For this edition, Cai Guo-Qiang invited Ni Tsai Chin, Director of the National Gallery of Taiwan, to exhibit at the Museum.
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.
During the inauguration day, under one of the arches, the office of the museum director and that of the curator will be reconstructed. Additionally, a desk will be set up where brochures about the city of Colle as well as about the UMoCA Museum and gadgets with the Museum’s logo will be distributed. There will also be, limited to the time of the inauguration, people dressed in museum uniforms for surveillance. Cai Guo-Qiang has already built two other museums: SMOCA in China, DMOCA in Japan, and UMoCA will be the first European museum.
