Taipei and Taiwan, a Teaming Prospect

Art Taipei

From August 20 through 24, the 17th edi­tion of Art Taipei, an inter­na­tional art fair, takes place at the Taipei World Trade Cen­ter in Tai­wan. Art Taipei has been the most long-standing art fair in Asia. Art Taipei 2010 will be pre­sent­ing 110 exhibitors from the Amer­i­cas, Ger­many, Switzer­land, Spain, and Asia includ­ing China (Bei­jing, Shang­hai, Macau, Hong Kong), Tai­wan, Korea, Japan, Sin­ga­pore, Philip­pines, Thai­land, Indone­sia, and India. Art Taipei 2010 will include many medi­ums, includ­ing paint­ing, sculp­tures, video, pho­tog­ra­phy, mixed media, and instal­la­tions for visitors.

The six sub-sections of Art Taipei 2010 are orga­nized to meet the increas­ingly mul­ti­di­men­sional and spe­cial­ized demands and trends of Tai­wanese art col­lec­tors. Art Gal­leries and Mega Con­tem­po­rary, the main sec­tion of the show, has picked more than 110 gal­leries for this year’s show. Roughly half of the exhibitors are from abroad.

Made in Tai­wan – Young Artist Dis­cov­ery focused on spe­cial solo show by young and emerg­ing artists.

In the Ela-Video cat­e­gory, Encoded, a spe­cial exhi­bi­tion curated by Antoanetta Ivanova from Nova­me­dia, Aus­tralia, will be tak­ing place. Pre­sent­ing dig­i­tal and mov­ing image art­works cre­ated by Aus­tralian artists, the Encoded exhi­bi­tion draws inspi­ra­tion from the sys­tems of com­mu­ni­ca­tions and encod­ing, be they vir­tual, social or nat­ural, that are rapidly influ­enc­ing the ways in which we inter­pret and engage with the world today.

Other spe­cial pro­grams include Afford­able Art, which pro­vides art works’ price range under $2,000. The art­works by local and for­eign emerg­ing tal­ents, as well as estab­lished artists, will be dis­played at indi­vid­ual gal­leries within the exhi­bi­tion hall, which pro­vide begin­ner col­lec­tors an artis­tic tour and every­one a chance to dis­cover art­works with rea­son­able price tags.

Some other events not to miss are Art Lec­ture and Art Per­form dur­ing the period of Art Taipei 2010. These events are expected to inspire every attendee by tak­ing a spe­cial pre­view on cut­ting edge view­points in art field. The audi­ences can relax and feel the artis­tic atmos­phere and dis­cover the new vision of artis­tic per­cep­tion in Tai­wan through this program.

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