Culture Beat: ‘Art Room Model’ ­exhibition in Xiamen

People explore the exhibition Photo: Courtesy of Autumn Mosaic Art Center

Art Room Model exhibition at Autumn Mosaic Art Center

The Autumn Mosaic Art Center in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, is hosting a group exhibition featuring young promising artists to present an artistic dialogue between young and veteran creators. 

The Art Room Model: From the Sky to the Earth exhibition consists of 88 oil paintings, traditional Chinese paintings, sculptures, videos and installation works. 

Most of these young promising artists have appeared on the variety show The Cosmos of Artist on Hunan TV. The exhibition aims to make visitors realize that appreciation of art can vary from person to person, that each person's own aesthetic tastes are not the same and can be different.

While popularizing art appreciation and collection for the public, the exhibition also embodies the ultimate meaning of aesthetic education: teaching everyone to think about beauty independently.

According to curators Xiao Ge and Jonas Stampe, the inspiration for this exhibition comes from the idea that art embraces the public, and explores the concept of "art destination." After the artwork is created in the artist's studio, it will not only be exhibited in art museums, galleries and other professional venues, but also at places where it can be appreciated.

Xu Mingxing, founder and curator of The Autumn Mosaic Art Center in Xiamen, said in a speech that this exhibition makes the idea of letting art enter thousands of households into a reality and echoes the art center's motto of Art for the People.

Rainforest art exhibition held in Beijing

On June 17, an amazing art exhibition, Rainforest Art Annual Exhibition, is now ongoing at the HANMO Art Center in Beijing's 798 Art Zone.

Not everyone has the opportunity in their life to go to a tropical rainforest. The nearest tropical rainforest to Beijing is located nearly 2,000 kilometers away on China's largest island of Taiwan. Other areas with tropical rainforests in China are in the Hainan, Guangdong and Yunnan provinces. China's rainforests together with the African and South American rainforests are the world's three major rainforests, all near the equator. 

Therefore, the artists have come up with a series of whimsical artistic expressions to represent the rainforest.

Rainforest artist Wang Chao specially designed a circular theme house for the exhibition, allowing visitors to have an immersive experience of the real rainforest.

Other artists launched a series of actions to reshape rainforest plants by taking over Andy Warhol's brain, replacing Matisse's dancing crowd with dancing tree frogs in the rainforest, and letting Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa wear a skirt made of rainforest creatures.

Liu Xin, originally a rock musician, stayed in the jungle for three years, recording a large number of songs from the local indigenous people, as well as recording the sounds of animals, plants and mountains in the rainforest at different times of the day.