"The Sixth China Arts and Crafts Masters Exhibition Review" was grandly held from March 1 to 31, 2012 on the fourth floor of the Guokusui Art Building in Guocuiyuan, Beijing! At that time, more than 200 quasi-national arts and crafts masters who have been shortlisted for the exhibition review will "go to Beijing to take the exam" with nearly 800 exquisite works of art and make a collective appearance at the National Heritage Garden. The Chinese Arts and Crafts Masters Exhibition and Evaluation is held every five years, which can be called the Olympics of China’s arts and crafts world!
The evaluation of China Arts and Crafts Masters is carried out by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, together with the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. The ministry is jointly carried out with two industry organizations, China Light Industry Federation and China Jewelry, Jade and Jewelry Industry Association. It is understood that the selection time is initially set for March 2012. The participating traditional arts and crafts categories include: craft sculpture, craft ceramics, craft printing and dyeing, craft weaving and embroidery, craft knitting, craft carpet, lacquer craft, craft furniture, metal Crafts, jewelry crafts, other crafts, ***11 categories. It is estimated that there will be about 260 artists recommended to participate in the competition from all over the country, with nearly 800 works participating, and the gathering of excellent works will make the event an unprecedented event. This selection event is not only the inheritance and protection of traditional Chinese art, but also a feast of the quintessence of Chinese art.
Chinese arts and crafts represent the cultural essence created and passed down by the Chinese nation for more than 5,000 years. For this reason, the member units of the 6th Chinese Arts and Crafts Masters Review Leading Group plan to hold an exhibition of outstanding works of previous masters. It allows us to appreciate the artistic style of art masters from all walks of life!
In terms of cultural value, Chinese arts and crafts works incorporate the essence of Chinese culture and reach the top level of similar works of art; in terms of economic value, some are priceless and even regarded as "national treasures" ". Many works have been selected as "national gifts" when national leaders visit abroad, and are presented to heads of state and government around the world. Many works are also popular among powerful collectors from all over the world, and have become assets with great appreciation potential. Therefore, Chinese arts and crafts will play a great role in promoting the development of China's cultural and creative industries, both in terms of cultural value and commercial value. Since its establishment, Beijing Guokusui Garden has adhered to the founding purpose of “promoting Chinese quintessence art and gathering global creativity” and has taken promoting the development of cultural and creative industries as its own mission. Therefore, it is no coincidence that the venue for this year’s Chinese Arts and Crafts Masters Exhibition will be the National Cuisine Garden.
Guocuiyuan (2 kilometers east of Guomao, 500 meters east of Sihui Bridge, on the south bank of Tonghui River) collects Chinese quintessence and gathers global creativity, with the concept of "strong creativity, strong China". In the past two years, It has held nearly a hundred large-scale art activities, integrating art display, appreciation, collection and investment. Guocuiyuan brings together the quintessence of Chinese culture and strives to create the most high-end Chinese art trading platform in the country (Guocuiyuan has a dazzling collection of works, and its business fields include mahogany classical furniture, wood carvings, bamboo carvings, gold and silver jewelry, jade and jade, antique collections, famous teachers Various works of art such as famous porcelain and masterpieces) have truly realized the perfect integration of wealth in the artistic sense and wealth in the economic sense, providing a good example for the development of emerging cultural industries and the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. . In order to express the original and unique charm of the Chinese quintessence of art works, the National Quintessence Garden Photography Taobao Competition specially invited famous photographers from the China Women Photographers Association to fully display the treasures in the museum with the help of their professional shooting techniques and women’s unique and delicate perspectives. Rare treasures, so that more people can fully see the value of the quintessence of Chinese art.
This competition will start from August 9, 2010 and end on September 15, 2010. Both professionals and ordinary people can participate. Participants only need to log in to the special page of the event and select the three most expensive works of art they think are among the many works of art captured by professional photographers. The contestant who selects the most expensive artwork will receive the "Best Taobao Award" and a cash prize of RMB 10,000.
In addition to selecting photos of artworks on the website, contestants can also play the role of professional photographers, visit the Guocuiyuan Exhibition Hall to see the true appearance of sky-high price collections, take photos of the artworks they think are the most expensive, and upload them to the Photography Taobao Competition. On the special page, if the photos taken are consistent with the most expensive artwork in the National Heritage Garden, you will win the "Best Photographer Award" and a cash prize of NT$10,000. The grand prize will be announced on September 25 of that year.
The premise of "Taobao" is that there are many valuable treasures in the museum to choose from. According to reports, there are many art treasures in the National Heritage Garden, and some of the collections are considered to be the largest in the world and are rarely seen in the world. Among them, the two treasures worth mentioning are the "Mazu Jade Sculpture" and the "Dragon Soaring".
The "Mazu Jade Sculpture" is based on the theme of Mazu's life and deeds. It is 2 meters high and 30 meters long. It is composed of 50 screens and weighs about 5 tons. It is the largest Mazu jade sculpture in the world. . The characters, buildings, landscapes, flowers and plants on the screen are all carefully carved and inlaid with extremely precious natural jade, stones, pearls, agates, jade, and were carefully crafted by more than 100 craftsmen over a period of 8 years, consuming no jade. It contains 40 tons of raw materials and is estimated to be priceless by experts. It is the most culturally profound and artistically influential jade carving handed down from generation to generation in the world today.
"The Dragon Soars" is a masterpiece of wood carving dedicated to celebrating the 2008 Beijing Olympics and welcoming the 60th anniversary of the motherland. The main body of the wood carving is made of rare thousand-year-old camphor logs. It is 5 meters high, 3 meters in diameter and weighs 5 tons. It took more than 50 outstanding craft carving masters more than a year to complete the carving. "The Soaring Dragon" takes the totem "dragon" of the Chinese nation as its theme, carving nine giant dragons spiraling upward, which has profound meaning and majestic momentum. In May 2011, Guocuiyuan was invited to participate in the Chinese Culture Year Chinese Traditional Art Exhibition held by the Confucius Institute in Italy. The team led by Lin Han, deputy general manager of Guocuiyuan, brought the famous calligrapher Wang Zihe of Guocuiyuan, artist Zhang Shuxian, image calligrapher Sun Fenghe, calligrapher Wang Mingzhong, folk noodle master Zhang Junxian, paper-cut artist Fu Xiuqing, bamboo carving master Wang Xinming, and artist Zheng Jing has conducted in-depth cultural exchanges with the Confucius Institute at the University of Padua, the Confucius Institute at Naples, the Confucius Institute at Bologna, the Confucius Institute at Venice, and the Confucius Institute at the Sacred Heart of Milan in Italy.
The Year of Italian Culture is organized by China and Italy to jointly celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Italy. It aims to strengthen exchanges, consolidate China-Italy friendship, and deepen mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples. This time Guocuiyuan was invited to participate in the Chinese Culture Year, and through the platform of the Confucius Institute, more Italian people can learn about Chinese culture and Chinese traditional arts.
In this Chinese Culture Year, the artists of Guocuiyuan presented a feast of art with unique oriental characteristics to Italian university and middle school students, teachers and citizens. Let the Italian people experience the essence of traditional Chinese art face to face and at close range. At the event, the Italian people, under the guidance of the artist, learned to cut paper and make dough figures, and held their own works in hand. They were very excited and proud. Many people said that they had only heard that Chinese culture was rich and splendid before, but they did not expect to see it with their own eyes, so magical and charming. While the artists were performing, the "Photo Exhibition on the Second Anniversary of the Confucius Institute in Padua" also attracted the attention of many audiences. The mysterious traditional oriental art ignited the Italian people's strong interest in Chinese culture.
Guocuiyuan’s participation in the Chinese Culture Year event of the Italian Confucius Institute not only showcases the breadth and depth of traditional Chinese arts and crafts, spreads Chinese traditional culture, but also builds a bridge of friendship for cultural exchanges between China and Italy. . This is in line with Confucius's Confucian thought that all brothers in the world are harmonious but not different, and that a gentleman uses literature to make friends and friends to help benevolence.
With the dramatic changes in China’s social, economic, cultural, commercial and other multiple environments in recent decades, China fever is heating up day by day. Foreigners are increasingly yearning for this ancient oriental country with 1.3 billion people. However, the establishment of the Confucius Institute is to build a convenient and excellent learning platform to develop friendly relations between China and countries around the world and enhance the understanding of Chinese language, art, and culture among people around the world. At present, the footprints of Confucius Institutes have spread to more than 90 countries on five continents.
As a leader in the field of Chinese cultural creativity, Guocuiyuan will also actively participate in the promotion of Chinese culture and art, and achieve the common goal of sharing art and culture globally.
The birth of Guocuiyuan Art Park (located 3 kilometers east of Guomao, 500 meters east of Sihui Bridge, and connected to Huihe Nan River) is not only Chaoyang District’s contribution to Beijing, but also Beijing’s contribution to China. It is indisputable proof of Beijing’s future potential as the world’s cultural capital and will surely become a new round of China’s contribution to world cultural history. Guocuiyuan Art Zone builds an art exchange platform, art display platform, art trading platform, and art capital platform for traditional and contemporary artists and related art management institutions and evaluation institutions. And innovatively put forward the core concept of strong creativity and strong China, with the purpose of promoting Chinese quintessence of art and gathering global creativity, with a high starting point as a leader in cultural consumption, a collector of creativity and ideas, and a provider of cultural public service platforms Positioning, exploring and building the Guoquin Art Bank that brings together art and finance, the establishment of the China Sculpture Trading Center will become the brightest new art capital star in the Guoquin Art Bank.
The National Quintessence Cultural Fund, jointly launched by Guokuiyuan Art District and the China Red Cross Foundation, aims to fund the protection, inheritance and dissemination of Chinese quintessence culture, promote the development of cultural and creative industries, and lead the way in China. Cultural and creative industries as the target. Since the establishment of the fund, in order to support original, innovative, exploratory and experimental cultural projects, promote cultural innovation, promote the cultivation of new cultural talents and the introduction of cultural talents, sponsorship will help improve the overall level of Chinese culture and expand Chinese culture. It has influenced many domestic and foreign cultural exchange projects and made a lot of positive and beneficial targeted funding. The National Quintessence Cultural Fund will definitely protect the capitalization process of the China Sculpture Trading Center.
In addition, Guocuiyuan is also committed to promoting interaction and exchanges in the field of culture and art at home and abroad; in order to promote Chinese quintessence art, Guocuiyuan has joined hands with Zhonglian Guoxing to establish the Art Master, which specializes in calligraphy and painting by famous contemporary artists. Art World Pavilion. At the same time, Guocuiyuan also gathers the proud works of famous handicraft manufacturers from all over the country. The works cover jade, porcelain, huanghuali wood, cast copper, strange stones, calligraphy and painting, etc., with rich and all-encompassing connotations. On June 25, 2011, China's most high-end art exchange event, the opening exhibition of the Guocuiyuan International Art Festival, "The Mainstay Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Founding of the Party - A Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition of One Hundred Generals, One Hundred Ministers, and One Hundred Painters" (hereinafter referred to as the 'Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition') opened. "Style" was held grandly in Beijing Guocuiyuan Art District, thus kicking off the Guocuiyuan International Art Festival.
This calligraphy and painting exhibition is sponsored by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the China Working Committee on Care for the Next Generation, the China Friendship and Peaceful Development Foundation, and the China Native Art Association, and is hosted by Beijing Zhonglian Guoxing Painting and Calligraphy Institute. Co-organizer. The exhibition brings together 500 calligraphy and painting works by generals, ministers and art masters. At the event site, Comrade Generals Xing Shizhong, Zhang Zhijian, Zhou Keyu, Yang Guoping, Zhou Kunren, Wan Haifeng, Qian Guoliang, Wu Quanxu and other generals of the Republic of China attended the opening ceremony of this calligraphy and painting exhibition. Dong Qing, the famous host of CCTV, served as the host of this event. On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Party, this calligraphy and painting exhibition is intended to use calligraphy and painting as a carrier and in the name of art to pay tribute to the Party's birthday. While promoting the development and prosperity of cultural undertakings, it will also make due contributions to creating a harmonious society. .
With the holding of this calligraphy and painting exhibition, the Guocuiyuan International Art Festival with the theme of "To welcome the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and to write the cultural sentiment of China's prosperous times" will also open grandly. In addition to the calligraphy and painting exhibitions of 100 generals, 100 ministers, and 100 painters, the 20th anniversary celebration of the Sculpture Professional Committee of the China Arts and Crafts Society and the 2011 Chinese Sculpture Yearbook Exhibition, the founding ceremony of the Guocuiyuan Art Museum and a series of foreign cultural exchange activities, the founding of the China Sculpture Trading Center and Exhibitions of outstanding works from Chinese and foreign universities, China Red Cross Foundation's "National Quintessence Cultural Charity Auction Gala", Fujian Arts and Crafts Exhibition, the opening of the National Quintessence Garden International Collector's Treasures Museum and the 798 Contemporary Art Exhibition/Yi Hui Works Exhibition will be held in various themed activities. Then unfold. Eight themed activities that bring together many art masters will bring climax to this art festival and attract more people to pay attention to and like art.
On November 9, 2011, a grand and enthusiastic opening ceremony was held at the Guocuiyuan Art Trading Center branch of the Sixth Cultural and Creative Industry Expo. This large-scale international cultural and economic and trade exchange event with the theme of cultural creativity has received government approval. and strong support from relevant departments. It is reported that as a branch venue of the 6th Beijing International Cultural Expo, a series of exhibitions have been launched at the Guocuiyuan Art Trading Center branch of the 6th Beijing International Cultural Expo since November 2, which was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and the Embassy of Pakistan in China** *The "Pakistan Cultural Exhibition on the 60th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and Pakistan" co-organized by the Ministry of Commerce displays more than 150 precious pictures, artworks and handicrafts dating back to the 60 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan, promoting cultural exchanges between China and Pakistan and strengthening the friendship between the two countries. Cooperation;
The "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period is an important period for the country to develop cultural and creative industries, and it is also an important strategic opportunity period for the comprehensive implementation of the Humanistic Beijing Development Strategy. Nowadays, investment in modern and modern art in China will usher in the "100-million-yuan era". Investment in contemporary sculptures and installation art is becoming a high-profile "blue chip stock" in the international art investment community, especially in China. In order to maximize the release of artistic value in the capital market and lead Beijing's cultural and creative industry, Beijing Guocuiyuan and the Sculpture Professional Committee of the Chinese Arts and Crafts Society jointly established the "Chinese Sculpture Trading Center" in Beijing Guocuiyuan.
On the day of the opening ceremony, China Development Bank Beijing Branch, Agricultural Bank of China Beijing Branch, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Beijing Branch, China Construction Bank Beijing Branch, Bank of Beijing, Bank of Communications Beijing Branch, Beijing Financial institutions such as the Municipal Rural Commercial Bank held a signing ceremony on the fourth floor of the Central Exhibition Hall of Guocuiyuan and signed a credit support agreement with more than ten cultural and creative enterprises such as Beijing Starlight Film and Television Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Baiyaxuan Culture and Art Co., Ltd. , a total of 16 signed projects were signed, with a total contract value of 8.507 billion yuan. In October 2012, the "13th China Arts and Crafts Masters Works and International Art Exhibition" (hereinafter referred to as: the 13th Arts and Crafts Masters Exhibition) held in Nanchang, Jiangxi, came to a successful conclusion. Guocuiyuan organized representative celebrities and famous enterprises to participate in the "13th Chinese Masters Exhibition and Confucian Scholars·Hundred Flowers Cup Award Ceremony" and returned with great honor. The mahogany furniture "Lotus Ten-piece Set" from the Confucian Confucian Guokusui Art Museum, a representative merchant of Guocuiyuan, won the gold medal in the mahogany furniture category at the expo; Zhong Cuiyage's "Zen Ancestor" won the gold medal in the jade carving category; Moutai Platinum Liquor Culture Concept Museum's " "National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance" won the Excellence Award...*** won 9 awards including gold, silver, bronze, and excellence awards. Guo Cui Yuan's impressive achievements were shining in every corner of the exhibition, and it was worthy of the honorary title of the National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base. .
The China Arts and Crafts Masters Exhibition and Review is the most authoritative event in the industry. This expo is hosted by the Nanchang Municipal People's Government, the China Arts and Crafts Association, and the China Arts and Crafts (Group) Company. All provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government Co-organized by the Arts and Crafts Association. At the same time, the 2012 "Confucianism·Hundred Flowers Cup" Chinese Arts and Crafts Excellence Award judging event was held exclusively by the Confucianism·GuoQui Art Museum. The Confucian Confucianism·National Quintessence Art Museum aims to use the master exhibition as an excellent platform to better display the brand concept and operation model, and to communicate, exchange and interact with artists and art institutions. The expo has a dazzling array of exhibits, covering all categories of arts and crafts, with thousands of categories and tens of thousands of products. At the same time, this exhibition will continue to open special exhibition areas such as "Achievements in the Protection of Traditional Ivory Skills", "Works of Young and Middle-aged Talents in the Arts and Crafts Industry", and "Featured Areas".