The Beijing Contemporary Art Fair should be bolder in supporting young artists
Wen, Cao Xi Frog
On October 13, the Beijing Contemporary Art Fair opened in the National Agricultural Exhibition Hall, 13-14 is the VIP day for industry professionals to see first, 15-17 is a public day for the public, tickets for the public are 88 yuan for early birds, 120 yuan for singles, 88 yuan for students and the elderly, 180 yuan for doubles, and 260 yuan for three people. This time, there are more than 90 exhibitors, 6 on-site units of the art fair, more than 60 top galleries in the world, 8000+ art masterpieces, and 16 artists in the public space of the art fair showed their carefully created works.
Bao Dong, artistic director of Beijing Contemporary Art Fair, said that the foreign galleries invited by their art fair are all galleries related to Chinese artists, and there is no invitation to artists from other countries who only pay attention to China's art market and simply come to China to peddle their own promotion, I am afraid that this is the difference between Beijing Contemporary Art Fair and other art fairs, that is, the careful cultivation of Chinese contemporary art localization, but also the advocacy of Chinese contemporary art values, and also the focus of The Art Fair with a unique perspective of Chinese contemporary art.
The Beijing Contemporary Art Fair opened at the Agricultural Exhibition Hall
Although the relevant departments of the state still hold a wait-and-see mentality for the development of contemporary art, and they still can't grasp whether to come up with a policy of support or suppression, this responsibility naturally has its own problems in the contemporary art community, there are also the problems of the construction of contemporary artists themselves, and even the value of contemporary art, and individual artists have always held a wrong view of art, especially the mentality is problematic, such as the globalization and localization of art, freedom and justice, ecology and nature, politics and government, political parties and laws, citizens and art. Many artists themselves can not distinguish clearly, there is no difference with the ordinary people, and even less than the ordinary people's door is clear, so their art works not only can not give the viewer moisture, but cause the viewer to resent, complaining that others do not understand his art.
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The contemporary art industry is not frozen, and contemporary art is different from the intensification of traditional art to intervene in reality. The intervention of art has the intervention of cooperation, there is also the intervention of non-cooperation, and there is more opposition and confrontation of different opinions, but it is not a simple political intervention, it is still the intervention of art, it can be the opposition, but it is not necessarily reactionary, it can also be a construction faction, but it can be a suggestionist, it is first and foremost the avant-garde of art, and then it is inspired thought, this artistic thought is philosophical, it may also be political, but it is definitely not political or policy propaganda. Political propaganda, even if it is not reactionary, it is not art in the strict sense, in real life there are often some political propaganda projects executed by well-known artists, but it cannot be confused with the art of political expression and political propaganda because of this individual case, in any case, even if the political propaganda materials in which well-known artists participate are still political propaganda materials, although at this time there is some overlap and overlap between political propaganda and art, of course, the more overlap and intersection of real art and real political propaganda, the easier it is to get the resonance of the heart. But the strict distinction between the two should not be overlooked, especially since the artist himself cannot lose his artistic independence and become a vassal of politics.
Ding Qiufa Oil painting "Zodiac Pig"
Chinese contemporary art, if it still retains its own independence, or cherishes its own independence from beginning to end, it will not lose its artistic avant-garde, because as long as it emphasizes independence, avant-garde, contemporary, and intervention, it will always maintain the modernity of current art, which is the secret of contemporary art, and the scientific nature of the materials and methods of contemporary art is secondary. Of course, contemporary art attaches great importance to materials and methods, because modern science has made leaps and bounds in development, and the absorption and utilization of this new material often involves the development and possession of energy, which brings many new problems, evolving into new materials, new energy, the possession and distribution of new wealth, which has caused new social problems, but suddenly makes the problem of materials become the focus of art, but in fact it is still an old problem, but the method of solving can not use old methods and old concepts. Therefore, on the basis of modern culture, postmodern culture is developed.
Shen Shubin Oil painting "China's Table"
Human beings always have a kind of cultural inertia, willing to stay in the comfort zone, but change is the norm of society, each generation has its own childhood, passion period, only in the middle and old age to tend to be consistent, but the artist's passion period will often be extended to middle age, because the artist has to be 30 years old, 40 years old will enter his first period of fame, so generally speaking, if you choose the art industry, it means that his passion period will always be accompanied by a bitter period, this kind of bitterness is the price of the pursuit of art, Because the more thinking people mature later, most of them will be a small group of angry and unsociable people in their youth. Compared with Western society, due to the large population base, social development has been relatively fast in recent years, and the attention of the art ecological environment to young artists is still excellent, and excellent artists can attract attention at the age of 30, and often do not attract attention until the age of 40 abroad. But the commercial environment of Chinese art is not mature, and immaturity means that academic support is poor, which also means more commercial speculation, and there will be a pile of contemporary art fairs.
Liu Zhifeng Oil painting "City"
Looking at it, the various art fairs are still the same, most of them are fighting for resources and staying up for time, and basically lack the Chinese road of bold innovation, large capital investment, and breaking out of the world art world art scene with Chinese characteristics. China's contemporary art scene calls for more contemporary art fairs, and even more calls for boldly developing an innovative operation model that conforms to China's national conditions, on the one hand, introducing a mature Western model, on the other hand, developing a unique operation mode of the China Art Fair according to the national conditions of Chinese art. It cannot be said that the art fair only focuses on young artists, but it should be closer to young people. For example, in the planning of activities, exhibition fees, various units to support the gallery of young artists, in view of the large number of young professional artists in China, strive to develop different young artist support program art fair model, more to the young artists to divert some traffic support, especially those who have not yet had the opportunity to enter the gallery law, rather than a rush of galleries that only focus on supporting mature and well-known artists, according to the characteristics of the Internet era to do some young artists and galleries, The exchange and help between collectors, especially the increase of some young artists and galleries and collectors exchange projects, these are not available in foreign art fairs.
October 14, 2021 at the Moon Palace in Beijing