On December 17, 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 met in Yangcheng to jointly open a wonderful art carnival at the end of 2021 and inject an artistic boom into the winter.
Among them, the highly anticipated first "GZAF International Art Award" award ceremony was held, kicking off the annual art award. Many well-known art circle celebrities and corporate celebrities formed a lineup of award-winning guests to witness this industry event. Shao Dazhen, Liu Jude and Dai Ze have made a number of remarkable achievements and achievements in their artistic practice and theoretical research for many years, 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.
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. 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. The works exhibited at the meeting include "Qiankun Dayi", "Great Beauty of China", "Tang Poetry" and other series, with historical great people, Chinese landscapes, and residential houses as the performance content, the scene of the sky breaking clouds, high mountains and trees, deep valleys like the abyss, intuitively showing the audience the magnificent and ink-colored beauty of Chinese art.
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 theme exhibition activity of "promoting art exchanges and boosting cultural consumption" is the focus of this year's Guangzhou Art Fair, and nearly 70% of the works of art institutions and artists have been sold on the first day of opening. In addition to the gratifying trading of original works of art, there are also cultural and creative derivative products of art on the spot, presenting a year-end cultural consumption feast for the majority of art lovers. At present, with the continuous deepening and development of China's economy, people's living standards continue to improve, the public spiritual consumption demand is growing, from the perspective of on-site transactions, cultural consumption enthusiasm continues to rise, which continues to stimulate the development vitality of traditional culture and art.
It is reported that this year's Guangzhou Art Fair lasts for 4 days, with a site scale of more than 20,000 square meters, with the theme of "focusing on global vision, analyzing the trend of purchasing, reconstructing the art market, and leading the aesthetics of life", through theme exhibitions, aesthetic salons and other forms of presentation, around the academic, market, collection, life and other topics and directions to extend, all-round display of artistic charm, release of artistic energy.