What role will the gallery association play?

Recently, the Beijing Gallery Association's preparatory meeting held at the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture has brought a warm glow to the Beijing gallery industry. It is easy to see that the upcoming establishment of the Beijing Gallery Association has created a “home” for the Beijing gallery industry. Beijing galleries, which account for 90% of domestic galleries, have always been a barometer of the Chinese galleries industry. The galleries industry, as a first-class art market, is concerned by many insightful people. What kind of role will the birth of this “home” play for the healthy development of the industry? The author interviewed Dong Mengyang, the leader of the Beijing Gallery Association and Executive Director of Beijing Art.

Take the right path to regulate the market

In China, the public’s initial knowledge of artworks originated from high-priced auctions with mythological characteristics or various maverick anecdotes about art. Based on this psychological basis, people who want to understand the arts can only feel that they can't be seen in the gallery for a long time. Art seems to be a non-candling smoker.

How to make art work as public discourse? Dong Mengyang has his own views. He believes that the current dissemination of artworks into the public life is not a gallery. Art wants to enter the public discourse. It needs to be promoted and promoted. This is also one of the things the gallery association will do, of course. The Expo is also a force that promotes the development of the gallery industry, just as it needs to draw everyone's attention to galleries, because only more galleries are spread across the city to better spread the arts, truly become a consumer demand, and allow more people to Sharing the achievements of the construction and development of a harmonious society. The galleries we promote today are not simple painting shops. What we need is galleries that promote the development of the arts. We only gain some benefits in promoting the arts.

Since 2004, the galleries industry in China has developed rapidly. Especially in Beijing, art galleries such as the 798 Art Zone, Caochangdi, Jiuchang, Guanyintang, Songzhuang and other galleries have all rushed up. The number of galleries and practitioners have already A considerable scale. Insiders can see that with the rapid development of the gallery industry, many problems are gradually exposed. Such as: the specification of the transaction process, the improvement of the artist's agency system, and many other issues are urgently needed, all require a professional service system to coordinate management.

In response to this, Dong Mengyang said that today we have seen the world with the super-developed Internet. We must clearly understand the gap between us and the world. This difference comes from our two-hundred-year gap. In the past two hundred years we did not do business, not to say how brilliant it was in ancient times. It is true that these two hundred years were in wars and martyrdom. For the time being, we are behind. Therefore, we must learn how to advance the advancement of the West. We should neither be self-sufficient nor self-important. We must step by step and leave something for the next generation. The most important job, I think, is not to be able to surpass it, but to be able to embark on the right path. Like our understanding of art, there are art galleries in the West, there are many things they see the standards, you know what we meet in the life to meet the standards, we do not have art galleries, our galleries are not galleries, or A place for exhibitions, like the gallery, pays for greetings, so many things we need to develop step by step. At least we can let the market get a lot of things on the right path. Our historical mission is like this, then There will be a great revival, and only then will market work be gradually standardized.

Gallery industry needs a "home"

When the author asked about the association's importance to the industry and the progress of applications, Dong Mengyang said: “This association has become more important for such an early stage market. It needs to have its own rules, because there is no policy for starting this industry. In particular, culture is a manifestation of social civilization, and society must support the development of such a public welfare industry. Just as people say that anti-seismicism does not tell us what is Sanya and Ya, what is it? Of course, I'm not against vulgarity, but you have to tell everyone what is ya, and some people will choose ya. This is a two-handed thing: On the one hand, it is a promotion of social civilization; on the other hand, it is a driving force of the economic industry.”

Dong Mengyang also told the author that the various aspects of the civil affairs system and the competent authorities of the government have already communicated well. Now it is at the stage of the primary election of the council. The council has executive directors, including directors, deputy directors, presidents of the association, etc. Maybe it should be the same in the next two or three months. He thinks that at least the galleries in Beijing should appear, and the galleries in Beijing should have a home. He also said that everyone hopes to have such an association and that he is actively promoting it because the galleries are all alone in these years. Everyone also realizes that if the industry wants to go one step further, it needs a bigger force to help the gallery go better.

The association is the link to the government

As a primary market for works of art, sales of galleries leads to taxation, and communication and cooperation with the government become more important. Communicating with the government requires the establishment of a set of systematic policies and specifications of some industries, including how to go with foreign institutions. Negotiations, whether it is possible to join a Chinese pavilion, etc., can all be played. If a single gallery can't talk about any conditions, Beijing and China can get very good conditions. This may help galleries, so galleries also respond positively. The association gradually has some credibility that can do many things.

It is understood that the Korea Gallery Association has done some market assessments and appraisals, cooperation with banks, and other business practices. In fact, this kind of commercial behavior is not for profit, but to support the association to better develop. This is also a leading idea of ​​the association. Because the government also values ​​the development of the cultural industry in the future, they hope that there will be many policies to support the start and development of this industry.

What kind of government do we need? What kind of help do we need? When the government supported the government today, there were some policies that did not apply to us. This made it difficult for him to reach out. They all knew how to connect, so the association was a collective voice of the industry and they proposed to the government. Suggestions and requirements may have some help and reference for the government in formulating cultural industry policies in the next step. There is also an industry self-discipline, industry development, and industry norms. This also requires the association to become a system and standard, and it is an encouragement. .

Just as some galleries associations in Taiwan and overseas provide good support for the orderly development of local galleries, these galleries provide a regular and regular exchange platform for exchanges between galleries. On the other hand, they It also explains the pivotal role of communicating government decisions and industry appeals. Dong Mengyang said: "Everything we have just started, we hope to create more miracles."