シャオ現代美術館 Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art
2021年9月に新設されたシャオ現代美術館は、日照市 (Rizhao City)の中心部にある超高層ビルの2フロアを占め、総面積5,500平方メートル超の8つの展示スペースがあります。1994年生まれの創設者、Ding Yixiaoは、中国で最も若い個人美術館を所有するコレクターの一人です。2015年にUCLAを卒業したDing Yixiaoは、2018年に現代美術の収集を開始しました。プロのキュレーターと運営チームの支援を受け、北京や上海といった人気のトップティア都市から離れた故郷の日照市で、プライベートコレクションを一般に公開するアートスペースに変貌させました。そうすることで、彼は地元の一部の観客に初めての現代アート体験を提供しています。
日照市は、中国の中央海岸、南東部に位置する有名な海岸観光都市である。山東省です。
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香港との比較：
香港に視覚文化美術館、M+が今月にグランドオープン
Grand opening of M+, Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture, this month
https://art-culture.world/articles/m-hong-kong-museum/
up-date 2022/6/11
Courtesy of the Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art
Ding Yixiao
From Collection to Community
Initially drawn to KAWS’ toys and prints, collector Ding Yixiao bought one of the artist’s original works at Christie’s Hong Kong Spring Auction in 2019.
From there, his collection began to expand its focus, from Pop Art to work by younger artists, ‘partly because I was born in the 1990s and can resonate more with what artists around my age have to say,’ he explains. ‘I love having conversations with artists, to understand the world from their perspectives. It’s a process I greatly enjoy.’
In September 2021, Ding Yixiao founded Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art—a two-storey art space in Rizhao, a city in China’s southeastern Shandong province. Born in 1994, Ding Yixiao is one of the youngest owners of a private museum in the country, and has major plans for his hometown’s art scene.
This entails bringing modern and contemporary masters to public audiences, with dream acquisitions including artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Picasso, Mark Rothko, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. ‘But collecting one’s dream pieces may be more a matter of fate,’ Ding Yixiao notes.
Having most recently acquired a painting by Barbara Kruger, such dreams may not be so unrealistic, paired with the desire to create a platform ‘for a community that transforms and produces knowledge, and that can have an impact on the cultural and art ecosystem.’
A fourth-tier city, Ding Yixiao expresses the challenges that came with establishing an operating team at Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, when resources are primarily concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, and the Guangdong region. But he is hopeful for the museum’s future as an approachable platform for contemporary art.
In his selections from Ocula below, Ding Yixiao highlights painting with dreamlike, uncanny features, as with Alejandro Cardenas, Josh Smith, and powerful and poetic figuration, as in the case of Chase Hall, Michael Hilsman, and Otis Kwame Quaicoe.