▲ Shenzhen Art Museum "Iteration and Symbiosis - Song Yuming Urban Landscape Painting Shenzhen Works Special Exhibition" online exhibition
Recently, affected by the epidemic, many art museums in China have once again entered a closed state. For example, art museums in Shanghai and Shenzhen are closed, and in addition, Hunan Art Museum, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan Art Museum, etc. have also announced temporary closures. However, the museum is not closed, and many art museums have successively launched online exhibitions, continuing to play the function of public art education in art museums.
In the face of the complex and severe epidemic prevention and control situation, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism has innovatively launched the online service of "Music Love Art", and the city's art museums have closed their museums and closed their exhibitions, turning to the "cloud", so that the citizens of "staying at home" can feel the warm, comfortable and poetic services of Shanghai in the special period through the "Cloud Art Exhibition", "Cloud Culture And Culture" and "Cloud Reading". Among them, cloud exhibitions and cloud public education provide rich art appreciation resources for the public, maximize the social aesthetic education function of art museums, and a large number of classic exhibition projects, lectures and other resources continue to spread the energy of art online. According to the relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, since this period, the city's art museums have launched nearly 200 new cloud exhibition projects of various types, and the exhibitions that need to be lined up to see offline are unobstructed online, and the exhibitions in the digital art museum will never end.
For example, the China Art Museum (Shanghai Art Museum) has successively launched three major sections of "Art From Looking", "Art From Learning" and "Art From Traveling" through online services, presenting rich content on multiple platforms and opening up the journey of cloud art. The theme exhibition of independent planning has been excavated for the second time, such as the ongoing "Years Like Gold - Collection of Jin Xianglong Printmaking Works Exhibition", in addition to the online exhibition, supporting videos have also been launched, allowing the audience to dynamically feel the unique artistic charm of out-of-print prints. In addition, for example, the "Restoration Diary - The Rebirth of an Oil Painting" guided tour curated by the Shanghai Fengxian District Museum was broadcast live on the Leyou Shanghai Video Platform, and the Liu Haisu Art Museum launched a number of online cloud exhibitions.
Many art museums in Shenzhen have also launched online exhibitions. Among them, the three key exhibitions of The Shenzhen Art Museum were simultaneously launched: "Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone: Window Effect - Special Research Exhibition on the Operation and Collection of the Early Days of the Shenzhen Art Museum", "Contemporary - 2021 Shenzhen Art Museum Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition" and "Cultural Celebrity Rescue - Group Painting and Special Art Works Exhibition of Ding Cong's "100 Days of Miscellaneous Memories of the East River" in the Collection of Shenzhen Art Museum". Shenzhen Pingshan Art Museum also opened an online exhibition broadcast. The online exhibition, which consists of interactive panoramic roaming scene display, bilingual exhibition, work analysis, image viewing, etc., allows the audience to experience a number of representative exhibitions since the opening of the museum across platforms.
During the closure period, Wuhan Art Museum launched a live tour "Quiet Gaze: Italian Contemporary Sculpture Art Exhibition", which was led by the host of Chutian Music Radio's "Music Wheat Field" column and Chen Yongjin, director of Wuhan Art Museum, to see the exhibition, and also connected with Ying Jinfei, director of Zhejiang Art Museum, and Shu Wenjing, curator of the exhibition, to participate in online interaction, they developed from different perspectives to share the story behind the exhibition and the exhibited works with the audience.
In addition, many art museums have launched exhibitions of works on the theme of anti-epidemic, such as the Fujian Provincial Art Museum and the Guan Shanyue Art Museum, showing the anti-epidemic style and condensing the anti-epidemic energy. Artists poured out their hopes between ink colors, condensed their true feelings between their brushstrokes, praised the volunteers and medical workers who were struggling in the frontline, and also praised the masses who considered the overall situation and cooperated with the fight against the epidemic. They use their artistic creations to boost morale and spirits, and contribute to winning the battle against COVID-19.
Whether it is the persistence of the offline exhibition hall or the opening of the online position, we can see the love of the art museum people for art, and the speed and temperature of the art world to fight the epidemic and overcome the difficulties together.
April 3, 2022 "China Culture News"
The 2nd edition featured a special report
"Closed Exhibition" "Art" Fights the Epidemic
Editor-in-charge: Chen Xiaoyue