Fiber art to make its mark at East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale

A press briefing for the East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale 2020 was held in Wuhan on August 23.

Continuing its focus on cutting-edge, academic, non-profit, and international exhibition concepts, the biennale will be held in March 2021 concurrently in Shimenfeng Memorial Park and the No. 9 Art Space in Creative World (indoor and outdoor) in Wuhan.

Sculptor Fu Zhongwang, also director of Hubei Museum of Art in Wuhan, will serve as the artistic director of the event.

The theme will be 100%@Wuhan”, and a total of 50 works of different types will be exhibited. Works that are created with ecological materials and new media methods will be particularly featured.

According to chief curator Sun Zhenhua, the biennale decided to use the term “100%” to express the idea of eco sculpture in promoting ecological civilization in an innovative manner. Also, it points the way to achieve an all-round ecological perspective in daily life.

A total of 20 artists will be invited to Wuhan to make their art work based on the local environment and materials, following the exhibition theme. In addition to direct invitation, some 30 art works will be solicited from across the world.

Artistic director Fu Zhongwang had previously stressed in a preparatory meeting, that the Biennale 2020 would promote diversity and innovative forms of expression in terms of the selection of works. The exhibition will set up two special display units for new media art and fiber art.

In 2017, the first East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale was held in Shimenfeng Memorial Park, becoming the first domestic sculpture exhibition focusing on ecology.

In 2020, with the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, ecological issues have once again become an urgent topic facing everyone, adding a sense of necessity and urgency to the East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale.