At 14:30 on April 12, 2013, “Public Art and Social Development “Forum was held. After the speeches of four scholars，professor Dawei Wang summarized that professor Fang Xiaofeng concerned about the public. Art in the process of public performance can only be one of the method , not all.
Professor Jianqing Wen specially concerned about the community, the value of the area, the culture of the region, and put forward his own view.
Professor Hang Jian pointed out that we need to be vigilant of the tendency of public art entertainment and commercialization and think over our own public in our process of urbanization.
Finally, professor Gu Jun mentioned about public sharing. All these views are innovative. ” After the professor Dawei Wang’s conclusion, the panel discussion began. John McCormack who is director of the Starwhite Art Gallery in New Zealand chaired the panel discussion.
Professor Pan Yaochang from College of Fine art, Shanghai University and professor Li Gongmin from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art commented on these ideas. Professor Pan Yaochang thought public art has two features, modernity and social. Public art requires a balance of rights, but the public rights are always relatively weak. “We should be more concerned about the balance of rights in the course of the operation. Four speeches from the perspective of society review public art in China and help us through the bustling representation to see the nature of the problem. They represent the thinking of Chinese intellectuals. One the one side they make different. One the other side they try to reflect. ”
Professor Li Gongming pointed out:” The speeches remark some new proposition. They were full of anxiety and hope. All of these problems represent a tendency of Chinese contemporary public art. I will argue that we could only answer these questions under the framework of a constitutional democracy social system.” |
