On the banks of Su River, Wang Xiaohui Art Museum opened today: No one can refuse this hot art kiss

On the banks of the Suzhou River, near the entrance of Weining Road Metro Station, a new four -story building is added. The red lips "sculpture, it is difficult to not make people look up. This building is the Wang Xiaohui Art Museum, which opened the museum today, and Shanghai's first imaging art museum. The eye -catching "flames and red lips" are the masterpiece of the famous travel artist Wang Xiaohui, "The Kiss of Art". The "red children" sculpture that "sit" on the eaves is inspired by Wang Xiaohui's masterpiece "Red Children" series of "sitting". They flew in the air and overlooking each visitor.

Although Shencheng already has nearly a hundred art galleries, people can still feel the uniqueness of Wang Xiaohui Art Museum. This is to integrate art with architecture and seamlessly connect art and life. Here, the participation and interaction of art are deeply impressed -no one can refuse the invitation initiated by the hot art kiss.

It is not so on for the future, it is better to embrace the audience

In the future, Wang Xiaohui Art Museum will target images and digital arts to present the most "new" artistic expression of the industry. If it is positioned, on the one hand, Wang Xiaohui believes that art needs to keep pace with the times, and on the other hand, it has no connection with her own artistic experience -for thirty years, Wang Xiaohui has traveled to photography, video, new media, sculpture, installation, etc. Between the art media, the boundaries of art are constantly breaking the art of art, only to the most properly transmitted inner feelings. Indeed, many works can be seen in the museum blend with sound and photoelectric and adapt to artificial intelligence. However, it is not so much to catch up with the trend, it is better to embrace the audience. The blessing brought by technical means is to let art break the wall and connect more widely.

"10,000 dreams" red silk wire device

The display space of more than 2,000 square meters of Wang Xiaohui Art Museum is not large, but it is like a comprehensive art work carefully crafted by the artist. Although some Italian designers joined, Wang Xiaohui still participated in the design of the entire museum. Like his own home, from design to construction, from soft installation to exhibition, from color to lighting, many subtle places do it yourself, and strive to take art to artistic art. The aesthetics penetrate into every corner. This artwork is vitality. Only in the experience of the audience, it was finally completed in the interaction between the audience and the artist. In Wang Xiaohui's opinion, art itself leads future life. At the moment of abundant material and technological development, she believes that the key to improving the quality of life lies in art. For the viewing experience, it is necessary to stimulate imagination and creativity to make life better. "

Different colors of stairs are suitable for check -in, which is also the health concept advocated by Wang Xiaohui Art Museum. Do not take the elevator to walk the stairs

Outside the exhibition hall of Fang Fang, there are many unexpected art eggs in the exhibition hall. For example, if you do n’t take the elevator to change the stairs, people will marvel at the “color lighting corridor” that the staircase is dazzling. On the fruit green wall, the projection of light makes them look full and pleasant. The toilet on the third floor is transformed into a quiet and dreamy "water space". The blue partitions are undulating like waves, and Wang Xiaohui's photography "Yin" and "Yang" hanging on the walls. The first floor of the exhibition hall is equipped with "Kiss of Art" theme cafe. In the future, the museum will also open a night market and gradually open the top garden space to the public. This art museum, which hides a scene in three or five steps and punching in everywhere, is a proper influence on the influence of the Internet.

"Water Space" is actually the toilet

Mobilize people's interest in art with participation and interaction

Not only the exhibition hall itself, the works in this container have also practiced Wang Xiaohui's artistic concept -to mobilize the audience's interest in art with participation and interaction.

One type of work has emphasized interaction. In the exhibition hall on the third floor, dozens of recycled old TVs form a huge TV wall, which shows the smiley face and dream of the dreamer. This is Wang Xiaohui's "10,000 Dreams" and "10,000 Smile Face" art devices. Twelve years ago at the Shanghai World Expo, the artist and 10,000 young people jointly created a large -scale behavior art called "10,000 Dreams", allowing everyone to express their dreams in their hearts through painting, photography and videos. On the eve of the opening of the museum, during the Shanghai epidemic, Wang Xiaohui continued to create "10,000 smiley faces", soliciting a smiley face to make the smile heal the pain, expanded like ripples, and passed the warmth and hope to millions of millions People in the heart. Today, many ordinary people have become the participants and creators of the work in this special way.

10,000 dreams, 10,000 smiley faces

Another type of work allows technology to empower and inject interaction into the work. The "Nine Lives 3.0" device that occupies the area of ​​the nearly half -exhibition hall on the first floor is one. In the middle is a large large lotus puff made of green glazed. The outer circle is projected by multimedia to the life of the lotus, and the dragonfly dances. You move your steps. Such new media art is obviously different from the display of traditional art. Behind the interesting interaction, Wang Xiaohui's philosophy is actually hidden. She wanted to explore the relationship between life and death by lotus -lotus seeds were dead, lotus seeds were familiar, lotus seeds dried in the water, and then the lotus grew, how to form a cycle of death and new life. "Nine Lives 3.0" device

Interestingly, at the time of opening the museum, the Wang Xiaohui Art Museum also specially released a limited number of art collections with special significance -the "first kiss" derived from "Kiss of Art", which is engraved on the blockchain The NFT method allows people to enjoy a unique "art kiss", and starts to start the art journey of the universe.

Wang Xiaohui deeply felt that the artist had a certain social responsibility, and wanted to make his art works as much as possible to perceive and understand the public. In her opinion, once they participate, people will feel that art is not related to himself, unlike the past as he was worshiped as high as the past, it can look like. "Even if people show interest or appreciation at the shallow level, it also proves the success of art works in spreading; even if it comes to the art museum to check in or take pictures, it is also a connection with art."

Wang Xiaohui and her sculpture "Fruit of Life"

Interview Wang Xiaohui >>>>>>

Wen Wei Po: There are many art galleries in Shanghai. What kind of recognition will this Wang Xiaohui art museum form up with them? Positioning image art, what does it mean?

Wang Xiaohui: There are many large art museums in Shanghai, which requires 10,000 or 20,000 square meters. In terms of volume, our museum cannot be compared with them. But our characteristics are related to my personal creation. I am a very cross -border artist. Creation is mainly concentrated in image and digital art. Since more than ten years ago, I have played lighting art, virtual reality, air imaging, three -dimensional imaging, and alien screen projection. I started to contact new media art very early, which is very close to technology. Unlike traditional artists, I can complete Essence

The combination of art and technology is in line with the trend of advancing with the times. I think art itself also leads future life. In the future, material life will become more and more developed. The development of technology has allowed various physical labor to be replaced by artificial intelligence. How to make life more quality, I personally feel that it can be improved by art. Art can be the soul of the future lifestyle.

Wang Xiaohui Art Museum's cafe

Wen reporting: You said that the art museum is not just a physical space, it is a life of life. The art museum is only finally completed in the experience of the audience and the interaction between the audience and the artist. So what are the interactions with the audience in this Wang Xiaohui art museum?

Wang Xiaohui: Yes, I pay attention to interaction. This interaction has two meanings. First, many of my works have emphasized interaction from the creative process. For example, "10,000 Dreams" 12 years ago gathered the results of public participation. This project was originally called the 2010 Dream Plan at the time. I planned to collect the dream of 2010. I did not expect that the public’s enthusiasm could not stop the car. More than 6,000 people and 8,000 people. In the end, it was because the exhibition was about to open. No stop collection. The second is the interaction caused by technology to work. Just like the "Nine Shengsheng 3.0" devices on the first floor, when you go, the dragonfly will fly with you, you go fast, the dragonfly walks fast, when many people are gist, the dragonfly will dense. It is to capture your message with radar. These technical interaction, we call it new media art. There are many exhibitions such as immersive and interactive exhibitions, which are different from traditional art.

Such works can enhance the public's interest in art. Once participating, people will feel that art is not related to themselves, unlike the past as the past, as good as the past, for everyone to admire -but that way is also very good, there are many things that need to be done. But I think this era has developed. If you want many people who are not interested in art, you pay attention to it. I think even if people come to the art museum to check in, it is also an interaction.

In this museum, we designed the toilet as "water space". Everyone is willing to go in or even take a picture here. These are what everyone likes to hear, all interaction, making people feel that art is related to themselves, it doesn't matter if you don't understand.

I think artists have certain social responsibility. The more content people can understand, the more resonance. This is the important point that I think visual art spread is, that is, to make everyone understand, even part of the understanding. Of course, the level of artistic understanding is different. Our aunt, an old lady, came to see my exhibition specifically. She would say that your things are pretty good. Although I don't understand, I feel particularly good -looking and willing to take a picture. When our aunt came, she also wore a gauze skirt. She usually wore pants to work. I never saw her so beautiful. She said that I was going to check in. Aunt like this, she may not understand the meaning of life philosophy and social criticism in your art, but she appreciated from the shallow level, which also proves the success of the spread -communication can have various levels of levels of various levels. spread. So I personally think that the audience's love and participation are particularly important. Wang Xiaohui sculpture masterpiece "LOVE", can also be seen in the Shanghai Grand Theater Hall

Wen Wendao: You have been engaged in art creation for thirty years, and the subject matter and media involved are particularly extensive. Is there any consistent theme or the core you want to express?

Wang Xiaohui: I summarized it myself, which should be life, death and love. In fact, there is a proposition of philosophical, that is, where you come from, where you go, where you go, life and death. I have experienced two very close people who died when they were very young, and suddenly suddenly, without psychological preparation. For example, many people know that I pat the flowers, and I ’m also shooting flowers’ life, the death of the flowers, the process of the flow of flowers, and using flowers to represent life.

Wen report: You seem to like the image of flowers, especially the image of the lotus. What kind of origin or story is there?

Wang Xiaohui: I have been looking for a medium that can express the relationship between life and death. I think the lotus is the most suitable. Every death brings a new life, the lotus is dead, the lotus seeds are ripe, the lotus seeds are dry and falling into the water, and the lotus flowers grow again, that is, death and the new life in a cycle, so I called it " Nirvana.

Stainless steel lotus outside the museum

Wen Wenda: What do you think of the darkness on the journey of life brings to your artistic creation? In the face of suffering, what is the role of art?

Wang Xiaohui: I think art can save me, or it may be able to save many people. Not necessarily everyone can be saved, but I believe that art can have a healing effect. No art is definitely impossible for me today. Of course, there are many reasons for personality. In terms of personality, I think I may also be influenced by my mother. My mother and I said, "Only when the bicycle will not fall when riding." No matter how difficult you are, you have to go forward. Only then.

Wenhui Po: Opening the museum, you choose to cooperate with the famous Spanish artist Francisca Marty to bring the Dreaming Exhibition. What do you think of your art and her art?

Wang Xiaohui: There are many things in common with Marty. They are all women, with similar age, many experiences, Marty has lost her loved ones. She is an orphan very young. We all rely on art to treat injuries. We are also more international. I mainly between Germany and China. She is between Sweden and Spain, and the differences between Northern Europe and South Europe are also very large. More importantly, I think our creative themes are very similar. The themes we are paying attention to include women, children, personal self -relief, identity, immigration, and so on. Our creative methods are also sampled and cross -border, such as photography, video, new media, sculpture, device, jewelry design, art derivatives design.

Wang Xiaohui and Marty

Author: Fan Xin

Edit: Guo Chaohao

Editor in charge: Xing Xiaofang

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