ShContemporary Newsflash - DISCOVERIES ReValue 上海当代简报- 发现 价值

The art market is engaged in the delicate non-science of attaching prices to works of art. It is a process of making something as intangible as art into something as clearly defined as a numerical value. Everyone in the art world is somehow involved in this process, from critics to museums, galleries, collectors and auction houses. A massive network of knowledge and experience goes into creating a delicate balance between the artistic value and commercial value of contemporary art, but the peaks and troughs of the market every now and again throws everything into doubt. The contemporary art market is now larger than it has ever been in history, and the recent crisis is forcing new art markets to face this question for the first time.

The advent of modernism and the ideas that drove the artistic evolution from traditional to modern to contemporary has been a constant challenge to the idea of what artistic value actually is. The so-called art establishment that traditionally pronounced on value has been changing and expanding to the extent that it's now almost impossible to define. In the last two decades with the development of globalization, cultures all over the world with different artistic traditions have been brought into the contemporary dialogue, bringing new and more complex perspectives on the debate about value, which has rarely been articulated in the form of an exhibition in Asia.

"Discoveries: Re-Value" is a curated exhibition in a commercial art fair where artistic value meets with commercial value. The curatorial team of Re-Value is selecting a range of work by artists whose practice evoke different notions of value; value of the ordinary and the extraordinary, innovation against traditional values, as well as the value of physical objects versus the ephemeral, technique and craftsmanship, or conceptual value associated with political, sociological conditions and backgrounds. This will be an exhibition asks questions about the way we see and consume contemporary art. Importantly, it is the artists who are asking the questions.


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    如何给作品定价是困扰艺术市场的非常微妙而又无法解释的事情。它是用数字来清晰地定义艺术之类无形的价值。不论是评论家、美术馆、画廊、收藏家还是拍卖行，身在艺术界的每个人都多多少少参与了这个过程。通过大量知识和经验的整合，创建当代艺术的艺术价值与商业价值的平衡，但是市场的起伏不定时时刻刻让人对这个平衡产生疑虑。如今当代艺术市场规模前所未有的壮大，近期的评论让那些新兴艺术市场不得不第一次正视这个问题。

    现代主义的出现，以及推动艺术革新(从传统到现代再到当代)的理念一直在挑战一个问题: 艺术价值究竟是什么。那些以传统方式来定义价值的所谓的艺术成就，在不断改变，到现在几乎已无法定义。全球化愈演愈烈的近20年里，来自世界各地不同艺术传统背景下的文化，使得对价值的讨论又遇到了全新的以及更为复杂的难题，而这类讨论很少在亚洲以展览的形式进行表述。

    “发现：价值重构：关于艺术，社会及其体系”是商业博览会中艺术价值与商业价值交融的策展单元。策展团队从一系列尝试不同价值概念的艺术家作品中做选择，各种价值包括循规蹈矩的、特立独行的、创新的以及传统的，也有实体事物的价值以及短暂的、技术技巧价值，或者与政治、社会状况及背景相关联的观念价值。这个展览将针对我们所看到和体验的当代艺术提出一些问题，尤为关键的是这些问题将由艺术家自己提出。


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