This is a super funky neighborhood which is hard to really give the feel of, but these pictures do do it justice.
The maze of streets are filled with little galleries, and it is an area associated with art and artists.
Tian Zifang is the earliest
recorded painter in China. Mr. Huang reworded the last word ‘fang 方'
into ‘fang 坊' meaning mill, quarter, lane or workshop. The stele with
Tianzifang written on it was hung over the entrance of Lane 210 in 2002.
Chen Yifei, one of
China's most renowned contemporary artists, took over two abandoned
factory buildings in Lane 210, Taikang Road, and converted them into his
oil painting, sculpture, fashion and photograph studios in 1998. The
cross-street sculpture - 'Art Door' designed by Cheng Yifei now stands
at the eastern end of Taikang Road, famed as the 'Icon of Taikang Art
Street'. Monthly opera concert in Deke Erh Art Center become regular
community gathering. Then resident artists from ten countries and
regions followed suit. The name of Tianzifang is coined by Huang Yongyu,
the dean in Chinese painting circle.
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