Architecture is a box that should contain art. It have to be. If you have that box without art, it is empty. But when you go back 500 years, Davinci is an architect, it is so normal, but why it is so strange today. We made a mistake because the world war. After the war, the economy had to grow as fast as possible, they don’t have that on mind to search for beauty. Now you can realize that moment is over, that war for so many years, now we have time to look for beauties and concept, looking for ideas. It is a good thing, I think architecture is a so big instrument that you can dominate art. Because it is spectacular, so artists have difficulties, we are individuals, we don’t have such instrument to build, such expensive thing. When talk about our moment, I think architecture have big opportunity, because there are so many chances for architects.
Can you give me some advise in the field of exhibition and public communication between artist and art, as well as between the mass public and architects. Misunderstanding, relation between public communication and artists.
What artist want to say is a long term saying, because they know they have to say for 50 times, that is why they choose to say nothing in the end. They realizes they can not explain, because it is not like architecture, you build one building slowly, artists built one painting everyday, you have no way to explain it.
So it is big responsibility, so architects have to be in a team. It is no more personal. But artist is personal. Public come only when things become popular, public can understand like Ai Weiwei, Cai Guoqiang, all these things.
Journalist is someone brings art to public. That is why we call 5 fingers-artist, collector, art critics, museum and gallery, all these things you need to become one thing. I guess it is the same with architecture, you need these five things together now, you can’t lack of any of these things.