In Beijing’s Shunyi District, on Gelasi Road along the Wenyu River, a cluster of modern buildings surrounded by greenery unfolds like a white scroll. With verdant pine trees covering the white walls, this courtyard-style architecture, which combines antiquity and modernity, is the Song Art Museum.
As the old saying goes, “Pine (‘Song’ in Mandarin), a gentleman.” The Song Museum of Art is like a vessel for art. Since the director Ding Zehua took charge of the museum in 2021, the museum has adhered to the mission of “connection”. With Chinese contemporary art as the bait, the exhibitions have been reflective and enlightens the public’s aesthetic education.
How to curate sustainable exhibitions for the art of the 80s and 90s, the essence of the times? How to cross the gap between generations and write the story of Chinese contemporary art through exhibitions? How to go further than that, to realize the articulation of values and create a global identity for the newborn institution? With such curiosity, LARRY’S LIST X CUPPAR “China on Focus” visited Song Art Museum and had a conversation with its director, Ding Zehua.
Read also the more in-depth interview here.
Beijing Cuppar International Auction Co., Ltd. (Cuppar), founded in 2020, is a comprehensive auction company specializing in the auction of cultural relics and works of art. Its headquarter is located in Gateway Plaza, Beijing with offices in Hangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Qinhuangdao, Kunming, Changsha, Hong Kong, Taiwan, North America, Japan, Australia, the UK and other countries and regions.
Over the past year, starting with the total sale of RMB 643 million in the Inaugural Auction of 2021, Cuppar started to hold both offline and online auction, themed exhibition, art fair and cross-border cooperation simultaneously. Since the first auction in March 2021, the cumulative sale of Cuppar Auction online and offline has exceeded RMB 1.6 billion.
