Video: Power Station of Art: How to Convert a Power Station to a Museum of Contemporary Art
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The world tirelessly criticizes China for being the world's largest polluter of the environment. And, nevertheless, this state has a quite noticeable program to close coal-fired power plants and their modernization into objects for various purposes. For example, Modern Art Museumhow it happened in Shanghai.
Shanghai is the city that hosted the World Expo 2010 in 2010. In that year, he attracted the attention of the whole world. And, apparently, both the residents of the Chinese metropolis and its authorities liked it.
The project, which we will tell you about today, already existed in 2010. However, the end of its implementation took place only in the fall of 2012. Already six years ago, one of the coal-fired power plants in Shanghai was closed. And then the idea appeared to turn this building, which had lost its original significance, into a museum of modern art.
And now this large-scale structure has opened its doors to people again. During this time, little has changed inside the building - the authors of the museum project decided not to particularly change the internal layout of the former power plant. Moreover, in some of its rooms there are even giant machines and turbines that previously generated energy. Now, however, they stand without action, existing only for the entourage.
But all the premises and the external decoration of this building were put in order - cleaned, reconstructed, painted. Thanks to this, the former coal power plant has been transformed almost beyond recognition.
After commissioning, three museums at once moved to this building: modern, traditional and ancient art, thereby creating a common conceptual integrity, uniting the best thematic art collections in China under one roof.
Of course, the Chinese did not manage to combine a museum of modern art and a functioning factory under one roof, as happened recently in Dnepropetrovsk, but they still preserved the industrial spirit in the once industrial premises, adding to it a modern bohemian atmosphere.
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