For this edition, Cai Guo-Qiang has invited Ni Tsai Chin, Director of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, to exhibit.
Ni Tsai Chin began his career as a painter and over the years has become one of the most important contemporary art critics in Taiwan and China, in addition to having taught at various universities. The first exhibition that Ni Tsai Chin organized as director at the National Gallery was in fact an exhibition by Cai Guo-Qiang, and now with the Colle di Val d’Elsa project, Cai wants to create a role reversal. Ni Tsai Chin will design works specifically for the arches of the San Francesco bridge.
Throughout the opening day, the Director's and Curator's offices of the Museum will be reconstructed under an archway. Additionally, a desk will be set up from which brochures about the city of Colle, as well as about the UMoCA Museum, will be distributed, along with merchandise bearing the Museum's logo. Furthermore, during the opening event, individuals dressed in museum uniforms will be present for security. Cai Guo-Qiang has already built two other SMoCA Museums in China and a DMoCA in Japan; UMoCA will be the first European museum.
