Beijing News (reporter Wu Longzhen) On December 31, 2021, the China Ice and Snow Longfu Chao Winter Art Season opened on the ninth floor of the Longfu Cultural Center, a cultural landmark in Beijing. The event was hosted by China Ice and Snow Melting Media Center, organized by China Ice and Snow Network and China Ice and Snow APP, and co-organized by Beijing Longfu Temple and Shanghai Fosun Art Center. After more than three months of preparation, a 60-day multicultural event with the theme of "Ice and Snow + Art + Trend" will be held here. The event is divided into five sections: "Cloud Snow Panda Garden", "Cloud and Snow Realm", "Ice and Snow", "Ice and Snow Living Room" and "Ice and Snow Cloud Road", which will last from December 31, 2021 to March 20, 2022, spanning the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the period of the event.
Zhao Bandi and Wang Jinyuan, chairman of Fosun Art Foundation, took a group photo.
The first section, "Yunxue Panda Garden", is the latest work of artist Zhao Bandi, and three large-scale panda sculptures have landed on the "most beautiful rooftop in Beijing" for the first time.
As a leading figure in China's avant-garde art movement, Zhao Bandi's creations involve performance, painting, video, fashion, film, and social intervention. Starting from the 1996 Panda Calendar, Zhao Bandi opened his "Panda Era".
Among the latest works in this exhibition, the first panda expresses the scenery of "Ripple", and the ripple of "Ripple" is the standing panda. Ripples, ripples are the state of mind of this panda.
The first panda expresses the scenery is "Lian"
The second scenery: "trickle", the "trickle" of trickle water, that is, a sleeping panda.
The second scene is a sleeping panda.
The third scenery: "whirlpool", whirlpool "whirlpool", double panda, they enter a certain whirlpool, their mental state and their way of behaving are in some kind of whirlpool.
Double pandas, they entered some kind of whirlpool.
Black and white pandas and ancient buildings, red walls and blue sky, the changes of light and shadow convey delicate emotions. When the square marble pedestal supports the light panda, under the observation of the classical landscape and contemporary art creation, a surreal spiritual space is specially constructed for the audience.
In "Lian", "Juan" and "Whirlpool", Zhao Bandi transforms his inner warmth and softness into a gentle expectation beyond reality, and the four pandas move or are still on the roof, bringing multi-dimensional experience to the audience at the same time, but also connecting you and me, art and movement, city and community through the artist's unique perspective, so that art can touch and integrate into the lives of more circle audiences, providing new possibilities for the audience to enter art and then understand art.
"Whirlpool" at night
This ice and snow art season activity has created a rich ice and snow cultural exchange space, attracted more members of the public to participate in public art, harvested a surprise that met art unexpectedly, explored the shaping and far-reaching significance of public art for the spirit of the city, and helped the Winter Olympics.
Beijing News editor Wu Longzhen
Proofreading Liu Jun