Guilin Yuzi Paradise,
founded by Taiwanese entrepreneur Mr. Rhy-Chang
Tsao in 1996, is a large-scale international
park of land art projects mainly engaged
in cavern art and contemporary sculpture.
It is located in the unique and unspoiled
natural surroundings of Guilin. With the
joined efforts of global eminent artists,
it is to be built as a living museum and
leave a fine cultural heritage for future
generations. It is a world heritage in progress
shared and possessed by the world.
To reach this ultimate goal,
the construction of the park is to protect
nature and create new culture by displaying
contemporary art in various languages and
styles. With the perfect combination of
sheer natural beauty and peerless art glamour,
Guilin Yuzi Paradise is to be a fairyland
for all the people to experience the eternal
power of art and culture.
The overall construction of
Guilin Yuzi Paradise is predicted to be
30 years and divided into 2 phases. The
first phase is programmed as a 10-year project
based on the existed geographical features.
It takes the International Sculpture Park
as the main body, surrounded by living &
working area, art village, art salon, teaching
& demonstrating are, open air theater
and spiritual center. The first phase started
in 1999 and the living & working area
will be completed and open at the beginning
of 2003. It covers a land area over 1 acre
with construction items including Smile
Plaza, Founder Memorial, Art Canteen, Holiday
Center, Creation Center, Administration
Building, Sundance Lakes, Cafe Forest, Water
of Fantasy, Land Art Labyrinth, Lake of
Regrets, World Flower Corridor and etc..
The second phase will focus
on the cavern art project, which is the
most distinguishing feature in Guilin Yuzi
Paradise. Guilin is famous for its picturesque
scenery of clean water, beautiful mountains
and caverns and rocks. Guilin Yuzi Paradise
wishes to endow the unique natural landscape
with cultural elements by art creation,
so as to establish an immortal cultural
and historical heritage for the world. The
cavern art project is scheduled as three
parts: historical caves, art caves and cavern
art museum. The historical caves will be
built in the mountains and extending for
1,500 meters. In the caves there will be
permanent wall decorations and relives,
with the main theme of contemporary cultural
and civilization. In the art caves eminent
artists of individuality and originality
will be invited to perform thematic creation.
The cavern art museum takes advantage of
natural cave structure instead of traditional
artificial architecture structure. Though
hidden in the grotesque Guilin mountains,
it will be functioning as the most well-equipped
modern art museum for art collection and
display. This project will present the diversity
and general trend of contemporary art and
pass down to the later generations by the
everlasting caves. This great and arduous
project is to be completed in 20 years.
Observed from either the construction
process or the objectives, Guilin Yuzi Paradise
is different from any other tourism development
projects. The project of the park itself
is a super large-scale art piece, therefore
all people involved proceed their work with
great caution and responsibility so as to
display a perfect production to be shared
with the world, no matter in the planning
or on-going construction.
While infrastructure is proceeding,
various art creation projects are conducted
in Guilin Yuzi Paradise. So far there have
been activities such as International Sculpture
Symposium, Thematic Projects and International
Sculpture Awards, and some other activities
of cultural exchange and art promotion,
some of which are sponsored solely, others
co-organized with related organizations.
Since 1997, Guilin Yuzi Paradise
have held 8 International Sculpture Symposia
with 114 artists of 25 countries involved
and created 114 outdoor monumental sculptures.
In the thematic projects Mr. Ju Ming (world-known
sculptor from Taiwan), Mr. Shiau Jon-Jen
(General Art Director of Guilin Yuzi Paradise),
Mr. Xiao Li (Beijing), Ms. Li Xiuqin(Hangzhou),
Mr. Robert Pierrestiger(France) and Mr.
Eberhard Eckerle(Germany) have all created
a series of colorful art works in the park.
There have been over 200 sculptures and
mostly displayed in the living and working
area.
In October 2002, Guilin Yuzi
Paradise launched the first International
Sculpture Awards, in which 'Art Collection'
Magazine and 'Sculpture' Magazine are the
co-organizers. These awards are expected
to help the emerging artists, to popularize
excellent works of established artists and
to promote art and culture exchange on a
global scale. By exhibiting the outstanding
works we also hope to rich people's cultural
life, infuse art and culture elements into
the society, and thus fulfill the in-depth
significance of cultural construction.
As the only key commonweal project
of art and culture in present China, Guilin
Yuzi Paradise is to continuously sponsor
or co-sponsor various international art
promotion activities and competitions, by
which to make Guilin more acknowledged as
a holy land and the "Olympics"
of contemporary art than just an international
tourism city, and will lead China trending
to the center of global art and culture
stage.
We believe that the development
of Guilin Yuzi Paradise will become the
most important record and heritage of human
civilization in 21st century.
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