Recently, the works of more than 20 artists have entered Lane 8 of Hongkou Jinchao, posing a battle of contemporary art in Shanghai's Shikumen Lane. The "Urban Adventure Space Art Exhibition" will send art works from the art museum as the main position to the Shikumen block to welcome the aunts and uncles for review. Many aunts and uncles who came to revisit the old land with feelings originally came to visit the transformed commercial blocks, most of them were not familiar with the names of Chinese and foreign artists, and they had never seen the iconic works of these artists, but they were still very interested in seeing these works in the corner of The Shikumen in Lane 8 of the tide.
Illustration: Yuan Kan's works Official picture (the same below)
Send art museum works into the old neighborhood
In the Shikumen guest hall, the bunting flag fluttered, the astronauts levitated among the red brick walls, and the cute panda sat by the pool to look at the passers-by... Julian Oppen's prints of fashionable girls walk from London to New York and from Zurich to Shanghai. His unique style can be recognized at a glance in the endless public commissions and international museum exhibitions, and middle-aged and elderly visitors like to take photos here in front of the old Shikumen neighborhood.
Pictured: Lane 8 of this tide
Japanese sculptor and installation artist Tatsuo Miyajima, a major foreign artist participating in the group exhibition, has attracted attention because his works are based on time and life, and his works have attracted attention when they were exhibited on the rooftop of Fosun Art Center. This time, the cube "Waterfall of Time" he designed is nearly three stories high, standing at a conspicuous point at the intersection of Haining Road and North Sichuan Road, like a monument to "electronic numbers" flowing day and night. This piece lights up the neighborhood and is especially fashionable at night. The original intention of Japanese artists is to do meaningful things in a limited time, to commemorate the turbulent and rapidly changing years.
Pictured: Labyrinth Group
Giovanni Ozula, who is currently hosting a solo exhibition at the Evergreen Gallery in Beijing, has made a name for himself in recent years as a cross-media artist from Italy who creates both video and sculpture installations. Ozzula's work captures the mood of the natural landscape, and he is obsessed with the traces of life left by the passage of time, whether it is graffiti on the wall of ruins, the blooming and withering of flowers or the window facing the sea, always poetically showing the subtleties of these traces. His works are exhibited because he believes that this is an exhibition linking the past and the present, and the history of Shikumen Lane in Shanghai itself leaves traces on the works.
Photo: Ezosha
Introduce the idea of being an agent into the historical context
As part of the "Haipai Modern Tide Art Season", the "Urban Adventure Space Art Exhibition" brings together more than 20 Chinese and foreign contemporary artists, designers and poets, such as Tatsuo Miyajima, Anton Sibik, Lin Tianmiao, Ma Liang, Yuan Kan, Han Bo, etc., to create an adventure experience in the city around the past and present lives of Shikumen Lane. The exhibition is divided into three chapters: "Urban Forest", "Fireworks Maze" and "Folding Future", which tells about urban development, "Urban Forest" focuses on human beings and ecology, and thinks about the sustainable development of business, urbanization and ecology. Based on the "fireworks maze" of the old building, it tells that the Shikumen building overlaps the public space and the private space. The intersection of neighborhood relationships is interspersed like a porous labyrinth with a temporal dimension, filled with daily fragments with the smell of fireworks. "Folding Future" mainly unfolds along the symbiotic buildings of new and old on the side of North Sichuan Road, adding elements such as new media, science fiction, and futurism to the city's framework.
Pictured: Ma Liang's works
Curator Wang Bin said that the art exhibition uses old houses and neighborhoods as a carrier to introduce the concept of contemporary art into the historical context. "We hope to see a different city in the historic district and encourage audiences to encounter contemporary art in new scenes." For artists, contemporary art works can be integrated into urban space without being confined to art museums. The current situation of the visit shows that the people who visited were curious about the works, and most of them liked to hear them. ”
The works of the "Urban Adventure Space Art Exhibition" are distributed in the "Bingang Commercial Center" on North Sichuan Road in the "Lane 8 of the Present Tide", where there is a century-old building "Yingchuan Jilu", a Cantonese-style arcade "Public Welfare Workshop" that witnesses historical changes, and excellent historical protection buildings such as "Rainbow Garden" that integrates China and the West. In the near future, the Shanghai Literature Museum and the Hongkou History and Culture Museum will also be located here, and more writers will leave their written footprints here.
Regarding the relationship between art and the neighborhood, Ruan Jun, the initiator of the "Borderless Youth Creative Center", said that the shackles of the boundaries of the community art museum in the past were broken here, and the concept of "no boundary" was launched by lighting up the internal space of the community with art, and the works of artists, designers and creative workers were lit up and activated in the block. "From inclusive education in the venue to leaving memories and injecting vitality into the neighborhoods that are being renewed." Art is not just about intervening in the neighborhood, but about integrating and restoring the neighborhood, allowing the public to participate in it and colliding with new sparks. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Le Mengrong)