The first International Urban Art Festival in Minhang, Shanghai opened

The First International Urban Art Season & "Together · JOY BROWN Sculpture Exhibition kicked off (Photo courtesy of the interviewee issued by CCTV)

Central Broadcasting Network Shanghai January 3 news Art, let the city warmer. On the morning of January 1, 2022, the first international urban art season in Minhang, Shanghai and the "Together · The JOY BROWN Sculpture Exhibition was officially opened in Minhang Cultural Park.

In 2022, Minhang District will use the urban art season as a platform to leave the best resources to the people, 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, reflect the characteristics of Minhang's red culture, Shanghai culture, and Jiangnan culture, better shape the city's expression, and let Minhang add more warmth, comfort and poetry.

In order to reflect the inclusiveness of urban culture and the co-construction and sharing of people's cities, the "Minhang Art Venue Alliance", as an important supporting force of Shanghai Minhang International Urban Art Festival, was also officially signed at the opening ceremony of the art season. The "Minhang Art Venue Alliance" is spontaneously organized by the first 16 major cultural venues in the area, 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 closely 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, continuously injecting 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.

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 about the connection and bondage between people and family, people and city, people and society, people and nature, conveying a city art story with temperature, feelings, belonging, and dreams, outlining a series of urban space landscapes full of humanistic care and spiritual significance, adding a warm feeling of the city to the cold at the end of the year and the new year. Joy Brown's 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 region, and hold different forms of interactive activities such as "Joy Brown Hand-painted Postcard", "DIY Happy Doll Blind Box" and "Lohas Clay Man", continuing to create hot spots and add cultural vitality.