Xinmin Evening News (Reporter Le Mengrong) This afternoon, the World Expo Museum introduced a solo exhibition "Memory Story - Fiber Art Exhibition" on the eve of the New Year, expanding the temporary exhibition on the basis of the permanent exhibition, and presenting high-quality art exhibitions from overseas intensively in Shanghai.
As the annual inaugural exhibition of the World Expo Museum's "Expo Art" theme series, the exhibition uses 33 fiber installation artworks by the well-known artist Wu Fan to be displayed in six unique spaces, interpreting the connection between fiber art and nature, and guiding people's philosophical thinking about the past and the future. At the same time, the unique beauty of fiber art and the atmosphere of space art have also opened a new window for the World Expo Museum - linking contemporary art and installation art. The museum expects that Shanghai audiences will discover the installation works that have been punched out here, and they can also find the connection point between life and art.
Artist Wu Fan takes "connecting memory and the present" as a clue, using fiber materials to create, ** the contemporary significance of fiber art, and pays attention to women's emotions. The large-scale installation at the entrance of the exhibition hall is the metal fiber artwork "Flowers" created in 2022. The artist uses silk wrapping around an oval-shaped installation, like a huge silver cicada chrysalis waiting to break through its cocoon, and "Flowers" follows some primitive symbols of life such as seed germination, allowing the audience to feel the vigorous power of life; Another work, "The Theory of Square Inch", uses dioscorea to redyeing silk cotton, which is a dyeing adjunct in the middle of making Xiangyun yarn, and is often discarded after production. However, its texture, color, and wear are very varied, and it cannot be rendered by hand, and it is full of details. The defacement on the mopping floor makes this piece of art emit an unsaturated brightness, and it has a sense of time after all the vicissitudes of life. The reporter saw at the scene that at the opening moment, visitors took pictures in front of these "quite good-looking" large-scale exhibits, and in the huge exhibition hall of the World Expo Museum, large-scale installations are more likely to achieve the ideal exhibition effect.
Artist Wu Fan's exhibition uses linear materials as the carrier to explore the life force of fiber art and show the tenderness and strength of Chinese women. In the choice of materials, Chinese artists pay more attention to the connection between fiber materials and nature. The process of choosing her materials has a story to tell.
In the first temporary exhibition hall, the exhibition "The Pure Oriental - Japanese Antiquities from the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada" opened on January 26, and the museum mobilized museum-quality furnishings for this exhibition, and the lighting illuminated the cultural relics from afar. These two exhibitions will span the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon and welcome the public.
Liu Wentao, director of the Shanghai World Expo Museum, told reporters that the World Expo Museum has arranged this year's annual exhibition plan, including cooperative exhibitions with overseas famous museums, solo exhibitions of high-quality contemporary artists, digital art exhibitions and immersive light and shadow exhibitions. "In addition to the permanent exhibitions, the quality of the special exhibitions needs to be further improved to activate the vitality of these three large-scale temporary exhibition spaces. "The Story of Memories – Fiber Art Exhibition starts today in the temporary exhibition hall of the World Expo Museum and will be on display until March 31, 2024.