Beijing News (reporter Liu Zhen) on September 24, produced by the global cultural IP operation platform Yameidi, the global video art exhibition "LOVELOVELOVE Love Art - Sensory Garden" (referred to as "Love Art - Sensory Garden"), was officially opened in Hall 2 of Beijing Today Art Museum, and the exhibition period is until January 6, 2022. This is also a new season of this Chinese original art exhibition IP that opened three years later.
In 2018, the first season of "Lovelove Love Art" brought reverence for love and enthusiasm for art to invite four of the most important female artists in the history of world contemporary art: Marina Abramovich, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, and Tracy Emin, to exhibit precious video works in the same exhibition for the first time. In the new season of 2021, "The Art of Love" invited more than ten cross-era art masters and cross-border pioneers to participate in the exhibition, taking "Sensory Experience of Love" as the clue to create a new "Sensory Garden".
Agnès Varda, BORD DE MER, 2009, video installation, sea sand, dimensionally variable ©Estate Agnès Varda
The biggest highlight of the new season of the exhibition is the first time that the representative video works of five of the most important female artists in the history of modern and contemporary art in the world have gathered in "The Art of Love", including the Godmother of the New Wave, Agnès Varda, who heralded the arrival of the "New Wave" era with her first love-themed feature film; Frida Carlo, a legendary Mexican female artist, who became a strong warrior in the torment of love; and Luis Bourgeois, the greatest female artist of the 20th century, whose creation lasted until the last day of her life Video artist Pippiroti Rest awakens the lives of more ordinary people with color and perception; British avant-garde artist Tracy Emin engraves the vow of love in every city.
Wei Chen, Wishing Well, 2017, Mixed Materials, Size Variable © ShanghART Gallery
Five Chinese avant-garde artists explain their understanding of "love." Artist Chen Wei's "Wishing Pool" starts this journey with the question of "whether love is a game or a belief"; Liu Jiayu's work "Night Fireflies" uses immersive new media art to try to define the "invisible scale" between you and "love"; Cheng Ran brings his first VR experience work "Puzzle" and invites Liu Jialing to collaborate again to explore the theme of emotional isolation of urban people; artist Cao Yu's work "Mt. Fuji" uses a heaven-to-earth installation to symbolize a pair of lovers who blend with each other; Ma Qiusha's "Confused" works We" responds to the hesitant, uncertain, and uncontrollable feelings of intimacy in the normal way couples coexist—standing, sitting side by side, hugging, tearing."
Exhibition site. Courtesy of the organizer
The exhibition creates six sensory gardens through six art spaces, and the exhibition experience begins with the "New Garden", leading the audience to feel the whispers of the "Summer Garden", in the "Fanatical Garden" to death, gradually calm in the "Garden of Joy", and finally settle or separate in the "Garden of Thorns". Continuing the characteristics of cross-border cooperation between art and idols in the exhibition "LOVELOVELOVE Art of Love", the official announcement of the exhibition's chief experience officer, Zhang Yanqi, and the global music culture media Rolling Stone Dashui jointly presented Zhang Yanqi's first artistic video work "Garden of Eden", paying tribute to the work of British Romantic poet William Blake" "The Garden of Love".
From 2018 to 2020, the first season of "LOVELOVE LOVE ART" traveled through ten cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Shenyang, Hangzhou, changsha and so on, creating millions of on-site exhibitions and becoming a phenomenon-level art exhibition IP. It is reported that with the opening of the "Art of Love - Sensory Garden" in Beijing, "LOVELOVE LOVE ART" will once again open a nationwide tour, continuous year-round, network-wide interactive screening activities.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
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