On December 17th, the 26th Autumn Guangzhou International Art Fair (hereinafter referred to as the 26th Guangzhou Art Fair) was officially opened at the Guangzhou Nanfeng International Convention and Exhibition Center, and nearly 200 artists and art institutions from all over the country and overseas regions met in Yangcheng to jointly open a wonderful art carnival.
With the theme of "Focusing on Global Vision, Analyzing the Trend of Purchasing, Reconstructing the Art Market, and Leading the Aesthetics of Life", this year's Guangzhou Art Fair lasts for 4 days and a venue size of more than 20,000 square meters, through theme exhibitions, aesthetic salons and other forms of presentation, extends around academic, market, collection, life and other topics and directions, and shows the charm of art in an all-round way.
Lu Yushun's academic exhibition conveys the classics of the context
This year's Guangzhou Art Fair will create the "Great Beauty of Heaven and Earth - Academic Exhibition of Chinese Painting by Lu Yushun, President of the National Academy of Painting of China", and more than 30 Chinese paintings from President Lu Yushun will be shockingly unveiled. The works exhibited this time include "Qiankun Dayi", "Great Beauty of China", "Tang Poetry" and other series, with historical greats, Chinese landscapes, and residential houses as the performance content, the scene of the sky breaking clouds, the mountains are high and the trees are green, and the deep valleys are like the abyss, which intuitively shows the audience the magnificent and ink-colored beauty of Chinese art.
The Great Beauty of Heaven and Earth - Academic Exhibition of Chinese Painting by Lu Yushun, President of the National Academy of Painting of China
According to the organizers, this theme exhibition is the first cooperation between President Lu Yushun and Guangzhou Art Fair, spanning the north and south, and is a new artistic exchange and classic transmission. Guangzhou Art Fair has always paid attention to the bearing role of art in history and context, and is committed to promoting the promotion and development of China's excellent culture. President Lu Yushun's Chinese paintings, not only have a profound foundation of pen and ink, but also profoundly contain the harmonious and tranquil landscape homeland spirit, is the profound accumulation of traditional Chinese culture and contemporary continuation, through the presentation of his works, to convey positive artistic value, improve the audience's artistic aesthetic awareness, promote artist exchanges, is the important significance of holding this theme exhibition.
Leng Jun, Jin Shangyi, Shao Dazhen, Liu Jude and Dai Ze stunning Yangcheng
Focusing on the frontiers of contemporary art creation and research, Guangzhou Art Fair has always presented a new form of contemporary art in a diversified era with a broad vision. At this year's Guangzhou Art Fair, the works of the famous contemporary surrealist painter Leng Jun made a stunning appearance on the spot, and the delicate and nuanced brushstrokes interpreted what is the ultimate meticulousness, bringing a visual shock to the audience and an experience beyond time and space.
At the same time, Yueyang Space carefully planned the works of four modern and contemporary artists, focusing on the works of Dai Ze, Jin Shangyi, Shao Dazhen and Liu Jude, in order to explore the infinite possibilities of painting art, bring visual enjoyment to the audience at the same time, but also triggered the discussion of the art world on "how to innovatively construct painting art in the context of contemporary culture" and "how contemporary painting art resets the relationship between time and space and art".
Yang Yuanyi's photography exhibition shows the beauty of nature and humanities
As one of the important theme exhibitions of this year's Guangzhou Art Fair, "If the End of the World Is Nearby - Yang Yuanyi Photography Art Exhibition" received great attention from the audience and became the focus of the exhibition site. The exhibition exhibits 40 classic photographic works by Yang Yuanyi, chairman of the International Alliance of Silk Road National Photography Organizations, chairman of the China Art Photography Society, and executive chairman of the Beijing International Photography Week Organizing Committee, focusing on Yang Yuanyi's photographic artistic achievements in recent years.
The photographic content exhibited in the exhibition involves many countries and regions around the world, recording the colorful natural geographical scenery and historical and cultural landscapes of various places, and also recording Yang Yuanyi's artistic travel footprints over the years. From the elven world of the Arctic to the small islands in the southern hemisphere, from Eurasia to Africa and South America, Yang Yuanyi uses his unique and keen lens language and artistic perspective to capture the touching moments of people and things, freeze the beautiful natural picture, express the concept of a harmonious home adjacent to the five continents, bring the audience a double wonderful experience of vision and soul, and also reflect Yang Yuanyi's love for life and nature.
The gallery of art symphony, the theme exhibition area blooms
The three major art theme exhibitions, curated by Peng Wenbin, artistic director of Guangzhou Art Fair, are worth stopping and admiring, including the "Four Elephants Wuji" Chinese landscape painting theme exhibition composed of four artists, Chen Yingxin, Sun Xiaodong, Wang Zuojun and Xu Huaxin; the "Meaning of the Orient" oil painting art theme exhibition composed of works by Four artists: Jin Fan, Li Xuemei, Ou Yang and Zhou Tieli; the "Meaning of the Orient" oil painting art theme exhibition composed of xie Tianci, He Qi, Liao Zhenwu, Lei Zhenhua, Su Yifeng, Su Maolong, Xu Hunjun, Xu Dongsheng, Mo Bingru, Zhang Liheng's 11 artists' works are a contemporary art theme exhibition of "New Bio language".
Exhibition site
"The artists participating in these three theme exhibitions have a good performance in the fields of Chinese painting, oil painting and contemporary art, and the works presented have their own unique ideas, both academic value and market potential, with real uniqueness and innovation, and it is worth using greater efforts to promote the public and produce more beautiful collisions." Peng Wenbin said.
International youth works, so that art across the domain exchange
At this year's Guangzhou Art Fair, in addition to China's local art works, there are also many works from overseas artists, among which the most enjoyable and unforgettable is the exhibition "From the moment the universe exploded, all atoms began a long parting - contemporary international youth small works exhibition" curated by Guan Linyun (Guan Xinran).
In addition to Guan Xinran, the exhibition area also brings together paintings and sculptures by five artists from the United States, Iran and other countries and regions, including Nandan He, Kailey Barthel, Mahsa R. Fard, Taraneh Mosadegh, Lucy Nordlinger and other countries and regions. Through a simple and abstract visual presentation, the work expresses the profound idea of cosmic exploration, which not only shows the different cultural connotations and values of the East and the West, the rich inner world of the artist, but also makes the audience feel the multi-faceted, possibility, new vision and new image of contemporary art.
In today's art world with many painting genres, Russian oil painting has always been a strange flower that should not be underestimated. In this year's Guangzhou Art Fair, the Russian Theme Pavilion exhibited a number of series of works such as Russian character portraits and character landscape oil paintings, with its unique style and profound humanistic connotation, so that Chinese audiences can feel the great charm of Russian oil painting at close range.
The first International Art Awards to create a grand festival of oriental art
It is worth mentioning that the art fair held the first "GZAF International Art Award" award ceremony.
A total of 11 awards were set up at the award ceremony, and the award-winning artists expressed the spirit of the contemporary, the classics of tradition, the depth of the context, and the considerable artistic value, innovation value and communication value, and set an example for the creation of contemporary artists.
Among them, Shao Dazhen, Liu Jude and Dai Ze have made a number of remarkable achievements and achievements with years of artistic practice and theoretical research, and have made important contributions to promoting the development of culture and art, and won the "Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award" specially issued by the organizing committee.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Xiaolei