This art festival is not just indoor exhibitions. On the basis of the current 2.8-kilometer waterfront space west of the Yangpu Bridge being open to the public, the 2.7-kilometer east of the bridge will also be opened to the public simultaneously during the space art season, forming a continuous 5.5-kilometer public space.

The Yangshupu Industrial Zone, where Yangpu Riverside is located, was once the largest energy supply and industrial base in Shanghai and even in modern China. It was called the "China's Modern Industrial Civilization Corridor". In the southern section of Yangpu Riverside, a large number of unique historical buildings and industrial heritage facilities are planned and protected. Every one of them wants to check in!

Yangpu Water Factory

As an extended exhibition venue for outdoor public art works, a number of old industrial buildings have been renovated one after another, and some of them have regained their historical features.

Former site of the new factory of the Electrical Department of the Shanghai Ministry of Industry Bureau

The former soap factory and gray warehouse will also be given new colors in the hands of artists. The Yangpu Riverside Belt is getting more fashionable every day ~

Yangpu Riverside is known as the "Corridor of Modern Industrial Civilization in China". It is the most concentrated industrial area since Shanghai was opened as a port, bearing the mark of the era of large-scale industry. Today, as an extended exhibition venue for outdoor public art works, a number of old industrial buildings have been renovated one after another, and some of them have regained their historical features.

Yangpu Manbu Avenue

This space art season lasted for two months, and dozens of Chinese and foreign artists were invited to create 20 pieces/group of large-scale public art works locally based on the characteristics of public spaces and permanently retain them here.

If you go for a walk on Binjiang Road in the near future, you will definitely notice these changes ~

The wildness of the city, Yusuke Asai © Yan Shuaishuai

Taking advantage of the sun,2019 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season,Feel the encounter between art and urban space together

Feel the changes of time in Yangpu Industrial Belt

Go straight along Yangpu Binjiang Road and you will see a brick-red building. This is the Maoma Factory Warehouse. The warehouse was built in 1920. It was formerly known as Deshang Ruiji Foreign Trading Company and later evolved into Shanghai's No. 1 Silk Factory. It was a leading enterprise in the production of real silk and rayon in the country at that time, and was assigned to the Shanghai Shipyard in 2003.

This nearly century-old building has seen countless storms along the Huangpu River. It is currently the largest existing beamless warehouse in the Yangpu Riverside and a witness to the vigorous development of Shanghai's national industries.

The Maoma Warehouse is now serving as one of the main exhibition areas of the third Shanghai Urban Space Art Season with the theme of "Encounter". There are a large number of exhibits to visit, and it isfreeOh ~

The exhibitions in the Maoma Warehouse are mainly divided into the "Space Art Section" and the "Planning Architecture Section".

In the space art section, among them"16 Scenes of Shanghai"Particularly eye-catching. Many artists have condensed their impressions of Shanghai into various works of art.

Don't rush to leave after visiting the exhibition, because standing on the stairs of Maoma Warehouse is the perfect location to overlook Lujiazui across the street.

Next to the Mao Ma Warehouse is the former site of Ruirong Shipyard. The building has been used successively by Bandung Iron Works, Ruirong Shipyard, Yinglian Shipyard, and Shanghai Shipyard Ship Repair Branch, witnessing the development and changes of Shanghai's ship repair and shipbuilding industry over the past century.

The remains of the original Shanghai Shipyard are also part of this exhibition. This is one of the oldest docks in Shanghai and will be open to the public this time as part of the main art exhibition.

The dock was excavated by the German-funded Ruirong Shipyard in 1900. In 1936, it merged with Xiangsheng Shipyard and Yesong Shipyard to form the Yinglian Shipyard, becoming the shipyard with the largest number of docks in China at that time. In 1954, it was merged into the Shanghai Shipbuilding Plant and renamed Shanghai Shipyard in 1985. On November 6, 2007, my country's only third-generation polar ice-breaking scientific research vessel, the "Xuelong", was upgraded and delivered and left the factory.

Nowadays, this more than 200-meter-long dock is displayed in front of people. The mottled rust full of industrial flavor does not reduce its tension in the afterglow of the sunset, which is very shocking.

Introduction to sealed memory works

Between the changes of light and shadow, it seems to be possible to hear the ships of those years sailing from here to the Huangpu River, blowing their horns while pushing away the rolling waves.

During this Space Art Festival, special installation and video art works will also be presented inside the dock, and different art films will be played on a loop. Standing in a century-old dock watching movies, are you sure you don't want to experience it?

Speaking of century-old factories, Tianzhang Record Paper Factory needs to be mentioned! I have worked in this century-old factory for a long time.

The predecessor of Shanghai Tianzhang Record Paper Factory, the Yangshupu Industrial Belt, originated from the Shanghai Machine and Paper Bureau, which was established by the official supervision and commercial administration of Li Hongzhang in the eighth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1882). In 1882, Cao Ziqian, Cao Zijun, Zheng Guanying and others raised 155,700 taels of silver in order to establish a Chinese machine and paper enterprise. They submitted the plan to Li Hongzhang, Minister of Beiyang, for approval, and chose to build a factory at No. 408 Yangshupu Road, Shanghai, namely Shanghai Machine and Paper Bureau. It is the first papermaking enterprise run by a Chinese businessman in China. The company's main equipment is a multi-dryer fourdrinier wire paper machine and 8 dryers, which was produced in 1877 by Hampton Company in Les City, England. In 1915, Liu Bosen rented the factory and bought more Baoyuan Paper Mills. In 1920, he purchased Huazhang Paper Mill from Nippon Corporation for 820,000 taels and named it Baoyuan Paper Mill East Factory. The original Yangshupu Road Factory was the Baoyuan Paper Mill West Factory. In 1925, it was also named Tianzhang Paper Factory Co., Ltd. In 1983, his son Liu Mengjing cooperated with the Japanese and changed his name to "Tianzhang Changji Paper Factory". In 1947, the Kuomintang government redeemed the factory. After liberation, it was nationalized and named Tianzhang Paper Mill. In 1981, Tianzhang Paper Factory merged with Shanghai Recording Paper Factory and officially listed Tianzhang Recording Paper Factory. Tianzhang Recording Paper Factory is the first and largest manufacturer in the country to produce instrument recording paper and electronic printing paper.

Yangpu Riverside also has a Tianzhang Road named after Tianzhang Factory