The picture shows the exhibition site. Courtesy of Biyun Art Museum in Pudong, Shanghai
China News Online, March 3 (Reporter Li Shuzheng) The first cultural relics and artworks section set up at the Fourth Ciie Expo has become a new bright spot and a growth point: 41 cultural relics and artworks from 9 overseas exhibitors such as Christie's, Sotheby's and Ferguson's who participated in the exhibition for the first time completed the transaction, with a total value of 760 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
China News Network reporter saw at the Biyun Art Museum in Pudong, Shanghai on the 3rd that the first phase of the "Wind from the Sea - The Fourth China International Import Expo Cultural Relics and Artworks Public Welfare Exhibition" gathered 15 paintings that were traded tax-free through the Fourth Ciie Expo. These paintings come from modern masters such as Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi, Chang Yu, Fu Baoshi, Huang Binhong, and other modern art masters, as well as Nara Yoshitomo, Kusama Yayoi, and Liu Ye, contemporary Chinese and foreign masters.
The picture shows the interior of the exhibition hall. Courtesy of Biyun Art Museum in Pudong, Shanghai
It is reported that this public welfare exhibition is also the first time that these "famous paintings" that enjoy tax-free transactions have been exhibited to the public.
Among them, there are many Chinese cultural relics and art masterpieces that are rarely seen by the public. For example, Zhang Daqian's "Amazing Talent" and "Qiao Mu Fanghui", Qi Baishi's "Red Line Thief Box", Fu Baoshi's "Reading Map of Gao Ren", Huang Binhong's "Half a Million Volumes of Building Map" and so on. These cultural relics and artworks that were "returned" through the Expo remained in China.
The 15 works of art on display in this exhibition date from the first half of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The genre of works is based on Modern and Contemporary Chinese painting and calligraphy, as well as the world-renowned Asian contemporary artists and high-level Chinese Western paintings.
On the one hand, the exhibition classifies 15 top works in the form of two major parts of "Chinese modern and contemporary art" and "contemporary art" and multiple theme exhibition areas, and on the other hand, through the juxtaposition of Chinese and foreign artists' works, highlights the overlapping history of Chinese art, the history of the mixture of East and West, and the characteristics of the era of inclusiveness.
Entering the exhibition hall, the first thing that caught the reporter's eye was the "Century-old Master - Qi Baishi" exhibition area, showing the work of "Red Line Theft Box" by the old man of Baishi. In the exhibition area of "Double Walls on the Sea - Zhang Daqian and Huang Binhong", Zhang Daqian's "Hengtang Rain", "Dongdan Wang RenmaTu", "Amazing Talent" and "Qiao mu Fanghui" are presented juxtaposed, as well as Huang Binhong's masterpieces "500,000 Scrolls of Buildings" and "Pictures of the Depths of Xishan Mountain" in his later years, trying to reproduce the brilliant charm of the maritime painting world.
In the exhibition area of "Landscape Wizards - Fu Baoshi and Li Xiongcai", Fu Baoshi's "Reading Pictures of Tall People" and Li Xiongcai's "Yangtze River Bridge" are juxtaposed, intending to interpret the artistic historical significance of the two representatives of China's new landscape paintings.
Wu Guanzhong blended Chinese pen and ink and Western constructivism to form a unique artistic style, becoming a representative of Chinese art in the 20th century. Therefore, this public welfare exhibition set up an independent exhibition area "Jiangnan Talents - Wu Guanzhong" to present his understanding and innovation of Chinese and Western art. The works in the exhibition, "Self-Selected Collection" and "Jubilation", both belong to the transitional period of Wu Guanzhong in the 1970s and 1980s, which are of great exploratory and historical documentary value, and are of landmark significance in Wu's art.
"China's Matisse - Chang Yu" as the closing exhibition area of the Chinese modern and contemporary art section of this public welfare exhibition, the exhibition works are "Chrysanthemum Bottle on the Yellow Table".
The exhibition brings together 15 paintings that were traded tax-free through the Fourth CIIE. Courtesy of Biyun Art Museum in Pudong, Shanghai
The contemporary art section of the exhibition involves three authors, among whom Yayoi Kusama and Yoshitomo Nara are the star Japanese artists who have swept the Asian art market in recent years, and Liu Ye is a well-known contemporary Chinese artist and curator, who likes to express beautiful, cute and bright cartoon-like images, which adds a surreal meaning to his works.
According to the relevant announcements of China's officials, for cultural relics exhibits sold duty-free during the expo exhibition period, after completing a series of procedures such as subsequent purchase, payment, customs clearance and delivery, they will remain in China, and cultural relics exhibits that enjoy preferential tax policies will be encouraged to carry out public welfare display services for the public for not less than three years.
Public welfare display can not only better play the aesthetic value and social benefits of cultural relics and artworks that enjoy the tax exemption policy, but also continue to amplify the extension of the spillover effect of the Expo.
Relying on the Expo, which promotes the "main channel" of overseas cultural relics, Shanghai has become the "sea entrance" of international cultural relics and artworks.
According to official data, in 2021, Shanghai handled a total of 7,309 cultural relics in and out of the country, of which more than 2,000 were imported and exported through the Shanghai International Bonded Service Center for Cultural Relics and Artworks, with a value of 17 billion yuan, compared with 6 billion yuan in 2019 before the epidemic, an increase of nearly 3 times against the trend. (End)