Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Li Yang
At the beginning of the new year, the cultural feast of the China Millennium Monument is updated one after another, inheriting and spreading the excellent Chinese culture from the past to the present. From now until the Spring Festival, the Millennium Monument will dedicate five major exhibitions, a Spring Festival cultural temple fair, and three special cultural activities to provide citizens and tourists with high-quality artistic enjoyment and a good place for cultural tourism and leisure in the New Year. Throughout 2024, art from Russia, Hungary, France, and Italy will also be on display, allowing citizens to experience the diversity of world art at their doorstep.
The New Year exhibition matrix looks back at the millennium inheritance
During the Spring Festival, the five major exhibitions of the China Millennium Monument take into account the masterpieces of ancient, modern and contemporary art.
On January 28th, the "Children's Picture Book Creation 100" exhibition was held at the China Millennium Monument. The exhibition selects more than 100 original local picture books, displays 821 original paintings, 24 animated videos and some immersive scenes, and displays them in a three-dimensional and immersive way. The works are based on the characteristics of children between the ages of 3 and 8, and some of them have already been produced into sample books and will be released soon. Many of them are based on traditional Chinese culture and traditional Chinese art, presenting Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style.
On February 2nd, "Danqing Wangshan River - Special Exhibition of Chinese Modern and Contemporary Painting Masters" will be unveiled at the Millennium Monument. Jointly organized by the China Millennium Monument and the Tianjin Museum, the exhibition focuses on the exchanges between Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, and Xu Beihong, showcasing the mentorship and friendship of three national treasure masters in the history of modern Chinese painting, and illustrating their core artistic characteristics through the exhibition of their immortal masterpieces.
The theme exhibition of the Great Series of Chinese Paintings of the Past Dynasties, which is being held at the Millennium Monument, selects and reads themed paintings from the major national cultural project "The Great Series of Chinese Paintings of the Past Dynasties", and displays high-definition proofs of 247 fine paintings from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, so that the audience can experience the continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness and peace of Chinese civilization. In addition, "Why is Home: Chinese Family Culture Theme Exhibition" and "Born with My Talent: Li Bai: Ancient Chinese Poetry and New Media Art Series Exhibition" will also continue to be open until the Lantern Festival.
On the basis of the five major exhibitions in the Chinese New Year, the Millennium Monument also plays its own role as a platform to connect unlimited academic research resources with limited exhibitions. For example, a "Merchant Picture" can extract hundreds of objects from the picture, from which you can see the details of the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the ancients. After in-depth research, products can be designed on this basis that meet contemporary aesthetics and functions. Another example is the architecture and construction information in ancient paintings, after in-depth research, it can also be restored in towns, cities and even larger areas, and redefine the urban style. Ji Pengcheng, director of the China Millennium Monument Art Museum, introduced that a three-year academic research plan has been launched around the theme exhibition of Chinese paintings of the past dynasties, and has been jointly with the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Science Museum of Tsinghua University, Beijing International Design Week, Sanlian Bookstore, etc., to do in-depth research on the exhibited works, and do a good job in the interpretation and creative transformation of rich information in ancient paintings.
The three major international exhibitions lock in the cultural hotspots of the year
In 2024, the "World Culture Season" of the China Millennium Monument will launch a series of exhibitions and activities in three sections: the Hungarian Culture and Art Season, the Russian Culture and Art Season, and the Sino-French Culture and Art Season, to enhance exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations and the appreciation of art.
The year 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Hungary, the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Russia, and the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. From July to October, the Millennium Monument will hold the "Princess Sisi and Austro-Hungarian Culture Theme Exhibition" in conjunction with the Gödler Palace, the Hungarian National Gallery and the National Museum of Hungary, the "300 Years of Russian Art - Theme Exhibition of the 300th Anniversary of the Founding of the Russian Academy of Arts" in conjunction with the Russian Academy of Arts, the Russian Academy of Arts, and the Russian State Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the New Media Art Exhibition in conjunction with the Organizing Committee of the Oplie Prize in France. In addition, 2024 marks the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo's death, and China and Italy will jointly hold an exhibition of Marco Polo's cultural relics at the Millennium Monument.
A series of blockbuster international exhibitions will not only focus on the annual world cultural hotspots, but also enrich the content and level of international exchanges through activities such as Hungarian piano master classes, Austro-Hungarian cultural lecture series, Hungarian and Russian film screening weeks, new media art workshops, etc., so as to create a "cultural living room" for the construction of the capital's cultural center and a "window of the world" for the construction of a world city.