Installation

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January 31, 2013

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Following the opening of Audi City London last summer, Audi's second digital city showroom in the world, which integrates digital product display and personalized customization services, was grandly unveiled in Beijing Oriental Plaza. This is also the first cooperation between Audi and Chinese architect Ma Yansong.

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Ma Yansong's works focus on human nature and use the traditional oriental spatial order to interpret the future city. The installation work "Shanshui City", which is the first collaboration with Audi, is a virtual city. It is the reflection of a modern city in the water, reflecting our imagination of the future and reflection on reality. In the illusory fog curtain, the reflected city is reversed from the modern city. The emotional illusion is created through lights and images, and the future city space touched by nature is outlined between the virtual and the real.

Classical cities are about gods and beliefs, and typical modern cities are about power and capital. Ma Yansong believes that the city of the future "belongs to people and people's emotions, rather than using technology to bluff power and capital. The skyscraper city we see now simply piles up wealth, and is more like a monument to our busy survival but lack of spirit."

Beijing City is a Shanshui City, which is the embodiment of Chinese Shanshui sentiment in the city scale. How to integrate the values ​​of symbiosis between man and nature with the high density of modern cities? It is not just a green or public space, but also an expression of emotion. Ma Yansong hopes that the audience can capture the Shanshui future in the reflection through this artwork.

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