This project majored in an exhibition of an art gallery. Eventually presented the new exhibition of <Mountains house of Sliced Stones: Artworks of Shen Qin and Chen Qi> host by Asia Art Center. The architect, inspired by the co-exhibition of two artists, derives the concept of “Conversation” for space design. In three dialogue relations form the strategy: conversation between space and artworks define the atmosphere of space, the conversation between artworks set the paintings place, the conversation between spaces outline the wanders in Garden.
The architect holds a critical attitude to modern classic gallery space: “white cube”, which the eastern characters of artworks support this idea. Artworks shape the space, and installation intervenes with the original space. The circle and ellipse are internally tangent in the initial area, generating a visiting path like Garden, that precisely responds to the theme of exhibition <Mountains House of Sliced Stones>, a legend Yangzhou Garden from several hundred years.
The route initiated from the Garden connects the exhibition, architecture, art, and design in the fundaments of these spheres shared eastern context. The ink and white actual eastern colors create an eastern aesthetic space, the circle and square hall, the different height wall, the tunnel from wide to narrow, the area from illuminating to dark, shadows from strong to weak, and constructing the aesthetical feelings of eastern condition. In the direction of lighting and corridor, the unexpected space reminds of an imaginary of Garden, for an immersed, abstract traveling in Garden of modern art.
Each group of artworks from two artists, posited in the unique situation, series of conversation of works build the visiting route, spark the art perception and culture fields, and narrate the entire exhibition space in an extraordinary experience.
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Project name: Asia Art Center (Beijing) Space Design
Location: 798 Art District, Beijing
Clients: Asia Art Center
Architects: PLAT ASIA
Principal designer: DH Jung
Project designer: Liu Guowei, Duan Yichen
Photograph: Asia Art Center
Area: 412 square meters
Design time: March 2021
Exhibition period: April 24th – June 20th, 2021
Written by: Zhao Bingxin