The opening of the exhibition "Future Anthropocene"
On August 16, 2024, the Chongqing Times Art Museum ushered in the opening of the "Future Human Chronicle" art exhibition. This exhibition shows the cross -border of art and technology. It is not only a display of visual and thought, but also an important step in the development of the art ecosystem of the Sichuan -Chongqing region. On the same day, Chengdu and Chongqing of Times Art Museum announced that they would join the Chengdu -Chongqing Economic Circle Art Museum Alliance together, and they will be the first member of the rotating presidium. They will continue to pay attention to and promote the development of the Sichuan -Chongqing art ecosystem.
Driven by the wave of digitalization, the cross -border integration of art and technology has become an important trend of contemporary art development. The "Future Humans" exhibition hosted by the Chongqing Times Art Museum is precisely a vivid embodiment of this trend. The exhibition was planned by Professor He Guiyan, the director of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Museum and curator, and brought together five representative artists from five Chinese contemporary art fields, including Miao Xiaochun, Liu Zhan, Tian Xiaolei, Tong Kunbird, and Zhang Zhen. The artistic language and creative techniques jointly discussed and demonstrated the future development direction of human beings in the face of scientific and technological progress, social changes and environmental challenges.
At the opening scene, focusing on the theme of "Article of the Number and Smart Era", the artist and guests launched a round table dialogue and shared their creative concepts and artistic practice under the influence of digital and intelligent technology. Essence The interaction between the artist and the public has given the audience a deeper sense of participation.
Roundtable Dialogue on the Theme of “Art Experiments in the Digital and Intelligent Era”
The exhibition works are rich in diversity. From digital projection images to sculpture, from the shelf to 3D printing consumer goods, to machine devices, artists use a variety of media and forms to show their diverse imagination and deep insights on the future world. Essence Miao Xiaochun's "Gyro Dance" series of works, the visual effects full of metaphors and multiple narratives through digital human body. Liu Zhan's "United Manufacturing" revealed the enlargedness of people's desires in the context of numbers and intelligence in the context of the era of numbers and the control phenomenon of "commodity worship" through 3D consumer goods and neon lamps full of plastic sense.
Exhibition site at Chongqing Times Art Museum
The spirit of interdisciplinary exploration was fully reflected in this exhibition. Tong Kunbird's work combines painting with machine devices, showing the possibility of "combination of human -machine" in the future state, and presents the audience a future world full of humor, drama and deconstruction style. Tian Xiaolei's "Myth" series and "Grand Paradise" have discussed the future scene of coexistence and space intertwined with machines with machines with their unique artistic language.
Exhibition site at Chongqing Times Art Museum
Deep speculation is also the core of this exhibition. Artists not only attract the audience through shocking visual effects, but also use their profound speculation and prediction to systematically discuss the future state of human survival, science and technology, and social growth. Zhang Zhen's "Phenomenon Class: Alien Theater Cross -Future Rearies" shows a scene that is baptized and lonely by the information and technology era. We may be occupied by science and technology and information.
Exhibition site at Chongqing Times Art Museum
The Times Art Museum was founded in Beijing in 2008. It always takes the purpose of "paying attention to the humanistic movement of the times and promoting the cultural innovation of the times". "Art and Technology", three themes of the exhibition, build a bridge between contemporary art and public dialogue. The Times Museum of Art continued in the Period of the Art Museum in Chengdu and Chongqing in 2019. In the practice of contemporary art creation, it pays special attention to the art ecosystem of the Sichuan -Chongqing area. The Sichuan -Chongqing area has a rich artistic soil and a strong artistic atmosphere, which makes artists maintain strong vitality and activity in the practice of contemporary art creation.
In recent years, Times Museum of Fine Arts and Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts has organized a number of cross -border exhibitions. In academic research and various art programs, Sichuan Mei has received strong support and help. The linkage of Beijing, Chengdu, and Chongqing has realized the interoperability of exhibition resources and artist resources. The Chongqing Pavilion has held a cross -media exhibition of "Situation". Artists try to find the answers to art and life with temperature, touch daily or physical mediums with a touch of daily or physical medium; The exhibition shows the artist's exploration of reality and virtual boundaries, and has also triggered the audience's thinking about the integration of art and technology; the cross -border exhibition of "Strange Land", with "light" as its core creative element, presents a rare one. Global art feast. The Chengdu Pavilion held a cross -media contemporary art exhibition "New Species: Remaining and Reduction". From cross -border angles such as realistic issues, social ecology, technical control, and artistic criticism to comprehensively expand the ideological perspective of contemporary art. The Beijing Pavilion has exhibited scientific and artistic cross -border exhibitions such as "Asian Digital Art Exhibition" and "Star River Corner · Bu Tiange", which has attracted much attention. Last year, "The Corner of the Star River · Bu Tiange" in Beijing is currently exhibited in the Chengdu Pavilion. Tong Kunbird, an artist who participated in the "Future Human Chronicle", is also displaying his works in the Beijing Pavilion's "Return".
Exhibition site of "Corner of the Galaxy·Song of the Sky"
Tong Kunniao exhibited his work "Internal Consumption Team" in "The Encore Era"
With the opening of the "Future Anthropocene" exhibition and the active actions of the two museums in Chengdu and Chongqing in the Art Museum Alliance, Times Art Museum is injecting new vitality into the art ecology of Sichuan and Chongqing with its unique perspective and actions. Through the joint efforts of this exhibition and the Art Museum Alliance, it will inspire more thinking and exploration about the future and jointly draw a new chapter in the art ecology of Sichuan and Chongqing.
