Make the City an "Open Art Museum" (Jin Tai Essay) City | Culture | Art Museum
Let culture flow through the capillaries of cities, nourish the nerve endings of cities with art, and better meet people's spiritual and cultural needs
What is the experience of watching an exhibition in the parking shed of the community? Entering the "Star Dream Parking Shed" in Dongchang New Village, Lujiazui Street, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, the Sanxingdui photo exhibition, Longmen Grottoes photo exhibition, and rock color painting works constantly catch the eye. Under the exhibits, bicycles, electric scooters, and other transportation vehicles are neatly parked. When accessing and storing the vehicles, one can enjoy the wonderful art, bringing people who come and go an artistic experience of integrating into and breaking away from daily life.
From indoors to outdoors, from museums, art galleries, exhibition halls to subways, parks, and shopping malls, art is entering people's daily lives. The crowded subway carriages may transform into a mobile art exhibition that travels underground; The bustling atrium of the shopping mall can also host a "small and beautiful" exhibition activity; Through the vicissitudes of history, the historic district, adorned with art, collides with a unique charm that blends tradition and modernity... Different from traditional exhibition halls such as art galleries, these new art spaces overlap with public spaces such as industrial relics, creative parks, transportation hubs, and commercial complexes, creating a life like art display, allowing people to enjoy an art lunch without even realizing it. Nowadays, strolling through the streets of the city may lead to unexpected encounters with art at the next corner.
The beauty of a city lies in its urban scenery, natural landscapes, as well as its inherent quality and artistic and humanistic aspects. The integration of art into the city updates its external appearance, enhances its cultural taste, and injects more humanistic atmosphere into the city. Shanghai has announced the first batch of 15 "new art spaces", which include popular internet celebrity check-in spots, as well as public spaces closely related to people's lives such as subways and communities; In a restaurant on Nanyi Back Street in Nanjing, Jiangsu, in addition to the bar and dining table, the floor and wall space are all used for exhibition, combining artistic style and fireworks atmosphere; On the water street of Tiexiangsi in Chengdu High tech Zone, Sichuan, there are ingenious art installations and dazzling paintings that unfold a beautiful picture of artistic life. Continuously expanding the artistic space in the city, helping to continuously improve the urban living environment, and improving the quality of urban life, provides more possibilities for people to "live poetically" in the city.
Bringing art into life scenes is not only adding up the number of exhibitions, but also multiplying the reach and influence of art. Passengers entering Beijing Daxing International Airport can enjoy high-quality art exhibits while waiting; The 4.2 meter exhibition hall of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower Radio and Television Tower is the only place for tourists to climb the tower, and tourists come in an endless stream every day. Elegant art should not be limited to specialized venues, but should be presented in more public spaces in order to more easily enter people's hearts, educate people with aesthetics, cultivate people with culture, turn spring breeze into rain, moisten things silently, and allow people to enjoy beauty in immersive experiences, enrich their spiritual world, and radiate more active spiritual power.
Nowadays, urban aesthetics are constantly entering people's vision, and art is providing a continuous source of inspiration for urban renewal, as well as injecting new impetus into stimulating consumer vitality and enhancing urban competitiveness. However, it should be noted that in urban transformation, the expansion of artistic space should not only inherit the historical context of the city, but also highlight the distinct spirit of the times. In the past, the "Pioneering Cow" statue in Shenzhen embodies the spirit of the special zone of daring to explore and try, daring to be the first, and burying oneself in hard work. The "Yellow River Mother" statue in Lanzhou tells the story of the never-ending and indomitable Yellow River culture. Now, the integration of art and the city also requires efforts to showcase the unique character of the city and cultivate its spirit. Recently, the Xi'an Metro held the "Metro Encounters Museum" exhibition, showcasing cultural relics from the Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties through forms such as cultural relics replicas and creative products, showcasing the city's historical and cultural heritage, and inspiring people's cultural confidence. Looking forward to more exploration and practice like this, making art an important pivot for creating a city's business card and shaping the spiritual core.
Culture is the soul of a city. Nowadays, the overall problem of whether urban public cultural services are lacking or not has been solved, and the problem of whether they are good or not is becoming increasingly prominent. Making the city an "open art museum", allowing culture to flow through the capillaries of the city, nourishing the nerve endings of the city with art, will better meet people's spiritual and cultural needs. Cities filled with artistic charm and fun will inevitably gain more recognition and release more confidence and vitality.
