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Japanese contemporary art: the first to win the Nara
Saturday 04 February, 2012 | 
In the autumn auction of works of art of 2011, everyone felt the weakness of China's contemporary art. Hong Kong Christie's contemporary art night field, 6 of 14 lots unsold, including Liu Ye and Zhang Xiaogang (microblogging) and these two are by far the most respected contemporary artists masterpiece.
Autumn auction of new trends, the masterpiece of contemporary art in Japan - Nara in the early classic "find treasure" (1995), a Shanghai collector photographed, Pace, Beijing 2012, held in Nara Mercer's solo exhibition. Not yet formed a strong interest in Japanese contemporary art collectors in the country, people who have begun to snatch the initiative. It can be expected, the future home of China's Tibet will gradually try out their own familiar territory, the collection had now "cross-cultural geographical" trend.
Alternative marketing of traditional culture
Many people know Nara, because the TV series "dwelling" - Song Siming sent seaweed a sleepwalking doll, from sleepwalking dolls are all the rage in China, but also pull behind the Japanese master level artists.
Yoshitomo Nara, is only one element of the contemporary art market in Japan.
Beijing Bang text of Contemporary Art investment in academic research, director Zhao Xiaoxuan, the "Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara three artists interpretation of contemporary Japan, especially after the war by the art under the influence of western culture and Japanese contemporary art, iconic characters, cultural development they have a common characteristic is that they have left the traditional context to the inside of the global art market, but very special, they are also the nutrients of the traditional Japanese culture or the original elements of the animation industry into the works Therefore, both in Japan, the world's these people has been able to become a representative figure, with the concept of the so-called industrial production to the concept of the studio, they have done a lot of derivatives, including marketing and ideas. self-image, shape, related to traditional artists is very different. "
Yayoi Kusama: polka dot queen
99 Art Network CEO Kai Yang believes that the work of Yayoi Kusama is a bustling cartoon image of a gaudy with color on a kind of nothingness, disaster social ridicule. "
"Polka Dot Queen," "strange law" Yayoi Kusama will be defined as "mentally ill artists. Repetitive dots Kusama, as her way to communicate with the world. In Japan, young people wearing clothing, apparel accounted for about 30% with a dot pattern, This is all thanks to the grass between the gift. She used creative techniques such as painting, soft sculpture, performance art and installation art. Her use of high color contrast polka dots with a mirror, a large number of coating the surface of various objects such as walls, floors, canvas and at home there will be a variety of items. And her dress is often their works have a very high homogeneity.
Kusama also developed its own unique characteristics, the "breeding" She has a lot of work to the shape of mushroom poly students. Added to the field of commercial art in the 1990s, the grass, and the fashion design industry, launched with strong dot the grass between the style of dress, and started selling many art goods, and in 2009, and the Audi R8 car models had a very successful cooperation.
Takashi Murakami: Issey Miyake's "eyes."
Talk about Takashi Murakami, more people think of first and luxury brand LV, the number of cross-border cooperation, and his greatness is to open the door to the art and business. Japanese pop culture into the Western sense of the word fashion. Whether it be in the spring and summer of 2000, his "eyes" in Issey Miyake men's 2003 spring and summer, his "Panda", "Sakura" also boarded a French luxury brand Louis Vuitton classic bag, Murakami Long the world, has been "naive" allure.
His work demonstrated the inherent qualities of the sun, full of a consumer era of flashy, bright color performance and the traditional Japanese arts and culture have a deep relationship. The same time, he was biased in favor of modern Japanese concept of integration in the works, done a lot of the comprehensive material expansion and symbolic extension. His work by Japanese animation and comics. Works of the image plane, from the face of it both as a doll, like a model toy, financial cute, sexual fantasies and extreme violence in one, flat characters, plants, flowers, Takashi Murakami is the most easily identifiable characteristics.
Yoshitomo Nara: The evil little girl
Zhao Xiaoxuan like Yoshitomo Nara that evil little girl image, she said, in such cultural symbols can be seen that a certain kind of living conditions of people in the 21st century.
Yoshitomo Nara is a neurotic, the special sensitivity of the artist, human nature is very fragile, very thin, against the community. Nara works by Japanese comics and animation, smooth crayons, comic-style lines or surface to create the appearance of naive young girls and pet animals. However, his work, he joined a cynical taste by depicting them carries a dagger or a gun and other weapons and then break their innocence. For material substantially of acrylic paintings and three-dimensional multimedia or ceramic sculptures. After reading Nara's paintings, we remember those kids, both big eyes, these eyes convey things and not just lonely is all sorts of ambiguous emotions, including fear, warm, contempt, excited and boredom mixed.
Who in the collection of contemporary art in Japan?
Tsai Kang-yung in the book "Art in the money game" mentioned several times in Nara appreciation, he presented for Fan Fan and Chen Chien-state wedding gift is also Takashi Murakami limited edition prints "NEW DAY, new life".
Yoichiro Kurata, Tokyo Shinwa Art Auction Bank president, said, "Taipei has a strong purchasing power". The Shinwa auction has organized the auction Kusama Yayoi's paintings, her polka dot paintings and sculptures worldwide concern. Kurata, said: "in the eyes of the Taiwanese buyers, the Japanese artists themselves have very high appreciation value, but its price compared to South Korea in other countries, especially the artists of China and India is much lower."
The same is Taiwanese Zhao Xiaoxuan also respect: different cultural backgrounds, the collectors in Taiwan compared to the Japanese art on the mainland collectors, more a kind of cultural intimacy. Tsai Kang-yung's partner, Eric Chen in three or four years ago predicted the Japanese contemporary art in the future there will be good prospects for 2008, called for another wave of people to go to Japan to participate in fairs and auction, when I went to participate in these activities. very deep impression. "
In Zhao Xiaoxuan the impression that the mainland collectors and there is no large-scale collection of Japanese contemporary art, but rather the image of the very "kawaii" fashion circles and the entertainment collectors of Japanese contemporary art is more love.
The collection you need to do to prepare
In Zhao Xiaoxuan the eyes, collectors groups did not form, no understanding of their own country artists, not to mention other countries. With China and Japan in history there are many complex, so that the collection of Japanese art also do some mental preparation.
Yang Kai feel the hearts of collectors, not enough powerful, modern and contemporary art in various regions of the world, whether in Japan or the United States, Europe, or collection before do the mental preparation is still necessary to have an international perspective, enough self-confidence, enough to create, not avoid, and what culture is to be avoided.
The cartoon is a major feature of the contemporary Japanese, the Japanese embraced the West earlier, but we still have a tangled attitude of Western culture, we have an excellent ink cartoon, also has the world's breathtaking "Havoc in Heaven "But we do not have animation culture, enjoy the works may be just stays on the surface.
Erotic Art is certainly not throughout the main line of Japanese art which, while people are ashamed to be erotic put on the table the attitude sometimes held in contempt and sometimes ambiguous, but also the ancient secret show (erotic) Heritage normal trading conviction for the dissemination of pornographic material . Therefore, collection of Japanese art itself and the surrounding environment with tinted glasses.
Just like you buy from
Obscure expensive Chinese contemporary art, Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara represent Japanese contemporary art is clearly easier to understand and full of playful, more diverse varieties can even be said, as long as like, you buy on. This is not to say that their work market price is not high, but the diverse manifestations of Japanese contemporary art and art licensing mechanism, as well as a wealth of art derivatives, so that everyone can buy within the context of their own economic to correspond to the collection.
Original: 2007 Takashi Murakami in 1998 produced one called "lonely cowboy doll sold for $ 15,160,000 price, the 2011 statue of Venus," Venus - denied by the infinite network to sold for $ 4.957 million, refresh the highest bid of world auction record for Kusama sculpture. Japanese contemporary art international is much higher than the Chinese contemporary art, so the market price of the original of their works is more than twice that of the Chinese contemporary art.
Limited edition prints and dolls: Kevin Tsai revealed on the network in 2010 to 90,000 yuan to buy the five limited edition dolls created by Takashi Murakami, two of which Victor (white skin, wearing black clothes) and Bob (black skin, wearing white clothes) bid of $ 120,000. The series of dolls wearing different color clothes, skin color is different, he said the most expensive doll wearing a red dress, the price is about $ 150,000. Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, are the classic works authorized through the art form of printing limited edition prints, prints, limited edition of 500 to more than the current market price of about 20,000, the middle class in general are affordable.
Cross-border products: In the LV "wildly" seems to be the common interest of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami's crossover series, were taken from signs doll DOB big eyes and I laughed flower print. Infected with the classic LV Monogram pattern magnificent colors, limited edition I LOVE series bags, a total of 93 different colors which the shuttle is very beautiful lovely. Just released the news in January 2012, this year, Yayoi Kusama and LV designed a range of leather goods, as installed, accessories, shoes, watches, jewelry and other goods. Art and fashion-sensitive influx of people, certainly will not miss such an opportunity.
Derivatives: Derivatives are financial vocabulary, but this concept to solve the misunderstanding of the art services for the nobility. Most people can not walk into Christie's, Sotheby's (microblogging), shooting games, placards compete for orders for millions of tens of millions of famous arts, but can walk into art galleries, art shops, with one of their favorite artist album or an artistic decoration home gift. Affordable art in this regard, Japan has done the earliest and most successful, such as Takashi Murakami's Kaikai, Kiki, Ltd., the main task is the creation of Takashi Murakami 's changing role of business entities, such as T-shirts, dolls, key hot products of ring pillow, and other trend, amounting to hundreds of thousand dollars, and very popular with young girls love.
Books: If the above collection form those who simply love these artists is an economic burden, then buy books! Published in 2011, Yokohama, Nara manuscripts and DRAWING FILE 300mm × 370mm large format perfect rendering Yoshitomo Nara's paintings original appearance. Engraved in accordance with the actual size of the original painting printed on each page on the left attached to the cutting line paintings can be easily cut, mounted up, and became an independent art exhibits. Less than 200 yuan, you can enjoy the private art masterpieces.
Appreciation of the arts is a way of life, consumer and art is a way of life, whether in China or Japan, we can buy the original, buy prints, or even a picture. Stylish modern, it may be from their work to open the collection road.
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