At the end of February 2023, the 2022 Beijing Autumn Auction was finally successfully concluded. Many auction companies such as China Guardian, Poly, Rongbao Auction, Yongle Auction & Satisfactory answer sheet. In different stages of Chinese contemporary art, there are outstanding artists and works of art. Whether it is art fairs, galleries or auction houses, new artists and new works are constantly being discovered. These new forces interpret in a unique way Based on its own thinking about individuals, society, and even deeper levels, ArtPro takes stock of the new forces that debuted in the modern and contemporary art section of the 2022 Beijing Autumn Auctions, as well as information about these artists' agent galleries and the latest solo exhibition, expecting to present a variety of presentations artistic outlook.

2022 Beijing Autumn Auction Modern and Contemporary Art SectionA total of 28 artists were auctioned for the first time, and more than 80% of them were young artists born after the 1970s;

Each auction house has a different number of newcomers.Among them, Rongbao Auction, Kaipai International, and Shizhuzhai’s debut artists all account for about 20%;

Although these new-faced artists made their debut at the auction, they still received a positive response from the market. All of their works were sold with good results, and the transaction prices ranged from several thousand, tens of thousands to millions. The range is within 200,000 yuan.

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Lin Dalu's "Prayer" was auctioned at Rongbao Auction on February 22, 2023, and it was sold for 1.035 million yuan, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1. The artist infuses the pious beliefs of Tibetan compatriots into his works. The characters in the paintings are beautiful, tough and kind, in contrast to today's complicated urban society.

Lin Dalu is a very good artist born in the 1980s.As the backbone of the Chinese realistic painting school, he has been Persisting in artistic creation in Tibetan areas, the works are presented in realistic oil paintings, which are lifelike without losing the artistic beauty, and the characters on the plateau are both agile and full of strength.

On September 23, 2022, the "Qinghai-Tibet Painting Landscape" Lin Dalu's oil painting exhibition opened at the Gangjian Art Center in Beijing's 798 Art District. The exhibition displayed more than 30 representative works of Lin Dalu's Qinghai-Tibet oil paintings. From "Stacking Arhats" and "Plateau" in 2022 to "The Elder" in 2022, the artist constantly draws creative inspiration from the local customs and customs of Tibet, and paints with a "Buddha heart". The light of the earth reflects the true nature of every Tibetan compatriot.

Collaboration/Agent Gallery: Hive Center for Contemporary Art

Zhang Ji's "Waves and Flowers Roulette, Set Sail on Another Day" was sold at China Guardian for 483,000 yuan on December 14, 2022, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1. "Waves and Flowers Roulette, Choose a Day and Set Sail" is Zhang Ji's first work on the auction floor. He has created a gorgeous and fantasy sense, which perfectly shows the mysterious and exciting style of his works. This work is a sign of the maturity of his style, demonstrating his greater mastery of the medium of painting.

After graduating and returning to China in 2020, the first solo exhibition "Sugar Kundalini" was held at the Hive Center for Contemporary Art, which attracted the attention of collectors and curators as soon as it appeared. From February 25th to May 3rd, 2023, Long Museum (West Bund) will present artist Zhang Ji's latest solo exhibition "Zhang Ji: Flame". As the artist's first solo exhibition in a museum, the exhibition consists of four chapters, about 30 works on canvas and 100 works on paper, presenting the various painting possibilities that Zhang Ji has explored in the past two years, and unfolding in parallel with multiple creative threads.

Hong Baofeng "Cloud Dwelling" February 21, 2023 In Beijing Poly, it was sold for 391,000 yuan, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1. This work was created in 2022. It forms a unique composition with abstract pictures and rich colors, expresses a profound artistic conception, and makes the viewers have endless aftertaste.

Hong Baofeng is committed to the research of using different creative materials to express the creative spirit of Chinese painting, mainly creating semi-abstract landscape paintings. He created many chic compositions depicting great nature and beautiful homes. The bright colors and beautiful pictures make people enjoy the elegant fragrance of art.

On July 26, 2014, Hong Baofeng's solo exhibition "Unnatural" opened at ZERO Zero Art Center. The artist has loved painting, seal cutting, and calligraphy since he was a child. He often stays in the mountains, rivers, and green forests, and uses his brush to depict the nature of the unity of heaven, earth, and man. He is good at using simple methods, simple pictures, and simple images to construct his aesthetic realm. He regards "simplicity" as the noble beauty, and "sereneness" as the distant state, chasing the beautiful dream in his heart.

Collaboration/Agent Gallery: Hive Center for Contemporary Art

Tan Yongcheng's "Chariot of Yesterday" in 2023 On February 22, it was auctioned at Yongle Auction & Phillips Beijing with a transaction price of 345,000 yuan, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1. In the work "Yesterday's Chariot", the artist treated a tank wreck with electroplating texture into the intention of a monument. Let the viewer recall the cruelty of the war in the past, so as to reflect.

Tan Yongcheng is undoubtedly the most eye-catching rising star in the art world in recent years. It demonstrates his talent in image selection and shape processing, and also proves that the painting itself still contains pioneering characteristics at the artistic level. He has held solo exhibitions in Beijing and Hong Kong, and many of his works have been collected by Long Museum, X Museum, Longlati Foundation and other institutions.

From November 9, 2022 to January 15, 2023, "Tan Yongqing: Fantasy" will be exhibited at the Longlati Foundation (Shanghai). This exhibition is artist Tan Yongqing's first institutional solo exhibition in China, curated by curator Yang Jian who lives and works in Beijing. Driven by the concept of "ten years after ten years", this is the first time since the Longlati Collection and Sponsorship Program was launched in 2017 to show the achievements of Chinese artists born in the 1990s. This exhibition systematically sorts out the most important huge triptych works in Tan Yongqing's recent creations.

Cooperative/Agent Gallery: Vanguard Gallery

Xiao Jiang's "Looking at the Past from the Monument Base" was published On January 5, 2023, it was sold for 241,500 yuan in Beijing International Auction, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1. In "Looking at the Past from the Pedestal of the Monument", the artist separates the landscape from the figurative, and the atmosphere left behind becomes points, lines, planes, composition and colors, which are in the picture like silhouettes. The images seem to be taken from photographs or films, shrouded in unnatural light and slightly distorted colors, detached from everyday life and experience.

Xiao Jiang's works are always surrounded by a strong sense of atmosphere, seemingly silent but sound, in silence transmits power. Most of the scenes it depicts are based on movies and fragments of life. These scenes are often ignored because people are accustomed to them, but under the artist's unique perspective, they are intercepted and reassembled. Although the inspiration comes from reality, what is built is absolute imagination, making the audience seem to be wandering in the sense of astonishment of the changing reality.

On June 2, 2021, Vanguard Gallery held the artist Xiao Jiang's solo exhibition "Indoor Landscape" at Lianhua Apartment, Tongren Road, Shanghai. The exhibition selected Xiao Jiang's multiple painting series since the 2010s By using the spatial characteristics and logic of a specific field, it re-endows the painting with the possibility of viewing and intertextual relationship. The exhibition follows the artist's creative footsteps and periodically revisits Xiao Jiang's painting concept and evolution.

Collaboration/Agent Gallery: Art Warehouse

Hou Jianan's "The Unlucky Grassland" My Trap" was sold at China Guardian Beijing for 230,000 yuan on December 14, 2022, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1.Worked in 2021, it clearly has Hou Jianan's creative characteristics-fluorescent clarity The vivid picture, the digital sense of color, and the hidden metaphor and irony of the consumption landscape.

Born in Hou Jianan's paintings in 1992 have obvious characteristics of the new generation. Unlike the traditional painting technique of directly daubing on the screen, Hou Jianan often draws a rough draft first, and after making a rough setting of the painting object and shape, he will paint it Pull in the modeling, use the lighting and scenery in the modeling tool to determine the colors and lines, and then put the image on the modeling software onto the canvas.Hou Jianan's creation can be rich and vivid in the digital sense.

On June 16, 2022, Hou Jianan's solo exhibition "Don't Go Meek into That Forest" opened at ArtDepot Beijing Space.This exhibition is organized by Ms. Zhao Qianying, the manager of Art Warehouse, served as the curator, presenting the easel paintings of artist Hou Jianan from 2021 to 2022 with the concept of "Forest Paradise". This exhibition is an observation and reflection on consumer society and virtual space. Media Technology The planarization brought about makes our understanding of "things" tend to be sensitive to images, and when the images surrender to the user's subjective vision, people's cognitive development methods have changed, and they are resolved with fast-paced thinking. The information is as complicated as a fountain.

Jiang Feimo "Towards the World Series - Release the Mountain" was sold at Rongbao Auction on February 22, 2023 for 207,000 yuan, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1.

Jiang Feimo's world image comes from freedom and heart. The river in the heart is constantly rushing, and the ocean of freedom is one after another, but it is a normal state of non-tacit subjective cognition. In Feimo's logical setting, rivers and oceans are simulated images, but the reality is a kind of desert. There are thousands of realms and thousands of weathers, but the movements are regular and conform to the norms.

October 2022 On September 29th, ""Open Mountain / OPEN MOUNTAN" Jiang Feimo's Personal Art Project" opened at Shanghai Chun Art Museum.

Collaboration/Agent Gallery: Spurs Gallery

Hou Zichao's "Standoff with the Sea Breeze at Night" will be auctioned on January 5, 2023 The international auction started in Beijing and was sold for 172,500 yuan, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1. In "Standoff with the Sea Breeze at Night", the artist uses tools and materials to create works like vector patterns, as if capturing a detail of life. The images are superimposed and transformed to generate a unique picture.

Hou Zichao’s creations use various media including painting and installation to focus on human and nature in today’s cultural context conflicts and the resulting real problems. He uses image language to emphasize the distance between man-made landscapes and real nature, and the ideal environment hovering between the garden of stability and the wilderness of desire.

On April 30, 2022, SPURS Gallery will launch Hou Zichao's solo exhibition "Erta" on April 30, 2022. The exhibition presents 14 newly created paintings in the two-story space of Gallery I & II, continuing the depiction of landscapes in the first solo exhibition "Fool's Gems" in the gallery in 2019. Discussion of the relationship between.

Liu Yurui's "The Venetian" in 2023 On January 5th, Shanghai International Auction opened in Beijing and sold for 126,500 yuan, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1. The work "Venice" expresses abstract characters. The simple body structure of the characters and the large brushstrokes can cover the whole body posture, and the colors and elements of the picture are extremely tense.

There is always an unbalanced order in Liu Ourui's works. In his recent artistic experiments, he focuses on creating a tactile area within the square canvas, without pre-sketching or color arrangement, and only uses acrylic and oil paints to uniformly smear random shapes and retain the naturalness of the brushstrokes.

On July 4, 2020, Liu Yurui's solo exhibition "Final, Circle, Studio" opened at SPURS Gallery II, which is also Liu Yurui's first solo exhibition.

Collaboration/Representative Gallery: Platform China Contemporary Art Institute (Beijing)

"Us" on January 5, 2023 Paikai International Beijing sold for 97,700 yuan, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1. The picture is the subject of two figures (hugging). Although the body posture is dynamic and the theme color is warm, the picture as a whole presents a sense of desolation and tranquility. The orange-red light and shadow are shot from the back of the character, and the two huge silhouettes are particularly eye-catching on the stage of the picture.

Wang Yilong, a young post-85 artist, focuses on the emotions of characters in the real world in his creations, trying to use Paintings to create human allegories of contemporary society. At the same time, he extensively absorbed the formal experience of modernism, and developed a strange painting language in practice. His paintings are emotionally delicate and sensitive. Especially in the later (2019-2021) works, great changes have taken place in the style. "Small head, big body" is the main feature of the characters in the picture, which is inseparable from his becoming a father. The change of identity leads to changes in the mood of the painting.

Platform China Space will launch artist Wang Yilong's first solo exhibition "The Painter on the Balcony" on June 26, 2021. The exhibition presents some of his works in the past three years. Wang Yilong's creation focuses on the emotions of characters in the real world. He tries to use painting to create a human fable in contemporary society. "Love" and "hug" are his preferred themes, while allegorical social scenes are also common in his creations.

Cooperation/Agent Gallery: Yulan Hall

Jin Wenli's "The Liar" will be auctioned on February 11, 2023 at Shizhuzhai Beijing with 2, It was sold for 3,000 yuan, becoming the artist's auction record TOP1.

Jin Wenli, as a young artist of the new generation, has long focused on the creation of still life paintings in her works, and insists on thinking about the meaning of "watching". The toys, puppets, and vases she paints are gradually transformed into time, space, and the universe. Those objects polished by time always attract people to watch and stare for a long time.

From July 1st to 30th, 2022, Jin Wenli's solo exhibition "One Two Three, Wooden People" will be held in The opening of Zhejiang Art Museum uses "memory" as an extension clue of "gazing", and is divided into three chapters: "The Face of the Moon", "The Stairway of the Stars" and "The Hourglass of the Sun", which are metaphors for different stages of life growth. "One Two Three, Wooden Man" is not only a game we played when we were children, but also a riddle buried in the exhibition; it is not only the key that inspires us to open our memory, but also the beginning of mutual trust between people. This exhibition brings together more than 40 pieces/groups of works created in recent years. When the audience is cruising in the exhibition hall, it is like opening the magic suitcase of memory, reciting poems on the ladder of stars, and listening to the answers of the past in the music box . 

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