The 8^th edition Art Beijing Art Fair will be grandly launched at Agricultural Exhibition Center Beijing. There are around 150 art organizations participated in Art Beijing 2013. The exhibition area is still divided into Contemporary Art section and Classic Art section, with the exhibition area reaching 20,000 ㎡, and the exhibits covering both contemporary and classic artworks, such as oil painting, print, sketch, sculpture, device, image, Chinese calligraphy and painting, contemporary ink painting, porcelain, furniture, and jewelry, etc.

Up to Jan. 31, 2013, “Art Beijing” had received the applications of 247 art galleries and art agencies worldwide for attending the exhibition. The Art Beijing Academic Committee finally selected nearly 150 art organizations, which formed the main force for Art Beijing 2013.

This year, the well-known art galleries both at home and abroad will continue to attend the Fair this year, including ShanghART Gallery, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing Commune, GALLERIA CONTINUA, Chambers Fine Art, Lin & Lin Gallery, Eslite Gallery, Tina Keng Gallery, Asia Art Center, Hwas’ Gallery, Shanghai Author Gallery, France Paris Dumonteil, Galerie CINQUINI, and Classicjen Western Fineart Salon, etc.

In addition, there are more than a third of art galleries in the Contemporary Art section this year have attended Art Beijing for the first time, and nearly 80% of art agencies in the Classic Art section have also embraced their maiden exhibition in Art Beijing, including ELMS LESTERS PAINTING ROOMS and Halcyon Gallery from London UK, Toulouse Antique Gallery from US, DARA Art Centre from Ukraine, Litvak Gallery from Israel, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Longmen Art Projects, OTHER GALLERY, Wilber Gallery, ZENDAI ART from Guang Zhou.

Mercedes-Benz has been the Lead Strategic Partner of Art Beijing since 2009. Through this visionary partnership, Mercedes-Benz continues its forward-looking commitment to the development of art in China by both improving communication between China and the rest of the art world and presenting an array of visual arts to Chinese audiences.

This year, named avant-garde artists have once again been invited to participate in a special collaborative project to create original and exceptional artworks for six Mercedes-Benz models: the all new A-Class, B-Class, CLS Shooting Brake, G 500, GL 450 and SLS AMG. These creative designs will reflect the powerful connection between automobiles and art. They will also highlight the fine artistic heritage of Mercedes-Benz, which has helped it to become a leader in the auto industry.

In addition, such procedures as theme exhibition, auction preview, art platform, VIP education forum, and public benefit charitable program, etc. will also run through 2013 Art Beijing as before. Mercedes-Benz will also feature a new program for children this year entitled 2013 Mercedes-Benz Art Kids. This program aims to explore the creative imaginations of children from Mercedes-Benz customers and provides them with a top national stage to present their artistic talents. Over 150 pieces of artwork have been collected from the customers all across China for 2013 Mercedes-Benz Art Kids, and each one reveals the unique and innovative perspectives inherent in young artists. Audiences are sure to fall under the spell of the collection’s vivid imagination and artistic appeal. Mercedes-Benz together with Art Beijing will continue to provide the premiere platform for both artists and art enthusiasts and present extraordinary feasts of creativity for audiences all over the world.

Art Beijing will, based on its mission of “based in China and serving all of Asia”, continue to enrich the contents of the Fair, and give full play to the role of the art fair as a platform for art education, art promotion, and exchange, etc. Hermès China and Art Beijing have cooperated each year since 2009. With the mission to encourage new talent and support emerging forms of artistic expression, Hermès China continues the 4-year cooperation with Art Beijing and begins the art journey of Art Beijing 2013. With the powerful advantages of the art platform of Art Beijing, Hermès China will continue to focus on and boost the development of China's art!

As a special cooperation partner of Art Beijing, CCB Private Bank has continually supported Art Beijing for five years. CCB Private Bank has cultivated this groundbreaking crossover partnership to create new services for art collection management and trust services. The aim of the program, the first art crossover cooperation with a private bank in China, is to present art collectors and investors with new opportunities. We firmly believe that CCB Private Bank offers services that will prove valuable to Art Beijing’s VIP clients. From developing business to cultivating wider knowledge about the arts and art collection, this unique program is a milestone for high-quality financial and art management services in China.

Art Beijing continues to showcase yesterday, today, and tomorrow of arts. As an artwork trading platform drawing the most attention from collections of China today, Art Beijing has gathered China’s most influential and most vigorous art agencies, and will focus on the most excellent art creation updates. In addition, it is also committed to building a feast for art professionals and lovers of countries for sharing resources and making communication and exchange. It is believed that Art Beijing will, through the cross-continental visual art feast, present outsiders a special Beijing with dense art atmosphere.

Mercedes-Benz Art Unforbidden Thematic Exhibition

BEING ASIA – ARTISTS RECOMMENDED EXHIBITION - CHINA / JAPAN / KOREA

Host: Art Beijing Academic Committee

Co-organizer: L'OFFICIEL ART

Organizer: Art Nova 100

Booth: The Contemporary Art Section T1

Chinese Artists:

Ding Sukai, Feng Hanping, Feng Wei, Guo Zilong, Hang Chunhui, He Qianli , Li Sa, Lin, Weixiang, Peng Bo, Qu Feng, Xiao Bin, Xu Hongxiang, Zhang Zheyi, Zhong Jinpei, Zhu Zhengming

Korean Artists：

Osang Gwon, Yu Yeung Tchine, Shin Sung hy , Joonsung Bae, Sung-do Hong, Yujung Chang, Hyuenjun Kim, Soojung Choi, Dujin Kim, Im Changwook, Heo Wook, Jae Yong Rhee, MeeNa Park, Tae-Dong Park, Jong-sook Kim, Ji Eun Yoon, Yi Hwan-Kwon, Kyungmin Nam.

Japanese Artists：

Ken Sasaki, Teppei Soutome, Jun Fujita, Kazuki Takamatsu, Shohei Hayashi, Tamura Kaori, Hiroki Kakinuma, Misaki Kawai, Soju Tao, Yukiko Suto, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Hiroto Kitagawa, Keisuke Yamamoto, Nana Funo, Tomoko Nagai, Rieko Otake, Anna Oya,Taishi Niimi, Takuma Uematsu.

The “Art Unforbidden” theme exhibition continues Art Beijing’s philosophy of “rooted in China and serving all of Asia”. During the one-year preparation period for the exhibition, the Art Beijing Academic Committee visited top art galleries across Japan and South Korea, inviting them to recommend forward-thinking young artists. Among these recommendations, 37 Japanese and South Korean artists were selected from 19 art galleries to exhibit works at the “Mercedes-Benz Art Unforbidden Thematic Exhibition”. Together, their works reflect developing trends in the contemporary social forms and cultural ideas of Asia. Academic committee also exhibits works by 15 young artists from across China, selected with its cooperation partner, Art Nova 100. The exhibition marks the Beijing debut for these selected works, which provide thrilling insight into new ideas and visual culture among young people in China.

Art Beijing 2013 Special Project

PARK --“ART ZONE” Special Projects Exhibition

Host: Art Beijing Academic Committee

Art Director: Zhao Li

Curator: Wu Qiuyan, Chen Jingyi

Artists (The list in order of the alphabet) :
Ai Jing , Anna Chromy, Chen Wenling, Chen Xuan, ChenZhuo, Fan Xi, Fei Jun&Judith Doyle,

Huang Ying, Huang Keyi, Lei Lei, Li Qing, Li Xinlu, Liu Ren , Liu Xinyi, Lu Wuyun, Lu Zhengyuan,

Mu Lei, Qiu Yu, Shi Liren, Shen Ruijun , Shen Ye, SuiJanguo, Song Jianshu, Tian Miaozi,

Tian Xiaolei, Wang Yuyang, Wang Zhong, Wang Hao, Wu Shaoxiang,Xiang Yang, Yang Qian,

Yang Guang, Yao Lu,Zhang Liyu, Zhang Yongji

Art Zone: Art Zone is a special exhibitions program that focuses on public environmental art. It explores diverse topics in the urban environment through sculpture, installations, video and multimedia art.

Park: As the theme of this exhibition, the concept of “Park” reflects artistic experience of the urban public environment. In this sense, “Park” can be thought of as an urban “landscape processor”, which encodes and processes a range of cultural resources and transforms them into an “environmental library” integrated into a real space. The “Park” concept brings audiences to new soil for artistic cultivation, offers a fresh angle on history, and presents a garden for diverse activities, from swimming to meditation to fashion. We can appreciate “Park” as a kind of vital sign or ecological system for international civilization. It transforms the “virtual civilization” we have come accustomed to into an aftertaste, a phantasmal memory lost in the depths of our hearts. It reacts against these inorganic influences that also nourish life. As an art exhibition, “Park” attaches special importance to the subtle connections inside artistic systems with its meticulous selection of media and integration of three core artistic practices: “extensive image environment”, “duplicate art installations” and “light media experiences”. “Park” encourages its audience to analyze its images of micro-cultures and the connections between them. Its various works and units act almost like a dot-matrix image that brings to life an experience of its environment through the senses and through memory. “Park” nurtures our most experimental thinking about our environment, putting it above media and bringing us back to a more natural state, in which we art brought back in touch with Eastern philosophies and the artistic imagination.

Art Beijing 2013 Special Exhibition

CYAP CHANGING FACES

Curator: Du Xiyun

Booth: The Contemporary Art Section T3

Artists: Chen Xi, Dai Chenlian, Diao Wei, Fan Shunzan, Li Binyuan, Li Hua, Meng Baishen, Song Guiyu, Song Yongxing, Tao Na, Wang Pengjie, Wang Qing, Wu Jianan, Xiang Nan, Xie Lisi, Yang Xun, Yin Dingcai, Zhou Changyong, Zhou Xin

Artists born during the 80s and 90s are the new force emerging on the Chinese art scene. As a generation having grown up under the One-Child Policy and lived through the mass proliferation of technology, their views of the world, of life, and of art are markedly different from their artistic predecessors. Their artworks, as products of their individual views and experiences, help to highlight the new relationship between the Chinese people and the society in which they live. Each of the participating artists has his or her individual goals and pursuits, and although these artistic intents may be clear, many have yet to find a corresponding artistic vocabulary in which to illustrate them. While artistic language seems to be, at every stage in an artist’s development, at its most perfect and complete manifestation, in fact, the faces of their art are—to varying degrees—ambiguous and constantly changing, yet nonetheless progressing forward. In fact, the uncertainty and possibilities embodied in their works are what make them most captivating to us as viewers.

CHINESE EXPRESSIONISIM-CHINA OIL PAINTING EXHIBITION

Host : Phoenix Art Palace

Co-organizer；Phoenix Art Palace BeiJing -Espace Art

Booth: The Classic Art Section T4

Artist: Shang Yang, Dai Shihe, Zhang Xinquan, Wang Keju, Duan Zhengqu, Zhao Kaikun

There can be little doubt that in art, it is ultimately the “image” of the work itself that determines a work’s greatness over time. Embedded in this “image”, of course, is the idea of “Expressionsim”, which we can understand in oil painting and academic art research as being the way that the artist applies the visual language of his medium. “To express” is a verb, like “to speak”, and suggests action, every movement and motion by the artist is, on some level, a part of the work itself. This is especially true of oil painting. “Expressionsim”, as a noun, also implies expression of something beyond, a link the artist crafts between his own spiritual world and the realm of the physical painting.

Phoenix Art Palace presents a very special exhibition titled “Chinese Expressionism” at Art Beijing 2013. Here, six leading contemporary Chinese painters explore themes of Chinese aesthetics and style. At the same time, the works in the exhibition reflect careful consideration of oil painting as an imported painting form. In this way, the exhibition sets up a dialogue between China’s past and present, while also reflecting on the role of oil painting in Chinese art today.

QISHE ARTS

Host: CCAD, QiShe Arts

Curator : Zhang Yingjian

Booth: The Classic Art Section T5

Artists: Du Xiaotong, Qin Xiuping , Tan Jun, Xu Jiacun , Wang Yu, Liu Qi , Sun Hao

QISHE ART is a contemporary Chinese painting and academic research center founded by artists and critics in China, including Sun Hao, Du Xiaotong, Qin Xiuping, Tan Jun, Xu Jiacun, Liu Qi, Wang Yu, and Zhang Yingjie. The QISHE ARTS special exhibition at Art Beijing 2013 is the organization’s first and showcases the ideas and works of its artists.

PURSUIT OF THE EXCELLENCE - CONTEMPORARY METICULOUS INVITATIONL EXHIBITION,2013

Host : Beijing Huafangdesheng Cultural Investment Management Co.,Ltd

Organizer : Beijing Dayuntang Art Co.,Ltd

Curator : Li Xitian

Booth:The Classic Art Section T6

Artists(Sorting by age): Yu Qiping, Xu xinrong, Yu Hui, Chen Zi, Cao Jing, Cui Jin, Li Tong, Shen Wei, Lei Miao, Wu Yang, Gao Qian, Luo Ying, Li Geye

Bringing together 13 young and mid-career painters, the exhibition presents a singular exploration of subject, style, and technique in painting today. These artists build from modern artistic practices while bringing their own concepts and content to the works. The exhibition itself marks a rejuvenation of painting and its possibilities in China.

Invitational Collection of Young Collectors from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Host: Art Beijing Executive Committee
Beijing Council International Auction Co.,Ltd
Co - organizer: AetherSpace

Beijing Council will bring various activities in cooperation with Art Beijing during April 30th to May 3rd , including the Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Young Collectors' Forum.

As the core of new generation collectors, these young people will share their private collection with the publics. With the cross - culture background and the enthusiasm for art, the young group refreshes the idea of the future of collection. The highlights of these artworks including Riki from Andy Warhol, Related Zones from Marlene Dumas, Bud Lite from Danh Vo, Sex Obsession from Yayoi Kusama and other important overseas contemporary artists.

The exhibition also including the important Chinese Contemporary artists, such as New English Calligraphy from Xu Bing, Peach Bloom from Zhou Chunya. Except for the artworks, the publics will have a chance to close to a precious Chinese Coinage and the first edition of the origin of Species.

2013 Art Charitable Programs

CHARITABLE PROGRAM OF ‘THE SONG OF STARS’

C-NA Gallery is invited to join "2013 Art Beijing Art Fair" with autistic children's painting works. From April 30 to May 3rd in Beijing, the national agriculture exhibition hall. This will be the third year C-NA Gallery join art charity projects of Art Beijing.

C-NA Gallery which will participate in "2013 Art Beijing Art Fair" name their exhibition ‘the song of stars’. The ‘song of stars’ means that children who draw paintings do live their musical life. It is the third time that C-NA Gallery names their exhibition with ‘the song of stars’ since 2013. Its cultural phenomenon and form of art showcasing not only arouse widespread concern of the society in the growth of children with autism, spiritual and material support to melt the heart of lonely children, but also greatly motivate parents of autistic. Meanwhile its cultural phenomenon deepens the society impression so as to find out the real appreciators for the autistic’s paintings.

Wish the song of stars like spark does light autism ‘s hope of life. Although life differs from dream, but we can accept it, respect it and love it.

Charitable Programs of “SmileAngels Foundation”

The project ’SmileAngel’ in ART” is a SmileAngels Foundation’s public education program initiated by the artists and the children born with cleft lip and palate (CLP).Through the expression of art, we are trying to be so close to children’s hearts as to explore a vivid world At the same time, we also invite them to get a well known of our heart, the original of power and love. The intention of artists is the communication engineers who connect the children and the foundation. They provide everyone with an opportunity to go back to childhood and arouse everyone’s memory. SmileAngels Foundation has been supporting artists to gain inspiration for creating arts through the public service for children's growth. SmileAngels Foundation together with the artists, the art institutions and the public exchanges the ideas through art, thus creating more opportunities to finance the growth of the Chinese children's medical career and focus on children's mental health.

SmileAngels Foundation playing a role of a public service organization is also invited to participate in Art Beijing Art Fair to present children’s paintings, which convey a unique freshness, and joy touched n contemporary arts and culture atmosphere. To children's drawings pass the concept of charity; the exhibition is also a manifestation of the “SmileAngel in ART”.

Second, the form of activities:

CHARITABLE PROGRAM OF “FREE LUNCH”

Free lunch for Children was launched by Deng Fei and over 500 journalists, as well as numerous main stream media agencies, in co-operation with China Welfare Foundation. We advocate donating 3 Yuan per day to provide a free lunch for impoverished students.

We aim to make Free Lunch for Children a cross-platform operation; relief Chinese students from hunger through a few decades of join effort.

FreeLunch Foundation aims to prevent Chinese children from hunger and help them grow healthily. The foundation hope that “free lunch” will become the essential benefit of Chinese children through years of efforts. By its safe, efficient and reproducible free lunch mode, scrupulously abide by the principles of transparency, FreeLunch Foundation provides professional services and continue to promote public policy for the government, transparency, public institutions and private donors.

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