origami exhibition held in Guangzhou in May last year. In that modern origami exhibition, many wonderful origami works were displayed. The exhibition gave ordinary citizens the opportunity to experience the unique charm of modern origami. What is exciting is that origami enthusiasts in Hangzhou will hold the first modern origami exhibition in Hangzhou from December 10th to 16th, which is planned by local origami enthusiasts in Hangzhou. It is understood that on the day of the origami exhibition, more than 150 origami works will appear at the exhibition.

The following news comes from City Express (reprinted by Phoenix Net)

From December 10th to 16th, Hangzhou will hold its first modern origami exhibition. 150 works will be on display. The exhibition is planned by a group of origami enthusiasts in Hangzhou.

Hangzhou origami enthusiasts will hold an exhibition

There is an origami group in Hangzhou

26-year-old Finney is an acupuncturist and started origami more than two years ago. The Hangzhou origami group she founded now has more than 150 people. The members are all young people who love origami, and the youngest is only 10 years old.

Every month the friends will gather together and set a theme as a group assignment. Recently, their completed works include: a koi fish with a wagging tail, and a standing square cat.

Every time, the group leader Finney has to make a lot of preparations. He downloads origami tutorials from the Internet and goes to Muji to buy paper specially used for origami. Because imported origami books are expensive and difficult to buy, people often "beg" for tutorials on certain origami works on forums. For some famous origami works, the specific steps have not been announced at all. Just like games, they must be completed by the players themselves. There is no official version, so friends have come up with various cracked versions and shared them online.

There are 150 works in the exhibition

Last May, origami enthusiasts in Guangzhou held an exhibition of modern origami works called "Sigh to Observe Paper", which caused quite a sensation. Next month Hangzhou will also hold its first modern origami exhibition at Jiebai Xin Yuanhua Shopping Mall.

In this exhibition, not only the folding enthusiasts from Hangzhou came out in full force, but alsoMany foreign experts were invited. "We will work together to complete a 1-meter-long dinosaur skeleton and place it at the door. At the same time, we will also challenge Tetsu Kamiyas Phoenix. This version is difficult to fold." Finney said.

In addition, the representative work "Death" by domestic origami artist Mi Chen will also be exhibited in Hangzhou. "With a black trench coat and a sickle in hand, he folded the image of the Western God of Death. Mi Chen himself is a middle school teacher in Nanchong, Sichuan, and he is relatively famous in the domestic origami community." The biggest difference from ordinary origami friends is that he no longer imitates Others' works, but have their own original works, such as "Death", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "StarCraft", etc. "This should be said to be a big progress in the Chinese origami industry."

Modern origami is definitely not as simple as folding a plane. It is a variety of paper sculptures

You can fold anything with a piece of paper

You can create various three-dimensional shapes with a piece of paper without scissors or glue. Do you believe it?

This is what modern origami artists do. From lions and elephants in the animal world to various portraits and mythological figures, they can all express them with different expressions. Just as an animal, Hideo Komatsus horse is a quiet horse, while Roman Diazs horse is always in a running state.

Under the hands of the late French origami master Eric Jossel, the golden curly hair of the ancient knight was brought to life, and even the glasses on Don Quixotes face were folded out realistically.

In the popular American TV series "Prison Break", the paper roses given by Michael to Sara were once so popular that they were also called "Prison Break Roses". In fact, this kind of paper rose that looks like a real one is called "Kawasaki Rose" and was first invented by Japanese Toshiwa Kawasaki. Paper flowers, which seem so ordinary today, were really a bold creative idea of ??mankind when they were folded out for the first time!

The Hubble Telescope also benefited from origami mathematics

Why can ordinary paper be folded into so many patterns? The "origami mathematics" derived from the art of origami uses equations to prove that in theory any geometric shape can be simulated with origami. With the help of computer software-assisted design, origami researchers can now fold more complex shapes than ever before. Tetsushi Kamiya, a young Japanese origami genius, once folded a dragon out of a square piece of paper of 2 meters by 2 meters, and the scales and claws of the dragon were clearly visible. It is said that there are probably no more than 2 people in the world who can successfully fold this kind of difficult origami.0.

On the other hand, modern origami is no longer just an art, but has developed into a new science: origami mathematics. It has been used in satellite solar panels, car airbag storage methods, and even the structural design of the Hubble Space Telescope partly benefited from the help of origami mathematics.

The secret to origami

For ordinary people, what is the secret of hand-made origami? Finney from the Hangzhou Origami Group said that generally, flexible square paper is used for origami, such as the kind of hand-kneaded paper used by florists to wrap flowers. Peak folding (i.e. downward folding) and valley folding (i.e. upward folding) are the two basic folding methods of origami. Complex works are completed through an unusually large number of peak and valley folding, such as the Dragon of Kamiya Tetsushi that was mentioned earlier. It includes thousands of peaks and valleys, making it difficult for ordinary people to imitate.

Japanese origami master Akira Yoshizawa created the wet folding method in the 1980s, which involves moistening the paper before starting origami and then drying it after shaping, which greatly improved the accuracy of origami. For example, how did the birds legs get so thin? "Wet the paper, then wrap the birds legs with wet cloth strips and fix them. Then use a hair dryer to blow them into shape, or just pinch them dry with your hands."

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