June 27 in Hamburg, Germany, has opened another exhibition of Asian Made In China. Local Specialized ArtChina Gallery is scheduled top 30 contemporary Chinese artists, including the real stars of Asian Contemporary art Zhan Xiaogang, Fang Lijun and Yue Mintszyunya. Much of the work the German public sees the first time.
"Made in China" fits into the overall philosophy of the gallery. The main objective ArtChina Gallery - acquaint the public the diversity of Chinese contemporary art. At this time the emphasis is on its newest segment: the exhibition will feature works created after 2000.
Interest in one picture to the Chinese Contemporary-art fully consonant with the fresh trend of world art market: Asian contemporary art has become fashionable in the West. For a mixture of Chinese socialist realism, kitsch and ironic game with advertising symbols Europeans and Americans are willing to pay millions of dollars.
The real cynicism. Portraits of children and adults with sad faces and skin color of acid - corporate handwriting Zhan Xiaogang, founder of the movement "cynical realism"
The real cynicism. Portraits of children and adults with sad faces and skin color of acid - corporate handwriting Zhan Xiaogang, founder of the movement "cynical realism"
East - West. Xin Tszyuntsin, like most of his colleagues, inspired by both the socialist past and capitalist present China
East - West. Xin Tszyuntsin, like most of his colleagues, inspired by both the socialist past and capitalist present China
Artists
Back in 1990 every Chinese artist should consider himself lucky if he managed to sell the painting for $ 500. Render the buyer, as a rule, foreigners - employees of diplomatic services, and leisure sympathizers. True, to a small audience that artists are not always able to break through: their work often suffer from government censorship.
Zhang Xiaogang is now one of the major Chinese art stars. He experienced the all the charm of living contemporary artist in China. During the Cultural Revolution, he even visited the camp for reeducation of adolescents. After 20 years, already in the early 90's, when formed "cynical realism" - corporate identity Xiaogang, artist barred. The ban was lifted only in 1997.
International success came Xiaogan in 2006, when the famous London collector and gallery owner Charles Saatchi bought it at Christie's auction painting "Big Family" for $ 1.5 million now earn 50-year-old artist range from $ 500 thousand to $ 3 million
Colleagues Xiaogang also complain, most of them have become multimillionaires. For example, Wang Guangya, the famous series of paintings, criticizing the style of the Cultural Revolution, lives in a luxurious villa at Beijing and drives a Jaguar. Y Yue Mintszyunya creating kitsch figures, a mansion with suites and spacious studio in the suburb of Beijing. And one more "cynical realist" Fang Lijun owns six restaurants and a small hotel.
In the near future top Chinese artists are unlikely to need to change their habits and give up luxuries. If in 2004 the auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's rescued from the sales of Asian (mainly Chinese) art in New York, London and Hong Kong U.S. $ 22 million, whereas in 2006 their income was $ 190 million, and prices continue to rise.
World TV. Television changes our perception of the world, says Liu Shiyao. To go back to their seats, he in his own television footage of changes
World TV. Television changes our perception of the world, says Liu Shiyao. To return
everything in its place, he in his own television footage of the changes
Buyers
Now picture the Chinese artists are buying not only foreigners but also local nouveaux riches. Australian Brian Wallace, who discovered 15 years ago in Beijing gallery "Red Gate", notes that a third of its customers - the citizens of China.
They warm up and the Asian art market. "Chinese buyers require the work of their famous compatriots, not even interested in the price," - says Chao Yuan, manager of the Beijing gallery "White space". The price of the product could double in just one month, she says, and notes that this situation is typical for China. In other countries there is nothing like not happening.
However, many players of international art market fears that the Chinese phenomenon - a bubble that in two or three year break. As noted by critics, artists are too concentrated on making money and throw creative experiments. Some of them, and do employ whole teams assistant to accelerate the creative process.
"I do not think that this is a bubble - a more optimistic Michelle Gedui, collector and owner of galleries in London and New York. - What is there, so this is speculation. The paradox is that in China only 20-30 customers. Another dozen new - and prices jump again. " The current situation, convinced Gedui, only the beginning of even more Chinese boom.
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In TsUMe opened an exhibition "China, go!", Prepared specially for Russia. Officially, it has made independent curator Camilla Pia Koper, and unofficially - Gallery Albert Benhamou. The exhibition is formally a non-profit, but clearly sets the task of moving to Russia a new "art of meat. The Chinese have long been in vogue, but their success is largely commercial in nature and in addition, at an exhibition in TsUMe shows quite banal, long untwisted things, mostly in the spirit of the Chinese social art. " OPENSPACE.RU asked artists, critics and curators, not hurt them if the Chinese social-art makes a more successful career than Russian.
Olga Sviblova, director of the Moscow House of Photography
In this vast country was a huge number of artists who have the same energy output today, which was in Russian art in the late 80's. The only difference is that the Chinese more! It is an art born of the transition from a closed to an open country. As Russian nonconformist, Chinese art, first bought the West. But we jumped into the market, and he immediately collapsed! The local market at that time had not yet emerged, and as a result formed a hole 90! And the Chinese came later, during a recession and the gradual restoration of the international market, and then they immediately formed a local. In this sense, they were more protected. And interest in them as to the market more.
Konstantin Zvezdochetov, artist
I'm not the first time Chinese people see it. What I did not see Chinese? For me there is no sensation in the Chinese art - they are just as primitive as we are. All people regardless of skin color is very primitive brain - all they think about the same. The only thing I least like their servility towards the West. But they are people more conscientious, less lazy than Russian. In Russian all at the petty trade on black market. Therefore, if we talk about the market, they are more competitive than we are.
Maxim Maslakov, CEO ArtMedia Group
I watched the Chinese face to face, when he lived in New York, and besides the basic course management took lessons in drawing. The Chinese are all very good scan and are usually issued skilled photorealism, but they have their own ideas a bit. During class, I noticed how they borrowed them from creative Argentines - Colombians. And on Fifth Avenue, where it's Arbat, sitting portrait painter, I saw that it was the Chinese forced the Americans and everyone else. Because they are just some printers.
Alexander Gospels, critic
Of course, there are no Chinese artists. Good very little, as elsewhere. And then just banal comics. Shit on exports. Mock art for an idea of how it should look like Chinese art. But I think the Chinese have several levels of simulations, and is represented here is not the highest. What was at Vinzavod during the 2-nd Moscow Biennale - was a serious and interesting. And here is a niche master artists of the second, third row. Their gallery owners feel the smell of Russian money, which need gentrification art.
Sergey Mironenko, an artist and designer
The Chinese, too, as communism was. This is the common meadow, where all the twigs and our artists, and their. But the Chinese social-art and very oglamurili otglyantsevali. I think when we had a social art, our idol was Joseph Kosuth. But when they started social art, the idol was already Jeff Koons.
Vlad Monroe, artist
The Chinese are still fuckers. But what they have excellent collectors who support this lohovstvo and allow them both to turn around! This is an exhibition and if you saw what was happening at Sotheby's, Christie .... Compared with the fact that there are selling our Arbat Perestroika motives - and the more difficult.
Elena Kuprin, gallery owner
Alien art is difficult to understand out of context. But I know it's hard. A couple of things interesting, but overall the exhibition a few wrong things and not the authors ... On the other auctions.
Irina Korina, artist
Chinese - very nice people. Probably. And the exhibition is really all very similar to us. Apparently, they wanted us to feel here at the exhibition at home. Very complimentary art. Ethnography, sorry, little - nothing but slanted eyes.
Arkady Nasonov, artist
This is terrible, but it grabs the world. Everything will be so. I have gradually eyes swim. In the morning I'm a Chinese evening Europeanized.
Yuri Albert, painter
Chinese - are no longer heroes. But in general I was very pleased that none of the Chinese people are not quoted by the magazine Krokodil. In Kostya Stargazer.
Andrei Kovalev, critic
It's boring to me. It's like in 1986. I have had a deja vu with the exhibition .... er ... some exhibition in Germany, the Russian non-conformists in 1995 ... Idem. All boring.
Diana Machulina, artist
I liked the sculpture in front. She is here to stay, in TsUMe. It's a collage of a book of Mayakovsky Rodchenko, where Lilya Brik shouting. Then the motif migrated to the advertising and the revolutionary image of the ideal way of the market. And here is a red figure looks like the call to go to Central Department Store - whatever that meant Chinese.
The exhibition "China, go!" Opened on the 4 th floor of Central Department Store until June 30,
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