On January 16th, the "Symbiotic Landscape - The Second South China Sea Public Art Exhibition and Modern and Dynamic New South China Sea Photography Contest" was launched in Qiandeng Lake Living Water Park in Guicheng, Nanhai, Foshan.
The public art exhibition is hosted by the People's Government of Nanhai District of Foshan City, co-organized by the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports of Nanhai District of Foshan City, and the Guicheng Subdistrict Office of Nanhai District of Foshan City, supported by the Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, the School of Cross-media Art of China Academy of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and co-organized by Foshan Academy of Art Creation.
The academic committee was composed of Fan Bo, vice president of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, as the general consultant of the project, Feng Boyi, He Guiyan, Ji Shaofeng, Wang Huangsheng, Yang Wei, Yang Xiaoyan and Yu Ke, the nationally renowned curators, Hu Bin, professor of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and executive deputy director of the Art Museum of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and Xia Jinwang, president of the Foshan Academy of Art Creation, as the exhibition director.
In recent years, more and more continuous public art projects have emerged in China's non-central cities or suburbs and even in the countryside, which is related to the increasing desire of art organizers to find new ways of art happening, and on the other hand, it is also related to the expansion of regional cultural and artistic ecology. The South China Sea Public Art Exhibition was born in this context.
At the beginning of 2020, with the theme of "Expanding Theater", it presented a comprehensive art across media and forms, trying to integrate art into the city, into life, and into society.
This year's Nanhai Public Art Exhibition strives to further focus on the concept of "symbiosis" of new public art on the basis of the expansion of the relationship between works and public space in the first session.
The invited artists are: Andy Letinin, Cui Yi, Duan Junhao, Fu Zhongwang, Fu Junsheng, Guan Huaibin, Guo Gong, Jiang Shan, Lin Lan, Li Linlin, Joseph Dimo, Song Dong, Sun Jiaxing, Tong Kunbird, Wuyi Studio (Li Chao, Luo Baoquan, Liu Zaixing, Zhao Geng), Wan Duoyun, Yang Xinguang, Yang Guang, Yang Mushi, Yang Yifei, Ant Chao, Zhou Li and other well-known artists at home and abroad, outstanding young and middle-aged artists. They brought 22 public works of art to the Qiandeng Lake Living Water Park.
According to the organizers, the works in this exhibition, whether static or dynamic, hope to "grow together" with the local landscape and community environment, so as to form a new ecology that is fluid and diverse. Today, when art and aesthetic education are vigorously advocated, the exhibition tries to make the public art here a force of "micro-intervention", so as to connect with the green ecology, green economy and green culture that the world cares about, and also become a way for the people of the South China Sea to live, and promote the optimization and upgrading of the cultural quality and human and natural environment of the South China Sea.
This exhibition adopts a combination of online and offline methods for launching ceremonies, academic seminars and guided tours. During the exhibition, more open and interactive public education activities will be held to combine urban public services with cultural aesthetic education, and through public participation, the humanistic image of nanhai in emerging cultural industries will be further enhanced. The exhibition will run until 16 April.
[Reporter] Yang Yi
[Correspondent] Zhang Xiang
【Photo】Courtesy of the organizer
【Author】 Yang Yi
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client