Marching Between the Local and the International: The Long March Project and Long March Space

The emergence of an international platform for artists could be called the defining characteristic of Chinese art in the 1990s. Other sociological questions about art in China questions like the relationship between the masses and the elite, between tradition and reality fell to the back, as the &qu...

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Published inYishu Vol. 19; no. 5/6; p. 45
Main Authors Huang, Clement, Jun, Shen, Liang, Theresa, Jie, Lu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver Art & Collection Group Ltd 01.09.2020
Subjects
Art markets
Chinese culture
Contemporary art
Social impact
Socialism
Visual artists
Visual culture
China
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Summary:The emergence of an international platform for artists could be called the defining characteristic of Chinese art in the 1990s. Other sociological questions about art in China questions like the relationship between the masses and the elite, between tradition and reality fell to the back, as the "differentiation of China and the West" came to occupy a premier position, becoming a guiding parameter for both theoretical debate and artistic creation, systematically producing our feelings of awkwardness and grievance. This is a classic example of artistic consumption coming to drive artistic production. It is unreasonable to expect the problem to be solved with foreign collectors eventually stepping up their level of comprehension of Chinese art, or to wait for the Chinese economy to develop such that domestic art consumers can support contemporary art. The excuses of the market hide the true problems of art itself the rift between the masses and the elite, and the disconnection between tradition and reality. We must begin from our own understanding of ourselves as practitioners of art in China, raising anew these issues, which have been set aside in recent years. In this process, one important task is to revisit our memory of the Chinese revolution and assess the impact of socialism on contemporary visual culture.
ISSN:1683-3082