"Art Week": from your participation in 1994 to build Guan Shanyue Art Gallery in April 2008 as director of the past 14 years tremendous changes Guan Shanyue Art Gallery. In your opinion, after a 1 year renovation and more will be in September this year to meet with the audience Guan Shanyue Gallery What is the biggest change?

Chen XiangBo: With the development of the times, the function of art galleries has been changing, the original Guan Shanyue Art Gallery in academic research and public service aspects of a serious shortage of space and facilities. This transformation, we are mainly an increase of public services, professional books and reading 20th century literature and other arts facilities in China, other channels are disabled, the disabled toilet, between breast-feeding, as well as leisure facilities necessary. Guan Shanyue Art Gallery after the reform is not only more convenient and all kinds of people, but also in environmental protection and energy saving, fire safety, but also to the latest technology in accordance with national norms in all the indicators set up to re-install.

At present, the project has come to a sprint stage, strive to be completed by the end of August, as soon as possible and opening up of the general public.

Specifically, to strengthen our efforts to explore a variety of supporting facilities, the possibility of extending the service hours, such as the increase in an open, professional art library reading room for public viewing free of charge; the introduction of a professional high-end art book, art for sale derivatives and professional books, including the main characteristics of the development of souvenirs; new coffee shop, tea house, etc. type of recreational facilities. In addition, no longer be closed on Monday, the normal opening hours are also extended to consider appropriate. Guan Shanyue Art Gallery Web site for a comprehensive revision and open up channels for online exhibition. In short, it is necessary to explore how the introduction of professional management,

And do our best to meet the cultural and leisure requirements.

"Art Week": In recent years, Art Gallery of public cultural service system has aroused more and more attention in this regard Guan Shanyue Museum to carry out the work, what measures do you think is the most effective?

Chen XiangBo: It should be said that Shenzhen's public cultural service system in the country is getting ahead. Guan Shanyue Art Gallery back in early 2007 the first open to the public free of charge. In order to ensure free quality of service later, we changed the original concept, increased day-to-day management of the venue as well as the power input of human and material resources. We also established a museum and cultural norms is a volunteer team, which is only recognized by the Shenzhen Cultural Alliance volunteers volunteer groups, the existing more than 100 registered volunteers in the Museum is open free to play a significant role after.

Of course, also in the process we found that the conditions and functions of the Museum's facilities can not be free to meet the new requirements, such as lack of disabled access and lifts the audience, the lack of space-related public services and so on, so I Museum in the last year the beginning of August the maintenance of a comprehensive reform, I believe that after the completion of the Guan Shanyue decoration will make you fresh and new art gallery to provide more modern, more scientific, more comprehensive services.

"Art magazine": art gallery how to really enter the public's daily life?

Chen XiangBo: Gallery into the daily lives of the public is a long-term, step-by-step behavior, we can not expect overnight on the public art gallery on the love. These exhibitions, we focus on academic quality, academic-oriented and universal combination of understanding what the public want to let the public know how to appreciate the works on display also the value of the United States. At the same time, a specific exhibition, we will work together with the detailed background work that professionals and volunteers on the Museum, etc. and the public closer to the distance. The re-opening, we will set up booths in the designated area to put the views of the audience, to the public the opportunity to express their views.

Over the years we have out of art galleries, to strengthen public services. For example, the public welfare as the main brand of academic lectures "Sharon Quartet," and the general public has become concerned about the academic activities. Every year to set a theme, this year's theme is "design of urban life," To this end, we invited a number of design experts and scholars to lecture, and the publication of the relevant Works; I Hall 10 times each year to plan the exhibition , talks into the community, into the school activities, including the "second class" through the efforts of a few years has been a wide range of social praise. Of these measures on the daily lives of the public entering the Museum of Art has played an important role.

"Art Week": Guan Shanyue Art Gallery annual exhibition of their own planning and outreach is the ratio of the number? After re-establish what the new scheme?

Chen XiangBo: Guan Shanyue Art Gallery is the academic orientation of the culture of the city of Shenzhen as well as the collection features quality decisions, re-opening of the Guan Shanyue Art Gallery will continue to Guan Shanyue Art and China in the latter half of the 20th century, research and display of art, contemporary design research and display of art as the main academic direction, to create with my Guan Shanyue Art Museum features the research and display, in the late 20th century Chinese art academic research and to display the brand; efforts in building the "design capital" framework, to build with Shenzhen City arts and cultural character of the design study and show the brand, but also take into account the international cultural exchange.

Re-opened in September of this year, after the design of the Eleventh National Art Exhibition Art Exhibition will be held in this. This year there is an exhibition gallery with the cooperation crown Frandsen of the Danish artists exhibition, we hope that it creates a series of international exhibition. In addition, the famous 20th century Chinese painting series of academic studies show, this year the exhibition will be held yellow leaves the village. Mining history and preservation of 20th century art information, will be our mid-and late 20th century, an important aspect of art.

"Art Week": of the reports in the media, academic Chen XiangBo is a vision of the artist, Guan Shanyue Art Museum as curator of you, so the tradition of the old museum is full of contemporary life, has made obvious achievements. How to adhere to the traditional, based on the contemporary art gallery to continue to create an issue?

Chen XiangBo: I certainly hope to be a pure artist. Guan Shanyue Art Gallery from my participation in the planning and construction of more than 10 years now, especially as curator Guan Shanyue no doubt take on more social responsibility, which makes most of the time I will have for the museum business and administrative services. At the same time, I would like to participate in more social activities. Of course, the increase in social work from its own rich, on the other hand.

Practical work in a museum, not only to focus on training of professional museum curators and researchers, but also to encourage and promote rational skepticism and criticism; to respect the individuality, tolerance of failure, to encourage exploration of the courage, the courage to. Therefore, there is currently more active academic atmosphere, with a relatively relaxed, harmonious, healthy cultural atmosphere, it would also like to thank my colleagues for the trust placed in me. I do not think in terms of an art gallery, it is necessary to pay attention to tradition, based on tradition, but also to face the contemporary, this is a natural requirement of Contemporary Art.

"Art Week": the Shenzhen Museum to your collection each year the number of financial support? Museum's main collection in your direction for that? What are the collection of the work of the new changes in recent years?

Chen XiangBo: theory, our annual collection of funds has more than 300 million, but because of the operation procedures are not in line with the actual collection of work there are still some bottlenecks.
Guan Shanyue art and 20th century fine art in China is my main direction of museum collections, in recent years, collectors have a number of overseas oil products, which is part of the Russian paintings. In addition, we also begin to pay attention to the creation of contemporary female artists, some collection of outstanding works by female artists.

The new Museum will be open conditions permitting, to explore the collections of folk art hosting possibilities. In 2006, Shenzhen collector won the bid to spend more than 1000 million of Guan Shanyue's "Spring Festival map" has been hosted by the Library and Museum has been in my "museum built to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Exhibition" on display to enrich the content of the exhibition . At present, there are many collectors would like Gallery to provide civil arts project hosted collection. I think that it is feasible to explore and is also useful.

2009-6-27