Body Experience

Art gallery is an artwork exhibition space for collection, education，research,transmission not only includes the art museum, art galleries and other large-scaleofficial exhibition space but also including the private or commercial art gallery.Meanwhile, with the diversified context abandoned factories, private apartmentand stations are also new art exhibition place. The traditional art galleries focuson the basic functions of collection, research, education, transmission. Howevermodern art exhibition in addition to the traditional basic function, also hascreated a new steering focus on body feeling for the audience. Focusing on thebody feeling in the gallery deepen the audience understanding of art and retrievalof art knowledge.Body is an enduring topic in the history of western philosophy. Philosophersin the past systematically discussed the relationship between body and mind, thetraditional body’s philosophical thoughts evolved from“mind-body dualism”tomodern“body monism”. In mass consumer society, people pay more attention to thebody than ever before, modern society is an era of “body first”, the environmentof the body is becoming increasingly important. The developments of informationtechnology provide more updated media for art gallery transmission. Media changeprovides technical support for contemporary art exhibition in the body feeling.In the post-modern art, body participating in the whole process of artwork creationis both the subject and media. Body experience feeling promote the body exhibitionin contemporary art.In the contemporary art gallery, adjustment of the exhibition space, displaymanner type and public services strategy adapt to the new turning pattern forcontemporary art exhibition. Strategy adjustments of Art gallery reflect thethought of regarding visitors’ experience as center in the exhibition. Artgalleries gradually transform the system of the core from traditional “content”to the “people”. Art exhibition comes into a new stage.This paper makes great arguments via the clue of body feeling in the art exhibition display with the method of comparative study and large numbers ofexamples. The first chapter mainly discusses the art gallery development history,analysis the display characteristics based on the comment of art exhibition hallin different historical period. The second chapter analyze the reason for focuson the body feeling in the contemporary art exhibition from several aspects ofphilosophy thought, reality context, modern media development, the theory ofartistic body creation.The third chapter is the key of this paper, focusing onthe analysis of repose strategy of the contemporary art gallery body turning,dividing into three parts respectively discussed from the strategy adjustment ofexhibition space, diversified display types and improved public service. Thefourth chapter is the summary part, discuss opportunities of body-oriented andproblems existed in the contemporary art exhibition display.