上海玻璃博物馆户外艺术广场开幕
暨八周年庆
2019年6月22日
走出既有框架,寻找新生活美学
2019年6月22日,上海玻璃博物馆迈向启馆8周年纪念。为此,我们准备了一系列庆典活动,邀请来自国内外的众多艺术、设计及文化界嘉宾,以及观众们,一同庆祝并见证户外广场的华丽开幕。
继往年以“破碎”作为7周年的突破,诠释了玻璃“脆弱”及“易碎”的固有特性,极大地拓展了玻璃原有的定义和格局,联系到我们身而为人同样也有脆弱的一面。这耳目一新之作继续探索玻璃的无限可能,令观众有更切身、深刻的感受及反思。
然而在8周年,上海玻璃博物馆转往“共享社群化”这个创馆理念突破。我们一直秉持“营造并共享博物馆美学新生活”的理念,希望以玻璃为媒介,延伸至每个人的生活。人们对博物馆既有的认知都是刻板的感觉,在一个封闭空间里展示艺术珍品。因此,我们在今年走出既有的空间限制,创造了一个开放式艺术广场,颠覆以往人们对于艺术储藏馆的固有认知。这也令园区融合了博物馆艺术设计展览及园区文化休闲项目,让艺术走出博物馆,跟大众有更近距离的接触, 让他们感受到艺术从无到有的奇妙过程。同时让参与者与艺术家站在一起,引起交流与互动。
在馆庆当天,上海玻璃博物馆准备了一系列活化园区的文化表演。现代舞舞者展现了为博物馆度身定制的优美舞姿,外籍乐队弹唱了一首首动人的乐曲,小丑为孩子们编制了一个个造型气球……无论是小孩,还是大人,都不亦乐乎。而当晚在广场里,嘉宾们欢乐对谈,享受着精彩的乐队、水晶杯和热力表演。大家都流连忘返,沉醉于欢乐及轻松的氛围里。这些效果亦跟我们8周年的标题“艺游未尽”一样,意在观众参观博物馆过后,还是感觉意犹未尽。
作为8周年的突破,我们想传达艺术也可以贴近生活,亲近观众,博物馆也可以脱下严肃的面具。不只是视觉上的艺术展示,而是把艺术延伸至大众的生活,让观众多一些欢笑,多一些真实的快乐与感动。在突破的同时,不忘初心,继续用心打造新生活美学的氛围,以及向我们追求的愿景和宏大目标“成为一座影响世界的博物馆”进发。
OPENING OF ARTPLAZA AND
EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF SHMOG
June 22, 2019
Jumping outside the box, Working for aesthetic new life
On 22nd June, 2019, Shanghai Museum of Glass ushered in its eighth anniversary. We prepared a series of celebrating activities and invited guests from arts, design, and cultural sectors at home and abroad and also the public, to share this moment and witness the grand opening of our outdoor plaza.
Since last anniversary’s breaking through in “BRKN”, interpreted glass inherent properties of vulnerability and fragile. This exhibition has greatly expanded the original definition and structure of glass, and also linked to one self’s vulnerability as a human. Such brand-new work continued to explore infinite possibilities of glass and gave visitors a more personal and profound experience and reflection.
Yet, in this year, Shanghai Museum of Glass tries to break through in “sharing community” which is one of our visions. Under the principle of “Creating and Sharing Museum Aesthetic New Life”, we hope to integrate glass into everyone’s life. People usually have a typical image towards museum: inflexible and showing art pieces inside an enclosed space. Therefore, we have jumped outside the space limitation and created an outdoor plaza, in order to overturn such perception. By blending the art and design exhibitions in the museum and entertainment programs in the other areas, art can be shown even outside the museum. We can have a much closer relationship with the public, letting them to experience art from 0 to 1 and interact with artists there.
On the day of celebration, there were varies of cultural performances to revitalize the park. Elegant and tailor-made performance by modern dance performers, wonderful melody performed by foreign band, balloon modelling for kids by crown, etc., everyone was having fun here. And all guests spent a jolly and unforgettable evening together, chatting and enjoying amazing band, crystal glass and radiance glass performances, indulging in the delightful and relaxing atmosphere. Just like our headline for eighth anniversary -“Dare to be wild”, aimed at letting visitors to get in touch with the nature and interact with strangers and leave an impressive memory after visiting our museum.
Through this breakthrough, we hope to spread a message that art can be part of our life and museum is not as formal as the majority thinks. We are not just showing art visually, but also integrating art into everyday life, giving out more realistic joy and feeling to our visitors. We will stay gold at a time we are having new attempts, continue in building up atmosphere of aesthetic new life, and of course, achieving our ultimate goal of becoming an influential museum worldwide.