Professor Weng Jianqing

At 14:30 on April 12, 2013, “Public Art and Social Development “Forum was held. Professor Weng Jianqing from School of Art, Peking University gave his speech as "Daily Life and Local Care ". He said:” In the contemporary art practice including public art, we need to make a positive intervention for real problems and demand . The social and cultural mission for Chinese public art in the 21st century is to actively participate in the construction and renovation of public space in the urban integration process and creatively involve and intervene the inheritance and innovation of daily lives and ideology in the urban communities. Public art is not only a propaganda tool for the political culture and the commercial capital or visual aesthetics.”

“So, the creation of public art should explore its geographical context, characteristics and regional value in order to become a vitality artistic way to revitalize the cultural of certain place. ”