On July 8, on Chunxi Road, where the attention of the whole city gathers every day, a floating island called Tahiti is presented to the public.
The 100-square-metre art installation is topped by a mysterious floating island covered with flowers, where a crystal curtain hanging from the bottom of the floating island and the surrounding low jungle create a natural dream of the floating island, as if traveling to a unique space of tranquility.
The installation attracted many tourists to stop and watch, and the artist Mr. He Qianli and a number of brand managers also came to check in front of the installation and co-create "Tahiti's Dream" through AI paintings.
The novel form ignited the enthusiasm of the scene, and more and more audiences joined the creation of the AI painting "In Search of Tahiti's Dream".
Participants refine the Tahitian keywords in their minds and use AI to create their own Tahitian dreams. At the same time, dozens of paintings are constantly gathered on the vertical large screen at a height of one to two meters at the scene.
People recorded this creative process and uploaded it to the topic #242 Tahitian dreams through TikTok, and let their Tahitian dreams fly into the clouds and continue the summer.
Up to now, Douyin-related topics have been played more than a million times, and Xiaohongshu and Moments have also brushed their presence.
According to the on-site staff, the art installation "Flying to Tahiti in the Heart" on Chunxi Road will last until July 16, and from July 11 to 12, Youfang will simultaneously open the "Looking for 242 Tahitian Dreams" co-creation painting activity to jointly collect 242 paintings about Tahiti.
Famous contemporary artists and Chengdu citizens painted "Tahiti's yearning and imagination", which will be lit up in Youfang Shopping Center on the 15th, becoming a new art check-in point in Chengdu.
Before we searched for the dream of Tahiti, people had been chasing the island of dreams for more than a hundred years. From the island of inspiration for artists to the wonderful new world of movies, a large number of tourists flocked to Tahiti, and since then, Tahiti has become synonymous with chill. And the starting point of all this originated from the French artist - Gauguin.
Gauguin's Tahiti, a dream of intense color
The crash of the Paris stock market in 1882 became Gauguin's opportunity to come to Tahiti. He found that it was an unexplored paradise. This is comparable to the style of heaven, and finally cured Gauguin's mental internal friction, and was driven by the heart to create Where Do We Come From? Who are we? Where are we going? Such representative works of Post-Impressionism and a series of his personal heirloom works.
The picture of this painting is like a recreation of a dream, as Gauguin himself experienced, devoting himself to dreaming in his youth, intending to achieve happiness in the secular sense; When he was older, he turned to the guidance of his dreams and finally found the paradise of his dreams.
Maugham's Tahiti, a dream
Regarding Tahiti, in addition to Gauguin's own paintings, we may be able to glimpse a thing or two from Maugham, who created The Moon and Sixpence based on Gauguin:
"Tahiti is a green island, towering and deep, deep green hollows of silent valleys. ...... In the shade of the trees, you will feel that life from ancient times is alive in an ancient way. ”
If the Tahiti shown in Gauguin's paintings is warm, then Maugham's island has a more profound artistic conception, and if the mind can be purified in the valley after enjoying the rough bath of the sea breeze and daylight, the spiritual sublimation is natural.
Our Tahiti is full of relaxation of dreams
And in our time, Tahiti represents an extreme pervasiveness of a sense of relaxation. The fire of the word Chill stems from the enormous pressure that modern life brings to people.
In Tahitian life, stress is no longer the only main theme, but instead the quiet narration after the pressure is completely released, and the sky is clear after the fog gradually clears. This is the reasonable outlook that the rapid progress of society and the times should bring, and it should be near, not far away - as long as we have such a dream.
Chips and computing power have compressed urban life in the 21st century to the second level, and also increased the speed of change in social trends. A few years ago, Chengdu was still a representative city of leisure life, but once upon a time, it also began to be on the hot search because of the inner roll.
The tense life was frantically copied and pasted between the cities like a virus, rapidly advancing from Beijing and Shanghai to Chengdu. Just as Gauguin fled Paris, Chengdu naturally needs its own "Tahitian" life.
As the theme of this giant art installation says, we should "fly to Tahiti in our hearts", use dreams as sails, and do not neglect beautiful islands like Tahiti in the process of crossing the worldly ocean. On July 8, the dreams about Tahiti left by people on Chunxi Road will be "lit up" together with the super landmark Twin Towers at the Ufang Tahiti City Exhibition Hall from July 15.
It is reported that on the day of the lighting ceremony, famous contemporary artists will share their "island in their hearts", as well as their perceptions of nature, art, inspiration, and their feelings of "TAHITI"; At the same time, "242 Tahitian Dreams", created by the artist and the citizens of Chengdu, will also be exhibited in the art group exhibition.
It is expected that more citizens will come to the Tahiti City Exhibition Hall to light up their dreams and find Tahiti in their hearts.