Guangzhen Zhou on tue 6 jul 10
The Ceramic Art
Market in China
By June 27th=3D2C 2010=3D2C we had two ceramic pieces sold
at 86=3D2C250 RMB each (about $12=3D2C 700 including fees) in an auction at
Shanghai. One is Sylvia Hyman's Mainly Mail (the piece was printed on the
back cover of the auction catalog) and the other one was done by Guangzhen
Zhou=3D2C titled Enamel Age=3D2C Shanghai Nostalgia #2. During the three da=
ys o=3D
f
auction show June 25-27=3D2C my blog on Artron (Chinese version only) recei=
ve=3D
d over
50=3D2C000 hits. http://www.hosane.com/productlist.asp?auctionid=3D3DW10063=
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My first book American
Ceramic Artists Today was published in 1998 in Beijing. The first show of
American Ceramic Artworks I put together was the year of 2000 at the Shangh=
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ai
Art Expo. The show was very well received but only a few pieces with lower
prices sold. Due to the economy booming in China=3D2C the market of art has=
b=3D
een
increasing rapidly since 2005.
On August 2009=3D2C I shipped
four pallets for the show at the Beijing International Art Expo and I
participated in the Shanghai International Ceramic Art Expo November 2009=
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well as the Shanghai International Art Fair May 2010. The artworks that we
promoted have been featured on many Chinese news mediums and websites. Fina=
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lly=3D2C
I was introduced to an auction company in Shanghai.=3D20
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How a Chinese Teapot
Fetched $2 Million
May 2010=3D2C a purple sand teapot by Gu Jingzhou (1915-1996) was
sold at 12=3D2C320=3D2C000RMB and reached the highest price of Yixing teapo=
t in=3D
the
Chinese ceramic art market. Here is the news in English.=3D20
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/34957/how-a-chinese-teapot-fetched-2-mill=
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ion/
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Ceramic China Tour
June 2010
A group of ten Americans visited places from Shanghai to
Beijing for a tour of Ceramic China for 16 days. We have been in seven citi=
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es.
I would like to share some pictures with you.
Shanghai
We visited the Shanghai World Expo=3D2C but weren=3D92t able to see
many pavilions due to the large crowds there.
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Yixing
Teapots by Kevin Franz Chamberlain (the Grand Prize
Winner of Big Fish=3D2C Small Pot=3D2C International Teapot Show and Compet=
itio=3D
n) and Swanika Ligtenberg
(Thanks Swanika! I wish you could have been there. You will
able to see your piece in the museum next time you=3D92re there) were donat=
ed=3D
to
the Yixing Ceramic Museum and a photographer from Yixing Daily News was wai=
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ting
at the museum since he had received my phone call earlier. http://www.cnsph=
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oto.com%2FNewsPhoto%2FShowNewsDetail.asp%3FFlag%3DWN%26amp%3BID%3D636087
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We had a banquet with the mayor=3D2C Ms. Hong Ya=3D2C and several
other national masters of ceramic art that evening.
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Hangzhou/ Yellow
Mountain
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We stopped in Hangzhou for one night and Yellow Mountain for
two nights. We then arrived in Jingdezhen by bus.
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Thanks to Angela Zhang=3D92s contacts that evening in Hangzhou=3D2C
we visited the Zhejiang Art Museum for the opening of Chen Jialing. As a
professor of Shanghai University-Fine Art College=3D2C the artist has been =
in=3D
volved
in the mediums of Chinese traditional paintings=3D2C fashion design=3D2C fu=
rnit=3D
ure
design=3D2C and ceramic art.=3D20
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Jingdezhen
I have been working with some factories there for my new
projects=3D2C and we visited a factory making vases over 12 feet tall.=3D20
We were invited by the foreign affairs officer for lunch. We
have been told the International Ceramic Fair will be held Oct. 18 to 22. I=
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n conjunction
with the fair=3D2C the International Ceramic Art Exhibition will be hosted =
at=3D
the
same time. If anyone=3D92s artwork was accepted by the committee and donate=
d =3D
to the
Jingdezhen Museum=3D2C you will get free accommodation (hotel rooms=3D2C me=
als =3D
and
transportation) during the time you say in Jingdezhen. For details=3D2C ple=
as=3D
e
contact me at chineseclayart@hotmail.com.
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Xi=3D92an
Besides the Terracotta Museum=3D2C I was originally planning to
visit the Xi=3D92an Fine Art College=3D2C which is one of the top eight fin=
e ar=3D
t schools=3D2C
and present a slide talk there=3D2C but we actually went to Fuping=3D2C and=
vis=3D
ited the
Fule International Ceramic Museums.=3D20
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Beijing
I invited a few ceramic artists for dinner together: Zhang
Shouzhi=3D2C one of the top ten ceramic artists and a retired professor fro=
m
Hsinghua University=3D2C and Mao Zengyin=3D2C an editor of Chinese Ceramic =
Art
Magazine. On the last day=3D2C we visited 798 Art Soon in Beijing.
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Shanghai
My family and I returned to Shanghai at the end of the trip.
We visited the Shanghai Mint Museum. My grandfather was the
chief engineer (for the engraving of coin molds) during 1930=3D92s.
On June 30th=3D2C as a special blog writer on Artron (www.artron.net)=3D2C =
I wa=3D
s invited to the opening
of Martell (L=3D92Or de Jean Martell) =3D96 Artists of the Year at the Shan=
ghai=3D
Art
Museum and also interviewed by a TV news reporter.=3D20
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Ceramic Annual of
America
Fort Mason Center=3D2C
San Francisco=3D2C September 10-12=3D2C 2010
The Ceramics Annual of America (CAA)
is an unparalleled exhibition=3D2C the first event of its kind in the Unite=
d
States. On par with events like the Korea World Ceramic Biennale=3D2C or th=
e
Ceramics Biennial at the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza=3D2=
C =3D
Italy=3D2C
CAA will showcase one of the largest and most diverse exhibitions of cerami=
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c
art in North America. http://ceramicsannual.org/
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Guangzhen "Po" Zhou
Chinese Clay Art Corp. / ClayGround
Clay Art Supplies and Studio
1155 S. De Anza Blvd. San Jose=3D2C CA 95129
Mailling address:
PO Box 1733=3D2C Cupertino=3D2C CA 95015
Tel. 408-343-3919=3D2C Fax. 408-343-0117
www.ChineseClayArt.com=3D2C ChineseClayArt@hotmail.com
Art Tools are Part of Art Works.
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