After waiting for a few years, Xianlin finally waited for Keyi! #可一书店
"If a place doesn't have a bookstore, it's not a place."
In Nanjing, there are countless chain bookstores, used bookstores, and special small bookstores, and the fragrance of books permeates the city, outlining the temperament of the "literary capital".
On the afternoon of October 26, the eye-catching Keyi Bookstore Xianlin Art Center finally kicked off the prelude to the soft opening, and the people of Nanjing had another poetic home and spiritual habitat.
▲Keyi Bookstore Xianlin Art Center.
On the same day, in the public account article released by Keyi Bookstore, there was a sentence that particularly touched people: "Waiting for a bookstore is the most beautiful affection." ”
The fact is also that because of the impact of the epidemic, the opening of this bookstore has been repeatedly postponed, "although it is late, after all, it is as promised." ”
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As a veteran bookstore mainly based on art books, it is the memory of many Nanjing people.
From Hunan Road, Nanjing Institute of the Arts, and then to today's Chengdong Xianlin, Keyi Bookstore has gone through more than 20 years of development, but each site selection reveals a vivid vitality.
▲ Traces of Keyi Bookstore in different periods left in Nanjing.
Descend from Xianlin Center Station on Metro Line 2 and follow the youthful college students all the way north. Walking past the traffic light intersection, the silver-gray building on the right-hand side is the Keyi Bookstore Xianlin Art Center.
With 4 floors above ground and 3.5 floors underground, covering an area of 8,794 square meters, it will serve 250,000 teachers and students and residents within a five-kilometer radius, which is undoubtedly another new cultural landmark in Xianlin.
▲A bookstore exterior view.
From the outside, its architectural form is like a book art installation, lying quietly on an open green space, waiting for people to read it.
Through the greenery, there is a mirror-like lake to the north. At this time, the laurel aroma on the side is rich. This scene makes people feel happy and can't help but think: Go, read and go!
▲ Green areas, green lakes, osmanthus flowers, here is really a natural and pleasant place to read.
At this time, just speed up the pace, take the escalator to the Minus 2 floor of the Keyi Bookstore, and immediately realize the dream.
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On the day of the soft opening, I walked into the Xianlin Keyi Bookstore and was immediately shocked by the huge space in front of me. Looking around, it's full of books.
On the background panel of the cash register, it is written that the proposition of The Keyi Bookstore is that "reading is the most beautiful gesture". There is also a sculpture of a horse on the side, which is the work of Nanjing sculptor Chen Jianhua.
Chen Jianhua shared in the circle of friends that the saddle on horseback comes from the home of the descendants of the Ma Gang in Xizhou Ancient Town, Lijiang, and has a history of more than 100 years. On the day of the event, the horses rushed to Keyi with poems and far away places to witness the grand opening of the bookstore.
▲ Reading really makes people calm and clear.
According to Ms. Qian Xiaozheng, the general manager of the bookstore, the Keyi Bookstore Xianlin Art Center is a cultural complex. Chen Weixin, a famous designer who presided over the design of the bookstore, gave a more specific answer to this point.
In the bookstore, Chen Weixin introduced: "Keyi Bookstore is designed with art museums, cultural and creative halls, small theaters, literary halls, cafes, etc., the boundaries of these spaces are open, interconnected, organizing the continuation of the turning line, and forming a complete presentation of the entire functional space of the bookstore around the central service desk." ”
▲On the day of the soft opening, there were many young faces on the scene.
After that, Chen Weixin also focused on the design ingenuity of art museums and cafes.
The art museum is an important part of the art bookstore, so the design adopts a fully built-in light-emitting film structure ceiling, and the lighting in the exhibition area is balanced and fully comfortable.
The theme of the café is "A Tale of Two Cities", and the table and chair furniture, window design, including cups for drinking coffee, are all "clones" of the Paris Café Des Des Des. Art and words, reading and coffee, echo in the space.
Chen Weixin also emphasized: "Every city has two sides, like the juxtaposition of two cities. It is also like a labyrinth in a multidimensional space, the more stairs there are, the more splits there are. Every moment, people are between two cities. The bookstore is a tool to identify and resist this two-sidedness. Perhaps life and art, life and reading are inherently inseparable. ”
▲ Art gallery and café inside the bookstore.
Walking into the café, the exquisite chandeliers, marble coffee tables, snow-white curtains, including the old piano in the corner, convey an atmosphere of elegance and sophistication.
On the wall entitled "A Tale of Two Cities", there are prints by Parisian painters and paintings by Nanjing artists, which give people a strong visual impact of the visual art of Paris and Nanjing empathy and dialogue in the true sense.
▲ Paris and Nanjing, wonderful coexistence in cafes.
In addition, the Literature Museum area in Keyi Bookstore has a reading space that can accommodate 60 people, and a writer's study room that can accommodate 12 people for interactive communication between writers and readers.
Look closely at the walls of this area, hanging paintings and calligraphy by Artists such as Fan Yang, Sun Xiaoyun, Yao Yuan, Wu Sijun, etc., which are like more than 5,000 Chinese and foreign literature and art books in the hall, which can be read.
These are not only works of art, but also testimonies of the friendship between the artists and Keyi Bookstore along the way.
▲On the day of the event, a bookstore was listed as the landmark of Nanjing's "World Capital of Literature", which is of extraordinary significance.
When it comes to Nanjing's literary works, we can never avoid "Dream of the Red Chamber". In the "Dream of the Red Chamber" theme cultural and creative museum in the bookstore, the exquisite aesthetic of traditional culture greets you. The children's book reading area next to it shows the vitality of childlike heart and childlike fun.
I believe that in the near future, Keyi Bookstore and Xianlin will be able to achieve mutual achievements and jointly nourish the surrounding cultural life!
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On the day of the soft opening, Xianlin Keyi Bookstore also launched two blockbuster cultural and artistic activities at the same time.
The "Exhibition of Works of Young Artists in the Unmasked Place" was opened at the Keyi Art Museum in the center, and the star version of the drama "The World", based on the winning original work of the Liang Xiaosheng Mao Dun Literature Award, was held in the Keyi Experimental Theater.
▲The scene of the event.
At the Keyi Art Museum, eleven young CAFA artists after the 1990s have undergone strict and systematic professional training at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, presenting young people's vivid realistic experiences and thoughts and feelings with their paintings.
As artist Wu Sijun commented: "It is both faithful and traditional, but also bold and innovative, reflecting the artistic pursuit and spiritual outlook of a new generation of young artists of the academic school." ”
Over the years, Keyi Art Museum has been committed to promoting exhibitions, collections, lectures and other series of activities such as jiangsu famous artists and incubation of young artists. Maybe these things are intangible, but believe that their impact on people and cities will be visible in the future.
At the meeting of writers, critics and creators of the drama "The World of Man", the experimental theater, an open staircase space surrounded by huge bookshelves, was filled with enthusiastic guests and audiences.
It is reported that this star version of the drama "Human World", adapted from Liang Xiaosheng's original work, will enter the Jiangsu Grand Theater in Nanjing and be staged for four consecutive performances.
On the day of the event, the host and critic He Tongbin and the famous writer Lu Min first had a dialogue from a literary point of view. Then the lead actors Guo Jiaming, Xie Yunhe, Zhao Qin and other actors took the stage to share the creative feelings of the drama "Human World" from the perspective of their respective life experiences and role shaping, which aroused strong resonance from the audience.
Subsequently, the lead actor Guo Jiaming was invited to the stage and played his own piano songs "Morning" and "Home", which suddenly brought the audience into a reverie musical atmosphere. Finally, all the drama actors and guests and the audience took a group photo, which pushed the atmosphere of the scene to a climax.
▲On the day of the event, Professor Zhou Xiaohong of Nanjing University and the famous actor Fan Ming also came to the scene.
In addition to the cultural heritage of mountains and rivers, history and humanities, the real charm of Nanjing is that it has many bookstores, art galleries, theaters, universities and other places, and has a large number of outstanding talents.
Xianlin Keyi Bookstore opened, bringing together a group of Nanjing cultural scholars, professors, artists, designers, and media people to communicate with each other, and the impact on the city's temperament and people is self-evident.
Shakespeare said, "Books are the nourishment of the whole world, and there are no books in life, just as there is no sunshine in the earth; there are no books in wisdom, just as birds have no wings." ”
In Nanjing, going to the bookstore after work to add food is already the most common life.
Thanks to enterprises like Keyi Bookstore, we adhere to the duty of artistic positioning and spare no effort to create beauty, transmit beauty, and create beauty for decades.
Like many of its bookstore counterparts in Nanjing, it continues to add points to the city of Nanjing, believing that this unique cultural phenomenon of "Keyi" will leave a mark in the history of Nanjing.
Written by ‖ Xianlin Cloth
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