At 14:30 on April 12, 2013, “Public Art and Social Development “Forum was held. Professor Gu Jun，School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University gave a speech as “This side is the other shore: The nature of public art ‘secular’ in China”. He pointed out that public is reflected in people’s real life rather than artists’ thinking.
He said: “ Nowadays, rural China is no longer in the stage of all people yearn for the city, on the contrary, people living in the city are increasingly looking forward to going the countryside. Especially recently, cities has suffered from large-scale of haze, so going to the countryside and washing the lungs also become a fashion. More importantly, more and more farmers who compared with urban life and rural life discovered that the rural life is more suitable for human nature. Thus, the choice between rural and urban life for farmers could help us understand more deeply the idea of the campus project of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts which preserved the rural and farmers and kept the original ecological agriculture.” |
