Zhou Xiao Village's unique water environment and profound cultural heritage have attracted a large number of professionals to make artistic creations. Since famous painters such as Guan Shanyue and Li Xiongcai, outstanding representatives of contemporary Lingnan painting school, established the art village here, famous artists from the United States, Canada, France, South Africa, Hong Kong and Macao and many young and middle-aged artists have settled here, and more than 0/00 studios have been established, covering painting, sculpture, photography, calligraphy, music, folk art, literature, ceramics, movies, broadcasting, advertising and so on. In recent years, various artistic creation activities, art exhibitions and art festivals have been held frequently in Zhou Xiao, which have exerted great influence in Guangdong Province and even the whole country. The Outline of Building a Modern Industrial System in Guangzhou regards the development of Zhou Xiao's original artistic base as an important node to accelerate the construction of the core base of Guangdong's cultural and creative industries in Guangzhou. A large number of old, middle-aged and young artists have continued to gather and develop, which has also attracted the attention of the whole country. In recent years, art training before college entrance examination is developing vigorously. Every year, more than 65,438+0,000 Art Candidates from Guangdong Province study here, making Zhou Xiao Village an art training base for college entrance examination. There has always been a saying in the art world that there are 798 in the north and Songzhuang in the south.
Zhou Xiao Art District aims to solve the contradiction between the shortage of public exhibition space in Zhou Xiao and the shortage of space for setting up art studios in residential areas. Relying on the artistic creation atmosphere formed in Zhou Xiao Village for many years, we will develop the good momentum of cultural and creative industries and establish new large-scale gathering areas.
The Construction of Zhou Xiao Art District and the Entry of Artists
Since August 2009, Guangzhou Yiyuan Industrial Co., Ltd. has started to invest in the construction of Zhou Xiao Art District. At the beginning of the design, the construction unit inspected the cultural and artistic industry creative parks, art galleries and exhibition halls in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and gave full play to the characteristics of the large space at the bottom of the viaduct, and designed a large number of large-space studios from the aspects of space, lighting and ventilation to meet the artists' creative and living conditions. At the same time, there are exhibition halls and sales halls with different areas in the art area, which can not only meet the needs of artists' works display in this art area, but also organize exhibitions and sell original works of art for the society for a long time.
After more than one year's segmented construction and development, the original situation of garbage piling up under the viaduct, overgrown weeds and dirty, chaotic and poor fire hazards in some warehouses and restaurants has been changed, and a comprehensive art zone with original studios as the main body, large exhibition halls, art salons, art markets and leisure exchange places has been formed, with a total length of about 1 100 meters and a construction area of about 30,000 meters. Two winding rivers cross, and the topography of small bridges and flowing water naturally becomes three groups (areas), surrounded by ten thousand mu of fruit trees, which is a rare ecological orchard art area in China. It is also the first cultural and creative park in China to build the underpass of expressway viaduct. The Art District is located on the Pearl River, which is connected with the No.1 Greenway in Guangdong Province. This artist colony has not only become the pioneer area for developing cultural and creative industries in Zhou Xiao, but also the window for Haizhu District to display to the outside world, and it has also become an important symbolic art colony for developing cultural and creative industries in Guangzhou.
The fully functional art studio has attracted a large number of old, middle-aged and young artists inside and outside the system to set up original studios here, including Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou Painting Academy, Guangzhou Sculpture Academy and many artists in the society. There are also foreign artists (America and Britain). Pan He, a master sculptor, Cai Wenxing, former president of Guangzhou Sculpture Academy, Jiang Rongyu, deputy director of Sculpture Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, vice chairman of China Calligraphy and Painting Society, Zhao Duorui, an art critic, painter, sculptors Huang He and Yang all have studios. At present, there are nearly 80 studios of all kinds, and a number of art institutions have also been established and settled here, including Chinese painting, oil painting, lacquer painting, printmaking, mural painting, sculpture, photography, calligraphy, design and decoration.