Dialogue, New Vision of Urban City – The Expo Public Art Exhibition
On April 29, 2021,"Dialogue, New Vision of Urban City – The Expo Public Art Exhibition"opened at the 2nd and 3rd Temporary Hall of the World Expo Museum and will last until May 29. Works exhibited adopted multidimensional forms involving multimedia, interactive video, installation art and new media, showing audience public art that integrates artistic, interactive, academic and educational features.
For the purpose of creating humanistic cities, atmospheres and lives while leaving people more public green space, the exhibition focused on four aspects including “Dialogue to Public Art”,“Expo and the Development Process of Public Art”,“Academic Forum and Dialogue between Young Artists”, etc. by four corresponding sections including “Preface”,“Genesis and Growth”,“Resonance and Reverberatioon” and “Epilogue”. Started with public art that serves the public in urban spaces, the exhibition inquired to the relationship between Expo and public art through important public art works in the World Expo history and by contemporary artists, and inspired public thinkings of World Expos, of issues on the ontology of public art, and of the relationships between public art and the Expos, urban development and lives of citizens.
Since its birth, the Expo, as an international platform of communication, has become a place for an interactive exchange between people and art. The “Dialogue, New Vision of Urban City” could be inspired by the artists’ perspective of public art, generate their thinks about the urban life and art spaces.
