However, with the development of the times, the association still enjoys the treatment of civil servants, and the disadvantages brought by its official nature are more and more prominent. Many book associations are still controlled by some veteran comrades who have retired from government agencies, so it is common to violate the rules of artistic operation.
The official nature of the association makes people's evaluation and appreciation of calligraphy have a certain degree of bureaucracy. This is because the book association controls two lifelines of calligraphers. One is the lifeline of qualification certification, because only by joining the China Book Association can people be recognized as calligraphers. The second is the most important channel to become famous. The exhibition organized for the Book Association is the main platform for all calligraphers to become famous and establish a family. And these two lifelines are that you have me and I have you.
To become a member of the Book Association, you must attend more than two large-scale exhibitions organized by the Book Association. After becoming a member, you must be selected as many exhibitions organized by the Book Association as possible. Of course, it is best to win prizes in order to make a name for yourself in the book world.
Of course, this mechanism is understandable, and it is also a commonly used means for socially recognized artists. However, is the exhibition mechanism and selection mechanism fair and just?
According to international practice, art exhibitions are usually conducted by independent curators, including full-time curators such as galleries, intermediaries and related personnel. Curators are not allowed to bring their own works or those of people with human relations into their own exhibitions.
however, unlike the book association, the book association is not only a curator, but also an exhibitor, and even participates in the awards publicly. The form is often that the book association holds an exhibition, and the works of the judges organized by the book association are usually hung in the most eye-catching position of the exhibition as special guests. The absurd thing that people who make games participate in games, which is criticized under the condition of market economy, has been tried and tested repeatedly in the book world, and it is getting worse.
As a result, in order to cultivate more local calligraphers and enhance the local right to speak in calligraphy, some places bid for exhibitions sponsored by book associations like the Olympic Games to be held locally.
the advantage of this is that the support of funds and venues usually makes the book association lean towards the place in the selection of judges and the number of exhibitions and awards. As a result, the book association has shown its cohesion and won some financial support, while the local area has gained more calligraphers. It is not surprising that the artistic level of such an exhibition has caused waves of disputes. This kind of serious violation of artistic laws has become a beautiful thing for the book association and the local area.
At present, the curator of China calligraphy is not only the organizer, appraiser and exhibitor of calligraphy exhibition, but also directly affects the objective and fair evaluation of people's calligraphy art level.
On the one hand, the judging standards of calligraphy exhibitions are diversified, and some calligraphy is not high enough to enter the exhibition through various channels, which seriously interferes with people's evaluation of calligraphy aesthetics. Some bad things are said to be good, and some good things are said to be bad, which leads to confusion in the evaluation of calligraphy artistic value. On the other hand, because the curator decides the life and death power of a calligrapher's works and the way to become famous and become a family, some calligraphers, in order to win the favor of the curator and successfully achieve the purpose of entering the exhibition and winning prizes, have sought shortcuts, courted the curator privately and imitated the curator in creating calligraphy, resulting in a serious situation in which calligraphy follows the trend at present.
In this way, the style of the curators determines the overall style of China's calligraphy, and these curators do not change frequently. Curators have become a hot figure in the book world, and there are usually many followers under them. The evaluation of the value of calligraphy is confusing here again. Because curators are usually powerful figures in the book world, the calligraphy price of curators has gone up, and the high aesthetic threshold of calligraphy makes many collectors usually listen to this curator, so the calligraphy price of their followers is usually optimistic. At the same time, calligraphy exhibitions usually do not reject manuscripts (here refers to the works of selected and award-winning authors), which also makes calligraphers lack basic control over their own calligraphy works.
The lack of a real curator's calligraphy selection mechanism makes every calligraphy exhibition lack the operation in line with the law of the art market, which makes the calligraphy exhibition far away from the market and collectors, and the international opportunity to cultivate the market from exhibitions is lost. At present, the calligraphy exhibition has actually become a fame and fortune competition field for calligraphers. The calligraphy of the calligrapher who became famous here has since become Mo Bao. The scarcity of calligraphy galleries, the difficulty in ensuring authenticity, and the inconvenience in buying works from calligraphers' homes and other unsatisfactory market channels have made the hurried pen meeting an important bridge between calligraphy and collectors, and it has become popular.
However, the buzzing situation of calligraphy pen club makes calligraphers how to create their own ideal works, and how can the value of calligraphy be guaranteed? How can collectors be satisfied with their collection of such works? How does the lack of fine calligraphy make the secondary market of calligraphy form?
There is a need for further development of various phenomena in calligraphy institutions, which requires the attention of relevant personnel.
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