四川美术学院美术馆

Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Art Museum, also known as Luo Zhongli Art Museum, sits inside the Huxi campus of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute at 56 Daxuecheng South Road in Chongqing’s High-tech Zone (Shapingba District). Completed and opened on 14 October 2015, it is a provincial-level museum combining the roles of public art museum and university museum. It covers 23,700 square metres with 12,000 square metres of gallery space, organised as nine temporary galleries and two permanent ones, plus a lobby, atrium, plaza, VIP room, meeting rooms and media screening room that allow openings, lectures, forums and salons to run alongside exhibitions. The building was designed by artists Luo Zhongli and Hao Dapeng among others, arranged as an enclosed cluster of freely composed volumes; its facades are clad in a giant mosaic of waste ceramic tiles bought from factories, forming figures, trees and flowers and described as the world’s largest architectural surface covered by a coloured tile pattern — a low-cost but highly recognisable skin. The museum draws on the institute’s teaching and studio resources, focuses on the forefront of Chinese contemporary art and significant academic questions, and serves as a platform for young artists and inter-school exchange; the same organisation also runs the Chongqing Contemporary Art Museum at 108 Huangjueping Main Street in Jiulongpo District. Set in the middle of the university town with campuses and creative parks nearby, it suits large exhibitions, graduation shows, academic forums and youth-oriented brand culture projects; open 9:00-17:00, last entry 16:30, closed Mondays, enquiry telephone +86 177 8408 0200.