Judu Lights | What is a city artist

Author: Editor -in -chief of Zhonggang Art "Bingbing Furnace ArtdBL"

Recently, we have made a forum in Shenzhen Bay, the title "What is a city artist". The background of the discussion is the current status of the art development of the city in Shenzhen and its vague features and appearances. I have a point of view on the forum. I think the development of Shenzhen may not need to follow the rules. Instead, I can try to associate with the process of shaping the urban culture. OK, walk out of your own path.

Need to be alert to the "ultra -thin state" of art

In fact, we review the development of the art and culture of Shenzhen in the past few decades. They are closely linked to the scenes of urban space, urban culture, and the city's on -site scene. For example, Shenzhen's contemporary photography, contemporary architecture, contemporary design, It is a combination of urban development with Shenzhen, and it is a testimony of urban culture at a certain stage; there are also the two -year biennale of the Shenzhen -Hong Kong City Two Cities, which are constantly "guerrillas" in different public spaces in the city and liquidity. Activate the gray areas of the city, the two -year exhibition and urban space change are closely interacting together, needed each other, and achieved each other; the number of biennial exhibitions in Shenzhen has been amazing, and regardless of its exhibition quality, but it can also be seen from it. In the city's "demand" and longing for art, it is just that this "demand" is seriously discussed, faced and responded, or is grabbed by short -level opportunists. It is the issue that Shenzhen needs to distinguish and respond.

Most of the artists in Shenzhen also seem to be an restless actor. Their work not only happened in the studio, but also not only limited its own work situation in the white box space. Shenzhen artists will be very common in urban public space. In the activation of space, even many artists have started the link and organization of the planner. I don't think they take the initiative and intentionally to transfer their work from the studio to the urban public space, but that they are naturally involved in the content of the urban public space. At the stage, you need to adapt to the conversion of the character, and you need to face new problems and challenges. An important feature of Shenzhen is that driven by the spirit of efficiency, many plans and concepts can be implemented quickly, and its impact will also be quickly displayed. Shenzhen artists are also part of the city's efficiency production process.

We have tried to compile a collection of Shenzhen Art Review "Shenzhen Dizziness". In the process of searching the information, it was found that the city has changed too much and rushed. Combing and summarizing, rarely study and reflect, this will lead to the lack of a solid foundation for the cultural construction of the city, and the more and more we work. This is what we need to be vigilant when discussing "urban artists".

Therefore, some people always think that Shenzhen's culture and art are "ultra -thin state", but I think that Shenzhen is going to change, and the speed will be amazing. For example, we discuss Shenzhen art and Shenzhen artists four or five years ago. There is no interest, but now, Shenzhen is already an emerging art market that has attracted much attention. The influence of Shenzhen artists and Shenzhen art institutions has gradually expanded. Today's Shenzhen is no longer an airport of contemporary art, but is trying to make its own voice.

"Urban Artist" should not be a declaration, but a new world worthy of reclamation, cultivation and softness.

You need to get involved in a more anxious and restless scene

I have always believed that Shenzhen not only created economic achievements, but at the same time, in urban development, Shenzhen was designed and built according to the model of the ideal city. In the process of building the city's infrastructure, a large number of high -quality public spaces were created. Shenzhen's urban civilization, urban culture, and public spirit are all related to the idea of ​​urban public space. People in Shenzhen like to go out and be keen to go to urban public space movement, picnic, camping and outing. Public cultural needs have been generated during the content production process of public space, and this demand is very strong and anxious. The public aspect of urban culture will also make the artist can't get to sit in the studio. Just face himself, he needs to intervene in a more anxious and agitated scene.

Shenzhen is also a city in a public sense. Its cultural development is naturally associated with public space and public culture. Shenzhen artists are easily driven by a cultural needs of a public space, thereby building a public culture of the city. For example, when we discuss the topic of urban artists at No. 1 Shenzhen Bay, we will not forget that this is considered to be the ceiling of Shenzhen house prices, but how it becomes the ceiling of urban culture, the output value, and the "flow velocity" that affects the urban culture. This requires this requirement. The intervention of culture and art requires choices and judgments of the current culture. Shenzhen Bay is now a place in the sense of landscape. How does it become the coordinates in the cultural and artistic sense, and is it a question that Shenzhen is going to consider? If you compare it with West Lake, can Shenzhen Bay nourish and affect a city like West Lake?

Need a "my city" love and public heart

The artist opens the studio and works in the context of the city. It does not mean that the artist has become a urban activist. I think that the city must release the demand and soberly to determine what the real demand is and what the city's future needs. Whether some demand is just a "higher, faster and stronger" development desire, whether it is just making a "skin phase", without the long -term construction and deposition. This actually tests Shenzhen, and also tests public institutions such as the Shenzhen Art Museum and Research Institute. Can they play the role and value of the "cultural foundation"? Explaimed and spread. If there is no work for urban cultural infrastructure (the basic work here is not building a house, but refers to the cultivation and improvement of people, refers to the sorting of literature, cases and special research and display, public collection, and education innovation If there is no kind of "my city" love and public heart, urban artists will only become "project artists" and urban art will become "urban projects". When you go on this way, Shenzhen will only become a gold -rushing place in the name of art, and the final income of the city's culture is to fall into a deserted mountain that mines empty.

Therefore, we must pay attention to the characteristics of Shenzhen culture and art development, to do the trend, we also need to be vigilant, and with historical judgment and future forward -looking, in the process of rapid shaping of urban culture, carefully build it carefully to build it carefully The foundation and structure must not be stereotyped nor the wind.

Source | Jingbao APP

Edit: Chen Jianguo

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