The Launching Ceremony of the 2023 Chongqing Urban Artistic Creation Project was held in Yubei District in downtown Chongqing on September 22 to enrich residents' cultural and artistic life while shaping the city's cultural image.
Artists and craft teachers will co-create handicraft works with visitors. Handicraft amateurs are also welcome to sign up for this event.
The scene of the launching ceremony. (Photo/The Organizer)
The project is one of the series activities of "IP: Creating Future" Chongqing Art Copyright Season. It is a great move to encourage the creation, protection, and application of artworks' copyright. The project is designed to create an atmosphere where people respect originality and protect copyright, empower the high-quality development of the cultural industry, promote the city image of Chongqing, and help build it into a powerhouse of culture.
Attendees of the launching ceremony included relevant personnel from Chongqing International Culture Association, Luhai International Communication Foundation, Chongqing Forestry Bureau, Chongqing Natural History Museum, and Tencent Information Technology Co., Ltd., and artists and curators.
At the ceremony, Wang Xingwei, Executive Secretary-General of the Chongqing International Culture Association, said that the Urban Artistic Creation Base should perform three primary functions: cultural exchange, artistic creation, and copyright incubation. It should hold cultural activities regularly and involve more residents in artistic creation to make everyone aware of artistic creation and copyright protection.
Chen Can, Deputy Secretary-General of Luhai International Communication Foundation, delivered a speech. (Photo/The Organizer)
Chen Can, Deputy Secretary-General of Luhai International Communication Foundation, said that art is inspired by nature and combining nature and art will burst with unlimited vitality. This year's project, with the theme "The Growth of Art," is about birds, beasts, insects, and trees. It also incorporates the city image IP of Chongqing, "Huangsi Mama," and the urban ecological business card "Eagle City." By combining nature and artistic creation, the project will display residents' understanding of man and nature, their yearning for a better life and showcase the harmonious coexistence of the city, ecology, and people.
Artist representative Ma Tao, Founder of YHDQ DESIGN, shared his insights under the theme "Art Warms Life." Through this project, he expected that people who love life could have a co-creation platform to discover the city's beauty, and life and art can develop and warm people's lives. The project aims to demonstrate the beauty of Chongqing, deliver its values, call for environmental protection, and convey the strength of the Chongqing people. It is not only a reflection of personal but also enterprise values.
The scene of the launching ceremony. (Photo/The Organizer)
Fu Hongyu, General Manager of Chongqing Central Park Yuefu Project of China Resources Land (West China) Chongqing, mentioned at the launching ceremony that the 2023 Chongqing Artistic Creation Project is an important step to carry forward the development of Yubei's Park City construction. He shared that the Chongqing Central Park Yuefu Project will initiate an overall development plan for the cultural and artistic lake area. He said that the Chongqing International Culture Association awarded the Chongqing Central Park Yuefu Project the Chongqing Urban Artistic Creation Base to improve the city's cultural value and build a model of high-quality housing in the park lake area.
On the day of the launching ceremony, the curator YHDQ DESIGN invited Li Zhouzhou, Li Shudan, Yang Hengqing, Li Qingbo, and other co-creators to exhibit their works on site.
Starting September 23, the 2023 Chongqing Urban Artistic Creation Project will be implemented in four three-week phases. Co-creators, craftsmen, and art teachers will organize registered participants to teach them how to make handicrafts featuring the urban theme, humanistic inheritance, and personal characteristics using materials and processes such as wool, felt, paper, pottery, and material transformation molding by "offline course sharing + online course tracking." Such works include Eagle City (material transformation molding), Little Monster (wool), Huangsi Mama (mold), and All the Best (felt). They will be exhibited and applied for individual copyright at the end of December this year.