Art Market Beijing prefers Asian writers, and collectors of Chinese contemporary works rather choose the style of traditional Chinese painting and drawing than conceptual objects, installations and so on.

Today the art market in Beijing is competing with the art market in New York in the amount of auction revenue. However, the art market capital of the Middle Kingdom healthy market differs from the "Big Apple": firstly, it is dominated by Asian artists only, and secondly, there is preference for works made in traditional Chinese techniques as drawing and painting. In Beijing, the traditional material is just as big a role as the object of representation.

Chunsi Liu, a young traditionalist

Wealthy collectors Celestial likely will prefer the traditional works of Liu Chunsi (Liu Chunxi), rather than conceptual creations of Ai Weiwei, criticizing the Chinese society and culture. In his thirty years of Liu Chunsi absolutely unknown in the West. Despite this, his track record already has a 7-digit auction results, and December 20, 2010 his work brought nearly 10 million euros on auction Beijing Beijing CNTC International Auction. His Buddha, the black swan with a lotus, peacocks and flowering trees, painted on silk with stunning craftsmanship, and sometimes go under the hammer million euros more expensive. Already mentioned on December 20 auction of at least six of his works have crossed the bar of one million euros, including the most expensive work of the artist - "Divinity", results reached 2.5 million euros. Liu Chunsi (b. 1981) grew up in a religious environment and Buddhas painted in five years. Talented young man took to the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, China's best art school when he was only sixteen years old. After training the subjects of works Chunsi remains traditional, but the style of his writing became more liberal and modern. His work has been exhibited in Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Malaysia. Sales of the works of Liu Chunsi this year's auction house brought Beijing CNTC International Auction fifth place on sales of contemporary art in Beijing.

Other Beijing auction houses owe their success to the authors, better known in the West - Chen Ifeyu (Chen Yifei), Idun Wang (Wang Yidong), Liu Xiaodong (Liu Xiaodong), Zeng Fanchzhi (Zeng Fanzhi), Ai Xuan (Ai Xuan), Leung Chun (Leng Jun), Zhou Chune (Zhou Chunya), Ho Tszyainu (He Jiaying) and Y Bean (Wu Bing).

Chen Yifei Wind mountain village. 1994 Oil on canvas. 188 x 255 China Guardian. 28.05.2011 Result: 7 78 million euros Source: artnet.com

Chen Yifei at the top of the art market in Beijing

< p class = "mat1"> Over the past year (July 2010 - July 2011) on the art market of Beijing, Chen Ifeya brought nearly 20 million euros, making it the most lucrative contemporary artist in the Chinese capital. In the previous year (July 2009 - July 2010) auction of works of Chen Ifeya circulation of money was less than half - 8.8 million euros, which, however, allowed the artist Damien Hirst at around 500 thousand euros in the overall ranking of contemporary artists (for details see here ). On account of Chen Ifeya also the most successful result in the whole sector, the Beijing Modern Art: it new personal record now stands at 7.78 million euros through the sale of May 28, 2011 by China Guardian of "Wind mountain village." Just as in Liu Chunsi, figurative paintings Ifeya performed with excellent knowledge of traditional painting techniques, which makes them extremely attractive to Asian collectors are less inclined to invest big money in the conceptual works, installations and the like.

Another Chinese artist Ai Xuan traditional, realistic writing children's portraits, set a personal record in This year, when his painting "The Holy Mountain" was sold for 2.1 million euros. Examples of extraordinary popularity of figurative realist painting goes on. Among the most successful artists in this direction - Van Idun, whose auction turnover of money over the past year amounted to more than 14 million (second largest after China's contemporary authors Chen Ifeya) and Leung Chun, whose giperrealistichny portrait of a girl in December, the auction went to Poly International to a new owner for 3.22 million euros. In addition, some sugary beauty on silk scrolls Ho Tszyaina sold for hundreds of thousands of euros, landscape ink on silk, brush the Bean recently went under the hammer for 4.78 million euros.

It seems that the market for contemporary art in Beijing is divided into two directions: on the one hand, there prevails a variety of traditional (or conservative) writers who support the extremely wealthy Beijingers and on the other hand, there are artists who gravitated towards non-conformism and international recognition. Among the latter are distinguished Zhou Chunya, Liu Xiaodong Zeng and Fanchzhi whose work " A Series No. 3: Marriage »June 2, 2011 reached a hammer price of 3.7 million euros.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI < /em>

Sources : artinvestment.ru