If China Art Scene would do this...

I read an article recently about Art for Grabs by New Strait Times Malaysia by Lucien de Guise. He is currently a curator of the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia. There was an event held in The Annexe @ Central Market, in Kuala Lumpur, selling off works of art for as little as RM100. It's hard to believe so, but it sure is a good way to promote awareness and allow the general to collect works of art by local artists.

Participating artists included Ng Sek San, Fathul, Super Sunday, Amir Muhammad, Saiful Razman, Valentine Willie Resource Centre, James Lee, Goh Lee Kwang, Hands Percussion, Mun Kao, Circlesongs, Kurasaraksaksa, Pipit, Soundscape, and many more of Malaysia’s young and talented yet to be digged.

I am sure this will allow the public to build up a general interest for the art scene. Citizens need not think that art is something that need to be paid in the millions to be ever collected at home and be of certain appriciation and aesthetic values.

Because of this, I sometimes wonder whether anyone in China would actually pull off a team of artists, young and energetic, not famous, but with absolute content and reach out to the general public, exposing these new raw talents to the society. Let's not talk about big masters who are earning an international reputation. Why not start off a big scale of art creativity using talents who are unheard of and do the job? In general, the society will welcome the effects of it: collections of art locally produced with stunning modern effects as a way to beautify and sooth the souls of many.

Artists can gain the awareness needed. Come on, those bunch from the 80s did not get the attention they wanted back then. It was brought forth by international know galleries that China exists really good contemporay works of art, letting the world know about their works.

Why not do it locally now for a new generation of talent? Perhaps you might argue that doing so is more for the effects of commercialised art, and many artists out there are crying to be recognised. But doing it cheap, unique, and in mass, might draw the attention needed, allowing more space for art to boom in China, no?