The fourth Bund Art Season, jointly organized by Fosun Foundation, the Bund Financial Center, and Yuyuan Garden Malls was unveiled on July 27. A series of events will go on until Aug 25.

One of the first events to open was the new exhibition of William Wegman entitled Favorite Models, which features Wegman’s most representative photographs taken with his dogs. These portraits show dogs in sunglasses, hats and various outfits with seemingly human expressions.

Pet owners were encouraged to bring their dogs along to see the exhibition on the opening weekend, when the Bund Financial Center was open to dogs and other pets, too.

An integral part of the project, Boom Art Festival is taking place on two consecutive weekends along Fengjing Road by the Fosun Foundation through Aug 4.

The festival features the theme “Everyone is an Artist”, an idea proposed by German artist Joseph Beuys. The art market place on Jul 27 and 28 showcased more than 100 artists, who brought their creations involving illustration, independent designs, lifestyle, pet products and so on.

Among the pavilions was an interactive exhibition hosted by Tian Ziming, Zhang Jiacheng and Li Ziyu, who are the founders of Art Heals, a charity initiative that helps lung disease patients and autistic children. “We paid visit to them, offered them tools for painting and sat to paint together with them,” Tian said at the Art Heals pavilion, where self-portraits by the people they worked with are showcased.

“Art helped me to access their inside world,” he said. “The health condition may have constricted their physical being, but underneath they have beautiful personality, love for life and such colorful dreams. That’s what we try to present through their creation.”

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