A4当代艺术中心
Nonprofit contemporary art space born from a property developer's marketing gimmick, now hosting video art and installations.
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This guide to A4 Art Museum in Chengdu traces how a 2008 marketing gimmick for a lakeside villa development turned into something its developer never planned on keeping. It follows Sunny Sun, a UK-trained business graduate, as she ran the little gallery like a real museum through years with no return, eventually registering it as a nonprofit and moving it into a lake-facing building designed by architect Antoine Predock. You'll also hear about the iSTART Children's Art Festival she launched in 2014, handing the museum's walls over to kids instead of professionals.
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