Artworks, because of their cultural attributes, add a lot of intangible value, and their influence exceeds time and space and crosses national borders.
In recent years, Chongqing has also held various international art exhibitions, but did you know that viewing exhibitions seems like a common thing, and a work of art from abroad to your eyes needs to cross thousands of mountains and rivers.
Recently, Wushan Art has collected hundreds of celebrity paintings from a number of private collections in Europe and prepared to be airlifted back to Chongqing. But what is less known is that the production link behind it went through a series of cumbersome steps, including copyright, attestation, negotiation, mounting, and customs, before arriving in Chongqing, the process was quite arduous, taking nearly 45 days.
"Some of the paintings are still Picasso's original works, which can be said to be priceless, whether it is mounting or transportation, it must be guaranteed to be intact. To avoid damage or even transfer of the package, we will also send a specialist to accompany you to take care of the work in real time. The relevant staff of Wushan Art said, "They are careful with each transportation, and even prepare multiple contingency plans to escort them." ”
It turned out that this batch of paintings was the "Chongqing Liangjiang Art Festival x Picasso & Dalí & Turner Printmaking Exhibition" prepared by Chongqing Shimao, which will be officially opened on August 13 at Shimao City Gate & Shimao Chongqing Center Marketing Center, and the exhibition lasted for nearly 2 months until September 30.
When the 8D Magic Mountain City meets the pioneers of modern art, what kind of wonderful scenes will be produced?
(Renderings of Shimao City Gate)
The works of top masters are first gathered in Chongqing, an exploration of urban art
The development of art in the city is not simply to beautify the environmental level, what is important is to intervene in urban life through the power of artistic innovation, improve the public's life and aesthetic quality, and enrich the spiritual needs of mass culture.
The "Chongqing Liangjiang Art Festival x Picasso & Dali & Turner Printmaking Exhibition" held by Shimao in Chongqing this time cleverly built the spacious and bright marketing center space into an art exhibition hall in a semi-open mode, which is a bold attempt to combine commercial space and artistic expression. So, what are the highlights of this art exhibition?
Highlight 1: The perfect combination of art and the city
Art can improve a city's self-confidence.
Nowadays, the trend of the city of Chongqing is always changeable and growing wildly. The fantastic Hongya Cave like "Spirited Away", the 8D overpass of "Confused" electronic map, the cool sir who walks through the city on a skateboard, the Tank Depot Contemporary Art Center in Minouchi, Huangjueping Kawa minouchi... All of them make the city exude a unique artistic temperament.
At the Chongqing Liangjiang Art Festival, Shimao occupies the height of the city, combining art with contemporary urban culture construction, reflecting Chongqing's distinct urban characteristics and making it constantly glow with new vitality.
It is a perfect combination of art and city.
Highlight 2: The first exhibition of top masters' works in Chongqing
Judging from the works in this exhibition, there are nearly 100 paintings, gathering the works of three top art masters, which is also the first time that their works have gathered in Chongqing for exhibition, from modern art in Spain to academic painting in Britain, using culture to dialogue with the city.
The three top masters are: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Joseph Mallord William Turner.
(Pablo Picasso)
Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and one of the most creative and influential artists in the contemporary West. "Picasso is always young" is the highest tribute to the variety of his works;
Dalí, along with Picasso and Matisse, is considered to be the three most representative painters of the twentieth century. Known for its surrealist works;
Turner, a representative of the British Academic painters of the first half of the 19th century, was good at depicting the delicate relationship between water and air. His special contribution to the history of art is to put landscape painting on an equal footing with historical painting and portrait painting.
Highlight 3: The authentic works are exhibited and are of great value
What is even more rare is that there are many genuine works by Picasso in this exhibition.
You know, among the ten most expensive paintings in the world, Picasso's paintings account for four, repeatedly breaking the world auction record. Recently, at the Christie's auction site in New York, Picasso's painting "The Woman Sitting by the Window" sold for $103.4 million, about 665.5 million yuan, and the entire auction process took only 19 minutes.
(Picasso's famous "The Woman Sitting by the Window")
These fiery works of art are even more precious because of their scarcity. On the surface, the value of the transaction is very expensive, but the hidden price is immeasurable.
It is conceivable that this art exhibition held by Chongqing Shimao is bound to trigger tens of thousands of people to sensational boiling.
Highlight 4: Modern Art Masters Academic Forum
When visiting the works of the three painting masters, Chongqing Shimao also invited domestic and southwest first-line artists, represented by Professor Wei Jia, dean of the Plastic Arts Department of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, to discuss the topic of "how art can reach the public" around topics such as "art and the Yangtze River".
At the same time, there was a discussion on how to cultivate and develop more young people's artistic thinking at present, which is also the true meaning of this activity to incorporate art into life.
Highlight 5: Professor Chuanmi's on-site artistic creation
In order to increase the audience's close-up understanding of art paintings, Chongqing Shimao specially invited Luo Xiaohang, professor of the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, to the Chongqing Center to paint the cityscape where the two rivers meet, so that the two rivers and four banks of the city of daily life can be transformed into solidified art on the picture scroll, and the city gate exhibition is placed, which can be donated to the Chongqing Municipal People's Government after the exhibition is over.
The famous painting "Across the Ocean" comes to Chongqing, you don't know the painstaking efforts behind it
When you walk into the Shimao City Gate & Chongqing Center Marketing Center and see a series of artworks from the other side of the ocean, in this temporary exhibition, do you know that they are all professionally transported and framed, and they have crossed the ocean with great caution.
1. Professional company transportation
The collection was personally airlifted back from a private european collection by the Wushan Art Center, which has long cooperated with the British Fine Art Trade Guild Association, the French Embassy, and the German Hanemüller.
With excellent color management and high output quality, Wushan has been officially certified by Hahnemühle in Germany. With the escort of professional companies, the safety of the collection is guaranteed.
(Wushan Art has held an art exhibition)
2. Rigorous transportation and professional-grade mounting
Packaging is a particularly important part of the transport process. In this exhibition, the packaging method of each work is based on the principles of fixation, shock absorption, etc., and is tailor-made after analyzing its own conditions, transportation methods and transportation routes, and transports by air and land transportation, which is expensive by air.
Its mounting process is more international museum level, all by the GCF International Association certified framer team personally service, from the professional level of brand of painting gloves, museum-level picture frame glass, and can accurately adjust the temperature and pressure size of the vacuum hot pressing acid-free mounting machine, are rare mounting standards in China.
3. Special security is heavily armed
Every link of the artwork may be damaged or even repackaged, and when transporting this batch of artworks, Wushan dispatched a commissioner to accompany it in order to take care of the works in real time.
When the "sky-high" art arrives, the "enjoyment" is even more special security treatment, and there are many security personnel inside and outside the exhibition hall, and equipped with infrared, monitors and other "cutting-edge weapons".
Landing on the landmarks of two major cities, a collision of art and life
Insight into the connotation of modern art, enhance urban aesthetics, let the soul of modern art truly integrate into the flesh and blood of the city, and provide Chongqing with international cutting-edge aesthetic grammar, which is the starting point and foothold of Chongqing Shimao's "Chongqing Liangjiang Art Festival x Picasso & Dassault & Turner Printmaking Exhibition".
The humanistic and life aesthetics conveyed by modern art coincide with the original intention of Chongqing Shimao to renew the urban cultural structure, lead the artistic spirit of the times, and innovate the spiritual connotation of the city.
So, why did Chongqing Shimao land such an important exhibition at the City Gate and the Center of Chongqing?
In the view of Chongqing Shimao, the reason why the venue is set in the marketing center is the coincidence of the scene.
The building itself is hard, but the space can be interesting, the colors can be colorful, and the daily work can be artistic. Through the exhibition, the art experience is integrated into the daily life experience, and the organic link of the commercial space empowered by culture can be better realized.
(Renderings of Shimao Chongqing Center)
The second is the fit of art.
Landmark architecture is the art of solidification, reflecting the aesthetics of an era and the temperament of a city.
As two new landmarks of Chongqing, the City Gate and the Chongqing Center, one is located in Jiangbeizui and the other is located at the intersection of the mother city of Yuzhong, they exude the youthful vitality of the city in line with international standards and strive to grow upwards, showing the city's rapid change and prosperity, and publicizing the city's hot and brilliant humanistic charm.
Standing at the gate of Shimao City, Hongya Cave, the Grand Theater, Qianpumen Bridge, Chaotianmen and other hot landmarks are surrounded, making the project's trendy art life shine more. The marketing center is like an exhibition hall, breaking through the traditional art planning concept and has a strong artistic atmosphere. For example, the sand table area extracts the stilt house and woven elements, deconstructs it into a dark metal skeleton braid, and contrasts it with a large area of pure white background, and the space is filled with the taste of Jiangcheng in the contrast between shades and shades.
(Shimao City Gate Marketing Center Shapan District)
Shimao Chongqing Center, as a tens of millions of high-end residences in Yuzhong District, is interpreting simplicity and complexity in an artistic balance space beyond time. With its two-way intersection core lot, about 487m cloud living room, sea-level luxury viewing surface, overlooking the grandeur and elegance of the city, multi-angle display of the multi-dimensional space concept of mountain city cubism, forging a high-quality artistic life.
The model room is also a perfect representation of architecture and art. Through the free use of color, the use of organic textures, and the imaginative visual concept, the whole space is elegant and artistic, and each object appears unobtrusive, but not simple.
(Real view of shimao Chongqing center model room)
epilogue:
Returning to the basics, through artistic symbols, allowing painters and the public to explore the mysteries of art together is not only Picasso's purpose of pursuing the simplicity of art, but also the true meaning of his dissemination of art.
The Chongqing Liangjiang Art Festival is a practice of Chongqing Shimao to dialogue with the city with art, aiming to excavate urban culture and art, let the artistic fire illuminate Chongqing, and also the artistic presentation of Chongqing Shimao's attitude towards human life. In line with Shimao's concept of "creating a taste of life and achieving urban dreams", this exhibition is also another innovative landing of Shimao and the cross-border of culture and art, and Chongqing Shimao will continue to make its own efforts for the excavation and popularization of urban culture and art.