胡月朋捕云记简介 Cloud catcher note 1

In September 2010, the artist Hu Yuepeng and his party set out from Beijing and arrived in Huangshan, Anhui Province. At 3 a.m. on the 9th, they started hiking with their guide from Taiping, the north gate of Huangshan Mountain. After more than four hours, they crossed the Qidao Mountains. At dawn, they finally climbed the top of Huangshan Mountain and launched an artistic act called "The Story of Cloud Catching".

Dressed in traditional Chinese clothes, the artist catches the clouds with a net on the top of Huangshan Mountain, in the sea of clouds, and then loads them into an airbag. He numbers and signs each cloud, then takes it to the foot of the mountain, and presents the "cloud of Huangshan" to art audiences from all walks of life throughout the country by mail.

"Cloud" is endowed in the East as a symbol of lofty realm and broad feelings. It carries the good will of nature and romance, auspiciousness and blessings.

This artistic act, in the form of Shaman, narrates the simple Oriental thought of "from nothing to existence, from existence to nonexistence" and "Tao follows nature", expresses philosophy and poetry by artistic means, and calls for the equality of all living beings, man and nature. The artist puts the empty "cloud" into the airbag, materializes the "cloud" and makes the "artistic conception" become something that can be touched, which makes people feel immersed and reverie infinitely. This is the unique charm of this artistic act which makes people feel mysterious and dreamlike most.
Since its implementation in 2010, the work has been continuing, and has been deducing various parts of its branches, such as the story of giving away clouds, the story of planting clouds, the story of cleaning clouds, the story of sunning clouds under the sun and so on. At the same time, the artist Hu Yuepeng is also writing the first "Cloud Spectrum" in China, which is about the naming, classification and morphological knot of clouds. Genealogical works on construction and allusions.

The artist Hu Yuepeng and his wife, beautiful clouds, have long lived at the foot of Huangshan Mountain, engaged in cloud catching. In 2014, they built a house to collect clouds, named Tibetan Cloud Pavilion.