On November 3, 2017, the Annual Creation Exhibition of Guangdong Academy of Fine Arts 2017 co-hosed by Guangdong Institute of Art and Guangdong Museum of Art opens at Guangdong Museum of Art. Works exhibited this time are from 62 artists, including Xu Qinsong, Lin Yongkang, Feng Shaoxie, Li Dongwei, Huang Guowu, Sun Hongmin, Huang Weili, Xuan Xinming, and Zhou Zhengliang.

 

Shen Haixiong, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and Head of Guangdong Publicity Department, Zheng Yanxiong, standing deputy director of Guangdong Publicity Department, Xu Qinsong, vice chairman of Chinese Artists Association, chairman of Guangdong Federation of Writers and Artists, and director of Guangdong Institute of Art, Li Jinkun, chairman of Guangdong Artists Association and dean of Guangdong Academy of Art, Wang Yong, full-time vice chairman of Guangdong Artists Association, Wang Shaoqiang, vice chairman of Guangdong Artists Association and director of Guangdong Museum of Art, Fang Tu, vice chairman of Guangdong Artists Association and dean of Guangdong Institute of Fine Arts, Xu Yongbo, head of the Section of Literature and Art of the Publicity Department of CPC Guangdong Publicity Department, Sun Li, vice chairman of Guangdong Artists Association, Feng Shaoxie, deputy dean of Guangdong Institute of Art and member of the Presidium of Guangdong Artists Association, Ye Xianmin, deputy dean of Guangzhou Institute of Art, and He Junhua, chairman of Guangdong Young Artists Association.

 

The "Annual Art Exhibition" is an important innovation in the series of academic activities held by the Guangdong Art Institute in the new period. Since 2005, the annual art exhibition has never stopped. By presenting the annual new work of the three academic teams, including working painters, contracted painters and young painters at the Youth Art Institute, its aim is to encourage them to constantly improve and perfect their art techniques and language and enlighten them by the art history of each painter.

 

Looking back at works exhibited these years, we can clearly see such a path rule. The academic wisdom rooted in rich knowledge and the innovation courage of self-denial and relentless pursuit is the reason why Guangdong Art Institute has become the academic benchmark. Even if using instinct and matured language to present, painters made every effort to transform the presentation of their times and increase new perceptions of their time.

 

For a long time, Guangdong Art Institute requires painters to create in terms of art, life, and social responsibilities by centering on its purpose of developing the institute with academy and strengthening the institute with talents. On the one hand, painters constantly boost the prosperity and development of creation practice and theoretic research according to their actualities based on professional academy; on the other hand, they undertake more social responsibilities, play an important role, and represent "truth, virtue, and beauty". With the roll-out of provincial poverty alleviation in recent years, Guangdong Art Institute has taken the series campaigns of "going to the grassroot and rooting in the public" as the priority of daily creation and task during the period and formed a good academic environment and attained good results. The new look presented by this exhibition is the results of painters after pragmatically implementing the series measures of "benefiting people with culture and art" and "going to the grassroot and rooting in the public".

 

Xu Qinsong, vice chairman of China Artists Association, chairman of Guangdong Federation of Writers and Artists, and director of Guangdong Institute of Art, said that the staging of "Guangdong Art Academy Annual Exhibition 2017" will benefit audiences, artists and researchers with joy of appreciation and exchange. From these works with rich and diversified themes, we can understand that in the practice writing of the past year, painters rooted in their lives and their people and paid attention to the national livelihood, understood the artistic awareness of the pulse of the times. The artistic thought of deep understanding of life is integrated into academic work and artistic creation. In the coming year, we expect artists of Guangdong Institute of Art  to continue to explode more artistic inspiration that is hidden in the people and hidden in the life by virtue of the new trend of development of the times. At the same time, we also expect all walks of life to provide our artists with precious opinions and suggestions for their creation, expand their horizon, and elevate their state of art so as to promote the new academic creation and development of the Institute.

 

Li Jinkun said in his speech that the brand of Guangdong Institute of Art over the past decade gave us a series of thinking. As a cultural reform unit, Guangdong Institute of Art has always been an important premise of researching Chinese art creation and an important pillar of China's mainstream fine arts. The 12-year history reflects the epitome of China's mainstream art creation.

 

Wang Shaoqiang believes that the prosperity and development pattern of today's fine arts in Guangdong is due to the fact that Guangdong has a good artistic ecology. Guangdong has some important academic institutes such as Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangdong Institute of Art, and Guangdong Museum of Art. Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts has placed a high priority on personnel training, while Guangdong Institute of Art has been focusing on creation practice and Guangdong Museum of Art has been focusing on research and display that forms a good interaction and coordination relations and art will convert the creation results into cultural forces to serve the public.

 

This exhibition will be on display until November 10.

 

Opening Ceremony

 

Address of Mr. Xu Qinsong, Vice Chairman of Chinese Artists Association and Director of Guangdong Institute of Art

 

Address of Li Jinkun, Chairman of Guangdong Artists Association and Dean of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

 

Address of Wang Shaoqiang, Vice Chairman of Guangdong Artists Association and Director of Guangdong Museum of Art

 

Group Photo

 

 

 

 

Exhibition Site

 

 

 

Edit & Picture / Danni