“WE” is a kind of relationship, which explores the linkage between mankind and everything. “WE”, man and man, man and things, man and space, man and nature, present and future…On Jan. 10, an art event under the theme “Interpret WE” was opened in Beijing. Sponsored by the cultural, creative, sci-tech, innovative enterprise service provider DoBe Group, this event announced the start of WE"ART100, which will gather 100 artists in different fields in Beijing to interpret the relationship of “WE” using 100 distinctive forms of expression.

DoBe Group’s Vice President Mr. Chen Hong said: “This is our WE"ART100 series. We will launch this event in different cities across China. WE" is one of DoBe Group’s brands. Different from traditional office block brands, for every new WE" creative park project, we explore the possibility of new modes of office work. DoBe entered the creative park field 12 years ago. We have developed and renovated more than 50 parks in China, Europe and the USA. We have achieved perfection in physical creative space. As an upgraded park brand, we expect WE" can use art, fashionable services and other elements to connect everyone for communication and sharing.”

At the event, Song Yang, an art founder and curator of the Exhibition for Nominated Young Artists in Asia, who is praised by the American media SURFACE as the “Artist Hard to Be Defined”, Doctor Xu Yibo, a Senior Architect from SBA and one of the project leaders of the “Vertical Forest” in Milan, Luo Yi, a curator and Today Art Museum’s Design Exhibition Hall’s first Executive Curator, Ren Jun, Chief Architect of the architectural design company Tenio, Howard Jiho Kim, founder of the architectural design studio TEMP, Chen Hong, DoBe group’s Vice President and DoBe Cultural and Creative Design Institute’s Head, had multi-angle and multi-dimensional discussion on the topic “WE” and the relationship between man and space.

Buildings were born to provide shelter from rain, wind and beasts. Gradually, as mankind’s aesthetic sense improved and imagination about the future world evolved, buildings became artworks in architects’ hands, became mankind’s inspiration and imagination about the future. Exquisite carvings made dust float in the air; the reflection of light off glass made light pollution a black hole on the earth; skyscraping “Concrete Jungles” made the blue sky farther and farther from us…we felt the coldness of reinforcing steel bars and the hardness of concrete when inverted triangle impregnable fortresses rose straight from the ground in cities… we lost ourselves and forgot our original intention in the noisy and complicated world. So we began to redefine our future, our requirements for space, buildings, the sky and the earth. We recovered our original simplicity and returned to our original nature. Again, we returned to the point of origin, to seek the natural, philanthropic and pure essence of art.

Doctor Xu Yibo gave a keynote speech on “The Re-harmonization of Human, Nature and Art”. Through urban life, natural environment, architectural aesthetics and other issues, he explained the meaning of “Vertical Forest”. On the outer walls of “Vertical Forest” buildings, trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants are planted. Such multifunctional high-rise buildings not only are world towers, but also have rich ecologies and cultural diversity. They draw human and nature, space and nature closer.

At the round table forum, DoBe Group’s Chief Designer Chen Hong said: “We use architecture and art to convey our sense of beauty, to make the ideology of life richer and more colorful. As a designer, we not only need to consider the design of products, but also need to consider other responsibilities. Spatial design doesn’t mean repression or limitation. In fact, we need to create an environment for human to coexist with the sky, the earth and nature with an open and free mind. We should be able to organically combine architectural art with natural space and green forests. Win-win coexistence is our ideal goal, as well as our duty to our future, to our beautiful and harmonious China. Only from this angle, can we give our architectural design a soul and eternity.”  

It’s reported that during this event, the famous Korean architect Howard Jiho Kim created the first artistic installation “Space” for WE"ART100, which stresses the relationship between human and space, by ingeniously using the venue’s structure, lighting, cones, thin gauze, perfectly taking advantage of the inter-conversion between space and art. In the shadow and light formed by the installation, art works showed more tension and intelligence. In addition, “Art Nova 100” also exhibited 17 art works to support this art event.

At the event, artists respectively interpreted the relationships between “WE” and art, architecture, nature. With thunderous applause and the good wish to “enlighten life and explore the future”, WE"ART100 was launched. The artists and guests wrote their best wishes for WE"ART100 on the red ribbons prepared by us and tied the ribbons on the crabapple trees in the glass house. Crabapple implies love and “WE”. This is also the value that WE" wants to pass on to the world -WE" for Love.

This year, the works designed by WE"ART100 artists will be exhibited at the “Art Box” of DoBe WE" International Hub@Temple of Heaven in succession in 2017, to interpret WE" and the concept of “WE” by 100 forms of art.