Cover news reporter Yang Fan
Recently, as the largest and most academic art biennale since the epidemic, the 2021 Chengdu Biennale, with the theme of "super integration", has attracted a large number of citizens since its launch. Starting from December 2021, Chengdu Art Museum has launched academic summits and public education activities with different contents around this Chengdu Biennale, making the Biennale a large-scale art event with the participation of the whole people.
On the morning of December 21, the "Art Innovation and Urban Innovation - 2021 Chengdu Biennale Academic Exchange Conference" was held in the lecture hall of Chengdu Art Museum A (Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum), led by Fan Di'an, president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, president of the China Artists Association and chief curator of the 2021 Chengdu Biennale, who launched a "brainstorming" around how art can empower the city for a better future.
The 2021 Chengdu Biennale looks for the connection between China's current social and international hot topics through different dimensions of topic setting. The theme exhibition is divided into 8 sections: "Polymorphic Symbiosis", "Homeland Cohabitation", "Intelligent Resonance", "Co-combustion of The Tide", "Ecological Commonality", "Italian Resonance", "National Empathy" and "Aesthetic Education Collinear", showing the visual expression of "integration" from different aspects such as artistic trends, architectural construction, ecological awareness, fashion trends, etc.; at the same time, it strives to cut into specific topics such as global and local, urban and spiritual, concept and technology, youth and creation, ecology and aesthetics, tradition and avant-garde, and nationality and civilization, presenting a cross-field, A multi-layered picture of the development of contemporary art in China and even the world.
"Artistic Innovation and Urban Innovation - 2021 Chengdu Biennale Academic Exchange Conference" is a theoretical exposition of the academic theme and cultural significance of the Chengdu Biennale, introducing the curatorial concept of the Biennale to the art community, especially the curatorial narrative characteristics embodied in the exhibition sections; and also explaining the relationship between the Biennale and Chengdu's urban development to the media and the public.
Lu Peng, an art historian, art critic and director of the Academic Committee of the Chengdu Biennale, said in his welcome speech that based on his concern for the future operation and development of the new art museum in Chengdu, the 2021 Chengdu Biennale held the "Unconscioned: Art Museum Director Summit" on December 19, listening to the guests' experience in academic construction, collection accumulation, aesthetic education dissemination, standardized management and sustainable operation in China's booming art museum field in recent years, as well as the experts' predictions about the future.
Fan Di'an, chief curator of the Chengdu Biennale, said in his keynote speech entitled "Integration and Integration - The Planning Concept of the 2021 Chengdu Biennale" that biennale planning cannot avoid three dimensions: the first is the relationship between the biennale and the host city; the second is the relationship between the biennale and local art; and the third is the relationship between the biennale and global art. As far as urban renewal is concerned, strengthening historical protection, paying attention to the inheritance of the city, and continuing to make it a reality, and retaining the city's traditional construction mechanism and style, this nostalgia is the concept that urban renewal should uphold; in addition, it is important for urban renewal to decorate the urban landscape and build a new urban appearance in the form of letting art introduce the city, integrate the city, and build a new urban appearance.
Qiu Zhijie, Dean of the School of Experimental Art of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, introduced the development of science and technology and its embodiment in this biennale in his speech entitled "Development Trend and Cultural Characteristics of Science and Technology Art". He said that science and technology art gives priority to the use of the latest scientific and technological means to create art, and it also helps people understand the new human life and new human life emotions shaped by the development of science and technology, and tries to use humanistic and artistic means to digest the impact of scientific and technological development on people.
Ji Shaofeng, director of Hubei Art Museum, said in a speech entitled "Public Art Symbiotic with Cities" that he believes that art should be put back into nature and ecosystems, and the relationship between people, art, nature and cities should be rethinked. Ji Shaofeng believes that public art that coexists with cities advocates a global ecological concept, awakens a kind of ecological consciousness of the whole people, and rethinks the relationship between man and nature, art and ecology.
Zhang Zikang, director of the CAFA Art Museum, stressed in his speech entitled "Art Museum Construction and Urban Image Shaping" that art museums are important places for building urban cultural images and important institutions supporting the development of urban cultural industries. The current art museum has formed a complete professional art museum system from the simple concept of the initial exhibition display. The academic construction of a large number of professional art museums has led to the development of multiple types of cultures and industries, and formed the overall promotion of the urban cultural and artistic ecology.
In his speech entitled "Traditional Revitalization and Urban Memory", He Guiyan, director of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, emphasized the importance of discussing the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional culture from a global perspective. The creation and innovation of traditional culture has become an unavoidable theme today, and the contemporary transformation of traditional culture stems from both local motivations and international commonalities.