太阳山艺术中心

太阳山艺术中心坐落于大芬村深处，始建于2006年，共三层，展厅总面积3000多平方米。创始人陈求之先生别具匠心地将中国传统建筑艺术融合在其空间艺术创作之中，使得艺术中心糅合了徽派、客家、京派、苏州园林及现代设计等诸多元素。

陈求之先生出生于安徽，自小便受到中国传统文化熏陶，1992年来到深圳大芬从事艺术创作经营，后受千年古藤“坚韧而开张”的启发，便有了动手兴建一处雅境的想法，2006年租用大芬村旧民房进行设计改造，至此一发不可收拾：穿山入林收集素材，自己设计古木家具。他善于借用古旧的建筑构件，农村里古老弃置不用的农具、石制品，形状各异的石磙，造船用的木头，这些古老的材料和部件经过他的发掘后，变身成为太阳山艺术创作的一部分。

在太阳山的厅堂里，最引人瞩目的是一面残旧的老墙。这面老墙原是当地客家建筑的一部分，原建筑大部分被台风摧毁了，当工人们正在拆除老墙的时候，陈求之先生刚巧经过，一眼便被这面墙的古旧残缺之美所吸引，他当即叫停，才让这面老墙得以保留。如今它就是太阳山艺术中心的点睛之笔，吸引着来自世界各地的人。

太阳山是集展览展厅、多功能厅、会议厅、咖啡厅、茶室、美食、书吧、美术教育于一体的艺术中心，这里环境优雅，风格传统却不失现代时尚：古典的中式建筑，带你聆听岁月的回响；现代化的展览展厅、多功能厅、会议室，为艺术家、学者们提供作品展示、学术研究和交流的场所。古琴悠悠，读诗品茶，坐看闲庭花开花落；午后阳光，让咖啡的香气弥漫其间，品尝一份美味的糕点，再翻阅一本让人心生愉悦的画册，足矣。书法写意，于挥毫间尽舒胸臆；油画唯美，用画面直抒情怀。美术教育，开拓视野，见此前之所未见；开放心态，知此前之所未知；开启心智，学之前之所未学。

相较于现代化的美术馆，太阳山艺术中心独有的古朴氛围让人仿若置身于一个穿越时空的古宅，庭院清幽，唯美雅致，青砖黛瓦，古色生香，游鱼流水、花草树木点缀其间。至乎美，止於此。

Founded in 2006, Sunrise Art Center is located in the far end of Dafen Village. The three-story building covers an exhibition area of over 3,000 square meters. Mr. Chen Qiuzhi, the founder of Sunrise, has ingeniously integrated traditional Chinese architectural art into the space, making it a combination of Anhui, Hakka, Beijing, Suzhou architectural styles and modern design.

Born in Anhui Province, Mr. Chen was deeply influenced by traditional Chinese culture in his childhood. Having starting his art business in Dafen, Shenzhen in 1992, he was inspired by the features of ancient vines - tough and open - and came up with the idea of building an elegant space of his own. In 2006, he rented an old house in Dafen Village for redesign and renovation.Hence, he was never able to hold himself back: he has traveled through mountains and forests to gather ancient wood for furniture design; he has skillfully and imaginatively used the old architecture components, including abandoned farm implements, stone products, stone rollers in varied shapes and timbers for shipbuilding,all of which finally added artistic beauty to Sunrise.

In the hall, you’ll immediately notice a weathered wall, which was originally part of an old Hakka house that had been ruined by typhoon. When the workers were tearing down the wall, Mr. Chen happened to walk by. He immediately stopped the workers, as he was fascinated by its beauty of dilapidation at first sight. That’s how the wall survived. Now, the wall has become a highlight of Sunrise and appeals to visitors from all over the world.

Sunrise now has an exhibition hall, a multi-function hall, a conference hall, a cafe, a tearoom, a bookstore and an art education center. The environment is elegant, traditional yet stylish: the classical Chinese architecture presents you the glamor of history, while the modern facilities of exhibition hall, multi-function hall and conference hall provide artists and scholars with a place for exhibition, academic research and communication. Sitting in the garden, you can read poems and sip tea, enjoying the beautiful scenery with classical Chinese music; you can also taste delicious cakes and browse a good album in the aroma of coffee. Calligraphy is enjoyable and oil painting is aesthetic, both expressing one’s true feelings. Art education broadens people’s horizon so they can see things new; it opens up their mind, so they can know things new; it also illuminates them, so they can learn things new. In Sunrise, you’ll be able to enjoy all these services.

Compared with other modern art museums, Sunrise, with its unique atmosphere of primitive simplicity, seems like an old mansion to which the audience has traveled back in time. Here, the courtyard is tranquil, aesthetic and tasteful, with blue bricks and black tiles creating the classical beauty, with fish and flowing streams, flowers and trees adding more vitality. What a beautiful place!