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28/8/2008

Art Taipei

Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei

The most important platform for Chinese arts.

Art Taipei, whose former name is Taipei Art Fair International, is the most long-standing art fair in Asia. Since 1992, on the demanding from both galleries and collectors, Art Taipei has been organized by Art Galleries Association for 14 years. The attraction of Art Taipei is Chinese arts. Art Taipei is the most experienced and professional art fair trading Chinese arts. This is depends on the great knowledge and relationship of Taiwan galleries. By 1995, Art Taipei innovated and became an international art event. Besides galleries form Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia, there were also some participants form Europe and North America. After 2000, with the open policy betw een Taiwan and China, galleries form China and Hong Kong have increased and Art Taipei now is truly the most important platform for Chinese arts.

A professional art fair in presenting Asian art creation.

Art Taipei is also well known because of our foresight. From 2004, “Artist of the Year “ and “Taiwan Young Artists Special Exhibitions” projects not only bring great art into Taiwan but also push Taiwan emerging artists into international stage. In Art Taipei 2006, two new sectors “Asia Live” and “Ela-Aisa” focus more on contemporary and electronic arts.
Through these pioneering projects, we guarantee Art Taipei a professional art fair in presenting Asian art creation as well as the best venue for trading Asian arts.

The best collectors in Chinese community.

Taiwan art market has been mature sine 1980’s. Taiwan collectors have been brought up from this established environment, and now they are the best collectors in Chinese community. To serve these collectors is our first mission. It is also the power to make Art Taipei improved and transformed into a contemporary art fair.

The Astonishing Transactions of US$13.6 Million in 5 Days !

Art Taipei 2007 came to a successful end of the transactions of US$13.6 Million. Compared with the transactions of US$4.6 Million in Art Taipei 2006, the transaction in Art Taipei 2007 has grown more than 250% and broken the record over the past 14 years. The amazing success of Taiwan art auction market has attracted high attention of art investment as one of financial management strategies.
there were three art galleries achieved the sales of US$1.8 million - US$2.1 million during the five-day exhibition. Asia Live is the most popular exhibition area among viewers in the six exhibition areas while Art Galleries sold the most art works.

Asia Art Economy Forum in Taipei

The second edition of Asia Art Economy Forum in Taipei, right before Art Taipei in May 22nd and 23rd, 2007 also had received positive feedback from participants, more than 300 people who are gallery directors,scholars, collectors, and press from all over the world. It was a great venue for sharing, and exchanging experience of the art market in Asia.

Art Taipei, the most important link for trading Chinese and Asia arts.

Art Taipei is the top venue of trading Chinese arts. There are also some other advantages making Art Taipei more competitive. For example, Taiwan collectors are the best collectors in Asia, Taiwan goods tax is the lowest in Asia（only 5%）. Furthermore, Taiwan’s geographical and cultural advantages cannot be ignored. Taiwan is not only in the connecting points between Southeast and Northeast Asia, but also a country with open-mind, mixed-culture citizens. All these merits make Taipei the best city to trading Asia arts.
For the galleries willing to start their business in Asia or China, Art Taipei is their best choice. The taste of Taiwan collectors can be seems as their market test for future China collectors. We, Art Galleries Association Taiwan, the organizer of Art Taipei, are the important consultants for China art market. Art Galleries Association Taiwan have built a complete database of Chinese art market. It not only comes from galleries’ experience of dealing Chinese arts but also our long-time observation of the market.

Art Taipei 2008 Year Project Art & Tech - Wandering . With art and technology as the fundamental elements, co-organize by the Art Taipei Executive Committee and independent curator, Sean Hu, the principle of the art fair this year is to look into how new media art is used to express and analyze, amidst the urban modernization, human's many reactions in dealing with occurrences such as post-colonial conflicts, international confrontations, environmental protection, and economic unbalance, with a special attention on the emotional aspects. Regardless of people's numerous attempts in solving the current dilemmas, the results remain ineffective, and the problems continue to expand. The reality is that many are wandering without a set destination in mind. The different conditions resembling the state of “wander”, such as the inspection of the current situations, search methods, sense of aimlessness, and lost of directions, come to form the core of this exhibition, and the anticipation is for the six renowned new media artists from Taiwan, USA, Korea, Kenya/Germany, and Australia to present their responses towards the exhibition theme. The artworks that are under planning to be a part of the exhibition are works by Nam June Paik, internationally recognized Father of video art that passed away in 2006, pioneering video artists, Gary Hill, acknowledged master of new genre art forms, Jim Campbell, who is well known for using LED as a creative medium, to exhibit in Taipei for the first time will be the artist collective, IngridMwangiRobertHutter of Kenya/Germany, and the work by distinguished Australian artist, Shaun Gladwell , is included in this year's exhibition. Last but not least, also to be included is the important Taiwanese contemporary artist, Chen Chieh Jen. The public will not only be able to see the artworks created by these ground-breaking artists, and most importantly, they will be able to observe closely how these artists have ingeniously portrayed the issues of human spiritual existence through the uses of new media.

Nam June Paik's classic video installation work, Beuys/Voice , was created in the year 1990. The work was made to commemorate acclaimed German artist, Joseph Beuys, who Nam was close with, and Nam also humorously used the form of a robot to depict the mass consumption of images that have caused the alterations and replacements between human and high-tech products, such as the television. The work raises the question that is the modern man a hybrid of images and machines with the human body acting as the facade? The other pioneering artist, Gary Hill, will be personally bringing his video art work, Remembering Paralinguay , to Taiwan, and through the pure energies from the images and the sounds and with a backdrop of complete blackness , the space forms a tension between the physical presence and representation, and a pure confrontation between the image and the viewers expresses modern people's inner anxiety and fear in this technologically advanced era. The other artist to be on exhibit, Jim Campbell, who has degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds many patents in the field of image processing and specializes in using digital technology with custom electronics on themes of time, memory, and perception. His work is poetic and carries a sense of solitude, and the piece to be on exhibit will once again guide the spectators to wander in between the visual and the recollected realms of the physical and the virtual.

To be on exhibit in Taiwan for the first time, IngridMwangiRobertHutter has made use of differences in cultures, genders and individualities by combining their artistic positions into one art collective. Through the work, Being Bamako , the artist attempts to become acquainted with what the eye does not see, and moves forward with closed eyes in order to break away from the visible world and to be in touch with the spiritual world. Artist, Shaun Gladwell, links personal experiences with contemporary street culture and historical references in his works . He will be exhibiting his latest piece from the MADDEST MAXIMVS series , Approach to Mundi Mundi (the entire series will be presented in the Australian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2009). Through forms of urban expression of extreme sports, Gladwell crosses the Australian Great Outback, with no set beginning and no ending, the artist engages in a silent dialogue with the grand history and the nation. The only Taiwanese artist to be included in this international exhibition is Chen Cheih Jen, and the existence of human and the developments of its history have always been a focus for Chen. The work, On Going , depicts the living situation of marginalized Taiwanese in the era of globalization, and attempts to find a sense of direction as the history develops.

As artist Nam June Paik said in 1969, “The real implied issue in 'Art and Technology' is not to make another scientific toy, but how to humanize the technology and the electronic medium.” The intention of the exhibition, Wandering , with the central theme on technology and art, is not to display technology via art; but to the contrary, technology is used to narrate and depict the many quandaries arising under the rapid waves of globalization and urban modernization. It is anticipated that these direct and realistic views and reminders could be offered to the spectators, and the ultimate value of man-kind rests on self reflection and realization about life. The meaning of technology in this case is defined by the artists' contributions of a new perception in this era of technological advancement.

image: Chen Chien Jen ( Taiwan ) / On Going/ 35mm transferred to DVD, Single channel video/ 30 mins/2006

Vernissage Aug 29th （Fri） 3:30 p.m.-6 p.m

Taipei World Trade Center
Taipei
11 a .m.~7 p.m. （ Lasts until 6 p.m. on Sep 2nd ）

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