A few days ago, when entering K11 in Shanghai, Italian surrealist artist Giovanni Motta’s jonny boy appeared on the dome, attracting people to take a closer look with his innocent and interesting attitude. On the other side of
, the internationally renowned designer and two-time Grammy Award winner Shi Deming's first exhibition in China, "Getting Better", also opened simultaneously.
As the third K11 Art Festival kicked off, Shanghai K11 Art Shopping Center, with the theme of "Mirror" comes from the heart, brought to the public two blockbuster exhibitions at the Chi K11 Art Museum - Giovanni Motta "Children's Journey", the first exhibition of art museums in the Asia-Pacific region, and "Getting Better", Shi Deming's first exhibition in China. The two exhibitions start together, inviting you to step into the "mirror" of fantasy art.
jonny boy provided by the organizer
"Getting Better" exhibition site provided by the organizer
The organizer believes that everyone may retain the innocence of jonny boy, as well as the maturity and understanding to face the real world. Through this art festival, Shanghai K11 invites the public to experience the "mirror" of art, use the mirror as a mirror, and get a glimpse of their true heart. For this reason, Shanghai K11 places these works of art in daily life and invites the public to feel the resonance of soul and art.
Giovanni Motta's solo exhibition "Children's Journey" takes the viewer deep into the artist's inner world, following the image of the cartoon character jonny boy, and exploring the beauty of human innocence. Giovanni Motta is known for the diversity and fantastic beauty conveyed in his works, and this exhibition brings together 95 of the artist's works. Among them, dozens of creations are available for the first time, and some collection-level sculptures are released for the first time in China. The artist uniquely interprets childhood memories through various forms of presentation, including paintings, sculptures, digital images, and interactive installations. The exhibition is divided into nine major exhibition areas, including the Wonderful Land of Flight, the Flying Paradise, and the Pink Superhero Dream, allowing viewers to be immersed in the scene as if they were next to Jonny Boy, taking off with him.
Giovanni Motta provided by the organizer
The exhibition "Getting Better", which also started its journey in China with the name of "first exhibition", uses a rational perspective to bring a new series of works conceived by artist Shi Deming based on daily life experience. As a rock star in the design world, Shi Deming innovatively integrates design and data to demonstrate the positive improvement of human beings in long-term development, delivering an optimistic and inspiring message to the audience - everything is becoming better. good.
The organizer of Shi Deming provided
for this work creation. The artist used data from the United Nations and the World Bank in the past 50 to 200 years to strictly analyze various human development indicators, conduct visual innovation, and integrate them into historical paintings, Lens printing and collaborative design products on other surfaces. Dramatically increasing home ownership rates, doubling life expectancy and a huge number of museum visitors... Shi Deming accurately captures these conclusive evidences of the world's progress, conveying an inspiring message at a time when the world is still facing many important challenges. , hope for the future.
The third k11 Art Festival, with the theme of "k11 Creative Art Without Boundaries", released a new "k11 Art Festival" brand logo, and joined hands with pioneering artists from around the world and China's new local creative forces to simultaneously launch k11 online and offline at two home venues so far The largest art-themed dialogue "art talk".
poster The organizer provides
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