Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the list of projects for the 2024 National Art Museum Youth Curator Support Program, which includes 10 selected projects and 18 nominated projects. The exhibition "Tracing the Origin of Brushwork: The Sketching Journey of Guan Shanyue from an Aerospace Perspective", curated by Xiao Zhuqing from our museum, has been nominated for this program.

Over the years, the Guan Shanyue Art Museum has been actively exploring the path of building a digital art museum. This exhibition plans to deeply integrate Guan Shanyue's decades of sketching footsteps, documentary manuscripts, impressions of mountains and rivers with cutting-edge remote sensing and mapping technology. It aims to use observation, dialogue, mutual reference, and mutual verification for evidence-based research, and to connect data, information, computation, wisdom, and art, allowing fragmented artistic scrolls to be revived and revealed in aerial data.

The exhibition plans to use scientific research imagery from satellite remote sensing, employing autonomous computing power alongside satellite imagery to construct a grand scene depicting a new digital landscape painting of the vast territory of our motherland. Autonomous technology in satellite remote sensing has recorded ultra-large-scale high-definition remote sensing image data of China's landmass for scientific research. Yet, this is only one of the application directions of remote sensing. Today, remote sensing satellites are used in agriculture, forestry, oceans, land resources, environmental protection, meteorology, and many other fields, providing necessary data support for the construction of a digital China. When the landscape stories depicted by Mr. Guan Shanyue meet autonomous remote sensing space-sky data, they will surely unleash a stunning and majestic spectacle.

The selection of this curation project provides a broader platform and more professional perspective for the cultivation of young curators in our museum, as well as the continuous deepening of exhibition and research functions. In 2023, the exhibition "Series of Special Exhibitions of Local Artists in Shenzhen since the Reform and Opening Up", curated by He Xiang from our museum, was nominated for the National Art Museum Youth Curator Support Program that year (click on the blue text to see more); in 2020, "Origin and Testing Ground: Design Art in Shenzhen (1987-2019)", curated by Peng Bayu, was selected for the National Art Museum Youth Curator Support Program that year. In the future, our museum will continue to strengthen the construction of the art museum's talent echelon, cultivate and support young curators, enhance the museum's autonomous exhibition planning capabilities, and promote the professional development of the art museum.

August 6, 2024