Today's Zhuhai, incubating the emerging artistic thought space, or among the green bricks and green tiles, or in the glass curtain wall, retro aesthetics and trendy fashion have been amazingly integrated here, opening up a splendid dialogue between ancient and modern, presenting the mysteries of culture itself, stretching endlessly, this is the power of art, firmly gluing together some seemingly unrelated people and things, unconsciously, opening up a wonderful flower of art, continuing to echo.
South of Zhuhai Avenue, North Mountain with a history of more than 200 years.
This is known as the most beautiful historical and cultural village in South China, Beishan, with a history of more than 200 years. The Beishan culture is scattered in all corners, waiting for people to discover. It is across the road from the bustling business, interpreting the interweaving of history and contemporary, and staging the collision of new and old cultures.
During the Republic of China period, the Beishan Theater appeared on the scene, and now it is a new and old warehouse.
Focusing on the special architectural nature of "performance", the designers skillfully connected the past and present lives of the theater with old furniture and building materials from the 1970s and 1980s. Whether it is the overall structure or the materials of the details, the texture reflects the aesthetics of retro aesthetics all the time.
The appearance of the old warehouse is mainly dark brown, the wooden design of the doorway and the surrounding green bricks complement each other, and a few green vines on the roof spread out if they are absent, as if they are casually visited by tourists. A small blackboard at the door said the main components of the warehouse, the popular brick shop, the café, the Western restaurant, and even the barber shop.
A passage in the foyer is eye-catching - "You go to your future, I go back to my past", I don't understand my need to stay, I choose the stubbornness that even if I am alone, I will go, which perfectly fits the insistence of Beishan Space on retro aesthetics.
Entering the old warehouse, I was surprised to find that the old stage of the theater was preserved, the jujube red velvet curtain was long and hanging down, and the log-colored wooden board reflected the soft light under the light, as if seeing a woman in green clothes standing on the stage in the old days singing a soft little song in a Cantonese opera tone.
When a content is associated with a spatial medium, it bursts out a strong vitality. The old warehouse is like an art box from the past, looking for a place to stay in the bustling city, the old warehouse retains the original log house structure and the traditional stage, and there are all kinds of nostalgic gadgets inside, as if it is a treasure house through time, which can always evoke your various whims.
These old things, which were originally abandoned by the mainstream, were reborn in the carefully chosen space of people and became the core of the return of retro life aesthetics.
Stepping out of the old warehouse and looking at the entire North Mountain Village, the ancient clean and retro space tells us that there have been many stories between bricks and tiles. The old villagers are bustling and methodically living their own little lives, avant-garde shops, interspersed in the old villages, unique and full of imagination.
History has given art space a thicker expression, and in addition to looking at what it shows people, we will also think about what it brings to people. With changing times and diverse tastes, Zhuhai today accommodates the world, and art spaces give more modern and trendy expressions.
North of Zhuhai Avenue, forte Star Discovery Bay was built in 2019.
The first cultural hive built by Forte in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area uses Lingnan culture to integrate the regional customs, climatic conditions and landscape culture of Lingnan from the perspective of urban and humanistic perspectives. Integrating the traditional Chinese philosophical view and cosmology into the modern interior space, and refining the unique cultural symbols of Lingnan architecture into design elements, the art space is injected into the genes of zhuhai, a young city culture.
Thus, there was the "Lightland" Art Center.
In this mysterious box carved from the all-glass curtain wall, it contains the secular expression of Lingnan cultural diversity, extracts the essence of openness and rejuvenation in Lingnan culture, and highlights the artistic life atmosphere in which art and humanity coexist.
Entering the "Realm of Light", the algae well composed of circles and circles resembles a dome, and the layers are progressive, and the shape of the architectural sculpture is very architectural and sculptural, and it also sets off a kind of modernity and holiness invisibly, laying the foreshadowing for the future life. For the present me, bathed in the natural light flowing from the top, like the bloom of the inner universe, the big me and the small self have since become one.
In the negotiation area on the second floor, the use of wok-ear can be described as ingenious, "Realm of Light" extracts the wok-ear shape from Lingnan architecture as a design element, combined with a local traditional handicraft - Luo Xing weaving and interpretation of the installation art, its unique shape, adding a sense of traditional culture to the space. Every space is permeated with the atmosphere of contemporary art that can be seen everywhere.
People, glass curtain walls, spaces, like a contemporary painting, slowly unfold and tell the story.
Even though the power generated by humanities and inner thoughts can never be ignored by the times, the realm of light still purifies a new design possibility, through which to coordinate the relationship between different individuals, perceive nature externally, and care for oneself internally.
This must also constitute the yearning of people who come to appreciate the ideal place, regardless of country or history. We can't refuse it because it's like a being that tells us who we are and tells us what life is like at its best.