China News Service, Beijing, December 24th (Reporter Gao Kai) In 2012, the Jinji Lake Art Museum made a stunning debut in Suzhou. By 2022, there will be more than 50 exhibitions, more than 300 sessions of public education, more than 260 collections, and more than 400 Chinese and foreign guests. The impressive performance of artists participating in and receiving more than 1 million audiences has helped them stand proudly in the south of the Yangtze River.

  "As a public welfare and non-profit art museum, it mainly focuses on research, planning, exhibition and collection of domestic and foreign classic art and contemporary art works, and focuses on international art exchanges and education promotion activities. Through international and regional, academic Combining the development ideas of innovation and popularity, we will create a major brand of cultural and artistic services in the park.” Yin Weidong, the former director of Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, the current deputy director of the Propaganda and United Front Work Department of Suzhou Industrial Park, and the director of the Park Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, said.

Dali's Feast - Photo provided by the exhibition of the Spanish art master Dali

  In May 2012, the large-scale contemporary art exhibition "The Crossing of Memory" curated by well-known curator Feng Boyi, with 49 contemporary artists and a total of 97 works, was unveiled at Jinji Lake Art Museum, officially opening its interpretation of traditional oriental aesthetics with modern narrative logic , The multi-development road of extending the vision of urban art through international forward-looking dialogues.

  During the three-month exhibition period, the exhibition successfully attracted more than 30,000 visitors, and the highest number of visitors in a single day was nearly 1,500, which was well received by the public, experts and peers.

Self·Peony Pavilion—Photo courtesy of the Exhibitor of the Contemporary Art Exhibition

  The success of the first exhibition has verified the basic positioning of Jinji Lake Art Museum facing the contemporary era: adhere to the idea of ​​combining internationality and regionality, academicity and popularization, and cooperate with first-class international and domestic artists and art institutions. Metropolis, City and People”—Exhibition of Top Works of Portuguese Artist José Guimaraes, Mirrors and Images Beyond Image—Singapore Contemporary Art Exhibition, Made in Britain—Art of Teacher and Student of British Artist John Atkin Design Exhibition, China and Norway: "Beyond Form" as a Ceramic Medium, Garden Spectacles - Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Dali's Feast - Special Exhibition of Spanish Artist Dali, Self·Peony Pavilion - Contemporary Art Exhibition... It is easy to exhibit in turn, just like changing scenery step by step, recreating the universe within a short distance.

  Wang Chunchen, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a well-known critic and curator, said that the many exhibitions held by Jinji Lake Art Museum in the past ten years have set a good example among domestic counterparts: "Their exhibition period is three months, which guarantees To be honest, many art museums in China cannot do this.” He has cooperated with Jinji Lake Art Museum for many exhibitions in the past ten years, and he looks forward to further cooperation with Jinji Lake Art Museum in the future There will be better cooperation and communication, and I wish the Jinji Lake Art Museum can cooperate more with art institutions at home and abroad to form more exhibition series and brands: "It is our responsibility to jointly make the art museum a good one, which is China's need and also Art needs."

Where is Jiangnan—Photo provided by the exhibitors of Chen Yifei and Chen Yiming's works exhibition

  In addition to exhibitions, some large-scale projects have infinitely magnified the social functions of Jinji Lake Art Museum.

Tan Jie, director of Jinji Lake Art Museum, talked about the highly acclaimed "Suzhou·Jinji Lake Biennale". This project relies on the foundation of Wu culture, focuses on national resources, and focuses on international exchanges. It aims to interpret the spirit of the city and highlight the image of the city.

It has been held for five consecutive sessions since 2012. Through continuous cultural practice, the cultural characteristics and urban spirit of Suzhou's "double-sided embroidery" have been further inherited and carried forward. The integrated development of culture, sports and exhibition industries has played a positive role.

In the whole Biennale project of Jinji Lake Art Museum, on the one hand, the self-series trilogy exhibition with Jiangnan cultural elements as the curatorial idea is one of the theme exhibitions of the Biennale; The executive unit undertakes the overall opening ceremony, academic forum, solicitation of parallel exhibitions, recruitment of volunteers, and third-party evaluation.

  In addition, Jinji Lake Art Museum has also held many public education projects. Since 2017, it has held five consecutive sessions of "Art into the Community" to carry out a series of activities such as public artwork creation, art lectures, teaching training, and work exhibitions; With the superior resources of Shuhu Library and Jinji Lake Art Museum, we creatively create a characteristic physical space that integrates the functions of "reading + aesthetic education"—Ome SPACE; Art brands such as theaters have launched more than 50 "Qingmei Space Culture and Art Season" series activities covering art, music, dance, reading and other cultural and artistic forms, all of which are deeply and persistently connected with the most active contemporary art forces.

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