Songzhuang located in Tongzhou, Beijing, China
Songzhuang truly become a massive colony of artists, or things in recent years. Gregarious artists live can be said to be a “habit”, that is,The so-called like-minded, community allow them to communicate, communication, mutual warmth. In 2003, the local artists who have two to three hundred in 2004, has 400 people, by the year 2005 soared to more than 700 people.Songzhuang at this time, has become a cultural symbol, enter the Songzhuang, it entered a “circle”, close to China’s most cutting-edge contemporary art. Thus,Songzhuang like a magnet, attracting more and more artists. Today,Songzhuang is already a brand, and has developed large-scale expansion and growing freedom of the artist community, the village has 47 villages home to 12 artists, small village as the core, gathered from all over the country near 1000 free-lance artists and cultural figures related industries. With the increase of the artist, the artist’s composition Songzhuang also increasingly complex, and its personnel from a simple painter, curator, art critic sculptor evolved into the present, behavior of artists, concept artists, photographers, independent producer, DV artists, musicians, a freelance writer and so on, formed a complex and colorful cultural landscapes.
From small remote villages and towns to today’s well-known art center plump,Songzhuang gone by since an aggregation of common concern to the international and domestic support for the road.
2004 Age of Chinese oil paintings at high prices, even in cases where there is no sign of the world.
First of all, artists have to mention is that the star, whose name has been famous are those who, such as Fang Lijun, Yue Minjun,Yangshaobing and so on. These works were the extent of U.S. basic propagandize are known to shoot a single market price over a million dollars or more, and April 2004, when art investment experts Guangxun 100,000 yuan to buy works in just one month, nearly 10 times the price of disposal, he does not believe that the opportunity has come so suddenly, and he talked about these orders Human heart rate figures, but also as if the same hot-air balloon rides unpredictable dizziness, a little Dali Surrealism dream of China.
Songzhuang many people aspire to become a place, people want to become artists are here to squeeze prices getting higher and higher, the artist’s studio is also growing. There is concern that the value of Songzhuanglie, which in the end how many artists are the darling of the market, the main flow of works of art are located? “It is indeed Songzhuang are increasingly commercial nature of things, but to know that such changes are inevitable.”Songzhuangbest-known artist Fang Lijun languidly on the sofa said. In Songzhuang interview, journalists have a strong feeling, almost all successful artists have been aware that the commercialization of Songzhuang is an inevitable trend, and those down temporarily before the successful artists , but still insist on some “pure art” concept.
“China Songzhuang” artists are the “dream park” Today “China Songzhuang” more Chinese artists are the “final position.” . .
It has been said that the vast territory and abundant resources in China. . . However, as the “China Songzhuang” such a “position of artistic creation.” . . How many?
Artists can strictly adhere to, “China Songzhuang” This. . . “Finally the art of positions”?
Chinese Contemporary Art “false crisis” is not terrible! Because the times, the daily is still in progress. . . Creative and valuable contemporary art,
Remains a necessity. . . However, if the “artists” lost “creative positions.” . . It would be a “terrible consequences.” .
