Shangyuan Art Scene Annual Exhibition 2012

A Field of Wheat

  Introduction to A Field of Wheat

By Puyun Cheng

Shangyuan Art Scene, a field of wheat for artists comes along with a pleasant smell in the air and cool breeze during the night, is where you can breathe the rarely existed in Beijing’s sweet air and enjoy a deep dreamless sleep. Thousands square meters of apartments and venues will provide you comfortable spaces to live and work.

To grow wheat, although land is the dominant element, other objects are also necessary. Sunshine, air and water, all of them are critical in farming wheat. Of course you can go out and try to search them by yourself, but most of time you have to wait for their appearance. Even when you have a fertile land, sufficient sunshine and enough nutrients, you have to ask yourself: Am I wheat? Or I am just some common grass? Because this is the most important reason that makes wheat wheat and finally flour.

Though can only provide each artist an apartment for living and working and a joint space of exhibition hall and library for artists to display their works and converse with each other, Shangyuan Art Scene has done its best to help its resident artists:

Organized 26  symposia;

Held several solo and group exhibitions, one outdoor exhibition and Studio Visiting Day, one ink painting experiment;

Provided dozens of independent critics for solo and group exhibitions;

Resident artists organized their own interviews concerning their trains of thought after came to Shangyuan;

Helped and participated solo exhibitions of two resident artists’ outside Shangyuan.

Being a resident artist in Shangyuan, except from rooting in an artistic field of wheat, you also entering a multidimensional platform. Daily interchange among resident artists, contact with Beijing artists’ circle, which gives many opportunities to this year’s resident artists. These activities have inspired artists many new ideas which leads to creation of various new works; some of them met new friends and joined new communities; some of them contracted to new galleries and been fond of by collectors.

Shangyuan Art Scene is neither a commercial gallery nor an artist agency. As a non-profit civilian organization, Shangyuan Art Scene, as a field of wheat, can only provide artists a place to stay and a window to know outside world. Good artistic work can only be achieved by a settled soul. In the meanwhile, you have to be alert to your surrounding world which is the sole way to be inspired and to be more creative.

The long path of pursuing art isn’t easy, this half a year flies by in the blink of an eye. Half a year’s time might not be significant enough when compares to someone’s whole life, but the pleasant surprises of chance meetings are much more enjoyable and unforgettable.

This is the sixth harvest of Shangyuan Art Scene’s wheat field. It may not be that impressive but surely will be fruitful.

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