2010, the Greenbelt Park, the Shanghai port,
Inflatable Arches highway junctions, Pudong Airport and the Shanghai Expo Garden District landmark lots, five are likely to put up as much as 50 to 60 metres in the door "." German artist Peter's work "five doors" is participating in the Shanghai World Expo bid.
What is the door » Countless people from a variety of positions, commonplace, but the 61-year-old German artist Peter (Peter H. van de Locht) for the design of Shanghai's "five doors", but magnificent, Yuyishenke. This five door is the beginning of the door, door to the sea, land door, air and the door to the next door. Peter in the design, as much as 50 to 60 metres they were built in five locations marked: the Greenbelt Park, Shanghai port, the most important highway junctions, Pudong Airport and Shanghai Expo Garden District. "This five doors have special meaning and symbolic, not only underlines the modern city of Shanghai charm and personality to cities, and through imaginative link from Shanghai's past, present and future." May 21, a light brown Shawls, Peter came to Shanghai, in an exclusive interview with this reporter, he explained that his "door" concept. Now to the end of June, five doors in the design of the Shanghai Urban Sculpture Art Center exhibition hall at the Sai Lau. The works are participating in the 2010 World Expo bid, promising they will stand in Shanghai, became a symbol of the new landscape.
From small fishing village "Start"
The exhibition hall at the scene revealed a Inflatable Arches hut, which is "the beginning of the door" in the Court of micro-display, Peter in the "beginning of the door" in the extensive use of glass and water. Chambers has roots in the center of the crystal through the top, water pouring down from the Yi Gunao, Crystal is the bottom of the pool water, in Peter's vision, can fish pond. Chi, is the conceptualization of water - glass. Peter said: "The beautiful shape of the glass depends on the extent of clean water. If the water has been polluted, then the shape of glass will not look good." Outside the circle again, it is a fixed water - large pieces of marble.
Chose "water" to express the concept of "start", Peter said, this is because the water originated in Shanghai. "More than 800 years ago, only Shanghai Wusong Pu Jiang's Shanghai branch of the downstream side of a fishing village until the 13th century to develop into cities and towns. Wusong Jiang at the time the two sides of the downstream residents to more than a living fishing, fishermen have invented a novel Zhuoxie fishing tools' Hu ', then' Hu 'evolution for the' Shanghai ', which is referred to Shanghai' Shanghai 'origin. "Shanghai during the long history of only 23 from the Chinese word of mouth, Peter Say, a total of the long-mean.
Peter infatuated with China, he was born in Germany, students contacted a lot of time on the ancient Chinese art, such as his beloved bronze art, like "Book of Changes." 25-year-old that year, he went to the Netherlands, in Arnhem art schools, married their students - an ethnic Chinese girl. 2004, Peter the Shanghai World Expo came to Inflatable Arches Shanghai at the invitation of the organizing committee. That was the first time he has come to Shanghai. He submitted to the Expo 15 works, including Changebenyue sculpture, but have been rebuffed by. Disappointed, Peter in the company of friends, came to the Lujiazui century green park, which is Shanghai's famous photo of marriage, the photography, Peter suddenly see the treasures of new, well-being was a bang on the waist of Peter the germination Shanghai to create the idea of five doors. In his view, every door are connected, connecting Shanghai's past and future, Pudong and Puxi, land and water, and every door and are happy relevant. Thus, Peter submitted to the first 16 works, "the beginning of the door" by the recognized World Expo, which began a series of five doors of creativity.
The reason why the "beginning of the Inflatable Arches door" in the Greenbelt Park, Peter said: "The Lujiazui near the Huangpu River, Huangpu River is the entrance of the Yangtze River, the doors here indicates that fish Yuelong Men."