Shenzhen artists stand out of National Fine Arts exhibition

More than-Shenzhen artists have been for the 11th national selected Fine Arts (exhibition), an Cnfae Icator that artists from the city have become a important force on the national Art stage.

The 11th Cnfae is part of the cultural activities to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People ' s REPUBL IC of. It is divided to exhibits with categories such as Chinese painting, oil painting, engraving, sculpture, murals, wate Rcolor and pastel drawing, and artistic design.

Chosen to host different divisions of the exhibits are, cities including, Beijing, Shanghai in Nanjing Jiangsu , the Wuhan in Hubei province, the Changchun in Jilin Province, the Harbin in Heilongjiang Province and Xiamen in Fujian province.

Shenzhen is the "host city for" Artistic design exhibit, scheduled to open Oct. 9 at Guan Shanyue Art Museum and Oct art & Design Gallery.

Among the 468 works selected for the artistic design exhibit, are from Shenzhen designers, roughly percent of the to Tal Prize candidates.

The 468 prize candidates were chosen from about 5,000 entries to all over the country, which include four major Categori Es such as graphic design, fashion, industrial design and environmental design. The selections were made by a national panel of jurors, who are from the country ' s major fine-arts colleges and design Circles.

The design works by Shenzhen Artists include the Universiade mascot, dubbed UU, which is designed by Wang Xuefei and four other designers; Zhang Dali ' s poster for the "the" Graphic design in; And the comprehensive work for the sixth International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen to Bi Xuefeng and his shenzhen-ba SED design company.

One particular fashion design won on the hearts of all jurors, "Summer Night" by Zhang Lichuan, a young teacher from She Nzhen University.

In industrial, the double-sided slippers designed by young designers Li Cheng and Zhang Xun, which won the Internat ional Red Dot Design Award in design concept, is unanimously nominated as a prize candidate.

Winners in the category of environmental design were Yang Shengbang for the Sheraton Huizhou Beach Resort and Zhongxu The Logosun Hotel in Wuhan.

According to Dong Xiaoming, chairman of the Shenzhen Literature and Arts Federation and one of S ' leading painters, a Graphic Design category is the included in the ninth Cnfae in 1999. That category is also exhibited in the Guan Shanyue Art Museum.

"The reason why Shenzhen is again designated as the host city of the National artistic Design exhibit is because Shenzhe N is named a city of design by the United nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and became T He 16th member of the UNESCO ' s Creative Cities Network last year, "Dong said.

Official statistics show Shenzhen now has more than 6,000 design companies and 60,000 designers.

"Shenzhen has been leading the country in the design industry in recent years and this explains why to the CIT Y have performed so marvelously in the National Fine Arts Exhibition this year, Dong said.

In addition, works by Shenzhen artists would also appear in the other exhibits. Six oil painting works would be exhibited in Wuhan beginning Sept. 26. Three works would appear in the watercolor and pastel drawing exhibit, which'll open in Panjin, Liaoning Province, on Sep T. 26. Three works for the Chinese painting exhibit'll be shown in Shanghai Oct. 23.

"This is a record the city's artists have made in the total number of works selected for the Cnfae under traditional Categ Ories such as oil painting and sculpture, and most of the winners from Shenzhen this year are young or middle-aged artists , "said Luo Wenguan, chairman of the Shenzhen Artists Association (SAA).

The two oil paintings by Liang Yu, vice chairman to the SAA, were chosen from a series to works, titled "Signal Lights," W Hich the artist began on last year.

Surprisingly, Men Jiancheng, a painter from Dafen oil Painting village into Buji, Longgang District, had his original painti Ng "Backpackers" selected for the 11th Cnfae. The painting depicts three backpackers resting under a tree while climbing a mountain.

"When people talk about Dafen Oil Painting village, they usually do you have commercial paintings, or cheap, low-quality imit Ations of so-called famous European paintings, "Men said.

"This is a kind of misunderstanding. In fact, there are a number of brilliant painters doing original The paintings in Dafen oil Painting village. "

In the category of watercolor, three painters to the city, including Fang, Xiaolong, Zhou Tianya and Jiao Liqiang, had th EIR works entered into the Cnfae.

Fang ' s series work, "Fertile land," displays the beautiful of spring and landscapes.

The prize candidates in the category of sculpture include works by Shenzhen sculptors Dai Yun, Yang Guang and Yu Peng.

Dai ' s work is a Chery QQ car made of red bricks. Yang ' s sculpture are a rock garden built with discarded electronic circuit for mobile boards.

"Through my work I intended to show the contradiction between the traditional Chinese culture and modern industrial Civili zation, "Yang said.

"The rock garden, which stands for the ancient Chinese civilization, has been corroded through industrial waste with the rapid Development of the economy and modernization in recent years, "he said."

The entries in the category of Chinese painting include works by Fu Zhongqi, Yan Xiaoping and Liang Bing.

Fu ' s painting, "A morning in Shenzhen," portrays Shenzhen ' s skyscrapers through A window of the Dapeng fortress in Longgan G District.

"Through the contrast between the ancient Dapeng fortress and modern skyscrapers in downtown Shenzhen, I want to show the Rapid urbanization Shenzhen has gone through over the past three, "Fu decades.

As a outstanding example of Shenzhen artists, Pan Xiliang, who teaches in the College of Art and design at Shenzhen unive Rsity, had three works selected for this year's cnfae, one for the mural exhibit, the Chinese painting exhibition and The animation and comprehensive exhibit.

His 28-by-2.5 meter mural, "Chinese Reproduction Culture," are located in the Yuanshan Scenic-Zone in Henggang, Longgang Di Strict.

His Chinese painting, "Dameisha Beach Resort, depicts several young people sitting on Dameisha Beach enjoying.