Art In The City Festival
Opening: Friday, September 9 from 16:00 – 20:00
Duration: September 9 – October 18, 2016
Venue: chi K11 art museum
Art In The City does what its name says: it brings contemporary art and creativity where it belongs and where it normally doesn’t—in the streets, the shopping malls, the bars, the clubs, the offices… taking art closer to people.
Extending its duration from a week to a month and upgrading its formula to highlight more new art from China, projects, and venues, Art In The City Festival, the annual event organized by Art In The City for the past three years, takes place from September 9th to October 9th, 2016.
The Festival merges visual arts, design, fashion, music and innovation, engaging with artists and creatives, institutions, galleries and alternative spaces around the city, giving lovers of art, design, and fashion the opportunity to experience the city’s best creative energies.
The 4 main features of the Festival are:
1. The Main Exhibition Take Me Out at chi K11 art museum
2. BLAST! Multi-Venue and Multi-Platform Exhibition
3. City Art Bus and City Art Tour
4. Panel Discussions complementing the AITC special projects and exhibition
Take Me Out, text by Chao Jiaxing
The third edition of Art In The City Festival rejects conservative frameworks as it attempts to put new ones in place. The exhibition will cover a variety of creative disciplines including: visual art, design, fashion, music, and print media. Individuals of innovation, curators, art institutions, art galleries and artistic communities have all become critical components in the extension and reconstruction of our identity. It is apparent that contemporary art has come closer to the public’s daily lives and that artists’ practices have become miniature utopias, which allow creatives to expand their conceptual derivations beyond the world of art.
Whether it is exploring systems of discourse between people and society or building convenient modes of interaction with financial systems, the relationships between imaginative practices – art and the public, the and its inhabitants – is being questioned and transformed in varying degrees. These interdisciplinary cooperations have manifested in expansions of urban space and our memory of space itself. In this process everyone gains dynamic and shifting perceptions, as well as new and insightful experiences; the continuous iterations of such experiences forms a fresh urban image.
Participating Artists: Liu Bolin, Qiu Zhijie, Michael Wolf, Cai Dongdong, Chen Xi, Dai Chenlian, Huang Songhao, Linghao (Zero) Shen, Liu Ya, Liu Yujia, Inan Wang, Wang Xin, Wang Yefeng, Xu Bacheng, Xiao Bo, Zhang Lehua, Zhang Ya and Payne Zhu.
Curated by Chao Jiaxing, Davide Quadrio and Massimo Torrigiani
The Take Me Out exhibition is enriched by auxiliary shows that address the relationship between art and fashion.
In 2016, the French brand Etam celebrates its 100th anniversary. Etam President, Laurent Milchior, commemorates this milestone by working with Natalia Vodianova, Founder of Naked Heart Foundation. For the project, Etam invites international curator Magda Danysz to commission 12 artists to illustrate Women’s Independence. Following presentations in Shanghai and then Paris, the artworks will be auctioned off and all profits will go to Naked Heart, an organization that improves the lives of disadvantaged children.
In Fashion Salutes Art – Art inspires Fashion, Fashion is a form of Art, London and Shanghai-based talent agency Favotell invited 9 designers and artist Guangyu Zhang to create a fictional world following the cultural collisions and fusions associated with the concept and history of “Chinoiserie”.
Read the full Art In The City Festival press release here.
Art In The City Festival is organized by Shanghai International Culture Association and Shanghai Association of Social Economic & Cultural Exchange, co-organized by Shanghai City Brand Events & Exhibitions Ltd., K11 Art Mall and Arthub.
