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Moon River Sculpture Festival: The Origin

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The Moon River Museum of Contemporary Art (MR MoCA) is launching its First Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival on May 25th. The event is organized by Victoria Lu, Director of the MR MoCA and her team. This outdoor sculpture exhibition is the highlight of the preparation activities leading up to the grand opening of the museum in the fall of 2008. The Moon River Sculpture Festival launches in May and is one of two annually held grand exhibitions, the other to be the Asia Art Festival held in autumn that will feature as the 2008 inaugural exhibition of MR MoCA.

The Origin, the theme of the First Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival, lays bare the foundation for future sculpture theme parks in China, claiming for MR MoCA to take on Chinese culture as its core while expanding its critical and historical significance. At the heart of the show, the notion of “Yin Shui Si Yuan” 饮水思源 (not to forget one’s origin) establishes a meaningful connection to both its conceptual strands and the location of the Moon River Creative Zone, geographically at the source of the Jing-Hang Grand Canal (a main artery running from south to north dating from the 5th century BC).

Most of the outdoor artworks in this exhibition are modeled after the new century aesthetics of the Animamix, a term coined by Director Victoria Lu. This sculptural ensemble is meant to create a happy, relaxing, humorous, ironic, young and colorful atmosphere incorporating different elements retrieved from popular culture, while denoting the differential character of aesthetic forms generating out of a mass and consumerist culture constructed upon hedonism and sensual gratification. In this sense it also appeals to the goal of the Moon River Culture and Creative Industry Zone to become a distinguished and innovative creative base station. Under the concept of Animamix in the new century, the exhibition aims at communicating and putting in dialogue art and design and their dynamic and diversified elaborations.

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3 months, 1 week ago

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This outdoor sculpture exhibition includes new sculptural work from contemporary Chinese artists like Bao Pao and Zhan Wang, as well as loaned sculptures from some of China's most established sculptors, including Sui Jianguo and Huang Yan.