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The Third Beijing International Art Biennale, China 2008 - To invite the artists over the world to co-build a harmonious world - To found an international art center of contemporary painting and sculpture - To light the holy fire of beauty under the name of Olympism - To accomplish the 100-years rendezvous between art and modern Olympics The Artistic Olympism: Beijing International Art Biennale, China The international Art Biennale is called the artistic olympisme, which has a splendid history of development similar to that of the contemporary Olympics In 1895, Venice, the water city of Italy, held the first International Art Biennale. Since then, especially since the 1980s, many countries have held the international art biennale. The international art biennale has become a platform to realize the international art communication and to exhibit the cultural power and artistic characteristics of different countries with its cross-border effect and constant frequency of being held once every two years. Furthermore, it has become a symbolic cultural event for a nation or a city to project its international cultural image and status. In 2003, following the international practice of running biennale and with the approval of the State Council, we established a form of biennale with Chinese characteristics (full name Beijing International Art Biennale, China, Beijing Biennale for short).		Beijing Biennale is a large-scale international art exhibition hosted by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the People's Government of Beijing Municipality and Chinese Artists Association. Its supporting organization is the Cultural Ministry of China. The successful holding of Beijing Biennale in 2003 and 2005 means that, China, an oriental and great country with a cultural history of 5,000 years has entered into the cutting edge of contemporary international art communications. By virtue of her cultural power and artistic characteristics, China is rising in art circle of the world. In 2008, the 29th Olympics with worldwide attention will be held in Beijing. Meanwhile, the third Beijing Biennale, as one important part of Beijing humanistic Olympics, will also be held on a large scale. On this occasion, the two great feasts in the sports arena and in the fine arts field--- with the Beijing Olympics matching the Beijing Biennale and igniting the holy fire of sports and arts, will fully exhibit the double glamour of power and beauty to the whole world in the luster of five rings in the new Beijing. The Unprecedented International Art Exhibition: the Retrospection of the Two Previous Beijing Biennales The Beijing Biennale has held twice successfully. On the eve of holding the third Beijing Biennale, let us take hindsight to the scene of the two previous Beijing Biennales. Let's feel the excitement and sweetness again. From September 20 to October 20, 2003, the first Beijing Biennale was held on schedule after overcoming (SARS) .It showed 677 pieces of works created by 329 artists from 48 countries and became “the most beautiful scenery in the golden autumn.

The second Beijing Biennale held during the period of September 20 to October 20 expanded its scale to 778 works created by 632 artists from 69 countries. Its large scale and far-ranging sources of works was unprecedented in the exhibition history of fine arts. It was also rare in other countries that have held international art biennales. The Beijing Biennale can be called the unprecedented international distinguished gathering in China. The accumulative total number of the participating countries in the two Biennales is nearly 100, the participating artists are close to 1,000, the number of exhibition works is 1455 and the manuscripts from both home and abroad is nearly 10,000. The experts of the curatorial committee of the Beijing Biennale examed and selected the excellent works from different countries carefully to ensure its international credibility and high standard. Some worldwide artists represented the contemporary art achievements of the participating countries respectively. Their exhibition works formed the contemporary history of painting and sculpture between the east and the west. In addition, a lot of potential rising stars' participation formed the prospective art circles of the world in the future		The main exhibition venues of the Beijing Biennale are China National Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Museum of China Millennium Monument. The flow of the visitors in the two main venues per day was over 20,000 and the accumulative number of visitors of the two biennale was over one million. The pertinent national leaders, several dozens of ambassadors of the participating countries in China, cultural officers and artists attended the opening ceremony or visited the exhibitions. The large-scale international symposium was held during the period of both the two Beijing Biennales. The representatives of theorists and artists from different countries said their say in the symposium, which added rich and active academic atmosphere to the Beijing Biennale. The International Brand of Contemporary Chinese Culture: the strategetic culture aim of the Beijing Biennale The Beijing Biennale is held in the political and cultural center of China, Beijing that has the political superiority and cultural power, which no other common city can exceed. From this city, the important strategetic significance of China national culture development is highlighted more distinctively.

In 2005, the representative of Beijing municipality said in his opening address of the second Beijing Biennale, The Beijing Biennale is the only official biennale in China, named after Beijing. It develops its own characteristics based on its distinguished academic proposition in China and even in the world since the day of its birth. As an essential cultural region in China, Beijing is obliged to establish the projects with Chinese brand and even international brand in every domain of culture and art, and maintain its advancement in culture. After successfully holding the biennale for several times, the Beijing Biennale will be a new symbol of Beijing and play a more important role in the establishment of the contemporary culture. The Compendium of Cultural Development in the period of the “eleventh-five-year” plan promulgated on September 2006 has already placed Beijing Biennale to the important cultural event of famous brand supported by the state” which implies that the Chinese government pays great attention and provides real support to the Beijing Biennale. Meanwhile, it also fulfills the strategetic aim to establish the Beijing Biennale as the international culture brand of China. At the beginning of holding the exhibition, the Beijing Biennale already formed its own distinctive features of contemporary Chinese culture. It showed the grand bearing of China's reform and opening to the outside world and China's wide and deep breast of absorbing the essence of contemporary art from both home and abroad. Consequently, the Beijing Biennale is coming to the fore among the several tens of biennales in the world. We believe that Beijing Biennale will gradually become a new symbolic and indicative cultural event of Beijing and international famous brand of C contemporary Chinese culture under the great support of the Chinese government as well as with the united cooperation of artists both at home and abroad. The Idea to Build a Harmonious World: The Basic Curatorial Idea of the Beijing Biennale The curatorial idea is the spirit of contemporary art exhibition. The Beijing Biennale adopts collectivity curatorial system. The Curatorial Committee is made up of famous artistic experts and scholars both at home and abroad, among whom are mainly the leaders of Chinese Artists Association. The idea to build a harmonious world is the basic gist of the curatorial theme of the third Beijing Biennale. The contemporary world is experiencing profound exchanges in pattern of politics and economy. In order to realize the ideal to build a harmonious world, artists should take on their social responsibility when war, terror, natural disasters, environmental protection in the world, the gap between the rich and the poor, racial discrimination and religious conflict are troubling people who are eager to lead peaceful and harmonious lives. This is just the realistic pertinence and basic springboard of confirming the curatorial theme of the Beijing Biennale. Along with the impact of economic globalization, the cultural diversity of different countries is being sternly challenged; the national and regional characteristics of culture are vanishing rapidly. This causes the imbalance of human cultural ecology. In view of this issue, the subject of the first Beijing Biennale was "originality: contemporary and locality", for the purpose of initiating cultural innovation in compatibility with current epoch and localization, maintaining the balance of human cultural ecology and eliminating inharmonious factors.		This exhibition has specifically demonstrated unique expressive ways of contemporary paintings and the sculpture art of countries from the five continents. It is not difficult for us to peek at that contemporary artists try hard to seek traditional cultural spirits and the signs of their own countries, to discover various possibilities of the self-development and the self-renewal of regional culture in the context of globalization. This has also provided new experience and styles for the contemporary world cultural arts. The international seminar of the first Beijing Biennale launched an extensive and thorough discussion based on this subject. The curatorial theme of the second Beijing Biennale was "humanistic concerns of contemporary art" which embodied art's attention to people's social life and the public, the pursuit the ideal of peace of the human beings as well as thought on relations between contemporary people and natural environment. The theme definitely put forward the harmonious idea between people and people, between people and society and between people and nature. By virtue of international culture exchanges, the uplifting exhibition theme of harmonious ideology advocates and encourages such esthetic taste as harmonious development of human beings. Meanwhile, it also puts the idea of building a harmonious society and world into the art field and embodies the national image of China as a developing economic and cultural giant rising peacefully. The exhibition theme has received enthusiastic response of the participating artists from different countries and high appraisal of many media both at home and abroad. Mr. Feng Yuan, one of the chief curators of the Beijing Biennale and Vice president of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, elaborated the significance of contemporary art and humanistic concern on the closing ceremony of the symposium of the second Beijing Biennale and emphasized the educational power of art. He said, "The ultimate objective for artists lies in encouraging the progress of the society. The power and ideal that the artists can bestow on the works is to change and improve the quality of land and environment on which we are dependent." An artist from Bulgaria also pointed out that, "Art should be centered on maintaining humanistic tradition and transferring the factors that threaten disappearing human culture." The 2nd Beijing Biennale came to a close, and the artists of various countries, continued to send us mails expressing their gratitude. Some of them hoped to present their exhibited works to the Organizing Committee (there are hundreds of donated works from foreign countries). Why were these artists from the entire world attracted to favor the Beijing Biennale? In short, the Beijing Biennale constructs the idea of a harmonious world and respects the diversity of global cultures as well as advocates the equal dialogue between Eastern and Western culture. As a result, the Beijing Biennale receives the recognition and support of artists from different countries.

The curatorial theme of the third Beijing Biennale "Colors and Olympism" also further carries through the idea of building a harmonious world. The Beijing Biennale will be extended and perfected with the change of art trend in China as well as in the other parts of the world. However, whatever change it will encounter, what will remain unchanged is the spirit of the exhibition, whose inherent quality is to protect the harmony and balance of the international artistic ecology. Harmonious development is a permanent theme for the human beings. The pure-hearted exchanges and harmonious coexistence of various cultures are the impetus of harmonious development of world cultures as well as an important guarantee of building a harmonious world. The Beijing Biennale always put the idea of building a harmonious world as the basic gist of curatorial ideology. By virtue of the exhibition of contemporary art, we promote the harmony of the world, progress of society and welfares of the human beings. The International Painting and Sculpture Center of Contemporary Art: The Remarkable Feature of Beijing Biennale One of the distinctive characteristics of the Beijing Biennale is to sticking to painting and sculpture as the main forms of exhibitions, which not only accords with the realistic conditions of Chinese mainstream of art creation but also falls in line with the trend of contemporary art backing to painting. The exhibits were mainly paintings and sculptures, instead of such forms as installation and video-the mainstream forms prevailing in other biennales held in other countries. The Beijing Biennale has formed its own sharp-cut distinctive characteristics. Of course, the Beijing Biennale is open, rather than closed, inclusive instead of exclusive. No element that can contribute to the elevation of the theme, to the expression of human feelings, shall be refused in any arbitrary manner. The sculpture section of this Biennale includes some works showing inclination to installation. In terms of painting, some of the works include the elements of photography and a wide range of comprehensive materials, melting various elements and techniques to strengthen the visual impact of the paintings. It can be said that this Biennale is successful for the diversity of subject matters, innovative techniques, novel styles, and rich connotation. it is an exploration of new possibilities for painting and sculpture from multiple perspectives, showing that these two traditional art genres are constantly growing along with the changes of the times, full of new vitality and energy. The Beijing Biennale, with its distinctive characteristics, tries to make Beijing become the international center for painting and sculpture as well as the famous international contemporary art city, just like the cities such as Venice and St.Paul, which are renowned for holding Biennale in the world. "Most works on the contemporary art scene of America and Europe are video and installation. We found everything fresh and new when we saw so many paintings and sculptures from different countries in China. The traditional media should not decline because of the new media's appearing," said a Swedish artist, "China offers one fulcrum for the world; world contemporary art inclining towards equilibrium because of China's involvement. This is the point which made the Beijing Biennale different." The Trend of Contemporary Art in the Future: the Focus of the Media From Both In and Abroad Vincenzo Sanfo, the international curator and president of Italian Culture Center, said excitingly: "If there is a place where a new and revolutionary movement takes place in the course of art development, that must be China." The Beijing Biennale, with the lofty idea of building a harmonious world and the feature of making Beijing the painting and sculpture center of contemporary art portends the trend of contemporary Chinese art in the future. The Beijing Biennale is influencing the present pattern of contemporary world art and becoming the focus of media both at home and abroad.		China's media, including CCTV, BTV, Hong Kong Phoenix Television, Sunlight Television, Hunan TV, China Radio International, Beijing People Broadcasting Station, Xinhua News Agency, Chinese News Service, People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Beijing Daily, Beijing Youth Daily, Literary Newspaper, Chinese Culture Newspaper, Fine Arts, Fine Arts Observation, people's net as well as Sina Net, all those televisions, broadcasts, publications, magazines, networks and more than one hundred media have made thorough interviews and reports on the Beijing Biennale, in which Taiwan the magazine "Artist" have promoted special editions with dozens of page for two sessions of the Beijing Biennale continuously. The important foreign media include TV stations, broadcast, newspaper, magazine and internet from the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia. They filmed special pictures, made long reports or reshipped the article about the Beijing Biennale actively. "JoongAng Daily" of Korea remarked that while the world art has been dominated by Europe and America, a new power has been rising quickly in northeast Asia over the past century. Thanks to the initiation of the Beijing Biennale, China may compete with Western countries in the field of visual art, creating a great source of enlightenment comparable to the Gwangju Biennale. By virtue of the opportunity of holding the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the Beijing Biennale will attract more attention from media both at home and abroad. Colors and Olympism: The Prospect of the Third Beijing Biennale The 29th Beijing Olympics in 2008 is drawing near . The Third Beijing Biennale, which has already got the approval from the Olympic Organizing Committee, will be a part of humanistic Olympics. The third Beijing Biennale will be a unique international art exhibition held during the Beijing Olympics. The Third Beijing Biennale purposely assorts and joins with the 29th Olympics in terms of the choice of theme, organizing activities etc. to make it a wonderful dialogue between art and Olympics. In order to fully reflect the relations and consistence between the Third Beijing Biennale and the Beijing Olympics and to express and annotate the Beijing Olympic spirit and idea from the perspective of art, the curators of the Beijing Biennale discussed together to confirm that the theme of the Third Beijing Biennale is "Colors and Olympism". "Colors" is the symbol of art and beauty. The exuberance of colors implies the diversity of our human cultures. Meanwhile, it also means the possibility to create more attractive scene with distinct characteristics of times once it is blended with other elements. Thanks to the glamour of "colors", "Olympic" can be more vivid, fantastic and beautiful. It is foreseeable that the participating artists of the Third Beijing Biennale, 2008 will be enlightened from the Olympic Spirit of peace, harmony and co-progress and will absorb inspiration from colorful realistic life to portray the colorful world and varied lives. It advocates a balanced whole qualities of body, will and mind, pursues a perfect combination of strength and speed and faces challenges of "Higher, Faster, Stronger", representing the high-spirited philosophy of life. By virtue of this, the Beijing Biennale will add luster to the Olympics with power and beauty. By using the art of form and color, the exhibition will show the psychological and spiritual world of artists. The theme "Colors and Olympism" is just like a rainbow between art and the Olympics, over which the human beings' dream can fly higher and higher. After two years, when time comes to 2008, the top-level artistic works from five continents will draw cultural attention of the world in Beijing, China's capital. By virtue of vigorous commercial opportunity created by the Olympic economy, enterprises will get an important opportunity of sustainable development and brevet. Accordingly, we would like to further reorganize and consolidate the enormous social resources, broaden the source of funds and absorb sponsorship from society. Then, the Beijing Biennale and the modern Olympics will be simultaneously held Beijing in a grand pomp. "One World, One Dream", we send invitations to the artists of every country with zest. Welcome to participate in the Third Beijing International Art Biennale! Let's make a unique and colorful visual feast together! Welcome to Beijing in 2008! The Beijing Biennale has a rendezvous with Olympics in 2008! We have a rendezvous with you!
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