Xinhua News Agency, Chengdu, August 6th. Since the opening of the Chengdu Art Museum on July 16th, the “2023 Chengdu Biennale” has maintained a high degree of attention, and the “blessing” of the Chengdu Universiade has made this event even more The popularity of the exhibition is overwhelming, which effectively promotes the exchange of Chinese and foreign cultures.
The Chengdu Biennale started more than 20 years ago and is held every two years. It has become a window for citizens to understand international art and world culture. This year’s exhibition will continue until November, and the whole process is free and open to the public. 235 artists from 22 countries and regions, including Xu Bing, Zhou Chunya, and David Hockney, participated in the exhibition with 476 works of art in all categories. Chengdu Art Museum reserves more than 10,000 places for visitors every day, which are often sold out by enthusiastic audiences.
This is an exhibit of the Biennale taken at the Chengdu Art Museum on July 16.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Wenhao
“I thought that David Hockney and Tim Ulrich were so far away from me. I never thought that one day I could stand in front of their works. Thanks to the Chengdu Biennale, I can see such a beautiful scene at my doorstep.” Works of art.” Mr. Zhang, 50 years old this year, is an “old Chengdu”. After dinner, he took his family for a walk in the exhibition hall while admiring Chinese and foreign art works.
Different from previous editions, the “Chengdu Biennale 2023” combines the Chengdu Universiade to exhibit the works of a group of outstanding young artists, allowing the beauty of youth and sports to meet the beauty of art and creativity.
Recently, athletes from Poland lingered in various exhibition halls. In the exhibition hall, artist Xu Bing’s “Square English Calligraphy Classroom” attracted their attention.
These fonts “created” by Xu Bing transform English letters into calligraphy radicals, and combine English words into brand-new calligraphy square characters. The artistic inspiration comes from his feelings when he faced language barriers when he went to the United States.
On August 4, in the “Square English Calligraphy Classroom” of the “2023 Chengdu Biennale” artist Xu Bing, participants copied on paper with a brush.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shang Wenyi
“In addition to the cultural exchange and communication between the East and the West, breaking the inherent thinking and finding new perspectives is the value of this work.” Alexander picked up a brush in the experience area and wrote an ancient Chinese character “rabbit” on the paper. Living in the Universiade Village for a few days, Alexander agrees with the “Chinese constellation” of the twelve zodiac signs. “I just learned to write with a brush in Universiade Village. I am a rabbit, and this year is my birth year.”
Polish athletes also saw in the exhibition hall the work “Looking at the Stars and Dreaming” by the artist Alicia Kwad from his hometown – a movable metal structure balances huge pebbles in the air – “Polish fragments” in a foreign country It made several athletes feel cordial, and they fought with each other to “claim” these stones from Warsaw or Krakow.
On July 16, the audience took pictures of the exhibits at the Chengdu Art Museum.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Wenhao
“Chengdu Universiade is a stage for both competition and cultural exchange. As an important international urban art project, the Chengdu Biennale has irreplaceable significance and functions in promoting cultural exchanges, leading artistic trends, and setting benchmarks for urban cultural values. “Said Wang Shaoqiang, chief curator of the “2023 Chengdu Biennale”.
Chengdu is a famous historical and cultural city in China, with 172 museums of various types. “The Chengdu Biennale has always been a highly anticipated stage for international cultural and artistic exchanges.” According to Xiao Feige, Deputy Director of Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu has intimate dialogues with world civilizations in blockbuster exhibitions, vividly interpreting foreign tolerance The open artistic character has left an important footnote for Chengdu to build a world-famous cultural city.
This is the exhibition hall of the Biennale taken at the Chengdu Art Museum on July 16.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Wenhao
As of August 5, the “2023 Chengdu Biennale” has received a total of 106 foreign athletes from the United States, Poland, and Italy. A work called “Everyone is a Witness” is displayed in the exhibition hall. Chinese artist Sui Jianguo 3D-printed a clay sculpture of a pair of hands closed and released into a huge monster, and the palm prints under it are clearly visible when walking. The universe is infinite and bounded in the palm of your hand, just like the innocent smiling faces at the Universiade, where people of different skin colors and nationalities compete and play together, the world should be so beautiful.
(Original title: 2023 Chengdu Biennale: Leveraging the Universiade to effectively promote the display and exchange of Chinese and foreign cultures)
