Art Beijing

(30.04.2016 - 03.05.2016)

http://www.artbeijing.net/

Art Beijing
Peking
China

Locally Based and Asia-Oriented—Art Beijing 2016 Is Around the Corner

The year 2016 marks the 11th edition of Art Beijing as a local premier large-scale art fair. Around 160 selected exhibitors not only from the mainland of China but also United States, Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Singapore, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Taiwan and Hong Kong participate in Art Beijing 2016. The overall quality this year is even higher, as part of the effort to turn Art Beijing into one of the most important art fairs in all of Asia.


Art Beijing 2016 will cover a total show area of over 25,000 square meters, again made up of four sections, namely the Contemporary Pavilion, the Classic Pavilion, the Design Pavilion, and the Art Park – a public art area joining the three pavilions together. All of the sections will showcase richer contents to be presented in a variety of interesting ways to continue to meet the collectors’ and audience’s expectations. The show period will be May 1 to May 3, with a VIP preview on April 30.


The Contemporary Pavilion

Based on the core idea of "Locally Based and Asia-Oriented", Art Beijing 2016 will have “Find ASIA” as its theme, consisting of such projects as "Find” and “ASIA plus". Of them, "Find" will imbue the art fair with more Asian elements, with a view to promoting Asian emerging artists and their works, hand in hand with 11 Asian-based galleries, familiarizing more collectors and visitors with Asian arts.


For the “ASIA plus” project, the booths are not only larger but also more flexible than the standard ones so that the exhibitors can plan their booths and present more complete, larger-scale and more thematic art projects according to their own concepts. The six main “ASIA plus” art institutions are: Eslite Gallery from Taiwan, Arario Shanghai Gallery from South Korea, Fine-Art Photography Association of Japan, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, TANG Contemporary Art Center and MEBO Culture in mainland China. Fine-Art Photography Association of Japan will be jointly represented at the art fair by five galleries including Taka Ishii Gallery and Photo Gallery International.

There will be a lot of new blood in the Contemporary Pavilion, with 20-plus galleries as first-timers, including: On/gallery of mainland China, Leo Gallery and Luice Chang Fine Arts from Hong Kong, Bluerider ART Gallery from Taiwan, Sokyo Gallery from Kyoto, and the Taka Ishii Gallery, which is one of the members of the Fine-Art Photography Association from Japan.


The Classic Pavilion

This year, over 20 galleries in the Classic Pavilion, such as Eart Gallery from Toronto, Galerie Collection from France, and Toulouse Antique Gallery from the US, will bring a wide range of art pieces from 16th-century antique furniture and classical western oil paintings and sculptures to the silk screen prints by 20th-century pop artist Andy Warhol. On show at Gu Feng Tang will be such great artworks as sculpture Mercurius by Giovanni Da Bologna, a sculptor in the later stage of the Renaissance, and oil paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Fang Yuan Art Gallery will be exhibiting furniture from the Renaissance period, the famous sculpture Kiss by French realistic sculptor Auguste Rodin, and rare engravings by surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Hang Shiang Art Gallery will show oil paintings by Russian artists such as Andrei Milnikov and Repin Nikolay Nikitovich. Classic Jen will portray the interior of a 19th-century aristocratic mansion with oil paintings, antique furniture and sculptures, with Belle Epoque as the theme. In terms of genre, style and exhibition, the Classic Pavilion will be more abundant and colorful.


The Design Pavilion

Last year, Design Beijing, a sub-brand of Art Beijing, presented itself as an independent pavilion and was widely acclaimed by the press and audience. In 2016, Design Beijing will introduce specially planned projects in style. At our invitation, Alessandro Mendini, an iconic Italian maestro, will not only present his typical design classics but also share his crossover work especially designed for Design Beijing in collaboration with famous South Korean artist Jang Seung-Hyo.


Apart from the specially planned projects, Design Beijing 2016 has attracted dozens of design brands and art galleries from all over the world, including famous European branding agency IN TO LIVING, typical Chinese-style furniture brand BANMOO, JAIPUR from India, Klaus Boesch Sand Art Gallery from Austria, and South Korean designing brand De Bang, as well as others, which will stage their audacious avant-garde design works at the Design Beijing pavilion. We expect each and every visitor to Design Beijing to be able to feel and witness the wonders and sparks of the clash between art, design and life.


Public Art

ART PARK- special project for public art of “ART BEIJING”, combined operated by “ART BEIJING” and Beijing TongYi International Culture & Art Co., LTD, the first show was in ART BEIJING decennial 2015. Following “Idea City, Art Intervention”, themed with “Art for tomorrow” in 2016, the “ART PARK” focuses on the trend of art publicity, explores the function of art integrating with public, thinks the relationship between natural and city, and also carries out children public art experience project. “For tomorrow” is an attitude not only for zoology, education, cities we live in but also the future for people. We take a positive way in active intervention to promote art to participate the construction of urban optimization, environment protection and society progress.


It tries on more possibility of public art, focuses on the function for future society development of art, for this year, the creation from architect , art education and ecological public will be new. It contains three exhibitions and two forums, variety form works from different vision of Art Invention public space and multiple subjects will be encouraged. Main venue in Agriculture Exhibition Centre and parallel sessions will be concomitant, YueMu Art Intervention Original Public Art Exhibition in Chaoyang Joy City, On the corner International Contemporary Art Exhibition in ShunYi, 3D print and influence of artworks realization from digitization will be in the forums, Art Intervention practice cases and deep analysis communication will be included.


“Art Intervention special fund” for this year could help the artworks become true for artists, the first 5 supported artists’ works are finished and will show in ART PARK this year. For continuous trying and research, we plan to start “the year of artistic master” and Top 10 in quarter selecting activities. We hope to collect the artists’ work and scheme from home and abroad during more extensive scope, based on the examining from Art Committee, support the selected artists in the form of money, technology and market, for better development of public art’s integration during relevant field.


Exhibited artists ( alphabet sequence)


Bi Heng, Che Fei, Chen Zhanhui, Christopher•Gabarron, Guo Zilong, Huang Yulong, Li Hong, Liu Fang, Ma Xiaowei, Ren Jun, Ren Rong, Shi Liren, Tian Ye, Teppei Kaneuji, Wang Wei, Wei Chunyu, Xu Xiaonan, Ye Cheng, Zhuo Xin


Children's Art Education Programs of Sun Future Foundation in Art Beijing 2016

Art Beijing 2016 has invited Sun Future Art Education Foundation, which is founded by Ms. Yang Lan, to be its philanthropic partner. The two parties will work together to support and facilitate art education for children and adolescents, especially those from disadvantaged communities.


Sun Future Foundation will hold an exhibition of all the works created in Artist on Campus, a non-profit art education program, in the public art area of Art Beijing 2016.The Foundation has invited young artists Chen Ke, Wu Shaoying, Yancong and Zhao Yanbin to work with the children from four migrant schools. They created four series of works under the theme of "love stories", each about "love for home", "love for lives", "love for life" and "my aspiration" respectively. Besides the exhibition, the Foundation will also provide several family-friendly art workshops. The workshops are organized by MAC Time Community Art Center, the team who designed a series of children’s art courses, Love through Art, for Sun Future Foundation.



Art Beijing 2016

VIP preview: 18∶00 — 22∶00, April 30, 2016 (Sat.) (by invitation only)

Public days: 11∶00 —19∶00, May 1-May 2, 2016 (Sun.&Mon.)

11∶00 —18∶00, May 3, 2016 (Tues.)

Venue: National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing


About Art Beijing & Design Beijing

Established in 2006, Art Beijing has become one of the top art and exhibition brands in all of Asia. Art Beijing continues to adapt to market trends and further de­fine its position in a continually changing industry.


In the 10th edition of Art Beijing, we launched DESIGN BEIJING, in the form of the Design Pavilion at the fair. DESIGN BEIJING is especially concerned with Design Aesthetics, providing a professional design platform for participators. DESIGN BEIJING combines art and design, discovers future design trends and promotes the Chinese design industry.


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