Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

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The project intends to compose an event that functions, to some extent, in the same rhythm as the real life of this non-stop city itself. By turning into an articulated space and time of city life, By Day, By Night, or some (special) things a museum can do strives to become an integrate and even intimate part of urban society. This is where one can find the genuine relevance and coherence of the museum’s undertaking. Ultimately, this helps the newly reborn Rockbund Art Museum define its mission and its functions in the early stage of an ambitious plan through which the art space can eventually become an original institution for contemporary art and culture in Shanghai. This uniqueness, at first, can be discovered in the conceptual expansion of both the exhibition and the museum as being primarily recognized by their conventional devices of collection, representation and dissemination of existing art works, to a site of conception, production and new presentation of the works that offer opportunities for public participation and dialogue between the art world and society.

显而易见，这一计划的结果是一个展览，或更为准确的说，一个与永不停息的城市现实生活共享律动的事件。它是城市时空的升华，并被努力打造成为城市社会不可或缺的，乃至最为亲密的组成部分。最终，这将帮助这一年轻的美术馆定位其自身的使命与作用，以尽早迈上宏伟的发展之路，并最终成为扎根于城市，在城市中茁壮成长的具有原创性且独具特色的当代艺术与文化机构。这一独特性，最初即体现在展览与美术馆的使命从传统的收藏、展示、传播现成艺术作品及其相关叙述，逐步扩展成为一处集艺术作品的孕育、创作和表现于一体的场域，一个吸引公众参与、实现艺术界与社会对话的平台。