Overlapping Reality and Imagination: Art Museum of Yue Minjun
About the Art Museum of Yue Minjun. On one hand, there are fantastic landscapes for Qingcheng Mountain, with continuous brooks and wreathed mist, on the other hand, there are private art galleries, with extremely personal art attitudes and contemporary features.
Not far away, Dujiang Weir, with more than 2000 years of history, has been witnessing the thought of “complying with nature and combining human and nature” and also fostering a special natural and cultural environment for this area. In this project, Studio Pei Zhu tries to talk with nature in an inheritance way and create a medium to overlap reality and imagination, nature and technology, tradition and future which seem to be contrary.
Project title: Art Museum of Yue Minjun
Architects: Pei Zhu, Tong Wu \ Studio Pei-Zhu
Associates in charge: Zeng Xiaoming
Design team: He Fan, Jiao Chongxia, Li Yongquan, Fan Xuelan
Structural consultant: Rory McGowan (Arup), Xu Minsheng (CHINA HIGH-RISE CONSTRUCTION INVESTMENT CO., LTD)
The art museum, located by the Shimeng River, is designed into an organic form full of smoothness and diversity, which is like a cobble taken from the river. A light metal coating is applied to this ancient natural form, mildly reflects surrounding scenes and melts into nature, which is like a piece of concealed clothes and full of sense of expectations, making the building suspend over the ground and be like a flying body from the future. Therefore, Studio Pei Zhu presents an art museum which features artists’ direct and affirmed personal attitudes, participates in nature in a “lost” way and starts a secret dialogue with ancient times in a language of future.
Photographer: Fang Zhenning
About Studio Pei Zhu
Studio Pei Zhu is a Beijing based practice with less than 20 employees. Their focus is mainly of the new development that is occurring in urban China. Though the new approach of structuring the Chinese urban milieu is positive, Studio Pei Zhu wishes to preserve the traditional awareness of China thus creates architectural designs that embrace both modern and traditional life.
