The 2017 Xiamen International Design Week "Beyond Architecture" special exhibition opens today!

Time: 2017-11-11 23:41 | Source: Sohu.com

Architects, designers, artists

The interweaving of circle cultures in contemporary life

Let the definition of identity

no longer satisfy the fields it affects

Architects are involved in design and practice in more diverse fields

Seen as "beyond architecture"

Similarly, designers' "beyond design"

Artists' "beyond art"

The issues they focus on and study are constantly expanding

Each of them has exported new ideas to other fields

Together connects to a wider range of creation and innovation

The beauty of art from this multi-perspective

The Art Museum will soon present

"Beyond Architecture" 2017 Xiamen International Design Week Special Exhibition

Curator

Exhibition Period

2017.11.11-11.25

Address

Exhibition Hall on the second floor of the Art Museum, Xiamen North Shore Art District

|Exhibition Preface|

Beyond Architecture, Beyond Design

Gu Zhenqing

The stones from other mountains can polish jade. Artistic practices beyond architecture and design can enable architects and designers to overcome the limitations of technical knowledge and lead to the continuous growth and renewal of practical knowledge. The production capacity and production experience gained by artists in the field of practical art functions have also become a way to draw inspiration for constantly activating, reflecting on, and correcting technical practices. Thinking and reflection, understanding and enlightenment can be obtained from the construction and deconstruction experience across eras and cultures, and even more from cross-border and cross-layer creative practices.

The formal languages ​​of various arts and the skills of various craftsmen are becoming the dry goods and toys of super players beyond architecture and design in the cross-border experience of architects, designers, artists, and craftsmen. The human languages ​​in the fields of architecture, design, art, and handcraft are no longer clearly divided, but blended with each other. In a broad sense, there are architecture and design beyond architecture and design. Besides architecture and design, all kinds of graphic art and spatial art that can be summarized into forms, rules and rules can also be architecture and design.

Beyond architecture and design, all things constitute ideal landscapes in the rational world of truth, goodness and beauty of human beings, reflecting tangible and intangible space, and echoing concrete and abstract art. All things have their own rules and forms for growth. This kind of rules and forms are purely natural and are natural construction methods. The ecological development of architecture and design is becoming increasingly close to and condescending to people's daily needs. Contemporary architecture and contemporary design are no longer as high and independent as geometricism, but have warmth, temperament, and are closer to human nature. Architecture and design are becoming an extension of human limbs, like a chair and a coat. The artificial order outside of architecture and design has the openness and sustainability of excluding various industry boundaries, cultural barriers and time and space barriers, and is infinitely close to the laws and rules of organic ecology.

The unique artistic contribution formed by the cross-border space beyond architecture and design is constantly being integrated into the text and context of contemporary society, complementing the symbolic and metaphorical system of contemporary art, and demonstrating a kind of knowledge production and humanistic progress in today's globalized society.

This "Beyond Architecture" art exhibition invited more than 60 (groups) of international and domestic architects, designers and artists to draw inspiration from the creative practice of cross-border space and cross-layer fields, and to let their imagination fly. The talented works attempt to explore and revive the Chinese genes, roots and subjectivity of contemporary humanistic society from multiple perspectives, and show the diversity of contemporary art expression, presentation and dissemination methods.。

Part | Participating | Works |

The "female devil" in the construction industry

Zaha Hadid is known as the "devil lady" in the architectural world, and her works outside of architecture are also full of magic.

Zaha Hadid – NOVA shoes

Zaha Hadid - Niche Snack Tray/Candy Tray

The ideal chair from a master

The "Dream Chair" designed by the architectural master Tadao Ando fully embodies the combination of its simple geometric expression and organic materials, presenting modern Japanese streamlined lines and Nordic style.

Tadao Ando - Dream Chair

The Caluselli Chair designed by Jolio Cuccapoulo pays particular attention to ergonomic features. In addition to paying attention to ecology, highlighting technology and modern materials, his designs have strong planar forms and very special contours.

Jolio Kuccapuro - Caluselli Chair

Arno Jacobsen's Swan Chair has a smooth and elegant appearance. It can easily interpret the warm Nordic style or the modern and simple trend.

Concave and convex and hollow

The combination of concave and convex, as well as the contrast of shapes and the mottled light and shadow brought by the hollowing out, give things another changeable way of existence.

Chan Chin Fai - Concave and convex geometry

Chen Zhanhui - Concave and convex tables and lamps

Song Gang - Rockery Bubbles

Song Gang - Vessel Bubbles

Arandalesh - Carved Tea Table

Campana Brothers - Explosion Series - Magazine Rack

Unraveling the Mountains and Constructing Water

The mountains, rivers, trees and stones in nature, through the artificial transformation and deconstruction of "unnatural", generate new concepts and aesthetics. The fusion of nature and unnaturalness breaks the viewer's previous established thinking about natural things, thus discovering the charm brought by creativity itself.

Feng Guoan - High Mountains and Long Rivers

He Jianxiang - Soft and Hard Scenery

Ma Yansong - Fish Tank (Photographer Hiroshi Yoda Copyright MAD Architects)

Ding Wei - Rockery No. 1, Cube

Zhang Yonghe - A Piece of Lotus (left), Ma Qingyun - Soft Things (right)

Wang Hao - Red Garden, Floating Red

Zhu Jingyi - Flying Stone

Wang Yonggang - Taihu Huashi

Wang Zhiqiang - Gold Bricks from Bricks to Stones

Wang Feng - Flowers and Birds

Hu Youben - Blue Stone, White Stone, Red Stone

Life and Reincarnation

Life is a never-ending cycle, and reincarnation is the continuation of infinite life. Whether it is architects, designers, or artists, the thinking about life is never absent in their works.

Feng Feng - Every object is alive

He Haoyuan - Reincarnation and Return

White Night - Eternal Return

Contemporary Philosophy and Criticism

The artists' reflections on contemporary life present their own tendencies and temper our senses in non-standard and unconventional forms.

Chen Wenqin - Stories within Stories

Works by Xu Xinwu

Cai Yixiu's lacquer works

Luo Brothers——Welcome, welcome

Sui Jianguo——MADE IN CHINA

Zhou Shaobo——Fighting products, direction products

Fu Xinmin - Frozen Landscape No.11

Works by Tengnuo Group

Design for life

What is design? This is a simple yet complex question. Putting aside professional concepts and definitions, design is to make life better, no matter in the past, present or future.

Vic Magistretti - Rotating Table Lamp

Shen Wenjiao - Light of the Red Moon

Lidaxin Innovation Design Center——Baopu-PE

Yan Chengxun - Cement Stool

Xue Zhong - Bamboo Bicycle

Liu Jun - Wei Feng

Zhou Qiyue - Official Hat Chair in His Forties

Chen Hongyan - Steel Wire Sofa

Esther - Terrace Sofa Chair

Sun Shaochuan - Arhat Chair

Hitoshi Kuramoto - Boshi Arena

Wang Chenglong + Liu Lingchen - "The Eternity of Memory" Clock

Li Feng - Broken Bridge and Remaining Snow Celadon Incense Table

Jean Nouvel - Tea and Coffee (left), Shanshan - Orthogonal Combination Series Tableware (right)

From left to right: Cao Xiaoxin - Ruyi cup and pot set, Cheng Dapeng - thigh cup and heart teapot, Czech architect Rudolf Stockar coffee pot set

From left to right: Aldo Rossi - Konica Triangular Teapot, Michael Graves - Birdsong Pitcher, Frank Gehry - Pitot Pitcher, Arne Jacobsen - Teapot

Alvar Aalto - Safvar Vase

Alessandro Mendini - Pepper Grinder, Anna Bottle Opener

SANAA Architecture Office - Sugar Bowl and Milk Bowl Set

The geometric beauty of architecture

Modern building materials and structural technology make many conceptual designs possible. Each building can try to be different, with a variety of forms, shapes and lines.

Zhang Zhiyang - Ji Xianlin Library of Ya'an Experimental Primary School

Zhu Xiongyi + Wang Zhaoming - Shenzhen National Gene Bank

Zhu Xiongyi - China Pavilion at the World Expo

Chen Weihang - Changzhi Urban and Rural Planning Exhibition Hall

Chen Weihang - Changzhi Urban and Rural Planning Exhibition Hall (Alibaba)

Zhu Xiaofeng——Villagers' activities in Jintao Village

Zhang Jianheng - Vanke Cloud/Tianhe Vanke Software Park

Liu Tengjia - Shenzhen Yantian District Library Media Center

Chen Shouheng - Xiangyunsha Museum

|About "Beyond Architecture"|

"Beyond Architecture" was initiated and promoted by architects such as Chen Zhanhui, founding partner of Think Tank, Dai Chun, senior editor of Time Architecture, Peng Lixiao, director of CBC China Architecture Center, and Li Hui, founder and chief designer of Fengyuzhu, and Chen Zhanhui is the chief planner of the cross-border practice research of architects. It is a creative platform for the interaction between architecture and art, design, film, music, dance and other fields. It is a social movement that returns to the origin and starts from life from the perspective of architects. Since the first exhibition of Today Art Museum on December 21, 2013, Beyond Architecture has successfully held 43 exhibitions in professional institutions in 15 cities in China, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, the United States, Canada and other countries, and famous art festivals including Venice Architecture Biennale, Beijing Design Week, Chengdu Blue Roof Art Festival, Frankfurt Home & Kitchen Expo, Dubai Design Week, Shanghai Design Week, New York Design Week, etc., with a total of more than 600 exhibitors and more than 800,000 on-site visitors.

In 2015, the first Beyond Architecture Art Museum was established in Shanghai. In 2016, the Beyond Architecture WeChat Auction was launched and stationed in Vancouver and Xi'an. Beyond Architecture has created the first new academic, exhibition, gallery, auction, research and development, and incubation system for cross-border exchanges and cross-border creativity among architects.

The Beyond Architecture Project is a microcosm of architects’ secondary entrepreneurial innovation during China’s period of upheaval and transformation. It is another outlet for architects’ social ideals and humanistic care, and a practitioner of “going out and bringing in” under the “Belt and Road” blueprint.