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China Art Expo With the Common Touch

A highly impressive 10,000 artworks will be on view at the China Art Expo 2002 at the China International Science and Technology Convention Center from September 5-8. The expo, an annual event in Beijing for a decade, is an international artistic exchange as well as a top-class trade fair - a combination that attracts local people and foreigners from every walk of life. The four-day art exhibition includes Chinese landscapes, oil paintings, prints, water-color works, calligraphy, sculptures, pottery, furniture, industrial arts, artistic publications and a good deal else that is connected with art in general. Its popularity stems largely from its appeal to ordinary people, who without claiming to be experts feel comfortable in an informal environment where they can learn to understand, appreciate and buy largely modern art works.

This year's expo will feature exhibition areas with specific themes, with the main first-floor hall given over to a Gallery Exhibition. Well-known Beijing galleries, such as Soka and Creation, will exhibit here, along with Taiwanese counterparts. On view will be works by classicists such as Lin Fengmian, Li Keran and Pan Yuliang, while middle-aged and young painters with great potential (the likes of Hong Ling, Gu Liming and Wang Huanbo) will also show some of their works.

Neighboring galleries will exhibit paintings from overseas, including from France. Here visitors will find originals by Salvador Dali and Michel. Another highlight will be the works of overseas Chinese. In this section, organizers particularly recommend the paintings by Xiao Han from Germany's Chinese Painting Exchange Center, creations widely appreciated in the west as well as east.

The convention center's first floor will also house exhibitions of sculpture, modern art, furniture and pottery, while the second floor will display exhibits from art institutes, colleges, universities and individual artists.

Despite the huge number of artworks on view, organizers have carefully evaluated them all to ensure that they are of considerable potential value.

For further information, please telephone 6554-4115.