BACKGROUND
Wenzhou is the economic, cultural, technological, financial and transportation center of Southern Zhejiang (Zhenan), the frontier of China’s economy. At the beginning of 2015, Wenzhou Municipal Committee and Municipal People’s Government decided to build Wenzhou Zhenan Sci-tech City on the basis of Wenzhou National High-tech Zone, leading the comprehensive transformation and upgrading of industries in Wenzhou and Southern Zhejiang, and promoting the construction of the eastern city center of Wenzhou.
Since the start of construction in 2016, around the three leading industries of smart equipment, life and health, and digital economy, Wenzhou Zhenan Sci-tech City has gathered 9 high-energy platforms such as Oujiang Laboratory, Wenzhou Research Institute of National Science and Technology, and China Eye Valley, and built Datang 5G Global Innovation Center-China Yangtze River Delta Regional Center, Tianxin Tiansi Digital Economy Industry Center, and Beidou Information Industry Base, etc., which strongly promoted the development of Wenzhou High-tech Zone.
In the new era, our focus is to solve the problem of the people’s pursuit of a better life. Chinese Pose • Huangshishan Sculpture Park was conceived under this background, and it is also an important measure for Wenzhou to establish an ecological city and accelerate the development of cultural industries.
In December 2017, 30 pieces of sculptures, based on “Chinese Pose” the 1st Wenzhou Sculpture Exhibition, landed in Huangshishan Park of Wenzhou，thus the park was officially renamed as “Chinese Pose·Huangshishan Sculpture Park”. It is built around mountains and rivers, maintaining the original geological features and natural ecological landscape of Huangshi Mountain. The total area of the park exceeds 700 hectares.
In 2019, Wenzhou Longwan District People’s Government (High-tech Zone Management Committee), Management Committee of Wenzhou Zhenan Sci-tech City and China Sculpture Institute further built Chinese Pose • Huangshishan Sculpture Park by hosting “Chinese Pose—Future Vision” the 2nd Wenzhou Sculpture Exhibition. The park is under the jurisdiction of Wenzhou Zhenan Sci-tech City, and with the joint efforts of the organizers, 55 outstanding sculpture works at home and abroad have been landed. After two rounds of exhibitions, the artistic atmosphere of Huangshi Mountain ecological area has been improved, the cultural connotation of the sculpture park has been sublimated, and the contemporary value of southern Zhejiang（Zhenan）culture has been highlighted. While the sculpture construction in Wenzhou has made new progress in scale and quality, it has entered a new stage of management and operation. It is a milestone creation and practice of the coordinated development of urban construction, public art, civic life and cultural undertakings in China.
In 2022, Wenzhou Longwan District People’s Government (High-tech Zone Management Committee), Management Committee of Wenzhou Zhenan Sci-tech City will cooperate with China Sculpture Institute and Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts to co-host the 3rd Wenzhou Sculpture exhibition. In line with “strive to create more outstanding works that spread contemporary Chinese values, embody the spirit of Chinese culture, and reflect the aesthetic pursuit of Chinese people”, this round of exhibition plans to complete 25 pieces of outdoor sculptures, in a sustainable artistic way to participate in urban development and promote ecological landscape construction of Zhenan.
EXHIBITION THEME
This round of exhibition will continue the main theme of the sculpture exhibition—Chinese Pose, with the title of “Co-prosperity and Co-creation”. “CHINESE POSE-CHINA SCULPTURE EXHIBITION” is a well-known indoor national sculpture exhibition held by China Sculpture Institute, and Huangshishan Sculpture Park, taking the form of an outdoor exhibition of the “Chinese Pose”, is an extension of the “Chinese Pose” in outdoorization, spatialization and internationalization.
The mission of science and technology is to create the material world, and the mission of art is to express and transmit human emotions. In the current era of rapid development in the intelligent age, the integration of technology and art is the future development trend. The development of science and technology will reconstruct new connections, allowing us to immerse ourselves in infinite imagination and personally practice infinite possibilities of creation. In the field of art, artists began to try to incorporate more scientific and technological elements into their works or use technology as a means to create, both in terms of expressive form and creative content, showing more diversified expressions. In emphasizing interactivity, openness, experience, and regional unique cultural charm, the integration with technology allows the expression of art to continuously show new potentials. This more open development has given birth to new cultural and artistic expressions, helping us to embark on a new journey.
In recent years, the cultural and tourism system of China has focused on meeting the people’s new expectations for spiritual and cultural life, and has been dedicating to enhance the people’s sense of cultural acquisition and happiness with high-quality cultural supplies. As the hosts of this year’s sculpture exhibition, the Management Committee of Wenzhou Zhenan Sci-tech City and China Sculpture Institute hope that through the expression of sculpture art, combining with developments and strengths of Science and Technology of Zhenan, we will welcome a smarter and greater future. We expect using art works to concern about developments of southern Zhejiang’s culture, and build Chinese Pose • Huangshishan Sculpture Park into a vivid sample of showing a beautiful China with Wenzhou’s charm. Through planned and gradual construction, we will devote ourselves to making it a world-class sculpture park, a new landmark of global art.
We expect artists to pay attention to the development of southern Zhejiang (Zhenan) in the new era, and use art to show the spirit of its self-confidence, innovation and enterprising, openness and inclusiveness. In a period full of changes, opportunities and challenges, we will use sculptures to focus on the new vision of the development of Southern Zhejiang, and “Co-prosper and Co-create” a bright future for Southern Zhejiang.
1. “Chinese Pose-Co-prosperity and Co-creation” the 3rd Wenzhou Sculpture Exhibition
Exhibition Opening: October, 2022 (undetermined)
Exhibition Venue: Chinese Pose · Huangshishan Sculpture Park
Exhibition Duration:All final 25 participating art works will be displayed permanently in Wenzhou of China.
All the final works, together with their models will be permanently collected by Wenzhou.
2. Collection of Works （after tax）:
Number of works in the collection: 25
Collection cost: 80,000-250,000 RMB/piece
Collection fee shall be paid by Wenzhou party in RMB
2.Contribution Invited
1. Scope and Form of Solicitation
All artists who identify with the theme and purpose of the exhibition and have the sculpture creation skills are qualified for participation, with no limitation of nationality, age or gender. The exhibition adopts both ways of open solicitation and special invitation, invites contribution globally.
2． Creation Requirements
The requirements for the exhibited works are the original works first created for the public environment, and the design size is about 4-5 meters. The author owns all the intellectual property rights of the work; the concept of the work should be creative and unique, taking into consideration of relevant creative elements such as science and technology, talents, etc., with aesthetics forms and artistic expression, as well as suitable for outdoor display, practical, safe and permanent.
If disputes occur due to copyright and other issues, the authors of the applied works shall bear all legal liabilities. If the above disputes occur in the final work collection, the artist shall refund the collection fee and participation certificate; and compensate the hosts or organizers for all related expenses in the installation of the work.
3．Collecting Details
(1) The online application method is adopted for the solicitation. Each author can submit 1-3 work proposals for review by the Art Committee, and the number of creators of each work should not exceed two.
(2) Fill in the registration form and provide corresponding materials (relevant forms and instructions can be downloaded from the website of China Sculpture Institute www.csin.org.cn). Authors are requested to send the electronic version of the registration form together with the pictures of the proposals, personal photos, and scanned copies of passport to the Organizing Committee’s Email wenzhoudiaosudazhan@csin.org.cn before 24:00 on Dec 12, 2021.
For sending multiple works, the picture of the work must correspond to the description of the work clearly; the assembly work must have a clear installation drawing; the resolution of the electronic version of all pictures should be above 300DPI; the work picture should be in JPG format (no text information is marked on the picture), the name of the pictures should be named according to the work name, size, and material; the registration form is filled in clearly, no missing items, foreign authors should fill the form in English in principle; the proposals will not be accepted after the deadline. It is recommended to compress and package the proposals and send them to the submission mailbox,for example: Myron, Discobolos.rar.
(3) The Art Committee will review all qualified submitted proposals, and the results will be announced on the official website of the Chinese Sculpture Institute (www.csin.org.cn) around December 30, 2021. The Art Committee will clarify the responsibilities, rights and obligations of both parties with the selected authors. The selected authors should formally reply and send the model of the sculpture (the height shouldn’t exceeds 50 cm) before January 21, 2022 (the specific time is to be determined) to the designated location of the art committee to participate in the model exhibition (The production cost of the model and the shipping cost to the place designated by the art committee shall be borne by the artist). The specific time for the model exhibition is subject to the notice of the Art Committee.
4. The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
(1) The project and plan submitted by the participants must not violate and infringe upon the patent, copyright, trademark, defamation or any other legitimate right and interest of the third party.
(2) Any text, images, graphics, audio or video material appeared in the submitted art works and projects of the applicants are protected by copyright, trademark and all other proprietary legal rights. No information mentioned above shall be released to the public without the consent of the participant.
(3) The organizers of the exhibition reserve the right to publish the art works catalogue and the distribution of catalogue, as well as authorize China Sculpture Institute，Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts，Wenzhou Longwan District People’s Government and Management Committee of Wenzhou Zhenan Sci-tech City the right of its usage in public welfare.
5. Publication:
Exhibition Catalogue: All final collections will be included in the exhibition catalogue. Content of the exhibition catalogue will cover exhibition introduction, academic articles, exhibition highlights, artist biography, and artwork descriptions.
The Organizing Committee will present each selected artist with 1 volume of the catalogue.
3.The Making of Art works
The final 25 sculptures selected will be amplified by the sculpture factory (final bid winner) and the Art Committee will decide the amplifying size and material. For figurative realistic sculptures, authors should do the mud-model amplifying work themselves and go to the factory to supervise the amplifying process once (the situation will be adjusted according to the pandemic prevention and control arrangements). Accommodation will be provided by the Art Committee. Authors who fail to perform the supervision are considered to give up their right and qualification. The exhibition art committee will organize the supervision department to coordinate and supervise the manufacturing process.
4.China Sculpture Art Forum
The theme of the forum is to be determined. We will invite well-known experts, artists, collectors, directors of large art institutions and media to join us in the high quality academic seminars, lectures and receptions to enhance the academic quality of The 3rd Wenzhou Sculpture Exhibition, to expand the comprehensive influence of sculpture art in the field and to build the communication platform for academic exchange, high-end cooperation and promotion.
Hosts：
China Sculpture Institute
Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts
Wenzhou Longwan District People’s Government (High-tech Zone Management Committee)
Management Committee of Wenzhou Zhenan Sci-tech City
Organizing Committee and Art Committee of the 3rd Wenzhou Sculpture Exhibition will be established by the hosts.
Organizers：
Wenzhou Zhenan Technology City Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd.
Exhibition Department of China Sculpture Institute
Academic Supporters：
Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts
Sculpture Department of China Academy of Art
Sculpture Department of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Sculpture Department of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts
Sculpture Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Sculpture Department of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Sculpture Department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts
Sculpture Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts
Sculpture Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
Sculpture Department of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts
Director of Art Committee：
Zeng Chenggang
Vice President of Chinese Artists Association, President of China Sculpture Institute, President of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Vice President of Academy of Art and Design of Tsinghua University
Deputy Director of Art Committee：
Li Ming
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Dean of the Sculpture Art Committee of Chinese Artists Association
Yang Jianping
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Director of Art Institute of Shanghai University
Sun Zhenhua
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Editor-in-Chief of China Sculpture
Chen Yungang
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Professor of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts
Yin Shuangxi
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Executive Editor-in-Chief of Art Research
Fu Zhongwang
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Artistic Director of Hubei Museum of Art
Huo Boyang
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Professor of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Long Xiang
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Professor of China Academy of Art
Lv Pinchang
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Vice President of Jingdezhen Ceramic University
Jiao Xingtao
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Vice President of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Yin Xiaofeng
Vice President of China Sculpture Institute, Professor of Fine Arts College in Northeast Normal University
Art Committee Members ：
(arranged according to the number of strokes of Chinese surnames)
Ma Tianyu
Vice President of Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
Wang Lin
Professor of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Well-known art critic and curator
Sun Wei
Dean of Sculpture Art Committee of China National Arts and Crafts Society, Director of Sculpture of Research Center in China Central Academy of Fine Arts
Yu Chenxing
Vice President of the School of Sculpture and Public Art, China Academy of Art
Zhang Wei
Dean of Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts
Zhang Songtao
Dean of Sculpture Department of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts
Chen Ke
Department Head of School of Sculpture and Public Art, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Chen Xiaochun
Dean of Sculpture Department, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts
Chen Hui
Deputy-dean of Sculpture Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University
Ralfonso
Founder and Chairman of Kinetic Art Organization (KAO)
Lin Gang
President of Hangzhou Sculpture Institute
Dong Shubing
Dean of Sculpture Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University
Jiang Tieli
Vice President of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts
Bao Haining
Dean of Sculpture Department of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Tan Xun
Dean of Department of Sculpture, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
Zhai Qingxi
Double-appointed professor at China Academy of Art and Academy of Art at Tsinghua University
Wei Xiaoming
Professor of Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Vice President of Beijing Artists Association
Curator：
Zeng Chenggang
Vice President of Chinese Artists Association, President of China Sculpture Institute, President of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Vice President of Academy of Art and Design of Tsinghua University
Executive Curator：
Yan Kun, Hua Chunjiang, Katherine
Exhibition Supervision Department：
Dong Shubing, Lin Gang, Zhai Qingxi, Chen Hui, Shen Lieyi, Zhu Chen, Ma Tianyu, Feng Chongli
Exhibition Publicity Department：
Wang Jing, Zhang Zhuoming
International Communication Department：
Guo Hang, Katherine, Dakota
Art Committee Office：
Hua Chunjiang, Liu Meixia, Shao Yuejiao, Lv Wentao, Katherine, Wang Jing, Luo Ping, Zhang Zhuoming, Dakota
Contact of the Art Committee Office
Tel: (+86) 010-50933158
Email: wenzhoudiaosudazhan@csin.org.cn
Address: Room 302, Building 12, Yard 3, Xixing Road, Houshayu Town, Shunyi District, Beijing, China
Postal Code: 101318
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