If you want to say that in 2021, the Lujiazui area is the hottest place, it must be the Pudong Art Museum. Since its official opening on July 8 last year, it has welcomed more than 500,000 visitors. Today, pudong art museum "Shangxin", the first exhibition of 2022 "Water Domain" was launched.
For thousands of years, the theme of "water" has fascinated countless artists and craftsmen. Jointly developed by the Pudong Art Museum, the Musée d'École Dei Chei Branly in France and the François Schneider Foundation, the exhibition brings more than 100 water-related works and will be on display here until June 5.
The whole exhibition is divided into five parts: landscape making of water, daily life of water, imagination of liquids, sacred territory, and geographical transition of water. Exhibits include 19th-century fish baskets, 300-900 AD Zapotec urns, animal-shaped sculptures from the Inuit of Greenland, emerald jade necklaces, heirlooms of the Maori of New Zealand, and aqua animal masks made by the Icho people of southern Nigeria symbolizing kindness and happiness... Precious artifacts and works unveil the mysteries of the Aztec civilization in the Americas hundreds of years ago, and decipher the water riddles of the 19th-century world.
The richness of this exhibition is inseparable from the rich collection base of the Museum of Quebranly in France. According to reports, the Keblanclie Museum is located on the banks of the Seine and is one of the most visited museums in France. The museum preserves and documents 300,000 collections from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. In addition to some of the exhibits previously exhibited at the Shanghai Museum, this is the second time that the Kebranly Museum has joined hands with Shanghai's cultural venues.
Li Minkun, chairman of Shanghai Pudong Art Museum Operation and Management Co., Ltd., told reporters that for such an exhibition, the two sides have been preparing since 2019, and many difficulties have been overcome in the middle. For example, the transportation and installation of exhibits under the epidemic situation. "Especially for some of these cultural relics with a history of thousands of years, in the absence of the ability to send special personnel to Shanghai to set up the exhibition, the Kai Branly Museum very trusted to bring the exhibits and authorized us to hire a professional company team to build the exhibition, which has the effect presented today."
After the exhibition of "Water Domain", the Kai Branly Museum specially expressed its gratitude and willingness to further cooperate with the Pudong Art Museum. Beno t GUID E, Consul General of the Consulate General of France in Shanghai, also said that the cooperation is the result of the joint efforts of the cultural industries of the two countries, "very meaningful, and the content of the exhibition is also very moving." ”
The Pudong Art Museum does not have closed days throughout the year and is open until 9 p.m. In addition, the museum is built in accordance with international first-class standards, with a total of 13 fixed exhibition halls and open exhibition halls, which can exhibit an area of more than 10,000 square meters and can accommodate three to four large-scale exhibitions at the same time. There are 6 warehouses that can accommodate exhibits of different sizes, and the whole hall is equipped with a 24-hour central integrated constant temperature and humidity system to ensure that it meets the needs of multi-specification, high-quality exhibits exhibition. Since its opening, the museum has received praise and cooperation intentions from many top international art institutions.
At the opening exhibition of the Pudong Art Museum last year, the Tate In London, England, produced more than 100 precious items, many of which were the first time to go out of the "Tate". "Tate was very satisfied with our exhibition layout and the facilities in the museum. Coupled with our meticulous management, we will count and report the temperature and humidity of each exhibit during the exhibition period and each day. When the exhibition was over and all the exhibits were shipped back to the UK, Tate told me: 'None of the exhibits were damaged', which was almost the best preserved exhibit in any exhibition. After that collaboration, we signed a memorandum of understanding with Tate, which plans to hold exhibitions at Pudong Art Museum every year for the next 5 years. Li Minkun said.
This year, the Pudong Art Museum will continue to bring a number of high-quality exhibitions to visitors to promote the exchange of global culture in Shanghai.