Shanghai Minhang First International Urban Art Festival Opening Ceremony Minhang District Party Committee Publicity Department courtesy of the photo
On January 1, 2019 , American artist Joy Brown and Shanghai Minhang video "connected" for the first international urban art season in Minhang, Shanghai. JOY BROWN Sculpture Exhibition "Sending Blessings." "Every large bronze work comes from small pieces that I've fired in my studio. I brought them to Shanghai, where I worked with the Ziding Art Factory to make large plaster casts and cast them into copper. ”
Art makes the city warmer. Shanghai Minhang's First International Urban Art Festival & "Together · Joy BROWN Sculpture Exhibition "opened on the 1st in Shanghai Minhang Cultural Park.
JOY BROWN sculpture Courtesy of the Publicity Department of Minhang District Committee
As the opening exhibition of Shanghai Minhang International Urban Art Festival, "Together · JOY BROWN Sculpture Exhibition" is the first large-scale theme exhibition of American artist Joy Brown in China. With the theme of "Together", the sculpture works have a total of 13 pieces, through the sculpture creation of different shapes and character narratives, telling the audience the connection and bondage between people and family, people and city, people and society, people and nature, and conveying an urban art story with temperature, feelings, belonging and dreams.
It is understood that Joy Brown related series of works were invited to be exhibited on Broadway Avenue in New York in 2017, and in the next six months, the exhibition will also focus on the theme of "together", combined with the cultural environment of Minhang area, and hold different forms of interactive activities such as "Joy Brown hand-painted postcards", "DIY happy doll blind box" and "Lohas Clay Man" to add cultural vitality.
Minhang District held the first International Urban Art Festival, which is an important embodiment of promoting high-quality development, creating a high-quality life, and striving to build the core competitiveness and soft power of the urban area.
In 2022, Minhang District will take the Urban Art Season as a platform, make full use of urban parks, urban roads, urban water systems, urban blocks, and urban living circles as spatial carriers, configure more public facilities for citizens to sit down and experience and communicate, implant more cultural and artistic works that show the characteristics of Shanghai's international cultural metropolis, and reflect the characteristics of Minhang red culture, Shanghai culture, and Jiangnan culture, better shape the expression of the city, and let Minhang add more warmth, comfort and poetry.
In addition, as an important supporting force of shanghai Minhang International Urban Art Festival, the "Minhang Art Venue Alliance" was also officially signed at the opening ceremony of the art season.
Minhang Art Venue Alliance was established Minhang District Party Committee Publicity Department courtesy of the photo
The reporter learned that the "Minhang Art Venue Alliance" was spontaneously organized by the first 16 major cultural venues in the district, such as Minhang Museum, Cai Bing Art Museum, Baolong Art Museum, Pearl Art Museum, etc., as well as well-known enterprises and professional associations in the industry. The Alliance unites regional art spaces, art resources and artistic talents, and jointly creates the Minhang International Urban Art Festival through a more diversified supply of high-quality cultural content, and continuously injects humanistic care and artistic charm into Minhang urban culture. In the first quarter of 2022, the first batch of 16 cultural venues of the Minhang Art Venue Alliance will present more than 20 wonderful cultural and art exhibitions for Shanghai citizens.
Gong Ling, a staff member of the National Musical Instrument Exhibition Hall, told reporters: "I hope that through the overall linkage of the Art Venue Alliance, our art resources will be shared by more residents." ”
The event was jointly sponsored by minhang District Greening City Appearance Bureau, District Cultural and Tourism Bureau, and District Literary Association, hosted by Shanghai West District Culture and Media Development Co., Ltd., and curated by Luofuzi Public Art Team. (End)