Shanghai Art Fair

(13 Nov 2014 - 16 Nov 2014)

http://www.sartfair.com

Shanghai Art Fair
Shanghai
China

Shanghai Art Fair 2014 (18th), as Asia celebrated art exchange with long history and high internationalization degree, will be grandly held from Nov.13-16 at ShanghaiMART, continuing the scale as before, presenting domestic and overseas collectors a gorgeous art event in Shanghai as well. 

Shanghai Art Fair, established in 1997, is sponsored by Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation and organized by Shanghai Art Fair International Exhibition Co., Ltd. Under the tenet of “internationalized, marketized and optimized”, the organization committee has successfully given annual art event in ShanghaiMART each autumn for 15 sessions. Hitherto each fair covers a large display area of 5,000 sqm, enjoys the participation of galleries, art agencies from over 30 countries and about 50,000 audience. Thousands artworks as are jointly presented on the spot. In the past 15 years, many original artworks from the world-class masters, such as Picasso, Rembrandt, Chagall, Dali, Renoir, Monet, Zhu Dequn, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian, made the debut in China or Asia through the great stage established by Shanghai Art Fair.

Shanghai Art Fair set up diverse themes according to the trends of art market, also worked at the exploration thematic pavilions. A series of symbol special pavilions such as Shanghai Art Fair Emerging Artists exhibition, “China·China” porcelain and ceramics exhibition has been successfully exploited till now, acts above not only provide the development direction in specific fields of art market, but also bridge the gap between art and public, give a pushing effect on constructing city’s cultural deposits, spreading purchase and collecting of artworks and cultivating public art literacy. Now Shanghai Art Fair has become one of the symbol events of international culture exchange in Shanghai.