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Works debut in Yuelai Public Art Exhibition

2018-11-20 10:19:30

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Have you thought a book, a cup or a key represents a story and becomes a part of art. Last weekend, the tenth work “Chongqing Yuelai Central Axis Project” of Yuelai Public Art Exhibition was finished and sealed. So far, these 10 works have been showed in the Yuelai Public Art Exhibition and will be placed around the Chongqing International Expo Center.

The work “Chongqing Yuelai Central Axis Project” sealing.

“Chongqing Yuelai Central Axis Project” sealed to show the life memory

The tenth work “Chongqing Yuelai Central Axis Project” in the Yuelai Public Art Exhibition is created by the famous contemporary artist Song Dong. Song plans to set up a “groove in central axis” of 30cm width and 50cm height whose aim is to save and exhibit all kinds of objects collected from the public. Its Phase One has been completed. Song introduced that the total length is 45m in the Phase One and can collect about 200 works.

The new and old objects sealed sooner.

“A thousand-li journey starts with the a single step. The suitcase means the section of the work is only the first beginning,” Song said.

The first thing in the groove of the “Chongqing Yuelai Central Axis Project” is an old suitcase. According to the owner of suitcase, it is a suitcase produced in 1990. It is the first “luxury” bought by her father after over 10-year life in Chongqing and the first suitcase owned by father as well. It witnesses her growth and the trace of the family in Chongqing, which is full of the memory for her father and family.

“The protagonist of the work ‘Central Axis’ is not me but the owner of objects,” Song told. The groove in central axis is collected the wired telephone integrated piano and jewelry box from the mid-1990s, key chain of Song's mother, and 2014 English listening tapes, flash lights, and combs. In the view of artists, the change and development of the past and present can be seen via these objects.

Song Dong making the work “Chongqing Yuelai Central Axis Project”.

Editor:Jiang Yiwei