Let's go chasing the light! The Light Art Festival is staged in the Shanghai Aegean Sea

Photo: The Light Art Festival is staged in the Aegean Sea in Shanghai Source/Interviewee Courtesy of the interviewee

Xinmin Evening News (reporter Yang Yuhong) epidemic prevention has entered normalization, and people's vision of a better future and a happy life has never stopped. From now on, an immersive light and shadow show with the theme of "light chaser" will be staged at the shanghai Aegean Shopping Park, a good place on the doorstep, using light and shadow art as the medium to light up warmth and hope and restart a better life.

Inspired by light and hope, the 3rd Light Art Festival of Shanghai Aegean Shopping Park joined hands with contemporary young artists to heal and tell the story of "light chasers", jointly develop artistic ideas for the infinite possibilities and new pictures of a better future, and combine multiple scientific and technological visual expression techniques to present two major themed art installations of "Chasing Light Youth" and "Shimmering Light Forest", giving consumers an annual feast of light and shadow art that transcends the boundaries of imagination. From now until June 30, 2022, the two themed art installations will be open to the public free of charge, allowing the public to have a close dialogue on art design, feel the interaction between light and shadow, and add the unique charm of light and shadow to the beauty of the city.

Located in front of The No. 1 South Square of Shanghai Aegean Shopping Park, the 6-meter-high "Light Chasing Teenager", with the innocent curiosity and childlike posture of looking up at the starry sky, embodies the poetic expression of "the teenager is like a seed, bravely breaking through the mud and sand and running to the light", and carefully portrays the image of a "light-chasing teenager" who is full of curiosity and thinking about the world with artistic techniques. When night falls, the lights come on, the overall translucent material emits brilliant brilliance, the huge sense of spatial form brings an immersive light and shadow experience, and the fusion of colors brings people unlimited vision and hope for the pursuit of beautiful ideals, and builds a space to the vast unknown and full of infinite beauty in the real world.

A glimmer of light, although it can not light up the whole forest, but still wish to warm everywhere ... Another major theme art installation, "Shimmering Forest", was unveiled on the outdoor square lawn of the Red Star Oriloa Global Home Expo Center with its beautiful and healing warm image. The work consists of seven "dry branches" installations with different shapes of translucent resin and LED lighting, which are reborn through the injection of light, bursting out of colorful light and hope. At that time, the public can slowly walk into this beautiful world where light and shadow are intertwined, temporarily forget the hustle and bustle of the world, feel the quiet flow of time, and accumulate the power of light and hope.

In addition to "Chasing Light Youth" and "Shimmering Forest", the work "Invisible Wanxiang" of the second light art festival of Shanghai Aegean Shopping Park also ushered in a new upgrade on the occasion of the New Year in 2022. Nearly 14,000 colorful windmills are evenly arranged around the mall, turning with the wind and shining like stars, creating a colorful dream of light. Covering an area of nearly 10,000 square meters, the sea of light windmills echoes the two major theme art installations, carrying hope with light and inspiring the public's infinite vision of a bright future and a better life.

Unveiling the beauty of the city with light art, giving the city warmth and vitality, the "Light Art Festival" created by Shanghai Aegean Shopping Park has won continuous attention and wide acclaim with its originality, artistry and social strong genes and distinctive characteristics after two sessions, and has become an influential annual large-scale light and shadow art theme exhibition, which has helped the vigorous development and vitality of the night economy in Wuzhong Road Business District while realizing the continuous renewal and upgrading of the brand of the Shanghai Aegean Shopping Park Light Art Festival.

As the first cultural experience commercial complex in China, Shanghai Aegean Shopping Park creates creative energy for diversified experiences, drives commercial innovation and change with cultural power, and creates a popular and multi-dimensional urban life scene. In the future, Shanghai Aegean Shopping Park will continue to focus on the new needs of consumer groups through extraordinary art and cultural carriers, create a public art space with a strong sense of connection, resonance and belonging, empower commercial value with more diversified scene experiences, and inject a steady stream of inspiration and vitality into the city.