The future development trend of carving crafts

Sculpture belongs to an ancient art of human society. In order to make tools, humans first produced the earliest sculptures in the processing of stones, wood, bones, and mud. Slowly, mankind began to create many relief works on rocks, rocks, jade, pottery, and bones. With the further development of human thinking and ability, the pursuit of spiritual culture began. Sacrifices, blessings, decorations and other independent sculpture art emerged. The relationship between sculptural art and human life is more than that of all other art works, which determines the harmony and beauty that accompanies sculptural artwork and human beings.

I. The reason that the sculpture art has not been paid attention Although China has a long history of sculpture, due to the traditional appreciation habits, people pay more attention to the collection of paintings, calligraphy, jade articles, pottery, etc., and there is a lack of understanding and demand for sculpture art. The reason is that the ancient Chinese painters and painters were generally literati and scholar-bureaucrats. These people had high social status. Their works were naturally sought after and highly valued by the upper classes of the society. Porcelain and jade were used for royal imperialism, or were held by persons with identities. Wearing is also easily recognized by the community. Ancient stylists such as buildings and sculptures were regarded as "craftsmen" in traditional Chinese concepts, and they were in a low status. They were not respected by the mainstream society. They were rarely recorded by historical records and their works were difficult to achieve.

In today's society, due to the limitations of Chinese traditional culture appreciation habits and the choice of furnishings in Chinese-style home gardens, people's understanding and demand for sculpture art are insufficient. Therefore, in the collection market, sculpture art has not been paid attention to, and it has not been compared with the art of painting. There are few circulations and prices are low.

Second, the rapid development of the international sculpture auction market in the past decade or so is not the same as in China. The sculpture art appeared earlier in European society, the level of theory and practice was higher, and the contact with the painting art was very close. Many painting artists were at the same time. It is also a sculptor. Therefore, sculpture art is more easily recognized and collected in western society.

Even so, in the current international art market, the popularity of sculpture art collection is still slightly inferior to the art of painting. After 2000, sculpture art ushered in a high-price era at the international auction market.

At the Sotheby's New York auction in May 2000, Matisse's sculpture “Woman in the Stone Tablet” took US$ 12.75 million; in 2002, Christie’s took US$ 14.3 million. The price was traded with the Swedish sculptor Giacometti's “The Tallest Standing Women”; in November 2002, Picasso's sculpture “The Stork and its Cubs” was sold at Christie's New York for $6.7 million; in the spring of 2004, the London Sue Fuby auctioned the sculpture of the Impressionist master Degas' "14-year-old ballerina" for 4.5 million pounds; in 2005 Christie's New York "Impressionist and Modern Art Auction", Romanian sculptor Konstantin Blanco West's "Flying Birds" traded for 27.45 million US dollars; during the same period, English sculptor Henry Moore's "The Mother and Baby on the Side" took out 5.7 million US dollars; in November 2007, Picasso's bronze sculpture "Dora Maha It was sold for $26 million at the New York auction; on the Sotheby’s London auction in February 2010, Giacometti’s bronze sculpture “The Walking Man” was sold for £65 million.

Chinese artists have also gradually emerged in the international market. At the 2005 Sotheby's Auction in Hong Kong, Cai Zhisong’s ninth copy of the bronze medal of the “Guo Guo Feng No. 1” was sold for HK$60,000, which created the first Chinese sculpture auction; Philip London 2006 At the auction, Yue Minjun’s bronze sculpture "The Sixth Generation of Modern Terracotta Warriors and Horses" took US$340,000; Taiwanese artist Zhu Ming's "Taichi Series" of "The Big Match" was sold at HK$14.88 million at Christie's Hong Kong in 2007; in 2012 In Hong Kong's autumn auction of Christie's, Sui Jianguo's “clothes and jackets” was sold for HK$1.1 million. The auctioned price of Sui Jianguo’s works was Hong Kong Sotheby’s “Shadow of the Century” in the fall of 2011, with a transaction price of 5.78 million Hong Kong dollars.

It can be seen that sculpture artworks cost more than one million yuan at the auction site, but there is still a big gap between them and millions of paintings; at the same time, the price of domestic artists in the international market and international sculpture Compared with famous people, there are still ten times the distance difference.

Judging from the international art market, sculpture has entered the golden period of the market in recent years, and sculptures have shown an unprecedented strong momentum. According to the statistics of the world's major sculpture auction markets, the price of sculptures has reached a new height, rising 150-200% over the past 20 years. Regardless of turnover or volume, the international sculpture market has reached an unprecedented height.

Third, the initial formation of the domestic sculpture art auction market In 1995, at the China Guardian [microblogging] auction company's spring auction, the first auction of sculpture products. This time, a total of four sculptures were produced. The transaction price ranged from a few tens of thousands to more than 200,000 yuan. In November 1997, Pacific International Auction Company held an auction of "Sculpture Art Boutique" in autumn auctions. All auctions were made of sculptures. It was the first sculpture auction in China and 53 auctions were selected from the China National Museum of Art. The participating works of the “China Art Exhibition·Contemporary Sculpture Art Exhibition” included the works of three generations of sculptors. These include Liu Kaiqu's “The Yak”, Zheng Yuhe’s “Opening up for a Brilliant”, Xu Guangfu’s “Star of the North”, Qian Sihua’s “Academy of Wushu”, Wenlou’s “Red and Black”, Cao Chunsheng’s “Return”, and Lu Pinchang’s A Fu, Li Xiangqun's "Woman Body" and so on, eventually sold nearly ten auctions.

Although sculpture has been used as an auction item for 18 years, most sculptures are auctioned on auctions with oil paintings. No matter whether it is the number of shots or volume, the transaction price cannot be compared with oil paintings. Only the foil of the oil painting. This also indirectly caused the sculpture product to not form a true sense of the overall market.

In recent years, the price of domestic sculptures began to rise significantly. For example, the sculpture master Liu Kaiqu's “Children Fun” photographed more than 5 million yuan, and Sui Jianguo’s work “Marx in China” was auctioned at the high price of RMB 918,400 in the autumn of 2007. The works of Sui Jianguo, Li Xiangqun, Cai Zhisong, and other artists are very popular. Zhou Chunya's series of sculpture works “Green Dog” has also been recognized by collectors.

As a follow-up force, young sculpture artists are also moving forward step by step. Xiang Jing and Yan Guangci [Weibo] is a famous sculptor and couple of Chinese art circles. The auction price of Xiang Jing’s works exceeded RMB 6 million in 2010, and the works of Yan Guangci also reached more than RMB 1 million. In 2007, the young sculptor Zhang Defeng's "Vegas Venus" and a cloisonne art sculpture were sold for 426,600 yuan; the young sculptor's peak bronze sculpture "Bull" was shot in the 2011 Guardian spring auction. The price of 345,000 yuan.

In the 2012 Baoli Spring Auction of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Night, Cai Zhisong’s “Venice Floating Clouds” was sold for 6.9 million pieces and became the highest transaction price for the current mainland sculpture auction. This work was featured in the “Floating Clouds” at the 54th Venice Biennale. One piece.

Fourth, the future potential of the domestic sculpture collection investment market Although China's sculpture art is as old as the history of Western sculpture, but the sculpture into the collector's home is only a matter of nearly 10 years. It is estimated that at present, the proportion of sculpture art and urban sculpture collected by individuals in China is only 2:8, while in Western countries, the ratio is as high as 8:2. In the Chinese mainland market, the price of original works by famous sculpture masters is only about 1/10 of the international price. In fact, judging from the auction market, in 2011, in the mainland art auction market, the Chinese painting and calligraphy market accounted for 60%, while the market belonging to the sculpture did not add up to tens of millions. This gap is far greater than that of the international market. Sculptures account for 13% of the usual transactions in the international market. For example, in 2011, the volume of global art transactions was 200 billion U.S. dollars, while the volume of sculptures was about 20 billion U.S. dollars.

At present, in China, sculpture art is still a niche collection category, and its intrinsic artistic value is not exactly in line with its price in the market. It can be said that it has always been an art collection that has been neglected by people. Judging from the auction data of Yachang, from 1995 to 2012, among the auction items appearing on the domestic auction market, the single highest transaction value and the single item price of painting and calligraphy and porcelain auctions are far from each other. This has a lot to do with people's lack of understanding of the value of sculpture art, and it is also related to the limitations of the space for the installation of sculptures. The traditional collection awareness and habits have limited the development of the sculpture collection market.

With the sculptural artworks being sought after in foreign countries and the rising international prices, many investors began to pay attention to Chinese sculpture art and acquired a large number of sculptures at low prices. From the perspective of investment, in the current art auction market, the painting field is nearly saturated, and the secular and low price of the sculpture market has formed a certain market space and development opportunities. The sculpture has grown by a relatively small margin and is easy to intervene. . Some private investment agencies have begun to systematically purchase Chinese sculptures.

Moreover, the substantial adjustment of the mainland's art market in the past two years has mainly focused on the market of Chinese paintings and calligraphy that have risen too far in previous years, and has had little impact on the sculpture art market that has been steadily growing. Therefore, sculptural artwork may become a new hot spot for collection and investment in the mainland art market.

V. How to choose the sculpture collection The two characteristics of the sculpture artwork determine its extremely high artistic value: the unique three-dimensional physical properties and eternal characteristics of the sculpture, which are unmatched and replaced by other categories of artworks.

The profound allegorical, aesthetic, and interesting qualities exhibited by the sculptures will be the subjects pursued by different collectors. In general, the most inspiring sculptural themes are loved by a small number of thematic collectors; aesthetic themes are mostly pursued by aesthetic enthusiasts; and interesting sculptures are more easily recognized by ordinary collectors.

Whether or not a work has been awarded is also a question that collectors need to consider. In 2004, Zeng Chenggang’s “Sacred Torch Relay” received the Silver Prize in the second edition of the Olympic Sports and Art Competition after winning the National Gold Award in 2003; the company’s “The Eternal Operation” was auctioned for by Li Xiangqun, which was sold for 302.4 thousand yuan. 》, won the special prize for the highest award in the third session of the Sports Art Exhibition. In analogy to this, works that received the “Tiangong Award” for Chinese jade carvings can be auctioned “high price” more than ordinary jade carvings!

The sculptures of famous painters are also influenced by the extension of their paintings. Among them, the works of Yue Minjun, Fang Lijun, Zhou Chunya, etc. performed most prominently. The "green dog" series created by Zhou Chunya is very famous. These oil painters also took a place in the sculpture market in the already small sculpture market.

The improvement of the overall level and strength of the Chinese art market will surely drive the space for sculptural arts to grow by leaps and bounds! Today, the involvement of sculpture collections in relatively low overall prices is a golden opportunity!