CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Friday, October 9, 2020 | 17 LIFE exhibition stages sixth edition

By ZHANG KUN

New from 10 coun­ tries have joined the display at Jing’an Sculpture Park, though most of the overseas artists did not manage to turn up at the sixth installment of the Shanghai Jing’an International Sculpture Project exhibition which kicked off on Sept 26. This year, 29 artists, 13 of whom are from overseas, have created 33 groups of new sculp­ tures for the event titled Reshap­ ing Space. The exhibition will last through the end of the year. This year, the JISP expanded its Above: Impression Sunrise, one of the most iconic paintings in art history, is on its debut exhibition on exhibition out of the Jing’an Sculp­ the Chinese mainland. Right: Camille on the Beach by Monet is among the pieces on show. ture Park for the first time, pre­ PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARMOTTAN MONET MUSEUM, PARIS senting sculptures at the nearby pedestrian mall on Wujiang Road, Plaza 66, as well as the campus of a primary school located across the street on Beijing Road West. “We want to engage the public and interact with the communi­ Famous Monet ties as much as possible,” says Dong Yu, head of the urban plan­ ning and resources administra­ tion of Jing’an district. To achieve this, the district has organized events such as paint­ ing competitions for students, paintings on show online photography contests, music festivals and street per­ formances that will take place throughout the exhibition. Nine paintings by impressionist master Claude Monet that Matt Hope from Britain was are rarely exhibited abroad are on show in . the only artist from overseas that attended the exhibition launch Zhang Kun reports. on Sept 26. Standing by his installations titled Air II and Air III, Hope invited visitors to touch ne of the best­known art­ shan No 1 Road East, the museum his creations and step inside the works of all time, Claude was inaugurated on Oct 1, 2019. Its works, which consist of three or Monet’s oil painting If go first exhibition featured the works more metallic globes joined Impression Sunrise is on of modern Chinese ink artist Qi Bai­ together. Inspired by the molecu­ Odisplay at the Bund One Art Muse­ 10 am­6 pm (last entry before shi. lar structure of air, Hope wants um in downtown Shanghai until 5:30 pm), Sept 17­Jan 3, 2021. Bund One Art Museum was initial­ visitors to experience the sculp­ Jan 3, 2021. Bund One Art Museum, 3F, Jiushi ly supposed to host the exhibition of ture as a space separated from Created in 1872, Impression Sun­ Art Center. No 1 Zhongshan No 1 Monet and other impressionist mas­ the outside, and feel the sound of rise depicts the rapidly changing Road East, Huangpu district, ters in March 2020, but the event was the wind, as well as witness the light and mist during sunrise at the Shanghai. postponed because of the COVID­19 sunlight leaking through a series port of Le Havre in France. The pandemic. When the epidemic came of holes on the globe. painting is one of the most trea­ under control in China, Xie learned Meanwhile, Spanish artist sured pieces of the Marmottan Mon­ Chinese organizers of the exhibition that the iconic painting, Impression Juan Garaizabal has built an et Museum in Paris and is rarely had to do everything they could to Sunrise, was available for interna­ abstract stairway leading to a exhibited abroad. make the exhibition happen. tional exhibition for a short period of steel gate standing as high as 9.5 Named after the painting, the According to Xie Dingwei, presi­ time — from mid­September to the meters. “It was an intricate crea­ exhibition features 47 pieces of art­ dent of Tix­Media Co Ltd and found­ end of the year. tion, handmade by the artist him­ work, with nine original paintings Visitors wait in a line in front the Bund One Art Museum in down­ ing director of Bund One Art Knowing that this opportunity self,” says Yang Ju, a staff member by Monet, including two from the town Shanghai for the exhibition, Impression Sunrise. Museum, Tix­Media and the Mar­ was too good to be missed, Tix­Me­ of Purple Roof Public Art, an insti­ Charing Cross Bridge series, On the PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY mottan Monet Museum began to dia joined hands with Xinhua Dis­ tution that has helped organize Beach at Trouville, Boats in the Har­ work together as early as 2014, when tribution Group to bring the the JISP since the beginning. bor at Honfleur and Falaise et Porte the former presented a collection of painting to Shanghai. “It was difficult getting a struc­ d’Amont par Gros Temps. in a historical perspective and writes about the painting. Marmottan’s paintings at an exhibi­ The old building at No 1 on the ture as high as this to stand firm­ Also on exhibition are several Jap­ reflecting its impact on today’s art­ “Making plain­air one of its chief tion at the K11 art mall, marking the Bund was built in 1916. Originally ly and safely on the ground,” anese prints that Monet and other ists. concerns, impressionism revolu­ first large­scale showcase of Monet’s named the McBain Building, the Yang says. “Once it is done, you featured artists drew inspiration Marmottan Monet Museum Paris tionized the art world.” art on the Chinese mainland. seven­story structure was later will find it blends perfectly into from, as well as paintings by such is the largest collector of Monet’s Mathieu describes the exhibition After working with established known as the Asiatic Petroleum Co the landscape surrounding it.” modern artists as Vicky Colombet works, most of which were donated as “remarkable” not only because artists for years, Xie believed Shang­ Building. The building was taken Chinese artist Liang Shaoji and Gerard Fromanger. by the artist’s son, Michel. people in Shanghai would get to see hai needed more private exhibition over by the East China Petroleum Co brought his creation of a steel These new works are in “reso­ “By giving its name to impres­ Impression Sunrise for the first time spaces that could host showcases of after 1949 and underwent a major conch, which is displayed in the nance with the impressionists in the sionism in the late 19th century, but also because the pandemic cre­ museum­level artworks. This led to restoration in 2009. Today, it is an middle of a pond in the park. modern age”, says Marianne Impression Sunrise came to sym­ ated great challenges in transport­ the establishment of Bund One Art important heritage site under State “The work is exposed to the rain Mathieu, the executive director of bolize the aspirations of a small ing the artwork. Museum, a joint project between protection. and wind, placed in a public the Marmottan Monet Museum Par­ group of artists who, in the main, Benoit Guidee, the consul general Tix­Media and Xinhua Distribu­ space. People get really close, and is, explaining that the exhibition is painted directly from the subject, of France to Shanghai, says the Mar­ tions Group. Located at Jiushi Art Contact the writer at touch it … experience art with the aimed at presenting impressionism in natural daylight,” Mathieu mottan Monet Museum and the Center on the Bund, or No 1 Zhong­ [email protected] surroundings, including the sweetness of osmanthus blossoms and cats leisurely passing by.” The Scream makes second appearance

By ZHANG KUN versary of the establishment of dip­ master oil painter but also captured lomatic relations between China If you go and depicted the “soul” in the Edvard Munch’s The Scream is and Norway, and this exhibition will monotonous black­and­white world currently on exhibition at the give viewers in this city and across of prints, according to Ma. Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum. The the whole country an up­close and 10 am­6 pm (last entry before 5:30 The Scream, for example, was a showcase will end on Jan 3, 2021. personal encounter with this pm), Monday­Sunday, Sept 25­Jan 3, lithograph print hand­colored by This is the second time the expressionist artist.” 2021. Jiushi Art Museum, 6F, 27 Munch himself. To date, only two famous artwork has been exhibited The Scream is considered one of Zhongshan No 1 Road East, copies of these hand­colored prints in China. Its first appearance was in Munch’s most famous works and Huangpu district, Shanghai. of The Scream have survived. The the Shanghai Museum in 1997. one of the most iconic in art history. other belongs to the collection of Ever Time Gate, a steel sculp­ Titled Scream & Respond, the It was once hailed by the BBC as the the Munch Museum in Oslo, Nor­ ture by Spanish artist Juan exhibition features 53 artworks and second best­known painting behind his creations, saying that “every way. Garaizabal, is shown at is the first showcase of a Western Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci. stroke of mine is laid to capture The exhibition features five sec­ Jing’an Sculpture Park. master artist at the Shanghai Jiushi Munch (1863­1944) was a pioneer those overwhelming emotions”. tions showcasing 47 prints and five PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Art Museum, which opened three of expressionism in modern art, and “Munch found a catharsis of his oil paintings by Munch. Aside from years ago. It is also the largest dis­ such is his renown that his portrait truest emotions through his art­ The Scream, the exhibition showcas­ play of Munch’s works in Asia since can be found on the Norwegian work, where he recorded his joys, es three different versions of his If you go his 2018 exhibition, Munch: A Retro­ 1,000 kroner banknote, says Ma sorrows and much of his life experi­ best­known print, The Sick Child, spective, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Zhenzheng, the Chinese curator of ence,” Ma says. and one of his best portrait prints, 8 am­10 pm, Sept 26­Dec 31. Art Museum. the exhibition. Most of Munch’s creations are The Brooch (Eva Mudocci). Jing’an Sculpture Park; 128 Munch’s masterpieces such as The “Rather than depicting the exteri­ now in museums, and the exhibits These works were created over a Shimen No 1 Road, Jing’an Scream, The Sick Child and Melan­ or world in detail or accuracy, in Shanghai come from the pri­ span of nearly 30 years starting district, Shanghai. Pedestrian choly came to Shanghai for the first Munch looked inward to explore vate Gundersen collection in Nor­ from 1895, the start of the most pro­ mall of Wujiang Road; Feng­ time in 1997, when the Norwegian human emotions and the inner way. ductive and colorful period of his sheng Li, Plaza 66. Greenland king and queen visited China. world. The inner spirit of his crea­ Munch started to experiment career, which witnessed his trans­ Park at Fengyang Road cross­ “More than two decades later, tions does more than just represent with printmaking in 1895 when he formation from, as Munch himself ing with Shimen No 2 Road; Anxiety (top) and The Scream some of Munch’s great works are the objective of the form — it breaks was 32 years old. For the next 49 described, “a cursed, restless soul and Shanghai International are among the artworks by again brought to Shanghai,” says conventions and revolts against the years until his death at Ekely in that was forced to wander and Studies University Jing’an Norwegian artist Edvard Munch Sun Donglin, director of the Shang­ naturalistic dictates to express the 1944, print was the constant medi­ would never find peace” to a man Foreign Language Primary on show in Shanghai. hai Jiushi Art Museum. soul,” says Ma. um of his creation. Munch not only who finally settled down in his School. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY “This year marks the 66th anni­ Munch himself once summarized wielded his brush with ease as a hometown of Oslo.