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8/9/2010

ShContemporary 2010

Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai

ShContemporary 10 will take place from September 9th to September 12th 2010 in Shanghai Exhibition Center.

ShContemporary takes place every September in the spectacular Shanghai Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China. The first edition in 2007 immediately established itself as Asia's most dynamic contemporary art fair.

This year ShContemporary coincides with the largest World Expo the world has ever seen, during which an unprecedented amount of arts projects will be happening all over Shanghai.

ShContemporary 2010 is organised around two key areas:

-Best of Galleries, ShContemporary’s unique selection of invited Asian and International galleries

-DISCOVERIES - This year's theme: Re-Value. A curated, thematic exhibition in a commercial art fair where artistic value confronts commercial value and a Conference called Re-Value: The Construction and Consumption of Value in Contemporary Art.

In addition, a conference organized with curator Hou Hanru on the theme "Collecting Asian Contemporary Art: What, When and How?" shall take place on September 9th.

There is also the Giorgio Morandi Exhibition and Workshop. It consists of an exhibition of selected pieces of Morandi’s work, and a full day workshop dedicated to exploring the influence that Morandi’s work has had on modern and contemporary Chinese art.

The special exhibition concept, the rich programme of dinners and parties, a spectacular World Expo, and a myriad of contemporary shows opening all over Shanghai, shall all combine to ensure you have an unforgettable experience.

ShContemporary 10 | Special Exhibitions:

DISCOVERIES: Re-Value

The art market is engaged in the delicate non-science of attaching prices to works of art. It is a process of making something as intangible as art into something as clearly defined as a numerical value. Everyone in the art world is somehow involved in this process, from critics to museums, galleries, collectors and auction houses. A massive network of knowledge and experience goes into creating a delicate balance between the artistic value and commercial value of contemporary art, but the peaks and troughs of the market every now and again throws everything into doubt. The contemporary art market is now larger than it has ever been in history, and the recent crisis is forcing new art markets to face this question for the first time.
The advent of modernism and the ideas that drove the artistic evolution from traditional to modern to contemporary has been a constant challenge to the idea of what artistic value actually is. The so-called art establishment that traditionally pronounced on value has been changing and expanding to the extent that it's now almost impossible to define. In the last two decades with the development of globalization, cultures all over the world with different artistic traditions have been brought into the contemporary dialogue, bringing new and more complex perspectives on the debate about value, which has rarely been articulated in the form of an exhibition in Asia.
"Discoveries: Re-Value" is a curated exhibition in a commercial art fair where artistic value meets with commercial value. The curatorial team of Re-Value is selecting a range of work by artists whose practice evoke different notions of value; value of the ordinary and the extraordinary, innovation against traditional values, as well as the value of physical objects versus the ephemeral, technique and craftsmanship, or conceptual value associated with political, sociological conditions and backgrounds. This will be an exhibition asks questions about the way we see and consume contemporary art. Importantly, it is the artists who are asking the questions.

GIORGIO MORANDI
the Italian Master of Modern Times

The Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, MAMbo, with the support of the Region of Emilia-Romagna, in co-operation with ShContemporary, will celebrate the work of one of the most admired Italian painters of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi. The Italian master's extensive array of contemplative and introspective still-lifes, landscapes, engravings and etchings have earned him a distinctive place in Modern art history.
The small retrospective will take place at ShContemporary in the Shanghai Exhibition Centre from September 9-12, 2010 and will consist of an exhibition of selected pieces of Morandi's work, and a full day workshop dedicated to exploring the influence that Morandi's work has had on modern and contemporary Chinese art.
Three of Morandi's works from the Morandi Museum in Bologna will be on display in a special area of the Western Wing of the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, together with photographs of Morandi's studio taken by Paolo Ferrari. The Bolognese Ferrari is one of a handful of photographer's to have gained access to and photographed the painter's home and studio in Bologna and the still life objects which served as the subject of hundreds of Morandi's paintings.

WORKSHOP
On September 11th a workshop focused on Morandi's work will take place at ShContemporary. Gianfranco Maraniello, the director of MAMbo, will be present to offer an in-depth look at Morandi's body of work and the different stages the painter's work went through. He will be joined by Chinese art professionals who will show the impact Morandi's work has had on Chinese artists in the last few decades. The workshop is organized in co-operation with the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou where the study of the technique used by Giorgio Morandi has been considerably popular with students for many years.

See you in Shanghai for ShContemporary 2010 during the world's most spectacular event, World Expo 2010!

Established in 1955 in Shanghai City, Shanghai Exhibition Center (SEC) provides large-scale international and domestic conference and exhibition services.

Press contacts:
Press Office – Asia:
Sophie Wang sophie.wang@shcontemporary.info
Press Office – Europe, Americas, Middle East:
Eva Altosaar eva.altosaar@shcontemporary.info

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