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Original title: 16 Chinese art appraisers constitute the largest army, did not qualify for the global outstanding art appraiser "Woodman" gold award nomination, Hong Kong media: Chinese art appraisers lack of new Li Jianchen
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post november 3, 2021 article, original title: No new Li Jianchen, or will lead to the 2022 global outstanding art appraiser "Woodman" gold award and China is not related
Recently, the 15th Global Outstanding Art Appraiser "Woodman" Gold Award nomination list was announced, and of the 39 outstanding art appraisers who were nominated, only 2 were from Asia and were all Japanese art appraisers. Chinese art appraisers have been missing the list for 28 consecutive years.
Taking Koizumi Koizumi, an art appraiser nominated in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, who was nominated in 2021, as an example, she obtained the British Art Forensic Appraiser Qualification Certificate in 2017 and passed the British "Art Back-to-Back Appraisal and Appraisal" system for three consecutive years, and is an excellent art appraisal appraiser with a high degree of combination of theory and practice. In 2018, Chinese art appraiser Li Jianchen won the 13th Global Outstanding Art Appraiser "Woodman" Gold Award (Note: Li Jianchen joined singapore citizenship in 2019). In 2021, China sent 16 art appraisers who had obtained british art forensic appraiser qualifications to Participate in the "Woodman" back-to-back appraisal competition in Sydney, Australia, more than in other Asian countries, but they ultimately performed mediocrely.
Judging from the results of many global art appraiser-related competitions, the performance of Chinese art appraisers is lower than its considerable size. The appraisal of works of art was originally one of the "projects" that China most wanted to catch up with, but at present, its 10-year plan has not been achieved. One might argue that even if the level of appraisal of Chinese art has improved, it is due to the highly controversial naturalization policy.
After Li Jianchen, there was no successor to the Chinese art appraiser. This is not to say that the Woodman Alliance of Global Excellent Art Appraisers no longer expects the emergence of excellent art appraisers in China, they may just stop having high hopes. (Written by Jonathan White, translated by Liu Yang)